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This week in new hires, Patrick Bannigan joined American Century as chief operating officer, Monte Garpestad went to Securities America, and the Retirement Income Industry Association named Peng Chen academic curriculum director of its retirement management analyst curriculum.
Also, Irwin Menken of C3 Software joined Avalon Lake Partners, NAREIT named its 2013 leadership team, and U.S. Bank announced three new appointments.
American Century Investments Names Patrick Bannigan EVP, COO
American Century Investments announced the appointment of Patrick Bannigan to executive vice president and chief operating officer (COO), effective Nov. 5. Bannigan succeeds current COO Barry Fink, who is retiring from the firm in February but will continue his role as an American Century mutual fund board director. Bannigan will also serve on the management committee.
Bannigan's most recent position was with RiverSource (now Columbia Management and part of Ameriprise Financial), where he served as president of RiverSource Funds and SVP and general manager of RiverSource Investments. Previously, he was managing director and global head of product for Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Earlier, he served as president of Touchstone Investments, and also had experience with Evergreen Investments. Previously, he was with Alliance Capital Management, where he was a member of its legal department.
Securities America Hires Monte Garpestad
Securities America announced that it has hired Monte Garpestad to the position of senior regional director of branch office development for the upper northwest region.
Garpestad recently relocated to Omaha from the Seattle area and will be located out of the firm's home office. He spent more than 20 years at Charles Schwab, where he was a registered representative, branch manager, senior investment center sales manager and vice president.
RIIA Names Peng Chen Academic Director
The Retirement Income Industry Association announced on Tuesday that Peng Chen(left), CEO of Dimensional Fund Advisors, Asia, has been named academic curriculum director of the RIIA's Retirement Management Analyst (RMA) advanced education program.
According to Francois Gadenne, executive director and chairman of the organization, Chen "will oversee and review the academic and scholarly direction of the evolving RMA curriculum, as well as edit and review submissions of annual updates to the RMA textbook and Retirement Income Body of Knowledge, which are the foundation of the RMA program of study."
Chen, a longtime Morningstar and Ibbotson executive, surprised industry watchers in May when he announced his departure from the Chicago-based research and investment firm.
The reason given at the time by Morningstar chairman and CEO Joe Mansueto was that Chen was moving to Asia to be closer to his family.
Read the full story, RIIA Names Peng Chen, at AdvisorOne. Irwin Menken, Founder of C3 Compliance Software, Joins Avalon Lake Partners
Irwin Menken, founder and president of software company C3 Compliance LLC, has joined Avalon Lake Partners, where he will support Avalon Lake's sales operations and technology implementation, expanding its product base and integrating C3, a proprietary Web-based regulatory infrastructure tool, with the firm's existing compliance offerings. C3 assists hedge funds and broker-dealers with document aggregation, document audit trails and calendaring as these tasks relate to SEC and FINRA compliance.
Menken is a director at Avalon Lake Partners. Prior to relaunching C3 in 2009, he built the infrastructure for a hedge fund, including all physical and operational aspects of the firm as well as marketing and compliance. He has also run marketing and publishing firms and formerly served as president and partner at Communique Advertising. In 1999 and 2000 Menken was CEO of Consolidated Publishing Group.
NAREIT Names 2013 Leadership Team; Edward Walter to Serve as Chairman
The National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) announced Monday the election of its 2013 officers, as well as the members of its executive board, board of governors and audit and investment committee.
Elected chair was W. Edward Walter, president and CEO of Host Hotels & Resorts. Other NAREIT officers for 2013 are First Vice Chairman Ronald L. Havner, chairman, president and CEO of Public Storage; Second Vice Chairman Michael D. Fascitelli, president and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust; and Treasurer David J. Neithercut, president and CEO of Equity Residential. All NAREIT's officers also are members of its executive board.
Also serving on NAREIT's 2013 executive board are: Jon E. Bortz, chairman and CEO, Pebblebrook Hotel Trust; Richard J. Campo, chairman and CEO, Camden Property Trust; Andrew F. Jacobs, president and CEO, Capstead Mortgage Corp.; Edward J. Fritsch, president and CEO, Highwoods Properties; David B. Henry, president and CEO, Kimco Realty Corp.; Rick R. Holley, president and CEO, Plum Creek Timber Co.; Dennis D. Oklak, chairman and CEO, Duke Realty Corp.; Steven B. Tanger, president and CEO, Tanger Factory Outlet Centers; Robert S. Taubman, chairman, president and CEO, Taubman Centers; and Thomas W. Toomey, president and CEO, UDR, Inc. Past NAREIT chairman is Donald C. Wood, president and CEO, Federal Realty Investment Trust.
U.S. Bank Names Three
U.S. Bank announced Tuesday three new personnel appointments in Seattle. Lisa Simonson and Kato Wade are the newest members of the Ascent Private Capital Management team, and Jorgen Gustafson will join the Private Client Reserve of U.S. Bank.
Simonson will serve as director of financial administration, where she will provide comprehensive planning and financial administration services to ultrahigh-net-worth clients.
Wade has been named director of client experience and will oversee the delivery of services and solutions for the firm's UHNW clients.
Gustafson has been named vice president, senior portfolio manager for the Private Client Reserve, and will provide clients with integrated and customized investment services.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit kicks off its 14th season by asking what once may have been an unthinkable question: Is Capt. Cragen a murderer?
"He should have not put that dead hooker in his bed," executive producer Warren Leight says of last season's cliff-hanger with a laugh. "Even if we know Capt. Cragen, it's just never good to wake up with a dead hooker in your bed. That means you did something wrong."
Fall Preview: Get scoop on all your favorite returning showsBut did he? While Cragen (Dann Florek ) comes under investigation, Detective Benson (Mariska Hargitay) will work furiously to prove his innocence, even though she has a new temporary captain (guest star Adam Baldwin) breathing down her neck. As Benson gets closer to the truth, she'll learn what Leight says is a theme for the season: Everybody has secrets.Read on to find out how quickly Cragen's legal woes will be wrapped up, whether or not Detective Amaro (Danny Pino) can hold his marriage together, and why Law & Order: Criminal Intent's Kathryn Erbe will pay the SVU squad a visit this season. Plus: Will we finally meet Munch's mother?You're coming back from a very big cliff-hanger. How challenging was that?
Warren Leight: I enjoyed ending the season that way. And then we got lucky because NBC said they wanted us to do two hours [on premiere night]. They didn't necessarily mean a two-parter. That's a big departure for Law & Order to have a three-part story spread out over three episodes. It required a little bit of persuasion, but essentially we have a movie that we shot over the course of 24 days. There are high stakes. Not only is there a dead hooker in Cragen's bed, but obviously there's a lot of tension between Amaro and Benson. We kept a lot of plates spinning and it was just a thrill to get to work in a longer form, For Dann Florek I don't think it was too much fun. I think he prefers a tailored suit to an orange jumpsuit.
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You could have presumably brought any of the SVU detectives under suspicion as last season's big twist. Why Cragen?
Leight: He's the father figure. You think he's the last guy that would happen to, but he has his demons. We believe he has them under control. He was by far the most interesting character to involve, and if it's a frame-up, he would be a good guy to frame. There was that weird little episode, "Russian Brides," where he went on that date. We saw a side of him we haven't seen before. One of the things you could take away from that scene is underneath his character's stoicism is some loneliness. And loneliness can lead people to make bad decisions.
Will Cragen's case be resolved in the premiere, or will it take some time?
Leight: Some things are resolved, but there are long-lasting repercussions. It's not Homeland. I admire and I envy their schedule, but I can't drag it out for 23 episodes. What we're trying to do is maintain continuity from one episode to the next. Episodes can be freestanding, but if Amaro and Benson have a tough time in one episode, it's not like the next episode it didn't happen. So we have a lot more continuity, a lot of story lines spilling over.
Paget Brewster is guest-starring on the premiere. What can you tell us about her character?
Leight: She's playing Paula Foster, who's the head of the D.A.'s public integrity unit. All of this is falling into her lap. She has a renegade squad that is desperately trying to free the Captain. She has Amaro as the last person to see the dead hooker alive. She obviously has pressure from the mayor's office saying, "Clean this up and clean it up now." She's between a rock and a hard place, and her relationship with Olivia is very interesting. Olivia is doing everything she can to free Cragen, and Paget Brewster's character is trying to figure out what the hell happened.
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Is the relationship completely antagonistic, or does Benson realize that Foster could actually help her?
Leight: They have to find a way to work together or neither of them is going to get what they need. But there's suspicion on both sides. The cop wants the arrest; the DA wants the conviction. And those are two very separate things. So Paget's character has some very tough choices to make, and Benson is more of a true believer. She doesn't understand that compromises need to be made from time to time.
How will Benson & Co. respond to their new interim captain, played by Adam Baldwin?
Leight: Adam's character is a fixer. He comes into situations that are all screwed up, and his job is to figure out who's straight, who's corrupt, who can he trust to restore order. If he does the job right, he moves on. He's politically connected at NYPD and he likes moving the pieces on the board. That's an interesting guy to throw into SVU, because Olivia and Amaro are pieces that don't like other people moving them.
We'll also see Amaro's wife again in the premiere, right?
Leight: Yes. We're trying to show the cumulative toll this sort of work takes on our heroes. We know his marriage is on very shaky ground. It was working while his wife was overseas and since she's come back it's just been a disaster. Their big question is: Can they work through it or is it over?
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What personal stories are you hoping to tell with the other characters?
Leight: We're hoping to see Rollins' sister arrive at some point this season. We referenced her a bit last year, and we hope to see a little bit of what shaped Rollins [Kelli Giddish]. I'd love to get a bit more for Finn [Ice-T], who's been underserved in some ways. I'd like to find out a little bit more about him, like: Does he have a house? [Laughs] We saw a little bit of his son last year but there's clearly more to understand about him. We may even get a glimpse of Munch's [Richard Belzer] mother. We don't know anything about her. I think it's kind of interesting.
Has crafting this season been different now that you've been on the job a year?
Leight: It's great to have a season under my belt. There was something exciting about hitting the ground running. I feel liberated from the "Can this show survive without Elliott?" thing. That drove me crazy last year. We were on a network that was having problems and the headline writers kept blaming [Christopher] Meloni's departure for the show's low ratings. The thing I am most proud of is at the end of the year, our finale was NBC's highest-rated finale. We had seven episodes in a row, and each week the ratings stepped up. I felt like, "Now we know there is a show after Elliott," which I always knew that there was. I enjoyed being underestimated. It was like a little challenge, and this year the challenge is to keep it interesting and to get past the transition.
You're bringing Law & Order: Criminal Intent's Kathryn Erbe to your squad room this season. How did that happen?
Leight: I did Criminal Intent for seven years. One of the things that's strange is SVU fans watch Law & Order and Criminal Intent fans watch Law & Order, but Criminal Intent fans do not watch SVU. There's not as much crossover between those shows as you might guess. And now that there's only one show left, I'd like to bring those fans together. When we started to plot the fourth episode, we needed a Homeland Security agent. I didn't want to just keep throwing new people into this mix, and our casting director said "What about your old friend Katie?" We were all like, "That's it. We're done."
Law & Order: Criminal Intent's Kathryn Erbe to reprise role on SVU
So what is her role exactly?
Leight: Once Katie said yes, we retooled the script a bit. The backstory is she worked the Major Case Unit for over a decade. Her partner left and she was looking for something new. She's on loan to Homeland Security on a joint terrorism task force, which is high stakes and her character can handle that. It was great to have scenes between Katie and Mariska. These are two women who had long-term partnerships with difficult guys. These are two people who've been underestimated — who've worked just as hard, just as long —and people don't quite get how good they are.
Is this a one-time thing, or will we see more of her?
Leight: She'll come back. I don't know exactly when, but she'll be coming back. Katie is so believable as an NYPD cop. The notion of bringing in someone new when she was just sitting there seems crazy to me. She's tough and she can be funny, but don't mess with her.
Safe to assume you'll still be ripping from the headlines this season?
Leight: I would say there's an element of headline-ripping. Our third episode of the season is very much a courtroom drama with Roger Bart and Raul Esparza and Anna Chlumsky. Raul comes in as a DA loaded for bear. Anna Chlumsky's character has written a book called Twenty Five Acts about a woman giving her life over to bondage and domination. The book is a runaway best seller and every woman in America is reading the book. She goes on a talk show, then goes out to dinner with the host, and then things turn ugly between her and the host.
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Do you have an overall theme for the season?
Leight: We're doing a lot with secrets. The secrets people keep and the damage those secrets do is part of the first five episodes. It's an interesting way of looking at a lot of what happens in sex crimes. People stay in denial and hide things in themselves. People can seem to be decent, but people lead double lives and. How those secrets come out and what happens when the secrets come out is an interesting way of framing a lot of the episodes.
And will we learn that our heroes have their own share of secrets?
Leight: I think we have to. It's not fair for just the bad guys to have secrets. In the premiere, Paget's character says to Olivia, "Everybody has secrets. You do. I do. The captain does." So, of course we'll be seeing some of the ones our guys have. Obviously something's going on with Cragen, but no one is exactly what they seem to be.
Any hints?
Leight: [Laughs] If I give you that, then they're not secrets.
Law & Order SVU's two-hour Season 14 premiere airs Wednesday at 9/8c on NBC.

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In addition to the Museum of Modern Art's blockbuster retrospective on Willem de Kooning, opening Sept. 18, here are seven more art exhibitions to note on your calendar.
Sept. 17. Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, takes a rare look at the design work of a figure much better known as an architect. Hadid herself created the immersive display for her objects. Through March 25.
Sept. 25. A Warhol double-header in the nation's capital: Warhol: Headlines at the National Gallery of Art through Jan. 2 and Andy Warhol: Shadows at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum through Jan. 15. Warhol is probably the most important artist of the last 50 years, but these shows suggest that his famous soup cans and Marilyns may not matter as much as his more subtle works, such as those that riff on the news and on illegible details from everyday life.
Oct. 1. Pacific Standard Time is a festival of postwar art in Los Angeles that, with help from $10 million worth of Getty Foundation grants, will be filling almost all the city's art venues. Through April 2012.
Nov. 4. Maurizio Cattelan: All will present the complete works of this Italian trickster at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. His statue of Pope John Paul II felled by a meteor should be there, as should some version of the piece where he duct-taped his dealer high up on a wall. Through Jan 22.
Nov. 9. Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan, at the National Gallery in London, will be the most complete display of Leonardo paintings ever presented—which means there might even be a dozen of them on view. (His drawings, and works by his pupils, will round out the show.) Through Feb. 5.
Nov. 18. HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, a show about gender identity that is touring to the Brooklyn Museum, caused a ruckus last year when the Smithsonian censored one of its works. In its New York incarnation, let's hope the focus can turn back to the fascinating art it presents. Through Feb 12.


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UK freshman Davis wins Naismith
BY foxsports • April 1, 2012
Kentucky star Anthony Davis has won the Naismith Trophy for men's college player of the year.
Davis is the first player from Kentucky to win the award and the second freshman, joining Texas' Kevin Durant in 2007. He is the first Naismith Trophy winner from the Southeastern Conference since LSU's Pete Maravich in 1970.
The 6-foot-10 Davis is averaging a team-high 14.4 points, 10.2 rebounds and 4.6 blocked shots per game heading into the national championship Monday night against Kansas. He also was voted The Associated Press' Player of the Year.
The Atlanta Tipoff Club announced the Naismith winner on Sunday.
Michigan State's Draymond Green, Creighton's Doug McDermott and Kansas' Thomas Robinson also were up for the honor.
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A Serial Entrepreneur Shares Her Secrets for Technology Startup Success and How She Wooed Guy Kawasaki Away From Apple
Outside it looks like a cabin in the woods, but on any given day inside Buck's Restaurant Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are striking funding deals over breakfast, including such startups as Hotmail, PayPal and Tesla, according to legend. (Flickr photo)
Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, Calif. is the epicenter of Silicon Valley's venture capital scene, but it's 15 minutes up the road at a diner nestled in the woods where many startup funding deals get hashed out over plates of pancakes and eggs herunterladen.
Buck's Restaurant in Woodside is where startup veteran Marylene Delbourg-Delphis took time recently to reflect on her legacy as one of the first European women to start a tech company in Silicon Valley.
Decades before organizations such as Women 2.0 and One Million by One Million helped women start their own businesses, Delbourg-Delphis dove in headfirst, developing her own business philosophy defined by friendships and intuition but rooted in a bootstrapping approach aimed at generating revenue before reaching for venture funding.
"Lots of VCs come to Buck's. I really like the energy I find here," Delbourg-Delphis said with a smile.
Legend has it that Hotmail and Tesla were founded at Buck's herunterladen. Netscape had early-stage meetings at the roadside diner and it's where PayPal secured initial funding. Over a bowl of mixed fruit and a mug of Buck's house coffee, the self-professed serial entrepreneur talked about her early-morning meeting at TalentCircles, a job-recruitment company where she is CEO. It's the most recent of more than 30 companies she has worked on over the years, including Brixlogic, Exemplary and Objective Marketer, all of which were eventually acquired.
"Startups have been my passion, my exclusive passion for the past 25 years," she said.
First Startup
In the mid-1980s, Delbourg-Delphis was studying at l'Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris when she first used an Apple III excel kostenlos herunterladen windows 7.
"I was working on the history of fragrance, and I needed a database to manage my research," she said. "I looked at dBASE and thought it was so anachronistic. There was really nothing simple, visual and easy to use."
Her need turned into an idea that became a business in France. She named the database 4th Dimension, and claims it was the first relational graphical database.
"I was not approaching this from a point of view of a computer scientist, but from a point of view that this is what I really need," she said, underscoring that this simple, humanistic approach is the essence of most successful startups today schnittmuster kostenlosen kinder.
The French-based database business became profitable after 2 years, according to Delbourg-Delphis. During an Apple Expo in France in 1985, she met Apple software evangelist Alain Rossmann, who strongly encouraged her to visit leaders at Apple headquarters in California — she arranged to arrive in Cupertino post-haste.
Silicon Valley: Florence of the 1980s
When she first set foot in Silicon Valley in 1985, she was fascinated by the sheer concentration of companies all in one place.
"I would not go in front of time looking for what I already know whatsapp videos silvester kostenlos downloaden. Instead I always look at time as the opportunity to learn something new that can challenge me," said veteran entrepreneur Marylene Delbourg-Delphis. (Flickr photo)
"I looked at this as a renaissance world," she said. "I thought of places like Florence, Rome or Paris, where all of the great minds got together to create things, making these places like the center of the Universe eismann app herunterladen. There is a map of Silicon Valley with names of all of the companies in the area, and I remember looking at this map and saying, this is Florence, only several centuries later."
"This is when I figured that the market was here," she said, and quickly decided to start a U.S. subsidiary of her growing French company, and she named it ACIUS 4th Dimension.
"Being one of the very first European women to start a high-tech company in Silicon Valley, it was out of the question that any VC would fund me," said Delbourg-Delphis herunterladen. "When I did my startup, VCs would not relate to somebody like me. I had a heavy-duty background in philosophy, was a woman and I was French."
"I believe VCs were willing to fund women entrepreneurs in the early days, but we just did not have many approach us for capital," said DuBose Montgomery, who co-founded Menlo Ventures in 1976. He remembers Sandra Kurtzig as being one of the first women entrepreneurs to convince VCs to back her technology startup ASK Computers, which later became a very successful manufacturing software company acquired by Computer Associates in 1994.
This environment didn't dissuade Delbourg-Delphis. She focused on product development and networking with developers and potential customers, which she says led her privately held startup to generate more than $45 million in revenue in 6 years smule song herunterladen.
Getting Guy Kawasaki
If there is a line between business and real life, it is blurry if not invisible to Delbourg-Delphis. She believes that the best business relationships develop into true friendships like the one she has with Guy Kawasaki, who today is a top-selling author and successful Internet entrepreneur.
"Silicon Valley is still where you can be genuinely unrealistic and make something real," said veteran entrepreneur Marylene Delbourg-Delphis pdf creator chip for free. "It's still a place where you realize that the future is today." (Flickr photo)
She first met Kawasaki during her early visits to Apple headquarters in 1985. Kawasaki was the company's chief software evangelist, and Delbourg-Delphis described him as someone who always had his hands on products, and the 4th Dimension database was one product he knew well. That same year, Delbourg-Delphis asked Kawasaki if he would join her startup as CEO.
"What's the likelihood of a man coming to work for a woman in the 1980s?" asked Delbourg-Delphis ev3. "But he did. I think he liked how I asked him directly without dramatizing my invitation."
Guy helped me understand American idioms," she added. "I could speak Shakespeare, but I couldn't read the Mercury News."
Kawasaki left ACIUS in 1987 to become an author and speaker, leaving the CEO role to Delbourg-Delphis. Rossmann, who had become a board member at ACIUS, acknowledged that Delbourg-Delphis had built "one of the leading PC databases software companies in the world," capturing a major share of the Apple market.
Delbourg-Delphis left ACIUS in early 1997 at the request of her then 9-year-old daughter Sophie, who wanted to stop traveling back and forth to France and live exclusively in America. After moving permanently to Silicon Valley, she set up Cilantro Productions, her consulting firm where she uses her knowledge and business process management skills to help entrepreneurs.
Democratizing Magic, Intuition over Experience
Silicon Valley has remained a hotbed of innovation for decades because it is continually "democratizing magic," Delbourg-Delphis wrote in a recent article for the French publication Atlantico.
She has never followed a career roadmap, structuring her life instead around interaction with people and her intuition. "I have had a lot of experience, but in a way, I always see experience as something that you must forget," she said. "Experience only helps for routine tasks. I don't use experience as a filter to evaluate new opportunities. I plan when I see and I don't plan to see."
Delbourg-Delphis paused to look around Buck's, turning an ear to nearby chatter about Google, Facebook, Apple, social networking apps and possibly even a deal or two, before offering a parting comment.
"Silicon Valley is a place where you can just do anything, but geography matters less," she said. "With the addition of all sorts of nationalities, far more than anything we saw here 30 years ago, it's a true melting pot for geographies and times. You have people coming from very different backgrounds with completely different histories. It's truly phenomenal. Here people have been used to inventing and innovation for two generations."
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To establish a policy regarding credit bearing undergraduate certificate programs.
Credit bearing, undergraduate certificate programs are comprised of related courses that constitute a coherent body of study within a discipline. These programs must be approved through the university and faculty governance processes. Furthermore, credit bearing certificate programs must establish student learning outcomes and assess the extent to which students achieve these outcomes. Additional information about the assessment of learning outcomes can be found in the Academic Learning Compact (ALC) policy.
With the approval of the sponsoring college, students can apply required coursework to both the certificate program and, if applicable, their chosen undergraduate degree program. Students do not, however, have the right to return for a retroactive certificate award. Students who have graduated from a degree program and wish to return to pursue a certificate will need to apply to the university, and the specific certificate program, and pay a new application fee. Credits awarded and used towards prior degrees cannot be applied to the undergraduate certificate.
Students are subject to the individual requirements of the undergraduate certificate program and will need to complete at least fifty percent of the required coursework in residence at the university (e.g., face-to-face, distance, or credit hours obtained while enrolled in an approved UNF study abroad program). Successful completion of the undergraduate certificate program will be noted on the student's official transcript separately from his or her degree program.
Students who wish to pursue an undergraduate certificate program are required to apply through Enrollment Services and be accepted to the desired program in accordance with program-specific admissions criteria.
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- A Few Things to Know and Do Before You Begin Taking Pictures
- Poring Over the Picture
- Choosing the Right Memory Card
- Formatting Your Memory Card
- Updating the NEX-6's Firmware
- Cleaning the Sensor
- Using the Right Format: RAW vs. JPEG
- Lenses and Focal Lengths
- What Is Exposure?
- Motion and Depth of Field
A Few Things to Know and Do Before You Begin Taking Pictures
Now that we've covered the top ten tasks to get you up and shooting, we should probably take care of some other important details. You must become familiar with certain features of your camera before you can take full advantage of it. Additionally, we will take some steps to prepare the camera and memory card for use. So to get things moving, let's start off with something that you will definitely need before you can take a single picture: a memory card.
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Resources/House Keeping
Weekly Chores
The objective of having weekly chores at Noisebridge is the first minimize the amount of time need to pay for a 3rd party cleaning service to spend here, and secondly to make iphone photography sure the space is tidy. The idea of having chores in the list doesn't mean that it's ok to be messy, please be excellent to others by cleaning up after yourself.
Feel like helping out Noisebridge? Great! Listed bellow are tasks that can be completed once a week. Pick a task and do it! Sign off when you're done so people don't do it again.
Items sorted in highest priority to lowest.
- Take out trash - Empty all space cans into the street cans, replaces liners, take the street cans down to the street Monday and/or Thursday night (where applicable/if there's trash)
- Sweep common spaces floors - Common space, main hall, library, electronics lab.
- Sweep kitchen, bathroom, classroom floors - Kitchen and both classrooms.
- Mop common spaces floors - Common space, main hall, library, electronics lab.
- Mop kitchen, bathroom, classroom floors - Kitchen and both classrooms.
- Clean bathrooms - Scrub the bowl and the sink, make sure there's soap and tp, empty trash.
- Clean kitchen - Scrub all work surfaces, return all dishes and cups to kitchen, send out a nasty email if there are unwashed dishes piled around, do remaining dishes because you're a saint.
- Tidy up work surfaces - Includes 3 work tables (across from the dirty shop and class rooms), coffee tables near the couches, greeting desk, electronic lab main table, library work tables, class room tables, put books back in the library.
- Gather up chairs - Stools go with tall bar tables, chairs go with short tables, electronics lab and class rooms. Clear off junk from couches.
- Clean up hack shelf - Make sure all donated hackable items are on the shelf, sort them out so they're easy to get to.
February 2011
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|15th - 21st
|22nd - 28th
|Take out trash
|Sweep common spaces floors
|Sweep kitchen, bathroom, classroom floors
|Mop common spaces floors
|Mop kitchen, bathroom, classroom floors
|Clean bathrooms
|Clean kitchen
|Tidy up work surfaces
|Gather up chairs
|Clean up hack shelf
We have a business account with PG&E to provide service to two meters for us.
The master switches for these meters are located in the basement, and are both labeled "3rd Floor". Their meter numbers 6331H5 for the back of the space (east side, away from Mission St.), and 703T78 for the front side (west side, against Mission St). The meters will have these numbers on them as well.
For details on our usage rates and the amount we spend, see Electricity.
Trash and Recycling
Street cans
We currently have bins from Sunset Scavenger.
- 1 large bin for trash
- 1 large bin for recycling
Both bins live in the elevator room, please keep them there.
Trash pickup is Tuesday and Friday mornings!
Take the bins out Monday and Thursday evening so we can be sure they're out in time
Space cans
The space has three large cans, 2 for garbage and 1 for recycling. The recycling one is marked. When the can gets full please tie off the bag and dump it into the large street cans living in the elevator room. Bag liners can be found in the kitchen, please put one back in the can when done.
Got something that's e-waste? Desktop computer? Monitor? Electronics? Batteries? There's a space in the elevator room for all that. The pile should only be used for Noisebridge items and not a personal dumping ground.
Kim lives nearby, came by in summer 2011, and works as a recycler for metal and ewaste. Contact her at 2krandolph (at) gmail.com if you have electronic waste, metal desks, metal shelving, refrigerators, stoves, televisions, cell phones, and so on that need to be picked up.
Environmental Logistics Management & Asset Recovery Services Corporation does free picks up of 30lb or more. If you feel that the pile is large enough for a pick up, please go to their site and schedule a pickup then email the list stating the date and time.
Cleaning Service
Mitch and rubin110 are currently in talks with a group by the name of Home Green Home, a worker-owned natural cleaning cooperative, to come by Noisebridge and do a cleaning on some sort of frequency.


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Registrations Back Online
The registration system migration into our payment processor's new platform has been completed and registrations are back online. With this update there have been a few improvments in license key distribution and a simplification of the experience. If you experience any issues or have any questions about the new system, please contact me.
Downloads Fixed
A recent server move resulted in some of the download links reporting as not found, which has been resolved.
Email Address Changed
Due to the overwhelming amount of SPAM that I have been receiving, I've been forced to change my primary email address. Please use the contact form here on the site to initiate contact with me should you need to.
Registration Prices Changed
A few registration prices have been lowered:
BBSing and JDS software featured on G4TV's Attack of the Show
If you caught the April 28th or June 3rd epsiodes of G4TV's Attack of the Show, you may have seen that the crew there have setup a retro-style, dial-up only BBS running WWIV. We were honored to donate a full set of registrations for their system.
You can give the BBS a call yourself at 1-310-979-2699 if you still have an old-school terminal app handy.
For those of you who missed the shows, I've also put both segments up here on the site for your viewing enjoyment.
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Global War v2.7 now available!
This release is a minor update (and free upgrade to registered users) to v2.6 which fixes the problem with players unable to take their turns and enhances both local and remote display of the map images.
WARNING: If you are running v3.0 IBBS, DO NOT apply this upgrade as it will corrupt your data files. This update is for v2.6 (or previous) users only.
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32bit door development underway
Hackin' Crackin' v2.0 Win32bit is currently undergoing beta testing. This version of the software represents months of work of porting our existing library files and the door's code itself to work as a native 32bit Windows application.
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Mr. Speaker, at this moment thousands of young lives are on hold as the future leaders of the country search for jobs.
Young people in Canada are the best educated, most literate and most technologically adept generation in history. Today's rapidly changing economy and competitive job market make it more difficult for inexperienced, undereducated or undertrained youth to find meaningful employment.
Many believe their education is deemed worthless by employers as they are caught in the vicious circle of no job without experience and no experience without a job.
Youth tell us they need improved access to education and training and more information about Canada's labour markets. The Canadian economy needs their energy and talents. They deserve a chance to prove themselves and a chance to acquire work experience.
In response, the government has created the youth employment strategy aimed at helping young people gain the experience necessary to find meaningful employment. While this initiative should be applauded, I challenge the government to increase the scope and visibility of the project so that tomorrow's leaders can have a chance to develop their full potential today.