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Name | Aidan Cook |
Job Title | Owner |
Organisation | Original Online |
Subscription Level | Small Business |
Registered Since | 25 Nov 2004 |
Areas of Expertise | Strategy & Operations, Conversion Rate Optimization, Customer Experience |
Contact Details |
Telephone: 07801 368 538 |
About Me
Relevant awards:
DADI Awards 2010 - Individual of the Year
Credit Suisse Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 - Highly Commended
National Business Awards 2008 - SME of the Year (NE)
Yorkshire Digital Awards - Best Web Design Agency 2008, 2004
I've been involved in New Media since 1995, back when almost nobody had email addresses, mobile phones, or even computers in their houses. I've watched and been part of the growth, which has been interesting/frustrating/stupid/exciting.
The best digital work combines innovation, usability and reliability, to deliver solid, measurable results. For a strategy to succeed, it has to be a faultless translation of a brand identity into digital product or service, delivered to the consumer exactly where and how they want.
Organisations are held back by legacy systems, limited budget, uncooperative staff, fear of change, and all the factors that stifle success before it has a chance to be measured.
My work with clients is based on an ability to shape and share the vision of success, and to find the path that avoids the obstacles that can so easily derail or devalue a project.
I like to make things work, and deliver on their potential - whether that's people, websites, my bicycle, whatever.
Education and Qualifications
Bronze Swiming badge
Cycling proficiency certificate
Grade 2 Cello
Grade 3 Cello
...etc, etc...
Blog comments by Aidan Cook
- Lings Cars and the art of persuading visitors to buy, 4 Apr 2012
- Facebook Pages deliver paltry CTRs: report, 17 Nov 2011
- Facebook Pages deliver paltry CTRs: report, 16 Nov 2011
- What the f**k is social media? [one year on], 4 Aug 2009
Forum posts by Aidan Cook
- Email - open rate by mobile, 14 Sep 2010
- new Figleaves website, 21 Oct 2008
- Verified by Visa experiences, 22 Mar 2007


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Point taken, but Fred Finn, a British-born businessman who holds the Guinness record for most air miles logged (a less contentious title than "ultimate traveler") flips that sentiment on its head.
Over the years, Finn hasn't just travel a lot, he's amassed an impressive resume of experiences.
He's been serenaded by John Denver ("Take Me Home, Country Roads"); spoken with Mikhail Gorbachev; had ribs with fellow first-class passenger Johnny Cash and played celebrity cricket with Pamela Anderson.
He also calls Richard Branson a friend and has more tales than Scheherazade.
Does all this really make you a better person?
In the end, "competitive travelers" generally make the case that the pursuit of travel stamps is really a way to better understand the world.
Sure, as Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder so eloquently put it, "we all know that people are the same wherever you go," but it takes being in a place to truly understand its people and customs.
Or to understand how geography explains everything -- how rain falling on one side of a mountain and not the other radically affects how people live.
"The more you travel, the more regional perspective you get," Veley says. "It helps you relate to different types of people, and the world becomes more beautiful because of it. It helps you understand the chaos."


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Black History Month Events
Check out the events WSCU's Black Student Alliance will be hosting in honor of Black History Month.
WSCU's Black Student Alliance (BSA) will be hosting events throughout the month of February in honor of Black History Month. Please join them on February 5th in the University Center South Ballroom at 6:30 P.M to kick-off their Black History Month Celebration! A candlelight vigil will be held in commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King to reflect upon the values Dr. King has taught us and to celebrate the life of a great civil rights hero! A reenactment of the famous "I Have a Dream" speech will kick-off this event, followed by a video tribute, reflection, and moment of silence.
Following the vigil, the film "Something the Lord Made" will be played. This film tells the remarkable story of two men – an ambitious white surgeon and a gifted black carpenter turned lab technician – who defied the racial strictures of the Jim Crow South and together pioneered the field of heart surgery. A panel discussion will follow the film.
WSCU University Center South Ballroom
Tuesday, February 5th
Doors open at 6:00 P.M
FREE Admission – students, faculty, staff and members of the community are free to join us in this celebration!"
Below you will find other events that will be held during Black History Month! Keep an eye on INSIDE WSCU for more information as these events get closer. CLICK HERE TO SEE A FINALIZED CALENDAR OF EVENTS.
Tues. Feb. 19 – BSA's Open Mic/Spoken Word/Poetry Slam Night - 7:30 P.M – University Center, 1st Floor Stage
Do you write haikus? Sing original songs? Play an instrument? Do you rap? If so, share your hidden talents at BSA's Open Mic Night! Don't miss this great opportunity for free refreshments, free poetry, and some amazing talent! Feel free to bring friends along!
Wednesday, Feb. 26th -- BSA's Children's Black History Art Gallery & Soul Food & Black History Trivia EXTRAVAGANZA – 7:00 P.M
Join BSA for an evening of homemade Soul Food and Black History Trivia (with prizes!) Come meet organization members and tour the gallery of local Gunnison elementary and middle school students' Black History Art all the while enjoying tasty homemade food and trivia.


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Yes, I liked the interaction between Avril and the audience too. I hope she plays at some more intimate venues for the Black Star Tour
Very funny performance!! Love it!! I like how she interacted with the audience.
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And tied for the hour we expose the lies and distortions that Democrats attempt -- -- selling you at the convention this week in Charlotte no exposed.
All the nasty rhetoric that -- from behind the podium -- all the mainstream media sleeps we're gonna tell you what you didn't hear from many of the speakers.
We'll tell you the truth about the economy tonight the truth about the bin Laden raid tonight and we will lay out the untold story of the GM bailout.
And we will also reveal what the 2012 DNC will really be remembered for -- no.
It's not Bill Clinton and this is an investigation you'll only see tonight right here on Hannity and we begin with an in depth look -- -- Obama's acceptance speech.
It was an address that was filled with a laundry list of new promises.
Once -- show you a recap.
We choose this path we can create a million new manufacturing jobs in the next four years if you choose this event.
We can cut our oil imports in half -- -- each morning and support more than 600000.
New jobs in natural gas alone.
My plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution and that is heating our planet I will use the money were no longer spending on war to pay down our debt.
And put more people back.
My plan would cut our deficit by four trillion dollars.
Now the past three and a half years are any indication what you just heard would be part of a list of broken promises and the question is should he win another term after almost a president.
Who have failed to make good on you were countless times and so before you start promising us the world yet again.
He may want to work on a few of these old pledges.
-- -- Making.
Less than 250000.
Dollars a year.
We'll see any form of taxing for us today -- pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half.
By the end of my first term in office won't have the negotiations televised on C span.
So people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents.
On -- -- will be close.
No later than one year from now transparency.
And the rule of law will be the touch tones of this president's.
If you choose change.
You'll have a nominee who doesn't take a dime from Washington lobbyists.
Got -- good of -- from Washington.
And -- -- -- president Baird does the setting the agenda in Washington will be all over.
Now of course it -- broken promises were conveniently left out of last -- speech and interestingly enough.
Also laps and from his remarks -- some of his biggest so called accomplishments.
Now not once last night to be -- about Obama -- by name and he didn't even mention his stimulus plan.
No he's not campaigning on the so called achievements while he's running away from them.
And that's because he wants you to forget about his values and the price tag that they come along with.
And once again believe the hype the hope the change Obama change change change unfortunately I don't think that's gonna happen this time around joining me now to expose the truth behind the democratic.
Convention -- former Alaska governor Fox News contributor Sarah Palin governor.
So many broken promises the media in this country ignores them.
And -- -- comes up with cut paste you know speech again last night with a -- new laundry list of promises.
It seems like we've got to focus on the oh -- first a week.
Well Leo and those repeated promises and then as you are suggesting now whole host of new promises.
I'm really is it a slap in the face of the electorate they did there's an.
The estimation of and I'm intelligent.
Voting block out there I think that.
President Obama is as soon mean we'll continue to want to get free stop despite free stuff will replace freedom.
And he's just assume mean that that voting bloc will be large enough to get him back in -- but I just -- That Americans will open their -- between now and November when that they know -- don't have to make that choice between free stuff.
Or freedom he can't have both.
Governor I I watched last night watch really closely watched all the speeches of -- factor in the at this convention.
Boring and stale.
-- Uninspiring.
Out of my idea is I just didn't feel -- this time.
And I -- in 2008.
Something huge was happening I mean -- moving it inside the weather was perfect that was part of it.
You know one -- the -- it -- adjectives that you use.
Well last night it was very painful to watch the president's speech and hit it that it not just because.
We knew that he was not telling Americans the truth with his suggestions of how well things were going and how well things will go if we gave him four more years of these repeated -- policies but.
See you right there was a lack of enthusiasm a lack of passion for this country.
Lack of sincerity when it came to for instance.
His claims of supporting our troops and -- many of us look back just a number of months ago and remember a specific about.
-- the troops for instance.
Where he was -- ready and willing to throw our troops under the bus if -- didn't get his way on budgets and debt ceiling increase is gonna withhold -- was willing to.
Good troops paychecks so as he talked about the support that he asked for again for instance the troops.
-- to do is go back in in time in the very recent past.
And realized that he contradicts himself he really is.
The antithesis.
Of consistency that you would hope would be -- -- president.
We're gonna get into this -- great.
If he if his policies that he supported.
Who had been implemented on -- gitmo rendition.
Same with GM how much they still all the taxpayers Hogan and those details tonight.
And some more details about I think that.
That single thing.
This convention may be remembered for.
Here are the delegates.
Know they remove god and Jerusalem as the capital of Israel from the platform.
And you hear -- I don't -- can't remember convention where they booed god.
Wars had noted.
I know I know -- I'm like no that's the equivalent to it was the equivalent dev box -- rice.
Denying our lord and that -- you know go back in that.
New testament teachings on and on what happened man because I don't -- From three times I guess before.
Before that he had -- LA mayor said I don't care what you say we're gonna do we want anyway.
And -- to want to discard.
Got -- from.
What a platform is is a list of your priorities what's most important to you collectively -- A political body for it what seems to be the majority of the delegates want -- guide how to there.
I thought was sacked him and it didn't -- in disrespectful of other good Democrats who were out there who have that faith you.
Who my understanding god given rights and aren't ashamed -- proclaiming that it is god who gives us our right.
It showed the -- the views of the fuel in the hall and I think they were reaching out to energize their base.
But the other thing about this convention that strikes me wanna get your thoughts on this is that you know Bill Clinton who said that Obama played the race card on him.
Was brought -- in to save the day.
Interestingly the Romney campaign has come out with an ad reminding us what Clinton said about Obama in 2008 -- us.
As the economy gets worse Barack Obama calls on Bill Clinton to helpless -- campaign.
It's about which candidate is more likely to returners from -- he's a good soldier helping his party's president.
Know what to -- Clinton say about Barack Obama in 2008 give me a break.
This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen 23 million Americans struggling for -- -- middle class falling further behind.
Give me a break -- Mitt Romney and I approved this message at all.
Is that a good lawyer defending -- guilty client governor.
Yet that's exactly what it is and I hear Obama still spring clean that fairy dust in this very talent that he wants Americans to buy again for another four year just -- --
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Over the past four years, we have made great strides in improving education across the city and have built a solid foundation for the future.
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Gibbs (Mark Harmon, second from right) teams up with FBI Agent Fornell (Joe Spano, right) on a joint NCIS/FBI investigation after Fornell becomes the target of a shooting, but they face an unexpected twist in the case when their mutual ex-wife, Diane Sterling, gets involved. Also pictured: Sean Murray (left) and Pauley Perrette Photo: Cliff Lipson/ CBS ©2012 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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This feel good musical comedy is about a girl who does not take "no" for an answer. When her boyfriend dumps her for someone "serious," Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books, and sets out to go where no Delta Nu has gone before: Harvard Law. Along the way, Elle proves that being true to yourself never goes out of style.
Music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin, book by Heather Hach. Based on the Amanda Brown novel and the 2001 film. Directed by Dave Campbell, musical direction by Fred Love, choreography by Ali Woerner
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My email is current as far as I can see...... Any PM goes directly to
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Just remember though you may not be old enough to have been a witness, game and fish department wisdom at the time was take every panfish you catch so the rest have room to grow up! The fecundity of any lake as it rises and has unlimited spawning structure is hard to over harvest. Now that the lake has covered as much as it will be allowed to cover, Limiting the take may indeed be important.
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+Berkeley Electronic Press (bePress), Hurricane Katrina and Economic Loss (provided by: Berkeley Electronic Press)
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+Brookings Institution, Hurricane Katrina: Where Do We Go from Here? (September 8, 2005) (PDF — 196K)
+Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Public Health Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita - Louisiana, 2005 (PDF — 535K)
+Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Public Health Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita - United States, 2005 (PDF — 501K)
+Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Katrina/Rita: The 5th Commemoration, August 29, 2010; September 24, 2010
"Throughout this post-Katrina period, FEMA has remained dedicated to helping Louisiana families and communities recover. To date, in partnership with and in support of the state of Louisiana, we have provided more than $15.2 billion in assistance. We maintain our steadfast commitment to the resilient survivors of Louisiana as they continue along the path to full recovery.
"So, on the 5th anniversary of this unprecedented event, we can say that a lot has been accomplished, but we an also say that a lot remains to be done. FEMA is committed to being here for as long as it takes to fully recover, and we're working to do so in a way that builds, sustains and improves south Louisiana's capability to protect against future hazards."—Mike Karl, EMA Louisiana Recovery Office Interim Director, "Unprecedented Disaster, Unprecedented Recovery."
+Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Myths & Facts About FEMA Housing Following Katrina (FNF-08-046) (May 26, 2008)
+Frey, William H., Audrey Singer & David Park, The Brookings Institution, Metropolitan Policy Program, Resettling New Orleans: The First Full Picture from the Census (September 12, 2007) (PDF — 6.3M)
+Goldman, Lynn & Christine Coussens, Rapporteurs, Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Environmental Public Health Impacts of Disasters: Hurricane Katrina, Workshop Summary (provided by: National Academies Press) (2007)
+Issues in Legal Scholarship, Berkeley Electronic Press (bePress), Catastrophic Risks: Prevention, Compensation, and Recovery
+Luther, Linda, Congressional Research Service (CRS), NEPA and Hurricane Response, Recovery, and Rebuilding Efforts (September 28, 2005) (PDF — 59K)
+Natural Hazards Review, Natural Hazards Review
+Office of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Broken Promises: The Republican Response to Katrina (August 23, 2006)
+Peek, Lori (Editor), Children, Youth and Environments Center for Research and Design, Special Issue: Children and Disasters Children, Youth and Environments Journal, v. 18, no.1 (2008)
+President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency (PCIE), Homeland Security Roundtable, Compendium of OIG Hurricane Oversight in the Gulf States (December 12, 2005) (PDF — 3.77M)
+President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency (PCIE) & Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency (ECIE), Oversight of Gulf Coast Hurricane Recovery: A 90-Day Progress Report to Congress (December 30, 2005) (PDF — 3.84M)
+Remnick, David, High Water: How Presidents and Citizens React to Disasters (Letter from Louisiana) New Yorker (October 3, 2005)
+United States Deparment of the Interior (DOI), Office of Inspector General, DOI's 2005 Hurricane Relief Expenditures (Report no. C-IN-MOA-0004-2006) (March 2007) (PDF — 697K)
"The devastating hurricanes of 2005 had a two-fold impact on DOI. First, DOI was called upon to assist in the federal relief efforts under the National Response Plan (NRP). Second, DOI's bureaus were greatly affected by the disasters. DOI sustained significant damage to 12 parks and preserves, 86 refuges, 68 water monitoring gauges, and the Mineral Management Service's (MMS) Gulf of Mexico Regional Office. As of September 30, 2006, DOI spent approximately $104 million on hurricane relief and recovery. This included approximately $61 million for NRP activities and $43 million to respond to and address internal damage.
"We are pleased to report that overall, the bureaus effectively managed their 2005 hurricane-related expenditures. Given the magnitude of the damage sustained to the Gulf Coast and DOI facilities, the issues we identified through our expenditure testing were relatively insignificant, and the bureaus performed well."—Earl E. Devaney, Inspector General.
+United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Inspector General, Emergency Response to Hurricaine Katrina: Use of the Government Purchase Card (OEI-07-06-00150) (May 2007) (PDF — 709K)
"The Government purchase card program was designed to save the Government money by avoiding costly paperwork and to expedite the process of making purchases. In response to Hurricane Katrina, Public Law 109-62 authorized agencies to streamline certain purchasing requirements for procurement of supplies or services to support rescue and relief operations. This report (1) determines whether Government purchase card purchases related to Hurricane Katrina complied with requirements for the use of the card and (2) identifies lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina purchases to assist in the administration of the Government purchase card program during future emergency situations.
"We found that 15 percent of purchases did not comply with purchase card requirements. Additionally, cardholders had questions and concerns regarding some purchases and over half of cardholders expressed the need for additional written guidance regarding emergency purchasing procedures. Lastly, we found that Hurricane Katrina purchase data contained inaccuracies.
"We recommend that the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management provide additional written guidance on emergency purchasing procedures. We also recommend that ASAM require training on emergency purchasing procedures. Finally, we recommend that ASAM develop a tracking system for monitoring Government purchase card purchases during emergency situations. In its comments to the draft report, ASAM concurred with our recommendations and stated that it has set a course of action to strengthen the Department of Health and Human Services' purchase card program."
+United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Inspector General, Review of FEMA's Use of Proceeds From the Sales of Emergency Housing Units (PDF — 424K)
"Starting in fiscal year 2005, and continuing through early 2007, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) officials used funds received from the sale of used travel trailers and mobile homes to partially finance the operations of a dozen Emergency Housing Unit (EHU) sites in seven states. However, more than $13.5 million of the sales proceeds were expended for ineligible purchases. This occurred because FEMA program officials failed to ensure that the EHU expenditures met General Services Administration (GSA) regulations on the use of sales proceeds.
"Proceeds from the sale of government property are restricted-use funds that can be used for the purchase of a select group of replacement type items within a specified time. GSA regulations specify conditions that must be met in order to participate in the program, and if not met, an agency must return proceeds to the United States Treasury.FEMA officials used approximately one half of the sales proceeds, or about $13.5 million, on ineligible expenditures including (1) contracts to support and equip storage sites, (2) replenishment of purchase card accounts, and (3) travel expenses. These purchases generally represented operating expenses of the EHU sites, but were ineligible expenditures under GSA regulations. Because of the unbudgeted nature of these funds and the need for better oversight and control, unnecessary and uneconomical purchases were made.
"FEMA requested this review in early 2007 and FEMA's Disaster Finance Center initiated its own detailed review concurrently. The Disaster Finance Center review, completed in June 2007, concluded that most of the sales proceeds were used for ineligible purposes or not used within prescribed timeframes. The Disaster Finance Center recommended that appropriate fund account adjustments be made and that improperly used funds be returned to the U.S. Treasury. We concur with the Disaster Finance Center recommendations and make additional recommendations to prevent misuse in the future."—Executive Summary
+United States Government Accountability Office (GAO), Disaster Housing: Implementation of FEMA's Alternative Housing Pilot Program Provides Lessons for Improving Future Competitions (Report for Congress) (August 31, 2007) (PDF — 1.35M)
+United States Government Accountability Office (GAO), Emergency Management Assistance Compact: Enhancing EMAC's Administrative and Collaborative Capacity Should Improve National Disaster Response (PDF — 8M)
"Since its inception in 1995, the EMAC network has grown significantly in size, volume, and the type of resources it provides. EMAC's membership has increased from a handful of states in 1995 to 52 states and territories today, and EMAC members have used the compact to obtain support for several types of disasters including hurricanes, floods, and the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The volume and variety of resources states have requested under EMAC have also grown significantly. For example, after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, New York requested 26 support staff under EMAC to assist in emergency management operations; whereas, in response to the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes, approximately 66,000 personnel—about 46,500 National Guard and 19,500 civilian responders— were deployed under EMAC from a wide variety of specialties, most of whom went to areas directly impacted by the storms.
"While the EMAC network has developed a basic administrative capacity,opportunities exist for it to further build on and sustain these efforts. The EMAC network has adopted several good management practices, such as using after-action reports to learn from experiences and developing a 5-year strategic plan. However, the EMAC network can enhance its administrative capacity by improving how it plans, measures, and reports on its performance. FEMA provided $2 million to help build this capacity in 2003, but the agreement has recently expired. FEMA and EMAC leadership are in the process of finalizing a new 3-year cooperative agreement. Such an agreement would enhance the EMAC network's ability to support its collaborative efforts." —What the GAO found.


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Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY … From March 6 to 16, Hofstra University presents its annual Shakespeare Festival, featuring Hamlet at the John Cranford Adams Playhouse, which is celebrating its golden anniversary this year. Hamlet, Shakespeare's masterpiece on the morality and nature of revenge, was the featured production of the University's 1958 Shakespeare Festival.
Hamlet will be performed on Hofstra's famous reconstruction of Shakespeare's Globe stage. It is notable that every part of the University's John Cranford Adams Playhouse, from the scaffolding to the lighting, was designed with the Globe reconstruction in mind.
This special production of Hamlet features guest direction by Gus Kaikkonen. Show times are Thursday, March 6 at 8 p.m.; Friday, March 7 and 14 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, March 8 and 15 at 8 p.m.; and Sunday, March 9 and 16, at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $12; $10 for senior citizens (over 65) or matriculated non-Hofstra student with ID. Members of the Hofstra community receive one free ticket with their current HofstraCard. For tickets and more information call the Hofstra Box Office at (516) 463-6644, Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.
Each Shakespeare Festival comprises multiple performances: a full-length Shakespearean play, a shorter dramatic piece and the "Festival Musicale," a concert by the Hofstra Collegium Musicum, an ensemble from the Music Department devoted to the performance of early music. The Festival Musicale includes a chorus and ensembles of historical instruments such as viols, recorders, sackbuts, and cornetto.
This year's Festival Musicale, directed by William E. Hettrick, is That Is The Question. The companion play is This Bud of Love, a one-hour version of Romeo and Juliet, an excellent introduction to the works of William Shakespeare, suitable for young theatergoers.
Performances of That Is The Question and This Bud of Love are Saturday, March 8 and 15, at 2 p.m. at the John Cranford Adams Playhouse. Tickets are $10, $8 for senior citizens (over 65) or matriculated non-Hofstra students with ID. Members of the Hofstra community receive one free ticket with current HofstraCard.
There will also be a special performance of This Bud of Love on Thursday, March 13, at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $6. Members of the Hofstra community receive one free ticket with current HofstraCard. Tickets for the Festival Musicale and companion play are also available through the Hofstra Box Office.
The Shakespeare Festival is widely considered by the theatrical community to be a terrific training ground for aspiring actors. Hofstra graduates with acclaimed careers in the performing arts – including the late Madeline Kahn, Lainie Kazan, Susan Sullivan, Phil Rosenthal (Emmy Award-winning executive producer of Everybody Loves Raymond), Robert Davi (Profiler), Joe Morton (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Brother from Another Planet, Broadway's Art and National Theatre's Stuff Happens), Peter Friedman (Broadway's Twelve Angry Men and Ragtime) and Tom McGowan (Sleepless in Seattle, As Good As It Gets, television's Frasier) – have credited the Festival for playing a part in their subsequent success.


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A Perl script catalogs books and CDs with the help of barcodes
Barcodes efficiently speed us through supermarket checkout lines, but the technology is also useful for totally different applications. An inexpensive barcode scanner can help you organize your private library, CD, or DVD collection.
Dealextreme.com, a company from Hong Kong, offers all kinds of inexpensive goodies. Customers can pay with PayPal, and shipping is free. Interested in a laser pointer for less than two dollars or a SATA/IDE adapter for just eight dollars? If you don't mind waiting up to two weeks for delivery, you're guaranteed to find a bargain with Dealextreme.
For quite a while I had my eye on the CCD-based barcode scanner for US$ 42 dollars (see Figure 1) (one of Dealextreme's most expensive products [2]) before I finally pressed the Buy button.
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When the mailman finally delivered the package, I could hardly wait to get started. The obvious choice was to write an application to scan the barcodes in my extensive collection of technical literature and store the results in a database. Depending on where the book comes from, the barcodes are either printed in UPC (Universal Product Number) or EAN (European Article Number) format, and Amazon.com offers a free web service that gives you detailed product information if you submit either barcode. This means that a Perl script can easily identify the author and title of a book or the artist for a CD that you scan. The data returned by the service includes CD and book cover images. Adding a graphical user interface to the application lets me display the book cover or CD case onscreen and in color after scanning.
The reader has a USB connector, and Linux immediately identifies it as a second keyboard. If you hold the sensor over the barcode of a book, CD, or DVD and press the button, the scanner switches the red light on (Figure 2) and enables the CCD sensor; then, the internal CPU starts to analyze the bars of different thicknesses to discover the encoded number.
The barcode scanner is very reliable; it beeps when it's done and sends the numbers to the computer's USB port, just as if the user had typed them at the keyboard and then pressed Return.
If the scanner fails to identify the barcode, which did not happen in my experiments, the user can still type the number in the input box of the application discussed in this article – the effect is the same.
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The script, upcscan (Listing 1), uses a graphical interface based on the Tk toolkit. The GUI's text input box immediately grabs the keyboard focus when launched. Once the barcode scanner has identified a code, the numbers appear in the input box. The scanner sends a return key code when it is done, and the GUI responds with the callback function scan_done(). The function sends the barcode to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) and, after a delay of about a second, receives the title and author or artist of the book, CD, or DVD plus a URL that points to a JPEG image of the book or CD cover.
Figure 3 shows the application shortly after scanning the barcode printed on the back of a JavaScript book. The data fields are filled in correctly, and the program has received the right book cover from Amazon in return. Figure 4 shows the results after scanning a CD by Beach Boys vocalist Brian Wilson. In both cases, the script drops the retrieved data into a local SQLite database, which I can then browse to my heart's desire and write applications around (Figure 5).
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001 #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w 002 ########################################### 003 # upcscan - Scan/store UPC coded articles 004 # Mike Schilli, 2008 (firstname.lastname@example.com) 005 ########################################### 006 use strict; 007 use Tk; 008 use Tk::JPEG; 009 use POE; 010 use LWP::UserAgent::POE; 011 use Net::Amazon; 012 use Net::Amazon::Request::UPC; 013 use MIME::Base64; 014 use Rose::DB::Object::Loader; 015 use Log::Log4perl qw(:easy); 016 017 my @MODES = qw(books music dvd); 018 019 my $UA = LWP::UserAgent::POE->new(); 020 021 my $loader = Rose::DB::Object::Loader->new( 022 db_dsn => 023 "dbi:SQLite:dbname=articles.dat", 024 db_options => { 025 AutoCommit => 1, RaiseError => 1 }, 026 ); 027 $loader->make_classes(); 028 029 my $top = $poe_main_window; 030 $top->configure(-title => "UPC Reader", 031 -background=> "#a2b2a3"); 032 $top->geometry("200x300"); 033 034 my $FOOTER = $top->Label(); 035 $FOOTER->configure(-text => 036 "Scan next item"); 037 038 my $BYWHO = $top->Label(); 039 my $UPC = $top->Label(); 040 my $PHOTO = $top->Photo(-format => 'jpeg'); 041 my $photolabel = 042 $top->Label(-image => $PHOTO); 043 my $entry = $top->Entry( 044 -textvariable => \my $UPC_VAR); 045 046 my $PRODUCT = $top->Label(); 047 048 $entry->focus(); 049 050 for my $w ($entry, $photolabel, $PRODUCT, 051 $BYWHO, $UPC, $FOOTER) { 052 $w->pack(-side => 'top', -expand => 1, 053 -fill => "x" ); 054 } 055 056 $entry->bind("<Return>", \&scan_done); 057 058 my $session = POE::Session->create( 059 inline_states => { 060 _start => sub{ 061 $poe_kernel->delay("_start", 60); 062 } 063 }); 064 065 POE::Kernel->run(); 066 067 ########################################### 068 sub scan_done { 069 ########################################### 070 $PHOTO->blank(); 071 $PRODUCT->configure(-text => ""); 072 $FOOTER->configure(-text => 073 "Processing ..."); 074 $BYWHO->configure(-text => ""); 075 $UPC->configure(-text => $UPC_VAR); 076 resp_process( 077 amzn_fetch( $UPC_VAR ) ); 078 $UPC_VAR = ""; 079 } 080 081 ########################################### 082 sub amzn_fetch { 083 ########################################### 084 my($upc) = @_; 085 086 my $resp; 087 088 my $amzn = Net::Amazon->new( 089 token => 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX', 090 ua => $UA, 091 ); 092 093 for my $mode (@MODES) { 094 095 my $req = 096 Net::Amazon::Request::UPC->new( 097 upc => $upc, 098 mode => $mode, 099 ); 100 101 $resp = $amzn->request($req); 102 103 if($resp->is_success()) { 104 return($resp, $mode, $upc); 105 last; 106 } 107 108 WARN "Nothing found in mode '$mode'"; 109 } 110 return $resp; 111 } 112 113 ########################################### 114 sub resp_process { 115 ########################################### 116 my($resp, $mode, $upc) = @_; 117 118 if($resp->is_error()) { 119 $PRODUCT->configure( 120 -text => "NOT FOUND"); 121 return 0; 122 } 123 124 my ($property) = $resp->properties(); 125 my $imgurl = $property->ImageUrlMedium(); 126 img_display( $imgurl ); 127 128 my $a = Article->new(); 129 $a->upc($upc); 130 $a->type($mode); 131 $a->title( $property->Title() ); 132 133 if($mode eq "books") { 134 $a->bywho( $property->author() ); 135 } elsif( $mode eq "music") { 136 $a->bywho( $property->artist() ); 137 } else { 138 $a->bywho( "" ); 139 } 140 141 $BYWHO->configure(-text => $a->bywho() ); 142 $PRODUCT->configure( 143 -text => $a->title() ); 144 145 if($a->load( speculative => 1 )) { 146 $PRODUCT->configure( 147 -text => "ALREADY EXISTS"); 148 } else { 149 $a->save(); 150 } 151 152 $FOOTER->configure( 153 -text => "Scan next item"); 154 return 1; 155 } 156 157 ########################################### 158 sub img_display { 159 ########################################### 160 my($imgurl) = @_; 161 162 my $imgresp = $UA->get( $imgurl ); 163 164 if($imgresp->is_success()) { 165 $PHOTO->configure( -data => 166 encode_base64( $imgresp->content() )); 167 } 168 }
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Thanks to the Tk package from CPAN, slick GUIs are no problem for Perl scripts. Unfortunately, I had a problem with the application I had in mind: Longer operations, such as the web requests, caused the interface to freeze. Querying Amazon with a barcode can take a couple of seconds, and the interface would freeze in the meantime.
The POE module, also from CPAN, gave me a workaround – it lets the GUI run in an event-oriented userspace "kernel." However, don't confuse this with the Linux kernel; in POE, "kernel" is just a fancy name for an event loop. It provides mechanisms for cooperative multitasking.
The script does not handle web requests synchronously in this environment; instead, it sends a request to the web server and then immediately hands control back to the POE kernel and, therefore, the GUI event loop. When the response comes back from the Internet, the kernel wakes up the waiting task and passes in the data.
The Net::Amazon CPAN module handles communications with Amazon and supports a variety of requests to the giant retailer's web service. Internally, it does not use the asynchronous POE module to query the Amazon database. Instead, it uses the synchronous LWP::UserAgent. You can use the ua parameter to tell the module to work with a user agent that you pass in to it.
CPAN has LWP::UserAgent::POE, an agent with an LWP interface that respects the special asynchronous needs of the POE kernel. While the module issues web requests, and seemingly waits synchronously for the results, some black magic inside the module allows the POE kernel to keep on ticking, thus giving other tasks their turn.
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The yen fell to the weakest level since April 2011 versus the dollar after Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party won Japanese elections yesterday, giving him a mandate to act on pledges of expanded monetary stimulus.
Japan's currency declined as Abe has called for the central bank to double its inflation goal to 2 percent and undertake unlimited easing to revive economic growth. Bank of Japan policy makers meet on Dec. 19-20. Sweden's krona climbed against all of its major peers before the nation's central bank sets policy tomorrow. The pound strengthened to a two-month high against the dollar.
"People that fight the Abe government will find themselves out of control," said Marc Chandler, global head of currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. in New York. "Nobody wants to fight this trend and there is still a lot of interest to sell yen against dollar and euro on dips."
The yen fell 0.3 percent to 83.75 per dollar at 10:49 a.m. New York time, after depreciating to the weakest since April 12, 2011. Japan's currency dropped 0.3 percent to 110.26 per euro, after declining to the least since March 21. The euro was little changed at $1.3166.
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Japan's currency has lost 11.9 percent this year, the worst performer of the 10 developed-nation currencies tracked by Bloomberg Correlation-Weighted Indexes after New Zealand's dollar. The dollar is off 3.1 percent while the euro has dropped 1.5. For the past month, the yen is down 5.4 percent, the greenback fell 2.3 percent and the shared currency is up 1.4 percent.
The Swedish krona advanced amid speculation that the Riksbank may not give any indication of a continued easing of monetary policy tomorrow. All but one of 17 economists surveyed by Bloomberg predicted the bank will cut its main repurchase rate by 0.25 percent to 1 percent when policy makers publish their decision tomorrow. The currency dropped the most in two months against the euro last week.
The krona traded 0.5 percent stronger at 8.7465 per euro after dropping 1.7 percent last week, the biggest decline since the period ending Oct. 5. It appreciated 0.5 percent to 6.6440 per dollar.
The pound gained against the dollar and the yen before a report that economists said will show inflation remained at its fastest since May, adding to evidence the central bank won't continue to expand its balance sheet. The Labor Department reported last week consumer prices in the U.S. fell more than forecast, allowing the Federal Reserve to undertake more quantitative easing.
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Abe's LDP won 294 seats in Japan's 480-member lower house of parliament. Outgoing Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's Democratic Party of Japan lost three-quarters of its lawmakers, according to public broadcaster NHK.
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The yen earlier fell as much a 1.2 percent against the dollar, the biggest drop since Nov. 15.
The yen's declines may be limited against the dollar as positioning becomes more crowded. Futures traders increased bets to the most since July 2007 that the yen will weaken against the dollar, figures from the Washington-based Commodity Futures Trading Commission show. Net shorts were at 94,401 wagers on Dec. 11, compared with 90,326 a week earlier.
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National Heritage Week 2011 Event Award Winners - Awards Presentation
Well done to the 2011 National Heritage Week Event Award Winners who were recognised by the Heritage Council at an awards presentation on February 9th 2012 for their wonderful work during Heritage Week last year.
The award for Best Interactive Event and Best Overall Event went to the Tyrrellspass Festival Committee for their Tyrrellspass Festival. This was the first time the festival was held and the objective was to highlight the vast heritage that Tyrrellspass has to offer by creating a community family event incorporating as many elements of the heritage of Tyrrellspass as possible. The 600 year-old castle which was opened for the first time in many years gave a strong medieval theme and provided a foundation for tours, talks and walks. The festival included a medieval parade, a choral evening, bee keeping, arts and crafts, photography exhibitions, bog cutting, nature walks and archaeological walks and talks. All organised on a voluntary basis, the event encouraged access to heritage that isn't normally available and resulted in ongoing heritage accessibility, engagement and education which is a key aim for National Heritage Week.
Best Community Group/ ENGO/ Individual was awarded to the Drimoleague Heritage Walkways Committee for their special re-enactment of St. Finbarr's Pilgrim Walk. The walk included contemplative stops featuring St Finbarr's life and Gospel. Historical facts and stories were recounted and various topographical features in the landscape were noted. Over 100 people took part in the walk over three days and the event is an example of how National Heritage Week can be used to draw attention to local heritage and revived traditions.
The award for Most Innovative Event went to Droichead Arts Centre and the Louth Heritage Office for their event entitled 'I Am Wall' which saw nearly 2,500 people all wearing red t-shirts join hands along the medieval town walls of Drogheda raising awareness of the walls and of the towns medieval heritage. The event showed great originality. Its idea and execution demonstrate how a part of our heritage that has all but vanished (only 10% of the walls remain) can be brought back to life through human spirit and creativity.
The NPWS Clara Visitor Centre won the award for Best Childrens Event. Twenty five 7-12 year olds met two local NPWS Conservation Rangers, who were their mentors for the day. The children completed a treasure hunt activity in the Visitor Centre. This activity was designed to enable children to learn basic map reading skills, and to encourage them to explore and reflect upon the Centre's interactive multimedia exhibition which explains all about the wildlife of Clara Bog. During the field trip the Mini Rangers experienced the wet and soggy nature of a living raised bog. They discovered the plants and animals that live on Clara Bog, learned how to identify a range of species and recorded their findings. The children were encouraged to use their creativity to create a wildlife scene using a mixture of natural materials and other media to form a collage. The event was an excellent example of a very well structured well thought out educational and fun event for young children introducing them to our natural heritage.
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Student Travel Awards
The AISB makes student travel grants available to its members. The awards are typically for a couple of hundred pounds and it is our preference to fund conference travel where a student is giving a presentation of some description. These awards are available to all students (i.e., undergraduate and postgraduate masters students as well as those studying for a PhD). We expect the topic of the conference to be relevant to Artificial Intelligence or Cognitive Science although obviously more general Computer Science conferences are also acceptable if the presented work is relevant to the society's areas of interest.
AISB Student Travel Award Recipients have their name and, where relevant, the title of the paper they presented listed on the AISB web site.
Student Travel Awards: Details
- Student travel awards are usually limited to £300 maximum.
- AISB generally sponsors only one student travel grant to any given Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence/Cognitive Science conference.
- We send out a student travel award letter that can be used as collateral for an institutional `loan' (e.g., university buying you the ticket).
- The recipient must write a conference report suitable for publication in AISBQ within 3 months of the event, and send it to the Treasurer. (Guidelines for writing conference reports). This conference report should be sent by email rather than hardcopy.
- Once the conference report has been accepted by the AISBQ editor, the AISB treasurer sends a cheque for the value of the student travel award.
- The AISB greatly prefers to grant student travel awards to people who are giving a paper or publicly talking, rather than just attending a conference. We also prefer to grant student travel awards for travel to relevant conferences (i.e., those in the fields of Artificial Intelligence or Cognitive Science) or for presentations at more general Computer Science conferences where the subject of the presentation is relevant to Artificial Intelligence or Cognitive Science.
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How to adjust an oven so a single recipe will work across multiple ovens for an individual product. The ability of equipment to produce good product is fundamental to every manufacturing process. The ability to quickly setup and run a product on different process lines can make the difference in being able to satisfy a customer's requirement, missing a delivery date, or making a profit. This process line flexibility requires good equipment with repeatability between lines to be a success. To do this, the process engineer needs to maintain their equipment to high standards and understand its capability. Tolerance range = upper specification limit minus the lower specification limit Cp = Tolerance range / 6 times the standard deviation
The specification given by the paste manufacturer is 240 ± 10°C. Statisticians note that when the machine capability (Cp) is 2.0 or greater, we have a capable process, regardless of the process center. They also say that for a process to be in control, the CpK has to be 1.33 or greater, accounting for the process center. In this case the Cp and CpK are excellent.
Comparing results to the Pb-free solder specification, we see the averages are very close to the target (Table 2). This indicates the recipe is correct for this product, but does not indicate the process variation. Not knowing the variation reminds us of the guy who had one hand in boiling water and the other in an ice bath; he was uncomfortable, but on the average, the temperature was OK. Thus we need to know the variation of the process. Since we are taking a sample and not measuring the profile for every part, we can use the standard deviation of our sample and the formulas previously discussed to calculate the CpK.
Repeatability among Ovens We could complicate our decision making with statistical evaluations such as the student t-test1 and Mr. Abbott's calculations, but it is possible for the process engineer to keep it simple by comparing the results of CpK calculations on multiple ovens to show there is repeatability between them.
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Slim Easton has a surfboard sticking out the back window of his classic 1949 Ford Woody Wagon.
The Cloverdale resident may not surf anymore, but he both surfed and water skiied in his younger days.
He's had his distinctive station wagon for 23 years, having long thought the old Fords were a classy car.
"When it came up for sale, I was there to grab it," Easton said. "There aren't that many around."
The Ford was parked in the Concours D'Elegance at Douglas Park, reserved for some of the more unusual or rare classic cars.
Unlike many of the vehicles parked around it, Easton's Ford never had a major restoration.
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I have a friend that has a Husqvarna Diamond embroidery machine & I was wondering what type of thread does a machine like this use. She has invited me over to show me her new machine & the things that it can do & I thought about taking her some thread as a gift when I go but have never seen an embroidery machine in action nor do I know if they take special thread. I would like to know what y'all recommend that I take her. Thanks in advance & I sure hope I don't get "hooked" on an embroidery machine after seeing hers. Nicki We live in the home of the free...because of the brave. | |||
Embroidery machines stitch very fast. Mine does up to 650 per minute. I buy the thread that says for embroidery machines as it is made to withstand high speed stitching. There is a special bobbin thread that is very thin. TerryOH | ||||
Sulky sells gift sets of multiple colors. Every LQS sells some type of thread, often for embroidery machines. Visit the website at http://new.husqvarnaviking.com/ and browse. You might find a dealer in your area and get her a small gift card. She most definitely will be spending quality time with her dealer. I embroider on everything, thanks to my Bernina Artista. Have fun. (Maybe you two could come up with a barter system so you could enjoy her machine too!) | ||||
Patty J and I use Sulky 40 100% rayon. Works well. Hope you enjoy your day with your friend. Sue | ||||
I use only Isacord on my Bernina - used another brand when I first bought it and it ate a hole right through the fabric. The person I bought it from suggested Isacord. Good luck!! | ||||
I like the Mettler Polyester thread for most jobs. Still use the Sulky since I have a lot of it. If doing something that will be washed a lot, go with the polyester. Rayon can not be bleached. Local dealer is starting to carry Iscord, so will be getting some of that too. I don't recommend Coats and Clark. You could also take a few packs of embroidery needles. Use a lot of them. Also use a lot of stablizers. Have fun. Strings Friends divide our sorrows and multiply our joys. | ||||
I use Robison-Anton with my Pfaff, now the same company that makes Husqvarnas. Madelyn | ||||
Thread is a strange thing. Everyone has there own personal preference. My HV did not like Sulky...had lots of problems with it. It like RA (Robinson-Anton) Maderia, Isacord. I now have a Bernina and it likes all of the above plus BFC. I personally love the BFC thread....Why because it is Cheaper than any other I have found, the sheen it creates is the best I have seen; (if that is the look you want) they have a great range of colors (360). The draw back might be you need to order it....you will not find it in stores. http://bfc-stash.com/ Enjoy your day with your friend you may have to have an embroidery machine after your visit. If life hands you scraps make quilts | ||||
I have a Brother machine. The dealer recommended Robison Anton rayon thread. That is what I have used the most and like it. I have used a little of the Coats and Clarks and it works ok. In order to see the rainbow, first you must endure the rain. | ||||
I use FuFu. But Isacord is also nice. You just have to give some a try and see what it likes. | ||||
I use RA in my Janome 11000. It will take just about any thread except the Janome thread. The dealer recommended RA and I have had no problem. I also use thread from the long creek mills. It is nice thread. I don't use rayon because of the bleach ruins the thread. I use poly. It is basically trial and error. Test a spool of a couple kinds and see what it likes. | ||||
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