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Living conditions and volunteer lifestyles in Uganda
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|As a Peace Corps Volunteers, you will have to adapt to conditions that may be dramatically different than you have ever experienced and modify lifestyle practices that you now take for granted. Even the most basic practices— talking, eating, using the bathroom, and sleeping — may take significantly different forms in the context of the host country. If you successfully adapt and integrate, you will in return be rewarded with a deep understanding of a new culture, the establishment of new and potentially lifelong relationships, and a profound sense of humanity.
| See also:
Living Conditions and Volunteer Lifestyles by Country
Pre-Departure Checklist
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- 1 Communications
- 2 Mail
- 3 Telephones
- 4 Computer, Internet, and E-mail Access
- 5 Housing and Site Location
- 6 Living Allowance and Money Management
- 7 Food and Diet
- 8 Transportation
- 9 Geography and Climate
- 10 Social Activities
- 11 Professionalism, Dress, and Behavior
- 12 Personal Safety
- 13 Rewards and Frustrations
Few countries in the world offer the level of service considered normal in the United States. If you expect U.S. standards for mail service, you will be in for some frustration. Letters take a minimum of three weeks to arrive in Uganda if sent by airmail, packages even longer. Packages sent by surface mail can take six months or even longer. Some mail may simply not arrive (fortunately this is not a century 21 broker properti jual beli sewa rumah Indonesia frequent occurrence, but it does happen). Advise your friends and family to number their letters for tracking purposes and to write "Airmail" and "Par Avion" on their envelopes. If someone sends you a package, it is best to keep it small and use a padded envelope so it will be treated as a letter. Valuables should not be sent through the mail.
Despite the delays, we encourage you to write to your family regularly and to number your letters. Family members typically become worried when they do not hear from you, so it is a good idea to advise them that mail service is sporadic and that they should not be concerned if they century 21 broker properti jual beli sewa rumah Indonesia do not receive letters from you regularly. This is especially true at the beginning, when you will be involved in an intense training program.
Your address during training will be:
"Your Name," PCT
P.O. Box 29348
Kampala, Uganda
Volunteers in Uganda are allowed to receive packages containing work-related clothing and household items without paying customs fees for six months after arrival. Duty may be charged on food, cosmetics, electronics, and other items not explicitly for work purposes. After training, you will be extpected to establish a mailing address in the community where you are posted. Let family know that the address listed above will be a temporary one used during your first few months in Uganda.
You are unlikely to have access to e-mail or international telephone service during training. International calls can be made in some of the rural regional centers, but connections are unreliable and the cost can be high. Uganda has mobile phone services, and most Volunteers purchase cellular phones here. However, even with a cellphone, having to charge the battery, pay for airtime, and find an area with quality network coverage makes phoning home problematic. It is advisable to make clear to your family and friends that it is not easy to call the United States from Uganda. They should not expect regular communications from you, at least not initially.
Computer, Internet, and E-mail Access
The Peace Corps does not recommend that you bring a personal computer, since few Volunteers have housing with electricity. If you choose to bring one, it will be at your own expense and risk. Securing it from theft may be a challenge.
Access to e-mail and the Internet is available at Internet cafes in Kampala, the capital, and in a growing number of towns outside Kampala. You are likely to have access to these occasionally, unless there is an Internet cafe near your site, which is rare. You probably will not have access during pre-service training.
Housing and Site Location
During your service, you will most likely live in a rural area in very modest accommodations provided by your host organization, which will try to provide you with at least a bedroom and a sitting room. You might live in part of a Ugandan family's house or in part of a house built for staff of a school or a community organization. It is unlikely that you will share your accommodations with anyone else unless you choose to do so.
Living conditions vary according to the resources of the community or organization in which you are placed. Most houses do not have running water or electricity. You should expect to use a pit latrine and a kerosene lantern and stove. Most Volunteers hire someone to carry water to their house. The community may provide some basic furnishings, and you can supplement these with your modest settling-in allowance provided by the Peace Corps. At nearly all sites, the kind of privacy that most Americans are used to will be extremely limited.
Children may be around constantly, demonstrating their curiosity about you. You will have to adapt to a more public life.
As most communities and organizations have extremely limited resources, providing housing and furnishing is provided at a great sacrifcie. Sometimes there are delays in obtaining housing or furnishings. You might have to stay in temporary accommodations while your permanent housing is being set up.
Although the Peace Corps staff makes every effort to collaborate with communities to see that housing is ready for Volunteers when they arrive at their site, you should be prepared to gratefully accept whatever the community provides, no matter how basic.
Living Allowance and Money Management
As a Volunteer, you will receive a modest living allowance, paid in local currency, that will allow you to live on a par with your colleagues and co-workers. The amount of this allowance is based on regular surveys of Volunteers and the cost of living in Uganda. The allowance is paid quarterly into Volunteer bank accounts, so the ability to manage funds wisely is important. The current living allowance is equivalent to approximately $200 per month and is meant to cover the cost of food, utilities, household supplies, clothing, recreation and entertainment, reading materials, and other incidentals. You may find that you receive more remuneration than your counterpart or supervisor.
You will also receive a leave allowance of $24 per month (standard in all Peace Corps countries), which is paid in local currency along with your living allowance.
Current Volunteers suggest that you bring cash and credit cards if you plan to travel during your vacations. Only a few establishments in Uganda accept credit cards, so they are mainly useful for travel to other countries. The amount of cash you will need depends on the amount of traveling you plan to do while serving in Uganda (Volunteers earn two days of leave per month of service, excluding training). Some local banks offer ATM cards for local accounts. The exchange rate is approximately 1,800 Ugandan shillings to the U.S. dollar.
Food and Diet
You will buy your food from outdoor markets or small shops, and you will generally cook for yourself. The local diet is basic but healthy, including a variety of fruits, vegetables, starches, and meats. There are likely to be some restaurants at or near your site, and imported food items can be found that, though expensive, provide an occasional treat. During training, there will be sessions on safe food preparation and proper nutrition. It is relatively easy to follow a vegetarian diet in Uganda after one becomes familiar with the local food. Most Ugandans will not be prepared to serve a vegetarian meal if you are a guest in their home, but will generally accept a sensitive explanation of your dietary preferences.
Volunteers travel primarily by foot, bicycle, or public transport. Public transportation to and from the nearest urban or trading center is available near every site, in most cases several times a day. Public transport is likely to be crowded, uncomfortable, and unreliable. To facilitate fieldwork,
Volunteers are either provided with a bicycle or given an allowance to purchase one. Still, many of the communities and job sites Volunteers visit may entail a long and challenging ride particularly on the single-geared bicycles most common in Uganda. Volunteers in the Education must be able to ride a bicycle in order to do their job. Please come to Uganda with this as an expectation of your work.
Peace Corps/Uganda prohibits the use of motorcycles by Volunteers because of the extreme safety risks that they pose. When using a bicycle, Volunteers must wear helmets (provided by Peace Corps).
Geography and Climate
Uganda straddles the equator, which means that the seasons are quite different from those in the United States. Rather than a hot season and a cold one, there are rainy seasons and dry seasons. Rainy periods generally occur in November and December and in April and May. The climate around Lake Victoria is greatly influenced by the lake. As a result, rain can occur there at any time. Midday temperatures are in the 70s and 80s (depending upon the part of the country) in all seasons, but evenings are cooler and may require wearing a sweater or light jacket.
Social Activities
The most common form of entertainment is socializing among friends and neighbors. Some Volunteers visit other Volunteers on weekends or holidays. Peace Corps encourages Volunteers to remain at their sites as much as possible to develop relationships with community members, but it also recognizes that they need to make infrequent trips to regional centers and to visit friends. Uganda has several rural radio stations, and many Volunteers bring shortwave radios so that they can listen to international broadcasts by the BBC, Voice of America, and Deutsche Welle. Some larger towns have cinemas as well.
You will find it easy to make friends in your community and to participate in weddings, funerals, birthday celebrations, and other social events. It is impossible to overemphasize the rewards of establishing rapport with one's supervisors, co-workers, and other community members. A sincere effort to learn the local language will greatly facilitate these interactions.
Professionalism, Dress, and Behavior
Norms for dress are much more conservative in Uganda than in the United States, where we view our clothes as an expression of our individuality. Ugandans view dressing appropriately as a sign of respect for others. Wearing clothes that are dirty, have holes in them, or are too revealing sends the message that the people you are interacting with are not worth greater care. Dressing in neat, clean, and conservative clothes, on the other hand, can ease your integration into your new community and enhance your professional credibility and effectiveness in your assignment.
Many Ugandan men wear jackets and ties in professional settings. Blue jeans, T-shirts, and casual sandals are not considered appropriate in the workplace, during training, or during visits to the Peace Corps office. Women wear dresses or skirts with tops in both professional and nonprofessional environments; short skirts and low-cut or sleeveless tops are highly inappropriate, particularly in rural settings. Male Volunteers must wear their hair short and neat. Volunteers doing fieldwork generally should wash up and change their clothes before returning to a public area. When riding bicycles, women wear skirts or split skirts/culottes.
If you have reservations about your ability to adapt to
Ugandan norms of dress and appearance, you should reevaluate your decision to become a Volunteer. Working effectively in another culture requires a certain level of sacrifice and flexibility, and the Peace Corps expects Volunteers to behave in a manner that will foster respect within their communities and reflect well on the Peace Corps. Behavior that jeopardizes your safety or the presence of the Peace Corps program in Uganda could lead to administrative separation—a decision by the Peace Corps to terminate your service.
Personal Safety
RAWRRRAs stated in the Volunteer Handbook, becoming a Peace Corps Volunteer entails certain safety risks. Living and traveling in an unfamiliar environment (often alone), having a limited understanding of local language and culture, and being perceived as well-off are some of the factors that can put a Volunteer at risk. Many Volunteers experience varying degrees of unwanted attention and harassment. Petty thefts and burglaries are not uncommon, and incidents of physical and sexual assault do occur, although most Uganda Volunteers complete their two years of service without personal security incidents. The Peace Corps has established procedures and policies designed to help Volunteers reduce their risks and enhance their safety and security. These procedures and policies, in addition to safety training, will be provided once you arrive in Uganda. At the same time, you are expected to take responsibility for your safety and well-being.
Rewards and Frustrations
Although the potential for job satisfaction in Uganda is quite high, like all Volunteers, you will encounter numerous frustrations. Perceptions of time are very different from those in
America. The lack of basic infrastructure can become very tiring, and social demands on your colleagues may mean that their work habits vary greatly from yours. For these reasons, the Peace Corps experience of adapting to a new culture and environment is often described as a series of emotional peaks and valleys.
You will be given a great deal of responsibility and independence in your work—perhaps more than in any other job you have had or will have. You will often need to motivate yourself and others with little guidance from supervisors. You might work for months without seeing any visible impact from, or without receiving feedback on, your work. Development is a slow process. You must possess the self-confidence, patience, and vision—tempered with humility and the resulting respect for others—to continue working toward long-term goals without seeing immediate results. To overcome these difficulties, you will also need maturity, flexibility, open-mindedness, resourcefulness, and, most important, a sense of humor. Most Volunteers manage to exhibit enough of these characteristics to serve successfully. Judging by the experience of former Volunteers, the peaks are well worth the difficult times, and most Volunteers leave Uganda feeling that they have gained much more than they sacrificed during their service. If you are able to make the commitment to integrate into your community and to focus on the community's interests, your service is likely to be a life-altering experience.


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The legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. could be in jeopardy, according to President of the Martin Luther King Jr. Commission of Clovis Joyce Pollard.
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Open Source developer Miguel de Icaza, leader of the GNOME project and founder of Ximian, has been exploring Microsoft's .NET platform with an open mind. When I interviewed him over a month ago, he told me that he was impressed with .NET. Then he was only beginning to think about the implications of Microsoft.NET in the Open Source community. Since then, he has organized a new project called Mono, which will try to build a free implementation of .NET for UNIX systems. Ximian will dedicate some resources to this project, but like any Open Source project, its success will depend heavily on contributions from independent developers.
".NET is an interesting mix of technologies," said Miguel de Icaza. He likes the C# language, and he is particularly impressed by .NET's component architecture and its development tools. .NET provides developers with a state-of-the-art development environment, one that leaps ahead of open source alternatives. "With .NET, Microsoft is starting with a clean slate and building for the future," said de Icaza in an interview. "It's a new development environment for the next twenty years."
"Five years ago, we [open source developers] had the high ground in technical tools," said de Icaza. "We had better tools and a better development environment than Windows developers had. Now, with .NET, I see that the roles have changed and Windows developers have much better tools than we have. Ours are good but not as good as theirs. Theirs are better integrated. Within that context, I can see how developers might use Visual Studio instead of a free-software development environment to develop applications -- especially if they are not concerned with freedom, and the ideas behind free software."
".NET is a good platform to innovate from," said de Icaza. "So I'm interested in seeing an open source version of .NET. Microsoft might port the runtime to Linux, but I don't know if it will be open source. I personally want to see the .NET runtime on Linux. I'm very interested in seeing this happen," he said emphatically, seeming to commit himself to building it if it doesn't emerge from current efforts.
In our conversation, Miguel de Icaza explored some of the reasons he liked .NET. "The C# language has some of the features of Java that I like," said de Icaza. "One of things I really like is interface-based programming, which we've been doing in the GNOME project. We've been working towards building a component system and it's sort of annoying to have to deal with the whole CORBA IDL. Microsoft was streamlining the process of writing component software with C#. They had a very simple mechanism for writing COM components using C#. That was the first thing that got my attention."
When asked what .NET says to him about future directions for GNOME, de Icaza replied: "What I wanted to do with GNOME was to close the gap between the proprietary software offering and the free software offering. We're not catching up on the desktop. With .NET, MS has figured out the next generation of development software. So it's worth looking at." He added: "If you're a developer, .NET has a lot of things that you're not going to find in Linux."
In the February Linux Magazine, Jon Udell writes about what open source developers can learn from .NET. Udell opens his article, Embrace and Extend: What can Linux learn from Microsoft's .NET? by quoting de Icaza's "Let's Make Unix Not Suck"
What are your thoughts about his take, and on open source possibilites for .NET?
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Certainly, C# is similar to Java, but what de Icaza found intriguing was that .NET was not targeted for a single language. The problem with Java is, of course, that developers must work in Java. As a development environment, .NET is language-agnostic. It allows developers to program in whatever language they like. "In .NET, Microsoft has created the common language runtime (CLR), which is a way for languages to generate code that interoperates easily," said de Icaza. "You can have Visual Basic running in the same environment as C#, Fortan, Pascal, or whatever. You could create a class in C++ and pass it over to a C# object and then have it instantiated as a Visual Basic object. It's a programmer's dream come true."
The real benefit is greater code reuse. "Code reuse is a big problem in the Unix environment," added de Icaza. He details this argument in his well-known article: "Let's Make Unix Not Suck."
"The problem is that we are not re-using enough code across all the applications in UNIX," he said. "Everybody is reinventing all the little pieces." His first approach to solving the problem was to suggest that applications use the GNOME libraries. But exposing those libraries in Perl, Python, or whatever language the user chose was a difficult and complex task. This is what led de Icaza to create the Bonobo project, which is developing a component architecture implemented in CORBA. "That's what we set out to do last year with Bonobo. I said, 'let's use a component architecture that will allow us to write the API once and then bring it to any programming language.' We wanted C, Perl, Python or any language to have access to the APIs."
He feels that the design goals behind .NET and Bonobo were very similar, but he thinks the .NET component model is better. "One problem is that Bonobo has a lot more overhead than .NET. .NET is pretty slim when it comes to the size of the components and things that you can expose." When asked if he would see himself moving away from Bonobo, de Icaza replied: "Bonobo's interfaces are okay for what they do, which are compound documents and embedding of controls. There are better ways of defining components and writing components than writing them in CORBA IDL. If I can write a component by implementing an interface in C#, I would much rather create the component in C# than with existing Bonobo." Nonetheless, he can see both approaches being compatible. However, he reiterated that he saw himself in the future not writing C and CORBA IDL, but C#.
When pressed for additional details on what makes .NET better, de Icaza replied: "The tools are better integrated. You have a debugger, a project manager. It's an IDE with documentation integrated into the system. It's very easy to deploy web services. You write a web service and it's getting packaged into a single directory. One of the things you can do is just dump the directory into your system and it happens to work. They have a signature system for their libraries, so if you develop an application that links into a set of libraries, even if somebody replaces the API for the library, the application is going to continue to run because it links to the original library."
He added: "Microsoft basically solved the DLL problem, and that's something that the open source community is not solving. Even though we have the tools to do so, no one is taking the next step to do things right. There's still breakage that's happening in libraries that are shipping with traditional Linux libraries. If you get the latest version of Linux, many applications are going to break because they broke binary compatibility, because you didn't upgrade your application, because there's not a lot of effort going into supporting third-party application developers. So that's why I think .NET is a better application development platform, right now." Visual Studio.NET is "pretty sweet," he added.
According to de Icaza, what Microsoft got right is that they put all the technologies together: the language, the common runtime library, and the integrated development environment (IDE). "Look at how easy they make it to expose web services through SOAP," said de Icaza. "I don't think Microsoft is a visionary in this respect. SOAP is an idea shared by other people, the idea of an XML-RPC system." However, he credits Microsoft for putting all the pieces together, making it easier for developers.
De Icaza, who makes no claim to being a Java expert, believes that Java will also offer a lot of what you find in .NET. "I don't think they have everything together today for me to deploy web services," he commented. "If you have Visual Studio, you can deploy Web services right away; they are SOAP-enabled. You can automatically generate WSDL descriptions."
Miguel de Icaza has no intentions of becoming a Microsoft developer. However, he believes the open source and free software communities should be prepared to have a response to .NET, or have an equivalent offering. He is particularly interested in strategies that "embrace and extend" .NET and leverage it to the benefit of open source developers. "I'm playing with the idea of writing a C# compiler in C#. There are a few bits written, but I only think of it as an interesting hack. There are people writing free replacements for the key components of .NET." He hopes that eventually there will be a full open source replacement for .NET.
He'd like to see .NET development tools running under Linux, along with a .NET runtime. "People are going to chose .NET because it's a very good development environment. So what you want to do is have a .NET runtime for Linux. There's already a beautiful IDE called SharpDevelop." SharpDevelop is a C# development environment written in C# by Mike Krueger and released under the GPL. According to de Icaza, the interesting thing about SharpDevelop is that the environment is really complete in only a few lines of code. It's really amazing when you compare the code size to other projects. That says something about the language and the runtime environment. It's pretty fast too. The whole actually compiles itself. C# showed a lot of potential by having this one guy write a really good IDE in about two months. The language is powerful, the runtime is powerful, and they are creating some really great applications."
De Icaza worries that some people will be put off by .NET because it comes from Microsoft and because it seems so large and all-encompassing. "Microsoft is calling everything .NET and so people are really confused about what .NET is. Is it Hailstorm? Is it Visual Studio? Is it ASP? The only part I really focus on is the .NET development environment. I don't know about all the rest." He believes open source developers need to break down .NET into its parts and set about writing replacements. "I think it's really easy," said de Icaza. "Here's why. When the GNU project was started, it was really clear, was given, that they were replacing UNIX. There were hundreds of tools and there was documentation for the tool and its interface. Developers could pick a tool and concentrate on it and work independently of each other. Same thing can happen in .NET. You have the class libraries and you can write the library in pretty much any language. Different contributors can work on different pieces of the runtime."
Brian Jepson, an O'Reilly editor and writer with experience in Perl, Java, and C#, agrees with de Icaza. "Almost anybody could develop a compatible implementation of .NET," he said, because what you need to know is out in the open. (Microsoft is in the process of submitting .NET to ECMA for standardization.) "I tend to think of .NET as a better J2EE and more open."
There are currently 51 projects listed on Sourceforge that are classified in the C# programming language category. (Some of these associations seem misleading.) In addition to SharpDevelop, there is a .NET Opensource project that aims to write the portable .NET runtime. "It's still in its infancy but it already has a lot of code," said de Icaza. "You want to write the just-in-time compilers and write a front-end to GCC that takes a Microsoft .xit, which contains IL bytecode, and just feed it to GCC, which can optimize for the native system. That is something that .NET gets right. They are not pretending to generate bytecode and wait for some magic to make it fast. They actually ship with a working optimizing JIT with the current version of .NET. When you are debugging your .NET applications, you are actually getting optimized Intel code running, instead of the IDL intermediate representation that they generate."
This explains why C# in this environment is generally faster than Java. "I don't think MS is coming out with something novel here," said de Icaza. "They just said, 'if we need to get more speed, we need to do the full optimization,' and they just did it instead of pretending that it was something they were going to do over the next five years."
Reflecting on what might be called the Open Source response to .NET, de Icaza said: "I don't think we as a community can design something that is going to be as completely thought out as .NET. It's taken them several years already to design this, and I believe that Microsoft hired a lot of smart people to build it. It would definitely take us a lot of time and debate to get there." He doesn't believe that the open source community needs to leapfrog .NET, but rather they should make it their own, much as Unix led to GNU/Linux.
Certainly, with the upcoming announcement of Mono, Miguel de Icaza feels the open source community can replicate a free implementation of .NET just as the GNU team set out to methodically create a free version of the UNIX operating system. Mono is quite an ambitious project and Miguel de Icaza deserves a lot of credit for daring to undertake it. He will have to gain the support of Open Source developers, who are naturally suspicious of anything that Microsoft is involved in. This loosely-coupled effort will be competing with the world's largest software company. O'Reilly Network will continue to follow Mono. Once its announcement is made official, we will provide a deeper look at the details of the project and its implications for an open source .NET platform.
Dale Dougherty is the editor and publisher of MAKE, and general manager of the Maker Media division of O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Ten tips for launching your first private equity fund
The private equity industry is teeming with ambitious deal-doers looking to set up their own shops and be their own bosses. But successfully raising the first fund is easier said than done.
The number of first-time funds focused on Europe that got off the ground last year hit their lowest level since records began in 2000, according to data provider Preqin. There were 46 funds that reached a final close, compared with 54 in 2012 and 127 at the market peak in 2008. By the value of first-time funds, it was the worst year for more than a decade. The $7.5 billion raised was slightly down on $7.7 billion in 2012 and significantly lower than the $29.8 billion raised in 2007. The last time it fell so low was in 2002, when $6 billion was raised.
Nils Rode, a managing director and co-head of investment management at Zurich-based private equity fund of funds manager Adveq, said the figures were not surprising given the choice among more established fund managers. "If you look at Europe alone, there are more than 700 buyout funds, at least on our long list.
At the same time, limited partners are consolidating rather than expanding the number of their relationships, so that leaves less room for new funds to be added to the market," he said.
Global investor appetite for first-time funds has declined. Only 19% of investors surveyed by Preqin in December 2013 said they would invest in first-time funds, compared with 29% in 2012. More than half (56%) said they would not invest in first-time funds – a figure that has remained relatively constant for the past few years.
Despite the difficulties there have been a few success stories. Debut fundraisings from Nordic-focused buyout firms Solix, which recently closed with commitments of roughly €270 million, and Adelis Equity Partners, which raised €420 million last November, as well as LDC spin-out NorthEdge Capital's success in raising £225 million last year, have given first-time managers hope.
There are 136 Europe-focused fund managers in the market looking to raise their first funds at the moment. Financial News canvassed the industry for 10 tips on how they can succeed.
1. Get the team right
First-time managers stand a bigger chance of raising money if the team has spun out from a successful firm, said Rode. At the very least, investors want to see several people that have worked together in the past in broadly the same strategy that the new fund will focus on.
James Moore, global co-head of the private funds group at investment bank UBS, said: "Any new team may all have great individual track records, but what happens if there are major disagreements? If you have a tried and tested team that has successfully navigated their way through difficult periods, it is more likely that the team dynamics works."
2. Prove your track record
Having a great track record is one thing, but being able to prove it to investors is another. New managers must ensure they have a severance letter from previous employers that allows them to use their track record in marketing documentation.
If a departure from a previous employer was less than amicable, managers need a solid list of referees, such as investors and portfolio company chief executives, to allow new investors to look into their record. Investors do the most extensive referencing for first-time managers.
Adveq, for example, would do between 20 and 30 references for first-time managers, including those not on the reference list provided by the new team.
3. Identify potential targets
Having a handful of pre-identified deals to show investors is essential in raising a fund, but can be tricky without having the money lined up to pay for them.
NorthEdge managing partner Grant Berry said his team spent the early stages of their three years' fundraising meeting companies and introducing them to other private equity firms, with NorthEdge looking to secure a corporate finance role on the deal instead.
Berry said: "We were almost corporate finance advisers in the very early stages. But then, as we got closer to a first close, we were able to say to the teams that were looking for capital 'If you bear with us, we can provide the equity because we're now pretty confident that we're going to get to a first close'."
4. Be different
Having a highly differentiated strategy and not just another "me too" offering is essential to raising a first-time fund. This can mean focusing on a size that other successful funds have moved away from as they have grown bigger, or having a high degree of specialisation in a certain sub-region or industry.
It can also help if a first-time firm teams up with a more established firm, said Rode. These relationships can range from having an informal partnership with existing funds that offer support, references and an introduction to investors to more formal relationships where the new group shares the brand name of the established group as well as some back-office functions, support in fundraising and profit sharing.
5. Have existing investor relationships
Maintaining relationships with investors from a previous firm may help new managers to secure commitments from those investors for their new fund.
This was evident with Solix, a firm set up by a founding partner of Nordic mid-market buyout firm Altor, which recently closed its debut fund with commitments from investors in Altor's funds.
In cases such as NorthEdge, where the founding partners were previously investing from the balance sheet of Lloyds Banking Group and so did not have a network of investors, this might be more difficult. Moore said: "Having some friends or family or cornerstone money behind you to get you to first base is hugely beneficial, and also gives confidence to other investors."
6. Consider placement agents
First-time managers that do not have a network of relationships with investors may decide to hire a placement agent to help them raise their fund.
While this costs money, placement agents can help a new team to identify investors that will be favourable towards their strategy and weed out those not permitted to invest in first-time funds.
Berry, who used UBS as a placement agent for NorthEdge's first fund, said: "We felt that we could have raised a fund on our own, but the size of that fund would probably have been less than £100 million and it would've taken us even longer.
"We'll be using a placement agent on the next fund, and we're a lot more connected now than we were three years ago."
7. Invest your own money
A commitment to a fund from a company's own partners, commonly known as skin in the game, is a good way to show that the team has confidence in its own offering.
While more established fund managers who have generated some wealth during their careers would generally be expected to commit at least 2% or 3% of total funds raised, investors would typically expect new managers with less personal wealth to commit 1% or 2% of total funds raised to their first fund.
8. Try deal-by-deal financing instead
Many first-time managers have chosen to use a deal-by-deal financing model to pay for acquisitions before attempting to raise a fund. This gives investors the right to look at the businesses before they invest in them, increasing the likelihood of a manager raising money.
But the deal-by-deal route has disadvantages. Eamon Devlin, a managing partner at law firm MJ Hudson, said deals that fall through would be subject to break fees, which can be costly for a firm with no fee income to pay for them.
Deal-by-deal funds also offer much lower returns for fund managers, usually 1% management fee and 10% carried interest as opposed to the 2/20 model offered by traditional funds.
9. Offer up some equity
A new firm might choose to sell part of its management company to cornerstone investors, which would help it to raise money to pay for legal costs and other administrative expenses. In return, a fund manager will offer the cornerstone investors a portion of future carried interest and management fees, as well as access to dealflow and a say in the governance of the firm.
Devlin said: "It's an expensive way to raise money because you're basically giving away some of your future profits, but others would say you're better having half a loaf than no loaf."
10. Provide co-investment opportunities
Investors have increased the number of direct investments they make in businesses alongside fund managers in recent years in an effort to avoid paying management fees and carried interest and to have greater control over their investments.
This can also be a good strategy to entice investors into a first-time fund, said Rode. He added: "Offering co-investments is something that many established fund managers do these days, and it's something that first-time managers do in order to increase the attractiveness of the value proposition."
--This article was first published in the print edition of Financial News dated May 26, 2014


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MOON TWP., PA — Allegheny County Airport Authority and LSG Sky Chefs, the world's largest airline caterer, today announced the opening of LSG Sky Chefs' deep-frozen food facility at Pittsburgh International Airport. This is LSG Sky Chefs' first deep-frozen food manufacturing facility in North America.
"LSG Sky Chefs has been an important tenant at Pittsburgh International Airport, and this expansion of service is an exciting opportunity for our region," said Onorato. "We're very pleased that LSG Sky Chefs is expanding operations here and adding jobs. It's a testament to our world-class airport and the commitment we've made to develop the airport corridor."
The manufacturing facility is located in 20,000 square feet of LSG Sky Chefs' existing customer service center on airport property and is expected to create 21 new jobs in 2008 and an additional 37 new jobs by 2010. The facility opens with an initial capacity for producing approximately 11 million meals annually, with room to double that production over time.
"Pittsburgh International Airport has the capacity for growth and the perfect proximity for direct shipment of frozen foods," said Allegheny County Airport Authority Executive Director, Bradley D. Penrod. "Our location offers access to 63 percent of the national industrial output by overnight truck or one-hour flight. This is just one of Pittsburgh International's great advantages for cargo and aviation-related industries."
LSG Sky Chefs chose Pittsburgh International Airport because of the company's history with the airport, as well as Pittsburgh International's proximity to major international gateway airports on the East Coast and in the Midwest, which enable direct shipments of deep-frozen foods to those airports.
"We are committed to becoming the leader in the deep-frozen foods segment of the airline catering industry, and Pittsburgh International Airport proved to be a great strategic match for our operating needs," said Pat Berkelbaugh, Senior Vice President of Sales & Services for LSG Sky Chefs' North America Region. "We've enjoyed a long, positive relationship with Pittsburgh International Airport, and we're glad to be adding jobs at our Pittsburgh facility."
LSG Sky Chefs is pursuing this strategy to meet increasing demand for frozen-food meals in the airline industry, driven by cost, quality and consistency for such meals. In addition to growing demand in North America, LSG Sky Chefs announced a joint venture earlier this year with China National Aviation Group Ltd. to establish a frozen meal plant facility in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, to meet growing demand for deep-frozen foods from airlines in the Asia/Pacific region. These additions will enable the company to build on its already considerable expertise in frozen-food production acquired through its subsidiary, LSG-Sky Food, which opened in Germany in 1994.
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LSG Sky Chefs is the world's largest provider of in-flight services. These include airline catering, in-flight equipment and logistics as well as the management of onboard service and in-flight retail. The group is also the industry leading expert in managing the complete in-flight service supply chain for several airlines. LSG Sky Chefs partners with more than 300 airlines worldwide and operates some 200 customer service centers in 49 countries, producing around 418 million airline meals a year. In 2007, the companies belonging to LSG Sky Chefs Group achieved consolidated revenues of € 2.4 billion.


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Residents of an upstairs apartment at 40 Phillips St. in Amsterdam watch Thursday as firefighters battle a blaze that broke out in the two-family home.
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Amsterdam firefighters and National Grid crews are shown responding to a structure fire that broke out Thursday at 40 Phillips St. in Amsterdam.
By CHARLIE KRAEBEL
Recorder Editor
Two families were displaced Thursday morning after a fire broke out at 40 Phillips St. in Amsterdam.
Amsterdam Fire Chief Richard Liberti said it appears the blaze started in the bathroom of the first-floor apartment of the two-family home, but the cause of the fire is under investigation.
He said all the occupants got out safely, although an Amsterdam firefighter was taken to St. Mary's Hospital after sustaining a cut on his hand.
Liberti said two additional crews were brought in to assist in fighting the blaze, which was extinguished within minutes. "They knocked it down pretty quick," the chief said.
The first-floor apartment sustained "complete" fire and smoke damage, Liberti said. The second-floor unit also sustained fire and smoke damage after the fire made its way up through the building's plumbing system.
Raquel Avila, who has lived in the upstairs apartment with her husband and two children, said she woke up Thursday morning to an apartment full of smoke.
"The lady who lives downstairs came up crying and said her bathroom had caught fire because of a candle," Avila said. "No one was hurt, thank God."
Avila said the woman, who was not identified, lives in the downstairs apartment with her husband and three children.
Liberti said the fire broke out around 9:45 a.m. Thursday. Crews from National Grid and GAVAC were also on the scene.


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Sports Scores: Tough Day for North Country Teams
The playoff push ended for many teams throughout the north country on Saturday.
Two north country boys hockey teams suffered losses in state final four competition.
Bishop McQuaid beat Massena 5-1 and John Jay Cross River beat St. Lawrence Central 6-4.
In high school basketball playoffs, Beaver River's championship season ended Saturday with a 65-42 loss to Moravia.
Beaver River scored the first four points, but Moravia responded with a 25 point run, with Beaver River only able to score another two. By the end of the first quarter, the score was 25-6.
As well, Beaver River had trouble with three point shots, dropping only one during the game.
The Beavers finished the season with a 21-2 record.
(Click on the picture for highlights from both hockey games and the Beaver River contest.)
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Boys High School Basketball
Moravia 65 Beaver River 42
Watervliet 73 OFA 58
Argyle 71 Madrid Waddington 59
Girls High School Basketball
Fort Edward 64 Hammond 45
Salmon River 73 Watervliet 65
Troy 63 Massena 45
Boys High School Hockey
John Jay-Cross River 6 St. Lawrence Central 4
Bishop McQuaid 5 Massena 1
Women's College Hockey
Cornell 4 St. Lawrence 2
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March 31, 2011 —
The plant depicted here belongs along the banks of the Delaware River, and in fact, has already emerged and fallen under the scrutiny of my camera lens last week. The other items appearing at top, left, do not, and appeared just upriver from this skunk cabbage.
The river's borders can seem especially dreary at this time of year, as flooding and receding waters deposit all manner of trash on its banks. Although it might appear that very little is going on along those edges, the deep maroon and chartreuse clusters of skunk cabbage tell a different story.
Just how does skunk cabbage manage such an early appearance?
The plant's spathe, a mottled shell-like pod, appears first and produces blooms from March to May. Inside the spathe is a spadix, a little knob covered with small yellow flowers. The plant generates heat that is strong enough to melt snow around it. Such thermogenic plants raise their temperature above that of the surrounding air as a secondary process of cellular respiration.
In late spring, tightly rolled leaves begin to emerge. When crushed, they release a strong odor resembling rotten meat, explaining the plant's name. The scent attracts insects which pollinate the plants as they move among them. The leaves provide shelter and nourishment for various insects and animals as well.
Learn more about this interesting plant in a comprehensive piece by Craig Holdrege of The Nature Institute at www.natureinstitute.org/pub/ic/ic4/skunkcabbage.htm [2].


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Jim Harper spoke about growing up in Culver, IN, at the Culver-Union Township Public Library in honor of Black History Month. Culver was once home to a thriving African-American community, which included members of the first integrated high school basketball team in Indiana (in 1922) and an African Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1950, Harper left Culver to attend North Central College where, he said, "My first year at college I was the only person of color in Naperville and at the school, but it didn't seem to make a big difference. I was elected president of my freshman class." More recently, Harper said an article in the Chicago Tribune, which suggested Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. likely wouldn't have been allowed to stay overnight in Naperville during the 1950s and '60s, piqued his interest. "I had to respond. I told (the author) I had been in Naperville and gone to school there and had been free to move about without a problem." Harper's college career was broken up by two years in the U.S. Army. Following his service, he returned to North Central and attended seminary for a year, then found himself serving a racially mixed church congregation in Chicago in 1963. His wife and several others in the church urged him to attend the civil rights march on Washington that summer. He was a firsthand witness to the historic event where Martin Luther King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
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In 2009, TAG Heuer again turns watchmaking fundamentals inside out with the invention of the drivebelt transmission. The revolution rests on two innovations. The first replaces the pinions of traditional mechancial movement with a relay of five notched belts. The second innovation reinvents the classic circular winding system with a radical new design. Instead of rotating, the linear weight moves up and down along a circuit of V cylinders, echoing the design of high-performance racecar engines.
The patented belt-driven transmission is a high-yield relay of 5 notched micro drive-belts whose tension is controlled by 2 turnbuckles. The transmission belts in polyether block amide have a 0.07mm section, and are 10 times smaller than any belt ever manufactured.
A second patent was granted for the innovative linear mass, replacing the classic oscillating mass. Mounted on the word's smallest ball bearings, the 12g tungsten ingot moves up and down between 2 pairs of V-shaped barrels (hence the name V4). The barrels are angled at +/- 13 degrees, like the cylinders of a high performance racing engine.
With its square shape and automatic chronograph, the Monaco V4 recalls the original Monaco series. But with its complex design clearly visible through sapphire glass in the front and back, the Monaco V4 shows how truly evolved watchmaking can become.


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Angie Sauceda and Brittany Smith competed in Entrepreneurship with their development of a hypothetical jewelry business for teens. They won silver medals.
The team of Tori Garcia, Amanda Ginster and Vanessa Stewart competed in Interpersonal Communications with a project that encouraged more tolerance of students with physical and learning disabilities. Silver medals were awarded to this freshman team.
Three Rivers Middle School qualified a team in Chapter Service Project Manual in which they shared how they helped a family with Christmas shopping that was a hardship this year. Gabby Sandoval, Hunter Haag and Lille Council won silver.
Natalie Carroll and Jacqueline Coquat are the Chapter advisors. Kathryn Wolff also attended as a STAR event judge.
Also accompanying the FCCLA attendees were Geneva Garcia, Gilda Ruiz, Ava Ruiz, Roberto and Elvira Sauceda, Gracie Stewart, Lauren Carroll, Ronald Quintanilla, AnnaLee Maiden and Marissa Haag.
After sessions and competitive events, the students visited Universal Studios, Disney World, Epcot Center, Animal Kingdom and Kennedy Space Center.
A special thanks goes to Three Rivers ISD school board and administration and to parents for making this trip possible.


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STAFF WRITER | February 02,2013State officials are preparing to launch a new sex offender registration database and website that they say will provide the public with more tools to identify sex offenders in their communities.
Following an audit three years ago that identified a need for more accurate and timely reporting, Department of Public Safety officials began working to install a new system already used in 34 other states, according to DPS Commissioner Keith Flynn.
The Legislature directed us to get the system cleaned up, Flynn said. Thats what we did and its a substantial upgrade.
The new OffenderWatch system coming online soon will eliminate typographical errors by reducing the number of times data is manually entered into the system and it will post updates in real time, Flynn said.
Statewide mapping capabilities are built into the software and a number of new features are included.
For starters, the system will send offenders periodic electronic and telephone requests for address verifications.
Offenders can also use email to update their addresses and living status.
The system will also allow law enforcement agencies in and outside of the state greater access to information about offenders.
Residents will have greater access to information as well, Flynn said. This includes email alerts, for those who register on the new website, about new Internet-posted sex offenders moving into their city or town.
Vermont has 1,197 registered sex offenders, nearly 1,000 of whom meet the criteria to be posted on the website. The criteria include aggravated sexual assault of a child, kidnapping with intent to commit sexual assault, a designation as a sexual predator, and failing to comply with required treatment.
The new website will also provide specific addresses for sex offenders once legislative changes are made, Flynn said.
Presently, state officials release the name of the town or city of a sex offender whose profile is posted on the website, but not the name of the street they live on.
Vermont statute still prohibits public safety officials from releasing that information. But Flynn said lawmakers stated in the past that once the department corrected problems with the website the Legislature would add street addresses to the Internet profiles.
The new $403,500 system has proved successful in other states, he said, and the cost of its purchase and implementation in Vermont was paid for entirely by two federal grants.
The new site can be found at www.communitynotification.com/vermont/.
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I was taking fenugreek 3 capsules twice a day until I read that the usual dose is 3 capsules 3 times a day, so I started taking that amount yesterday. Usually DD is a suck suck suck suck suck suck suck....pause nurser without an audible swallow. Now she is a suck pause swallow, suck pause swallow, stop, pull off the breast without unlatching, suck pause swallow, suck pause swallow, pull off the breast without unlatching, repeat as needed and make noise in the process. Maybe she's latching better (I can't tell the difference)so my milk supply is easier to get to. Should I be concerned that she stops and pulls away periodically? I actually feel more assured that she's getting milk because now I can hear the swallow. She's also more vigorous about nursing and stays awake while nursing longer. She still falls asleep but she seems to be more satisfied instead of waking up 10 minutes later hungry.
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The fuel tube can scrape against the air cleaner housing and develop holes, posing a fire hazard.
For more information, contact Kawasaki between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. PT Monday through Friday toll-free at (866) 802-9381 or visit the firm's website at www.kawasaki.com. Kawasaki is contacting its customers directly.
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The vehicles are model year 2012 Kawasaki four-wheeled, off-highway utility vehicles with side-by-side seating for two people and automobile style controls. Each model has a bench seat, a rollover protection structure and a cargo bed. The vehicles are available in the colors green, red, black and camouflage. The following models are being recalled:
The brand name appears on the sides and tailgate of the cargo bed and the model name appears on the sides of the front cowl. The model number can be found on a label under the seat, which flips up. The abbreviation "4WD" also appears on the sides of the of the cargo bed of the 610 models.
Kawasaki has not received any reports of incidents or injuries.
Consumers should immediately stop using these vehicles and contact their Kawasaki dealer to schedule a free inspection and repair.
Kawasaki dealers nationwide from June 2011 to February 2012 for between $6,700 and $8,200.
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My MILs- yes i have two. well the youngest gave birth to twins (boy-girl) at 31w2d this past saturday. the girl is 1lb 13oz and boy is 4lb1oz. They are both in the level 3 NICU. Boy is worse than girl. Mil still doesnt have her milk yet so they are giving girl donor milk. She is working with a LC and is pumping and getting some drops. she wants to Breastfeed. These are her first children. I am the ONLY other one to BF. I am looking for ANY tips to give her. I am going to make up a little like pamplet for her.
I talked to the local Moms of Multiples LLL leader today and she told me a GREAT book is Mothering Multiples.
more details as of day before yesterday and yesterday:
Boy has chest tube, PIC line, IV, NO feeding tube yet (or i think he may now), open isolette
Girl is in closed isolette (but can be touched and held in isolette), Biliruben lights (level is 10 as of day before yesterday, but going down), IV, PIC line, IV, Feeding tube getting donor milk.
I have had a NICU baby, but never this early or small. i also didnt have a level 3 NICU baby- DD1 was level 2 so things are a bit different.
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How many times have you raced into the grocery store...famished...and come home with a full cart of groceries you never intended to buy? New research confirms what most of us suspected all along...shopping when you're hungry isn't a great idea. But this study takes it a step further...and shows we tend to make really bad choices on an empty stomach.
The Cornell study was done in two parts. The first group of 68 participants was instructed to avoid eating for five hours- Then they were asked to go shopping in a simulated online store that was filled with a mix of high-calorie foods and lower-calorie alternatives. The second group of 82 went to a real grocery store. Some shopped after lunch when they were most likely to be full, others shopped before dinner when they were most likely to be hungry.
The results: Hungry participants who shopped at the online store purchased a higher number of high-calorie products like candy, salty snacks and red meat...versus low cal fruits, veggies and chicken breasts. Hungry participants who shopped at the real store also bought fewer low-calorie foods compared to those who walked the aisles when they were full.
Bottom line...researchers believe short-term food deprivation can lead us to load up on high calorie foods.
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I just watched this. I am VERY pro EBF. But that's quite a sacrifice to go for 8 years! Not sure I can make it that long - we're still hoping for 2. LOL.
I wonder if there's somewhere I could see the whole clip???
I just watched this. I am VERY pro EBF. But that's quite a sacrifice to go for 8 years! Not sure I can make it that long - we're still hoping for 2. LOL.
I wonder if there's somewhere I could see the whole clip???
I'm Erica
Mommy to "C" - currently 3 and half years old
- nursed for one year
and mommy to "M" - currently 2 years old
- nursed for 23 months
Wife to my handsome DH for 5 and a half years!
SO....I feel abivilence. While I am kinda skeeved put by her HUGE kid at her breast in the far away shots, when they do the close us and all you see is her daughters happy content face cradled in by her mothers breasts, I feel all warm and happy for them both. I can't help it. It's a knee jerk reaction for me really. Even at 7 her daughter looks my son at her breast. Still so very young and so content.
And it's is hard to get too skeeeved out by her. She seem so intelligent and normal and sane. I LOVE the part where the girls says it tastes better than even mango!
Way too lazy for formula
it works for them, and in some societies its a norm at that age even. The kids look happy and well adjusted and the mom looks happy too. Like she siad in her own words, they WONT nurse forever, it just wont happen! At some point the little girl will wean!
i remain neutral and non judgmental on this one, as I know some people look at me nursing my 6month old and think I am nuts!
Mommy of 4,
3 who I watch over, 1 who watches over all of us
J- 8/20/05 pumped breastmilk for 11 months due to his cleft lip and palate!
M- 10/17/07 my precious baby lives forever in her mommys heart
M- 3/31/09 my special gift, she helps heal her mommy and daddys heart. Nursed for 4 years and 10 days, self weaned the day her baby brother was born!
E-, new little miracle born 4/11/13, my BIG baby! Born 8.6 at 38 weeks. At 9 weeks nearly 17lbs, at 12 weeks nearly 20lbs, at 6 months nearly 23lbs, at 8 months nearly 25lbs and all from BREASTMILK
In what society or societies is it normal to nurse a 7 or 8 year old?
Way too lazy for formula
I am all for extented nursing, but I think the question does need to be raised as far as in what society is this the norm? I know the WHO says the average age is 4.... I honestly think 8 is a little long.. and have to wonder who the benefit is really for.
: breastfeeding mamma to our second daughter Gwendolyn Rose born 3/26/10 and to my 31 month old sweetie Alayna.
Where is it normal socially? IDK."In societies where children are allowed to nurse 'as long as they want,' they usually self-wean, with no arguments or emotional trauma, between three and four years of age ... The minimum predicted age for a natural age of weaning in humans is two and a half years, with a maximum of seven years." -- Katherine Dettwyler, PhD, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Nutrition at Texas A&M University, and author of "Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives."
Mom to 3 awesome kiddos...
C - 9yrs
O - 7yrs
A - 1yr old in Nov '15
I don't know that this constitutes "normal", simply because I'm not sure precisely what the word "normal" means. But it would seem to indicate that, even in white, educated, middle/upper-class America, it's not unheard of (3-4% of those nursed 3 years or more are nursed longer than 7 years), maybe it's just not spoken of.
25 May 96 and 14 January 08 and 27 February 2012
Yes, the BF in Mongolia article does mention that 8 or 9 yrs old is not unheard of. Not the norm, but certainly not met with disgust or disbelief.
I don't see a problem with it as long as it's still working for both of the individuals in the dyad.
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Panasonic, a well-known consumer electronics supplier, reportedly had proposed a standard for three-dimensional movies to the Blu-ray disc Association (BDA). The 3D technology has certain chances to catalyze a high-definition evolution, but the company will have to fight against the rivals in order to avoid the format war.
What Panasonic plans to introduce to the public is usual pseudo-3D imaging that requires additional glasses. The technology has never improved DVD, even though appropriate titles were, and still are, available and several companies have promoted those products. Nonetheless, Panasonic does believe into the technology, which may be improved, according to the company, going forward:
"Standards wars, patent monopolies and the like would seriously interfere with the widespread adoption of any 3D image standard. We developed a standard based on existing technology, specifically designed for easy acceptance, said Masayuki Kozuka, general manager in charge of storage device strategy, at AVC Networks Company of Panasonic, reports Tech-On web-site.
The red-blue/active shutter glasses-enabled 3D has been known for years, but now the major consumer electronics company reportedly wants to enter the same home-video market with the same technology, this time with Blu-ray.
"All we have to do is define a flag to identify image data, equipment and other elements supporting 3D imagery. We really don't need any other major changes," explained Hiroshi Miyai, director, high quality AV development center of Panasonic.
It is unclear whether "defining a flag" would result in another profile for Blu-ray disc players that will have to support, for instance, four video encoding engines, HDMI port with higher bandwidth, new breed of copyright protection technologies and other differences. It should be noted that in case for stereo 3D carrying higher-capacity Blu-ray discs are required, players will have to get new laser technology.
Other proposals for stereoscopic 3D technology for video includes specially designed displays, holograms and so on.
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text: I never had Mastitus until 2 weeks ago (my son is 12mths old). I had the fever, shakes, body aches, red streaking and the whole deal. I took antibiotics for a week, then had a week of feeling totally back to normal and pain free and here we are again, same thing but without the streaks. I am weaning very slowly and each time I've had it its been the day after I have dropped a feed to try and get down to 2 feeds. I don't know what to do because I know I'm supposed to increase nursing again to feel better but then my body will produce more milk. Now I'm wondering if I should wean at all or stick with these 3 feeds as it seems my body is telling me its not ready! Deep down, I think I'm only weaning because everyone else around me thinks its time, in particular my MIL, husband and Mom (although she's less verbal but I know what she thinks!) Oh and also because my son has a dairy allergy and I've been completly dairy free for almost 11mths and I'd love to have dairy again. Please advise me what I can do to make myself feel better...do cabbage leaves really work?


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Phototuts+ author Ivaylo Gerchev recently published a series of in-depth tutorials aimed at taking you from beginner to pro in Lightroom in only one week.
Today we're following that up with a few quick and easy Lightroom tricks that you can quickly add to your workflow whether you're just picking up the app or have been using it for years.
Before you get started with this tutorial though, professional Lightroom Presets may be just what you need. Otherwise, the tips and tricks below will help you accomplish everything from navigating around the app better to smoothing out skin wrinkles.
More than One Way
If you've been using Photoshop for a few years, then you know very well that there are two or more ways to go about nearly every task. The app is so incredibly huge and powerful that your workflow has a wide range of flexibility. The result is that no two Photoshoppers work quite the same way.
Lightroom is exactly the same and features many seemingly redundant tools and processes for improving your photos. As we go through the tips below, you'll occasionally see a couple alternative options, and you probably even have more suggestions for each process. Knowing your way around Lightroom gives you the flexibility to try multiple ideas to see which works the best in a given situation.
#1: Use Luminance to Create an Intense Sky
On bright, sunny days, you'd think it would be easy to shoot beautiful blue skies. Unfortunately, if you're exposing for subjects that are in the shade or with their backs to the sun, you often get blown out or lackluster sky detail due to the fact that your camera is attempting to grab information from the shadows.
In Lightroom, you may first reach for the saturation slider for enhancing your sky, but this isn't always the best option. For starters, saturation is going to intensify the colors globally, which may not be desirable if all you're really concerned about is the sky. Further, saturation is a touchy setting and can easily begin to mess with skin tones and other important areas that you don't want to mess up.
By dropping down to the Hue, Saturation and Luminance panel, you can easily target specific colors, which gives you much more control than a global shift. However, here again, saturation might not be the best way to go as the results can become almost cartoony with even a small adjustment.
A good alternative is to use the blue luminance slider. This does exactly what it sounds like it would and pulls some of the luminosity out of the blues in the image. The result is a darker, bolder sky that you can really tweak on an incremental level without messing up non-blue portions of the image.
#2: Stack Adjustment Brush Effects
The adjustment brush in Lightroom is an awesome tool that allows you to make changes to very selective parts of an image. One of the most powerful aspects of this feature that you won't find in Photoshop brushes is that the changes you make are nondestructive and always editable, even if there are several brushes applied.
This makes stacking effects an incredibly useful trick. Not only can you combine multiple different adjustment brushes, you can repeat the same one to intensify the effect. For instance, in lieu of a proper blur feature in Lightroom, it's often the case that users will create an adjustment brush with the Sharpness set to -100. However, this achieves and extremely subtle blur and must be applied several times before the effect becomes strongly apparent.
The basic process is that you grab the adjustment brush, tweak your settings, paint in the effect, then hit "New" to create a new instance of the effect. Repeat this step as necessary until the effect is as strong as you want it. Use this same method to apply different effects to different areas of the photo.
As mentioned above, after applying several instances of the brush, you can go back and edit each of them individually. Each instance of the effect is represented by a dot, simply click on one to see and adjust its settings or hover over one to see a quick preview of where you painted that effect in.
#3: Quick Skin Fixes
There are so many things that can go wrong with skin for a photo shoot. I live in the sunny desert of Phoenix so outside photos tend to really make people look overly red and patchy. Further, the dry climate tends to wreak havoc on our actual skin so there are always plenty of rough patches to clean up.
The image above uses a combination of my favorite techniques for improving skin quality in Lightroom. Let's briefly go over each so you can combine them how you see fit. Remember to use them conservatively, several small changes amount to one big change.
The first thing to try is simply adjusting the brightness. If the symptom is dark, red skin, you want to brighten it up a little, which should bring the color back towards something natural. Also, as a side effect, some of the detail begins to drop off, which is actually a good thing when you're dealing with wrinkles and pores that are overly apparent.
Next, we once again turn to our friend the Luminance slider. Here you'll want to increase the luminance for both red and orange. This has the effect of brightening the skin up immensely in a natural way that's not too harsh. Specifically, it targets those dark red patches and helps reduce their visibility.
One great method of doing this is to click the little circle in the top left of the luminance palette. This will allow you to then click and drag directly on the problematic portions of the skin while Lightroom automatically targets the luminance values for those areas.
Lightroom has a built-in tool that works quite well for this purpose: the "Soften Skin" adjustment brush (the Spot Removal tool is an obvious but vital tool as well). Dragging the Soften Skin brush over something will reduce the clarity, which means it's a great way to reduce the appearance of wrinkles and other skin imperfections.
As you can see in the image below, the default setting for this brush actually increases sharpness. This is fine for some uses but I often find that I get better results by cranking both the clarity and sharpness down. Remember that you can always adjust the preset brushes and aren't stuck with the settings Lightroom gives you!
My final trick for smoothing out skin is really quirky and should be cautiously approached. Scroll down to the "Noise Reduction" section to see various sliders aimed at reducing the color noise that is a common side effect of shooting at a high ISO.
To reduce the appearance of noise, Lightroom attempts to blur pixels together slightly. I've noticed that, as a side effect, this can be a quick way to slightly smooth out all the skin in an image. There are two reasons why you should think twice before doing this. The first is that it's a global change, so you're reducing the overall detail in your image. Secondly, the effect can create super ugly photos if applied in anything but very small amounts
However, there are cases where a slight loss of detail is acceptable, especially if it means smoother skin and less noise. Again, just be sure to take a close look at your before and after snapshot to make sure that you did in fact improve the image rather than destroy it!
#4: Switching Crop Overlays
Cropping images inside of Lightroom seems pretty straightforward, but there is some hidden functionality here that's shouldn't be missed. One of the most important of these is that you can switch between multiple crop overlays.
The default overlay is shown below. This overlay is definitely one of the most useful as it makes it easy to apply the rule of thirds to an image.
As it turns out though, this is merely one of six different crop overlay options that you have inside of Lightroom. To switch to the next option, simply tap the "o" key. You can also flip the orientation of any overlay by hitting shift-o.
To see all of the options, click on the "Tools" item in the menu bar. Then come down to the "Crop Guide Overlay" flyout menu to see the options shown below.
#5: Syncing Capture Times From Multiple Shooters
One of the easiest things to forget to do when you have multiple shooters is to sync the clocks on your respective cameras. This wreaks havoc when it comes time to import. It can be extremely frustrating to attempt to sort through photos if they're bouncing back and forth between two different points in the day.
Fortunately, Lightroom offers a solution. It's a little tedious, but once you get the workflow down you'll be able to do it in a minute or two. The trick is two find two photos, one from each shooter, taken as closely together as you can find. The easy way to look for these is to scroll until you see the same event, anything from a laugh to a toast, from two different angles.
Once you find the two photos, select only one of them and scroll down to the Metadata panel under the Library module. You should see the capture time and date for the selected photo. Write this down exactly as you see it.
Next, filter your library results so that you're only seeing images from the other shooter. Filters can easily be applied via the menu right above the library. Using a Metadata filter, you can easily select a specific lens or camera, which should be a good way to grab images from a specific shooter.
When your results are filtered, find the photo that you previously identified as taken at the same time as the image whose time you wrote down. Select only this image to target it specifically, then hit Command-A to select all of the images. Lightroom has a really nice double selection feature that comes in handy for tasks such as this.
Finally, click the button next to the capture time info that we saw before to bring up the dialog box below. From here, set the time to what you wrote down for the other image. Lightroom will apply the change to the targeted image and is also smart enough to shift every other selected photo by the same amount of time. This should match up the capture times for all of your photos between the multiple shooters throughout the day.
#6: Split Toning: Retro Sweet Spot
Split toning is a fun way to achieve dramatically different effects for your photographs, but the controls can be a bit confusing if you're not familiar with them.
Given current trends in photography and design, I find a lot of people wanting to bust out a retro effect similar to what you'd see on Instagram or some other popular and trendy photo editor.
In recent years I've created and downloaded a ton of retro presets for Lightroom, and almost all of them are very similar in their split toning structure. Note the position of the both the highlight and shadow Hue sliders in the image below. The Highlights Hue is set to the first hash mark and the Shadows Hue is set to the first hash mark past the halfway point. Anything within one deviation of these locations is a sort of sweet spot that almost always yields interesting results.
Note that you also must manipulate the saturation and balance sliders, but their position will depend on what your image is like. I encourage you to have fun experimenting with these. Try different positions with these sliders to get a feel for the results, which will vary dramatically even within the Hue parameters that we've established.
Remember that this is only a quick trick to keep in mind and not in any way a hard and fast rule. Split toning, even with a retro goal in mind, can be achieved through any number of different techniques. The slider values above simply seem to be reliable in producing a sort of 1970s aged look.
#7: Fading a Lightroom Preset
We're all huge fans of Lightroom presets. With a single click you can take your image from boring to amazing, who could resist? However, the inevitable problem that you run into with built-in presets and those that found online is that they're simply too strong. For the most part, you like the effect, but just wish there was a way to dampen it.
Using only the default Lightroom functions, there are a number of ways to do this, all of which are a pain. The first and most obvious is to go through and attempt to spot all the changes and lessen them one slider at a time. Another popular option is to import an edited and a non-edited version into Photoshop, stack them together and reduce the opacity of the edited version until you like the result.
Both of these methods take too long and would be completely unnecessary if Adobe would just include a "Fade" command like the one found in Photoshop. Fortunately for us, there are some third party developers out there just as frustrated with this problem as we are!
Jarno Heikkinen, recently released an amazing free plugin on his site Knobroom.com. This plugin, simply titled "The Fader", gives Lightroom the ability to fade presets!
After you download and install the plugin, grab a photo and navigate to the File>Plug-In Extras menu and click on The Fader. This will bring up the dialog below where you can select a preset and then reduce its opacity.
#8: Lights Out
This is one that I've known of for a while but frequently forget exists. Any time you want to draw focus to a specific area, you can use the Lights Out command to dim everything but the selected photos.
To try this out, go into Grid View, select a few images, then hit the "L" key. The lights will fade and the result will be something like the image below.
Notice in the screenshot above that the interface is merely dimmed and not completely black. Hit "L" again and this time everything goes completely dark.
This trick even works in the develop module. Interestingly enough, the dimmed interface doesn't interfere with functionality so you can still continue to make changes while maintaining a strong focus on the image.
#9: Solo Mode
We touched on this briefly in our recent Lightroom in-depth series but it's such a great feature that it's worth taking a closer look at.
As you know, even though the Lightroom interface is incredibly efficient, there are tons of settings, especially under the develop module. With all of the panels expanded, it can be difficult to find what you're looking for. Even if you're experienced enough to know where everything is, you still lose lots of valuable time scrolling back and forth. Also, opening and closing a panel manually every time you want to use it quickly becomes tedious and annoying.
Fortunately, Solo Mode saves the day and makes Lightroom much more usable by auto-collapsing any panel that you have open as soon as you begin interacting with another panel. This makes navigating around the interface a breeze. If you're skeptical, just try it out once and you'll likely never go back.
To activate Solo Mode, right-click on either set of panels (it works on both the left and right side) and select the option shown below. With that one change your productivity can skyrocket!
To turn Solo Mode on and off even quicker, option click on any panel.
#10: Helpful Keyboard Shortcuts
To finish out this set of tips, I'll list some helpful keyboard shortcuts that help perform all kinds of actions. Like Photoshop, Lightroom has all kinds of keyboard shortcuts, some of which are listed in the menu, many of which aren't. Let's take a look at some of the rarer shortcuts that can really save you a lot of time and extra clicks.
- Caps Lock Auto Advance: From Loupe view, enable Caps Lock and rate a photo (you can use the numeral keys to help assign ratings quickly.). As soon as you do, Lightroom will advance to the next image. This trick also works with flags and color labels.
- Library Views: Hit G to go to Grid View, E to go to Loupe View, C to Compare, N to survey and D to develop or edit the photo.
- Toggle Panels: Use F5-F9 to quickly turn on and off the four different tool panels orbiting the central area.
- Alternate Options: While in library view, hold down Option (Alt on a PC) and you'll see a few changes. Import and Export become Import Catalog and Export Catalog and Quick Develop toggles the Clarity and Vibrance settings to Sharpening and Saturation. Also, holding Option on startup will allow you to choose a catalog.
- Reset Sliders: Holding down Option (Alt) in the develop module turns control titles into reset buttons. You can also double click a slider to return it to its original position.
- Straighten Tool: When using the Crop Tool, hold down Command (Control on a PC) to bring up the straighten tool. From here, just drag a line across anything in the photo that should be a straight line.
- Quick Slideshow: From grid view, select the photo that you want to start from and hit Command+Enter (Control+Enter) to start a slideshow.
- Moving Sliders: Use the arrow keys to move sliders forward and backward. Hold down Option (Alt) for smaller increments and Shift for larger increments.
- Show Shortcuts: Press Command+/ (Control+/) in any module to bring up a quick preview of the shortcuts for that module.
Your Turn!
As promised, we bounced around from interface navigation to actual editing techniques, all aimed at making you more a more proficient Lightroom user.
I hope the information above taught you a thing or two that you didn't already know or had forgotten. Whether you learned anything or not though, share your favorite Lightroom tips, tricks and hidden shortcuts in a comment below!
You can also find Lightroom Presets for sale on GraphicRiver if you're in need of a quick, professional solution. Or check out the range of photo editing services available on Envato Studio.
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8-17-10 PNC Park
Luck wasn't on my side today. There were at least 8-10 balls that I came up two feet short or less of snagging. Either balls that were just out of my reach, or snatched up at the last second by random fans.
That said, I did find ball #1 laying near the bullpen when I ran in to get on the board early.
I managed to get Sean Gallagher to toss me a ball, but the ball sailed high, and despite my best effort to catch it by hopping up on a bleacher, it tipped off of my glove and landed several rows behind me.
I tried to grab the ball, but this ballhawk raced over and grabbed it a split second before I could, despite the ball clearly being tossed to me.
He also cut my arm with his long fingernails.
Game: 6 balls ( 2 hit, 2 thrown, 1 device, 1 found )
Season: 447 balls (224 hit, 96 thrown, 61 device, 60 found)
Balls in the month of August: 96
Games: 68 games
Average: 6.57 balls per game
2010 Game Balls: 5
Career: 1,025 balls
Streak: 164 consecutive games attended with at least 1 ball snagged.
Attendance: 14,156
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I'm honored to be mentioned on your blog, but I can show you a picture of my utter lack of fingernails, as I always cut them all before I ever go to a game🙂 Maybe it was that other guy chasing the ball too.


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At the second HamRadioWeb convention in Bolognia, Italy Claudio, I4LEC has given a great presentation about the current status of SDR. In his presentation he starts with SDR principals then analyzes then the strength and weaknesses of available Software Defined Radios (mainly FlexRadio Products) and finishes with a comparison against TS-590 and Elecraft K3. The presentation is entertaining and informative at the same time. Definitely worth having a look at!
Claudio was so generous the grant the permission to show it on my website!