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|SunBird specs:
|Aircraft type:
|Ornithopter, Hand launched R/C Park Flyer
|Sean Kinkade
|Speed 300 D.C. electric motor
|Battery required:
|2 cell 7.4V High-Discharge Li-Poly, 340 to 1200 mah
|Construction materials:
|G-10 Epoxy-Glass, Carbon, Aluminum, Steel, Delrin Plastic, Polyester Fabric, Dacron
|about 35.5 inches
|about 21 inches
|about 8-10 ounces
|Hitec Micro 555
|Flight speed:
|5 to 20 mph
|Flight times:
|with 2 cell 340 mah Li-Poly = 4 to 6.5 minutes
|Flight times:
|with 2 cell 600 mah Li-Poly = 7.5 to 12 minutes
|Flight times:
|with 2 cell 1200 mah Li-Poly = 15 to 24 minutes
|Wind speed:
|0 to 8 mph
|Flying area required:
|field about 40 by 40 yards
I drove to Peaceful Valley on the last day of NEAT, 2003. As I entered the park, there were several tiny dots buzzing over the meadow - and among them, one lone bird. My eye stuck on that brave little bird flying out there among all those propellers. Of course, I knew that it wasnt just any bird it was the latest entry into the ornithopter market the SunBird. And at that moment, I knew I had come to the right place.
Like all other Kinkade products, the SunBird has a unique quality that brings it to center stage anywhere it flies. While other birds buzz about, powered by blades or jets, ornithopters are driven by flapping their wings. Because of this, no matter what else is going on, your eye is drawn to them!
I parked as quickly as possible, and went searching for the JGRC booth. Jeffrey Goodman, I knew, would have a multitude of these beasts on display, and he had promised to hold one for this review. When I found his booth, I was not disappointed. He had all manner of bird-like creatures hanging in his tent. Unfortunately, a crowd had gathered there, so I went on a walk to see the rest of the Fair before focusing in on the objects of my fascination. Ive got to say that this event was everything I had hoped it would be! If you ever have the opportunity to attend NEAT, you really should do it!
After checking out most of the booths at NEAT, I worked my way back to the JGRC tent and finally met up with Jeffrey. We had talked on the phone and by email numerous times, but this was our first face to face visit. Jeffrey has been my long distance ornithopter instructor, and he walked me through the process of taking my ParkHawk from an egg in the nest to a fledgling in the sky. So, as you might imagine, I thought this was pretty cool.
After we visited a bit, and to my surprise, Jeff said, Let me introduce you to Sean, and we went back behind the tent to a van. Sean Kinkade is the designer and manufacturer of these ornithopters, and therefore another great guy in my book. (This was turning into a Blue Ribbon Day!)
There was Sean packing up the bird I had seen flying as I drove in to the park. When he found out that I was doing this review of the SunBird, Sean said Lets go fly one! And after picking out a tiny little Li-Poly pack, (a Kokam 2 cell, 340 mah), we headed over to the field. I couldnt believe that itty-bitty pack could do what it did!
Initially, Sean offered to let me fly her, but the winds had picked up, and were gusting upwards of 15 knots. As much as I wanted to fly, I did not want to be the guy who crashed a SunBird at NEAT! In fact, I actually had a flash vision of the NEAT Herald with a banner reading: Rose Crashes Again! So, I declined the offer, and instead spotted for Sean. While spotting, I also took some pictures and video of him playing in the wind.
The first thing I noticed was that Sean launches his birds with considerably more up-toss than I do. When I launch one, it goes out level, and often dips within inches of the ground before I establish a positive rate of climb. (You might say that ground effect is my friend.) Sean, on the other hand, tosses the bird upwards, at about a 30 degree angle, and she never looks back!
Like the larger ParkHawk and SlowHawk series Kinkade ornithopters, the SunBird is equipped with a Speed 300 motor. But the SunBird is smaller and lighter than her cousins, and because of this, the bird has several defining characteristics that set her apart. She climbs with authority, and maneuvers with ease. Although my ParkHawk would have cringed at these winds, the SunBird took them on with enthusiasm.
Her flight is quick and lively. In comparison to the larger ornithopters, she is more birdlike and darts about with the agility of a blackbird, rather than the swoopy flight of a parrot or hawk. She would love to torment a ParkHawk. With her great response time, she can turn instantly. In these conditions, Sean was forced to use full throw on the joystick as he literally worked the currents. Never-the-less, even with the gusting winds, he was able to maneuver through them with full control.
The demonstration flight was absolutely great, except for a minor technical problem. As she climbed, dived and circled over the field, the SunBird reached the outer limits of her receiver. Then, while she was shooting downwind at about 500 to 600 yards out, she simply went berserk and fluttered to the ground. My nightmare! To make matters worse, her ESC failed to shut down. Instead of shutting down, the SunBird hit the ground and continued to flap and flop and bounce.
I was certain her wings were destroyed, and rushed out to try to catch her, and then turn off her power switch. But, upon inspection, we discovered the bird was in mint condition! This was an outstanding statement about her durability! However, it was also an eye-opener about her range requirements. While a regular remote control airplane may become a tiny speck at a short distance, a like sized ornithopter maintains a larger visual footprint. In addition, because of her wing movement, ornithopters are very easy to see and keep track of, at a greater distance. Therefore, it is also easy to get too far from micro-receivers that are limited to the 1000 to 1500 feet range. Since any landing that you can walk away from is a good one, these were in fact, good landings. Even so, because of these unplanned layovers, I decided to equip my SunBird with a full range Hitec Micro 555 receiver.
When I arrived back home with the kit Jeffrey saved for me, I found it was complete and contained everything I expected. It included the unique flat fiberglass body and Speed 300 motor, as well as carbon spars, sails, a new bulletproof wing hinge, and a great newly designed tail assembly. All I needed to supply was the micro-receiver, an ESC, two servos and my choice of a battery pack. Jeffrey supplies the optimal 340 mah 7.4 v Li-Poly Packs, as well as the optional 600 mah 7.4 v Li-Poly Packs.
The assembly process was so intuitive that I needed no special instructions. To be safe, I have included a short photo essay, which shows the critical steps. But my observation is that the difficult assemblies have already been put together and that the remaining parts simply screw or snap into place. No one should have trouble with this system it is as easy as 1-2-3.
However, the included SunBird Instruction Manual is complete and detailed. It includes everything you need to know before you build and fly your SunBird. I am stressing this, because so many RC aircraft manuals are marginal, while this one is indeed top notch. If you have never assembled one of these birds, just follow the manual, and you will do fine.
1.) Mount the radio hardware on the airframe as shown. If you do so it is virtually impossible to mess up the center of gravity. (I like Murphy-Proof designs!)
2.) Attach the Tail with the supplied O-Rings. I used a small Phillips head screwdriver to stretch the O-Rings over the hooks. Just be careful not to damage the O-Rings or the SunBird, as this is one of the most risky steps! The kit comes with a replacement set of rings, but they are also available at any hardware store.
3.) Insert the Carbon Spars into the Sail Pockets. Then attach the Primary and Secondary Spars to the Airframe with the supplied screws. Next secure the Sail with the two supplied O-Rings. This clever method of Sail attachment with O-Rings is simply amazing: it is both fast and secure and allows for a quick teardown too.
Viola! We are ready to fly!
Then there were the unauthorized flight-tests. As many other RC Groups Authors have noted, I too am virtually unable to build a stock airplane without trying out my own variations. True to my nature, I tested the SunBird with a variety of different (and unapproved) batteries and motors.
The SunBird was originally designed to fly on a larger Li-Poly pack, but after some testing, Sean determined that a two cell, 340 pack was best. The bird demonstrates its top performance at its lightest possible weight. Therefore, my recommendation is to get two or three 340 Packs, rather than just one 1200. Better yet, get several of each type! Even though I knew that lighter was better and that Li-Poly packs are specified, I still tried to fly mine with an old NiMh pack. (After all, I already had some 8 cell, 720 mah NiMh packs for my ParkHawk and a charger system too!)
She flew. But that was it. She was too heavy to climb, and she was on the edge of a stall throughout the flight. To complicate matters, as soon as I tried to bank into a turn, she rolled over and crashed to earth. After several failed attempts, it became obvious that unless I wanted to restrict myself to straight and level, NiMh was out. It was time to enter the 21st century and give up on the cheap solution.
Meanwhile, I also tried to use a couple of larger HS-81MG servos that were languishing in my RC Parts Box. The recommended servos are HS-55s but I wanted to see how she did with the stronger metal gears. Wrong! With those relatively massive servos, my little SunBird was tail heavy, and very difficult to control: she was dynamically unstable and required constant stick action. Knowing this: use the recommended HS-55 servos, and remember to choose a micro-receiver and ESC that is as light as possible.
I tried flying the SunBird with my Razor 300 motor and Jeti JES-18-3P brushless ESC. This combination flies very well, and has the advantage of greater efficiency and an overall weight savings of ten grams! In this configuration, my SunBird came in at 245 grams (8.6 ounces). However, there are other trade-offs here too. This little motor does not have the mass of the recommended Speed 300 motors. That mass serves as a flywheel and smoothes out the flapping. This halting effect is greater in a ParkHawk because she has a larger wing than the SunBird. The SunBird flaps faster, and is somewhat smoother on this motor, but it is still unacceptable. Unfortunately, the brushless motors that fit this airframe all lead to a visibly jerky flapping motion and that leads to excessive gear wear and premature failure of the drive train. I agree with Jeffrey that the best motor for this application is the one the designer picked: the Speed 300.
Do you remember the first lesson you learned when you were in Kindergarten? It was: Follow the Rules! If you set her up as recommended, she will fly magnificently. If you deviate, she will barely fly - if she does at all. So get the right hardware, and do this one by the numbers.
I told Sean that my ideal ornithopter would be one that could soar with a buzzard like quality yet still handle winds when needed. Unfortunately, an ornithopter which soars well will not handle winds; and one with great handling characteristics can not soar! As it turns out, after NEAT, Sean decided to play with this idea, and fit a larger wing on a SunBird. The result was a soaring SunBird. Therefore, with a stock SunBird, and an optional soaring wing, you can have the best of all worlds! Based on the prevailing wind conditions you can now pick your sail and go fly: this baby does it all!
In a word, the SunBird combo is the ultimate airplane! (And I can barely wait for my new soaring sail to arrive!) She is touchier than the larger ornithopters, and would be more challenging for a beginner. However, she is also quite durable, and can take more abuse than her older cousins. This is a fine bird, and I give the SunBird two beaks up!
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The bird has been released, and JGRC had them. I suspect he has sold out of his SunBird stock. There are several other suppliers, and they are being listed in the Ornithopter Forum at this link: https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show...hreadid=195416 - "Where to buy" is the thread name.
As for the Outrunner, we have discussed it, and it simply will not fit the airframe on the SunBird. Otherwise, it sounds like a really nice idea. But maybe someone will find a way to work it out. Then it would be a GREAT idea!
My friend and I found a stock of Sunbirds hiding out at a hobby shop. We ordered three in different color combos. I hope to get mine up and flying soon for a trip down to FL. Does anyone have an idea what wings worked or were used for the Sunbird XL. I wanted to ask dear old Sean that question..
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Fifth straight win for dominant Balzan
Jonathan Balzan continued to cement his name in the record books of long-distance running on our islands after winning the 15th Żurrieq Half Marathon on Sunday.
Balzan crossed the finish line at the main square in Żurrieq after one hour, 16 minutes and 11 seconds of solo running for his fifth successive victory, an unprecedented feat in a half marathon race organised by the Żurrieq Wolves Athletics Club in conjunction with the village's Local Council.
Eighty runners took part in the race, including some foreigners, with veteran Drew Lang coming home second behind Balzan in 1:19.20, just ahead of Brian Magri who made it past the gantry in 1:19.25.
Runners covered the distance of 21 kilometres after passing through the picturesque villages of Safi, Mqabba and Siġġiewi before returning to Żurrieq via Blue Grotto Avenue, enjoying the spectacular seascapes of the south of the island.
Carmen Hili was the winner of the women's half marathon in a time of 1:27.10.
Sandra Schembri was second in 1:34.18 and Josann Attard Pulis third in 1:36.41.
Apart from trophies to the first three in both male and female races, other awards were distributed to the top runners in each age category.
These were Antoine Abela and Jacqueline Booker (over 35), Balzan and Hili (over 40), Lang and Schembri (over 45), Jimmy Sacco (over 50), Martin Agius (over 55) and Louis Cutajar (over 60).
The team award went to Pembroke Athleta while Joe Saliba and Joe Abdilla were the top two Żurrieq Wolves runners in the half marathon.
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Hey guys,
I joined a while ago and have been waiting on my WRX for months and yesterday the day finally came. Got the car with 6 miles on it and having a hard time waiting to get past these first thousand miles!
I am coming from the Acura/Honda world and this was what I drove before my Scoob.
I had a lot of fun with the RSX and it was a good car until the end. I did have to pour a lot of money into it at the end though. Killed the motor and blew out 3rd gear in 6 months and costs me a lot of future montly payments on the Subaru. But sold it and time to move on to my new toy!
I have to say that I am really impressed with the power of the car. I have not revved it past 4k but I can already tell there is a lot more power and trq to play with. Also the car really is planted and holds corners really well. I went up a part of a canyon rode and smoothly went through the corners and the car could hold much better than I expected. And I dont know about others but I came from a car that was bouncy, stiff, and harsh that also had motor mounts that vibrated the car, heavy duty clutch and lightweight flywheel, and a pretty loud exhaust.... SO this car is a huge upgrade in comfort for me even though it really isnt that comfortable haha.
And I know the pictures are sideways and I tried to fix that in Photobucket but am having no luck. Anyone wanna educate me on how to fix this?
Anyway I already ordered IAG Tailight overlays and am getting a clear bro and 35% tints done this weekend. From there I am ordering a Kartboy SS with Bushings and sourcing an Invidia Q300 exhaust. Also doing some other minor cosmetic stuff as time goes on. I have to be slow with the mods as this was already a big push to get my wife to even let me buy the car.... You know how that goes


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I have a 2003 WRX that is stock except for an aftermarket up-pipe that was installed when I bought the car. I already did the resistor mod to get rid of the CEL it would throw but now I have it again. Could it be possible for the resistor to be bad or am I thinking of a different code? I'm honestly just looking for information on what should be done about these and what others did to fix it, Thanks.
EDIT: Also, the car seems to run fine since the CEL came on but I haven't driven it hard to be sure. My car has 97,000 miles on it


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Senior Andrea Rich (New Baltimore/Anchor Bay) and junior Kristy Gilchrist (Macomb/Anchor Bay) both received All-GLIAC honors for the second consecutive year while sophomore Arielle Goodson (Grand Rapids/Central) is a first-time member. Rich earned first-team recognition while Goodson garnered second-team accolades and Gilchrist attained honorable mention laurels.
Rich, a setter-outside hitter, claimed top team honors in assists (629) and service aces (40) while ranking second among the squad's leaders with a career single-season high 315 digs in 29 matches. A 2007 All-GLIAC Honorable Mention selection, Rich concluded this season with a team fourth-best and career season-high 165 kills and posted a .166 attack percentage. She registered a squad third-highest 62 total blocks, which included 55 block assists. Rich produced at least 30 assists in a match on four occasions and attained double-digit totals in digs 14 times this fall.
The 2008 team co-captain finished sixth in the conference in services aces per set (0.38 avg.) and was 10th in assists per set (5.89 avg.). Rich was honored as the GLIAC North Division's Player of the Week earlier this season (9/3) and was also a member of the 2008 Ferris State Invitational All-Tournament Team. Among the NCAA Division II national statistical leaders to date, Rich currently ranks 198th in assists per set (5.57 avg.) and is 211th in aces per set (0.35 avg.). The 5-10 Rich concluded her four-year (2004-08) ranking ninth on FSU's career leaders list in assists (2,016), 22nd in digs (775), and 28th in service aces (96).
A 6-2 middle hitter, Goodson turned in her best season at Ferris State with career season highs in kills (262), digs (26), and total blocks (92). She was tops on the squad in total blocks while finishing second place for team honors in kills and hitting percentage (.201) in 29 outings. This season, Goodson accumulated double figures in kills on 10 occasions and compiled a career match-best 10 blocks (all assists) against Northern Michigan (9/19). Nationally, she presently is 12th in blocks per set (0.87 avg.). For her career, Goodson is listed 22nd in blocks per set (0.87 avg.) among the Bulldogs' all-time leaders while ranking 23rd in block solos (37) and 30th in both total blocks (182) and block assists (145).
Gilchrist hammered a team third-most 233 kills while hitting at a .210 clip in 29 matches this season. The 6-0 middle hitter was second on the squad with 79 total blocks, including 68 block assists, and placed fourth with 23 service aces. For the season, Gilchrist recorded 10 double-figure kill match performances and netted a career match-high 10 blocks (all assists) versus Northern Michigan (9/19). The 2007 All-GLIAC Second-Team performer currently ranks 232 among the national leaders in blocks per set (0.75 avg.). To date, Gilchrist ranks 19th on Ferris' career leaders list in kills (789), total blocks (273) and block assists (233), 21st in block solos (40), and 23rd in blocks per set (0.84 avg.).
Ferris State concluded the 2008 season with a 16-13 overall record, which included an 8-8 mark in the GLIAC's North Division. The Bulldogs, under 13th-year head coach Tia Brandel-Wilhelm, registered the program's 11th consecutive winning season and made their 11th straight GLIAC Post-Season Tournament appearance this campaign.
The first, second, and honorable mention All-GLIAC teams were announced during the 2008 GLIAC Tournament Championships (Nov. 15-16) at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich.
All three team squads consisted of 12 student-athletes each as voted on by the conference's head coaches. Grand Valley State's Danielle Alexander was selected as the GLIAC Player of the Year while Mayssa Bazzi of Wayne State was chosen as the Libero of the Year. The Freshman of the Year was Hillsdale's Ashlee Crowder and the GLIAC Coach of the Year went to Deanne Scanlon of Grand Valley State.


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I know this is short notice, I'm still undecided what to do for New Years, was thinking about possibly heading down to Clearwater, just wondering if anyone would be up to getting together.
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I know this is short notice, I'm still undecided what to do for New Years, was thinking about possibly heading down to Clearwater, just wondering if anyone would be up to getting together.
I'm game! :)
At least the drive up will be much more affordable. :highfive:
Still undecided, but it looks like I am really leaning to this choice... A couple friends invited me to go up to ATL to visit a couple more friends, nothing crazy just a good time with people we know.... and I am totally fine with that... except...
I'm almost worn out from working 60, 70 even 80hrs/week at the base, they wanted to get caught up, then even ahead on the planes for the season and we've been putting 10,11,12hr days in 6-7 days/week....
all said and done... I just wanna get out of here for a bit, vaca time dosen't come around all that easy either. ATL is fine, but I'd really like some place warm(er) and with water, I just wanna go to the beach for the day. Forcast says it's supposed to be sunny and atleast low 70's if not warmer, totally fine with me, and I haven't been in Clearwater for a long time now, Noelle (BMW) still needs work, but that dosen't matter, she'd be going on the trip. Beach, cruise around, check out some things for old times sake and probably hit up my old favorite junkyard if it's open, and whatever else I can think of.
As for getting together, I am up for anything... New Years eve night is the big night, I get off work at 11AM when all is said and done I should be down in Clearwater area around 7PM, I'll be staying until Saturday, possibly Sunday. As I said, I have no preference to the place we'd go to, now that I am 21 I can go to such places that require you to be 21, but I am still not a big drinker. I really don't know what is going on where, dosen't need to be fancy either.
So far there is one other, maybe 2? If we could get several folks together, we could have a neat little get together.
Perhaps the Saturday after New Year's Day?
With no replies in 11 days, I'm making alternate plans. Had some friends fly into town.
looks like ill be in tampa from tues-sat if anyone wants to meet up
Ill be in the area 1/17 to 1/22 so if there is a meet in that time period Im in! :D
Well, I'm down here... no plans at all, just whatever I feel like doing the next couple days... awesome. I know we never really made any plans for a meet, ah well, maybe another time.
I'm down in ybor right now


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Londoner Michael Birch and his wife Xochi today made £300 million after selling their social networking site Bebo.
The couple, who met in a university bar while at Imperial College, started Bebo in 2005 with £8,000. Today, they agreed to sell the company to internet giant AOL for £425 million in cash.
Although they now live in San Franciso with their two children and a pet tiger cub, Mr Birch describes himself as "a true as the Queen of England Englishman". His brother Paul, who still lives in London, is also thought to be a founder investor in the company.
Bebo, which launched in 2005, is second only to Facebook in its popularity with more than 40 million users worldwide, mostly teenagers.
It was the most popular networking site in Britain until the end of last year when it was overtaken by Facebook.
As well as running the company, Mr Birch, 37, still writes part of the computer code that powers Bebo.
"When he's not moaning about how cold the beer is in the US Michael can be found cranking away at the code and trying to work out what a CEO is meant to do," his official biography says.
"It's easier to be really English when you're not in England," he recently claimed.
Mr Birch claims he moved to California expecting glorious sunshine and says he felt cheated when he found that San Francisco has "more fog than a Dickens novel". He sold just over 15 per cent of the company to Balderton Capital for $15 million (£7.5 million) in May 2006.
Buying Bebo is seen as a bid by AOL to take on Facebook's dominance in the social networking market.
AOL, whose websites attract about 112 million visitors each month, has struggled to develop a strategy for selling adverts both on its own and other sites, and today said the addition of Bebo would greatly expand the number of users to which it could deliver ads.
Big technology companies such as AOL and Microsoft have been desperate for a stake in social networking sites because of their popularity with teenagers and students. US analyst firm eMarketer predicts that by 2011, $4.1 billion will be spent worldwide for social network advertising - just $480 million was spent in 2006.
Joanna Shields, the current boss of Bebo, will remain in charge after the takeover. "It was a natural progression for Bebo to join AOL," she said.
Social networking sites have rocketed in value. Last year Microsoft paid £120 million for a 1.6 per cent stake in Facebook, valuing the company at £ 7.5billion, and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation owns the world's most popular networking site, MySpace, which he bought for a bargain price of £290 million in 2005.
AOL's purchase of Bebo suggests that £7.5 billion valuation of Facebook is too high. Analysts also warn that teenage users are often fickle and will jump between different sites.
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What Can I Do With a Major in World Language?
There are many employment opportunities for foreign language graduates. Below we have compiled some links, local jobs and resources. Please check out the PSU Career Center's page, What Can I Do With a Major in World Language?.
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A look at the career options offered through the knowledge of a foreign language.
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e46 Cabrio silver trim
Good condition. Lets say 220. Steering wheel controls snapped but I could likely just take the silver wheel part off. Gear stick is patchy black leather, I'd go get silver trim knob would look sweet. :shhh: It's RHD I'm in Perth, Western Australia.
I'm interested, please send me pics. I'm at (305)215-3510. Got first dibs. Thanks, Chris.
Hi Chris, I noticed you're in Miami. Sorry buddy. In Australia we're Right hand drive so it won't fit on your car.
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This is brief update on Library PTA activities so far in 2005 and on the Committee's future plans for this year. I anticipate making an end of the year final report to the faculty in December.
1. Membership: As a reminder, I serve as Library PTA Chair and Committee 2005 members are:
2. January Workshops: There was a slight delay in conducting elections to PTA this year, so last year's Committee went ahead and in collaboration with Library FRC conducted two forums for Library faculty. The first, held 21 January in the Grainger Commons, dealt with special considerations for 3Y PRC reports and the relation of our 3Y PRC report process to Campus Communication 13 (mandatory 3Y review of University faculty). The second forum, held 27 January also at Grainger, dealt more generally with Annual Reports, PRC reports and the promotion and tenure dossier. These are regular forums, so faculty feedback on thing we should do differently next year is welcome.
3. PTA advice to UL regarding process-to-date of 3Y Library faculty: The campus mandates rigorous, formal, written evaluation of all untenured faculty in the 3rd year of their probationary period. For the Library, this evaluation takes the form of a 3Y PRC report. Campus guidelines require that the 3Y written evaluations be reviewed and approved by the College Executive Office (in our case Paula) and by appropriate college bodies (in our case Library PTA) before being shared with the candidates. This spring Library PTA reviewed eleven 3Y PRC reports and provided advice to Paula in the form of a brief one page memo for each report. We offered comments on the substance of each PRC report, our assessment of the progress-to-date of each candidate, and our opinion as to the readiness of each report for signature by Paula. We ranked progress-to-date for each candidate on a scale of 1-4 with rank 1 indicating satisfactory progress, no major concerns, and rank 4 indicating lack of adequate progress and a consensus that the candidate could not meet requirements for tenure before the end of the probationary period. I'm happy to report that we had no rank 4 cases, but we did have at least one rank 3 case and several rank 2 cases – so there's ample work still to be done. No one should feel complacent, but on balance our sense is that most current 3Y Library faculty are making good progress towards tenure. We're optimistic that most will be ready in 3 years.
4. PTA critique of 0Y-3Y PRC reports, ongoing: This year Library FRC and Library PTA share responsibility for reviewing Library PRC reports, with Library PTA responsible for twenty-one 0Y-3Y reports. As mentioned in my recent post to LIBFAC-L, PTA review of PRC reports is ongoing. We expect to be finished in about a month. Each PRC will receive from Library PTA a brief (1-page) critique of their PRC report, with a cc to Paula and the candidate. We are critiquing reports on completeness, correctness, appropriate use of referees, quality of PRC evaluative statements, and quality of candidate statements. Critiques are necessarily subjective and we don't assume all PRCs will agree with all of our comments. Our comments are intended constructively and we hope they'll be taken that way and will be useful for next year. We are not asking anyone to go back and change or fix a PRC report from this year. We're hoping to make a strong part of the Library's approach to mentoring junior faculty even stronger and more consistent. We're also hoping to learn from this process what we need to fix in our own documentation and guidelines. Constructive feedback on process is welcome from the faculty.
5. P & T dossier workshop: Our annual workshop on P&T dossier preparation (co-sponsored with Library FRC) will be held at 1:30 June 2nd in the Grainger Commons. This workshop is mandatory for candidates expecting to go up in the fall and for paper preparers who'll be preparing dossiers for the fall. 4Y faculty also may want to attend. We will review guidelines and tips for preparing P&T dossiers (available on our Web page) and talk in particular what happens to those dossiers in the Library and at the campus level. We'll also address some of the differences in the process between cases for promotion to associate professor and cases submitted for full professor.
6. Plans for the Summer: We have 3 major items currently on our agenda for the summer:
7. Upcoming (fall 2005) P & T cycle: We are looking forward to a relatively light fall in terms of number of P & T cases submitted to campus. At this point we anticipate only 2 promotion to associate professor and 2 promotions to full professor cases will come before the Committee in the fall. A special full professor PTA committee has been named to review the latter two cases.
8. Finalizing calendar & documents for 2006: In November and December of this year we will finalize the documents and next year's master calendar for PTA & FRC. We hope to be a little more timely than usual and actually complete our work by early December. Time will tell.
Others on the Committee who are here may want to elaborate or mention other work I've neglected. After that, I'll entertain any questions.


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Minority Report is set in 2053, in Washington, DC. But the metropolis Cruise inhabits is an eerie extrapolation of big cities everywhere today where civil liberties are being eroded in the name of public security. In the new, improved future, crimes are detected even before they can be committed. People are detained without evidence of their wrongdoing, save what an elite pack of psychics foresee as their criminal intention. Last week's arrest in the US of the "dirty bomb" suspect, currently held without charge, trial or jury in a military prison, springs to mind with horrible timeliness.
Psychological profiling of such potential perpetrators in the film has been fine-tuned to the point of precognitive prediction of their evil doing. Incarceration as a form of rehabilitation has collapsed along with the prison system. Instead of jail cells, criminals are put into permanent hibernation, standing upright, which saves space and doesn't require them to be fed, watered or receive next-of-kin visits at the community's expense.
Ubiquitous CCTV cameras identify a person by their retinal image and pursue a wanted man who's been spotted with a vocal commentary far more insistently than "Stop, thief!" Cops are organised into literal flying squads. They descend from the skies and make vertical arrests thanks to jet packs on their backs. It all seems a heavy price to pay for peace in the streets - the murder rate is down to zero - and an absence of traffic jams since cars now run up the sides of buildings and are parked in air ports outside owners' flats.
Adapted from the SF writer Philip K Dick's short story, Minority Report is an eye-dazzling tour de force of a world whose menacing outlines we can discern already. The catch is, the rulers may become wanted men themselves, simply on the say-so of an unchallengeable machine.
Tom Cruise plays John Anderton, top man in the Justice Department's Pre-Crime unit. His job is interpreting the visions of crimes yet to be committed that are fished out of the extra-sensory perceptions of a trio of so-called Pre-Cogs, psychics nurtured in a flotation tank, whose soothsaying has never been proved wrong. Pulling together their fleeting premonitions like a conductor taking an orchestra through the score, Cruise and the cops zero in on the criminal - like the crime passionel in the film's "overture," foiled with seconds to spare before a jealous husband can knife his wife and her lover.
A man dedicated to summary justice ever since his child was abducted, Anderton has no more reason to mistrust the system than we have to doubt the now routine DNA testing in criminal detection. Until, that is, the Pre-Cogs transmit a vision of himself committing murder. Faster than it takes to say "Futurology," Cruise goes on the run, suspecting he's been framed by the FBI's ambitious young upstart (a powerful screen debut by Colin Farrell, a Dublin-born actor whose terrier-like attack snaps at Cruise's heels, reminding us how much the senior actor is cruising on star charm these days).
Underneath all its visual caveats about the way security mutates into tyranny, Minority Report lapses into a standard manhunt format - but what brilliant top dressing, what magnificently devised action sequences, what irony and suspense Spielberg packs into its 150 minutes. Cruise grapples with a jet-propelled security cop, sending both of them cart-wheeling into the air like a missile going ballistic as they zoom crazily up the walls of buildings, into apartments, through ceilings and out of the roof.
He hides out in a tenement house which the police then "infest" with tiny robot spiders that scuttle under locked front doors and subject the occupants to retinal identification while they're eating dinner or enjoying sex: a vivid dramatisation that the concept of privacy ain't what it used to be. Cruise and Farrell do battle on a rolling conveyor belt in an automated assembly plant where the fugitive finds himself being built into the body parts of a futuristic automobile - perhaps Spielberg's bow to Alfred Hitchcock, who always yearned to begin one of his own films with a corpse being discovered in a new car rolling off the assembly line. A host of hi-tech jokes are taken at the run, like the retinal recognition sentinel in a shop which greets Cruise, who's had his eyeballs swapped for a stranger's in order to avoid detection, with a friendly call of: "Glad to see you back, Mr Fukuyama."
Filmgoers may occasionally hanker for a bit of precognition themselves to understand the plot's convolutions. But fathoming our political masters' motivations is now ingrained in the government systems controlling most of our lives today. Minority Report is a populist warning on the potential for control that the techniques of surveillance are creating while we stand by and watch civil liberties being consigned to the past.
Minority Report (12) opens in the US on Friday and in London on 4 July.
Producer Douglas Coupland on Minority Report
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DETROIT -- Paul Byrd has never seen a starting pitcher quite like Justin Verlander.
Verlander, Detroit rookie right-hander, pitched seven impressive innings to best Byrd, and Magglio Ordonez hit a two-run homer to help the Tigers win their eighth straight game - 3-1 over the Cleveland Indians on Saturday night.
It was the Tigers' 15th victory in 16 games. Detroit owns the major league's best record at 35-14 and is just eight wins shy of its total from the 2003 season when the Tigers lost an AL-record 119 games.
Verlander (7-3) won his fourth consecutive decision by allowing just one and seven hits in seven innings. He walked one and struck out five.
"One of the best arms on a starting pitcher that I've seen ... ever," said Byrd, who made his major league debut in 1995. "I've been around a long time. You don't see too many starters throwing 100 miles per hour."
But Verlander did have his 20-inning scoreless streak halted by Grady Sizemore's home run in the fourth inning.
"I was aware of it, but it didn't matter to me," Verlander said. "All I wanted to is win the game. I don't care if I give up nine and we score 10, the win is most important."
Fernando Rodney pitched the eighth inning, and Todd Jones took over in the ninth for his 16th save in 17 opportunities.
Tigers left fielder Craig Monroe robbed Sizemore of a second home run when he jumped above the fence to catch Sizemore's drive with none out in the eighth and a runner on second.
Byrd (4-3) took the loss, giving up two unearned runs and five hits in six innings. He didn't allow a walk and struck out five.
"Byrdie threw the ball good," Cleveland manager Eric Wedge said. "He was consistent the whole game. One pitch and he (Ordonez) hit it out."
The Tigers got all the runs they needed in the first on Ordonez's two-out, two-run homer. Carlos Guillen, who reached on an error by first baseman Ben Broussard, scored ahead of Ordonez's 12th home run.
"Byrd has had my number for all my career," Ordonez said. "Tonight, I got him."
Ordonez came into the game 3-for-24 against Byrd.
"It wasn't down the middle by any means," said Byrd, who threw Ordonez a high fastball. "Ordonez made an adjustment and hit it out of the park."
Sizemore drove Verlander's 1-0 pitch into the right-field stands to lead off the fourth for his ninth home run of the season.
Verlander faced his toughest jam in the sixth. Aaron Boone led off with a double and, one out later, Verlander hit Casey Blake. But he then struck out Jhonny Peralta and Travis Hafner to end the inning.
"The times I got in trouble, I elevated the ball," Verlander said. "When I got it down, everything was OK."
The Tigers made it 3-1 in the eighth with an RBI single by Placido Polanco.
- Right-handed reliever Ramon Colon will take left-hander Mike Maroth's spot in Detroit's starting rotation. Maroth is on the 15-day DL because of irritation in his left elbow. Colon will start Tuesday.
- Sizemore stretched his hitting streak to eight games (11-for-35).


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I am the God Thor,
I am the War God,
I am the Thunderer!
Here in my Northland,
My fastness and fortress,
Reign I forever!
Here amid icebergs
Rule I the nations;
This is my hammer,
Miölner the mighty;
Giants and sorcerers
Cannot withstand it!
These are the gauntlets
Wherewith I wield it,
And hurl it afar off;
This is my girdle;
Whenever I brace it,
Strength is redoubled!
The light thou beholdest
Stream through the heavens,
In flashes of crimson,
Is but my red beard
Blown by the night-wind,
Affrighting the nations!
Jove is my brother;
Mine eyes are the lightning;
The wheels of my chariot
Roll in the thunder,
The blows of my hammer
Ring in the earthquake!
Force rules the world still,
Has ruled it, shall rule it;
Meekness is weakness,
Strength is triumphant,
Over the whole earth
Still is it Thor's Day!
Thou art a God too,
O Galilean!
And thus singled-handed
Unto the combat,
Gauntlet or Gospel,
Here I defy thee!
Poet: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poem: The Challenge of Thor
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Harlequin is traditionally an agile comic character, fast and acrobatic. Russian theatre troupe Derevo have no shortage of physical skill, but it's stretched out to painful slowness.
The three shaven-headed clowns tell tragic-comic stories with such arch emphasis that even the gory bits look mannered.
Founded by lead performer Anton Adassinsky in 1988, Derevo established themselves as darlings of the Edinburgh Fringe, regularly winning awards at the festival. They come to London as part of the London International Mime Festival, performing in the Linbury rather than the often ad hoc venues of Edinburgh.
A padded, false-bearded showman prods the audience as we come in, running around the theatre and speaking to the crowd. The stage is hidden by a curtain, mended in diamond patterns that suggest the patched origins of the traditional harlequin costume. When the show starts, we see dancers moving in shadow, a tutu'd woman in a tall hat and a man with a sword. As they dance, their shadows grow and shrink, looming over each other until he kills her and them himself. It's cleverly staged, simple and effective.
In front of the curtain, they stage long, yearning scenes. Adassinsky makes eyes at the oblivious Elena Yarovaya. He keeps taking off her hat, making her scream each time. Standing in two window frames, they wave or hold conversations in mime. When one throws something, it reappears in the other's window – but the timing isn't quite sharp enough, blurring the joke.
Some of the imagery is gruesome. Adassinsky seems to pull a scarlet pepper out of his own bloody chest; Yarovaya thoughtfully bites into it. We see other pepper-hearts in spotlights, each framed by a crown. Yarovaya returns as a nurse, stitching up Adassinsky's chest, with much squirting of blood and syringes. I like the moment when Yarovaya realises she's lost her scissors and has to bite off the thread, but the scene is overextended.
The show touches on the harlequin's long and varied history, from commedia dell'arte to the Ballets Russes retelling of Petrushka. The references are deft, but Derevo's own harlequinade doesn't come to life. The knowing performance style works best in a sequence for a hurdy-gurdyist and his monkey. Adassinsky keeps prodding Yarovaya to turn for the audience; they cut between false smiles for their public, and seething resentment to each other.
Until 19 January. London International Mime Festival continues until 27 January. www.mimelondon.co.uk
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In one of the threads there was mention of a bad brake light switch. These switches are self adjusting and the plunger had been pushed in so far that the brake pedal arm wouldn't touch it. I removed the switch, pulled out the plunger (which took an uncomfortable amount of force ), and reinstalled .
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Worth a second look ... Nigel Thomson's simple but unsettling painting On the way home from school.
Nigel Thomson saw people for who and what they are. The Sydney-born painter, who died in 1999, not only created portraits that lucidly rendered a person's individualism, but he also painted fictional set-ups that sweetly suck at the perverse soul of contemporary humanity. This retrospective of Thomson's career, which is curated by John McDonald, shows he was a realist painter in more ways than one. While his brush is exacting in detail, tone and colour, it is Thomson's cultural and social observation that is the great magnifier. One of Thomson's great skills was an ability to proffer an unruffled beauty from often uncomfortably eerie scenes. In the painting On the way home from school a young girl in a shortish school dress bows her head as she walks past the concentrated gaze of a much older man holding a chainsaw. The mood is soft and languid at first but then we notice the man's hand nestling towards his groin and his parted lips. And his shadow implies an erect penis instead of the chainsaw. Elsewhere, surrounded by muted pastel blue tones, a naked woman energetically drowns her son in the bath, while The burning question features a person on fire in a coiffured suburban street as a camera crew captures his last moments.
Nigel Thomson: Critical Realist, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, West Esplanade, Manly, 9949 1776, Tuesday to Sunday 10am-5pm, $3.50/$1.20, under 18 free. Until September 5.
Games in glass
As a flurry of design aficionados swap chichi missives about form and colour and the right kind of black at the eighth Sydney Design Week, one exhibition reveals that most basic tool of the design industry. Usefulness. The two projects featured in the Powerhouse's temporary space Bombay Sapphire Blue Room provide myriad manipulations of glass in order to provide humans with a drinking vessel or a light source. Martini Cocktail Culture features finalists from the gin-maker's international martini glass design competition, an important contest for Sydney's twig-legged and plunging neckline social set. The martini glasses on display are remarkable contortions. Vittoria Venezia from Italy has embraced computer imagery and the martini's international "Y" symbol with legs to offer a wedge-like glass reminiscent of an avant-garde, blue-tinged trowel. Andrea Dionisio's Olivia is a dinky contraption allowing the user to unscrew the bulb-like base and devour the martini's sunken olive post-drink. Elsewhere, the Blue Room contemporary glass selection features a large-scale twinkling, pink-hued twig of crystals and winking LED lights by celebrated London-based Dutch designer Tord Boontje.
Bombay Sapphire Blue Room, Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris Street, Ultimo, 9217 0111, daily 10am-5pm, $10/$6/child $5/children under 5, Australian Seniors Card holders and pensioners free. Until November 7.
Local lords and ladies
Andrew Sullivan is an old-fashioned kind of portraitist. His works are studied and assured and, to a certain extent, regal in their demeanour. Take away their contemporary garb of singlets and jeans, or their modern, low-key environments consisting of battered chairs and nondescript rooms, and these staring faces could belong to lords and ladies of long ago. It's a quality that may hint at Sullivan's attitude to his subject matter. For his fourth solo show at Australian Galleries, Sullivan has provided portraits of people he knows or briefly connects with in daily life - close friends, a neighbour and a resident of Newtown Sullivan sees on his regular journey to the studio.
Sullivan cherishes the faces and personalities he has chosen, and it is clear his portraits follow much consideration. In these sovereign-like images, we are not only somehow party to their deepest thoughts, we revere their unassuming stature.
Andrew Sullivan: Portraits 2001-2004, Australian Galleries: Works On Paper, 24 Glenmore Road, Paddington, 9380 8744, Monday to Saturday 10am-6pm, until September 4.


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William Klein at FoamExhibitions / Amsterdam
19 December 2013 - 12 March 2014, 10am - 6pm (9pm Thursday and Friday)
This winter, Foam will be taken over by a retrospective exhibition on William Klein, one of the art world's most famous multi-taskers.
Klein's hugely influential career spans more than 60 years and multiple disciplines. He is famous for his innovative and pioneering work in the field of photography, design and films.
He is perhaps most famous for his ruthless and gritty pictures of cities (notably New York, Paris and Tokyo), which showed that photography could serve as social commentary.
Klein is also an award-winning director who made hundreds of advertisments, feature films and documentaries.
A selection of these will be shown in Foam's 3h library space.
All of the pieces on display are carefully chosen to give a thorough representation of this artist's extensive career.
This exhibition is especially exciting as the last Dutch display of Klein's work took place at the Stedelijk in 1967. Klein himself will attend the opening on December 19.
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Someone send these kids a hot little cupcake they really need it.
New York Magazine's blog Daily Intelligencia Jesse Oxfeld and Michael Idov "angered the vegans" with their snarky bit about the New York Times piece on the burgeoning haute vegan couture industry; they posted some of the ensuing hate mail on the site. And Gawker nominates non-veg The Bloodless Revolution author Tristam Stuart for the "vegan hot" category due to their sketchy reporting – but they add a vegans tag with its own RSS feed in the process.
The NYC blogosphere is dripping wet with veganism! How can they deny the hotness? Clearly it's jealousy: who'd want to post work-safe pictures of celebrities' vaginae all day when you could be posting hot little cupcakes? Don't let the dour tone make you squirm with "self-righteous" anger: just think of those sweet cupcakes.
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The flock was allowed to wander at will and to interbreed freely.
One of the definitions of species is that they will not interbreed and propagate.
This will occur whenever they are of very different constitution; thus it is that widely differing species will not interbreed.
My experience tends to show that the two species will not interbreed.
Moreover, species which differ only in colour seem usually to interbreed in those parts where they meet.
Or will the two make peace, unite and interbreed, make war on us?
Notwithstanding their similarity they do not interbreed when brought together.
Of these, there are three sorts which keep apart from each other, and are thought not to interbreed.
This species will, however, interbreed with the domestic cat.
All mankind can interbreed freely, can learn to understand the same speech, can adapt itself to co-operation.


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Stuff that matters: Slashdot and the emergence of open news
Bruns, Axel (2003) Stuff that matters: Slashdot and the emergence of open news. In Association of Internet Researchers Conference, 16-19 October, Toronto, Canada.
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Recent years have seen the emergence of a new genre of user-driven Websites engaged in a novel form of news reporting which has been described as open publishing or open news, in analogy to the open source movement. These sites combine news, rumours and background information as well as community discussion and commentary on their chosen topic, and frequently serve as a first point of entry for readers interested in learning more about the field. Examples include Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/), Openflows News (http://news.openflows.org/), Kuro5hin (http://www.kuro5hin.org/), but beyond this group of sites which operate mainly in the Internet policy and technology sector - roviding 'news for nerds', as Slashdot describes itself - open news sites can now also be found in many other fields of interest from politics to entertainment
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This is Part 1 of a 2 Part Series.
LinkedIn is a fantastic resource for building your professional influence and growing your network. Your profile and daily activities on LinkedIn can also lead to good things such as profile views, new connections, engagement, and visitors to your blog.
Ultimately in order to grow your subscribers and move fans, followers, and connections into your inside circle, you're going to have to get them to visit your blog directly. This is the web property that you own and control. Your space on social networks, including LinkedIn, is rented.
Overtly marketing yourself or your products and services on LinkedIn or any social network is not effective. In fact, it only takes one click for someone to hide you from their stream. Instead, you want to position yourself as an influencer. If you're working to build influence by inspiring, educating, and engaging your network, people will naturally want to click-through to your blog to learn more.
It also goes without saying that if you're not publishing great content on your blog that can help the members of your network solve a problem, get smarter, or achieve more, it's likely that your content is not going to drive traffic from LinkedIn.
Make sure you are producing relevant, high quality content on your blog that matters to your network!
5 Ways to Drive LinkedIn Traffic to Your Website:
1. Grow Your LinkedIn Network
Spend time each and every day on growing your LinkedIn network.
Concentrate on growing your network with clients, prospects, business advocates, industry peers (non-competitive), industry influencers, local community contacts, etc. If someone doesn't fall into one of these buckets, you need to ask yourself whether or not it really makes sense to connect. The quality of your network should always come first.
Connect with everyone you know in your offline network. Connect with everyone you meet face-to-face at events or conferences.
Check out the People You May Know section of LinkedIn to see whom it makes sense to send an invitation to. Connect with mutual group members. Conduct advanced searches and look for "connections in common" with the LinkedIn members who come up in your search results.
Another great way to uncover connection opportunities is to look at the connections of your 1st degree connections. Who might it make sense to send an invitation to?
Always send personalized invitations to connect with someone on LinkedIn. This makes you more respected and more memorable. Remember, you need to start building influence from day one with a new connection!
Growing an intelligent network LinkedIn generates new profile views as well as more engagement with the content you share on LinkedIn, including your blog posts. These are events that can and will lead to more traffic to your blog.
Growing your network will also help you expand your influence and be discovered in more LinkedIn searches. It is a critical component of being successful on LinkedIn. Work on growing your network daily!
2. Share Your Blog Posts as Status Updates (Strategically and Thoughtfully)
When sharing your own thought leadership content on LinkedIn from your blog, you want to be strategic and thoughtful about it. I've found that striving to share one of my own blog posts a few times a week on LinkedIn is just about right.
Certainly you can share content from other thought leaders or blogs, and I do recommend this as well. When done well it's a great way to build influence with connections.
However, if you want to increase traffic to YOUR blog on LinkedIn, you are going to have to share your own stuff too!
If your insights and expertise can help the people in your network or in your industry, you shouldn't feel bad about sharing it on LinkedIn. This is how you can position yourself as an authority and an expert.
LinkedIn says "update your status at least 20 times per month in order to maximize your reach to approximately 60% of your unique audience".
You can edit the title and summary of your status update when sharing a blog post. Craft your blog post status update with a question asking for input or feedback from your network on your post. Use a call-to-action at the beginning or end of the post title such as "Check this out" or "I'd love your input".
Make sure your status update pulls in the image from your blog post so that it's more visual. (Larger images on your site will appear larger within the LinkedIn stream and generate more clicks)
Experiment with the timing of your status updates on LinkedIn as well. If you're not sure when your network is on LinkedIn, post at various times and then review your engagement stats. (LinkedIn provides these to you in the sidebar of your home page).
Which status updates received the most views, shares, and comments? These stats can also give you tremendous insight into what content resonates most with your network.
Use the insights from your LinkedIn engagement stats to shape your content strategy.
Don't be afraid to share the same blog post more than once. Just consider changing up the title of your update for some variety and experiment with it.
3. Leverage the LinkedIn Publishing Platform
LinkedIn has rolled out its publishing platform to all members, not just their chosen 500 or so "Influencers". This is a tremendous opportunity to showcase your blog content in it's true form and expand your network. Not only can you generate valuable new connections from showcasing your content on LinkedIn, but you can also earn new followers.
If your curious as to what the LinkedIn Publishing Platform looks like, you can view my posts page and follow my updates here: Stephanie Sammons on LinkedIn
Followers on LinkedIn are similar to followers on Twitter. They aren't directly connected to you as a part of your official network, but they can simply follow your published content as it's posted. Your newly published posts will show up in their Home stream on LinkedIn.
I primarily leverage the LinkedIn Publishing Platform to repurpose my best blog posts. I've also published a couple of original posts that don't appear on my blog. If you do repurpose your blog posts to LinkedIn, it's a good idea to change up the title a bit and maybe even some of the wording in your post.
Tag your post using LinkedIn's provided categories. You can choose up to three. When you do this, you have a chance to get picked up by LinkedIn's editorial team and featured in LinkedIn Pulse (LinkedIn's content aggregation resource). I've had a couple of posts that were picked up by Pulse and the traffic to my blog skyrocketed.
Just keep in mind you are only as good as your last post on LinkedIn, so you will need to be consistent with publishing your content there if you want to take advantage of the benefits. Also, understand that your posts on LinkedIn continue to gain views over time. They are quickly indexed by Google search and do have the ability to float to the top of page one depending on your subject matter.
Don't get discouraged if you have low views and engagement in the beginning when you publish content to LinkedIn. The size of your network matters as well here. Go back and read the #1 tip in this post! 🙂
The best way to actually drive traffic to your site from your LinkedIn published posts is to create your own bio section at the end of your posts with embedded links.
Within this section of your post, also place a valuable call-to-action.
If someone enjoys or benefits from your published content on LinkedIn, they are very likely to click a link you've embedded in your bio section to learn more or to take advantage of your free offer.
By publishing valuable content on LinkedIn, I've been able to increase traffic and lead conversions from LinkedIn. You can do the same!
Your Turn
What tactics are you employing to get more visitors to your blog from LinkedIn? Do you think you can benefit from these recommendations? Leave your feedback in the comments below!
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ State officials say nearly 11,000 drivers and passengers were cited for seat belt and child passenger safety violations during the 20th anniversary campaign of ``Click It or Ticket'' over the Memorial Day holiday.
The campaign was held May 20 through June 2 and sponsored by the state Transportation Department and the Governor's Highway Safety Program.
State and local officials issued the citations through more than 8,400 checkpoints and stepped-up patrols.


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By Mark Lamport-Stokes
DUBLIN, Ohio (Reuters) - The future of the Presidents Cup and a possible change to its format emerged front and center on Sunday after the United States beat the Internationals for an eighth time in 10 editions of the biennial team competition.
There has been a groundswell of opinion that the points structure should be overhauled for the event to survive and Internationals captain Nick Price has championed the need for the more compact Ryder Cup format to be adopted to ensure closer competition.
Though Price was reluctant to speak out on the topic on Sunday, preferring instead to focus on the brilliant play of the American golfers at Muirfield Village Golf Club, the debate on the merits of a format change is likely to run and run.
"I've been pretty open about what I believe should happen with the event and I don't think that's changed," said Adam Scott, who has never been on a triumphant Internationals team despite playing in the Cup for a sixth time this week.
"But our rally this week in a couple of the sessions, and particularly today (in the singles), showed how much fight we've all got in us. We all wanted this badly, and nine-and-a-half (points) is almost an unobtainable task.
"We kept it very interesting today. All of us up here are champions and we wanted to be champions, and we gave it a good shake," said the Australian, this year's Masters champion.
The Internationals had faced a daunting task going into the concluding 12 singles matches, requiring 10 points to pull off a miracle comeback, but they exceeded most people's expectations by winning seven-and-a-half against a potent U.S. lineup.
Asked whether there were any changes he would like to see with regard to the Presidents Cup format, Price replied: "Oh, yes, there's lots of changes I would like to see but I don't think we should discuss those now. Continued...


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The African American Civil War Museum: 150th Anniversary of Emancipation Proclamation
Freedom's Eve, more than 200,000 people of African ancestry fought with Union forces to enforce President Abraham Lincoln's executive order the Emancipation Proclamation. Frank Smith wants you to know their story.
With great expectations, African Americans looked to January 1, 1863, as the day of jubilee. They congregated in churches and around "praying trees" in secret locations across the country on the evening of December 31, 1862, to "watch" for the coming of the Emancipation Proclamation; thus, the tradition of "watch night" was born. "It is a day for poetry and song, a new song," wrote Frederick Douglass. "These cloudless skies, this balmy air, this brilliant sunshine, (making December as pleasant as May), are in harmony with the glorious morning of liberty about to dawn up on us."
President Lincoln had promised a proclamation emancipating slaves in the states in rebellion 99 days earlier; and on "watch night," Americans of African descent faithfully "watched" for his proclamation to be issued on the 100th day. In Boston, Douglass reported that "a line of messengers was established between the telegraph office and the platform at Tremont Temple." When what Douglass called the "trump of jubilee" was heard, "joy and gladness exhausted all forms of expression, from shouts of praise to sobs and tears."
In Washington, Reverend Henry M. Turner, pastor of Israel Bethel AME Church located on Capitol Hill, wrote that it was in the churches of the District of Columbia where "expressions of sentiments" for the Emancipation Proclamation could be heard. "Watching" for the issuing of the final Emancipation Proclamation was not simply "watching" for emancipation. African Americans were "watching" for the opportunity to fight for freedom. The enslaved in the District had already been emancipated, but they prayed for the freedom of all. Indeed, they were willing to fight for the freedom of all. "Several colored men in this city," wrote Reverend Turner, "say they are now ready for the battlefield.
Abraham Lincoln can get anything he wants from the colored people here from a company to a corps. I would not be surprised to see myself carrying a musket before long." Later that year, Turner would recruit hundreds of men and become a chaplain in the Union Army.
It is important that we in the 21st century understand that the Emancipation Proclamation did not simply free the slaves. It declared free slaves in the states in rebellion. It was in Lincoln's words "a fit and necessary war measure" for preserving the Union. Lincoln wrote in the Proclamation that it "was warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity." The military necessity that led to the Emancipation Proclamation meant that the help of African Americans was needed to save the Union.
Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, declared in January 1863 that the "proclamation is also an authentic statement by the Government of the United States of its inability to subjugate the South by force of arms." In the 19th century African Americans, the leadership of the Confederacy, and the leadership of the Federal government understood that the Emancipation Proclamation was a military necessity that explicitly called on the help of African Americans.
Unequivocally, Lincoln believed that African descent soldiers were critical to Union success. The President wrote to General Ulysses S. Grant in August 1863 stating that he believed African descent soldiers were "a resource which if vigourously [sic] applied now, will soon close the contest." Grant replied stating that he shared the President's belief declaring that "by arming the negro, we have added a powerful ally." In response to a supporter who opposed emancipation and the use of African descent soldiers, Lincoln wrote, "I know, as fully as one can know the opinions of others that some of the commanders of our armies in the field, who have given us our most important successes, believe the emancipation policy, and the use of colored troops, constitute the heaviest blow yet dealt to the rebellion; and that at least one of those important successes could not have been achieved when it was, but for the aid of black soldiers. Among the commanders holding these views are some who have never had any affinity with what is called abolitionism, or with Republican party politics, but who hold them purely as military opinion."
Therefore, when we celebrate and commemorate "watch night" and the 150th anniversary of the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation, we should appreciate the importance of African Americans in saving the Union and freeing themselves. Such an appreciation is to understand the practical significance of the Proclamation as the people who made the history understood it. We are commemorating the "watching for" the hour that the government's policy aligned with prayers of liberation and celebrating African descent patriots being armed with the Emancipation Proclamation.
As we gather in churches, synagogues, and mosques in prayer across the country on "watch night;" we should appreciate that with faith and courage on December 31, 1862, Americans of African descent were "watching for" the opportunity to secure "the blessings of liberty for themselves and their posterity" under the banner of the U. S. Constitution. With the support of the Federal government, they were deployed as enforcers of the Emancipation Proclamation. Indeed, January 1, 1863 was a day of Jubilee not because the slaves were set free but because the enslaved were called upon to save the Union and armed accordingly with the legal authority to set themselves free.
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The Empires of the world conquored the matriarchy, which is 'Gender Parity' and denighed woman equal electing, and the act of being elected as nature teaches its necessities, which is 50-50 electing so that women can access half the political, economic, judicial, cultural, and religo-practical law making authoriity.
Male domination of so-called democracy is not natural, and is a product of the chauvinism created and founded with the beginning of Empires. The British Tribes before the conquest of the Roman Slaveholders Empire around 42AD, was a functioning matriarchy with natural 50-50 electing.
Seeing that now with a 'New Millenium' that the fact is, no one has fully organized the enlightened state craft of the twenty-first century, such as returning the Matriarchy to the society so that the natural material harmony and joy can return to the democracy, as the society elects women equally thusly doubling democracy throughout the country.
Ewomancipation is long overdue, and until it returns the woman and man will not be liberated to the full and genuine democracy that the world sees as the gift that our species needs to fullfill its every desire. Yes we should celebrate the Emancipation, but don't forget the need to elect woman equally throughout the parliaments, and courts, judiciary, economics, and religious organizations etc.
That would end racial, gender, and religious discriminization once and for all. Workers of the world unite!! End pollution wars, not endless wars for more and more pollution. You yet have a world to win!!
Re-tool to the renewables such as wind, tidal, and solar power which transform to electricity, and that would end fossil fuel burn-out of the oxygen, which is already gone by 38% changed atmosphere to carbon-dioxide, and we cannot live on the carbon-dioxide replacement.
Scrap the war machine and that path to freeing the working peoples, and guaranteeing a living income to all by the workers taking over the banks and main means of production. Agricultural organic communes not prisons (which originated as the Roman slaveholder pens, and now are called 'modern prisons'.
They still alienate the specie by seperating the genders from each other and alienate the children from their parents. The Roman Imperial Armies used them originally as an integral part of their war machine to break the solidarity of the matriarchy and patriarchy so they could more easily enslave the whole working class to the Male Emperors whims.
Time gentlemen and women please double the democracy by electing women equally throughout the society. Ewomancipation every day is needed in the U.S. Constitution so full liberation can attain to our specie. Communes not prisons please. Solidarity to the living and working world.


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Cadillac Escalade, EXT and ESV Forum - 1999 - 2006 Discussion, Led map light issue in Cadillac Escalade Forums; Ok like the title says I just replaced my map lights with new LEDs and on the dome light they ...
Ok like the title says I just replaced my map lights with new LEDs and on the dome light they work fine but my map lights don't unless I either turn on the dome lights then off or open the visor mirror and close it then the map lights work as they should
Do I need a load equalizer or what??
I plan on replacing all of them over time and want to fix this so I don't have dim map lights
That is weird?? I have all my lights LED in my 04 doesn't do that?
- 12-26-13 08:10 PM #3Originally Posted by Mark Edward Morrison
I have some in my dads h2 and does the same thing
I also have some in my moms 02 but not sure it does it or not
I love the brightness of the LEDs but this issue is annoying plus they match with the led strips I have for the footwells(I wired them to the map lights just never had this issue before)
I will post a pic of how they look in the truck heck they outdo my door lights now
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Re: Led map light issue
I am at a loss, sorry
Any idea what kind of resister or load equalizer I could use??
I know that's the issue just have to fix it
Here is a pic of the map lights and my added footwell lights only
So far I have
led taillights
Led drls
Led map and footwell lights(footwell lights are not factory 03+ so I added mine)
What do you think?
Re: Led map light issue
I have the same problem. Sometimes my map lights are at full brightness. When they are, I can open the vanity visor and those lights are full bright also. Sometimes my map lights will only light up about 60 percent bright. When that happens, they will shut off if I open the vanity mirror and the mirror lights turn on. When I close the mirror, the map light turns back on at about 60 percent again.
I can't figure out what causes it to go into the "dim mode". I am running vled bulbs in all the interior pieces.
Do you know where the vanity mirror lamps are in the circuit? I don't know if they are before or after the map light bulbs. I am also thinking of adding an inline resistor somewhere in the circuit to simulate an incandescent bulb but I don't know what value to use or where to use it. What baffles me is sometimes both the vanity and map bulbs work perfectly in my truck and other times I get this dimming issue.
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Man all I can say is those LEDs are beautiful, nice work.
I hope you guys can collectively figure out the problem(s) you are experiencing.
- 12-27-13 05:13 PM #8Originally Posted by Retrax
There is a junction block under the dash on the drivers side I am going to take some time and probe the wiring on it to find the right wire
Its just finding the right value to use to fool the system into thinking a regular bulb is in place
The wire that we need to splice into works both console lights and the visor lights so all we need to do is match the value of one bulb and we should be golden
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I plan on doing the whole truck inside and out
Already have
Led taillights (aftermarket housings)
Led drls
Led foot well light strips(pm me if you want to add them)
I already ordered some festoon bulbs for the dome lights and the reading lights for the second and third row seats
Along with some led peanut bulbs to do the doors
I hate yellow light it makes the truck look really old
Also am doing out my car with LEDs in and out(including the headlights) will post pics of both when I am done
Re: Led map light issue
Where did you tap in the + and - for your footwell lamps? I have the LEDs waiting but I haven't looked where to add them in yet. I went with 6k LEDs all around. The only ones I haven't changed out yet are the front exterior corner bulbs, the tail light/brake light bulbs and the reverse lamps.
- 12-27-13 08:32 PM #10Originally Posted by Retrax
I can send a pic via email if you want so you can see along with more details on how did mine just shoot me a pm(I got my led strips at Walmart for a great price)
I also got the 6000k bulbs
I am on the fence of doing a hid kit or led for the back up lights(have planned on doing led and adding a extra set of led lights for extra light at night)
I forgot to mention I have some more LEDs on the way for the door lights so I may try them out in the map lights to see if they act up
Anyone know where to get LEDs for the visor lights???
Cadillac man, try fyreflys.com out of Houston, TX that's where I got all of my interior LED's from. If I recall the guys name is Allen and he was a pleasure to deal with, he really knows his stuff!
- 12-27-13 11:07 PM #12Originally Posted by Mark Edward Morrison
The truck is the visor lights
My car has a few bulbs I haven't been able to find
One is number 57
One is number 562
One is number 756
One is number 74
Other then that I am good on the others
I will check out the site though if the ones I have ordered don't work in my truck
Odd thing is my moms 02 doesn't do this
Re: Led map light issue
I got my visor mirror lamps from vleds.com. They are available in 5k, 6k, or the colors blue or red. Just go to their site and select VANITY for the bulb type. They are the perfect fit for our visor mirror lamps. They are 1.79 each and sold per bulb (we need 4). They are nice and match all my other LEDs perfectly. I think I am going to go with their LEDs for reverse lamps also. Ill pm you my email and take you up for the photo offer in your post above. Thanks!
- 12-28-13 07:44 PM #14Originally Posted by Retrax
That's what I have in my interior of mine. The 6000K just kind of give it a newer look in my opinion.


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The China Post news staff Thursday, October 18, 2012, 12:06 am TWN
Taiwan celebrated this year's Double Tenth National Day with a showy and costly extravaganza; the trendy and morally cheap demonstration was not proper or fitting for the solemn occasion meant to memorialize the revolution in Wuchang on Oct. 10, 1911 that toppled the Manchu Qing Empire. A celebration that should have been somber was turned into a farcical show to entertain those in attendance and couch potatoes who glued their eyes on the TV screen to share in the fun.
The extravagant celebration, sponsored nominally by the private National Day Organizing Committee but paid for by the government, should have been avoided, as the country is currently burdened with a mountain of national debt and is having a hard time making ends meet. The reason the event was such a travesty is that it set an example for local government heads who will now feel justified in organizing exorbitantly expensive parties to mark whatever memorable occasions come to their minds to amuse and win over eligible voters in their next elections.
The frugality that helped make China the world's longest surviving civilization, not thanks to our spendthrift politicians alone of course, is no longer a value in Taiwan. It has become a dirty word after great macroeconomists began persuading people the world over to spend as much as they can to boost the economy. But we are forgetting frugality, which, together with hard work, helped Taiwan achieve the economic miracle of the last century. Our people would rather have fun than work hard and expect politicians to provide them with nonsensical fun.
The situation here now is pretty much like that in ancient Rome. At the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire, emperors and politicians had to entertain Roman citizens by showering them with an extravagant entertainment at the Colosseum, where gladiatorial contests and public spectacles took place. Roman politicians had to entertain citizens, who forgot they had to work hard to earn their enjoyment, in order just to get re-elected. The empire lost its once powerful Roman legions and had to hire mercenaries for its self-defense and collapsed.


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Detecting where errors occurred in a Table[ ] calculation?
I often test modules or numerical procedures by making a Table[ ] of test
results for a range of input parameters; and this sometimes (well, maybe, nearly
always) leads to error messages, like division by zero, or "FindRoot did not
converge", for some but not all of the rows in the Table.
Finding out *where* these errors occurred -- that is, for what ranges of the
input parameter values -- then becomes an exercise in trial and error, removing
values from one or the other end of various parameter ranges until the error
messages go away.
It would be nice to have a simple way to test for whether any error occurred
during the evaluation of each individual row in a Table, so that one could then
insert say an "*" in a final column of that row to mark each row where an error
Any simple way to accomplish this?
(Don't really need to know what specific error occurred, just that there was
some error. And obviously, this could be accomplished by calculating and
printing individual lines using a Do[ ] loop and seeing where the error messages
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Erin M. Casey '02 Named Principal in Goldberg Kohn Ltd.'s Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights Practice Group
Goldberg Kohn announced that Erin M. Casey has been named a principal in the firm's Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights practice group. Ms. Casey represents lenders in all aspects of corporate bankruptcy cases and commercial workouts throughout the country.
Ms. Casey's experience includes negotiation and litigation of debtor-in-possession financing orders, cash collateral orders and sale orders in bankruptcy cases, as well as documentation of asset-based and cash-flow commercial finance transactions. She has also represented a broad range of clients in acquisitions and sales of stock and assets, collateral turnover arrangements, and leveraged lease transactions.
She is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Turnaround Management Association and was elected to participate in the 2009 Troubled Loan Workouts Project through the National Turnaround Management Association's Education Oversight Committee. She is also a frequent speaker on bankruptcy and commercial finance issues.
Ms. Casey received her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 2002 and her B.A., with honors, in economics, from the University of Chicago in 1999.


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Has anyone has had a bad expirience with eMusic? Lured by promises of DRM-free MP3 files, like so many others, I signed up for a trial of their service. I was unimpressed with the selection, although I understand the problem they face trying to convince the labels that their methods are financially safe for the music industry. Still, my wife and I were unable to find even a handful of songs we were interested in, and I found it impossible to actually download anything. Their download manager gave me an error about some non-existant cache directory within my Firefox installation, and their support offered no help that actually solved the problem, just a standard "Reinstall the program and try it again." Realizing the service would not be worth the $9.99 per month, I cancelled my account and didn't look back.
Until they charged my bank account two weeks later and caused me a series of cascading overdraft fees that I've had to lodge a complaint with my bank to clear up. I contacted eMusic about this issue, and they will not respond, so my bank is looking into this matter for me. Thank god for fraudulent charge protection on my Visa, because the month of eMusic I didn't even want almost cost me $73.99 plus a massive headache.
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Just had a similar experience. eMusic suks! Horrible site - bad browsing and web site layout. They are missing LOTS of popular, common tunes. Their movie soundtrack selection is horrible. I can't say enough bad things about eMusic - don't ever sign up for it - its really bad.
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