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Blue-GNU Reviews Kontact: I Once Was Lost...
...but now Blue-GNU is showing you the way with Kontact, in an article titled Stay In the Know With KDE's Kontact. The author says "I finally settled on Kontact to keep me in touch with the reality of my hectic daily schedule." Blue-GNU breaks down their use of each application integrated into Kontact, starting with KMail and then going through KAddressBook, KOrganizer, and KNotes. It concludes, "...Kontact is one of the best PIMs I've seen. I even prefer it to Outlook, which I used to prefer over the GNU/Linux tools in the past."
Re: LOVE Kontact, hate Kmail.
use left-right instead of up-down to navigate through the mails.
By Christian Parpart at Fri, 2007/10/05 - 5:00am
I use Korganizer all the time. I like the simple, elegant interface. I don't use Kontact because I'm already used to Thunderbird, but that could conceivably change in the future.
By Matthew Flaschen at Thu, 2007/10/04 - 5:00am
Re: Korganizer
> I use Korganizer all the time. [...] I don't use Kontact because I'm already used to Thunderbird.
Be careful with the names. What you mean with Kontact, is KMail. Kontact is the PIM suite containing KMail, KOrganizer, and so on.
I'm using KMail and am very happy with it. KOrganizer is currently abandoned because of vacation. ;-)
By Stefan at Thu, 2007/10/04 - 5:00am
Exchange integration
One missing feature is the exchange integration ! Why don't people from kmail look at the evolution code and copy/paste things ? I really miss that one which made me change recently from kmail to evolution... I wish I came back to kmail, but without a propre exchange integration, no way :-/
By yoho at Thu, 2007/10/04 - 5:00am
Re: Exchange integration
a) I doubt that transferring a feature from one project to another when both projects have massively different architectures, toolkits and libraries is a simple as "copy/pasting things".
b) They are short-staffed and hugely overworked and have a million other things to do.
Still, if it's as easy as you make out, why not do it yourself? I'm sure they'll appreciate the help! :)
By anon at Thu, 2007/10/04 - 5:00am
Re: Exchange integration
a) As noted before, it's not that easy to copy that functionality. Especially as you need access to an exchange server (in the best case with admin rights). And KDE-PIM human resources are very very limited :-(
b) There is some work for an openchange plugin for Akonadi. So there's a good chance that we will see exchange support through Akonadi in KDE 4.1. And there is no doubt, that an openchange based solution is way better than the current "hacked" solution from Evolution.
By birdy at Thu, 2007/10/04 - 5:00am
Re: Exchange integration
There are several threads about this in both the archives of kde-pim and kdepim-users, e.g. http://lists.kde.org/?t=118158834200003&r=1&w=2
Maybe some of them could be of help for you as well
By Kevin Krammer at Thu, 2007/10/04 - 5:00am
Re: Exchange integration
I join the plea for better Exchange integration.
By yuval at Sun, 2007/10/07 - 5:00am
Re: Exchange integration
I totally agree. I really want to use kde-pim, but without exchange integration I just can't.
By John Whitaker at Tue, 2007/11/06 - 6:00am
Support of vcard in kmail
One thing I will love in Kmail, it'll be support for vcard. Thunderbird lets you introduce your personal information and you can incorporate it like a vcard.
I'ld love this same functionality in kmail and it'll work well. I am spanish and in Thunderbird the accents show bad.
By alf at Thu, 2007/10/04 - 5:00am
Re: Support of vcard in kmail
Kontact perfectly supports vcards.... What do you mean? If I get an email with an attached vcard I can incorporate it into my contacts with an easy click...
By thomas at Thu, 2007/10/04 - 5:00am
KMail is great, but...
I'm really missing a fast search mechanism.
I guess some kind of Strigi integration could be useful in the future.
By Jan Vidar Krey at Thu, 2007/10/04 - 5:00am
Re: KMail is great, but...
coming, coming ;-)
By Jos Poortvliet at Thu, 2007/10/04 - 5:00am
Re: KMail is great, but...
Use Kerry Beagle. Works a treat.
By DSC at Sat, 2007/10/06 - 5:00am
POP Filters
I would really love to understand how POP Filters work in Kmail.
By Jand at Thu, 2007/10/04 - 5:00am
Printing contacts
Printing your contacts via kaddressbook component is ... hmm ... limited ;-)
By Thorsten Schnebeck at Thu, 2007/10/04 - 5:00am
Reality check
Kontact is buggy and I can't say how much I hate popup screens. Even the previous mail function "jumps" 3-6 lines. Try to forward a mail with attachments and bet if it gets received. I hardly find any application that returns me so many error popups or constantly freezes on the KDE desktop.
No Evolution is not much better. It just sucks less. And Thunderbird just works fine except for Mozilla Foundation that does not support Sunbird sufficiently, the missing component.
By gerd at Thu, 2007/10/04 - 5:00am
Re: Reality check
sorry.. but this sounds strange to me. I'm using kmail/kontact since 4-5 years now with more than 10.000 messages in sizes between 10k and 15mb and for 99.9% of the time Kontact is rock-solid. My mail-folder contains >4 Gb as a compressed bzip tarball. I would not use kmail if it was like what you describe.
By thomas at Fri, 2007/10/05 - 5:00am
Let me know when you can Forward an email that has an attachment in it. Then maybe I will look at it again. Until then, no thanks.
By Mike at Sun, 2007/10/21 - 5:00am
Re: kmail
Forwarding emails with attachment works for me, and has for years. No idea what you're talking about.
By cm at Sun, 2007/10/21 - 5:00am
Re: kmail
Mike, you can forward an email that has an attachment in it.
By Boudewijn Rempt at Sun, 2007/10/21 - 5:00am


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KDE Congratulates CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Today was Big Bang Day at CERN as the world's largest science experiment was turned on. Like all good technology enthusiasts the KDE developers have been keeping up with the progress of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. We are pleased to see that like all world class physicists the first ever ATLAS results come from KDE. Their impressive control centre is also making excellent use of KNotes. Just as good, the world has not yet been sucked into a black hole.
> Today was Big Bang Day at CERN as the worlds largest science experiment was turned on.
By Michael "Black ... at Thu, 2008/09/11 - 5:00am
not Gnome
I'm sooooooo tempted to post that screenshot on the Gnome boards and go 'SEE!!! - Beat That!!' hahaha.
I kid, I kid..
By anonymoose at Thu, 2008/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: not Gnome
Based on the control center photograph, they actually use a mixed infrastructure, using Windows as well as KDE. Based on this knowledge, they may also use GNOME in parts of their infrastructure.
Yes, I read your whole post, including the "I kid, I kid" part.
By Michael "I don'... at Thu, 2008/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: not Gnome
They could at least equal it if they would try. Maybe GNOME 3.0 in 4 years ;)
Re: not Gnome
hah yes !
By Euraran at Fri, 2008/09/12 - 5:00am
...But on Windows?
Isn't that an IE7 though on the Impressive Control Centre picture? The tabs look ridiculously much like that thing.
By Henrik Pauli at Thu, 2008/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: ...But on Windows?
My Library uses IE7 (I feel ill ;), and yes, that's it. I can tell by the buttons as well as the tabs.
By Michael "Librar... at Thu, 2008/09/11 - 5:00am
if you need a 5min indroduction in LHC
By schnebeck at Thu, 2008/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: but but
NVIDIA GPUs? :)
By fhd at Thu, 2008/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: but but
Apropos KDE, has anyone gotten a 4.2 update recently? My last update was on the 3rd of this month, since then nothing :(
Re: but but
You'll get your KDE 4.2 update next January. In between releases, we do need at least *some* time to actually write the code we're releasing :>
By Sebastian Kügler at Thu, 2008/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: but but
Well, I was actually referring to the devel-version that I am using - no updates in the Suse repo for a week now. You know how impatient the bleeding edge people are ;)
Re: but but
Hi Bobby
We're busy getting the features done for openSUSE 11.1 beta1 (and discussing KDE3 support). We'll be back on normal service next week.
By Will Stephenson at Thu, 2008/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: but but
Thanks very much for the reply. I just can't wait for the next update, guess I will have sleepless nights until next week ;)
Re: but but
"(and discussing KDE3 support)"
I vote for KDE3.
By user at Thu, 2008/09/11 - 5:00am
Bigger pictures
and showing that they use a mixed environment:
By Andras Mantia at Thu, 2008/09/11 - 5:00am
Famous last words and throughts ..
... before the world comes to an end:
"LHC uses LINUX and KDE"
"I wish would have been Windows" (In that case the experiment would have worked)
By Martin at Thu, 2008/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: Famous last words and throughts ..
why should the world come to an end? in case you trust the biologist who believes he understands physics better than physicists well i can only recommend that you trust your gardener in case you ever need open heart surgery. not willing to do that? then trust physicists ... the biologist's interpretation of general relativity - by the way - has been proven wrong a LONG time ago. in case you were kidding i'm sorry :-) there've been just too many people complaining for no reason so i wanted to make this one clear.
as for the mixed environment: I had a chance to do a semester thesis at cern and yes they use a lot of linux but also a lot of windows (though vista is incredibly unpopular [quote: "get that piece of s*** off my computer!]) . the linux versions are often outdated when they're the official releases (scientific linux i think) but a lot of people use different distributions ... judging by the start up sound a LOT of ubuntu... oh and of course my kubuntu laptop :-) [not a representative survey, just personal experience, guys!]
By andrea at Thu, 2008/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: Famous last words and throughts ..
By Gordon Freeman at Thu, 2008/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: Famous last words and throughts ..
I have nothing against scientific researches and experiments but I am convinced that these over dimensionally "smart" guys are going to blow us all into oblivion sooner or later.
Re: Famous last words and throughts ..
No, that part is reserved for politicians using devices the physicists built in a rather stupid way.
By gustl at Fri, 2008/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Famous last words and throughts ..
"Experts assure us that based on everything we know about science, the chances of doom are fairly slim. Experts also say LHC will change everything we know about science."
By You Don't Know Jack at Sun, 2008/09/14 - 5:00am
Awesome, so its still
Awesome, so its still workable then. Perfect going on. Lets see now whats next we have to check web hosting for this project. Any recommendation?
By linda.coult at Mon, 2009/06/01 - 10:31am
Re: Famous last words and throughts ..
"I wish would have been Windows" (In that case the experiment would have worked)
You mean the BSOD aka Blackholes :D
Re: Famous last words and throughts ..
Why would using Linux and KDE cause the experiment to create a black hole, whereas Windows would not. Technically, the KDE they are using (KDE3.5.x), with Linux, is more stable than Windows, so if Linux causes the world to end in a failed experiment, it won't be because of a crash.
By Michael "Huh?" ... at Fri, 2008/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Famous last words and throughts ..
The system startup and setup processes requires months. There was no collision experiment. Particles haven't completed the entire trip in the HLC.
The important thing is journalists and catastrophists are convinced the experiment has been made without consequences so they stop that ridicolous campaign.
Or the BH has been created and we are landed all in another continuum?
By Thempleton at Thu, 2008/09/18 - 5:00am
Mixed environment
They use a mixed environment.
A guy who were there said that he saw Windows, Linux with VLC client and Firefox on lightweight desktops, Apple laptops, etc.
By David at Thu, 2008/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: Mixed environment
By Karol at Thu, 2008/09/11 - 5:00am
End of world (probably not)
"Just as good, the world has not yet been sucked into a black hole."
Plain daft. The people who are informed on this subject believe that there is a very low probability of creating a black hole. Very low isn't quite low enough, as far as I am concerned, but the reason that this concern, and the reassurance coming from an apparent lack of the end of the world, so far, is misguided is that all they have done so far is to run a few protons around in each direction and check the detectors, largely by looking for background events.
Not only have there been no collisions, so far, but all of the testing has been done at low energies and if low energies were going to end the world, something like LEP or Tevatron would have done it years ago.
This is a significant milestone in project management terms, but it really isn't grounds for reassurance.
By Markw at Thu, 2008/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: End of world (probably not)
Who cares if they create some black holes? By the same theories, they have been created over and over for a few billion years here on Earth via inbound radiation from space... and will continue to occur regardless of what CERN does. This just lets scientists know where the interaction will be so they can watch it with carefully calibrated instruments. There's nothing new here that doesn't occur all over the place in this neck of the galaxy, it's just in a nice building so we can know when and where it will happen and watch it closely.
By Evan "JabberWok... at Thu, 2008/09/11 - 5:00am
So if the world will not end...
...we have to thank KDE ;-)
By Henning at Thu, 2008/09/11 - 5:00am
Re: So if the world will not end...
Ah! That is surely the ultimate world domination :)
By Francesco Biscani at Thu, 2008/09/11 - 5:00am
my father
Hi, I m proud of my father, he is working on ALICE detector in LHC. But he is using Linux scientific with an old KDE.... KDE 3.1 !!
By idk at Thu, 2008/09/11 - 5:00am
Java ;)
I'll disappoint you but its not KDE or Gnome. All computers in Control Center run Windows XP...All these applications you have seen are Java applications integrated to a Netbeans-based platform. They look so ugly cause they use the old AWT toolkit instead of Swing. Cern is a Java world ;)
By Pe at Fri, 2008/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Java ;)
How does this explain the Keramic windecs ? Moreover other people seemed to identify Kst on a picture.
By ac at Fri, 2008/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Java ;)
Sorry I can't help you. All the computers in Cern Control Center (CCC) run Windows XP, but I remember some people working on CERN Scientific Linux via Remote Desktop. I dont know about ATLAS control room, but for CCC this is the reality. I wish they had CERN Scientific Linux to all computers :)
By Pe at Fri, 2008/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Java ;)
Because Windec has nothing to do with the application, they could be using metacity and still be made in java.
By David at Fri, 2008/09/12 - 5:00am
KIOSK and KDE
Hi There,
The machines in the ATLAS Control Room are running CERN Scientific Linux 4, and a KDE session. The policy is that the whole ATLAS Control Room runs Linux exclusively.
By piters at Fri, 2008/09/12 - 5:00am
Re: Java ;)
Yeah, Windows desktops are being used for the wishy-washy stuff while the heavy duty serious processing is done on Linux.
By Abe at Fri, 2008/09/12 - 5:00am
France too!
"the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland."
Its on the border between France and Switzerland. Most of it is in France.
Just being picky.
By Jean at Fri, 2008/09/12 - 5:00am
CERN YaY!
I actually went to CERN as part of a school trip this year, it was awesome. All the scientists were running a KDE/Gentoo cocktail on their laptops.
By Zack at Wed, 2008/09/17 - 5:00am
YUP, I also run a KDE kinda cocktail on my machines here at home.
I even use Kubuntu on one of them the other uses Slackware with KDE 3.5
By Andy Hoffman at Mon, 2008/09/29 - 5:00am
Expected result of large hardon collider
Once the supercollider is up and running, CERN scientists estimate that if the Standard Model is correct, a single Higgs boson may be produced every few hours. At this rate, it may take up to three years to collect enough data to discover the Higgs boson (search engine optimization) unambiguously. Similarly, it may take one year or more before sufficient results concerning supersymmetric particles have been gathered to draw meaningful conclusions.
By John at Tue, 2009/06/16 - 7:49am

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The following books and articles about the Mothman legend can be found at the West Virginia Archives and History Library.
Coleman, Loren. Mothman and Other Curious Encounters, New
York, New York, Paraview Press, 2002.
Keel, John A. The Mothman Prophecies, New York, New York,
Tor, 2001.
Sergent, Donnie. Mothman : the Facits Behind the Legend,
Point Pleasant, West Virginia, Mothman Lives Publishing,
"Bird Echoes Still," Point Pleasant Register,
"Bird Gets Once-Over," Point Pleasant Register, 12-1-1966.
"Birdman Could Be FHS Balloon," Huntington Herald-Dispatch, 11-18-1966.
"Blast From The Past, Some of the Original Mothman Stories that Huntington Newspapers Published in 1966," Huntington Herald-Dispatch, 1-13-2002.
"Could the Moth Man Be Balloon? Huntington Advertiser, 11-18-1966.
"Couples See Man-Sized Bird...Creature...Something," Point Pleasant Register, 11-16- 1966.
"Flying Man Seen Here, Man Claims," Charleston Gazette, 11-18-1966.
"Four Pt. Pleasant Car Occupants See Bird-Like Creature," Morgantown Dominion News, 11-17-1966.
"Marketing Mayhem Greets Movie's Debut," Huntington Herald-Dispatch, 1-25-2002.
"Mason County Bird Known Far and Wide," Point Pleasant Register, 11-28-1966.
"Mason Countians Hunt Moth Man," Huntington Herald-Dispatch, 11-17-1966.
"Mason County Has Flying Mystery," Morgantown Dominion News, 11-18-1966.
"Mason Bird-Monster Presumed Gone Now," Huntington Herald-Dispatch, 11-22-1966.
"Mothman Offers Dark, Creepy Thrills," CNN.com, 1-24-2002.
"Mothman Movie Resurrects Mysterious Legend," CNN.com, 1-24,2002.
"Mothman," Huntington Herald-Dispatch, 1-13-2002.
"Mothman's Back," Huntington Herald-Dispatch, 1-13-2002.
"Oh, That Bird It Was Seen Again," Point Pleasant Register, 11-25-1966.
"Our Bird Has Law On Its Side," Point Pleasant Register, 11-19-1966.
"Owl? Goose? Prank: Or Take Your Choice," Huntington Advertiser, 11-17-1966.
"Professor Says Moth-Man Could Be Large Crane," Huntington Advertiser, 11-19-1966.
"Reporter's Night Went By Without Mothman Sighting," Huntington Herald-Dispatch, 1-13- 2002.
"That Mothman: Would You Believe a Sandhill Crane?," Huntington Herald-Dispatch, 11-19- 1966.
"The Mothman Rises," Charleston Gazette, 1-24-2002.
"Town Welcomes Mothman Publicity," Charleston Gazette-Mail, 3-3-2002.
Notable Events in West Virginia History


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European Space Agency
European Space Agency (ESA), multinational agency dedicated to the promotion, for exclusively peaceful purposes, of cooperation among European states in space research and technology. Member states include Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Great Britain; Canada, the Czech Republic, and Hungary participate in selected ESA programs. The financial contribution of each member is determined by the projects it wishes to support, and no member may undertake a project without inviting ESA's participation.
The headquarters of ESA are in Paris, with four major ESA facilities in other countries. The European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC), located at Noordwijk, the Netherlands, is the primary research center and manages the satellite projects. The European Space Operations Center (ESOC), located at Darmstadt, Germany, is responsible for satellite control, monitoring, and data retrieval. The European Space Research Institute (ESRIN), located at Frascati, Italy, supports the ESA documentation service and manages the data obtained from remote sensing satellites. The European Astronaut Center (EAC), located at Cologne, Germany, is responsible for the selection and training of astronauts for space station missions. In addition to the major centers, ESA operates sounding-rocket launch stations in Norway and Sweden, a meteorological program office at Toulon, France, and satellite tracking stations in Belgium, Germany, Italy, and Spain.
Major ESA programs include the development of the Ariane and Vega rockets, used for launching most ESA satellites from the Guiana Space Center at Kourou and Sinnamary, French Guiana. There also is a joint Russian-European launch program there that uses Soyuz ST rockets, a version of the Soyuz 2. ESA developed the Spacelab scientific workshop, which was transported into space more than 20 times by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) space shuttle; the Giotto space probe, which in a 1986 flyby examined the nucleus of Halley's comet; and the SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) and ISO (Infrared Space Observatory) orbiting observatories, launched in 1995. A system of meteorological satellites, called Meteosat, has also been established, and a system of navigation satellites, known as Galileo, is under development. Among other ESA projects have been the Herschel Space Telescope, which observed (2009–13) infrared to submillimeter wavelengths with a 138-in. (3.5-m) mirror, the largest sent into space so far, and Planck, which observed (2009–13) the cosmic microwave background radiation. The member nations of ESA are also participating with Brazil, Canada, Japan, Russia, and the United States in the International Space Station (ISS; see space station), and have developed components for the ISS; ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle was developed to resupply the ISS. Arianespace, the first commercial space transportation company, was established in 1980 as a subsidiary of the French space agency, and now conducts more than half of all commercial satellite launches.
The foundation of ESA was laid with the formation of the European Space Research Organization (ESRO) in 1962 and of the European Launcher Development Organization (ELDO) in 1964. ESRO consisted of ten European countries and Australia, which placed its rocket-firing range at Woomera at the organization's disposal; between 1968 and 1972 seven ESRO satellites—Iris (ESRO-2B), Aurorae (ESRO-1A), HEOS-1, BOREAS, HEOS-2, TD-1A, and ESRO-4—were launched on NASA rockets. ELDO, which consisted of seven European countries, developed Kourou's launch site. Intending to build the Europa 1 multistage launch vehicle—combining a British first stage, a French second stage, and a German third stage—to orbit an Italian satellite, ELDO was unsuccessful primarily because of organizational problems. By 1975 it was obvious that a new approach was required, and ESRO and ELDO were merged to form ESA.


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In this article I will explain a technique for using T-Max developer in a high-dilution solution to extend development times and provide a generally foolproof development strategy, not only for T-Max film, but also other film.
All of the images for this article were scanned on a Screen Cézanne flatbed scanner and edited as needed in Photoshop CS5. Please refer to the image caption for specific technical details regarding the equipment and development process used for each photograph.
|Example 1: Nikon F4, 55mm f/2.8 Micro AF Lens, T-Max 100 35mm film rated at ISO 50, T-Max RS developer at 1:19 dilution, semi-stand development.
Kodak's T-Max film and corresponding T-Max developer (or T-Max RS for sheet films) is a combination formulated specifically for high resolution, low grain photos. Despite having a relatively straightforward development routine, T-Max film and developer can be a frustrating combo without rigorous testing and strict adherence to time and temperature controls.
|Example 2: Nikon F2, 20mm f/2.8 AF-D Lens, T-Max 100 35mm film rated at ISO 50, T-Max RS developer at 1:32 dilution, semi-stand development.
Kodak's recommended dilution for T-Max developers is 1:4, or 1:9 for longer development times. What I have experimented with is using dilutions of 1:19 up to 1:50 with "semi-stand" development. With semi-stand development, I would add the diluted developer to the tank and agitate for 30 seconds, and then leave the tank alone for 30 minutes. At that time I would do another 30 seconds of agitation and leave the tank for another 30 minutes (total of 1 hour). Finally, I would fix and wash as normal. This hands-off development procedure is very simple, and generally the temperature of the solution is not critical (it was generally between 65 and 70 degrees F).
|Example 3: Nikon SP, 50mm f/1.4 Lens, T-Max 100 35mm film rated at ISO 50, T-Max developer at 1:32 dilution, semi-stand development.
Using the developer in this way was also conducive to one-shot development. I diluted the developer to the proper dilution and used it once, and then threw out the chemicals. Due to the high dilution, a 1-liter stock solution should last you for many, many rolls of film (probably around 100 35mm rolls of film).
|Example 4: Mamiya 645 PRO, 80mm f/1.9 Lens, Tri-X 400 120 film rated at ISO 200, T-Max developer at 1:32 dilution, semi-stand development.
My findings concluded that, generally speaking, every film should be shot at about half the recommended ISO or ASA. For T-Max 100, I shoot it at 50. For Tri-X 400, I use ISO 200. The dilution of the developer determined contrast, similar to what one would do with time and agitation, a la the Zone System (refer to Ansel Adams' seminal book The Negative for more information).
|Example 5: Mamiya 645 Pro, 45mm f/2.8 Lens, Tech-Pan 120 film rated at ISO 25, T-Max RS developer at 1:40 dilution, semi-stand development.
For N development (normal contrast, what most shots need), a dilution of 1:32 worked well. For increased contrast (N+), the 1:19 dilution was best. And finally, for less contrast (N-), 1:39 became my standard. A 1:50 dilution was generally too much, but for scenes with a lot of contrast, it might be appropriate. These dilutions worked the same whether using T-Max developer or the RS version.
|Example 6: Chamonix 4x5, Schneider G-Claron 150mm f/9 Lens, T-Max 100 film rated at 100, T-Max RS developer at 1:39 dilution, semi-stand development.
As with any development recipe, you should definitely test and determine your own EI (exposure index). You may find that slightly different dilutions give you better results. These results reflect what worked best for me. I am continuing to experiment with this technique with different films and situations, so it is an ongoing "development."
I hope that this development recipe gives you another tool to use with your film photos.
Contributor Bio:
Bryan Garris is a musician, recording engineer and photographer in Valdosta, GA. He enjoys shooting film in all formats, from 35mm to 8x10, and teaches photography classes in the area. To see more of his film work highlighting the South GA area, visit his blog at valdostafilm.blogspot.com.


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By Daniel Calingaert and Nancy Okail, Special to CNN
Editor's note: Daniel Calingaert is executive vice president and Nancy Okail is director for Egypt at Freedom House. The views expressed are their own.
An impending delivery of F-16 fighter jets and components of 200 Abrams tanks to Egypt has run into a barrage of criticism and triggered calls to cut off all U.S. aid to the country. These calls are excessive. Aid should continue, because the United States has a critical interest in supporting a democratic transition in Egypt. But the U.S. cannot do that effectively unless it overhauls its approach.
Three major changes are needed. First, U.S. assistance should be tied to progress toward democracy. We should hold back until the government of President Mohamed Morsy respects the fundamental rights of Egyptians and democratic principles. It has hardly done so. The government has harassed its media critics, most recently launching an investigation against popular comedian Bassem Youssef for making fun of President Morsy, and limited free expression in the new constitution, which prohibits "insulting or showing contempt toward any human being."
The new constitution was rammed through the Constitutional Assembly and put to a snap referendum last month. Rather than build a broad consensus on the institutional structures for a new Egypt, the constitution drafting process alienated significant segments of Egyptian society, including secularists and Christians. It also coincided with a blatant power grab by Morsy, who issued a decree, subsequently reversed in the face of angry protests, to put his decisions beyond judicial review. He has made unilateral decisions without providing justifications or consulting different political forces, and in response, many of his advisors have resigned over the past two months.
More from CNN: Egypt must learn compromise
U.S. law makes military aid conditional on the Egyptian government protecting free expression, association, and religion, and due process of law. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's decision to waive these conditions last March, as the law permits, undermined U.S. leverage. The United States should uphold the conditions going forward and suspend military aid if Egypt fails to meet them. It should also criticize Egypt's human rights abuses during negotiations on economic assistance.
Second, the emphasis on military assistance should be reduced dramatically. At four parts military to one part civilian, the current aid package is a relic of a bygone era, when U.S. military assistance aimed to shore up President Hosni Mubarak's contributions to regional security and reward a dependable ally. But support for Mubarak undermined U.S. credibility as Egyptians grew increasingly disillusioned with his regime. Today, U.S. interests are best served by democratic reform of Egypt's institutions, not by strong-man rule. And economic aid will do more for Egypt's transition and stability than arms shipments.
Neglect of democratic reform has left Egypt unstable. Under the interim military rule following the fall of Mubarak, and now under President Morsy, unrest has persisted and violent clashes have broken out repeatedly. The continued impunity of officials who committed abuses, disregard for minority rights, and concentration of power in the presidency have exacerbated social tensions and political polarization. A U.S. emphasis on military aid and on relations with President Morsy, rather than the Egyptian people, cannot bring stability to Egypt.
The country's military has taken a less visible role since it turned the reins of government over to Morsy and saw its supreme commander, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, ousted last August, but it retains substantial power. The new constitution removes the military budget from parliamentary oversight and allows military tribunals to prosecute civilians. A presidential decree last month gave the military authority to arrest civilians as well. The military thus continues to hamper Egypt's democratic progress.
Third, a far greater proportion of U.S. aid should provide technical support to Egyptian civil society organizations, because the government in Cairo is impeding efforts to advance democracy. The government scrutinizes all foreign-funded activities of independent Egyptian groups and blocks such critical elements of a democratic society as public opinion surveys. It denies legal registration to foreign non-governmental organizations and continues to prosecute Egyptian and foreign employees of international groups, including Freedom House, with the trial scheduled to resume tomorrow. These prosecutions intimidate Egyptian NGOs and put them at risk for cooperating with their foreign counterparts.
The current uproar over U.S. weapons deliveries to Egypt should prompt a serious re-think by the Obama administration. The United States needs to revamp its aid policy, which was designed before Egypt's revolution to bolster an authoritarian ally with little regard for Egyptians' democratic aspirations. It should stop subsidizing a government that infringes on citizens' rights and instead give more assistance to independent local groups that strive to build a free society and hold Egypt's government to account.


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This week in new hires, Cetera Financial Group welcomed Steve Dunlap; Jeff Pawliger was appointed as Janus' regional director for southern Florida, and PFM Group announced that Susan Musselman, Fred Eoff and Johanna Roodzant have joined with the acquisition of SDM Advisors.
Also, BMO Global Asset Management welcomed LJ Jhangiani, Hartford Funds announced a promotion and several additions, and Rosetta Packer became a partner at Ballard Spahr.
Steve Dunlap Joins Cetera as Head of Wealth Management
Cetera Financial Group announced that Steve Dunlap will join the company as executive vice president, wealth management. He assumes the role from Barnaby Grist, who will be leaving Cetera at the end of the month to focus on his family, and will report to Valerie Brown, CEO.
Most recently, Dunlap served in a dual role as president and CEO of Lockwood Advisors, which operates as the retail distribution arm of The Bank of New York Mellon, and as president of managed investments at the company's Pershing unit. Before joining Pershing, he was president of Finetre Corp. His experience spans from managing private equity-funded startup companies to key leadership positions at multibillion-dollar corporations. He spent his early career as an investment executive, giving him insight into the challenges advisors face.
Janus Names Jeff Pawliger as Regional Director for Southern Florida
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Pawliger, a 27-year veteran of the financial services industry, previously held positions as a regional and divisional sales manager for Wood Logan & Associates, Citigroup Smith Barney and AXA Distributors.
Susan Musselman, Fred Eoff, Johanna Roodzant Join PFM Group
PFM Group announced that it has acquired Seattle-based SDM Advisors. Susan Musselman, president of SDM Advisors, will join PFM as a director, and her colleagues Fred Eoff and Johanna Roodzant will also join the firm. They will work with PFM professionals already active in the northwest and will continue to serve clients from PFM's Seattle office, which will now have 10 employees.
SDM Advisors, formed in July 1996 as Susan D. Musselman, has clients in Washington that include counties, cities, utilities, school districts, housing agencies and special-purpose districts. SDM Advisors also serves most of the state's public universities, is advisor to the office of the state treasurer for its lease purchase program, and is on the financial advisory team for the Washington State Housing Finance Commission.
Collectively, SDM's professionals represent more than 70 years of experience in banking and public finance, general-purpose municipal finance, public housing development financing, higher education and economic development finance. Musselman has more than 30 years of experience in public finance, primarily in the Northwest. Eoff has 35 years of experience in public finance in the Northwest and nationally.
BMO Global Asset Management Welcomes LJ Jhangiani
BMO Global Asset Management announced the addition of LJ Jhangiani as a director, senior securities lender/trader in its securities lending group. Based in Chicago, Jhangiani will be responsible for the control and coordination of the securities lending trading desk and trading/lending within client portfolios.
With more than 20 years of securities lending exerience, Jhangiani's previous roles include portfolio manager, chief operating officer and vice president of global securities lending at several leading organizations. Hartford Funds Promotes Brian Garrette, Adds Four
Hartford Funds named Brian Garrette and Michael Tobin divisional sales managers, overseeing the company's south and west regions, respectively. In addition, the firm added three new advisor consultants. In their new roles, Garrette, based in Boca Raton, Fla., and Tobin, based in San Diego, Calif., are responsible for managing sales staff in their geography, including hiring, coaching, training and mentoring advisor consultants, as well as optimizing sales results and representing Hartford Funds at regional events. They both report to Jeff Reiss, head of retail sales.
Richard Benn, Nathan Fair and James "Mike" Sargent Jr. will serve as advisor consultants in New York and New Jersey, Wisconsin and Texas, respectively. Benn reports to Andrew Shaw, divisional vice president for the Northeast region, and is based in Florham Park, N.J.; Fair, based in Hartland, Wis., and Sargent, based in Dallas, report to Kirt Jones, DVP for the central region.
Garrette joined in 2004. He was promoted from his previous position as advisor consultant in the South Florida region, where he was responsible for financial sales performance and territory management in the wirehouse channel. Before joining, he spent nearly 15 years in business development at independent broker-dealer Investor Capital Corp., earning the title of firm principal.
Tobin brings nearly 25 years of mutual fund experience and joins from LPL Financial Services, where he served as the senior vice president, national sales manager, responsible for sales and marketing of advisory platforms. Prior to that, he served in various sales and distribution roles, including western divisional sales director at Invesco Distributors, previously Morgan Stanley Investment Management. He joined Invesco after six years with AllianceBernstein Investments, where he was the senior vice president, eastern divisional sales manager.
Benn joins after nearly seven years with RS Investments. In his most recent role, he served as regional vice president in northern New Jersey and New York. He joined RS Investments as a senior internal wholesaler from Guardian Investor Services, where he served as an internal wholesaler. Prior to that, he spent most of his career as a trader.
Prior to joining, Fair was regional vice president of national sales for Pioneer Investments. He joined Pioneer following six years with Natixis Global Associates, where he served as senior regional director and was responsible for growing sales as a wholesaler in Wisconsin and Iowa. Prior to that, he was a senior regional sales representative for Guardian Investor Services and spent three years as a personal financial advisor for American Express Financial Services.
Sargent brings more than 22 years of financial services experience, including his most recent role as vice president of Managers Investment Group, where he was responsible for business development within the wirehouse and broker-dealer channels in Texas and Oklahoma. He was previously at Capital Institutional Services, Inc., where he served as vice president of the institutional investment group. Earlier, he spent 10 years with American Beacon Advisors, where he served as vice president, responsible for business development for the American Beacon mutual funds and the American Private Equity Partners Limited Partnership.
Rosetta Packer Joins Ballard Spahr
Rosetta Packer has joined Ballard Spahr as a partner in the Philadelphia office. Packer focuses on complex commercial and real estate workouts and related state and federal litigation. She advises a range of leading financial institutions in loan restructuring, lender liability prevention and defense, and intercreditor relationships.
Packer has represented secured lenders in major Chapter 11 proceedings and has negotiated and documented complex real estate restructured transactions and asset-based facilities. In addition, she has tried cases in federal and state courts in complex commercial matters and lease finance transactions. Before joining, she was a partner in the Philadelphia office of McCarter & English. At Ballard Spahr, she is a member of the business and finance department and the firm's bankruptcy, reorganization and capital recovery; transactional finance; and real estate finance and capital markets groups.
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Ronen Bavly-Didi Table Lamp
At Design Interviews
Interview with Ronen Bavly : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Ronen Bavly : The main principle is the combination between traditional metal work and a LED high technology lamp. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Ronen Bavly : The main focus was creating a lamp where the shade is the light socket itself. A LED lamp regularly requires cooling sides; whereas in DIDI the lamp shade is the direct heat reducer of the light bulb. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Ronen Bavly : We would like to find a manufacturer which would produce the lamp and distribute it around the world. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Ronen Bavly : The planning of DIDI table lamp started in August 2010 and the first series was produced in September 2011. The entire creative process and realization was made in "Magenta" Jerusalem. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Ronen Bavly : The lamp was our initiative, as part of our constant research for playful and aesthetic products. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Ronen Bavly : We plan to collaborate with an external company, which will produce the lamp and keep its high standards. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Ronen Bavly : In Magenta we have a multidisciplinary core team. However, we frequently collaborate with qualified craftsmen and professionals. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Ronen Bavly : DIDI is for people who appreciate good design. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Ronen Bavly : Didi is a nickname of my cute daughter. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Ronen Bavly : Sketchbook, pencil, cutting board, metal wires, carton, 3D CAD design software. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Ronen Bavly : Didi is a 100 % "Magenta" handmade table lamp. All parts of the lamp were developed in Magenta atelier. It's a combination of a simple structure and a non standard light source. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Ronen Bavly : Magenta has collaborated with a professional electric engineer. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Ronen Bavly : In order to find the appropriate metal and surface area for our shade, where the rate of heat release is approximately equivalent to the rate of heat release of the original LED socket, we made a research of thermal conductivity of different metals in different sizes. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Ronen Bavly : We believe that Didi table lamp is a high quality product and fits the international design scene and competitions such as A'Design Award. .
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The wait has been wait too long...
In the internet world, one year that goes by is like 10 years in the real world.
Have recently purchased Outlook 2010 and there's no looking back (that's almost 3 Barca's worth in money).
Wonder how many have done the same?
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Could it really be called a goaltenders' duel when one goalie is doing all the dueling?
The Kings fired shot after shot after shot at Minnesota Wild rookie Darcy Kuemper, a fill-in making only his third appearance of the season and just the ninth of his NHL career. The Kings controlled the puck as if it was on a string for the better part of 65 minutes.
They could not defeat Kuemper, a 23-year-old who would be in the minor leagues if not for illness and injury to the Wild's top two goalies. Nino Niederreiter scored the only goal in a four-round shootout to give Minnesota a head-scratching 2-1 victory over the Kings at Staples Center on Tuesday night.
Kuemper stopped 39 shots, all but Jarret Stoll's laser 50 seconds into the third period, and then four more in the shootout. Kings goalie Jonathan Quick stopped 16 shots, all but Niederreiter's equalizer off a pass from the perimeter from teammate Jason Pominville at 3:25 of the third.
Quick shouldered his share of the blame, although there was enough to go around.
"I read that as a shot, I should have read that as a pass," Quick said of Pominville's pass from the right wing to a cutting Niederreiter on the left. "You've played so many of those games over the years, you know what you have to do to stay focused and stay in it."
Kuemper was in goal only because No. 1 goalie Josh Harding was placed on the injured-reserve list Monday because of an ongoing illness and backup Niklas Backstrom was sidelined by a soreness related to a previous sports hernia ailment.
The Wild also were without leading scorer Mikko Koivu, who underwent ankle surgery and was placed on IR on Monday. Left wing Zach Parise and defenseman Jared Spurgeon also couldn't play because of a lower-body injuries that landed them on IR, too.
It didn't take long for the Kings to begin to apply offensive pressure against the Wild. In fact, all they needed was one strong penalty kill in the opening minutes to take control, at least territorially. Scoring goals and building a lead was another matter for the Kings, however.
"We bent a few times in our own end, but we didn't break," Kuemper said. "I don't know what kind of video they had on me, but I was comfortable with the whole situation. We did a great job of keeping the shots to the outside and eliminating second chances."
Kings forward Jeff Carter and defenseman Drew Doughty were named to the Canadian Olympic team Tuesday. Doughty was a member of Team Canada's gold-medal winning team in Vancouver in 2010. In addition, defenseman Slava Voynov was picked for Russia's Olympic team.
The Kings recalled forward Tanner Pearson from their American Hockey League affiliate at Manchester. Pearson has 25 points in 30 games for the Monarchs, including 13 goals. This is Pearson's second call-up. He had one goal in six games earlier in the season.


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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (Wednesday, March 24, 2010) – The Colorado Rapids announced today that the club has partnered with KWGN/Channel 2 to broadcast 25 of the team's 30 Major League Soccer 2010 regular season games live over the air and in high definition.
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Combined with the club's four national Fox Soccer Channel broadcasts, 29 of the Rapids' 30 games this year will be available in high definition. This marks the first time in the team's 15-year history that all local broadcasts of regular season games will be shown in high definition.
KWGN/Channel 2 will televise 13 home and 12 road Rapids matches in 2010 both live over the air and in HD. Rapids fans can find KWGN/Channel 2 on Comcast channel 2 and HD channel 656, Dish Network channel 2 for both standard and high definition, and DirectTV channel 2 for both standard and high definition.
KWGN/Channel 2's first high definition broadcast will be the 2010 season opener when the Rapids visit Chivas USA this Friday, March 26 at The Home Depot Center in Carson, California at 8:30 p.m. MT. The Rapids open the home portion of their schedule the following week, hosting the Chicago Fire on Saturday, April 3 at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in a match televised live on KWGN/Channel 2 at 2 p.m. MT.
Telefutura and Fox Soccer Channel will each nationally broadcast three Rapids road games and one home match this year. All four matches shown on Fox Soccer Channel will also be available in HD on Fox Soccer Plus, as well as in standard definition on their Spanish-language sister station, Fox Sports en Español. The Rapids' home game on Wednesday, May 5 vs. the LA Galaxy will be available on the MLS Direct Kick package, meaning that all Rapids 2010 games will be televised.


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This year is so nuts. This is no longer March Madness. It's March Sadness, and when the tourney resumes tonight, it'll be tough to even watch.There's nothing like devouring this tournament when your brackets are alive and kicking. It's all spinach and liver when you've got no shot.
A friend runs a March Madness pool every year. This year he's got 149 entrees. I —uh, my wife -- picked two brackets, as many people do, going with "her" best guess on No. 1 and throwing in some possible upsets on No. 2.
I'm (OK, Linda) tied for 67th on my No. 2 bracket and 80th with No. 1. But I guess I can't complain.
This year is so nuts. This is no longer March Madness. It's March Sadness, and when the tourney resumes tonight, it'll be tough to even watch.
There's nothing like devouring this tournament when your brackets are alive and kicking. It's all spinach and liver when you've got no shot.
It's not like those of us at the bottom of the list are complete idiots. Many of us do quite nicely every year, but that was before Ali Farokhmanesh was draining 3s, before Ryan Wittman enrolled in the Ivy League, and before Omar Samhan came out of nowhere.
The fact is, most of us do not sit in front of the TV watching college basketball every night from November through March.
Most of us know that Bob Huggins wears sweat suits and that Tom Izzo has some pretty slick hair. We don't know how to spell Krzyzewski but we know that his Duke teams are annually among the front-runners, as is Kentucky. We know that John Calipari would recruit a third-grade dropout if it meant he could give him one strong year and that Rick Pitino could sell a granny dress to a bikini model.
But do we really know anything about their teams? We've heard all about John Wall and Evan Turner and the Player of the Year competition, but we couldn't name a single one of their teammates, even if we do know they play for Kentucky and Ohio State, respectively.
The one thing we surely didn't know this year, though, was that St. Mary's College, which upset Richmond and Villanova and has a chance of doing so to Baylor in the Sweet 16, is from a place called Moraga, Calif.
Nor did we know that the Gaels feature five Australians, one of whom is Samhan, the 6-11 son of an Egyptian, who scored 32 points with 10 rebounds in the win over Villanova.
We had no way of knowing that 13th-seeded Murray State would be taking out No. 4 Vanderbilt, or that No. 11 Old Dominion would take out No. 6 Notre Dame, or that No. 12 Cornell would take out No. 5 Temple, going on after a win over No. 4 Wisconsin to become the first Ivy League school in 30 years to make the Sweet 16.
So, yeah, it would seem that brackets have been busted and that all hope is lost.
But, y'know, in the pool I'm a part of, there's a statistic that lists the maximum number of points that a participant can earn. My No. 67 bracket has a maximum of 113 points, given that I picked Kansas to beat out Duke in the championship game. The person in the No. 1 spot is at 120 maximum points.
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a few weeks ago I got tired of my old FAL with the dumb green stock, grip and guard... So I did something about it.
I added a paintjob, a Flash-hider, an Aimpoint M2 (waiting on mount not in pic), a sling, DSA scope mount and a UTG quad rail hanguard.
(dont flame me for UTG I have had 2 others on my AR15's and for a place to to mount a Vertical Grip, Flashlight and other junk, You cant beat em for the price!!!)
Next is a SAW pistol grip, a stubby vertical foregrip a compact pistol LED light, a 2"x6" 7.62 Form 1 shorty suppressor and Maybe, Just Maybe down the road a Para conversion
This gun plays alot of roles... its My Favorite Rifle, My SHTF Go-To Rifle, and when my friends are shooting empty cans with .223, its my Watch this rifle ("thats not a gun, This is a gun!!!!")
Bill from Spartanburg
Be like an old dog!!!! If you can't eat it or screw it, just piss on it and walk away!!!!
I can say one thing... Its heavier now! But it keeps my wife from shooting it!!!!!!
A para side-folder would be very cool !!! So would a night vision scope !!!
Well I have changed my plans!!!
For now, I will not be getting a PARA setup. I think fixed will work great as is... It was more for the look but for $400.... its too much moneys!
Im going to strip the paint and paint the whole gun the greenish gray color called 'cast Iron coat'
The only thing left to do is get ammo for it... where is the best place for the best deal??? I dont care if its Mil-surp or factory, where its from, boxer or berdian primed, just as long as its NON-corrosive and goes bang every time and not BOOOOOOOM


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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT/AP) — This could give you nightmares: 1 in 24 U.S. adults say they recently fell asleep while driving.
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"If I'm on the road, I'd be a little worried about the other drivers," said the study's lead author, Anne Wheaton of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In the CDC study released Thursday, about 4 percent of U.S. adults said they nodded off or fell asleep at least once while driving in the previous month. Some earlier studies reached a similar conclusion, but the CDC telephone survey of 147,000 adults was far larger. It was conducted in 19 states and the District of Columbia in 2009 and 2010.
"Most people don't realize how sleepy they are. When you're drowsy. That's asleep," said Dr. Roseanne Barker. "A lot of times people think they're just not paying attention or they were listening ot the radio... they may sense that somehow they were distracted, but in fact they'd fallen asleep."
Barker runs Knoxville's Barker Sleep Institute. She says patients with sleep disorders complain about difficulty focusing during the day due to a lack of sleep.
The government estimates that about 3 percent of fatal traffic crashes involve drowsy drivers, but other estimates have put that number as high as 33 percent.
Warning signs of drowsy driving: Feeling very tired, not remembering the last mile or two, or drifting onto rumble strips on the side of the road. That signals a driver should get off the road and rest, Wheaton said.
Even a brief moment nodding off can be extremely dangerous, she noted. At 60 mph, a single second translates to speeding along for 88 feet — the length of two school buses.
To prevent drowsy driving, health officials recommend getting 7 to 9 hours of sleep each night, treating any sleep disorders and not drinking alcohol before getting behind the wheel.


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Upcoming Class on Great Association Websites!Written by Dorothy Firsching
On Saturday, March 18, 2017, I will present Great Association Websites on behalf of the Washington, DC Chapter of the Community Associations Institute.
Please contact me if you are interested in attending. As soon as I have the final flyer, I will post it here.
NoVA HSS Housing Resource Guide is now Live!Written by Dorothy Firsching
The NOVA Housing Resource Guide is now live! The Virginia Housing and Supportive Services' Northern Virginia Regional Implementation Team (NoVA RIT) educates individuals, families and service providers about integrated, independent housing and housing resources.
Ursa Major Consulting created its Housing Resource Guide website. The Resource Guide incorporates a database on apartment complexes, housing resources and programs, and provides videos and webinars as part of a toolkit to help individuals move to independent housing. The site was created using Joomla! and associated components. New housing resources and programs can be submitted for approval by members of the public and administered by the NoVA RIT.
The Guide contains information about public and private organizations that provide housing and housing-related assistance for residents in Northern Virginia, including the Counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William, and the Cities of Alexandria, Falls Church, Manassas and Manassas Park. While the guide was produced for the benefit of residents with developmental disabilities, their families and support coordinators, many resources within the guide are available to the broader community based upon income or need.
The contents of the Guide are reviewed and updated by volunteers on a bi-annual basis. However, if you find inaccurate information listed for a program or organization, please contact us so that we can rectify the error as expeditiously as possible. We have provided the ability to submit program / resource information and information on additional housing resources.
This version of the Guide contains about 100 pages of information already and will continue to grow and be updated. There are basically three types of information included:
- Database entries on housing (primarily apartment complexes). To search it, select Find Housing Query.
- Database entries on programs and resources. To search it, select Find Resources / Programs.
- The Housing Assistance menu provides articles that may also be of assistance.
To search the database, go to Find Rental housing or Find Housing Resources on the main menu, and then look for the Find Housing or Find Resources Queries on the sidebar menu.
Keeping busy in diverse ways!Written by Dorothy Firsching
Just a little placeholder to let the world know that we are alive and kicking despite neglecting update of this website!
Working hard on a wide variety of efforts, including:
- Organizational study for Arlington County
- Work in support of the Housing and Supportive Services Consortium (HSS)
- Developed and delivered capture and proposal training for a national nonprofit agency
- Developed and delivered a website for Delta Consulting Group, will add it to my portfolio shortly
- Serving on the board of the Washington Metropolitan Chapter of the Community Associations Institute (WMCCAI)
- Continuing to serve as secretary of the Northern Virginia Joomla! Users Group, President of Talltree South and MapleTree Pool Associations
- Will have an article in Quorum Magazine and shortly, a video
- Supporting other web and proposal-related clients
- And much more. Helping others debug code and write stories!
Compliments for Guild SiteWritten by Dorothy Firsching
Met the Deadline - New Website for JMA SolutionsWritten by Dorothy Firsching
We recently had the opportunity to create a new Joomla! website for JMA Solutions. Their prior website had been a Cold Fusion site (yes, I've done that in the past), but their hosting provider was pulling the plug on Cold Fusion.
Within two weeks, and over the Thanksgiving holiday, the new website was up and running. It incorporates both enhanced information on the company and the awards they've won, and an employee portal with internal policies, forms, calendar, and other features.
Everyone was very pleased with the new site, which is at www.jma-solutions.com.
New Contract - Virginia Industries for the BlindWritten by Dorothy Firsching
We are pleased to announce that we are assisting Virginia Industries for the Blind (VIB) with their strategic planning effort.
VIB is is a division of the Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired (DBVI), and provides employment opportuniities for Virginians who are blind or visually impaired in two manufacturing plants, eleven base supply stores, and six service locations. They have diverse contracts with federal agencies through the AbilityOne Program (e.g., contract management and closeout services for the U. S. Army), contracts through State Agency agreements such as the Virginia Court Debt Collection Office, the Department of Motor Vehicles, and the Virginia Employment Commission, and manufacture items as diverse as mattresses for the U. S. Navy and state colleges and universities and reflective vests for the Virginia Department of Trnsportation.
Given the improvements in assistive technology and more ambitious expectations of young people who are blind and people who lose their sight after gaining work experience, VIB is exploring ways to attract workers who are looking for more than traditional product manufacturing. In fact, some of VIB's experienced contract closeout employees have already been hired by the government, which is quite a successful outcome for those people.
We look forward to helping VIB plan the modernization of its business to meet the evolving needs of people who are blind or vision impaired.
New Contract - Goodwill of South FloridaWritten by Dorothy Firsching
We are pleased to announce that we are assisting Goodwill Industries of South Florida in implementation of new case management software. Goodwill is dedicated to providing rehabilitation, on-the-job training, work experience, and placement services to help people with disabilities and special needs overcome barriers to employment and become employed in the community. Goodwill of South Florida is one of the largest Goodwills in the country and serves a diverse population.
The anticipated benefits from this change include:
- Streamlined processes
- Reduced redundant work
- Better data and improved ability to access data on clients, programs, and services provided, both for daily operations and for strategic decisions
- Better insights into outcomes achieved, and
- Improved and easier reporting.
With Catoctin Consulting, we will assist Goodwill with the change process, from requirement validation and planning onward. We look forward to working closely with them to make this effort a success!
Enterprise Architecture and Management TouchpointsWritten by Dorothy Firsching
In support of the Enterprise Business Transformation (EBT) within Programs and Resources of the U. S. Marine Corps, Ursa Major developed an analysis of thirty-eight Management Touch Points (MTPs). This work was done through Catapult Consultants and Catoctin Consulting.
These MTPs are Federal, Department of Defense (DoD), Department of the Navy (DON), and Marine Corps guidance documents, organizations, objectives, and standards that govern the management of enterprise architectures (EA), systems, and data across the Marine Corps. The MTPs were analyzed across the solutions life cycle, to identify gaps and potential duplications and create a resource providing insight into this important area.
Through this work, Dorothy Firsching updated her knowledge of the Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF-II), Federal guidance, the DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF), DoD guidance, DON EA guidance and organization, and Marine Corps EA Guidance and organization. Lifecycle frameworks, including the Business Capability Lifecycle (BCL) and the Joint Capability Integration and development System (JCIDS) were also analyzed, as were the requirements for interoperability and supportability of IT and national security systems (NSS). The MTPs were mapped to the solutions and investment life cycle.
Gaps and overlaps were identified, and additional MTPs were proposed to fill the gaps. MTP overlaps are not redundancies, but instead require a roadmap to determine the most appropriate or mandated path for a given effort. There is recent and continuing work to update the management of DoD, DON, and Marine Corps EA and systems investments. Additional actions were recommended to leverage these improvements.
Overall, it was a very interesting and well-received project. We look forward to continuing to support the EBT office in the future.
Website Redeployment for Garabedian LawWritten by Dorothy Firsching
The Law Offices of Mitchell Garabedian, located in Boston, Massachusetts, offers help to those who were sexually abused by teachers, coaches, priests, scout leaders, and others in authority. Attorney Mitchell Garabedian has achieved results for more than 1000 victims / survivors and has been instrumental in publishing the names of the perpetrators that so long were kept silent.
Ursa Major supported the redeployment of the website, which had been hosted by Lexis Nexis Martindale Hubbell. When the site was at Lexis, it was difficult for the firm to get website updates made in a responsive manner. We are now in a position to provide nimble support to the law firm by keeping the website current, so that it reports the latest results achieved for victims and survivors of sexcual abuse. We are also applying Search Engine Optimization (SEO) best principles to increase website traffic and enable other sexual abuse survivors and their friends and families to find Garabedian Law.
Please visit the Garabedian Law website at www.garabedianlaw.com and see the compelling videos on YouTube as well.
SWAM CertificationWritten by Dorothy Firsching
Ursa Major's recertification as a small, woman-owned business in the Commonwealth of Virginia was approved. Virginia is increasingly turning to SWAM-certified vendors for its needs. Ursa Major is a team partner on Catoctin Consulting's contracts with the Commonwealth of Virginia for facilitation, strategic planning, and performance management.
NVAR Updated Website is Live!Written by Dorothy Firsching
The Northern Virginia Association of REALTORS ® (NVAR) engaged Ursa Major Consulting to provide Joomla! expertise in supporting the transition to a new website. A usability study and brand design was done by WM Design Group. Ursa Major supported the high-traffic, high-content site in Joomla! for several years before its recent transition to integrate with a membership management soution.


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Safety first
Horst Schuller and Claus-Peter Tödten of Lufthansa Technik maintain the Special Air Mission Wing Ministry of Defense fleet, which is also retained for German government officials. A peek behind the scenes.
We're currently inspecting an Airbus A310 that has come to Hamburg for a comprehensive overhaul. It's special because it is part of Germany's Flugbereitschaft BMVg (Special Air Mission Wing Ministry of Defense) gray fleet.
Four of these five planes can be converted from passenger plane to freighter, aerial refueling plane for fighter jets or even into a flying hospital.
In a medical evacuation configuration (MedEvac) it can carry 44 patients in beds, including intensive care for up to six patients. At full capacity, the medical staff on board consists of 25 doctors and nurses. With this aircraft, the German Air Force evacuates patients from deployment areas and crisis regions.
Lufthansa Technik provides technical support for these planes as well as for eight other military aircraft. Here in Hamburg, we take care of all the big overhaul and repair jobs that require specialist knowledge. Smaller maintenance jobs and general troubleshooting is done by the Air Force itself at its base in Wahn, near Cologne.
The downtime originally scheduled for our current IL check – an overhaul that takes place at intervals of six years – was actually two months. But then, some of our technicians spotted the wing bolts. They discovered traces of corrosion in 100 of the bore holes on the wing into which these bolts are sunk.
The aluminum alloy had reacted with oxygen in a similar way that iron does when it rusts. This sort of thing doesn't affect an aircraft's structural stability, but it is precisely why regular checks are so necessary – because you discover and eliminate material defects at an early stage. In this case, though, the repair job turned out to be trickier than usual.
We treated each bore hole individually, enlarging it with a cutting tool called a reamer. The result was subsequently checked in a follow-up inspection: Had we managed to remove all the corrosion? If so, great. If not, we would have to enlarge the holes a tiny bit more.
Since there was always a chance that our maintenance work might affect the wing structure, we had to consult the manufacturer, Airbus, every now and then. Often, it would take a day or two for them to get back to us.
Additionally, we had to order new bolts for the enlarged bore holes. Some, which had very specific dimensions, had to be flown in from the USA, Asia or even South Africa. As a consequence, the technical overhaul had to be extended to almost four months.
But even if repairing and maintaining these planes is no different than for other aircraft, Special Air Mission Wing MoD is still a special client. For historical reasons, too.
In 1955, German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer flew to Moscow on a Lufthansa Lockheed Super Constellation where he managed to negotiate the release of the last German prisoners of war from Soviet captivity.
Today, the Special Air Mission Wing MoD in Cologne retains two A340s, two A319s and four Bombardier Global 5000s for members of parliament and German government officials. Lufthansa Technik continues to maintain them all.
Special Air Mission Wing MoD
The Special Air Mission Wing MoD provides transportation for government officials, troops, medical and aid missions, as well as freight.
Flying high
The fleet consists of five Airbus A310-304s, two Airbus A340-300s and two A319CJs, four Bombardier Global 5000s and three Cougar AS-532 helicopters.
The Special Air Wing Mission MoD transported its first politicians in February 1957 – in a De Havilland DH 114. It joined the jet age with a Boeing 707 in 1968.


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The fog that delayed the Rolex 24 on Sunday morning was caused by a temperature drop overnight and heavy moisture.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Dense fog that delayed the Rolex 24 at Daytona for more than an hour and a half Sunday morning was caused by a sharp drop in temperatures overnight and heavy moisture pushed ahead of a weak cold front, a National Weather Service official said Sunday.
Light fog had been an issue for the previous couple of nights, but the additional moisture in the air allowed more fog to roll in Sunday morning, meteorologist Randy Lascody said.
The sharp temperature inversion left the coldest temperatures at the ground and essentially a cloud formed on the ground, he said.
The fog rolled in across the area and reduced visibility to less than a half mile from Ormond Beach to DeLand.


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DIA Rembrandt exhibit draws record numbers
15,000 view Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus during holiday week
DETROIT – A exhibit by an old master is proving to bea crowd-pleaser at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Attendance at the exhibit, "Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus," has broken recent records at the museum. More than 15,000 visitors saw the exhibit during the week between Christmas and New Year -that's about three times the typical weekly attendance for the exhibit.
"The response has been overwhelming," said Graham W. J.Beal, DIA director. "Much of the positive feedback we have received focuses on how the exhibition is presented, which places Rembrandt and the works of art in historical and cultural context."
The exhibit remains at the DIA through Feb. 12.
This Sunday, the museum is offering a special half-off ticket price. General admission is free that day, but if you want to see the exhibit adults will pay$8 and children 6-17 willpay $4. That same day, Shelley Perlove will give a free talk at 2 p.m. about "Rembrandt's Great Challenge Visualizing Jesus."
The museum and exhibition will also be open from10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Martin Luther King Day, Monday, Jan. 16. A $6-off coupon is available at www.dia.org through Jan. 16. This cannot be used with other specials, such as the half-off Jan. 8 ticket price. It also does not apply to group sales.
Museum hours are 10 a.m.-4p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays,10 a.m.-10 p.m. Fridays, and10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Admission is $8 for adults, $6 for seniors, $4for ages 6-17, and free for DIA members. For membership information, call 313-833-7971.
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Footnotes | July/August 2012 Issue | Announcements
Arlie Hochschild Award Statement
Arlie Russell Hochschild is one of the most imaginative and productive feminist sociologists of the last thirty years. Through her commitment to scholarship on women and gender, her extensive publications, and her mentoring of graduate students, Arlie Hochschild has had an enormous impact on the fields of the sociology of gender, the sociology of the family, and other key issues of contemporary life.
As a scholar, Arlie Hochschild has been at the forefront of research on contemporary work and family life for over thirty years. The intellectual threads running through all of Arlie Hochschild's work are her use of gender as a category of analysis, her focus on emotion as a sociological topic of investigation, and her concerns about the role of women in society. Her 1973 article, "A Review of Sex Role Research," published in the American Journal of Sociology, helped tofocus the attention of sociologists on the study of gender. In 1975, Hochschild published her now classic article, "Inside the Clockwork of Male Careers," and helped to usher in a wave of research that would take as its problematic the intricate dynamics of the gendered division of labor at home and in the workplace. The Second Shift still stands as the central sociological work on the paradoxes and emotionally complex inequities of gender divisions of labor in the U.S. The Time Bind moved the discussion into sites of paid work, probing the speed-ups of contemporary work and family. Hochschild's co-edited book, The Global Woman (with Barbara Ehrenreich), has called attention to the global commodification of and inequities in carework. Arlie Hochschild is also widely recognized as one of the founders of the sociology of emotions as a subfield; her book, The Managed Heart, remains a foundational source, and concepts like "emotion work" and "feeling rules" have traveled into the work of many other scholars.
Hochschild's research and writing have changed the contours of knowledge in the social sciences and in public life. She has a creative genius for framing questions and lines of insight, often condensed into memorable, paradigm-shifting words and phrases, such as "inside the clockwork of male careers"; "the second shift"; "the economy of gratitude"; "the stalled revolution"; "feeling rules"; "emotion work"; "the time bind." These terms have journeyed from academic into popular discourse where her beautifully written academic writing has reached much wider audiences.
Hochschild's work also exemplifies the ideals of an engaged, informed, and feminist public sociology. Her work has had significant influence outside of the academy, making her a "public sociologist." The Managed Heart and The Second Shift, were both named "Notable Social Science Books of the Year" by the New York Times. The Second Shift, one of the books listed in Herbert Gans' study of "Best-Sellers by Sociologists" (Contemporary Sociology, 1995), reached far beyond academic and student readers to contribute to the wider public discourse on the gendered nature of work and family. Hochschild also regularly writes newspaper op eds and crafts articles for magazines like American Prospect.
Not only through her own writings but also as a teacher, Arlie Hochschild has done a great deal to further the intellectual life and careers of others. Her students speak of the long hours she has devoted to mentoring and guiding them. Many of the Ph.D. dissertations Arlie has directed have become books and many of the critically recognized books in the field have been written by scholars who were directly influenced by Arlie Hochschild. She influenced students and others to see the world not only through the lens of gender, but also with close attention to the dynamics of capitalism and social class; the distortions of racism and racialization; and variations relating to culture and nation.
In addition to her own research and writing, Arlie Hochschild has taken a leading role in developing institutional settings for the study of women and gender. At the University of California, Berkeley, Hochschild was chair of the committee that established the Beatrice Bain Institute for Research on Women in 1986, thereby helping to foster research by others on the role of women in society. More recently, Arlie Hochschild's abilities to provide both institutional and intellectual space for research on gender, work, and families came together in her founding and co-directing the Center for Working Families at U.C. Berkeley (one of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funded centers on work and family) At the Center, with Arlie's unflagging encouragement and support, pre-doctoral, postdoctoral, and senior scholars conducted innovative research on "cultures of care" to illuminate issues that are central to the study of gender and the position of women.


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Morning rituals — It's morning, and Zoe is packing a carry-on for her business trip to Boston while she rattles off a list of chores and reminders at Eric, who is lying in their bed pretending to be asleep.
The pretending-to-be-asleep trick never works with real partners — they know you too well. That trick is best reserved for women you picked up while wearing beer goggles, but in the unforgiving light of day, don't look so much like Keira Knightley anymore. With any luck, they'll let themselves out.
Over in the very fine digs of Juliet and Davis My-Wife-Neglects-Me-So-Let's-Get-a-Room Draper, Juliet is sitting at her makeup table getting ready for work like she has all the time in the world. Which she does, because she's the boss and bosses can show up whenever they damn well please. I've been the boss. Not officially, but ya know, in my mind.
Juliet's cell rings. It's Bobby Walsh, the one that got away. The last nice, hot, rich, single, straight man in North America. Bobby might actually be a long-lost Osmond Brother named Larry.
Don't get all existential so early in the morning, Juliet. I need coffee first.
From his hotel room in London, Bobby proposes that he might swing through New York in a few weeks on business — monkey business, that is. Heh.
Juliet is too classy to engage in blatant phone sex, but from the naughty look on her face, it's obvious she's definitely thinking about merging their assets with due diligence.
Just then, Davis comes out of the shower and Juliet hangs up quickly. Davis is in full contrition mode and suggests they relive the good times by returning to a resort they both love in Anguilla. Juliet says no thanks. Pristine beaches and tropical drinks aren't going to fix anything; only time will heal her wounds.
Meanwhile, Mia is already on the job, holding a meeting with the staff of Modern Man, one of her many magazines.
Unlike women's magazines, which are chock full of makeup tips, self-help articles and pieces on how to make the man in your life happy, men's magazines feature life-enhancing pieces like updates on cool tech gadgets, photo spreads of hot actresses and movie recommendations.
Let's start a women's magazine called Flawed and a men's magazine called S'all Good!
After the meeting breaks up, a doughy dude who's badly in need of a haircut approaches Mia to feel her out about his job. Seems he was hired by and worked for Jack, Mia's ex-fiancé. Mia assures him there will be no penalties for working with Jack-ass. "We're still friends," Mia tells him. And by "friends," she means people who never speak to each other.
Tracy, Mia's protégé, comes in with a phone message from Mia's mother. Mama Mia, if you will, wants to know when Mia and Jack are coming over for dinner. Whoops. Someone forgot to tell Mom the wedding's off.