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I have been ask about a post I did awhile back "What Makes an Effective Technology Committee in Education" as much as any I have ever done. Getting the chance write for Wes a little this week on Speed of Creativity seemed a good time to come back to this topic. I have always meant to do a edit /update, but until now just haven't made it that far down my list. One of the most common responses I get about engaging as many people in your institution in the technology planning process as possible is something along this line, "Well this is nice but I have found it better to ask forgiveness than permission" I interpret that many times as I don't want to I have work that hard, because as all of us know working with people is the hardest part of working with technology. I am sure some one will be offended by the assertion they have not worked as hard as they should have, but as rewarding as it can be to work successfully with others , there is no way around it being very hard work bringing people together to work toward a shared objective. Again I have a confession. I have invoked this "forgiveness vs. permission" line on occasion as well, but my observation over the long haul in planning for the successful implementation of technology in the enterprise is the more transparent you can be over time the more you will have gained credibility as a team player and the more successful you will be even if you want to try/implement cutting edge solutions. The trust you gain working through your formal processes is invaluable in the long haul. I have made a few changes to the original version but hopefully this helps you out in some small way.
This is adapted from the original post on KentBrooks.com
Working as chair of the technology committee at Casper College makes my third go around as the chair of the technology committee at an institution of higher education. Working in the chair capacity and with technology committees at other institutions (K12 & higher ed) in the role of a observer/consultant I have seen large committee and small committees operate at differing levels of effectiveness. My experience in working effectively with a school/campus technology committee is it can be a positive experience and technology projects which have been most successful, are those which have been endorsed and driven by an institutional Technology Committee. I also believe the general ideas and concepts are effective at all levels of education if utilized. IT directors(again at all levels) usually describe the transition of major enterprise systems in not so flattering terms. However, it is possible to make this a relatively pleasant experience. My favorite example of this was the successfully transition from WebCT to Moodle(a major enterprise system) at my previous intuition. This was in large part because of a really engaged technology committee participating in all phases of the process : brainstorming, research, evaluation, testing, piloting, training, conversion, and most importantly communicating with each other and the larger campus community. There is not just one standardized formula for making a technology committee successful. There are simply too many personalities, expectations, technology "crises" and other issues to state that this model or that model will work in a given situation. Flexibility and a willingness to work are the key factors for membership on a given technology committee. A few things to keep in mind:
There are a lot of benefits to a smoothly running committee. For the CTO/ IT director, and the institutional administrators, the committee is a useful way to help channel the many demands for IT products and resources. A well run technology committee is an effective liaison between the user community and the IT department. The technology committee can explain and define the user community's requirements to the IT staff. A good technology committee understands the role of the IT staff and can effectively explain IT potentials and issues to the institution. Finally the technology committee can see to it that the IT department receives the credit it deserves for a job well done.
There are a number of possible functions of a technology committee. Among them are to:
Note that all of these responsibilities assume that the committee will work at a reasonably high level. The committee exists to represent the end-user community on campus. So a good technology committee limits itself to defining and prioritizing IT requirements (for products and services), setting IT related policies, and providing general oversight for the technology functions in the institution.
The technology committee does not directly manage the IT department. The effective technology committee does not engage in a lot of "day-to-day" activities. Among the activities which the technology committee should avoid are:
1. Setting technology procedures. The committee sets policies. They do not define the procedures to implement policies.
2. Making specific hardware decisions(input is reasonable). Extended discussions on specific PC brands and features are a sure sign that the committee needs to rethink its role.
3. Reviewing technology staffing decisions (except the lead position). Leave it up to the IT director to run the department.
4. Managing the specifics of technology projects.
5. Approving purchases for previously budgeted items.
6. Acting as the Help Desk. They should not involve themselves in "day-to-day" IT questions and problems.
7. The technology committee is not the first level escalation path for IT problems. This should be left to the IT department.
The composition of the technology committee should not necessarily be filled with "uber" geeks, should not assume that younger employees, since they use computers all the time must somehow magically know how to deal with tech issues and must not be fill with members who are the biggest complainers as a way to appease them with a thought process which says since they are included they can at least be heard and if not then its their own fault. All of these strategies are almost sure to lead to failure. They indicate a failure to properly understand the role of the committee. Consider some of the attributes of the successful committee members:
There are a lot of advantages to having the membership consist of those with similar backgrounds and management interests. However, the defining mark for technology and its use in any institution is set by the students. Their needs must be met first.
Few faculty understand or appreciate technology from the perspective of the secretaries. Few administrators understand or appreciate technology from the perspective of the IT staff. Few IT staff understand or appreciate technology from the perspective of the the physical plant. Few college employees understand or appreciate technology from the perspective of the student. The higher education technology committee must have connections to the entire institution. Technology committees come in various sizes. But every group, no matter how large, must have champions who will represent the needs of their particular area.
Committee Challenges:
Educause 2011 Top IT List (IT Leader Perspective on What IT Issues are most important) |
Inside Higher Ed 2011 (Presidential Perspective on the Effectiveness of Campus Investments in IT) |
1. Funding IT 2. Administrative/ERP/Information Systems 3. Teaching and Learning with Technology 4. Security 5. Mobile Technologies 6. Agility/ Adaptability/Responsiveness 7. Governance, Portfolio/Project Management 8. Infrastructure/Cyber infrastructure 9. Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity 10. Strategic Planning |
1. Online/ Distance Ed Courses & Programs 2. On-campus teaching and instruction 3. Library resources and services 4. Administrative Info Systems & Operations 5. Data Analysis and Managerial Analytics 6. Academic Support Services 7. Student Resources and Services 8. Student Recruitment 9. Research and Scholarship & Development efforts 10. Alumni activities / Engagement |
The group should meet regularly—at least monthly and sometimes more often on projects which will have a major impact on the institution. A formal (regular) agenda should be set for each meeting. Notes should be kept, action items formulated and reported on at subsequent meetings. The IT committee chair should have responsibility for organizing the meetings and for follow-up as required.
Finally, it takes time for a good technology committee to learn to work together. It takes a long time to learn enough about technology and its application in the law institution. Since technology cuts across every area of the institution, technology committee members must be allowed the time to learn about the issues and concerns in every area of the institution (including the administrative areas). Don't expect results overnight. Practice and patience will bring rewards.
About Kent
Kent Brooks is the IT Director at Casper College in Casper Wyoming. You can find out more about his thoughts on educational technology, open source and disruptions in education caused by technology use at KentBrooks.com or follow him on Twitter @kentbrooks He previously served as the Chief Technology Officer/ Dean of Distance Learning at Western Oklahoma State College in Altus Oklahoma for 15 years. While at Western he led an effort to transform a struggling rural institution to a significant distance learning provider(24 online students in 1999 to over 5000 in 2010). He was an instructor, department chair and computer coordinator at the University of New Mexico – Gallup Campus prior to coming to Altus. While in New Mexico he was actively involved in the Los Alamos National Laboratory EDUNET program which sought to bring telecommunications technologies to the four corners area of the US. Kent has been heavily involved in numerous teacher-training projects and efforts to bring networking and telecommunications technologies to rural areas. His grant writing efforts have brought over $50 million dollars to equip rural schools, tribal complexes and museums across the US with distance learning technologies. Kent's work interests include the acquisition of technology and training resources for rural under served communities. More specifically his work interest and focus is on the "open" or "free" software movement and its impact on delivery of technological services in education.
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An undenafied woman pulls her panting dog out of her suv. an hour after passer-bys who saw her leave the vehicle with out the dog and told her she shouldn't and that it was not fair to the animal and that she could take the animal into the office building on Wilson Av. in Toronto with her.
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TORONTO -- This shaggy dog story comes with a happy ending - and a warning.
Witnesses said they saw a woman leave a small dog in her SUV as she entered a building at 1 p.m. on Thursday - a sunny day on which the temperature reached 31 degrees Celsius.
The dog was left in the car for an hour.
"I have a baby, too, and there's no way in hell that I would ever leave a baby like that," witness Mara Boni said.
She said she saw a man and a woman get out of the champagne-coloured Toyota Highlander in the parking lot.
Eight people were outside at the time, four of them sitting on a picnic bench close to the car.
If it weren't for the dog trying to jump out as the couple opened their doors, witnesses said they wouldn't have been alerted to the canine.
"That's how we saw it," Boni said. "Otherwise we wouldn't have noticed it with the dark tint."
According to her, the witnesses called out to the couple "'Hey, don't leave that dog in the car by himself, it's hot!'"
"They just ignored us," Boni said, baffled. "So we yelled out again 'You can bring the dog inside.'"
The couple continued to walk away. Boni and other witnesses approached the car and saw a window was open by an inch.
"We walk up to the thing and the poor thing is, like, panting," she said. "It needs air."
Another woman, who wished to remain unnamed, stayed with the dog for an hour "as it went crazy running from window to window."
"I would've smashed the window," the woman said. "It broke my heart. I was in tears."
After an hour, one of the owners reportedly returned to the car and retrieved the dog, loudly exclaiming,
"The dog's fine, the dog's fine."
Police were called to the scene and, according to witnesses, searched the building but were unable to find the dog or the couple.
"They don't deserve to be dog owners," Boni said. "Point is: you want to leave him, leave him at home."
Last month, a dog was found dead in a car parked at a mall north of the city. The couple who left the dog behind were arrested and charged with cruelty to animals.


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We present a simple but effective scheme that leverages the effective packet rate in multi-hop wireless sensor networks (WSN) to forward constrained video feeds. The maximum packet rate observed in multi-hop WSN is seldom realized due to various factors. One limitation is that the implementing hardware may possess only one half-duplex radio interface. Additionally, most data forwarding schemes found in the WSNs literature employ a single radio frequency channel for their transmissions. Therefore, packet transmissions must be spaced out to avoid collisions in the wireless medium, decreasing the packet rate that can be attained. Our approach multiplexes the transmission of individual data packets through two separate paths, each of which employs a different subset of frequency channels, thus enabling packet rates closer to the maximum value. We demonstrate the practicality of our approach over commercial WSN devices to forward constrained video feeds, and conduct performance evaluations to gauge its efficiency.
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The Cards are beating the Rangers. The Klown is drunk again.
What are you doing?
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The Cards are beating the Rangers. The Klown is drunk again.
What are you doing?
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The news is slow today so I'm gonna rent a movie. I've been waiting for the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie (On Stranger Tides) since I first heard about it.
I first read the book on which it was based (by Tim Powers) several years ago. Pirates, voodoo and the Fountain of Youth all in one story.
I hope the movie is half as good as the book.
What are you doing tonight?
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The peace was nice, but I miss the prosperity the most.
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Another unbiased MSNBC daytime reporter.
Bruce Bartlett has been using his "I was a supply-sider in the 80s" Republican credentials to go after Republicans for the last 5 years. Recently, he called Rick Perry an idiot. Now, he takes on Fox News in a similarly scholarly manner.
Ailes and radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh were quick to recognize that there was an unfilled market for opinionated political talk and that the AM radio dial was the perfect place for it. In 1988, Limbaugh went national with his radio show, quickly growing to hundreds of stations nationwide. It was much cheaper for radio stations to run syndicated programming like Limbaugh's than pay their own disk jockeys or local talk show hosts. As a consequence, AM radio suddenly became very profitable.
In 1991, Ailes created a syndicated television program for Limbaugh. Although it was ultimately unsuccessful, it led Murdoch to hire Ailes to create the Fox News Channel in 1996. It was the fulfillment of a dream Ailes had had since the 1960s, when he tried to convince Richard Nixon to help create a conservative news network to compete with ABC, CBS and NBC.
Now that conservatives have the television news network of their dreams, one question is whether liberals ought to have one of their own. MSNBC has attempted to stake out this position, but so far has not come close to having Fox's impact. One reason is that Fox's conservatism permeates its entire schedule, while MSNBC's liberal programming runs only in the evening. And the fact is that Fox does what it does much better than MSNBC does.
This looks like another case of Paul Krugman syndrome, an economist talking about things other than economics. There are such gaping holes that I'm not sure if Bartlett was lying by omission or is simply a bad researcher. As far as AM radio is concerned, he's not under any obligation to note that instead of firing DJs, canned AM radio was just changed to a different can of syndicated content. AM radio is now mostly news, sports and talk. Very little of the content is local. the other stuff he writes, is just wrong.
The history of Roger Ailes, for example, is more interesting than what's in the story. Ailes did not just create a failed Limbaugh TV show in 1991, disappear and suddenly start Fox News in 1996. In the 90s, he was creating call-in shows for CNBC during their low-rated hours after the market closed. He was so successful that he was tasked with creating America's Talking. It featured almost a full day of news and talk programs. It got into so many cable homes, NBC used it to launch their own news network in 1996. Ailes suggested he could head that news channel, but the network decided their people were better at news than Ailes. In his time, Ailes used NBC to showcase such right-wing heroes as Phil Donahue and Chris Matthews.
Bartlett also seems to be painting MSNBC as failing because they have less "permeated" content. That might be true if MSNBC tried to be the liberal alternative for more than the last five or six years. They tried being the Microsoft (the MS in MSNBC) news channel when they started. They toyed with liberalism a few years later, but 9/11 caused them to become Fox Jr, with such prime time hosts as Joe Scarborough and Tucker Carlson. Michael Savage had a show on MSNBC in 2003. No, really. After they gave up on opinion broadcasts, Keith Olbermann's fluff show was spiced up by his rants about George Bush. The liberal MSNBC was born, again.
Leaving permeation aside, MSNBC and Fox News are actually somewhat matched in ideological broadcasting. MSNBC does not only run liberal programming in the evening. Dylan Ratigan's anti-corporation show is on at 4pm EST. Chris Hayes has a show on at 8am on the weekend. Liberal opinion shows (Ratigan, Hardball, Last Word, Maddow and Ed) take up 13 hours of the weekday schedule. Fox's opinion hosts (O'Reilly, Hannity) take up 5. It's 10 if you count Greta, Red Eye and The Five.
This isn't about the bias of Fox News. It's about the bias of the coverage of Fox News. Jon Stewart has more credibility picking out oddball things Fox and Friends hosts Gretchen and (former America's Talking host) Steve Doocey say. It may be cherry picking, but at least it happened.
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In 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama just about everything was segregated, including the municipal bus lines. Wikipedia:
Under the system of segregation used on Montgomery buses, white people who boarded the bus took seats in the front rows, filling the bus toward the back. Black people who boarded the bus took seats in the back rows, filling the bus toward the front. Eventually, the two sections would meet, and the bus would be full. If other black people boarded the bus, they were required to stand. If another white person boarded the bus, then everyone in the black row nearest the front had to get up and stand, so that a new row for white people could be created. Often when boarding the buses, black people were required to pay at the front, get off, and reenter the bus through a separate door at the back.[3][4] On some occasions bus drivers would drive away before black passengers were able to reboard.[5] National City Lines owned the Montgomery Bus Line at the time of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
On December 1, 1955 a black woman was riding a bus in Montgomery when she was ordered by the bus driver to get up and give her seat to a white man. She refused and was arrested. Her name was Rosa Parks.
On the night of Rosa Parks' arrest, Jo Ann Robinson, head of the Women's Political Council, printed and circulated a flyer throughout Montgomery's black community which read as follows:
"Another woman has been arrested and thrown in jail because she refused to get up out of her seat on the bus for a white person to sit down. It is the second time since the Claudette Colvin case that a Negro woman has been arrested for the same thing. This has to be stopped. Negroes have rights too, for if Negroes did not ride the buses, they could not operate. Three-fourths of the riders are Negro, yet we are arrested, or have to stand over empty seats. If we do not do something to stop these arrests, they will continue. The next time it may be you, or your daughter, or mother. This woman's case will come up on Monday. We are, therefore, asking every Negro to stay off the buses Monday in protest of the arrest and trial. Don't ride the buses to work, to town, to school, or anywhere on Monday. You can afford to stay out of school for one day if you have no other way to go except by bus. You can also afford to stay out of town for one day. If you work, take a cab, or walk. But please, children and grown-ups, don't ride the bus at all on Monday. Please stay off all buses Monday."
That one-day boycott soon became permanent. Black people walked, car-pooled or found alternative means of transportation. They didn't stage "occupations" or noisy marches, they didn't disrupt local meetings or speeches, they didn't picket outside of people's homes. There were no drum circles.
They sacrificed, and risked their lives. Some, including Martin Luther King, were arrested. King and Ralph Abernathy had their homes firebombed, along with four black churches. Some boycotters were physically attacked.
Pressure increased across the country and on June 4, 1956, the federal district court ruled that Alabama's racial segregation laws for buses were unconstitutional. However, an appeal kept the segregation intact, and the boycott continued until, finally, on November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court upheld the district court's ruling. This victory led to a city ordinance that allowed black bus passengers to sit virtually anywhere they wanted, and the boycott officially ended December 20, 1956. The boycott of the buses had lasted for 381 days. Martin Luther King, Jr. capped off the victory with a magnanimous speech to encourage acceptance of the decision. The Montgomery Bus Boycott also had ramifications that reached far beyond the desegregation of public buses and provided more than just a positive answer to the Supreme Court's action against racial segregation. The Montgomery Bus Boycott reverberated throughout the United States and stimulated the national Civil Rights Movement.[11]
The boycott resulted in the U.S. civil rights movement receiving one of its first victories and gave Martin Luther King, Jr. the national attention that made him one of the prime leaders of the cause.
That's how you effectively use civil disobedience and non-violent protest.
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You didn't really think she was gonna go away, did you?
American Crony Capitalism Brings Jobs to Finland
Yesterday, another shoe dropped in the chronicles of the Obama administration's crony capitalism. A start-up electric car company with ties to Al Gore got a $529 million loan guarantee from Obama's Department of Energy to build luxury electric cars…in Finland! Leaving aside the fact that to date only two of these $97,000 cars have been sold (one of them to a movie star), we might at least hope that this ridiculous exercise in the government picking winners minus any competitive, transparent process (Al Gore's venture cap firm) and losers (the taxpayers subsidizing a car no one wants) would produce manufacturing jobs in the United States. Isn't that the alleged purpose of Obama's stimulus giveaways?
It's bad enough that we borrow money from foreign countries to give to foreign countries. Now we borrow from foreign countries to finance jobs in foreign countries. (This kind of reminds me of the $2 billion assistance President Obama provided Brazil for their off-shore energy developments, while shutting down or blocking much of our own off-shore domestic drilling. He's in favor of energy jobs in Brazil. But in America? Not so much.)
Do you think, as the President tours the country campaigning on the taxpayer's dime, he understands that voters in Finland won't get to decide whether or not he keeps his job in 2012, but voters in Michigan and Ohio sure will? In fact, I'm sure the millions of unemployed workers in every state will want to learn why the Obama administration gave half a billion dollars to finance "green" cars built in Finland.
While they're at it, the geniuses in the White House could also explain the $1.2 billion they gave to SunPower, a company that makes Solyndra look like a blue chip stock. SunPower's market capitalization is $800 million, but the company is in debt $820 million. What a great investment, huh? Your tax dollars at work, America! If President Obama wants answers about this, he better act fast because his Department of Energy was already caught revising history by scrubbing SunPower's name out of old DOE press releases. The President should start by asking Democrat Congressman George Miller about the company. Rep. Miller was the leading advocate for giving money to SunPower, which hired his son as a lobbyist.
When President Obama signed his nearly trillion dollar stimulus boondoggle into law, he mortgaged our children's future. And for what? Financing jobs in Finland? Propping up near bankrupt companies with connections to congressmen? For this we are burying ourselves in a mountain of debt?
This crony capitalism has to end. We don't want it. We can't afford it. And we must not tolerate it anymore. Wake up, America, before it's too late.
Right now the federal government borrows 40% of what it spends. Now there are good reasons to borrow – long term infrastructure investments, wars, national emergencies – but the government has been spending like a crackhead with a stolen credit card.
"My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of subsidy . . ."
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This is mob rule.
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Protesters storm campus after Cantor cancels visit
Cantor's office was told Thursday that Penn security was welcoming protestersAmid Occupy Philadelphia protesters and discrepancies in the attendance policy, United States House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) canceled his Wharton Leadership Lecture slated for Friday, Oct. 21 at 4:30 p.m. Cantor had planned to speak at Huntsman Hall about income inequality.
His absence didn't deter activists, however, who assembled inside and outside Huntsman.
"It appears [Cantor] doesn't want to talk to the 99 percent," said Jamie Mondics of advocacy group Keystone Progress, after learning of the canceled speech.
DPS spokesman Stef Karp estimated that about 500 demonstrators were at the protest.
Protesters entered Huntsman by force through Au Bon Pain and occupied the lobby, shouting chants such as "Eric Cantor, come out, come out wherever you are" and "We are the 99 percent."
DPS officers "formed a human chain to make sure they couldn't come into Wharton, into Hunstman," past the lobby, Rush said.
"As long as they don't disrupt anyone, they're allowed here," said a DPS official on the scene, adding that no arrests were made.
"We gave them the opportunity to speak their piece," Rush said.
As the protesters sang chants in call-and-response, most college students looked on in disbelief around the outskirts of the group.
The speech was scheduled several months ago and was to be open to members of the press and the Penn community.
Friday morning, Cantor's office learned of the anticipated protesters through press reports.
About 500 to 1,000 protesters affiliated with Occupy Philadelphia planned to march from City Hall to Locust Walk in front of Huntsman to protest Cantor's presence, according to Keystone Progress Executive Director Michael Morrill.
"I think it's a shame that a speech at a university should not occur because of some fear that there will be skeptics and critics in the audience," said English professor Al Filreis, who signed a statement expressing solidarity for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Filreis added, "Clearly, the reason he canceled was that he wanted to speak to a friendly audience, and not one that would ask him difficult questions.
Cantor was giving a speech, not holding a townhall or a press conference. The protesters were not going there to listen to him. They weren't going there to peacefully protest outside Huntsman Hall.
They went there to disrupt his speech. Had it not been canceled they would likely have succeeded. This has become a common tactic on college campuses.
I've never liked this bullshit. The protesters were not exercising their free speech rights. They were trying to stop someone else from exercising theirs.
What about the rights of the people that wanted to hear the speech?
Democracy isn't just about asserting YOUR rights. It's about respecting the rights of others too.
We all have a right to speak, but none of us has a right to force others to listen, nor do we have a right to stop them from speaking.
We have a right to use public space, but we don't have a right to commandeer it for our exclusive use. We have to share it, and abide by reasonable rules governing its use.
That's democracy in action.
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I arrived in Belfast, Northern Ireland today excited about my plans to go directly to the new Belfast Titanic exhibit that opened about 10 days ago, having flown from Newark (EWR) to Belfast International Airport last night. Our 9:30pm departure on United left 90 minutes late due to a technical problem that I'm so glad they fixed! Ground crew, including Esther and Schiovani who were as wonderful and personable as they could be, who were there to meet and greet us and Sanna, our Finnish Global Service crew member for our international flight was on board to Belfast were all just sensational and need special mention.
Notable differences in the service in the front of the United/Continental plane: the Business First Service we've come to know and love when Continental's name and crew drew loyal customers like me to their service, are the big. . . I mean BIG screen TV monitors that are located on the back of the seat in front of you in Business First, the flat bed design of the seats that slide all the way down for maximum comfort accompanied by quilty blankets and large fluffy pillows, combined with the expected great food in-flight made for a great experience. And the in-flight entertainment always impresses me with tons of movies and shows to watch on an entertainment system that starts before the plan takes off, even before the door to the plane closes and ends when you are on the ground at the gate! I watched War Horse (hated the barbed wire scene!) and an Israeli film that I have to buy!
We landed, picked up our Dooley Car Rental, dropped our luggage at Dunadry Hotel & Country Club which is literally 5 miles from Belfast International Airport.. . make a left out of Dooley's Car Rental place, another left following the signs to Templepatrick and Dunadry, and a right to Dunadry and just past Ellie May's restaurant you'll find Dunadry Hotel on your left! We left our luggage at reception and drove to the Titanic Belfast exhibit.
The Titanic Belfast building itself stimulates creative thinking. The displays set the tone of the early 1900's in Belfast and the importance of ship building in the lives of those who lived here. The exhibits, including the memorabilia and the creation of a First Class stateroom and a 2nd Class stateroom with video projections of passengers talking and interacting in their staterooms added to the reality of what it was like to be on board. This is a Must Visit experience because there is no report that will give you the emotional connection to the Titanic, its grandeur and its tragic end plus all the individual stories of the the lives lost and saved.
This weekend, you will hear interviews on Travelers411 and Travel WITH Stephanie Abrams, heard coast to coast in the US with the Titanic Belfast's CEO, Tim Husbands, and Director of Sales & Marketing for Titanic Belfast, Clare Bradshaw. Very exciting stuff so be sure to listen to your local radio station and remember that the shows stream live at sAbrams.com and are podcast as well!
One disappointment was that a reproduction of the famous stairway on the Titanic is in the Titanic Belfast is housed in the building. I didn't get to visit it (although it's not the end of the world as I have experienced the ones that are located in Titanic exhibits in the US like the one in Branson, MO, and I have sailed on a ship in the Mediterranean that has the same stairway on board so I have my souvenir photos from those experiences. I didn't get to see the stairway because MTV is there producing some video and they had commandeered that area. No tragedy. . . I'll see it another time. . .but will you?
When we left the exhibit to return to Dunadry Hotel & Country Club, we picked up a copy of a tabloid newspaper called News Letter and the front page story today is about the US architect, Eric Kuhne responsible for the design of the exhibit who, from the noteworthy description in the newspaper, thought that the famous stairways was going to be available to all visitors including those who did not buy an admission ticket.
Things must have changed since Kuhne went public on radio in Northern Ireland with his announcement of free passage to photo ops on the reproductionof the ship's famous stairway at the Titanic Belfast exhibit because restatement of the facts are clearly in place. A visit to the stairway is not included in the general admission ticket (13 pounds sterling–about $21.00 at today's rate of exchange with seniors and students rates about 1/3 less). The stairway reproduction is actually tucked away in the banqueting area which gives an added reason to have you next group, family or corporate benchmarking event in the catering and meeting room facilities of Titanic Belfast. Almost 500,000 visitors are expected in the next 12 months and many will likely be part of groups doing their entertaining in the banqueting facilities. Can't you just see your family gathered for photos on that stairway for a reunion, birthday party or wedding reception? It almost makes sense to use the stairway as another hook to encourage group parties. Nonetheless, even I was looking for the stairway, especially since I had seen reproductions at other Titanic exhibits.
Lack of stairway experience notwithstanding, the cost of admission to the experience is worth the time and the entertainment value you purchase as exterior building and its interior creati!ve displays, exhibits and interactive experiences will send you off feeling you go more than you expected. And don't miss the bistros if you get hungry and the Titanic Shop overflowing with books, garments, hats, trinkets and sassy Titanic memento jewelry. That's another ride that you'll enjoy!
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Shout out time! The Mann / Pamela Ramelot / Kenna Conklin - Geek Portland / Tabitha / Heather Finley / Nance Cedar / Becky Hawkins - French Toast Comix / Elizabeth and Cimy - TFAW …..It was great to meet you all!
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Before Zoe came along, I worked in the wards here on the Africa Mercy. First as a staff nurse, then as a charge nurse and Assistant Ward Supervisor and later as the Team Leader for maxillofacial surgery. The vast majority of my time was spent in blue scrubs, but every once in a while, the occasion called for a uniform.
On board a ship, you can tell someone's rank by looking at their shoulders. As an Assistant Ward Supervisor and Team Leader, I wore epaulettes with one stripe. The HoJ has three in that photo because, at the time, he was serving as the Chief Electrician. The Captain gets four stripes, the Second Officer gets two, and on and on it goes. I have to admit that I felt pretty good every time I had to don my black and whites. Whether it was a reception for the different organizations we partner with in-country or a tour for the President, shedding the day-to-day blue in favour of more formal wear always felt special. When I left the ship to go on maternity leave last year, I had a real moment of sadness when I went to the office to turn in my epaulettes. Today, I was hanging out in the café with Zoe and the other mamas. (We get together every Tuesday for coffee and a chat. It happens right after Creative Movement, so the bigger girls are still in their tutus, which is one of the cuter things I've ever seen and makes me so excited for Zoe to grow up.) I lingered for a little while after everyone had left, letting Zoe get her fill of the colours and lights. I had just gotten up to leave when an acquaintance, visiting from the IOC in Texas, came up to say hello. He has kids of his own, but it was the first time he'd seen Zoe, so I proudly showed her off and we exchanged the usual pleasantries. As I turned to go, he smiled knowingly. Got your new epaulettes, I see. Standing there in my jeans and a ratty grey t-shirt, holding my baby and not doing anything remotely close to what I've always considered 'real' work, I was utterly confused for a moment. Until Zoe buried her head in my shoulder again and then looked up at me, grinning her gummy little grin, leaving behind the ubiquitous trail of drool. Mama. This is my new rank, and my shoulders carry so much more now than just a piece of cloth with a stripe or two. It doesn't come with a special uniform (unless you count nice sweatpants as dressing up, which I am very inclined to do) and the epaulettes are more often than not made up of baby barf. It's not exactly fancy, but I'm coming to realize that this is the very 'realest' of work. The patients are out on Deck Seven right now. It's directly above our cabin, so I can hear the rumble of kids being pulled back and forth in wagons and the beat of the drums as they sing. Zoe is sleeping through the commotion, and the damp spot on my shoulder is slowly drying. I liked my old epaulettes and everything they stood for, but I think I like these ones even better. |
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I dont know if this is the rigth subforum for my Question...
If i want to build an application for commercial purposes with the Software provided with the DM355 Board (MontaVista, Demos, Codecs for encode/decode, etc.),
are there any license restrictions i should pay attention to?
How much are these Licenses and where can i get them. My Boss wants to know for planning the project i am working on...
I hope you could help me finding some answers for these questions.
When you run the installer for the software you must click through a end user license agreement (EULA) which provides the basis of the licensing, note that I am not a lawyer so if you want a valid legal opinion you need to take the agreement to your legal department for review.
As I understand you should be able to go to production with the softare that is included with the DM355 EVM board, including the demo Monta Vista install, the demos/examples, and the codecs themselves, as the Monta Vista install is largely GPL, and the demos and codecs are provided by TI. The one thing you may want to keep in mind is that if you have a certain amount of volume there will be a fee to the owners of the MPEG IP (not TI) per device/implementation for licensing it, assuming you are using the MPEG4 codec.
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You can use the MV Distro (based on really old kernel and you will not get support), demos, and codecs free of charge. Actually, with regards to the codecs, you can produce up to 25,000 units for free, after that you will need to pay ($0.25 if I recall correctly) to the MPEG standards committee for each additional unit. If you are planning on using over 25K DM355 in production, please let us know and we can get you more details. This should answer the pricing questions.
With regards to licensing, you are already accepting a ULA during the DVSDK installation process. Also, keep in mind that with most Linux software (especially the Linux kernel), you are bound by GPL license. I believe this is all you should need to be aware of with regards to licensing.
thanx so far, maybe i'll have some further questions after the meeting with my boss.
i did a quick shot for mpeg4 licenses, and i agree to you juan, but i found a number of 50000 pieces per year...
i dont think there are so much pieces, maybe 100 or 200 per year but everything is still in research and development state :)
so thx again
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Gray-crowned Rosy-Finches (Leucosticte tephrocotis)
Green Singing Finches aka Yellow-fronted Canaries (Serinus mozambicus)
Green-winged Pytilias (Pytilia melba)
Hawfinches (Coccothraustes coccothraustes)
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Plum-headed Finch (Neochmia modesta) also known as Cherry Finch
Purple Finch (Carpodacus purpureus)
Red-billed Firefinches or Senegal Firefinches (Lagonosticta senegala)
Red-billed Queleas (Quelea quelea)
Red-browed Finches (Neochmia temporali)
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Striated Finches / White-rumped Munias / Sharp-tailed Finches or Wild Bangalese / White-backed Finches
Vampire Finches aka Sharp Beaked Finches, Sharp Billed Ground Finches (Geospiza nebulosa)
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Yellow or Swainson's Canary (Serinus flaviventris)
Yellow-thighed Finch (Pselliophorus tibialis) - not a true finch, but a member of the large Emberizidae family (sparrows and buntings)
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The Philadelphia Flyers have reportedly offered a combined amount that is within the range of, or over, $200 million for Nashville Predators free agent defenseman Ryan Suter and New Jersey Devils free agent forward Zach Parise.
Has general manager Paul Holmgren actually made a strategic ploy through his dual 12-year offers in classic 'Bullies' style?
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There is zest in the summertime, as trades and free agency excite all hardcore hockey fans.
Holmgren wants to improve his team, that much we know. Sharp observers also realize that there are a variety of ways to make that happen.
Assume for a moment that the Flyers front office boss feels Parise (who will be 28 at the end of the month), Suter (who turned 27 in January) or both men won't accept his offers and that they will opt for other suitors instead. Out-bidding every other poker player at the rink would then serve to increase whatever offers the free agents would finally accept.
If the Flyers can't add these two pieces of summer jewelry to their roster, than why not make divisional opponents spend more for them? Doing so would reduce their available cap space during the coming season when attrition normally creates the need for reinforcements.
It's also possible that the financial bar 'Homer' set could drive both prizes to teams outside the division, or conference, as well.
What if they do accept?
If one of the players accepts his offer sheet, regardless of who it is, the Flyers have strengthened their team. Plus, there is currently room within their available 2012-13 cap space for him.
If both players accept their offers a few players on the existing roster would have to be moved to make way for them. Doing so would still likely leave very little cap space for future adjustments. In that instance, the Flyers would voluntarily put themselves into a tight financial spot.
With whatever develops in the immediate future, there's no doubt that Holmgren is ready to adapt to any of the scenarios that have been described.
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There is a logical reason why Philadelphia has created and sustained a large fan base for many years. All loyalists know that team founder and chairman Ed Snider is never afraid to do whatever is necessary to try and win the Stanley Cup. Authorizing his general manager to gamble by making these offers is simply further evidence of that fact.
The aggressive business tactics that are being used also reaffirm why so many teams and their fans strongly oppose the dark orange knights who call themselves the Flyers.
Sean O'Brien is based in the Philadelphia region. He has written professionally for over two decades and is currently a Featured Contributor for Yahoo! You can follow him on Twitter @SeanyOB and also read his daily Sports Blog: Insight.
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Operating income from tubular products and services, increased 32% to $2,251.8 million in 2012, from $1,702.2 million in 2011. The increase in the operating income was mainly driven by a 10% increase in sales and a higher operating margin (22% in 2012 vs. 19% in 2011). Our operating margin increased in 2012 due to an increase in average selling prices, lower raw material costs and operating efficiency improvements.
Increase / Others FY 2012 FY 2011 (Decrease)Net sales ($ million) 810.7 860.8 (6%)Operating income ($ million) 104.8 142.7 (27%)Operating income (% of sales) 13% 17%
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Other operating income and expenses resulted in net income of $43.7 million in 2012, compared to a net income of $5.1 million in 2011. In 2012, Confab, our Brazilian subsidiary, collected $49.2 million from the Brazilian government, in interest and monetary adjustment over a tax benefit obtained in 1991.
Net interest expenses totalled $22.0 million in 2012, compared to $21.6 million in 2011, which included $5.6 million in losses on interest rate swaps. Excluding the effect of interest rate swaps in 2011, net interest expenses increased during 2012 due to an increase in our net debt of $595.0 million, as we went from a net cash position of $323.6 million at the end of 2011 to a net debt position of $271.3 million at the end of 2012, following investments in Brazil amounting to $1.3 billion in the first half of 2012.


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Cycle to Work Days Provision of Meals – Repeal of Tax and Class 1A NICs Relief
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The consultation response documented that this relief was viewed as having 'minimal' value which was outweighed by the cost and administration of providing the benefit. Further, all responses to the consultation supported the repeal of the relief, which the Government has decided to do with effect from meals provided on or after 06 April 2013.
Where this is used by employers who want to continue providing this benefit, HMRC recommends that this is added to any existing PAYE Settlement Agreement (PSA), as the criteria of minor and irregular is met.
This will be repealed via Income Tax Regulations, revoking Regulation 3 of the Income Tax (Exemption of Minor Benefits) Regulations 2002 and Amendment 2003. Therefore, no draft legislation has been included in the Finance Bill 2012.
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DVD ReviewThe latest entry in author Dan Burstein's DVD series of the weird or conspiratorial looks at the world of the occult, after having already ventured into Dan (The DaVinci Code) Brown territory with a peek-a-boo at the tangled history of Mary Magdalene and Angels, Demons and Masons. This two-part disc consists to two segments (47m:58s) that trace the hazy links between what was once considered "magic" and what eventually came to be known as good old science. The title of this release may be a bit deceptive, as we're not given any true secrets, but rather a connect-the-dots route of how some of history's cutting edge brilliant thinkers dabbled in what was once considered the dark side.In the first part, Magicians, a gaggle of academics and writers (including Burstein) uncork with some generally fascinating material, looking back on the disparate likes of Aleister Crowley and Pythagoras. There's the expected link back to ancient Egypt, some whispers of alchemy, and the natural progression of principles of magic filtered into modern science and medicine. The segment even includes a brief discussion of the spiritualist movement, offering up the infamous Fox Sisters and the mysterious Madame Blavatsky. I am a tad disappointed that in the Fox Sisters piece there's nary a mention of their admitted fakery in their seances, and this glaring omission seemed to taint an otherwise level presentation. The second segment is Scientists, again with largely the same troupe of academics and writers, and here the focus is less on the allegedly unexplained and instead deals with the work of big names like Carl Jung, Franz Mesmer, Isaac Newton, Sigmund Freud. The message is still a link between magic and science, and whether it is Mesmer's advances in hypnosis or Wilhelm Röntgen and the X-ray, their discoveries do indeed seem a little supernatural, as we're reminded often that it is possible in fifty years something we consider "magic" today just may be science fact. This section doesn't tread into true occult as much as the first segment, though oddly enough neither seem to truly dig in as much as I would like. The production values here have what I like to call a Discovery/A&E/History Channel feel to them, in that there are talking head interview segments daisychained between archival photos and hazy-edge re-enactments of whatever is being discussed. Narrator John Cullum occasionally dips into an Unsolved Mysteries-ish speaking pattern, but I suppose he's here to give the proceedings that "boy, this is serious" vibe, with just a hint of ominous supernaturalness. These would work well as just sound recordings, because as classroom-polished as the visuals are, none of them are particularly essential to getting to the point of the speakers. I suppose as an introduction to the basics of the occult, and its relation to actual science, this 94-minute program may be a neat first step. The participants are all seemingly well-versed, and each present their factoids with an earnest kind of listenability that never drifts into dry lecture territory. Given that the runtime isn't all that long for such a deep subject, the level of detail on some individuals seems to go on a little long (Newton, for example) while others like the aforementioned Fox Sisters (a fascinating subject on their own) get what amounts to a quick mention, and a slightly uneven one at that. If you're already remotely interested in the history of the occult, it's not likely much here will be all that new to you, and the somewhat lopsided content isn't especially occult-oriented. Calling this "secrets" of the occult may be just a wee bit overstated. Rating for Style: B- Rating for Substance: C+ Image Transfer
Image Transfer Review: Unlike the full-frame release of Burstein's Secrets of Angels, Demons and Masons, this occult entry gets the 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen treatment from Koch Vision. Not an especially bright transfer overall, the print carries some soft edges during a few of the reenactment transitional bits, but generally the interview segments appear with well-defined detail. Pleasant, but hardly remarkable. Image Transfer Grade: B Audio Transfer
Audio Transfer Review: Not really much room for anything too dramatic here�bunch of smart folks talking about occult history�so the 2.0 Dolby Digital audio mix isn't necessarily terribly showy. Voice quality is perfectly clear at all times, with narrator John Cullum's voice being particularly full-bodied, with the most lively element being the musical beds used to bridge segments. Audio Transfer Grade: B Disc ExtrasStatic menu with musicScene Access with 16 cues and remote access 1 Original Trailer(s) 2 Other Trailer(s) featuring Secrets of Mary Magdalene, Secrets of Angels, Demons & Masons 1 Documentaries Packaging: Amaray Picture Disc 1 Disc 1-Sided disc(s) Layers: dual Extras Review: Not much here, but what is quite good. A bonus feature entitled What Is the Occult? (28m:30s) is peppered with most of the participants from the main program, each addressing and explaining in a bit more detail what the meaning of occult really is. It sort of seemed at first like it was going to be a re-edited set of deleted scenes, and it very well could be for all I know, but it's actually a concise condensation that is crammed with a lot of great info. A trio of "Secrets of..." trailers is provided, including one for Secrets of the Occult. Each segment is cut into 8 chapters each, for a total of 16. Extras Grade: B+ Final CommentsOverall not quite as revelatory on the subject as I had hoped (downright skimpy in some spots), though a 28-minute bonus feature titled What Is the Occult? included here ends up actually being the best part. As an intro to the material this may be enlightening, but if you've had more than a passing interest coming into this then it may all be old hat. |
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This club offers two eighteen hole courses. The International Course has a few more trees and is just a bit more difficult than the Augusta Course. The fairways are tighter on the International Course while the Augusta Course is more wide open. Both courses have water in play. Neither of the two courses have sand bunkers on them. The green fees indicated are good for all-day play.
Holes: 18 | Greens: Bent Grass | Fairways: Bermuda Grass |
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