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Proof: Jeff Emig Talks MXoN
Thursday, September 8, 2011 | 3:00 PMRacer X: You and I were bench racing a few weeks ago about you riding a KX500 at the 1996 MXdN. And that's always a strange part in history because for a few years, someone still had to ride a KX500 at the des Nations, but our AMA 500 National Championship stopped racing after the 1993 season. What was that like when you got the call to race the open class on that bike?
Jeff Emig: It wouldn't have been that bad if the motorcycle had been a current bike! I believe the last update on that bike was in 1992 or 1993, and this was 1996. We didn't race that class in the U.S. anymore after 1993, and I believe we tried to retrofit some new forks or a new shock to the bike, but, for the most part, it was the same bike with updated bold new graphics.
I've heard that they literally used the same exact KX500 every year for des Nations. They'd always have to have a Kawi guy race that class, and they would just tune up the same old KX500 and race it. Ryan Hughes, for example, raced it the year before.
I believe they had two bikes, one was a test and practice bike, and one was a race bike. But hey, when you only race it once a year, why not just keep on running it? We could probably just bust that thing out right now if we wanted to.
The des Nations in 1996 was the first time Emig had ridden a KX500.
Photo: DC
Yeah, I know that bike is still sitting there at the Kawi shop to this day! Did you have any experience racing that bike before this race?
No. None.
You never raced a 500 at Mammoth, or in the dunes, at an amateur race or something?
No. I had never raced a 500 before.
And you also weren't even the first pick for the team?
That's right, and I just realized that because I was reading an old article. Ryan Hughes had raced it in 1995, so they were going to have him just do it again, but as the story goes, he got hurt, and I was a logical replacement since I was also a Kawasaki rider. I had some pretty good races at the Motocross des Nations before, and I had a pretty good summer too, so I felt like I could handle it. [Note: A few weeks after the team was announced, Emig completed a comeback and won the 250 National Championship].
How much practice time did you get on the bike?
As little as I could! That thing vibrated so badly compared to our 250s, you wanted to ride it the least amount that you had to. And what's interesting is, the horsepower, even though Kawasaki had done a great job smoothing out the power, it was still like a toggle switch. Just on or off. And if you overevved the thing, it would vibrate so badly that you could literally shake your hands right off the bars. That, and also how the weight balance felt on the chassis. The engine was very far forward, so it was very easy to spin the rear tire. When that toggle switch flipped up and the revs came up, that thing was all over the place! You really had to ride it a different way, just third and fourth gear the whole way. We had the big flywheel weight on it and everything to help that, but it was still a handful.
That race, in 1996, some of the Europeans called it Supercross des Nations because the track was very technical.
Yeah, well, they should have called it "Big Downhill Quad of Nations." There was this massive downhill quad jump that was really technical. I don't remember the rest of the track being that technical, I remember it being pretty rough with lots of up and downhills. But that jump, it was big, and you couldn't see the landing at all. And I remember that on that 500, with that toggle switch feel, I could accidentally overjump it very easily. Eventually, I was sort of coasting off the face of the jump, because you didn't want that toggle switch power to kick in on the face of the takeoff. You couldn't power off of it like a 250 or a 125. You've probably seen pictures of Lamson and McGrath on the 125 and 250 throwing tricks off of that jump, and then me just jumping absolutely straight.
It was a clean sweep for Emig and the rest of the Americans at the '86 des Nations.
Photo: DC
That bike is like a museam piece, now, because the rules finally changed in 1997 and 250s became legal in both classes.
Yeah and like I said, I don't think that bike I rode is much different than Jeff Ward's last championship bike, which was in 1990!
Some will say the riders are back on open bikes now, because a 450 is so much faster than a 250 two stroke. And maybe on a dyno, peak power, a modern 450 and an old 500 two-stroke may match up. But is there any comparison to riding those old bikes and what is out today?
No, not even anywhere near that. It's completely different. We're talking close to 20 years of technology here. That bike took a different type of technique and style. Around that time, I was just turning pro, and most of the championship battles were between Honda and Kawasaki in that 500 class. Yamaha tried it a few times on their air cooled bikes, but they were at a disadvantage. So it was mostly between Honda and Kawasaki in that 500 class, and it always seemed like Kawasaki had a little advantage.
Well indeed they took four of the last five AMA 500 National Titles. By the way, you also once said at des Nations that Americans don't get beat by four-strokes. Sorry man, technology caught up to you.
Oh man those four-strokes used to make me so mad! They had those Husabergs and stuff that had popped up in Europe. I was always pretty confident in my setup, but more often than not, when we got to the des Nations, the tracks were different, and my setup didn't work there. The tracks were faster and we needed more top end, and in America our bikes were setup with all of that snap down low. So we always needed more top end on our 250s for that race. But I can tell you on that KX500 we had it all. Last gate pick? No problem. Lammy, you go ahead and take the good gate on the 125. You could grab the holeshot from any spot on that gate, that was not an issue. And at that race in Spain in 1996, I think that one was pretty easy for us. In the first moto, I had the lead, and Lamson and Sebastian Tortelli were behind me. I remember talking to Lamson before the race, and I told him he needed to beat Tortelli and show the world that he was the best 125 rider in the world. So I let them go by. I didn't care what I did as long as I was the first 500. So I got a front row seat to this amazing battle between Lamson and Tortelli, and I was proud of Steve, he won it. We ended up dominating that race, 1996 rivaled that legendary 1986 team you always hear about as far as our results. I'd like to say that year was a massive struggle and we overcame all the odds and barely pulled it off with all of this drama, but that day, we pretty much dominated it and it wasn't too much of a struggle. It helped that I had that trusty KX500, it was a handful to ride, but still, it was the best 500 out there.
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I never rode one. Raced a KTM 380 for 2 years. Thats was fun. We had a long start and I got stuck in the gate and I was still 2nd into the first turn in the open am class.
I have always wanted to see a video of that quad jump. I have also always wanted to ride a 500 2 stroke. I have a 450 4 stroke now but I bet it feels gutless compared to a 500 2 stroke.
Holy crap, I don't remember that jump being so big! That takes a good set to launch the freakish 5 hun like that. Reminds me of TP 199 MXoN, jumping over RonRon on the downhill triple...
"Big Downhill Quad of Nations". That's funny stuff right there, even though there's nothing funny about that jump. It scares the crap outta me just looking at that pic. I always liked how that guy was keeping track of Emig's overhead flight. Cool stuff. I, too, would LOVE to see some footage. Come on, somebody post it up.
P.S. Emig fan forever!
There's footage of this race in the old Terrafirma videos.
Man, I was in that race! The whole USA crew wearing those huge stars and stripes hats LOL
The quad was brutal, I couldn´t believe they were going to clear that gap.
The USA squad performance was perfect. Lammy´s bike didn´t sound any similar that any other 125... The sound was pretty much like a 250. AWESOME
I could´t believe I was having the breakfast alongside Stanton and De Coster, and met the drivers in person. I still have Mc´s FOX patriot t-shirt (big 5 in the back) in my room and his Bell helmet signed...
I wish Kawasaki would break out that old KX500 and let Villamoto run it in MX3.I think he would win his class on it.
Love the look back storys like this.
4 Strokes ruined motocross.. This is what racing was all about..
Yeah that was a good read, I liked my 85 YZ490 I did a lot of work to smooth it out and had Ohlins shock and modified forks and a bunch of personl stufff I did to it. Had no trouble wih the Hondas or Kawie's. I was just riding the intermieats back then. yes some peope were just plain faaster than me but I won my share on a lot of YZ 490's till I turned 30.
There was nothing like racing the 500cc 2 stokes, you had to be careful sometime just to not go too fast and get in trouble cause when you crashed on of them it was ussually a big deal....ouch...
I hated my 84 yz490.That was a POS.Not as bad as my 88 RM250 or 89 YZ125 but a pyle none the less.If you drag raced a 85 CR500 on the street that 4spd 490 would blow its doors off.I would drag race a friend on a 85 RZ350 with toomey pipes.They would be side by side up to 102mph then the RZ would pull away it would do 120mph.


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DipTrace remains free provided you don't hit the 300 pin barrier. From a diyAudio perspective, what are the possibilities within such limit? Here are three different diyAudio boards as practical examples.
The first board hosts a PIC32MX2 coupled to a WM8731 stereo codec.
The second board is a SigmaStudio target, hosting the ADAU1701 the same way as Analog Devices EVAL-ADAU1701MINIZ.
The third board hosts a WM8580 multichannel codec delivering eight analog outputs.
The common denominator of all three boards is a 2×10 pin expansion connector allowing to stack them. A possibility is to stack PIC32MX2 acting as USB-audio device, grabbing digital audio from the PC, sending it over I2S to the ADAU1701 board. Another possibility is to stack two ADAU1701 boards, first one dealing with the left I2S audio, second one dealing with right I2S audio. Another possibility is to stack the WM8580 board on the PIC32MX2 board, providing the S/PDIF input capability and possibly up to four analog outputs. There are more combinations.
Here are the three corresponding DipTrace schematics. They are all within the 300 pins limit. The idea was to design inexpensive building blocks for experimenting digital audio on a workbench, with the added possibility to use the same boards, embedding them into diyAudio gear like a digital preamplifier, a digital crossover, or digital loudspeakers.
WM8731+PIC32MX2 board
The WM8731+PIC32MX2 board enables bare metal programming.
The PIC32MX2 gets debugged and programmed using Microchip MPLAB ICD 3 ($189.99) .
A simple experimental application would read the stereo audio entering the WM8731, apply some processing like filtering, equalizing, splitting, dynamic compression or expansion, then deliver the processed audio on the WM8731 stereo outputs.
A more complicated application would base on Microchip USB-audio library (see also Mike Zoran in 1998), for persuading the PIC32MX2 to behave like any USB soundcard. Connect it on any PC, and get the sound on the WM8731 stereo outputs. There can be a USB endpoint dealing with the listening volume, driving the WM8731 volume control block (only available on the WM8731 HP outputs – not available on the WM8731 line outputs).
The 2×10 pin expansion connector allows the PIC32MX2 to send the recovered audio in digital, using the I2S format (data, bit clock, frame sync).
The board can be powered by USB or by an external DC voltage source.
The WM8731 codec can be isolated from the PIC32MX2 using straps (I2C bus, CSB pin, SPI bus) like needed when hooking another audio codec on the expansion bus.
The sel_lrc strap enables selecting WM8731 DACLRC or WM8731 ADCLRC signal as becoming the SPI1_SS on PIC32MX2.
2×10 pin expansion connector specification
1-2 : non regulated VCC (nominal 4.7 Volt)
3-5-7-9 : SPI/I2S as coming from PIC32MX2 (DI, DO, CK, SS)
11-13-15-17 : SPI/I2S as coming from PIC32MX2 (DI, DO, CK, SS)
4-6 : I2C as coming from PIC32MX2 (SCL, SDA)
8 : GPIO coming from PIC32MX1
19-20 : Digital Ground
The remaining pins will get defined along the way when designing a PIC32MX7 board outputting two more SPI/I2S data lines, receiving an interrupt, outputting two more chip select, etc. We'll deal with this later on.
ADAU1701 board
The ADAU1701 board enables graphical audio processing programming.
The ADAU1701 gets programmed using Analog Devices SigmaStudio software and USBi, both being part of the Analog Devices EVAL-ADAU1701MINIZ ($195.00).
A simple experimental application would read the stereo audio entering the ADAU1701, apply some processing like filtering, equalizing, splitting, dynamic compression or expansion, then deliver the processed audio on the ADAU1701 four analog audio outputs.
A more complicated application would consist on hooking the WM8731+PIC32MX2 board on the 2×10 pin expansion connector. This way the ADAU1701 could read I2S audio prepared by the PIC32MX2 like coming from USB.
Two ADAU1701 boards can be stacked in parallel, exploiting the I2S stream coming from the PIC32MX2. One ADAU1701 would process the left channel, while the other ADAU1701 would process the right channel. This way you get a digital preamplifier and crossover driving two 4-way active speakers.
The board can be powered by the Analog Device USBi or by an external DC voltage source.
The rxtx strap ensures the required rx/tx cross for connecting the ADAU1701 board on the 2×20 pin expansion connector. Being forced to manage an explicit rxtx cross using straps, the user gets fully aware that a TX pin located on one side, gets connected on a RX pin on the other side. This avoids myriads of misunderstandings, especially newbees confusing pin labels with signals labels.
WM8580 board
The WM8580 board enables stereo analog in, S/PDIF-in, S/PDIF out, and up to eight analog audio outputs when the WM8580 chip gets replaced by a WM8581 chip.
In a simple application, the WM8580 gets the S/PDIF audio, converts it to I2S and sends it to the PIC32MX2 over the 2×10 pin expansion connector. The PIC32MX2 does some processing like filtering, equalizing, splitting, dynamic compression or expansion, then delivers back the processed audio over I2S (DIN1 and DIN2 as I2S data lines) to the WM8580, delivering four analog audio outputs.
The WM8580 board gets powered through the 2×10 pin expansion connector. The nominal 4.7 Volt supply gets locally regulated, generating a +3.3V digital supply and a +3.3V analog supply. The analog ground gets locally generated, partially decoupled from the digital ground.
The rxtx strap ensures the required rx/tx cross for connecting the ADAU1701 board on the 2×20 pin expansion connector. Being forced to manage an explicit rxtx cross using straps, the user gets fully aware that a TX pin located on one side, gets connected on a RX pin on the other side. This avoids myriads of misunderstandings, especially newbees confusing pin labels with signals labels.
The sel_lrc strap enables selecting WM8580 PAIFRX_LRCK or WM8580 PAIFTX_LRCK signal as becoming the SPI1_SS on PIC32MX2, behind the 2×10 pin expansion connector.
The 8-pin mpf connector conveys the MPF2, MPF3, MPF4, MPF4, MPF6, MPF7 signals coming from the WM8580.
An elegant schematic entry as medium between diyAudio enthusiasts
From a diyAudio perspective, schematic entry is the primary communication medium, as soon as hardware gets involved. While googling and wikiing about schematic entry, you'll learn that the meaning of schematic entry has changed over time, especially with the arrival of CAD (Computer Assisted Design) packages like Autocad, Multisim, Protel, Eagle etc.
The original meaning of a schematic entry is to allow understanding a circuit, at a glance. It's graphic and nothing else. Therefore, in a schematic entry, you absolutely need to know the meaning of wires intersects. When wires intersects, there is a fundamental ambiguity: do they form a junction, or to they remain isolated? Before the CAD era, this was explicitly codified. When a wire intersects another wire, only two case are supported. If this is a junction, there is a dot added, materializing the junction. If this is not a junction, there is a semicircle over the other line representing the wire as "jumping over" the other wire. If your schematic had intersects not obeying the rule, it was rejected.
Actually, there were three different kind of schematics.
You had the conceptual schematic, only showing the components arrangement, without any markings. No components labels, no components values. This is the schematic you would produce when sketching electronic ideas on a sheet op paper. Such conceptual schematic is mainly for internal, private use.
You had the annotated schematic. As soon as you need building the hardware, as soon as you need communicating your idea, you need to provide all components values along with some comments like heatsinking, connectivity, etc. The obvious way is to write the component value next to each component. This is the simplest way to communicate a schematic, for enabling it to be hardwired. The issue with such format, is the impossibility to formulate remarks about components. If there is a trimmer in the schematic, like for setting up the bias current in a class AB power amplifier output stage, how would you explain the adjustment procedure? You need to name the trimmer. You need to add references.
This is why you mostly had referenced schematics. Same purpose as above, but instead of writing the components values next to each component, all components were carrying references like R1, R2, C1, C2, Q1, Q2 etc. instead of their actual values. Such schematic needs a references table, listing all references and the associated components values and possibly general remarks about them like ordering numbers.
Imagine yourself troubleshooting a board. You will lose time, continuously navigating between the referenced schematic and the references table. In the mid seventies, companies like Philips, Panasonic, Kenwood started producing very high quality service manuals, basing on full schematics, each component carrying the reference and the value. Reading the schematic, you immediately could see the component value. Reading the schematic, you immediately could locate the component on the PCB. A table was still provided, containing the ordering numbers.
Fundamental requirements
All this seems very straightforward, logical. In 2012 you expect all CAD softwares to support four fundamental features :
- disambiguation of wires intersects (is it a junction, or not)
- fast conceptual schematic entry without worrying about components values, components references and components packaging (components pick and place on the worksheet, fast-efficient-elegant way to draw wires between them)
- annotated schematic entry to be bolted on the conceptual schematic (adding components values without needing redrawing anything)
- full schematic entry allowing each component to carry the value and the reference, without needing more space, without needing redrawing anything (values font and references font need to be small, preferably of different color)
- if there is a possibility to create a parts library, that's a great bonus
- if 2-sided PCBs can be designed with a copper fill for the ground, that's a great bonus
- if 3-sided and 4-sided PCBs can be designed, that's even better
LTspice from Linear Technology (LTspice IV currently)
LTspice correctly disambiguate the wire intersects by automatically adding a dot where you want two wires to merge. That's perfect, bulletproof. Each component carries two markings : the reference and the value. This is considered as "component text" by LTspice. There is color control, but it applies to both markings together. You cannot get the value text having a different color from the reference text. You cannot chose the font sizes.
Eagle from Cadsoft (Eagle 6.2.0 currently)
Eagle doesn't disambiguate the wire intersects. There is a "dot" component to be placed on the schematic, but it is a purely manually, decorative approach. There have been many criticisms about Eagle, on that particular aspect. Most people using Eagle use a crude workaround. They don't allow wires to cross. They use labels. Dozens of labels. Once they get used to labels, they regard them as the universal panacea. They pretend that anyway, even with moderate complex schematics, you are better with labels. Looking deeper in their statements, you discover that the art of drawing a schematic doesn't exist anymore for those people. They drop a big IC on page one of their schematic, possibly a microprocessor, and starting from there they create one label per pin. The rest of the circuit diagram gets placed on subsequent pages. From a logical point of view, this is a completely valid approach, and doing so you are not going to confuse a pin with a signal (a net).
Now look the practical result. The schematic is not anymore relying on a visual impression. For understanding the schematic, you need to memorize various net names, and flip through pages. It's hard to distinguish between a net and another net. Relying on two small character strings for telling "from A we get this, and we route it to B" is less visually appealing, than showing neatly ordered wires going from A to B, possibly on a diagram only taking one page. If there are more nets, you can't visually identify them anymore. You need to read the small prints. That's my personal point of view.
Examining the way the signals get routed, using dedicated wires, is part of my pleasure when reading a schematic. This is especially true when audio gets involved, possibly high-end. When dealing with high-end audio, if you face a schematic representing audio going from A to B using nets references instead of wires, you need to chose between two possibilities. Possibility 1: the person having drawn the schematic is not conscious about the potential dangers of routing audio within a board. Possibility 2 : the person having drawn the schematic doesn't want to divulge the precaution he took for safely conveying the audio from A to B. Neither cases are satisfactory, to my eyes.
To be honest, if you are willing to persuade Eagle disambiguate the wire intersects, manually adding "dots" when required, you get a powerful universal tool. Start creating your own Eagle library. This is Eagle massive advantage over LTspice. Only use components from your own library. Define all components in a compact way, allowing a component value marking using a small font having a certain color, and a component reference using another font and another color. This is all possible with Eagle, and not possible using LTspice.
The importance of relying on a custom Parts Library
The parts library is an important asset from a diyAudio perspective. The part library guarantees the consistency between projects. The part library enables basing all projects on explicit components to be easily purchased, possibly with second sources like for passives, while keeping an eye on the cost. The part library forces you to answer fundamental questions about the optimal use of SMDs (surface mounted devices) and THDs (through-hole devices). Why using SMD audio coupling caps, expensive and hard to replace, when there are plenty of tried and trusted audio coupling caps in the through-hole format? The same applies for power supply decoupling caps. Only a few different parts are needed like a 100µF/25V through-hole, a 10µF/25V through-hole, and a 100nF in SMD 1206 format. Why the SMD 1206 format while there are plenty of other formats like 0805, 1007 and 1210? Look on Farnell website. Over there you will see that the 1206 and the 0805 formats are the most available, and less costly. From a diyAudio perspective, you'll feel reassured dealing with SMD 1206 capacitors and SMD 1206 resistors. Their markings can be read with the naked eye and they are easier to handle than the smaller SMD 0805. The comfortable SMD 1206 size (from a SMD perspective) allows ceramic capacitors reaching decent values for decoupling, and still low cost.
The Eagle Parts Library
In the nineties, before the silicon market explosion, when most digital designs were still relying on TTL 74xx, CMOS 40xx, MCS51, Z80, 68k and i86, all CAD programs had parts libraries but only in a fixed, proprietary format that you needed to buy from the software editor, or as third-party, costly modules. In the late nineties, you could buy an expensive library editor. In the early 2000 years, some CAD packages featured a built-in, however limited, library editor.
Eagle followed such path. Eagle 6.2 (latest version) includes some changes in the library format (you can feel it when loading the legacy libraries, this is now a slow process). The aim is to make it less proprietary, basing on XML. In the future, we can expect Eagle to come with refined library editing utilities, still to be developed. In the meantime, Eagle 6.10 only provides crude ways for creating components and adding them in your personal library. You can build a component from scratch, but it takes a lot of time managing all the "layers", and what gets defined into such a "layer".
Eagle is all about layers
Here you can see Eagle organig growth, basing on "layers" even if most layers have nothing to do with the physical PCB layers. Over time, in an organic growth process basing on the multilayer PCB paradigm, Eagle extended the layer concept for creating information categories like component name, component value, solder paste, etc. The resulting PCB structure results from merging layers together like the component name layer, component value layer, text layer. This is a religion you must adhere, otherwise you'll get lost.
Sadly, you face such concept quite abruptly, since day one, when designing your own components to be added to your own library. As said above, the library editor is somewhat crude. You need to navigate three different concepts : the Symbol (what gets drawn of the paper sheet), the Package (the way the electronic component footprint gets drawn on the PCB), and the Device (defined as a Symbol being physically implemented using a Package having pins connected to the symbols ports). There are thus .sym, .pac and .dev chunks combining, resulting in your personal library (.lbr) file on your harddisk. That's the second religion within Eagle.
Eagle bare symbols exceptions like grounds and supplies – the hidden net merge trap
From there comes a second fundamental difficulty and ambiguity. On your schematic, you only can put Devices which means that you'll get a problem if you don't know how the associated package and pinout are. Yes, but wait a minute, what about ground symbols, power supply symbols, and nets? They are all treated as exceptions, using "magic" keywords. And the third fundamental flaw in Eagle, is the so called "net merge prompt". When you are entering a schematic on Eagle, connecting a wire on an other wire, you may get a prompt asking to to confirm that you really want to merge net xxx with net yyy. Well, if you don't pay attention to this, if you just click "yes" like it was a matter of normal confirmation, you may find yourseld in deep trouble … for weeks. Indeed, Eagle allows you to connect two nets even if it doesn't explicitely show on the schematic. This way if you have some ground, analog ground or analog power supply symbol incorrectly defined, you may carry a fatal design flaw along your whole PCB design process.
Will we fly Eagle?
From a diyAudio perspective, better ask yourself if Eagle is a recommendable approach nowadays, as you may not adhere to the Layer religion, not adhere to the Symbol-Package-Device conceptual stack, not tolerate hidden net merges, not forgetting that fundamentally, Eagle doesn't provide a respectable method for disambiguate the wire intersects.
So, what about DipTrace? What to expect from a 300-pin limited schematic entry supporting library creation and PCB design? DipTrace being quite recent, created from a blank sheet, we need to determine if DipTrace is better suited to the actual market demand.
- DipTrace is champion regarding the disambiguation of wires intersects. It automatically adds the required dot.
- DipTrace allows fast conceptual schematic entry without worrying about components values, components references and components packaging. Right-click for Properties, Marking tab, select show "none" for the Main Marking and the Additional Marking.
- DipTrace delivers the referenced schematic, by Right-click for Properties, Marking tab, select show "RefDes" for the Main Marking. Such Main Marking can be justified left, right, center, top, bottom or corner. Using F10 it is possible to precisely move the Main Marking in the most appropriate location like inside the resistor rectangle (when an European resistor symbol is used). Such layout takes no extra space on the schematic.
- DipTrace delivers the annotated schematic, by entering each component value in the Additional Marking field (right-click, Properties, Main tab, Value). You then need to select show "Value" for the Additional Marking. The Additional Marking can be justified left, right, center, top, bottom or corner. Again, F10 can be used for precisely moving the Additional Marking.
- DipTrace delivers the full schematic allowing each component to carry the value and the reference. All what is needed is to select show "RefDes" for the Main Marking and select show "Value" for the Additional Marking.
- I found no way for changing the Main Marking and Additional Marking font size and colour. Eagle delivers this. Hope DipTrace developers will add such feature on their todo list.
- There is the possibility to create a parts library, in a very effective way, a lot more effective than Eagle.
- 2-sided PCBs can be designed with a copper fill for the ground
- need to check right now if 3-sided and 4-sided PCBs can be designed
Initially, as DipTrace newbee, I faced a few minor schematic entry annoyances.
- While in the schematic entry, selecting a part can be frustrating. Clicking on a part gives random results. Sometimes the part gets selected and ready to be dragged. Sometimes not. Sometimes the part appears as selected but cannot be dragged. Sometimes the "esc" keystroke deselects it, sometimes not.
- While in the schematic entry, selecting a part for removing it from the schematic can be frustrating. Clicking on a part gives random results. Sometimes the part gets selected and ready to be removed using the "del" key. Sometimes not. Sometimes the part appears as selected but cannot be removed using the "del" key. Sometimes the "esc" keystroke deselects it, sometimes not.
- While in the schematic entry, selecting a group of parts can be frustrating. A group of parts may appear as selected, but when dragging, three different things may randomly happen: 1) all parts get dragged 2) only one part gets dragged, ruining your schematic or 3) nothing happens.
- While in the schematic entry, adding a wire can be frustrating. Most of the time, when there are components in the area, DipTrace will generate unnecessary corners that you need to manually remove. This slows down the schematic entry, and transforms it into a frustrating experience.
I am getting progressively acclimated to DipTrace. I don't feel most annoyances anymore. Like with most CAD programs, the object selection is driven by a state-machine. Eagle is no better. If you don't make the effort analyzing the state-machine that's acting behind the scene, forever you'll keep the nasty perception that something random is occurring. Later on I'll take some time, sketching DipTrace object selection state-machine.

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At its heart, it's about solving cases — in other words, seeking justice regardless of how long it takes for investigators to connect the figurative dots. Cases solved, even if they take years, are better than cases left unsolved. Mysteries of murder and mayhem help no one.
Last Sunday, Star editor at large John Fleming examined the Department of Justice's Cold Case Initiative that's trying to crack a sizeable collection of unsolved civil rights-era murders. The department told Congress earlier this summer of 122 cases in its initiative's files. Sixty-two of them remain open.
Granted, DOJ investigators have no easy task. As Fleming explained, any number of variables can be an obstruction between success and failure on civil rights cold cases, from destroyed evidence to the deaths of witnesses to the mere passage of time. Unfortunately, investigators sometimes have little choice but to close a cold case because too little evidence has survived the decades.
It's tough enough solving heinous crimes in the first days after they occur; solving them four decades later often can seem an impossible task.
Take note that 17 cases on the DOJ initiative's list are from Alabama; 11 of them remain open. It would be a salve for this state's soul if those cases are solved, if more of Alabama's civil-rights murders are given needed judicial closure.
The killings of men and women because of the color of their skin scarred this nation for too long. Some of those scars remain today, particularly in states such as Alabama, where racial violence once lived among us. Thank goodness that this state, and this nation, has moved to a better place. But unfinished work remains.
The Department of Justice's Cold Case Initiative is performing a needed duty in America. It says something about this nation that we are still seeking justice for those who died because of the color of their skin or the racial violence of days past.
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BCIC-New Ventures' 25 round-three competitors are working on their Round 3 business overviews for submission on August 8th. Competition judges will announce the 10 finalists on September 4th but in the meantime let's have a closer look at the Top 25. Over the next couple of weeks, BCIC will spotlight each of the 25 finalists. MediaCore is a cloud-based, online video learning platform optimized for K-12, universities and corporations that provide education or training to students online. It allows any organization to launch and control their own educational video experience that can be shared publicly or privately across desktop and mobile devices. Earlier this year, MediaCore placed third in the 2nd annual regional competition and in June, the startup was named one of 15 Top Startups across Canada to participate in metabridge 2012 in the Okanagan. Learn more about MediaCore here. The 10 finalists of the 2012 BCIC-New Ventures Competition will be announced September 4, 2012. Stay tuned! Follow MediaCore on Facebook and Twitter (@getmediacore). Tagged as: BCIC-New Ventures Competition, MediaCore comments powered by Disqus |


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Looking at top campaign contributors misses the point entirely since the Citizen United case allows corporations to spend unlimited funds on elections provided that they spend the money independently.
I expected pointless comments from lefties..lol! So you would outlaw contributions from corporations but not unions?
And btw unions don't represent all union members dues as my conservitive union member friends assure me. And I'm sure it works(representation) the same way with corporations too. Look at the disproportional amount of monies given to the dems by unions.
I'm all for neither corporations or unions being allowed to contribue to campaigns. Just think of all the wasted money the could give to charity!
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In 2005, a class action lawsuit was filed against GE alleging that its Bloomington, Indiana factory had produced defective refrigerators in 2001 and 2002 in which rust and black substances had been found in ice cube trays and sharp plastic pieces had broken off from the ice makers. GE soon admitted that its GSS-22 model refrigerators had moisture-related problems and agreed to replace those needing more than three repairs.
The settlement also gave owners a one-year extended warranty on the new units and 100% reimbursement for repair expenses. There were 304 listed model numbers covered in the settlement.
On May 31, 2007, a gender discrimination class action suit was filed by GE's general counsel in U.S. District Court in Connecticut alleging that GE systematically discriminated against its 1500 executive female employees in its pay and promotion practices. The suit maintained that the percentage of women in officer ranks had been at 13% for the previous five years and at 20% for senior executive band jobs. The suit requested $500 million for back and front pay for the 1500 female employees and is one of the largest gender discrimination class actions ever filed.
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Like so many London Fashion Week designers, Antonio Berardi had a love affair with pink for Spring 2014. His show was full of the feminine shade, but textured finishes, sportswear-inspired sweaters and biker jackets stopped it from ever getting too girlie. Alongside the pink came rich red and white, cream, silver, and black on separates, rise-and-fall dresses, and oversize tops. Prints barely appeared at all, save for the odd dash of a metallic animal print and delicate embroidered blooms on some dresses. Really it was the fabric choices and clever panel work that gave the looks their intricate detail; stiff silk against soft chiffon and organza with leather, sheer stripes against opaque, and sleeves with big shoulders and stiffened panels.
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The Selby recently visited the home of Parisian chef Inaki Aizpitarte, and I'm giving two thumbs up to the way he displays his postcard collection. It's not all that ingenious — he keeps them in a wire postcard stand — but it's unusual to see one in a home rather than a retail shop. I know plenty of folks who've collected those 4-by-6-inch travel souvenirs over the years, whether unsent or received; I'm sure he's not the only one who would find this home accessory handy.
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Nate Berkus Partners With Spring Global For Spring 2012 Collection
"I've come to realize I'm a process person. Whether it's the home of a client, a makeover for my show or my next collection, I love the step-by-step of watching it all come together. My friends laugh because on vacation, I'll take a picture of a flower to turn into sheeting or see the cut of a jacket and know it's the perfect finish to a pillow I'm designing. For me, inspiration is everywhere, and product design is the ultimate outlet for those ideas," states Berkus. "In Springs Global, I've found a team that mirrors my passion and commitment to making well-thought out products at an affordable price... and, the fact that they can look at pair of vintage cuff links I've found and see my vision for them as a frame is thrilling."
Berkus joins Diane von Furstenberg, Waterworks, and Espacio Sami Hayek at Spring Global. Curious as to what the new line will look like? Me too! Stay tuned for images from the collection, coming soon.
New Jessica Simpson Fashion Week Spring 2011 Collection
We caught up with Jessica Simpson at the launch of her newest collection. The new jeanswear line featuring denim for all shapes and sizes was a hit with sister Ashlee Simpson and best friend CaCee Cobb among others at the event where Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz played DJ. Check out our video for more from our exclusive interview!
Alexander Wang's Fall 2010 Collection in First Ever Video Campaign
Designer Alexander Wang released his first ever video campaign for his ready-to-wear Fall 2010 collection. Shot in a deserted New York City hotel and hair and newspapers flying everywhere, it's still hard to keep your eyes off the black lace and sheer fabrics that make his collection memorable.
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Only in their fourth year of designing under London label Meadham Kirchhoff, Central Saint Martins alums and friends Edward Meadham and Benjamin Kirchhoff have been awarded coveted sponsorships from Fashion East, New Generation, and Cotton USA. This week, they launch a second collection for Topshop that adds a romantic touch to the designers' predominantly dark and deconstructed streetwear. In stores and online Thursday, May 20, the lineup features delicate nude lace and pink paillettes mixed with shredded black sequin minis, glitter-spotted jumpers and t-shirts, and knee-length lace pleated skirts. Click below for a sneak peek at the complete collection.
Do You Know Anyone With a Snow-Globe Collection?
I feel like there are so many movies where characters collect snow globes, but in real life I've never met such a collector. I saw this collection in the home of Martin Jacobs and Simon Pearce, which was featured on The Selby. It's a pretty extensive reserve, isn't it? Do you know any snow-globe collectors?
Backstage Interview With Charles Nolan
Yesterday, a beautiful Sunday afternoon indeed, Charles Nolan showed his A/W 08 collection. We'd been to his studio recently, for the FGI Rising Star Awards party he hosted, and, like last time, the large space filled up in a casual Thanksgiving-dinner sort of way. Children were running between legs, people were sipping coffee and eating bagels with lox and cream cheese. Sure, there was the usual chaos of preparing for a show, but the Nolan-way was present. It was our pleasure to interview Mr. Nolan before the show, where he told us a little bit about the collection and its mix of tradition and technology. Soak up that bright light (that's a sick river view you're witnessing) and the amiable manner of a gentleman who can manifest 'lifestyle' from backstage to brick and mortar.
Interview With Adam Lippes and A/W 08 Runway Show
This A/W 08 season, Adam Lippes of Adam drew inspiration from the geography of the Berkshires. Lippes, one very charismatic and handsome gentlemen, conjured quite a crowd for his A/W 08 show. Among a very becoming set of thirty to forty year-olds were Margherita Missoni and Anna Wintour. The collection was chic and conservative; wool trousers, silk dresses that came to knee, high waisted belted skirts. The attendees erupted with applause when the show commenced as if it was the collection to end all collections.
We suspect though, however handsome the collection was, the enthusiasm was partly due to the atmosphere of the show and the personality of its designer. With so many well-dressed attendees (this is not your Miss Sixty crowd) and Lippes running around, twinkling his bright blue eyes, combing his disheveled blonde hair with his fingers, and talking about his house in the Berkshires, we suspect it was the whole package that had every one aflame.


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Giggling and grimacing my way through "The Astronaut Farmer," I wondered how I would ever be able to convey the special idiocy that fuels this saga of a rancher (named Farmer; go figure) who fulfills his dream of orbiting the earth by building his own rocket. Then I remembered an old Bob and Ray radio skit in which the roving reporter Wally Ballou interviews a man who plans to build his own tunnel beneath the Hudson River. The man explains that he is doing this because he's tired of paying tolls to go in and out of Manhattan. But isn't building a tunnel like that hard? Wally asks. "Not really," his subject replies. "What you do is get a shovel, dig down for a while and then dig straight out." The movie's hero, played by Billy Bob Thornton, is the space-cadet soul mate of that amateur sandhog. The difference between the movie and the radio skit is that the movie takes its subject seriously.
Really seriously, and ever so earnestly -- it's all about uplift. Charles Farmer isn't supposed to be a space cadet. In the hoary tradition of Frank Capra -- never has a Capra knockoff mustered more clichés -- Farmer is supposed to be a little guy with a big dream and a bigger heart, a guy who puts himself and his loving family through some difficult times, but still a fearless guy with a can-do spirit who becomes a national hero because he won't let anyone stand in the way of his dream, not even if it means taking on those heartless bigwigs in Washington.
It's clear from the very first shot -- an astronaut on horseback beneath a vast Western sky -- that the movie will be, for better or worse, something special. Maybe the rider is crazy, a cowboy with a Buzz Lightyear fixation who goes around half-suffocating himself in a space suit and helmet. But a shiny silver rocket stands on its tailfins in his barn. Then maybe he's a crackpot tinkerer who actually believes that his home-made spaceship can break the surly bonds of Earth. Or maybe it's a parody of the cockeyed optimism dispensed by the rocket-boy drama "October Sky," or of the hapless Wernher von Braun biopic "I Aim at the Stars" (for which Mort Sahl suggested the alternate title "I Aim at the Stars but Often Hit London").
But no, this is Billy Bob Thornton, a specialist at playing no-nonsense guys who are eccentric but perfectly sane. And the filmmakers -- the director, Michael Polish, and his writing partner (and twin brother) Mark Polish -- want us to understand that Charles Farmer has the right stuff. An aerospace engineer and former Air Force pilot, Farmer was on his way to becoming an astronaut until tragedy struck in the sort of overworked back story that's supposed to confer plausibility. What's more, one of Farmer's astronaut buddies, played by an uncredited Bruce Willis, comes to check out the project, takes one look at the rocket and says, evidently on the strength of its sheen, "You built this thing? That is some serious engineering!"
This movie is some muddled imagineering. It's a glib fantasy that soars beyond the misinformation belt into the vacuous realm of misinspiration. No one asks pointed questions about anything but money, of which Farmer seems to have woefully little. His clueless wife, Audie, played by Virginia Madsen, and his bright-faced kids have bought so fully into his insanity (which is meant to be seen as wisdom) that his 15-year-old son takes on the job of flight controller. When things go wrong (before they go inspirationally right), Audie starts to lose faith, but she finally sees the light and declares, in one of the dumbhead classic lines of all time, "Without the rocket, we're just a dysfunctional family!"
And with the rocket they are what? Just props for a preposterous premise. (Useful props: an appealing intimacy suffuses several scenes with the family at the kitchen table.) The oddest thing about this very odd movie is that it doesn't seem to know what to make of itself. Here it is positing faith, perseverance and family values as the basic ingredients of Farmer's climactic blast-off. Yet bogus uplift gives way to genuine downdraft in a coda that finds the hero chatting casually with Jay Leno. Suddenly the astronaut Farmer is just sly old Billy Bob doing yet another guest shot on yet another broadcast of the Tonight Show. That's a new definition of weightlessness.
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"Amazing Grace" is a case of good works done well. This admirable historical drama, directed by Michael Apted from a script by Steven Knight, tells the personal, and also rousingly political, story of how the pioneering abolitionist William Wilberforce struggled to end the slave trade in the British Commonwealth in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. (The slaves provided cheap labor for Jamaica's sugar plantations.) Wilberforce, as played by the excellent Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd, has his own struggle; he is torn between his passion for politics and his love of God. To resolve the conflict, he does God's work in a House of Commons that views the enslavement of black Africans as an economic necessity, and that resists his best efforts for decades.
The film takes its title from the hymn that was written by Wilberforce's friend and mentor John Newton, a slave trader turned monk to atone for his sins. Newton is played by Albert Finney, who is far from the only formidable actor in a cast that includes Michael Gambon, Ciarán Hinds, Rufus Sewell, Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Jones, Bill Paterson and Romola Garai. The Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour makes his acting debut as Oloudaqh Equiano, an African slave who bought his freedom, settled in London and wrote a best seller about his life.
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In "The Number 23," Jim Carrey plays a dog catcher, Walter Sparrow, who's beset by obsessive thinking: Everything in his addled brain adds up to 23. (Virginia Madsen is, once again, the hero's clueless wife.) The movie adds up to nothing at all, despite Joel Schumacher's efforts as director, Matthew Libatique's stylish cinematography and layer upon layer of droning complexity. Mesmerized by a mysterious novel with the same title as the film, Walter finds frightening parallels between his life and that of the book's murderous detective, Fingerling, a role that Mr. Carrey also plays. There's little in this first script by Fernley Phillips but bloodless notions -- nothing that might qualify, by the light of day, as entertainment. Yet the film has its own grim fascination as an example of another kind of obsessive thinking -- the process through which a studio apparatus is brought to bear on developing an idea that defies development.
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If James McAvoy's dynamic performance as the young doctor in "The Last King of Scotland" was overshadowed by Forest Whitaker's portrait of Idi Amin, as how could it not have been, Mr. McAvoy gets his chance to shine as the star of "Starter for Ten," a surprisingly agile and delightfully warm romantic comedy, set in the 1980s, with a not-so-hot-for-export title. (It's a catch-phrase from a real-life British quiz show called "University Challenge.")
He's Brian Jackson, an earnest working-class nerd whose desire "to know everything" stands him in good stead as a member of Bristol University's academic team on TV. As bright as he is, though, he can't figure out how to choose between Alice Eve's drop-dead gorgeous (and very funny) Alice, whose Flashdance sweater hangs so low off one shoulder that it threatens to capsize her, and Rebecca Hall's funny (and utterly enchanting) Rebecca, a campus activist with a gift for self-irony. Rest assured that Brian finally gets it right, and that "Starter for Ten" gets things right too. Tom Vaughan directed -- in an auspicious feature debut -- from David Nicholls's smart, lively script.
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DVD TIP: "Rory O'Shea Was Here" (2005), a flawed but enjoyable comic drama, set in contemporary Dublin, stars James McAvoy as a severely disabled young Irishman with a spectacularly able mouth. Romola Garai, who plays William Wilberforce's wife in "Amazing Grace," is Siobhán, a supermarket clerk -- I described her in my review as "surely the most beautiful supermarket clerk in the Western world" -- who becomes Rory's live-in attendant.


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I am shocked a union plan for pay raise. Wow! who saw that coming. A union asking for more money. And it never fails then they hit you with the heart strings of its for the children, or our job is so important in the mean time the tax payers are barely making ends meet.
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Type of Document Dissertation Author Ames, Jeffery La'Moun URN etd-04112005-175424 Title A Pioneering Twentieth Century African-American Musician: The Choral Works of George T. Walker Degree Doctor of Philosophy Department Music, College of Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Andre Thomas Committee Chair Judy Bowers Committee Member Kevin Fenton Committee Member Patrick Meighan Committee Member Keywords
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Date of Defense 2005-03-31 Availability unrestricted Abstract Finding scholarly research on the choral music by significant American composers is limited. Moreover, a search for scholarly resources on the choral works by significant African-American composers is more limited.
Spiritual arrangements of Negro folk songs by well-known African-American composers such as William Dawson, Jester Hairston, and Hall Johnson are respected and still admired by choral conductors today. These arrangements, which were based upon work, holler, or slave songs, had a tremendous impact upon the cultural development of African-Americans in North America. Hale Smith, a prominent African-American composer states, "Without these people [Dawson, Hairston, Johnson, et.al.] and their contributions, American music would be altogether different." Thus, the music of African-Americans became a vital component of American history and American music.
Equally, but not always noted, are the contributions by African-American composers of the western European tradition. Many people, including choral directors, are not aware of the vast array of non-spiritual compositions that have been composed by African-Americans. There is a considerable number of African-American composers who continue to make significant contributions in all genres of music, however only a limited amount of resources, primarily compilations, are available that describe their life, compositional style, and works.
The purpose of this study is three-fold: 1) to provide an additional scholarly resource devoted to the musical contributions of Pulitzer Prize winner George Walker; 2) to present his choral works in the form of a descriptive analysis; and 3) to provide a summary of his career as a performer, conductor, teacher, and composer.
Chapter One introduces the composer and briefly discusses the need for continued research in the area of twentieth century African-American composers of the western European tradition.
A review of related literature in Chapter Two provides a Black perspective on twentieth century classical music.
Chapter Three explores Walker's life by examining family and childhood experiences, his education, and career as a concert pianist, teacher, and composer.
Chapters Four and Five are devoted to the musical analysis of his choral octavos and extended works.
Chapter Six summarizes and reflects upon the life and accomplishments of George Walker and his choral compositions.
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
2012 Pony World Series : Game 15
In the first game of a double header this Thursday at the 2012 Pony World Series, Caguas, Puerto Rico takes on Chinese Taipei, Taiwan. This is Caguas, Puerto Rico's fourth showing in the World Series coming off a 12 to 7 (in the winners bracket) win over Bay City, MI (eliminated) and Chinese Taipei, Taiwan's fourth showing coming off of a 11 to 0 (in the losers bracket) win over Bay City MI (eliminated).
In the game final, Chinese Taipei, Taiwan defeats Caguas, Puerto Rico 12 to 0.
These two teams will play again tomorrow in the if-necessary game triggered by the Chinese Taipei, Taiwan (in the losers bracket) defeating Caguas, Puerto Rico (in the winners bracket).


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"On occasion, an astute retailer will leap ahead of the pack by using special publicity and promotion to build business and personal recognition." So says the marketing people at the U.S. Small Business Administration. Their experts make almost the same report each year.
It is a fact that not many specialty stores or interior fashions professionals achieve any consistent degree of public recognition in our rootless and uncaring society. A few retail shops and individuals do manage to become well-known in their market areas. They remain profitable for various periods of time. Then, for vague reasons, they fade slowly back into the homogenous majority. Their customers desert them and go elsewhere.
No group understands this behavior of the marketplace better than our stars and celebrities whose fame and income relies on the continuing support of their fans. To retain this adulation and compete against other current and upcoming celebrities, they must hire publicity agents to prepare and release "news" about their many comings and goings.
Sometimes, the news value of a media release must be stretched to arouse the interest of fans or customers. In some tabloid publications, the news may even be fabricated. But, whether truth or fiction, the more outrageous a star's comments or conduct, the more his or her fans and the media seem to be interested.
Review Basics
What do celebrities' stories have in common with the recognition efforts of small businesses? The similarities are many, even to the point of occasional fiction -- especially when it comes to pricing.
Successful merchants, large and small, know they must compete consistently to build and maintain their sales volume. Here are the basics they use:
1. Paid advertising -- consistent schedule of advertisements and commercials in local media (newspapers, radio, television and directories). Planning and using an effective advertising program is difficult and costly for any business. But for most retailers, it is the most reliable way to develop and hold profitable sales levels.
2. Alternate advertising methods -- includes less costly communications options, such as all-important word-of-mouth referrals, direct mail (letters, postcards, etc.), telemarketing, in-store signing, premiums and networking. The costs may be less than the first method, but much personal time and effort is a necessity.
3. Publicity -- using regular news releases about store and personal events to gain unpaid editorial space or time in various local print and broadcast media. As with the first two options, this program must be used on a regular basis to be effective.
Basics Usually Work
Using the above essentials effectively should bring you a satisfactory volume of business. But not always. That's the perennial marketing problem for any retail or manufacturing firm. The basics may not be enough.
Customers may be lured away by a variety of other factors; competitive discounts, new stores, new malls, more creative marketing campaigns. Maybe, regular customers simply want to shop around. Today, customer loyalty is gossamer thin. Often, it is equated with lowest price.
At this point, some retailers give up the struggle. They tire of the constant planning and expenditures needed. They decide to cut costs and make-do on their reputation for a while. Eventually, the slow decreases in customers and sales force them out of business.
Others may drop one of the basics, usually costly advertising, and expand their efforts in other areas. They rely more on alternate advertising methods, especially networking, with an occasional media publicity release added. They manage to get by on their good service reputation with sales to their regular customers and new referrals.
4. Pricing -- reluctant retailers sometimes decide to expand their selling efforts by lowering prices. They resort to competitive warfare by offering discounts, rebates, close-out sales and similar selling incentives.
Their sales may rise temporarily as profits go down. Survival will depend on those customers shopping for the lowest price. Usually, only the big mart operations are successful at this long-range pricing battle.
5. Special promotions -- many merchants try more creative approaches in the form of store or product sales incentives. No room here to outline even a few of the myriad kinds of sales promotions. There is a 532-page encyclopedia, published by the National Retail Merchants Association (NRMA). In it, many hundreds of special sales and good will promotions are listed. No two are exactly alike. Most of them are variations of fairly standard ideas: anniversaries, holiday events, tie-ins, shopping benefit of all kinds.
Effective sales promotions require significant expenditures for displays, signs, ads, contests and personnel back-up. Also, all such specials, whether successful or not, involve much planning time. Cooperation from suppliers and coordination with local media and officials are necessary. Some stores tie-in with local celebrities, show homes or builder's models. Some may become involved with product promotions endorsed by famous media stars.
Not for All
Extravagant promotions may be too much for an average specialty store retailer or designer. Not many small firms have the resources needed to plan and put on such big, splashy events. But, any store or individual can make small waves to attract attention.
It is always possible to become better known in your market area. If budget is available, try expanding your use of the basic marketing steps, noted above. If your budget is too limited, as most are, try more aggressive public relations tactics.
Be Different
You need boldness and ingenuity to stand out from the crowd. These concepts alone stop most small merchants. Even when they have the resources, training and skills needed, most still "don't want to make waves." Apathy, fear of embarrassment, lack of time or know-how, whatever -- one can always find a reason not to act. Resisting change can be very traumatic for anyone.
So, most avoid changing their business routines. They prefer to continue to provide good service and hope business will continue and improve by itself. Or, as noted above, they accept slow or no growth and manage to stay in business, at least temporarily.
6. Aggressive public relations -- more audacious retailers don't wait. They decide to use more hard-hitting tactics by expanding their efforts to hold regular customers and gain new ones. They do more to cultivate prospects willing to pay extra for their decorating and installation expertise. They amplify their communication procedures, especially those alternate advertising methods, as listed above.
They expand their public awareness programs to gain recognition for themselves and their store or studio. They add such concepts as:
Holding window decorating clinics and installation workshops.
Making more talks and personal presentations to business and builders' groups, women's clubs, civic and social organizations.
Preparing feature articles for submission to various editors of local newspapers and magazines. Some, with the ability to do so, prepare their own materials, including photographs of their own professionally decorated installations. Others hire freelance writers and photographers to help them. The same materials can be used for desktop newsletters and mailers.
Contacting radio and local cable television show producers to volunteer their expertise for existing or potential decorating call-in programs.
Such public relations attempts don't cost a lot of money. Yet, they can gain you almost immediate recognition with long-range profitable results. The point is that expanded public relations activities can really work for you.
None of the above concepts are new or original. Retailer articles by editors and writers of this publication report monthly on such sales-building activities by astute store owners and industry decorators/designers. Regular columnist Kay Pegram and other noted industry experts also have explained the ways to benefit from similar programs.
Become a Character
Finally, if you want to break through all the communications clutter, try using even more daring subjects. Some talented industry professionals aren't afraid to tackle controversial subjects. In fact, they relish the opportunities to speak their minds. And, like the remarks of some national celebrities, the more shocking their comments, the more attention received from prospects and media people.
For best results, such comments should be basically true, even though they are only your personal opinion. Here are some comments that convey this idea:
Most American homemakers have no idea of how to decorate their interiors tastefully. Most American homemakers don't know "what goes with what" for their interior colors and furnishings. Americans drive fancy new cars, but their home interiors are usually a mismatch of eclectic junk. Most Americans prefer fussy Americana or drab eclectic interiors.
You get the idea. Use them if you want to -- or dare to. You may want to tone them down a bit. The point of aggressive marketing is to help you stand out from your many competitors. Some firms and individuals have learned that the basics, along with a good measure of creativity, is necessary to compete successfully in today's changing global economy and differing cultures.
John J. Lichty is a consultant and senior editor for Draperies & Window Coverings magazine. He has more than 30 years experience in the planning and administration of various consumer, trade and retail advertising programs.


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If you are taken to a holding facility by ICE, immediate action must be taken on your behalf. These situations are notoriously unfair and potentially difficult to resolve. A hard-hitting New York City immigration attorney who is a tireless advocate for your rights is the most valuable resource you can have at such a time. Both your criminal case and your immigration status require a highly skilled attorney if you hope to remain in the United States and avoid a prison sentence. There are actions that can be taken to help you once you have retained the services of a qualified attorney.
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College Role & Mission
Lewis-Clark State College is a regional state college offering instruction in the liberal arts and sciences, professional areas tailored to the educational needs of Idaho, applied technical programs which support the local and state economy and other educational programs designed to meet the needs of Idahoans.
Core Themes
- Connecting Learning to Life Through Academic Programs. The first segment of the three part mission of Lewis-Clark State College is fulfilled under aegis of Academic Programs. This theme guides the offering of undergraduate instruction in the liberal arts and sciences and professional programs tailored to the educational needs of Idaho.
- Connecting Learning to Life Through Professional-Technical Programs. The second segment of the three part mission of Lewis-Clark State College is fulfilled under the aegis of Professional-Technical Programs. LCSC functions under this theme by offering an array of credit and non-credit educational experiences that prepare skilled workers in established and emerging occupations that serve the region's employers.
- Connecting Learning to Life Through Community Programs. The third and last theme of Lewis-Clark State College is fulfilled through Community Programs. The primary function of Community Programs is to provide quality delivery of outreach programs and services to students, customers and communities throughout Region II as well as degree completion programs in Region I.
Vision Statement
Unique among Idaho's institutions of higher education, LCSC will fulfill the SBOE vision of a seamless public education system by integrating traditional baccalaureate programs, professional-technical training programs, and community college and community support programs within a single institution, serving diverse needs within a single student body, and providing outstanding teaching and support by a single faculty and administrative team. LCSC's one-mission, one-team approach will prepare citizens from all walks of life to make the most of their individual potential and contribute to the common good by fostering respect and close teamwork among all Idahoans. Sustaining a tradition that dates back to its founding as a teacher training college in 1893, LCSC will continue to place paramount emphasis on quality of instruction—focusing on the quality of the teaching and learning environment for traditional and non-traditional academic classes, professional-technical education, and community instructional programs. Lewis-Clark students' personalized instruction will be complemented by personal application of knowledge and skills in the real world, as embodied in the College's motto: "Connecting Learning to Life." LCSC will be an active partner with the K-12 school system, community service agencies, and private enterprises and will support regional economic and cultural development. LCSC will strive to sustain its tradition as the most accessible four-year higher-education institution in Idaho by rigorously managing program costs; student fees; housing, textbook, and lab costs; and financial assistance to ensure affordability. LCSC will vigorously manage the academic accessibility of its programs through accurate placement, use of student-centered course curricula, and constant oversight of faculty teaching effectiveness. LCSC will nurture the development of strong personal values and will emphasize teamwork to equip its students to become productive and effective citizens who will work together to make a positive difference in the state, the nation, and the world.
The Idaho State Board of Education is responsible for the general
supervision, governance and control of Lewis-Clark State College and serves
as its Board of Trustees.
Cultural Diversity
Lewis-Clark State College, a public, four-year undergraduate institution, is
committed to
providing a learning environment that affords people of all ethnic and
cultural backgrounds opportunities to achieve their highest educational
goals. The college's educational and enrichment programs, curricula,
faculty, staff and students share the goal of promoting
multiethnic/multicultural awareness and acceptance on campus and within the
Lewis-Clark State College continues to emphasize an ethnically and
culturally diverse learning community that prepares students for successful
interaction in an increasingly diverse society. The college firmly embraces
the philosophy that individuals, free of ethnic and cultural prejudice, be
capable of fully participating in a global society. Our commitment to a
multiethnic/multicultural environment is clearly articulated in oral and
written philosophies governing the recruitment, enrollment and graduation of
students and the pursuit, hiring and retention of faculty and staff.
We are especially cognizant of the distinctive relationship between
Lewis-Clark State College and Native Americans because of the historical
significance, proximity and frequent collaboration with the Nez Perce Tribe
on projects and programs of mutual benefit.
We recognize the importance of preparing students of diverse ethnic and
cultural backgrounds for full participation in an integrated society while
preserving and perpetuating their many unique cultural and historical
identities. LCSC enhances and promotes the free exchange of ideas in an
environment that celebrates the dignity, worth and contributions of all
ethnic and cultural backgrounds as a means of enabling individuals to reach
their potential.
Expectations of Students
Lewis-Clark State College students are expected to communicate with
precision through
extensive writing and speaking. Students will find that through such
writing, speaking, listening, computing and library/research assignments,
the quality of their college education will be significantly enhanced.
Students who engage fully in these fundamental experiences will attain
greater intellectual,
emotional and personal rewards. These strong educational foundations will
enable students to:
1. Develop the competencies needed to fulfill career objectives;
2. Gain a general education that promotes continual personal growth and life-long learning, enabling students to effectively communicate, understand and work with a variety of people from differing cultures;
3. Develop the ability to effectively cope with ambiguity and interact with the constantly changing world;
4. Develop linkages between the liberal arts and the professions;
5. Acquire basic knowledge of human beings, societies, governments and the physical world;
6. Assist and participate with others to examine, maintain and improve the human existence;
7. Acquire life-long skills and interests that continually develop aesthetic, cultural and intellectual interests; and
8. Acquire an understanding of one's personal value system and its relationship to actions.
To attain optimum outcomes at Lewis-Clark State College, students should:
1. Come to the college prepared to explore value systems and make personal changes that will accommodate a broader view of life and the human condition;
2. Have the learning skills necessary to satisfactorily complete entry level course work or be able to identify for personal improvement college support services needed to develop those skills;
3. Have the outlook that the quality and quantity of effort devoted to education will directly affect future personal and professional success;
4. Understand that college provides the opportunity to lay the foundation for the rest of one's life; and
5. Use this catalog as a resource when designing, planning and implementing appropriate degree programs
Students who approach college with these expectations attain greater intellectual, emotional, personal and financial rewards.


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