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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77296710044164646792019-01-17T08:18:16.366-08:00LePou PluginsHere you will find guitar oriented plugins I have developed for both Windows and Mac. These plugins are free and provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty.LePouhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-24138866393590605452016-06-20T16:23:00.000-07:002016-06-21T17:30:05.788-07:00Guitar cabinet IR from 3 Sigma AudioTesting a bunch of guitar cabinet IR from 3 Sigma Audio. The goal is just to give you an idea of broad spectrum that can be obtained with this library. The same mic position has been used for all the cabinets (position 3b). All the samples are raws (no post processing). Signal chain is :
DI -> Screamer -> SoloC (new version) -> NadIR (Ignite Amps)

LePouhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-45435204127895204972016-05-14T06:44:00.000-07:002016-05-14T06:44:00.541-07:00New download links... once againJust to let you know that I have setup new download links for the Amp Sim pack and LeCab.
Sorry for the inconvenience.LePouhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-83113645776680389012016-05-05T07:01:00.000-07:002016-05-05T07:01:04.099-07:00Download links...The download links are not gonna work for a couple of days. I was using Copy and the service is discontinued so I have to setup new links. Sorry for the inconvenience.LePouhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-1535783310785487972015-03-30T15:36:00.001-07:002015-03-30T15:36:38.614-07:00Testing new high gain amp sims.Here are some tests of new high gain amp sims I'm working on. I have completely rework the algorithm. I can't say if it's more accurate or not because I haven't done any comparison with any of the real gear the sims are inspired by. However, I think it feels and responds better than my previous sims. The power amps are definitely more dynamic, accurate and complete.

In the tests I have used Lasse & Mago DI+backing track. The signal I have used is:
DI->Mod TS sim->Amp sim->NadIR loaded with Rosen Digital EVH 5150 III IR.
No post processing.
All the controls at noon except for the treble for the Ecstasy inspired sim, as well as the gain for all sims that has been adjusted to taste.

Don't ask me when these are planed to released, I have no idea. There is still a lot of work to do... and I still don't have replaced my Windows computer.

LePouhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-75327616012462154232014-10-27T14:14:00.001-07:002014-11-01T10:23:08.038-07:00Rosen Digital Studio Guitar Cabinet IR libraryI know it's been a while since my last post here. Shame on me, no excuses. Anyway, today I want to talk about a new guitar cabinet IR library that has just been released by Rosen Digital. This library offers IR of some of the most uses 4x12 cabinets in the industry (Marshall 1960A, Mesa Rectifier and Orange PPC) as well as some of best sounding combo amps (Budda, Fender and Carvin). It also contains custom cabinet IR digitally created by some blending process... and these are my favorite.

I have tested this library extensively in the last few days and I have to admit that these IR sound great. They are well balanced with a well defined low end. The top end is clear without being too fizzy. I think these IR can be easily qualified as "mix ready". And, even if you have to slightly process the resulting guitar tracks, these IR take the processing (compression and EQ) very well.

 Let's listen to few samples to demonstrate what kind of tone could be achieved with this library. With the first playlist below, I would like to demonstrate the 4x12 cabinet IR of the library in a metal context. To do so, I have used Jaymz DI and backing track of his Nevermore Narcosynthesis cover (with a link to the appropriate forum thread). In these examples, only the rhythm guitars have been reamped and processed with the library. No post processing has been applied on any of these samples. All the controls of the amp sim were at noon. To me, all of these tones are useable right off the bat.

The next playlist illustrates the 2x12 cabinet IR use for clean tone. Again, no post processing has been applied apart a bit of reverb. Thanks To Widek Music for the DI tracks.

Why don't you test them by yourself, go grab the library here.LePouhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-69847539802056168232014-01-23T16:37:00.000-08:002014-01-23T16:37:50.489-08:00LUME PRODUCCIONSI just want to share the work of my friend Alex Valle at LUME PRODUCCIONS. Alex used my amp sims on Xader's (AOR) first release. For those who can read spanish here are some criticisms of the album (it got 10 out of 10). Alex produced, recorded and mixed the album. You can listen the entire album on Spotify (Not sure if it's available here in Canada). The album got some great guitar solos from Yu-ya Komatsu (Tokyo), Robert Rodrigo (Bilbao) and David Dans (L.A.) Below you can hear some short samples. So, if you like it go get it or get in touch with Alex for availabilities. <embed src="http://player.zimbalam.com/player/3610151766105/6/black/0/0/0/en/" quality="high" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.maromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="490" />LePouhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-47137837721967573422014-01-05T08:03:00.001-08:002014-01-05T08:03:24.613-08:00New download linksI have setup new download links. Sorry for the inconvenience.LePouhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-19175393886492486032013-03-06T11:28:00.000-08:002013-03-09T06:44:44.451-08:00IPlug versions (32 and 64 bits)Hi everyone, I apologies for not being very active. I finally decided to kick myself and port some of the amp sims to IPlug in order to ease the release of cross plateform versions of my plugins. I would like to thanks Oli Larkin for his enhanced version of Cockos' IPlug. You can get all the infos and download it from here. I have compiled 32 and 64 bits versions of VST for Windows and Mac as well as AudioUnit versions (32 and 64 bits) for Mac of HyBrit, LeGion, LeCto, LeXtac and Le456. The download links are on the right in "Amp sims pack" section. These have not been tested extensively so use them at your own risks and if you don't mind you can report bugs here. Apart from the MCJ channel of HyBrit, which has been changed a little bit, all the other sims should sound pretty much the same as the older versions. LePouhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-86613911921234755132012-08-08T09:05:00.001-07:002014-01-05T07:59:52.054-08:00LeCab2 for Mac (VST/AU 32-64 bits)Ok these ones have not been widely tested so use them at your own risk. They most likely not work on PPC. Sorry. Here are the download links: AU and VST. And for the PC users, here is a new version that should not crashes when an IR is not found : PC (no 64 bits yet).LePouhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-48328000020715466932011-12-07T12:32:00.000-08:002011-12-07T12:43:06.744-08:00HyBrit for Mac with a new GUI
HyBrit is now available for Mac users in both AU and VST formats. The beautiful new GUI has been again design by nervirasme, thanks Man. The new skin is also available for windows users.

Download links are on the right.

ps: I have also added a download link for Le456 for windows with the new skin.LePouhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-22014609013602122722011-08-31T07:27:00.001-07:002011-09-01T07:38:13.713-07:00Mac version of Le456

Le456 is now available as both VST and AU for Mac and with a brand new look for the occassion. It's new skin has been design by nervirasme from Sneap's forum. Great work Goran, I really appreciate.

Download links are on the right.
LePouhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-48011348101773943432011-08-05T08:24:00.000-07:002011-09-03T11:50:03.003-07:00Freeware amp sims on the latest sleepmakeswaves...
As annouced on different forums (GAM, UM and gearslutz), some of my plugins (along with other freewares) have been used in the production of the latest sleepmakeswaves album. Dax and Alex have made a great job production wise. You can have a listen of few tracks and put your hands on the album here.
LePouhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-34204994107589085122011-03-14T17:18:00.000-07:002011-03-14T17:31:17.826-07:00Mac version of LeXtac and LeGionLeXtac and LeGion are available as both VST and AU for Mac.
AU version of LeCto has also been update (GUI now refresh properly on presets loading).

Follow the links on the right.LePouhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-44323257766287262222011-02-25T17:03:00.000-08:002011-02-26T08:00:57.758-08:00Few updatesNew version of LeCto VST for Mac, Hybrit and SoloC Head for Windows are available. All of these sims had a gain difference between the two channels when used in stereo. I have also compiled versions of Hybrit and SoloC Head using SSE code for better performance.LePouhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-25610996712679287882011-02-12T12:06:00.000-08:002011-02-12T12:07:50.996-08:00LeCto AULeCto is now available in AU format.

DownloadLePouhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-79500061926017035862010-12-02T09:25:00.000-08:002010-12-02T18:10:24.542-08:00LeCab2 (VST for Windows)
LeCab2 is the evolution of LeCab1. It's a cabinet (guitar or bass) impulse loader. LeCab2 offers :
- 6 impulse slots
- Latency control (down to 64 samples)
- Dropdown menu built with the .wav files contained in the directory where the last impulse is loaded
- Next and Prev buttons to navigate through the impulse directory
- Solo button for each slots
- Channel selection for each slots
- Possibility to link the loaded impulse of 2 slots (other controls stay independant)
- High Pass and Low Pass filters for each slots
- Phase, Delay, Pan and Volume controls for each slots

LeCab2 has been specifically design for relatively short impulse response such as guitar and bass cabinet. Too long impulse response are going to be truncated. Impulse troncation could lead to what's call frequency leakage and then produce atrifacts in the low and high part of the frequency spectrum as shown in the figure below where the blue line is the frequency response of a truncated impulse. This figure has been captured with Voxengo SPAN.

As can be seen, unless under extrem case, these artifacts can be eliminated with the low and high pass filters as provided by LeCab2 for each slots.

Thanks to requietus for is, once again, great GUI design.

Here is the download link:
LeCab2LePouhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-12166592145593437272010-12-01T16:42:00.000-08:002010-12-01T17:05:36.083-08:00LeCto VST for MacLeCto is now available in VST format for Mac.

DownloadLePouhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-59772035541717850802010-10-23T07:47:00.001-07:002012-04-11T07:29:51.144-07:00LeCto
LeCto is a guitar amp simulator inspired by an american modern high gain head. This simulator has 2 channels with 3 modes on each channel. It can go from crunch (raw mode) to modern high gain (modern mode).

Features :
-oversampling : determines the signal oversampling; up to 8x
-mono/stereo : determines the signal routing
-input : controls the magnitude of the input signal
-drive : controls the amount of gain
-low : controls the low frequency
-mid : controls the mid frequency
-high : controls the high frequency
-presence : presence control
-resonance* : controls the amount of resonance resulting from the interaction with the speaker cabinet

*Only active on modern mode

LeCto is only an amp simulator, so you need to use a cabinet simulator.

A big thank to Mikola Ptashnikoff for the beautiful GUI.
Visit his band's site here

Here is the download link :
LeCto_v1

and for those with processor not supporting SSE2 code :
LeCto_v1_noSSE2

Few testers have reported problems with some versions of Sonar. These bugs have not been solved yet.LePouhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-79652574883277992032010-03-07T07:43:00.001-08:002010-03-21T17:31:14.488-07:00LeGion

LeGion is a high gain preamp simulator. This is an original design, it's not based on any hardware gear. My goal here was to build a high gain sim that doesn't need any booster in front in order to be tight.

Features:
- 2 channels, actually two completely different preamp circuit

- 2 modes on each channel, rhythm and lead

- 2 tonestacks assignable to any of the 2 channels

- the usual drive and tone controls

Thanks again to requietus for his great job on the GUI.
Thanks also to the testers : Alu, daxliniere, cococo, shogger, Dimi, onqel and HOTRIFF.

New version 1.01:
- more output volume
- less volume variations with coutour changes

Download link
LeGion v1.01

Here is a clip from Marcos Ambrosi, a musician and composer from Uruguay.
On the way up

If you want to listen and watch more from this great musician:
http://www.youtube.com/user/MarcosAmbrosi
http://www.myspace.com/marcosambrosi

Make a donation if you think it sounds good and it's useful for you.LePouhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-2780619125903307072010-02-06T08:49:00.000-08:002010-02-08T16:59:52.675-08:00LeXTAC
LeXTAC has been inspired by a great Californian boutique amplifier.

Features:
· Ch 1 (Clean/Yellow): gain, bass, middle, treble, contour, power amp gain volume, 3 positions pre eq, gain boost.

· Ch 2 & Ch 3 (Blue & Red): gain, bass, middle, treble, contour, power amp gain, volume, 3 positions pre eq, gain-structure, gain boost and plexi mode.

All channels have a 3 positions Pre EQ switch : Normal, Bright and Brighter. The higher you set the gain control, the less effect the Pre EQ will have on the sound. All channels also have a gain boost.

Channel 2 & 3 (Blue & Red) have two other switches to give the user different gain/tone :
· The Plexi channel is a lower gain channel than the normal Blue & Red ones. The plexi channel can be assigned to either Channel 2 or 3. Note: structure switch and Gain Boost switch are inactive in Plexi mode.

· The Structure switch is an overall gain reduction switch for Channels 2 & 3. When ON (high position), both channels 2 & 3 have less gain. Obviously, when OFF (down position), the preamp will more gain.

The beautiful GUI was design by requietus.

Thanks again to all the testers.

Some demo clips by Dimitar Nalbantov :

BS_Lectern_AriaDimi_Demo.mp3

Dimi_RM_Adventure_Demo.mp3

Dimi_Tama_Brush_kit_Song2.mp3

Gretsch_kit_Dimi_Demo.mp3

Make a donation if you think it sounds good and it's useful for you.
LePouhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-87931697650594396082009-10-15T16:32:00.000-07:002009-11-11T16:49:31.911-08:00LE456

Here is my latest amp sim. It's a preamp sim roughly based on a famous German gear. It has 2 channels and 2 modes per channel. Each channels/modes share the same features. Apart from the usual tone controls (drive, low, mid, high and contour), each channels/modes offer two different tone stacks that can be accessed via the focus switches. Bottom and bright switches can be used to boost the low and the high frequencies respectively. On the low gain channel only (Clean/Crunch), the effectiveness of the bright switch decreases with the gain settings.

A big thank to requietus for the beautiful GUI. Go visit his site, you will find a lot of interesting things.

Thanks also to the testers from ABG: Todd, John, DigitalMan and Shogger. Thanks also too Alu and cococo from GAM as well as onqel from sneap's forum for testing.

Few sound clips from Shogger: clip1 clip2 clip3

Make a donation if you think it sounds good and it's useful for you. Thanks.

Download v1.1
LePouhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-72633916878687914542009-08-29T17:49:00.000-07:002009-09-04T19:03:07.022-07:00HyBrit SeriesThis is actually my very first VST project. At that time, I was looking for an amp that has been modeled a lot of time in order to have comparison points. I picked a classic British amp. After some comparisons with my original model, I decided that it was sounding good enough to be send to the testers... but not as is. After all there is a lot of British amp simulators out there. So I tweaked my original model and added another channel to it. It finally ends up as HyBrit.

As the name suggests, this is an hybrid amp model based on two famous British gears. Again, the name of the channel says it all. The PLS channel is actually an hybrid of the two (tweaked) channels (Normal and Treble) of the real thing. Both channels are actually processed and the mix of the two signals can be adjusted through the PLS MIX knob. The other channel, MCJ, is also a tweaked version of the real thing. So, this amp simulator doesn't represent anything specifically but it does have the character of the British amp.

As for SoloC, HyBrit comes in 3 versions : Preamp, Head and FullStack.

DownloadLePouhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-30701552735077126522009-07-31T17:08:00.000-07:002009-07-31T19:17:35.700-07:00LeCab v1.0LeCab v1.0 is simply the IR cab loader of SoloC FullStack with a stereo option.
Here how the stereo option works:
Indpendent Mode : The left signal is processed with Cabinet 1 and the right signal with Cabinet 2. You can position each of the resulting signals with the pan knobs.
Blend Mode : Both signals are processed with each Cabinet. The volume knobs of each cabinet are linked. This time you can position each of the resulting signals with the pan knobs.

It comes with different GUI : two made by me and one made by ThexBucket from GAM.

Download

Donate if you like it and think it's useful.

LePouhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-16838418094063994452009-07-09T19:08:00.000-07:002009-07-09T19:13:21.241-07:00Canadian Metal ReleaseHere is the link to downlaod the New SoloC. It's part of what my friend Ken at AcmBarGig named "Canadian Metal Release". Have fun.

Download : Canadian Metal Release
LePouhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729671004416464679.post-85216146851943820232009-07-05T07:23:00.000-07:002009-07-05T09:44:10.443-07:00SoloC FullStack sound samplesHere are sound samples kindly provided by:

Alu from GAM : sound

hawkevil from GAM : soundLePouhttp://email@example.com


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Resham Sengar
After delivering a successful hit- 'Raaz 3', a few months ago, Vikram Bhatt is back yet again with another movie to take forward his '1920' franchise.
'1920: Evil Returns' has all the ingredients which make it somewhat similar to its 'prequel' that had Adah Sharma and Rajneesh Duggal as the main leads. This one features Tia Bajpai and Aftab Shivdasani and has a tormented heroine, an evil spirit, her lover who saves her and of course the picturesque locations of England that are presented as an Indian hilly town of the pre-independence era.
Now the question is what is different this time? The answer lies in the movie's story written by Vikram Bhatt. '1920: Evil Returns' begins with Smriti (played by Tia Bajpai) pining to meet her lover Jaidev, a famous poet (played by Aftab Shivdasani) but she is under house arrest by a jealous evil spirit (played by Sagar Saikia) who does not want the two love birds to unite. Apparently, Jaidev and Smriti have not met each other even once in the two years that they been together and have only communicated only through love letters. While the lovers are desperate to meet, the evil spirit ensures all possible ways to thwart the impending union.
While the first half of the film keeps the viewers desperately waiting to get scared in the real sense of the word, it is the second half which has moments which run a chill down your spine. In fact, the second half of the film is what keeps the viewers hooked on to the big screen for it has all the elements that makes for a good horror film.
However, the film is not free of the glitches. It has its typical stereotypes. Like the zombie-like man who speaks to the graves and evokes more humour than chills. Funnily, in the movie this man has played the part in helping the hero in saving the heroine.
As far as performances are concerned, Tia Bajpai shows a marked improvement in her acting skills since the last time she worked with Vikarm Bhatt in 'Haunted'. She scores much more for playing a possessed woman and she has done complete justice to her role in the movie's second half. On the other hand, the leading man, Aftab Shivdasani is a disappointment. The actor has worked earlier in some good films with Vikram Bhatt but this time he has given a lackluster performance and appears drab in certain scenes. Vidya Malvade (she plays Aftab's sister) and Sagar Saikia give able support to the film.
Debutant Bhushan Patel's direction is not exceptional; there is still room for improvement. Directing a horror film is not an easy task. But when the script is written by a veteran in this genre, it can be improvised to great extent.
The special effects are captivating and lend a realistic look to the film's sequences.
Overall, '1920: Evil Returns' makes for a good watch and promises to keep you hooked and booked with all its frightening moments. Yet it is not as good as '1920'. Horror movie lovers may go and watch it for a healthy dose of it. It won't let you down.
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LeBron James capped his 64th career triple-double with an 18-foot, fadeaway jumper at the buzzer to lift the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 140-138 overtime victory against the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday (local time) at Quicken Loans Arena.
James finished with 37 points, 10 rebounds and 15 assists, and he set the stage for his game-winner with a block on Jimmy Butler on the previous defensive possession, the first blocked shot of the game for the Cavaliers.
James followed by catching the inbounds pass from Jeff Green and nailing the jumper to send Cleveland to its first win on national television this season. The Cavaliers had been 0-8 in such games, losing by an average of 18 points per game.
Butler scored a team-high 35 points while Karl-Anthony Towns had 30 points and 10 rebounds for the Timberwolves. Jeff Teague also recorded a double-double with 14 points and 15 assists.
Seven Cavaliers scored in double figures. JR Smith scored 20 points while hitting six three-pointers.
The shootout featured 34 lead changes and 16 ties. The teams combined for an NBA-record 40 treys, with Cleveland finishing 21 of 41 from behind the arc and the Timberwolves 19 of 33.
Regulation closed with a flourish. After Minnesota opened the fourth quarter with consecutive three-pointers to reclaim a 105-101 lead, Cleveland responded with five three-pointers over the ensuing seven minutes to match its largest lead of the night at 124-116. Right on cue, the Timberwolves made an 8-0 run, and Minnesota moved ahead 129-126 when Towns drilled a triple with 54.3 seconds left.
James followed with a trey that tied the game but missed a three-pointer at the buzzer, and overtime followed.
Cleveland made half of its eight three-point attempts and shot 61.9 percent in the first quarter but led by just two points entering the second because Minnesota was up to the challenge from the perimeter, connecting on five of eight long-distance attempts.
Momentum proved fickle until late in the second quarter when the Timberwolves rolled off a 10-0 run to claim a 66-62 lead. However, Cleveland opened the second half with an 8-0 run, and the pendulum started to swing again.


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A Post-Communion meditation, Ramona style
>> Wednesday, March 12, 2008
At Mass last Sunday, just moments before Holy Communion, Ramona whispered, "I have to go to the bathroom."
I whispered back, "Can you hold it just a couple more minutes? Just 'til after we go up for Communion?"
I was thinking that since we were in the fourth row, I'd receive very soon and then we could head to the bathroom without missing the pinnacle of my day.
Ramona solemnly nodded.
And so, with the Body of Christ in my mouth and my daughter's hand in mine, we headed up the aisle, down the stairs and into the tiny bathroom of our 125-year-old church. There, instead of praying my favorite post-Communion prayer, the Anima Christi:
Soul of Christ, sanctify me
Body of Christ, save me
Blood of Christ, inebriate me
Water from Christ's side, wash me
Passion of Christ, strengthen me
O good Jesus, hear me
Within Thy wounds hide me
Suffer me not to be separated from Thee
From the malignant enemy defend me
At the hour of my death call me
And bid me come to Thee
That with thy saints I may praise Thee
Forever and ever.
I listened to Ramona chatter about how cold the toilet seat was, and wasn't it nice to sit by Grandma Mary today, and what does that sign say? Does that say there's a diaper table in the other bathroom? ("Yes, sweetie, a diaper-changing table,") and, oh, wow, that water is cold, too. Why is that water so cold? Let's go sit down. And you can warm me up.
And that's what we did. We made our way back upstairs (passing, on our way, a teenage girl slipping out the side door ... sigh ....), back to our pew and we knelt together for the few seconds that were left of my post-Communion prayer time.
I had missed saying my Anima Christi, but I knew something vital:
The soul of Christ is sanctifying me. Every day. Little by little, one bathroom and one chatter session at a time.
The soul of Christ: through my children and my vocation.


text: Let's stay in tonight. We will have a drink or two, laugh at the words cautiously unspoken and smile while trying to capture every careful detail in each other's eyes. Our fears will be running maniacally inside our souls and we will dare them to stop us from being, just once more, as peaceful as we were tonight.


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Blackboard adopts a 'Patent the Obvious and Sue' Revenue Model
Posted by bryanzug - 2006/08/02
Seems that eLearning vendor Blackboard is the latest tech company to switch to a "patent the obvious and sue" revenue model.
According to this post by Harold Jarche they've ––
Been granted a far-reaching patent for "Internet-based education support system and methods"
Already filed a lawsuit against its main competitor Desire2Learn
My understanding at this point is that their patent covers all rudimentary LMS functionality and seems to overlap with a lot of standard content management system (CMS) functionality as well. (Excerpt from the patent is below –– text of full patent is available here).
For instance, seems the patent guarantees a lock on ––
Role based user functionality that defines some users as "administrator", some as "instructors", and some as "students". (Patent claim, point 1)
Grouping content into "courses" (Patent claim, point 1)
Creation and editing of content that can be grouped into courses (Patent claim, point 2)
Role based access to said courses (Patent claim, point 1)
I could go on, but you probably get the gist –– friendster has patented friend relationships reflected in technology –– and now blackboard has patented teacher/student relationships reflected in technology.
Can we take a moment and acknowledge how immoral this kind of corporate action is? Especially at the heart of emerging educational systems?The thing that kills me is that we have to use up valuable brain cycles to discuss/combat this kind of dumb patent (can you say $$ lost via time spent on dumb stuff?)
Even with prior art (which there is tons of), combating it in legal/political channels is very expensive with no guarantee of "equitable" conclusion being reached (depending on what the definition of Tubes is, of course).So many resources that would be better spent building cool stuff -– not very often that you see this kind of "cost" calculated into these sorts of "revenue models".
From my perspective, any company that tries to do this "patent the obvious and sue" tactic deserves to be called to account by the blogosphere — we've got small voices, but when you add them together they can get pretty loud.
From the patent ––
- A course-based system for providing to an educational community of users access to a plurality of online courses, comprising: a) a plurality of user computers, with each user computer being associated with a user of the system and with each user being capable of having predefined characteristics indicative of multiple predetermined roles in the system, each role providing a level of access to a plurality of data files associated with a particular course and a level of control over the data files associated with the course with the multiple predetermined user roles comprising at least two user's predetermined roles selected from the group consisting of a student role in one or more course associated with a student user, an instructor role in one or more courses associated with an instructor user and an administrator role associated with an administrator user, and b) a server computer in communication with each of the user computers over a network, the server computer comprising: means for storing a plurality of data files associated with a course, means for assigning a level of access to and control of each data file based on a user of the system's predetermined role in a course; means for determining whether access to a data file associated with the course is authorized; means for allowing access to and control of the data file associated with the course if authorization is granted based on the access level of the user of the system.
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If the "claim" is obvious, HOW was a patent issued in the first place?? Seems obvious to me.
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Brandl: Art Museum of Canton Thurgau Gallery Comics Paintings Acquisition
It is a particular thrill for me to announce that the Art Museum of Thurgau in Switzerland has just acquired 20 paintings of mine! They comprise a representative cross-section of several years of my series titled "Covers," which are Gallery Comics as well as paintings. I am very pleased that they will be in such a great institution and under the care of its eminent director Markus Landert and curator Dorothee Messmer!
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The CASTZ from Team 5 PES on Vimeo
In extension this term, we had been given the task of getting into groups and making a MTV. Our MTV had to include the act kindness, how kindness in showed in school. When extension time came there was at lease two people who were away. We didn't come at lunch times so you might see some replays and confusion because the movie does not match the words to the song. I hope you get the message through the mis matching things. Apart from that I think the video was good.


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Serve as the first point of contact by greeting and welcoming patients and others, (in person, at the check-in desk, or via the telephone). Responsible for answering incoming calls in a professional manner, and/or checking in / out patients per established protocols. Responsible for scheduling patient appointments and registering patients.
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"The Dodgers, the Dodgers, the Dodgers," Bruce Ratner says, his voice mixed with affection and weariness. He's talking about the baseball team that once anchored Brooklyn's major-city aspirations and now anchors Brooklyn in the past. "That's nice nostalgia, but we have to get beyond that. In a metaphorical way, we have to get over the Dodgers. That's important. Because that talk represents the way Brooklyn used to be. And how one talks about the New Brooklyn is very important."
The New Brooklyn. Get used to that phrase, because the momentum behind it is only getting stronger. If it happens—or, rather, when it happens—no one's going to be more responsible than Bruce Ratner. Which is sort of ironic, considering how nearly invisible the press-shy developer of some of the most audacious commercial projects in downtown Brooklyn has been, even while establishing himself as a critical force in the borough's renaissance of the past fifteen years.
Ratner has devoted his life to a vision, essentially that Brooklyn need no longer act as a living museum for your grandfather's memories of spaldeens, stickball, and Ebbets Field on a July afternoon. Unless you're talking the Cyclones, baseball's pretty much a memory, too. Yes, only six years ago, then–borough president Howard Golden and then-congressman Chuck Schumer were talking about luring the Bums back from Chavez Ravine. Ratner's never been under any such illusion. But for him, this does not mean the death of a dream. Only a reincarnation.
"Basketball is the right thing for Brooklyn now," Ratner says firmly. "Just as baseball was the right thing when the Dodgers started up more than a century ago."
This is the Eastern Conference champion New Jersey Nets that Ratner, the president of Forest City Ratner Companies, has in mind—or, soon, if Ratner has his way, the Brooklyn Nets. The team would play its home games in a spectacular arena designed by Frank Gehry, the architect who created the enviable Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. This arena would rise from a platform constructed over the Long Island Rail Road yards on Atlantic Avenue, a short stroll from the late-night halal chicken joints favored by Syrian gypsy cabbies.
Yes, it sounds like a fantasy. There are lots of reasons it might be. For starters, New Jersey isn't likely to want to give up its champs now that they're finally something other than a league laughingstock. Just one of the people lining up to stop Ratner is named Jon Corzine, he of the $300 million in personal wealth and the seat in the United States Senate. Then there's Charles Wang, the Computer Associates founder, who already owns the New York Islanders and has a stadium where the Nets could play, the Nassau Coliseum.
Besides, no one has been able to get a major-league sports facility built in New York since the sixties. And everyone's tried—the Mets, the Jets, the Yankees. George Steinbrenner couldn't do it, not with Rudy Giuliani, as much a Yankee at heart as Derek Jeter, in Gracie Mansion for eight years during a historic economic boom. Brooklyn has been rolling its collective eyes at Ratner's schemes for years (see MetroTech, the Atlantic Center shopping mall, and the under-construction Atlantic Terminal office-retail complex), yet he's scarcely missed on one yet. No wonder one prominent Brooklyn-bred businessman is so bullish on the plan.
"Bruce Ratner believes that Brooklyn can be a great city. Yes, city," says this sometime associate. "Ratner believes this in the year 2003, which some people might find humorous. But in the year 2012, if he's able to do what he wants to do, then people will say, 'Hey, remember 2003, when all of this seemed crazy?' He has 8.2 million square feet of prime real estate in downtown Brooklyn connected to the biggest subway and commuter-rail hub in New York. In that 8.2 million square feet, you're going to see a new basketball arena, designed by Frank Gehry, the rest commercial real estate and housing. What you'll see there is not typical Brooklyn brownstones. There's a skyline to this. This is the future. This is Robert Moses. This is Levittown."
"Even in my own office, they thought I was absolutely crazy," says Ratner, who along with the other two investment groups submitted bids two weeks ago. A decision can come anytime from next week to three months from now, insiders say. "My lawyers thought I was crazy. But we have a decent shot. We may not get it. But I'll tell you, no one ever thought I would get this far."
The skepticism is understandable. Typically, it's not easy to carry off a pro team to a neighboring market. But then, the Nets have never been typical.
The Nets were first the New Jersey Americans in 1967, an original franchise of the freewheeling, if short-lived, American Basketball Association. They moved to Nassau County in 1968 and rechristened themselves the New York Nets. On Long Island, the team established itself as both a high-wire act and a powerhouse, thanks in large part to Julius "Dr. J" Erving, who played his most gravity-defying games for the Nets back when the ball was tricolored and the home court was the Nassau Coliseum. Then, in 1976, the struggling ABA merged with—in essence, succumbed to—the mighty NBA. The next year, the Nets again hopped a couple of boroughs and two rivers and landed back in New Jersey. There, they attempted to build a new fan base in the recently constructed, and quite sterile, Brendan Byrne (now Continental Airlines) Arena, across the parking lot from Giants Stadium in the swampland of East Rutherford.
As a Jersey institution, the Nets never quite clicked. They began losing games—often in the secluded privacy of a half-filled arena—and, worse, their identity. Twice, they changed uniforms, and they very nearly changed names, to the, ahem, Swamp Dragons. Salvation supposedly arrived in 1998, when a new ownership group headed by two do-gooder-type real-estate moguls, Lewis Katz and Ray Chambers, bought the franchise. Soon, they announced plans to build a sparkling new $355 million arena in Newark's dire downtown that would feature all the skyboxes and luxuries needed to pay the modern NBA's eight-figure player salaries.
The Newark plan was a variation on the very nineties build-it-and-they-will-come concept of urban renewal, a notion that swept the country after new ballparks in Baltimore and Cleveland reinvigorated once-desolate urban cores. But Newark has never quite materialized.
"The New Jersey market has not been one that they've been able to ignite," says sports economist Andrew Zimbalist of Smith College, a leading authority on the economic impact for cities of stadium construction. "The Nets have had a very good team for a couple of years now, but I know a lot of people in Manhattan who still talk about going out to Nets games almost as if they're going to Philadelphia. I'm not sure Newark wouldn't be worse. I don't see either of the New Jersey options. The market there just doesn't have the same cachet that Brooklyn would have."
The Nets themselves did their part. Once the team traded for star point guard Jason Kidd in 2001, they marched to consecutive conference championships. But even success failed to push the Nets into the black, as they continued to attract some of the smallest crowds in the league. Worse, the new commitment to winning came at a price. This past summer, the team committed $125 million over the next six years to lock down two players alone—Kidd and former All-Star center Alonzo Mourning.
And the ownership had grown vastly more complicated following a 1999 merger with, of all people, George Steinbrenner. At the time, Steinbrenner was planning his own cable channel, the YES Network, to broadcast Yankees games. The Boss, however, needed winter programming. Soon, the Boss and the Nets and even hockey's New Jersey Devils were squeezed shoulder to shoulder into an ungainly entity known as YankeeNets. In the days of corporate synergy, the idea sounded intriguing, in an AOL Time Warner sort of way.
And it worked out just about as well. The personality clashes between the blustery Steinbrenner and the quiet, philanthropic Chambers and Katz are said to have been pronounced. There were reported tussles over the network and team management. By this past summer, it appeared, everyone wanted out.


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One Big Home - A Film Screening
Friday, September 16 7:00PM
Not just in Truro – a new film by Thomas Bena, One Big Home, documents an issue that is as tricky for residents of Martha's Vineyard as it is for beach destinations everywhere: how to protect small communities from the distortions created by an influx of wealthy visitors who come for just eight weeks of the year.
Trophy homes threaten the unique character of Martha's Vineyard. Ten, fifteen, even twenty-thousand-square-foot houses are going up around the Island. Not only do these mansions stand in stark contrast to traditional cottages, most sit empty for ten months a year, yet are heated year round. When he feels he is complicit in wrecking the place he calls home, one carpenter takes off his tool belt and picks up a camera. Bumping up against tired clichés, angry homeowners, and builders who look the other way, he learned "you can draw a circle and bring people in, or you can draw a line and keep them out," so he worked with his community of Chilmark that in 2013 passed a new bylaw that limits house size.


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Three Milestones in the Career of Ariel Sharon
Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon was a tough, effective military commander before going on to a controversial career in government. We look at three key junctures that will help define his legacy, via The Foreign Bureau. (Photo: Getty)
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... rule I the eye ... I ... I will not negotiate on the flight ... during his lifetime and you're out Israel's short history ... Ariel Sharon was a major presences on hold the military and political season country ... serving is everything from a field commander to defense minister to Prime Minister ... here are three big milestones that will help define his legacy ... on October nineteen seventy three the iam Kapoor war Sharon Head Artie left the military when Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel in nineteen seventy three ... if you return to service the troops across the Suez Canal and circling Egyptian forces this allowed Israel to offset the initial shock of the attack and a ceasefire was declared shortly after ... the war scenes some of the biggest tank battles in history ... number two ... ninety two ... as defence Minister Sharon Oversight Israel's invasion of Levanon try the Palestinian militants ... with the offensive left Israel Meyer as an occupier in Levanon for the next eighteen years and a government commissioned blanch around for failing to prevent the killing of a large number of Palestinians and other civilians ... number three ... two thousand five ... recognizing that Israel could no longer pursue a policy of unchecked settlement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip then Prime Minister Sharon oversaw controversial unilateral withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip and operate about nine thousand Jewish settlers from ... though the move was popular among Israeli civilians ... the resulting operate within Islam and political party which around to resign if our new party called the team ... which dominated the legislature in Israel for most of the rest of the decade ... this is Ben the Foreign Bureau ... BdB BdB BdB


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Does this first full look at an upcoming villain for Arrow stroke you the right way?
Teased rather fantastically several months back (in what was technically a screen shot from the premiere episode), a complete first full-on look at an upcoming villain for The CW's "Arrow" has been revealed in advance of the character's appearance on Episode 5 (titled DAMAGED).
It goes without saying that there are a few spoilers here if you want to be completely surprised by who the character is or the take elected by The CW, so tread warily if you're dead-set on maintaining the momentum of the show's mystery. You ready? You still here? You still want the look?
Slade Wilson, aka Deathstroke the Terminator, was introduced in The New Teen Titans back in 1980. He swiftly became so popular that he received his comic in 1991 which, though cancelled within sixty issues, nonetheless proves that right from the start this villain struck a chord of interest in DC's audience. A soldier who was forged in the terrible napalm fires of Vietnam, both in terms of morals and skills, Deathstroke was the recipient of special powers due to army experimentation. Now while I've never read any comics involving Deathstroke, I did watch the show "Teen Titans" growing up - and let me tell you, Deathstroke (just called Slade there) was one fearsome foe indeed. I'm very much looking forward to seeing just what the creators of "Arrow" are going to do with him.
Add on that note, here's that first full look at the guy that I've been touting:
They're sticking very close to the comics on this one - what do you think? And furthermore, what do you think about the show "Arrow" as a whole?
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The corals and wrecks of the Keys, the
Jacques Cousteau visited here once and stated it had "Visibility forever"
If you don't have a cave card they will issue you an open water wristband and you will only be allowed in certain spots. If they find you wandering into places you are not qualified to be in they will ask you to leave the park.
I had yet to take any Tech or Cave training when I visited here so I was limited to the open water locations as well. They do host several instructors who provide training on site but I am sure you would need to make arrangements with them before you show up. I was pretty happy just diving what they call the ballroom.
The Ballroom is located right behind the dive shop. There is a large parking lot and picnic area with BBQ's and tables. There is easy access to a small shallow basin that is a great place for swimming or snorkeling. The basin empties into the
Just inside this basin you will see a large opening in the limestone. Welcome to the ballroom. There is a lot of natural light that gets in through the entrance but you want to bring a light to explore the whole cavern because there are some dark spots.
If you go straight in and go down to the bottom right of the cavern you will see a small steel grate that covers the aquifer that supplies 35 million gallons of warm clear water to this spring every day. If you approach the grate head on you will exhaust yourself swimming into the torrent and just float away so you need to go to either side of it and move sideways until you are directly in front of it. You can hold on to the grate and feel the power of the water as it rushes past and then let go and be swept back into the cavern, it is far safer than it sounds a pretty fun thing to do actually.
The deepest point in the cavern is about 50' deep. And it is large enough to explore on a single tank dive. There was not much life to see just a couple small fish and a river eel that was about 3 'long. For someone who has never been in a cave or cavern this is a great place to go. Further down the
There are grates in place and signage to warn you that without the proper training and equipment divers are forbidden to enter. They do not allow open water divers to have a light with them to further discourage you from wandering into a place that you should not be in.
Though it is more suited to experienced cave divers an open water guy like me can still have a great time. So put this on your list if you want to try something a little exciting and different from a regular open water dive. You won't regret it.


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Two North Dakota State University Collegiate Horsemen's Association members have been elected as officers of the American Collegiate Horsemen's Association.
Codie Miller, a junior from Prior Lake, Minn., was named vice president. Brandi Houghton, a junior from Fargo, is the association's treasurer.
They were elected during the association's national convention in Gainesville, Fla., on Feb. 29-March 3. Brianne Zaeske, a senior from Fargo, and NDSU Collegiate Horsemen's Association adviser Carrie Hammer also attended the convention. Miller, Houghton and Zaeske were among about 60 students from 11 universities throughout the U.S. at the convention.
Highlights of the trip included tours of Gold Mark Farm, the HITS Horse Shows in the Sun circuit, Ocala Breeders Sales, Florida Thoroughbred Owners Association and The Sanctuary, an equine sports therapy and rehabilitation center.


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ADAC Rallye Deutschland – Preview
The ADAC Rallye Deutschland is an extreme challenge both for the drivers and the cars
The German WRC rally is extremely tough on the WRC cars
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In-situ testing units are a requirement for the teams
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Munich. The ADAC Rallye Deutschland (17 to 20 August 2017) has always been one of the moist challenging rallies on the FIA World Rally Championship schedule. This is al the more true this year since a series of new tests is waiting for the world rally driver elite in Germany in 2017. Star rally drivers such as Sébastien Ogier or Thierry Neuville are running an intensive testing programme in preparation for the ADAC Rallye Deutschland. To stay ahead of the game in the challenging German asphalt rally, the major works teams such as Hyundai Motor Sport or the M-SPORT WORLD RALLY TEAM implement numerous technical adaptations to their rally cars.
Challenge #1: surfaces
Apart from a variety of surfaces, asphalt does not equal asphalt in the ADAC Rallye Deutsch-land. On the Baumholder military range, where the infamous Panzerplatte Special Stages are scheduled on Saturday, 19 August, a variety of surfaces challenges the teams, from pure concrete to concrete interspersed with rocks, to rough asphalt to sections of cobblestone pavement. Here, the right selection of tyres can be decisive since the surfaces are very tough on the tyres. On top of all this comes the weather to make a real conundrum for the WRC team strategists. As experience has shown, weather conditions are quick to change in the Saarland, Palatinate and Eifel regions hosting the rally.
Challenge #2: the specific rally German WRC car setup
To cope with the ADAC Rallye Deutschland's variety of surface profiles, the teams usually opt for a very precisely balanced setup answering to a variety of technical requirements. The one underlying commonality of WRC car setups for the rally Germany is that, unlike for the WRC gravel rallies, chassis setup is considerably lower. The suspension setup is stiffer and suspension travel is shorter. To cut weight, lighter components are being used in terms of shock absorbers, transverse links and tie rods. Since asphalt is generally smoother than gravel, the top teams also dismantle some of the underbody protection to save additional weight.
Challenge #3: the choice of brakes
The numerous 90-degree turn-offs, hairpin turns, up and downhill passages of the ADAC Rallye Deutschland are extremely tough on the brakes of the WRC cars. What is more, the distances to cover in some Special Stages are long, such as the close to 42 kilometres of the Panzerplatte marathon. To live up to such challenges in Germany, the teams use the largest brakes in the whole WRC circuit. The brakes must be both aggressive and provide very robust performance. Not to mention the fact that the rim sizes used for the German asphalt rally are also larger than those used in the WRC gravel rallies.
Top teams go back to testing before the ADAC Rallye Deutschland
After five consecutive gravel rallies (rallies Argentina, Portugal, Italy, Poland and Finland), at the ADAC Rallye Deutschland, the WRC is back on asphalt. To ensure optimum preparedness for this change, multi-day test sessions just before the rally are a virtual must for the works teams. The tests are used to find the optimum differential and damper setup and to reacquaint the drivers with the specific rigors of asphalt driving. The tests also allow the teams to have a look at the many new challenges the organisers of the ever-evolving ADAC Rallye Deutschland hold in store for them every year.
Gravel Crews decisive in Germany
More important than even in other WRC rallies, is the input of the so-called Gravel Crews. These team spies drive the Special Stages shortly before the start to brief the drivers on the latest road conditions. This information may be decisive in the tight vineyard Special Stages where the drivers cut corners. These shortcuts leave a lot of gravel and dirt on the roads which may change the grip level from one instant to the next. Thanks to the quick briefs from the Gravel Crews, the top drivers can adjust their driving accordingly.
Get your rally and day passes in pre-sale now!
In addition to the four-day rally passes, the fans can now also buy day passes for Friday, Saturday or Sunday in pre-sale. On the day printed on the pass, passholders get access to all spectator areas along each Special Stage and the ADAC Rallye Deutschland Service Park. In 2017, fans can also buy self-print passes. They serve as proof of purchase to be redeemed for rally passes or day passes at the rally venue. Visit the official ticket shop on the web at www.adac.de/rallye-deutschland (go to the Tickets tab).
Pre-sale buyers will enjoy discounts and attractive packages, including the official ADAC Rallye Deutschland event guide. The same as last year, the pre-sale price of a rally pass package is EUR70 (EUR65 for ADAC members). Day passes are available for EUR35 exclusively in pre-sale.
The rally passes cover:
Access to all Special Stages on all days
Access to the Service Park on all days
Access to the Shakedown on Thursday
A spectator map providing all the essential information about the rally
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ADAC Rallye Deutschland sticker
The ADAC Rallye Deutschland magazine (in German with essential information in English and French)
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The ADAC Rallye Deutschland has a unique worldwide reputation. Its mix of hairpin stages in the vineyards, tough tracks on the Baumholder tank range and fast asphalt roads presents extreme challenges for both the teams and the drivers. Excellent driving skills and versatility are of the essence here. Diversity, high-class action and closeness to the fans are the ingredients that make the ADAC Rallye Deutschland such an attractive package for spectators as well. Year after year, this major event draws enthusiastic crowds from all over Europe, giving it a special, international atmosphere.
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The annual CrossKnowledge Academy conference held on 26 February was a real success: the launch of a brand-new, innovative offer, prestigious guests and growing interest confirm CrossKnowledge's place as a major player in the global distance learning market.
350 customers from across Europe attended the event and heard a presentation on 'positive leadership' by Tal Ben-Shahar, speaker and author of the international best-seller 'Happier'.
CrossKnowledge then gave a preview of its innovations, including its new offer, 'The Team'. A presentation area with tablets was specially set up to allow customers to view this new teaching format designed to look like a TV series
Also, in the afternoon, feedback from 9 customers was featured including Camille Albane, AkzoNobel, Geodis and Thales.
« With CrossKnowledge Academy, we are delighted to have been able to create a real annual international get-together with our customers. The number of participants at the 2013 conference, double that of the previous year, is the sign of a stronger community which has matured in its degree of reflection and sharing », says Mickaël Ohana, CEO and co-founder of CrossKnowledge.
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As always, FFUP and many prisoners in segregation are making a concerted effort to get informal projects going that can help them stay healthy and find a way out of segregation and finally prison. One of the easiest ways to help is to write a nurturing note to one of the men below. Please contact FFUP if you would like to get involved at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Here is a list of some of the prisoners who need encouragement and we need help badly in helping them.
Timothy Crowley 243754 CCI; PO box 900; Portage ,Wi 53901
Ali Mursal 541673 GBCI PO Box 19033; Green Bay, Wi 54307
Marcus Greer 469316 CCI PO box 900; Portage ,Wi 53901
Al-Amin Akbar 211383 CCI PO box 900; Portage ,Wi 53901
Nathan Gillis 273445 CCI PO box 900; Portage ,Wi 53901
Travis D Coleman 103600 CCI PO box 900; Portage ,Wi 53901
Lorenzo Balli #238265;GBCI ;PO Box 19033;Green Bay. WI 54307
Terrance Grissom, Luiz Ramirez, Nathan Gillis, Samuel upthegrove, Have Photos and profiles on this blog.
To view report on Segregation at Columbia Correctional Institution (CCI), click here. It gives a good idea of what is going on in most prisons.
We will start with these 6 people in Wisconsin segregation units. They are not allowed books from the outside, canteen, t.v. or much of anything in possessions. We are trying to get these rules changed it is slow. In at least two Wisconsin prisons, especially for the mentally ill , There is no fixed date for release from seg because they are on what is called "non Punitive segregation"which allows them top remain in isolation for years.
Shawn Matz #264654 WCI; PO Box 351; Waupun, Wi 53963
Shawn Matz is another prisoner who has begun writing us from WCI. I have tried to send in books and been denied. Here is what he says: "Ms Swan, I have cut my throat with razors, glass and metal and wasn't suppose to live through any of those incidents. My arms are so scarred I don't even look human any more. And yes, I do get teased and laughed at quite a bit by staff and other inmates. However, they don't understand that the only way I feel alive or human is when I can see the evidence of my mortality flowing from my veins and the only way these people here respond is by stripping me naked and putting me in a cold cell but then a few days later putting me back on the tier declaring me "OK". But I'm not okay, Ms Swan and I don't know how much more of this I can take. The doctor cut off my anti-psychotic meds and everyday I want to cut myself but because these people will use it against me to keep me locked in here I try and resist the urge. I don't know what to do any more."
He has more to offer for this blog, Coming soon.
Brian Locke#96897 Green Bay Correctional Institution( GBCI); PO Box 19033; Green Bay, Wi 54307
Brian Locke is fighting for his life and for the betterment of all solitary confinement prisoners. He is manic depressive and writes me several times a week from his cell in Green Bay, pleading for placement in Columbia, where A/C prisoners are allowed property . This is the man who has looked into the changing for the administrative confinement rule and given us all , perhaps , a way to make a very big and positive change in the whole system.
Note: addendum on Brian Locke not included- will discuss on phone call if appropriate. Here is link to article on Locke.
here is the link to an Isthmus newspaper story on him :http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=22710
and his blog post::http://mentallyillinprison.blogspot.com/2008/08/brian-lockes-story-diagnosis-illegally.html. In it is the story of the court testimony of Brian's former psychiatrist, who tesitifies he was fired for refusing to illegally change Brian's diagnosis. We have long suspected that convenient changes of diagnosis' were gojng on but here we see proof. Brinsa remains in the most draconian isolation and is manic depressive- a very volitile combination.He also, At minimum,asks to be transfered to a prison where he can have books and magazines tv and property.
Again, for Steven, we have asked the DOC that he be allowed to have books and magazines from the outside to start and have not succedded in getting even this for him. He needs letters and cards.
Steven Stewart was a very sane man. Visits with him were much fun. He is now in trouble after years of segregation. There is a cycle here. The treatment is very degragding and most people do act out and are here in segregation in the first polace because they lack self control. The only reaction to misbehavior, no matter how minor , is punishment-i.e.: more degrading treatment. Once you get your coattails into one of these units, it is hard to get out. Some people within the system have tried to help Steven get to population but it has not worked. He has severe health problems and is a difficult case. He needs friendship most of all right now. His mental health has deteriorated dramatically in the years we have known him.


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ALMA Examines Ezekiel-like "Wheel in a Wheel" of Dust and Gas
For the first time, researchers using ALMA have detected a streamer of gas flowing from a massive outer disc toward the inner reaches of a binary star system. This never-before-seen feature may be responsible for sustaining a second, smaller disc of planet-forming material that otherwise would have disappeared long ago. Half of Sun-like stars are born in binary systems, meaning that these findings will have major consequences for the hunt for exoplanets. The results are published in the journal Nature on 30 October 2014.
A research group led by Anne Dutrey from the Laboratory of Astrophysics of Bordeaux, France and CNRS used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe the distribution of dust and gas in a multiple-star system called GG Tau-A [1]. This object is only a few million years old and lies about 450 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Taurus (The Bull).
Like a wheel in a wheel, GG Tau-A contains a large, outer disc encircling the entire system as well as an inner disc around the main central star. This second inner disc has a mass roughly equivalent to that of Jupiter. Its presence has been an intriguing mystery for astronomers since it is losing material to its central star at a rate that should have depleted it long ago.
While observing these structures with ALMA, the team made the exciting discovery of gas clumps in the region between the two discs. The new observations suggest that material is being transferred from the outer to the inner disc, creating a sustaining lifeline between the two [2].
"Material flowing through the cavity was predicted by computer simulations but has not been imaged before. Detecting these clumps indicates that material is moving between the discs, allowing one to feed off the other," explains Dutrey. "These observations demonstrate that material from the outer disc can sustain the inner disc for a long time. This has major consequences for potential planet formation."
Planets are born from the material left over from star birth. This is a slow process, meaning that an enduring disc is a prerequisite for planet formation. If the feeding process into the inner disc now seen with ALMA occurs in other multiple-star systems the findings introduce a vast number of new potential locations to find exoplanets in the future.


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"Man, you folks really understand our business!"
That's a phrase we often hear after meeting with prospective clients for the first time. They then go on to say how refreshing it was to speak with us, since so many of the other TPM providers "speak software" to these senior sales and trade executives.
It's not surprising, because if you look at the bios of their executives vs. ours, it's clear we come from 2 different worlds. We worked at CPG manufacturers in sales, trade marketing, category management, trade finance, etc. They worked in IT and developed software. Two different skill sets, two different ways of approaching the business.
For example, Fred Schroeder (our CEO) was in sales at P&G and in senior sales management at Minute Maid. responsible for managing $100's of millions in trade spending as Minute Maid battled Tropicana – a high trade spend category.
Therefore, we have a comprehensive understanding of best practices for both trade spending at former manufacturers, and in developing, implementing and maximizing trade promotion management software tools that reflect the business needs of CPG senior sales and trade executives.
Recognizing the need to go beyond the typical software and IT backgrounds that are the foundation of most of the other TPM providers, Fred has assembled a team of CPG Trade Experts with intimate knowledge of trade best practices to help develop and maximize usage of the TPM system and even create innovative Trade Management and Trade Marketing services to make your trade spending more effective.
Additionally, and unusually, even our software developers are well versed in the complexities and nomenclature of trade spending – so it's not foreign to them. Speaking of foreign, our developers and services teams are all fulltime US based employees, and the average tenure of our development team is 7.5 years.
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Cheddar Afternoon Business Update, 1/9: Apple, Twitter, Toyota
Apple is responding to investor calls that it should protect children from becoming addicted to their smartphones. The tech giant says it will introduce new features that better-allow parents to manage what their kids see online. The statement to Business Insider comes after two of the company's largest shareholders urged Apple to be a better corporate citizen and take more responsibility for how children use its products.
Twitter is back to giving out its blue verification checks again. The company announced last year it would pause its verification process to figure out a better system. Since then, it has unverified certain accounts, mostly of white nationalists and conspiracy theorists. In the past few weeks, some accounts have been verified, including Michael Wolff, the author of the new President Donald Trump tell-all "Fire and Fury" and Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Twitter has yet to comment about re-introducing verification.
Finally, it is time to say goodbye to your pizza delivery guy. Toyota is partnering with companies like Uber, Amazon and even Pizza Hut on an all-electric, self-driving vehicle that could be used for various purposes like autonomous pizza delivery, mass transit or ride sharing.


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A number of companies in the data center and cloud computing sector have announced fundings this week. Here's a roundup:
Nimbula Announces $15 Million Series B Round - Nimbula said this week that it has secured $15 million in its second round of venture capital funding led by Accel Partners. The new funding will be used to continue the company's investment in innovation around hybrid cloud computing technologies and to drive market adoption of Nimbula's product offering for the management of on- and off-premises infrastructure. Nimbula, which emerged from stealth mode in June 2010, was founded by former Amazon executives Chris Pinkham and Willem van Biljon, who led the development of the Amazon EC2 public cloud service.
VSS Monitoring Lands $20 Million - VSS Monitoring, Inc., the leader in distributed traffic capture, today announced it has secured its first institutional round of financing from Battery Ventures. VSS Monitoring's Distributed Traffic Capture Systems are used by more than 1,000 enterprises, government agencies and service providers around the world. "Our business is experiencing tremendous momentum at a time when the network performance and operations management market is about to explode," said Martin Breslin, VSS Monitoring founder and CEO.
Viridity Software Announces $8 Million Series B Round - Viridity Software, the leading provider of data center energy resource management (ERM) solutions, today announced that it has raised an additional $8 million in Series B funding from current investors Battery Ventures and North Bridge Venture Partners. This follows-on a successful Series A funding round of $7 million. The additional funding will be used to expand the development of the company's EnergyCenter software platform, as well as greatly accelerate its go-to-market activities.


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An ex-worker, forced to retire early through cancer, says she'll put up a fight after missing out on Fife Council's £50 million equal pay claim deal.
Helen McDonald (63), from Kirkcaldy, who was employed – and underpaid – as a home carer for 12 years, wants retired employees who lost out on the compensation deal to rally together.
She said: "I would have still been working but had to leave in 2013 through ill health.
"If it was a couple of pounds, well, fair enough, but I know one roadsweeper who was just paid out £20,000.
"I worked all those years and this is wrong – it's discrimination."
Unison struck a deal with Fife Council for over 1400 members – mainly low-paid carers, cleaners and cooks – who were victims of historic discriminatory pay practices dating back to 2006.
Payouts are also due for employees who lodged tribunal claims through other representatives, including Action 4 Equality Scotland.
Helen said: "I phoned Fife Council's human resources department and explained who I was.
"Someone asked me two questions. Do you have a lawyer? No. Are you in a union? No.
"She said: "I can't tell you anything" and that just made me feel worse.
"I didn't work for the union, I worked for the council!"
According to the law, any claim can only be backdated five years.
The law also stipulates a pay claim by ex-employees is active only if lodged within six months of becoming retired.
In 2012, however, a group of 174 Birmingham City council workers won a supreme court ruling which extended the time limit for claiming from six months to six years.
Helen is inviting other retired staff to contact her at email@example.com in the hope a Fife group can mount a similar fight.
Sharon McKenzie, head of HR said Fife Council was, in most cases, "seeking to resolve historic equal pay cases raised individually at tribunal", some from as long ago as 2006.
"It would be illegal for the council to treat any case differently on the basis that an employee was or wasn't a member of a trade union," she said.
To address pay inequality, the Council also implemented a job evaluation scheme in 2007 which is due to be updated again this spring.
Equal pay bill set to exceed £50m
Fife Council's reserves of £33m are set to be "wiped out" by the £50m plus cost of settling historic equal pay claims. Council leader David Ross warned there was now a need to make an additional £17m in savings next year, on top of planned savings of £21m, and a total of £91m in savings over the next three years.


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Nigerian midfielder Nosa Igiebor was on target for Maccabi Tel Aviv in their 3-0 away win against Hapoel Ironi Akko in the Israeli league on Monday night.
Igiebor scored in the 70th minute to make it 2-0 for Maccabi Tel Aviv. It was his second league goal in nine league appearances this season.
Other goal scorers for Maccabi were Tal Ben Haim and Shlomi Yosef Aculay.
In Portugal, Reuben Gabriel scored his first league goal of the season as Boavista thrashed Vitoria de Setubal 4-0.
Renato Santos put Boavista in front as early as the 3rd minute before Gabriel made it 2-0 in the 52nd minute.
In the 65th minute, Ze Manuel made it 3-0, while in the 81st minute, Paulo Vinicius completed the rout by scoring the fourth goal.
Gabriel's Nigerian team-mate, Michael Uchebo, was an unused substitute.
In the English Premier League, Odion Ighalo failed to find the back of the net as Watford lost 1-0 to Swansea in Monday night's EPL clash. The Watford record top scorer has not scored in 2016.
Ashley William scored the only goal of the game on 27 minutes.
Nigeria junior international, Isaac Success, and his Nigerian team-mate Uche Agbo were in action for Granada who lost 5-1 away to Eibar in the Spanish league.
Success featured for 90 minutes, but Agbo, who was booked in the 10th minute, came off for Youssef El Arabi on 46 minutes.
And in the Greek league, Brown Ideye, made an appearance for Olympiakos in their 1-1 away draw against Platanias.


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- Angelsdoor * Penny said...
Greer is just amazing Christel!
I am looking at the photo with her back. Details, right down to her spine... Such beautiful work.
Congrats on her sale!
Wishing you a beautiful weekend.
Keeping you always in my thoughts.
love and blessings,
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Beautiful face! Happy to hear she found a new home quick!:)
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If you have extra smartphones or tablets sitting around that you're not using, and you're looking to make a few bucks but don't want to deal with eBay or Craigslist, an alternative is available. GameStop has expanded the list of devices they accept for trade in to include BlackBerry smartphones as well as Android and iOS devices. Though the list isn't all inclusive, there are several models of BlackBerry included and trade-in and cash value vary for each one. As expected, if you choose to get in-store credit versus cash, you will get more value for your trade, and the more accessories, packaging, and so on that you have with your device, the more cash/credit you can expect to receive.
While you probably won't get the same value from your device that you could likely get by selling it outright on eBay, Craigslist, etc, it is another option worth looking into, especially if you're looking to get some video games, consoles, or the like. You can read the full press release below, and if you're interested in seeing what your devices are worth, head on over to the link below and get an offer now.
GameStop Expands Electronics Trade Program to Include More Smartphones
Popular handsets from Samsung®, BlackBerry®, Motorola® and other brands now eligible for instant cash* or in-store credit at GameStop stores nationwide
GRAPEVINE, Texas (April 4, 2013) – GameStop® (NYSE: GME), the world's largest multichannel retailer of video games, has again expanded its mobile electronics trade program to include a variety of the hottest smartphones, following heightened customer demand. Customers can now receive instant cash or in-store credit for smartphones from top manufacturers like Samsung®, BlackBerry® and Motorola® at all of GameStop's U.S. stores.
"GameStop's trade-in program drove more than one million electronics trades in 2012, proving we're meeting a real need for consumers," said Joe Gorman, vice president of mobile at GameStop. "With the variety of innovative new devices launching this year, it's the right time to add even more smartphones to our electronics trade program."
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Join us for a webinar, held at two times to accommodate our global audiences, on the results of our annual BSR/GlobeScan State of Sustainable Business Survey. This year's version—our eighth—will provide unique insights on corporate sustainability practices, successes, and challenges, as viewed by BSR member companies.
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Barclays is in exclusive talks to sell its iShares asset management unit to CVC Capital, Barclays president confirmed to CNBC.
Bob Diamond said selling iShares was a difficult decision, but decided to take the move in order to raise capital and avoid being forced to let the British government take a portion of the company's stake.
iShares is a family of exchange-traded funds operated by Barclays Global Investors and is one of the largest issuer of ETFs in the United States and globally.
Diamond said that he does not believe Barclays will need to raise new capital. He said the bank has enough capital to withstand the deteriorating economy.
Diamond also said the company has a relatively strong start from the beginning of the year, however January and February represented a much better environment than in March.
Shares of Barclays rose on Monday as investors bought into the idea that the bank is performing better than its rivals.
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Note: This story was corrected to show Bob Diamond said Barclays will not need to raise new capital. It originally reported Diamond as saying the bank would not need to raise new capital in the next six months.


text: Abbas Kiarostami's Where is the friend's home? is a lovely little film. It has a fabulous little story and made without any kind of gimmick or show off. I know quite a number of people who ask for realism in movies. I wonder if those souls could actually sit through a film like these because this is beyond the realism that they can imagine. Where is the friend's home? is a slow film. It is slow but it is also a picture that grows. The progress of the film is slow for a reason and that is connected with the kind of story that Kiarostami narrates. I wonder how Kiarostami has managed to execute the classroom scenes in the film and make that child perform so well. The characters, the setting and everything about the film manages to carry so much life and the conclusion of the film is no less wonderful.


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Recently I made two new buddy Ray and Tarry.
They go around buy various junk from Auction.
Mostly old industrial stuff like cabinet stool rack & many others.
They used to sell their junk to scrap metal place.
Ray is also Artist himself and he use lot a these material for his art project.
I get whatever it comes from those auction if I want.
They always send me some pictures through phone first.
Their price very reasonable and I can do many things with this junk.
I bought three heavy green color metal frame two weeks ago.
Also came from factory industrial auction at Brooklyn dumbo area.
OMG It was really dirty.
Heavy grease and inches of thick files of oily dirt.
It took me one full day to clean these frames.
I been keeping some old solid wood panel from junk cabinet or other damaged old furniture.
All these wood panels have various age and history.
Good thing these are all different colors…
I never learn making furniture or any wood working.
But making rustic furniture is easy.
These don't have to be perfect so making a mistake is adding another beauty.
I spent little over 70.00$ to buying some hardware and extra wood.
Three of frames cost me extra on top of 70.00$.
Cutting & assembly job took me another half day.
Another half day for final touch for these two.
Third frame is slightly higher then these two so my plan is making tea table.
I need some longer wood panel to finish the project.
I will take some time look some junk wood from flea market or my neighbor trash file.