text:
Alpha on Amazon

Subscribe to Cameracraft

Cameracraft is one of the highest quality photo enthusiast magazines you'll find - worldwide. Our Photoclubalpha subscription deal is £4.80 less (UK) than the current discounted offer - it's the lowest cost you can get. The cost will be held for three years and you can cancel at any time. Visit our web pages to see the regular deals, or subscribe below.

Postal Region

Photoclubalpha Forum

Join our free Forum for a wealth of info, great company and some fantastic photo sharing threads! Registration on the Forum is separate from Registration on the website, but you are allowed to register using the same name and password.
  • Alpha A-mount System • Re: Olympus is out... August 7, 2020
    bakubo wrote:Just in the last week or two Olympus has released info about a new body and new lens that will come out soon. Probably this month. Maybe the last stuff? E-M10IV and 100-400mm f5-6.3 IS://, Olympus did announce those 2 a few days ago. It remains to be seen if that is the last […]
  • Give it Your Best Shot • Re: Dusting off the lens - part 4 August 3, 2020
    Few more ....Statistics: Posted by sury — Mon Aug 03, 2020 2:05 am
  • Give it Your Best Shot • Re: A99-2 August 2, 2020
    PS. I checked EXIF on last two pictures and shoud apologize for wrong information, this shot done by A57 _ Tamron 70-300...Statistics: Posted by ValeryD — Sun Aug 02, 2020 7:30 am
  • Give it Your Best Shot • Re: A99-2 August 2, 2020
    Valery,Respect....SuryStatistics: Posted by sury — Sun Aug 02, 2020 6:05 am
  • Alpha A-mount System • Re: Olympus is out... August 2, 2020
    bakubo wrote:Just in the last week or two Olympus has released info about a new body and new lens that will come out soon. Probably this month. Maybe the last stuff? E-M10IV and 100-400mm f5-6.3 IS:// you Henry! But I more respect your opinion, not the some one! Statistics: Posted by ValeryD — Sun Aug […]

Past Article Calendar

February 2009

Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5

Tamron’s new ultra wide angle zoom for APS-C/DX is getting a bit of a blasting from reviewers. Now, when I see this happen, I get curious. Lens testing is often badly designed for such zooms, involving test chart targets at distances which are extremely close and result in very bad figures caused mainly by a strong curvature of field (dished, ‘cap’ shape relative to the camera) when gets worse in effect the closer you focus.

So I obtained a Tamron 10-24mm to test. The only problem is that Tamron in the UK (Intro2020) has a new policy that all review lenses will only be available in Nikon mount. I found their 70-200mm f/2.8 so hesitant in focusing on the D3X that I did manage to obtain a sample in Canon mount, which I tested on the 50D. But this was a special case because I felt the lens simply did not agree well with the Nikon AF system. Indeed, it proved far more positive and faster on the Canon.

It’s very hard to request a loan body to test a rival maker’s independent lens (indeed, very presumptuous as well!). Therefore, in February I purchased a Nikon-fit body of the most unlikely type – a vintage 2001 Kodak DSC760C, only 6 megapixels but probably the bext 6 megapixels around, with no anti-aliasing filter and a 1.3X factor. I also had a Fuji FinePix S5 Pro to hand, but there’s no way the Fuji could compare with the older Kodak for checking lens performance – it’s just too soft in rendering.

The Tamron did not AF on the Kodak, despite the old DSLR being supposedly compatible with its in-lens motor system. It did on the Fuji. When testing it using MF with focus confirmation on the Kodak, I discovered that a huge range of distances were ‘in focus’ according to the AF sensor.

So, what is the lens really like?

Aim it at a wall, at 10mm, and you will get to see exactly why it gets bad reviews. This ‘test chart’ would be two by three metres, and most tests are done even closer. Full aperture shows how those corners just disappear from the MTF chart:

With my sample pictures here, you can click the image to open a larger version. But even at this small size you can see the sudden death of illumination on the S5 Pro, combined with serious loss of flat-plane sharpness. This lens seems to be made for those mini-sensors you find in Canon cameras, 1.6X instead of 1.5X like the big boys over at Sony and Nikon (and Pentax and Samsung). I’ve marked the exact Canon sensor coverage – you can see how much you lose of the 10mm view, and how the soft corners are eliminated. Tamron should have issued this lens in Canon fit only for testing, they would have got much better reviews!

But, still working wide open, still working at 10mm, a subject with a very different distribution of depth in focus creates a slightly more favourable result:

The cap-shape curved plane of the lens focus has suited the way the pillars are closer than the distant aisle. You can also get some idea from this of the distortion (barrel, simple) at 10mm. It’s certainly there, but it is also very simple to correct, unlike the complex moustache-wave type distortions often found in ultrawide zooms. Fuji’s extended dynamic range helps with my favourite difficult subject, one which allows me to get nice looking pictures even in the depth of a poor winter season. Click this and you get a full sizer, albeit rather heavily compressed.

What I found in practice was that angled perspectives, with the ground close to the lens and receding into the distance, favoured extra sharpness with the Tamron’s curved field in the foreground but could produce some bad blur and aberration in the corresponding distant opposite corners. It’s a ) shaped focus field, for sure, and if you learn how to use it, it’s not so bad.

Fitted to the 1.3X Kodak camera I discovered it almost covered the large sensor size. The superb colours given by the Kodak were a pleasure to work with, as was the non-anti-aliased image. I picked up two of these cameras (one high speed 720X and one ‘high res’ 760C) for a modest outlay thinking they would be of little use, but the 760 proves very usable indeed:

This file needed extra compression to get down to my 2MB attachment limit! It’s so detailed. It is a crop, mainly cutting off the long edges, down from the 1.3X sensor but you are actually seeing more height than a 1.5X sensor – so it goes beyond the official coverage of the lens. At f/11, the curved field has helped bring the foreground into better focus, and left the branches at the top slightly rough. Again, like most of my shots, it’s at 10mm – which is frankly the main reason why I ever buy such a lens. I do not need the range from 16mm to 24mm, all my other ‘standard zoom’ lenses for this format cover from 16mm to 18mm at their wide end.

This is the dilemma. Tamron has gone for specification, not utility. The lens has fewer elements in fewer groups than the 11-18mm f/4.5-5.6 but it’s almost a stop faster and it is a 2.4X zoom not a 1.63X zoom, and it goes wider at the wide end. It is barely any larger, same 77mm thread, even takes exactly the same lens hood – physically it is nearly identical in size and weight to the 17-35mm f/2.8-3.5 full frame design.

In the process, they have definitely lost quality in terms of even coverage and illumination. The 11-18mm is probably not quite as sharp centrally, but beats the 10-24mm in every other respect. Maybe the simple distortion of the 10-24mm at 10mm is a superior feature. Here, you can see it clearly again:

This subject also helped me work out the CA settings – minus 30 Red/Cyan and +30 Yellow/Blue in ACR/Lightroom at 10mm.

The lens is unusual in focusing extremely close (the focus field then resembles a bowl in front of the lens!) and in having a huge exit pupil and rear element size:

I’ve seen 50mm f/2 lenses with smaller rear glass than this design!

Where Tamron has misjudged is in increasing focal length range, rather than aperture. A maximum of f/3.5 is not much use as it does not actually brighten focusing screen views much, and does not enable f/2.8 AF sensors to function. Tokina’s 11-16mm f/2.8 constant aperture zoom, which I have tried on Nikon D90 with excellent results, focuses with far greater accuracy because (depending on the camera body) it switches on the double-precision f/2.8 sensor/s. This does not apply to Nikon as none of their DSLRs incorporate f/2.8 capable sensors, all are f/5.6 limited. Canon use f/5.6 sensors with the addition of f/2.8 capable sensors in some bodies, Sony use f/7.1 sensors with central f/2.8 sensors in the A700 and A900.

Just to show you, for the sake of it, how much depth of field a 10mm lens has at f/11 (which this lens demands as a working aperture, if you want to lose the soft dark corners) here is a series of shots taken using the Kodak DCS760C, all of which fell within the range of ‘focus confirmed’ by the camera:

This is at ‘beyond infinity’ – note the moirés on the clock, caused by having no AA filter. It is a 100% clip from the six megapixel file, not bad for 2001!

Here’s 3 feet/1 metre (the focus scale is not very precise!).

This is 2 feet. I mislabelled these pix because on seeing them, I was sure the distances were metres – surely the depth of field could not be THAT great, given the common focusing errors with ultrawides? But no – I had been adjusting the setting in FEET not metres…

We are now at 1.5ft and the focus confirm light (on a Nikon F5 based body) is still saying all is well, and that is at an effective f/5.6, let alone the f/11 actual shooting aperture. Nikon bodies do not generally have f/2.8 sensors and use f/5.6 for all AF points.

Finally, with the lens focused on 1 foot, we get the AF/manual focus confirm light to go off! Now I had worse focus than this on my Dynax 7D with my first 11-18mm Tamron, which gives me some idea just how badly calibrated the camera was before I adjusted its focus screws.

Message – if your ultrawide or wide shots do not look sharp at f/11, your camera does have an FF/BF error physically. I would never have thought I could focus all the way from infinity+ to 18 inches and still get acceptably sharp results at this resolution (which is more like 4 megapixels than 6 relative to the 1.5X format).

For reference, also showing the entire field of view on the 1.3X sensor with the petal lens hood in place, here is the overall view. I cleaned the Kodak’s sensor after taking these shots:

What conclusion, if any, do I have about the Tamron 10-24mm? First, I have a Sony 11-18mm and as far as this test goes, I’m sure it is better and I would not swap it. Secondly, f/3.5-4.5 is no benefit for AF and not much benefit for viewing – but f/2.8 would have been a real advance. Thirdly, my own uses for such lenses are more technical than creative, to record very wide architectural shots and interiors, therefore sharpness corner to corner counts most of all.

The 10-24mm Tamron is almost a photojournalistic lens. Where the subject is centred, and the corners do not matter, it produces an image like an old Summar f/2 or a 1960s Nikkor 28mm f/3.5 wide open. It has a look which could be exploited.

Should Sony issue a version? At their peril! There are reasons why this lens has been reviewed unfavourably. In fact it is very sharp centrally, has an amazing range, great close focus, simple distortions in place of dirty ones and would be wonderful on the Olympus 4/3rds format. It even manages to nearly cover 1.3X when stopped well down, to f/11 or f/16.

My recommendation must be to prefer the Sony or Tamron 11-18mm f/4.5-5.6 despite the loss of maximum aperture. At least the wide open setting is fully usable on these lenses, and by f/11, they are in a different class to the 10-24mm technically.

Brave attempt, but not what was needed.

– David Kilpatrick FBIPP Hon FMPA

5 comments to Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5

  • zaug

    Thanks, I went ahead with the 11-18 a few months ago; just as the 10-24 was announced.
    Now, I know I did not make a mistake by not waiting.

  • admin

    The bad news is that Tokina’s lens, which is really excellent, will probably never be made for Alpha mount. Tokina is owned by Hoya which also owns Pentax and supplies Samsung. When they took over Pentax, most Tokina lenses of any merit were either already issued as Pentax branded versions, or later became Pentax versions. Pentax and Alpha versions under the Tokina name were ended.

  • johnb74

    I have been looking forward to your review and am very glad I waited. I don’t think I’ll be buying the Tamron after all. Searching around, I’ve come across the Tokina 11-16 f2.8 which looks very good, but is not yet(?) on the alpha mount.

    Do you have an opinion about the Tokina? If you think it would be worthwhile, could I entreat you to use your influence on Sony and/or Tokina to see if an alpha mount version could be produced in the fairly near future?

  • alexramos

    Maybe Sony should redesign it lens to 11-24mm and f/2.8 with new optical elements…

  • Dr.Harout

    Very well explained. Thanks for the article, David.


Content-Type: application/http; msgtype=response

WARC-Identified-Payload-Type: text/html

WARC-Type: response

text:
Fifth Prix Pictet Award May 2014

On Wednesday evening we went along to see who got awarded the fifth Prix Pictet Award at a ceremony and exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

There were eleven artists who had been shortlisted for the award – including Adam Bartos, Motoyuki Daifu, Rineke Dijkstra, Hong Hao, Mishka Henner, Juan Fernando Herran, Abraham Oghobase, Allan Sekula, Boris Mikhailov, Michael Schmidt, and Laurie Simmons.

© Rineke Dijkstra, installation shot from the series Almerisa

The above series by Rineke Dijkstra, Almerisa documents the transition in a girl’s life, not only showing her adjustment to a new culture, but also the way she tries to find herself by experimenting with her outward appearance. Dijkstra met the subject of what has become her longest running series to date while making portraits at a refugee centre in Leiden, The Netherlands. Five years old at the time, Almerisa arrived with her family from Bosnia just two weeks earlier. Dijkstra perpared a small, bare studio with a chair in the corner of the room where the girl was staying. The series sees the subject through from a child to a mother holding her own child on her lap, sitting confidently, thus starting the cycle of life all over again.

The winner of the fifth Prix Pictet is Michael Schmidt. Schmidt was chosen for his monumental work Lebensmittel (food stuff) made between 2006 and 2010.

© Michael Schmidt, Installation shot from the series Lebensmittel

Michael Schmidt was awarded the prize of 100,000 Swiss Francs (USD$112,500, GBP£66,800, EUR€82,000), sponsored by Swiss wealth and asset managers, the Pictet Group.

Unlike some of Schmidt’s earlier series, his Lebensmittel photographs do not strike an attitude of rage or accusation. On the contrary, his way of looking at things is characterised by extreme lucidity and rigour. His view of bread baskets, cages in fish farms or apple-washin plants has a serial analytical quality that is sometimes reminiscent of the objective photographers, who stage their industrial motifs in a perfect aesthetic, and Schmidt;s realistic view makes a distressing impression when looking at the project as a whole: individual images demand objective consideration, while the series persistently undermines the apparently dominant objectivity through its composition of repetitions, accentuations and rhythms and the many links between the photographs. (Prix Pictet catalogue)

Director of the Tate Modern, Chris Dercon, accepted the award on behalf of Schmidt who was unfortunately unable to be at the ceremony due to serious illness. Ahead of the award announcement Kofi Annan said, ‘the shortlisted artists have made powerful images that ought to persuade governments, businesses – and each of us as individual consumers – of the need for a fundamental rethink of the principles on which present-day affluence is founded. The issue of unsustainable consumption, and in particular food and nutrition security, is not simply at the forefront of the global political stage, it is now firmly on the personal agenda of each and every one of us.’

Speaking on behalf of the Jury, Sir David King, Chair of the Judges, said, ‘we were privileged to review work by eleven truly outstanding photographers. There were many potential winners but, after much debate, we finally agreed to award the Prix Pictet to Michael Schmidt whose Lebensmittel is an epic and hugely topical investigation into the ways in which we feed ourselves.’

The exhibition of shortlisted artists for the Prix Pictet Award 2014 is on display at the V&A until 14 June

warcinfo:
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-34
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for August 2020
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-111.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.17 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/


WARC-Identified-Payload-Type: application/xhtml+xml

text:
Notes of “Inductance” for BSc written by Mr.Nasir Pervaiz Butt. These notes are very helpful to prepare Electricity & Magnetism for BSc and are in accordance with paper pattern of Punjab University-Lahore, GCU-Lahore, GCU-Faislabad, University of Sargodha-Sargodha and all other universities of Punjab and Pakistan.

Summary & Contents:

In electromagnetism and electronics, inductance is that property of a circuit by which a change in current in the circuit “induces” a voltage (electromotive force) in both the circuit itself (self-inductance) and any nearby circuits (mutual inductance)…

  • Inductance
  • Calculation of Inductance
  • The Inductance of Solenoid
  • The Inductance of Toroid
  • Growth of Current in an L-R Circuit
  • Defination of Time Constant
  • Decay of Current in an L-R Circuit
  • Energy Stored in Magnetic Field
  • Energy Density and the Magnetic Field
  • Electromagnetic Oscillations
  • Forced Electromagnetic Oscillations and Resonance

View online & Download:

Notes View Online

  • bsc/emt/nasir/inductance
  • Last modified: 2018/03/20 12:59


text:
Join Today!

Support Pickens Arts and Culture:

Become a Member of PACA

We are looking for individuals, organizations and businesses in the Pickens County and surrounding areas that want to support art, culture, history – and all that they mean to the entire region.

Please consider joining our organization to help preserve these important aspects of our lives and our future.

When you join, you will receive a Member card and a listing on our Member Page of this website, with a link to your own website if you would like one.

To become a member, you can click here to get the PACA Membership Application.

Online: Complete the form and email it to PACAGeorgia[at], then make payment using this PayPal link: CLICK HERE.

By Mail: Print out and complete the form, and send with your check to: Pickens Arts and Cultural Alliance Treasurer Heather Poole, 35 Hidden Creek Rd, Ste 109, Jasper GA 30143.

For questions or additional information e-mail us at: Membership


text:
The Flying Pickets have been around in various, ever evolving forms, since 1982... a long time! And in music as in life, there've been a lot of changes... So here for the benefit of the historically-minded, as best we can remember it, is the Flying Pickets Family Tree... (ta-daah!)

  • Facebook - White Circle
  • Twitter - White Circle
  • YouTube - White Circle
  • Vimeo - White Circle

Copyright © 1996-2020 FLYING PICKETS.

All rights reserved.


text:
There were double celebrations at our Bethany home in Plymouth on Monday, 9 December as the Local Authority’s Social Services, Bridget Buckley, presented it with two ‘Excellence’ awards.

The first was the ‘Excellent in End of Life Care’ award that Bethany has received for the first time. Each year since 2015 they have been successfully verified by St Luke’s Hospice as 'End of Life Care Champions'. Manager, Emma Hughes, also qualified in Teaching End of Life Care and noted that the Home’s awards are the result of deep commitment from each staff member, whatever their role.

“It’s the thanks we get from relatives that say the most,” she said, “a daughter wrote, ‘I’m struggling to express my thanks… I marvel at the love and care that you gave to (name). Bethany was truly her home: somewhere she could be safe, comfortable and happy. We think Bethany is extraordinary and are glad for everyone’s sake that it exists. Thank you is not a big enough word.”

Listening quietly to the first Award speech was volunteer Mike Spry, who was astounded to find that the second Award was for him as ‘Volunteer of the Year’.  Mike came to Bethany in 2016 as a pastoral support volunteer through the ‘Churches Together in Plymouth’ programme. He focused on Bill, (name changed) a resident with no friends or family and who struggled to make connections with others. When introduced to Mike he said, “I have no friends.” Mike replied, “if you would like me to, I would be your friend.” Bill was thrilled about this and for days afterwards would say to staff, “did you know I have a friend – have you met my friend Mike?”

Mike’s weekly visits to Bill were not easy. Conversations could be heavy and challenging, and Bill could be contrary. Discovering that his hobby had been amateur radio DJ, Mike arranged for equipment so he could take it up again. Boxes arrived at the home and Mike was all ready to help Bill get it set up – then Bill changed his mind and asked for it all to be sent back so plans Mike and spent so long putting together had to be abandoned. Mike said he felt sad that Bill wouldn’t be able to enjoy his old hobby again.

Where Bill could easily misunderstand others and drive them away, Mike persisted. “Vulnerable people need love and persistence,” he said, “and to know that you are genuinely interested in them. They can tell if you’re not.” In December 2018, Bill’s health began to fail. He told Mike that he wanted to know where he was going, and they began conversations that led Bill to Jesus Christ and spiritual peace. Staff in the home noticed how peaceful he was in the last days of his life.

Manager Emma noted that, “this was a special giving: not obvious and in the limelight. It was a willingness to be faithful in being alongside when seemingly little was given back in return. And the result? A man on the edge of society knew that he was valued, and now has eternal life.”

Could you support the work of Pilgrims' Friend Society in helping older people lived fulfilled later lives? Find out more about giving to our work.


text:
Beginning Letter Sound Phonics Cards
Pinay Homeschooler Shop

Beginning Letter Sound Phonics Cards

Regular price $5.00 $0.00
Tax included.
This file is in PDF format.

This learning material is used for teaching beginning letter sounds to preschoolers and early readers. HIGH QUALITY REAL IMAGES are provided for a realistic experience. There are two sets of card strips included:
- letters (big and small) with pictures
- blank box with pictures

The first set, is the control strips. We use these often to practise the beginning letter sound with the images provided in the cards.

The second set, is the one with blank box of letters. We use these cards to match tangible letters (magnetic letters, movable alphabet and the likes) to the pictures in the cards. You can also write the letters using dry erase pens.

More from this collection


text:
Valentine's Day Preschool Mini Unit
Valentine's Day Preschool Mini Unit
Pinay Homeschooler Shop

Valentine's Day Preschool Mini Unit

Regular price $8.00 $0.00
Tax included.

Valentine's Day Montessori inspired learning printable pack is filled with fun and engaging math and literacy activities for preschoolers, prek and kindergartens. The activities will be perfect for homeschool, for morning tubs and centers.

Contains materials that will enrich your child's knowledge of the Valentine'ss Day icons, symbols and objects. It will introduce vocabulary words, phonics, and with hands-on math activities for extension work.

Activities in this set includes:

  1. Valentine's Day 3 Part Cards - for enriching vocabulary and matching activities
  2. Beginning Sound Domino Game - A to Z
  3. Count and Match
  4. Picture Dough Mats
  5. Counting with Ten /Twenty Frames
  6. Chocolate Shape Matching
  7. Love Letters Number Representation
  8. Heart Uppercase and Lowercase Puzzle
  9. CVC MIssing Letters Clipcards
  10. Valentine's Day Beginning Sound Clipcards
  11. Mail Color Sorting

FREE - Cutting Strips

FREE - Tracing Strips

More from this collection


text:
Iral Meyerhoff

Chief Financial Officer

Iral Meyerhoff came to Pinnacle Contracting Corporation after having spent over 35 years in the plumbing industry, both in the retail and wholesale arenas. His extensive background in management, planning, contract negotiation, and forecasting has given him the tools needed to help guide Pinnacle. Iral’s previous experience includes working for Golden West Pipe & Supply, a plumbing wholesaler, where he was in charge of retail sales development. His clientele included retailers Pacific Sales, Snyder-Diamond and Warehouse Discount Center, as well as high-end residential builders and interior designers. Prior to that, Iral was the director of Purchasing for Snyder-Diamond, Inc. a large Southern California based retailer of plumbing fixtures, appliances and kitchen cabinets.

Iral’s ability to exercise sound judgment, strong problem solving and managerial skills, high level of dependability, integrity and communication skills helps round out the Pinnacle team.

Iral graduated with an MBA from Pepperdine University and received his Bachelor of Science degree from California State University, Northridge.


text:
McLaren aero man Iley heading to Caterham

Martin Whitmarsh has confirmed that his team's Head of Aerodynamics, John Iley, is to join Caterham.

Iley, joined McLaren at the beginning of 2010 after seven years with Ferrari. A graduate of Lanchester Polytechnic in Coventry, Iley entered F1 with Jordan in 1997 after spells with Brun (Group C) and HRS Consultancy which involved working with Newman Haas, Lola and Swift in Indycar. After five seasons with Jordan the Englishman moved to Renault as Head of Aerodynamics before taking a similar role at Maranello.

While Caterham - currently Team Lotus - has yet to announce his appointment, the move, which is common knowledge in the Interlagos paddock, was confirmed by Whitmarsh, though he was unable to say when Iley will start work with his new employer.

"I've had a request from Tony (Fernandes) asking could he have him early," the McLaren boss told Reuters, "and I haven't agreed yet.

"John is a good guy and we have got a number of things that we could have him do but we will decide that in the course of the next week," he added, confirming that Iley has given in his notice to the Woking outfit. "Tony would like him earlier and we might come to an accommodation on that."

Whitmarsh says that Iley's role at Woking was managerial as opposed to the outright position of Chief Aerodynamicist.

"In fact I think he's going there in a broader role than just aerodynamics," he said. "Tony is bringing together Caterham cars and I think he will be performance director of Caterham cars."

At the beginning of the month, Lotus revealed that it had signed Renault Sporting Director Steve Nielsen.

Article from Pitpass (

Published: 26/11/2011
Copyright © Pitpass 2002 - 2020. All rights reserved.


text:
Benazcap header

Benazcap Brand Analysis

Benazcap has 3 products, specializing in Tablet Cases.

Benazcap is rated 8 out of 10 based on our analysis of product reviews and ratings.

Benazcap Product Quality

Sign Up To Our Newsletter

Sign up for our newsletter to receive recommendations about the latest products worth buying.

PixEdge is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to www.amazon.com. Amazon, Amazon Prime, the Amazon logo and Amazon Prime logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.


text:
Cape Wickham, King Island

** COVID Comeback Special **

Enquire today - about special offers for golf groups booking their 2020 Tassy golf trip

From virtual obscurity, Tasmania has emerged as one of the world's premier links golf destinations. The combination of Barnbougle Dunes and Lost Farm on the mainland with Cape Wickham on King Island is a treat for all genuine golf lovers, and an unbeatable combination of great golf courses and wonderful scenery, with the laid-back nature of Australians from our southernmost state.

Planet Golf can help organize your golf tour to Tasmania, or provide advice on private plane charter companies and non-golf attractions. Packages can be arranged in combination with the Melbourne Sandbelt, New Zealand or other golf destinations from the region.

King Island & Barnbougle Dunes Packages by Luxury Private Aircraft - 2 Day Packages from $1,095!

Packages Include:

  • Return private charter flights (ex Essendon Airport, Melbourne)
  • Accommodation
  • All golf green fees
  • On ground transfers
  • Pull cart

  • 18 Holes at Cape Wickham
  • 18 Holes at Ocean Dunes
  • 1 Night accommodation
  • Priced from $1,095pp twin share (group of 8)

  • 36 Holes at Cape Wickham
  • 18 Holes at Ocean Dunes
  • 2 Nights accommodation
  • Priced from $1,397pp twin share (group of 8)

Barnbougle Dunes PACKAGES

  • 2 x full rounds at Barnbougle Dunes / Lost Farm
  • 1 Night accommodation
  • Priced from $1,250pp twin share (group of 8)

  • 3 x full rounds at Barnbougle Dunes / Lost Farm
  • 2 Night accommodation
  • Priced from $1,575pp twin share (group of 8)

ULTIMATE King Island & Barnbougle Dunes PACKAGE

  • 36 Holes at Barnbougle Dunes / Lost Farm
  • 18 Holes at Cape Wickham
  • 18 Holes at Ocean Dunes
  • 3 Nights accommodation
  • Priced from $2,250pp twin share (group of 8)

For full details on any of our Tasmania Golf Packages please ENQUIRE NOW

Tasmania's Best Golf – Feature Courses:

Cape Wickham Links

In the shadows of Australia's tallest lighthouse and on the northwestern tip of remote King Island, sits Australia’s most spectacular golf course - Cape Wickham Links. Designed by Planet Golf's Darius Oliver and Mike DeVries, Cape Wickham opened in 2015 and was ranked #24 in the World by Golf Digest Magazine that same year. It's a rare treat for the golfing senses, and the experience of King Island is also unique for its delicious produce (primarily beef, seafood and award-winning cheeses), as well as its fascinating maritime history, world-class surfing and acres of secluded beaches.

Barnbougle Dunes Golf Links

The course that established Tasmania at the forefront of golfing tourism, Barnbougle Dunes was designed by American Tom Doak and for more than a dozen years has lured golfers to the northern coast to experience the joys of genuine links golf. While the entire experience is authentic and high quality, holes like the 4th and 7th alone make this is a destination of the highest calibre. Whereas the 4th is a drivable par four with imaginative bunkering and a receptive green site, the 7th is a truly sinister short par three with a tiny, tabletop green. Both are unforgettable.

Barnbougle Lost Farm

Designed by Bill Coore, the younger sibling to Barnbougle Dunes is an equally memorable experience for its 20 original holes and beautiful coastal dunescape. The flatter holes through former farming ground are cleverly designed to provide a range of shot options, while the more glamorous areas are renowned for both their sea views and their distinctive golf design. The strong par four 5th and drivable 14th holes, in particular, standout as truly world-class.


text:
Skip to Content

Are you thinking about renovating, building an addition, or constructing a new facility? The success of your senior living construction project depends on how you handle these five considerations as part of your project development process.

Senior living construction project team planning a capital project next to architectural model and construction documents

The project development process.

It’s the backbone of any successful senior living construction project.

It’s the way you pull together your project team and resources.

It’s the essence of proactive planning.

Establishing an effective project development process is no trade secret. But we won’t lie to you — it takes a significant level of experience and expertise, and it’s not easy, even for providers who have completed projects in the past.

How to set up your senior living construction project for success

To put it simply, a successful project development process balances people, knowledge, and timing in a way that sets your project up for on-schedule, on-budget results.

While there’s a lot more to it than we can cover in this short blog post, rest assured that the likely success of your senior living construction project depends largely on how you handle these five considerations:

1. Financial feasibility: What can you afford to build?

How do you know what you can build if you don’t know how much you can spend? Your debt capacity defines the project budget parameters to which your architect, construction manager or general contractor, and stakeholders will adhere. Performing a debt capacity analysis will help you understand your limits; however, we also recommend a full financial analysis, which is a deeper dive that develops the financial pro forma.

2. Uncovering unknowns: You don’t know what you don’t know

The things you don’t know about establishing budgets and contingencies, mitigating risk, managing change orders, and can hobble your project in expensive ways. Owner’s representatives can be essential in these cases, reinforcing your internal team with the necessary experience and capacity to administer the intricate details of your capital projects.

All providers will benefit from a flexible approach to the project development process.

3. Assemble the right team: Find the best of the best who know senior living

Assembling an effective, collaborative project team requires the right people at the right time. An owner’s representative can help you solicit and vet professionals experienced in senior living design and construction. A word of warning: Don’t wait to bring everyone to the conversation — having the full project team from the very first conceptual phases means you’re able to capitalize on value-engineering opportunities early.

4. Development process: Dynamic, not linear

The development process is not linear — it is dynamic and ever changing — but it should be broken down into manageable pieces with frequent “Go” or “No go” checkpoints to mitigate risk. These complexities make it imperative you have your team integrated and talking with each other during every phase of the project. All providers will benefit from a flexible approach to the project development process.

5. Delivery methods: Picking the right one for your project

What is a delivery method and why does it matter? The delivery method:

  • Determines how the project will be designed and constructed
  • Defines the contractual relationship between the owner/develop and the project delivery team
  • Establishes when parties become engaged
  • Influences ownership and the impact of changes and modifications of project costs

Selecting the right project delivery method will define both the program’s cost effectiveness and the success of the technical solutions. Which one you chose depends on a variety of factors related to quality, cost, scope, feasibility, and time.

Planning the work and working the plan

Safeguarding the success of your senior living construction project depends on the amount of careful planning that goes into each step — with an eye toward mitigating risk and cost throughout. When you wrap your arms around these five considerations as part of your project delivery process, you’ll find projects go much more smoothly. But if they’re mishandled, you’re bound to run into problems.

If you would like help thinking through these five considerations and many more for your next project, reach out to our owner’s representatives today. We’ll be happy to help you create a collaborative project development process to achieve a better project.

If this article was helpful, subscribe to our email list to get similar articles sent directly to your inbox each month.

This article is based on a presentation Plante Moran Living Forward created for LeadingAge and its associates.


text:
Love Doorknob Hanger

Be the first to review this product

Availability: In stock

Product Name Price Qty
Love Doorknob Hanger-PDF Download
Love Doorknob Hanger-Pattern by Mail
Love Doorknob Hanger-Kit

Quick Overview

Stitch up this fun LOVE doorknob hanger for Valentine's Day.

Made with 7-count plastic canvas and worsted weight yarn.

Skill Level: Easy

This pattern is a color pattern.

PDF Download is available as soon as you buy the product. After purchasing, just log into your account and download instantly. PDF viewing software such as Acrobat is needed to view patterns.

Pattern by Mail comes to directly to you via USPS. We put all out patterns in a plastic protective sleeve for added protection when mailed.

A Kit includes everything needed to make one Love doorknob hanger (7-count plastic canvas, worsted weight yarn, plastic canvas needle and full instructions and graphs).

Plastic Canvas-Doorknob Hanger

Double click on above image to view full picture

Zoom Out
Zoom In

More Views

  • Plastic Canvas-Doorknob Hanger

Hangs on any doorknob

Product Tags

Use spaces to separate tags. Use single quotes (') for phrases.


text:
Jump to content

Recommended Posts

Posted (edited)

Survivor Gamer Presents X-Nation
New islands!!!!
PvpPve RP Based severs 20 4x5 in total

Do you like Rp? Do you like pPve? Do you like to pvp once In awhile then.....

The Survivor Gamer Presents X-Nation
We believe in the commitment and players to be able to learn and reach out. We are like minded individuals that love gaming and the survivor experience!

We have a young adult 18 to age 60 server and want you to participate we want you to have fun Rp and not have to worry about not being able to play the game and get to end game without getting foundation wiped everyday. We want you to check us out to see for yourself see our web page out as well and enjoy

https://thesurvivorgamer.com/ any and ALL questions about rules mods servers ect can all be answered here at this web page Please visit thanks

active community
Rates 3x to 4x server
3x loot 6x
3x harvest 4x
6x mating
6x breeding
high tier loot maps
200 level player ships ie player vessels can be leveled up to 200
max level players 130 ie player level cap
and more so solos can craft ect without a big company. skill tree unlocks all engrams after a certain level so we welcome the solo player as well
subs also unlocked so you can tame that crab or explore the ocean depths.
 npc shops to buy mats sell mats and buy custom tames from a npc vendor
shop is not attached to any company so the gold is balanced as well. So if you don't or cant or wont farm you can use IN game gold to buy your mats to craft that mythical ship
Or trade with other companies!!
vitamin drain food balanced
200 max island points

WE also custom program our loot tables from sotd drops to supply crate drops allow for custom items to be looted
are sotd are balanced with our servers so that there can be a progression to your gameplay
also balanced leveling that gives you awesome stats but stays with the balance of the servers to make it not be to op
are admins focus on issues that affect you asap and strive to make your experience a great one. THANK YOU  for taking the time to read this post !

Edited by Flamberg
spelling error

Share this post

Link to post
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now

  • Create New...


text:
Video Comparison of Resident Evil 3 1999 vs. 2020 Gameplay Shows How Far Games Have Come

Capcom and PlayStation have released a 16-minute video that offers a comparison of the original Resident Evil 3‘s gameplay versus the remake’s gameplay. The video, which includes commentary by Capcom producer Peter Fabiano, gives us an interesting look at just how far the games industry has come in 20 years.

Without further ado, check out the video below:

The latest issue of the Official Xbox Magazine contains a lot of information about the remake. Capcom has said that its developers have reimagined Raccoon City and built it from the ground up. The map size will be considerably bigger than the original and although it’s not open world, players will be able to explore a few areas of the city, including stores and buildings.

Capcom hopes to woo fans over with the reimagined city, especially since its packed with details and nods to the original.

“It’s way more fleshed out, there’s a huge attention to detail – you’ll notice posters throughout the city and all these little homages to the ’90s and the ’80s, these little touches we put in there,” said Fabiano. “I think they’re really fun for someone who played the original and grew up during that period, and of course, even for newcomers it’s a little fun throwback, too.”

In development for three years, Resident Evil 3‘s remake will release for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on April 3rd.

[Source: ResetEra, Wccftech]

This page contains affiliate links to products. Purchases made through these links help support PlayStation LifeStyle.


text:
Four bottles of wine sent directly to my door?! I’ll drink to that…

Well, thanks to Pulp Wine this dream is a reality. Cheers guys!

Described as the “wine tasting experience in the comfort of your own home”, now you don’t have to venture to a vineyard to sample some of the world’s greatest grapes. Pulp is all about kicking back and chilling on the couch, while learning more about that wonderful wine in your hand.

With easy teaching stages, from tasting tutorials to food suggestions, Pulp guide you the whole way to becoming a wine guru. Not being much of a wine connoisseur myself, this innovative subscription sounded like a brilliant idea to me!

If you’re keen to learn how this works, read on to hear how I got on when I put the service to the test – all in the name of research, of course…

Pulp wine subscription wine tasting box
The wine arrived quickly and beautifully packaged in rustic-inspired brown boxes. So far, impressed! Inside were two cardboard crates of white wine and red. A login card was included so that I could access the website and receive my online wine tasting tutorial. This was lots of fun and a nice little treat for a relaxed Friday night in.

A set of instructions on a pretty little card told me what to do: I had to log in to my tutorial before sipping, pour two glasses of two different wines, and then drink one after the other to be able to truly compare their taste.Pulp wine subscription wine tasting box

I was sent a Sauvignon and Syrah red wine and a Sauvignon and Pinot Grigio white.

The website is easy to use and navigate. It’s also mobile friendly, so you can log in and access on the go, whether to catch up on your last lesson during your lunch break, or to order your next box.

Each tutorial talked me through the tastes, colour and aroma of a typical Sauvignon, Syrah and Pinot Grigio. I learnt how the grape’s origins can alter the smoothness, sweetness and dryness of the wine, whether from France, Italy, South Africa or Australia.

Pulp provide food pairing suggestions, so you can serve up a wine that complements your dinner beautifully and accompanies the flavours of your food for the best evening meal experience.Pulp wine subscription wine tasting box

Once you’ve savoured the taste of each glass, you can rate your favourite to build up a personalised wine profile. This is a great tool which can be referred to when selecting your next box, whether for dinner dates, parties or just to enjoy alone.

At just £35 per month, this fun and unique subscription would make a great gift idea for wine lovers, or for those keen to learn more about the different grapes out there on the shelves. It’s fair to say that Pulp is equal parts educational and enjoyable.

A perfect way to entertain evening guests, you can now wow everyone at the dining table with your expert wine knowledge and share the correct tasting experience with your friends. Pour us a glass, please!

Feeling thirsty? If you want to give Pulp a try, we’ve secured a little treat for you in the form of 50% off your first box. Yep, that’s just half price for a box of four wines. Just enter the code ‘PLUSMINUS50’ at the checkout to get your discount.


text:
Skip to main content Skip to site footer
Ticket News

Ticket Information: Hull City

18 October 2018

Well over 1,000 North End fans are set to head across the Pennines to the east coast to see the Lilywhites take on Hull City this weekend and you could still join them!

First Team News

Match Coverage: Hull City

18 October 2018
North End take on the Tigers in the first game after the latest international break, with a 3pm kick-off, and tickets are still on general sale.
Tickets are available online at, by calling 0344 856 1966 or in person from the ticket office at Deepdale and will remain on sale until 1pm online and 4pm in person on Friday 19th October.
We have been given an allocation of 1,452 for this fixture and City operate a zonal pricing system for all supporters, where the price varies according to the seat position in the stadium, with no concessions.
First Team News

Memorable Match: Hull City

18 October 2018
Tickets are located in the north and east stands and are priced as per the block as follows:
Block N6 £12 - Sold Out
Block N7 £12 - Sold Out
Block NE £18
Block E1 £18
Block E2 £18
Block E3 £24
Seats are sold in the order of blocks above, starting from Block N6. There are also eight pairs of wheelchair disabled and carer tickets on a raised platform in block N6 which are priced at £12 with a carer ticket free of charge if required.
First Team News

Ref Watch: Hull City

18 October 2018
Ambulant disabled supporter tickets are priced at either £12 or £18 depending on the block, with a carer ticket free of charge.
Coach travel is also available for this game and has been reduced to just £13 for all. Coaches will depart both Deepdale and Leyland at 10.30am.
Supporters are advised to buy in advance, but should any tickets be left, then they will be sold from the 'Pitch Side Bar' which is situated next to away turnstiles one to five and will open at 1pm.
Any collections can be collected from the 'Ticket Zone' from 1pm on the day of the game.

Advertisement block


text:
Company's uniform GIS is bringing more efficient network management and better customer service.

Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions announced that envia Mitteldeutsche Energie AG (enviaM) is deploying Intergraph's G/Net and G/Electric, two modules of the company's next-generation G/Technology-based industryware for utilities, to optimize work processes and automate network operation. Formed in 2002 with the merger of two regional energy providers, the German multi-utilities company is headquartered in Chemnitz. enviaM provides electric and energy-related services to 1.6 million customers over a 26,000 square kilometer network that extends approximately 76,000 km across the eastern German federal states of Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Brandenburg and portions of Thuringen. Today, their annual electricity output is approximately 21 billion kWh, which is the equivalent of one quarter of the total usage in eastern Germany.

Previously, only 20 percent of enviaM's net data was available in digital format. enviaM determined that a uniform, next-generation geographic information system (GIS), which digitized and standardized spatial information and item content and gave data access to user groups across the organization, would provide economical benefits in the planning, project engineering, building, operating and documenting of the grid network and function control. enviaM chose Intergraph (Deutschland) GmbH as the technology partner.

enviaM expects to minimize administration expenditures, shorten response times and improve quality of services by automating network operations.

Intergraph's G/Net is a multi-utility application specifically developed for utility companies in German-speaking regions. G/Electric provides built-in network design tools for cable networks; automated network tracing; query and spatial analysis for both mobile and Web users; and data import and export interfaces - including an interface to the company's SAP Plant Maintenance application. In addition, the solution supports integration of vector and raster data. Both modules are based on standard, non-proprietary formats to support system integration and enterprisewide data access.

Phased implementation for the multi-stage project has begun with completion expected in October 2004. G/Net is currently being used for data continuation and online Web information. Also, the initial digital capture of the majority of network data has begun. The implementation of geospatial functionality for the low and medium voltage network and set up of interfaces to third-party and mobile systems, such as the automated network operation, is expected to be completed in May 2004. The next phase will include implementation of the GIS for the high voltage and telecommunications network. Upon project completion, the system will support 170 design seats for data continuation and analysis and 970 information access seats - online and offline - for network management and energy-related services.

Source: Intergraph, May 4, 2004


text:
Usually when you try and make something cool, you end up doing the opposite. That almost indefinable quality in a game - its 'X Factor' if you will - is too tricky to pin down, too elusive to accurately quantify.

Which is why when a game comes out with a swagger and a style all of its own, it deserves to be praised. Penny Time might be an advert for an anachronistic plastic skateboard from Australia, but it's also a brilliant blend of endless-runner, rhythm-action, and platformer.

Skate or die

The game casts you as a slacker sort, who's given a magical Penny skateboard that just happens to be able to stop time. It's your job to skate through suburbia, pulling off tricks and racking up points as you do.

You move forwards automatically, swiping on the screen in the right direction when you pass over one of three differently coloured targets. White, blue, and yellow markers require strokes up, right, and down, respectively.

Levels are split into three areas, which are themselves cut in three. In the first part of an area, you collect your score, swiping when you're at the centre of the target to get the most points. In the second part, things speed up a little, and you collect your multiplier.

The third area offers you a choice. Swipe backwards on the screen, and the game will multiply your score and bank it. Do nothing, and you'll store your multiplier so that you can add to it in the next area. Beware, though: a single mistake will set you back to zero.

This mixture of risk and reward is an enticing one for all, while completing a level unlocks a tougher version of it for those who like to swipe and swear a lot. Every successfully performed swipe earns you a chime that mixes into the excellent soundtrack, too.

There's a photo-bombing mini-game in here, as well, and it all blends together to create an engaging and entertaining package.

Penny Time is effortlessly cool, and while it could do with a few more levels, it remains a unique experience in a world full of lifeless clones.

Subscribe to Pocket Gamer on


text:
If Maria the Witch and Rovio's Retry were to ever run into each other at a party, there'd be an immediate argument about who should go home and change.

Granted, the two games seem like they're miles apart on paper. Maria the Witch is about a clumsy young magic-user that needs to get a handle on her broom, whereas Retry is about a clumsy pilot that needs to perform some serious maintenance on their bird.

Beyond their dissimilar premises, the challenges both games throw at you have a lot in common. Try and land your loopy witch or your insane plane without crashing and burning. Avoid cliffs. Avoid obstacles.

And for the love of Zeus, avoid clouds. They're like lovable sky-sheep in our world, but in the world of Maria the Witch, they're electrified death.

Witch on a Plane

Let's get it out of the way: Retry technically came before Maria the Witch. Retry soft-launched in Canada, Finland, and Poland in April. The current version, 1.4.3, went live worldwide on October 21. Maria the Witch seemingly launched without a soft release on October 15.

But while Maria the Witch has a lot in common with Retry, Naps Team put an admirable effort into squeezing more charm and content into their game.

Unfortunately, some of these efforts highlight the game's weaknesses and make them impossible to ignore.

Mail witch

For one thing, Maria the Witch's character design treads a really weird path between "tribute" and "rip-off." The titular Maria looks uncomfortably similar to legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki's Kiki the Witch from Kiki's Delivery Service.

The game's seaside background likewise hews closely to the movie's airy setting. There's even a Miyazaki look-alike that rides a Totoro-style cat, which may indicate the character designs were copied in the spirit of parody.

The "tribute" is otherwise played pretty straight, though. It's all kind of bizarre.

More troubling are the meandering stages. Maria the Witch's challenge comes from trying to gain equilibrium while flying. When you hold the side of the screen, Maria performs an endless loop-de-loop on her broom.

You steer the young witch by positioning her with said loop-de-loop, and then issue small taps to drive her forward.

It sounds complicated because it is complicated; Flappy Bird's smell is all over Maria the Witch, same as it's all over Retry.

But whereas Retry serves up small stages, Maria the Witch requires players to zip back and forth through a stage in order to grab mail, put it in floating mailboxes, and then fly to the end of the level.

Despite the oft-insane challenge of each level, there are some pretty neat ideas at work here. Maria can navigate through water via giant bubbles, and find hidden passageways that hide coins. Coins are necessary to "buy" checkpoints - and they're very difficult to nab (of course, you can buy them with cash).

No checkpoint? If you so much as tap the edge of a cloud, it's back to the start, Henrietta Potter.

It's like black magic

The coins bring up another problem with Maria the Witch - advertisements disguised as "tips." Needless to say, dying is a part of life in this game.

Nearly every time you eat it, a tip pops up and asks you if you'd like to spend (large amounts of) coins to get past tough bits.

Permanent upgrades are advertised, too. "Why don't you buy a magnet to draw items towards you?" the game asks over and over. Because I didn't want to the first twenty times you made me stare at this advertisement. Thank you.

It's easy to admire what Maria the Witch is going for here, and anyone that thinks Retry is child's play is certain to appreciate the extra-thick challenge up for grabs in Maria the Witch.

The question is whether or not someone out there thinks Retry is too easy. Otherwise, the long stages and advertisements deliver tonnes of frustration without much fun.


text:
Epic Games dropped a bomb last night by announcing that Fortnite Battle Royale, their PvE Tower Defence inspired game turned Battle Royale after the success of Player Unknown's Battlegrounds is coming to iOS and Android. That's right, Epic says that it's the same game with the same weekly updates.

Subscribe to Pocket Gamer on

Not only that but you'll be able to play with PS4 and PC players if you want to. If you're queuing solo or with mobile friends, you'll only be playing with mobile players however. How will Epic adjust the mobile controls and will we see full controller support? We can't answer those yet but a beta is going up really soon on iOS and you can sign-up for it here starting Monday.

This is such a smart move after PUBG's "soft launch" in China and should make Fortnite even more dominant in the Battle Royale space than it is now.

We'll let you know when sign-ups are live.


text:
Back to top

Lanhee J. Chen

Research Fellow

Lanhee J. Chen, Ph.D. is the David and Diane Steffy Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Director of Domestic Policy Studies and Lecturer in the Public Policy Program at Stanford University.  A veteran of several high-profile political campaigns, Chen has worked in politics, government, the private sector, and academia.

He has advised numerous major campaigns, including four presidential efforts.  In 2012, he was policy director of the Romney-Ryan campaign, and served as Governor Mitt Romney’s chief policy adviser. a senior strategist on the campaign, and the person responsible for developing the campaign’s domestic and foreign policy.  Chen also advised Senator Marco Rubio's 2016 presidential bid, served as Domestic Policy Director of Romney's 2008 campaign, and was a health policy adviser to the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign in 2004.  During the 2014 and 2018 campaign cycles, Chen served as a Senior Adviser on Policy to the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC).

Chen is currently an Operating Partner at New Road Capital Partners, a private equity firm, where he helps to direct healthcare investments for the firm’s latest fund.  He is also a Senior Counselor at the Brunswick Group, a global business advisory firm.

In the Bush administration, Chen was a senior official at the US Department of Health and Human Services. His private-sector experience includes having been an associate attorney with the international law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where he practiced business litigation. Chen was also the Winnie Neubauer Visiting Fellow in Health Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation and worked as a health policy advocate for a major business group in Washington, DC.

Chen earned his Ph.D. and A.M. in political science from Harvard University, his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School, and his A.B. magna cum laude in government from Harvard College. He is a member of the State Bar of California.

More From Lanhee J. Chen


text:
Stopping Hillary from the left

A newly formed political action committee is aiming to stop Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary by calling into question her progressive credentials.

"We think there are other Democratic presidential candidates who are both more progressive and have a better chance of beating the Republicans than she does," said the president of Democratic Courage, Glenn Hurowitz.

He declined to tip his hand on the group's case against Clinton, but said the PAC plans a paid media campaign in the early primary states to make its position clear.

"We’ll definitely have sufficient resources to make a significant media buy," he said, adding that their campaign against Clinton would be "edgy" enough to get attention. "We don’t need to raise an immense amount of money to make a big difference."

Hurowitz, 29, is a Washington-based writer and activist. (He has written freelance Ideas articles for Politico, including this piece criticizing Clinton's and Obama's energy plans.) The group's two other officers are Sam Goldman and David Lipowicz, both of whom have worked for liberal and environmental groups in Washington.

Hurowitz and Goldman have both contributed to the campaign of former North Carolina Senator John Edwards, but Hurowitz said their effort is independent of any campaign.

"We have no plans right now to back any particular candidate," Hurowitz said.

As a federal political action committee, Democratic Courage is raising money only in contributions of $5,000 or less. This allows the group to politick more directly than the independent groups known as 527s, which can raise money in unlimited quantities but which have limits on their direct support for candidates.

Their effort follows a long line of lackluster "Stop Hillary" campaigns on the right, which began before her election to the Senate in 2000, and have largely failed to raise large sums of money or attract widespread attention. But Hurowitz distinguished his group from those.

"I'm definitely not a Hillary hater — I think there are other candidates who are better for the progressive movement," Hurowitz said. "Most of the people involved in our PAC will be happy to support her if she does become the nominee."

A spokesman for Clinton declined to comment on the effort.


text:
Shipment Tracking

If you choose a tracked or signed for shipping service on checkout, you can track your delivery from your order history page.

Tracking numbers will also be sent to you via email once your order has been dispatched, simply input your tracking number below to view it’s current status.


text:
Quartz Pool Finishes combines the performance properties of enriched Portland cement with factory-blended crystalline aggregates enhanced with sparkling colored quartz to create luster and strength that outshines and outlasts traditional pool finishes. For new construction, renovation or just to show off, Quartz Pool Finishes sets the bar competition can’t reach.

License # CPC1458354

Copyright 2020 Pool Creations

a R.A.C.E. Pool & Spa Services Company

Final Best Of The Best 2020.jpg


text:
Having been stripped of their franchise, Christine and Barb decide to turn the gym into a spa. They are overjoyed by how quickly their new business has become a success -- until they find out Matthew informs them that they're actually running a brothel. Christine, in an effort to reopen a new gym following this, asks Marly and Lindsay for an investment. Richard experiences mothers at Ritchie's school for the first time when Christine has to work on the gym and realizes that Christine may have been right about their behavior.

More from Popisms

Name: Email: URL: Comment:


text:
Speaking of Spokes: The Design That Could Change How Electric Car Motors Are Made

The APM 200 by Equipmake, which will appear in the 2020 Ariel Hipercar, uses a clever trick of engineering to deal with the heat generated by an electric motor.

An electric car's motors are all about magnets. Magnets in the motors turn the wheels by switching rapidly between attracting and repelling forces to spin the hub.

But here's the problem: heat. Just like an internal combustion engine, the electric motor generates a lot of power-sapping heat. That's why electric motors often have two ratings: peak power and continuous power. The latter number is lower because heat saps power from the magnets during extended use. All conventional wheel-hub motors must confront this issue.

Across the pond, a team at Equipmake, a 28-person automotive engineering firm from Norfolk, England, is working on a better way around this efficiency impasse. Their new design for an electric motor arranges the magnets around the whole wheel hub by standing them on end, like the spokes of a wagon wheel. The APM 200, set to hit the market in 2020, can generate the same power for the same cost as conventional electric motors, but in a significantly smaller and lighter design that's easier to cool.

“It's been pretty well-known for a while,” Equipmake managing director Ian Foley says of the spoke motor design. “There just hasn't been a low-cost route to manufacture.”

Ian Foley

Most of the motors in electric and hybrid cars arrange their magnets in a V-shape around the wheel hub. Because the magnets are stacked on one another, it's difficult to completely seal the laminations that envelop them. That means coolant can't flow directly over the magnets to cool them. So V-shape motor makers have had to use expensive, exotic types of rare earth magnets to mitigate the problems of heat buildup.

For example, neodymium is the most commonly used rare earth magnet. But for a V-shape motor to run at high temperatures, they must add the chemical dysprosium into the magnet, which drives up the cost.

In the spoke motor, by contrast, every magnet is mounted to a forged aluminum wheel hub, which means coolant can be piped through the hub and directly over its magnet “spokes.” Having coolant in contact with the magnets allows for more efficient cooling, and because the motor doesn't lose as much power due to heat buildup, it can use the cheapest grade of neodymium magnet without performance loss.

In addition, Foley says, the spoke motor has the advantage of packing more power into a lighter design. Half as big and 20 percent lighter than V-shape hub motors, a spoke motor would put out 25 percent more torque given the same size and type of magnets. That means engineers can afford to cheapen the magnets and scale down the design to meet a particular power target. Foley says:

“There was a paper published by General Electric in (2016), responding to a challenge by the U.S. Department of Energy, looking at power density for motors. and they came to the conclusion that a spoke motor was the best way to go… but that there are challenges to manufacture and cool it. The ideas they came up with weren't really practical for mass manufacture, and that's the bit we've solved.”
APM 200

Equipmake is a cadre of automotive industry veterans, none more so than Foley. He developed active suspension for Lotus and then a paddle shift gearbox for Le Mans race cars in the 1990s. He was also the man behind Formula 1's KERS regenerative braking system for Williams-Toyota in 2009, and experience working on it led directly to Equipmake's spoke motor, by way of the electric car racing circuit Formula E.

“It started with a customer of ours who was interested in having a motor for Formula E,” Foley says. That would have been possible when the series was announced and initially proclaimed to be an open-competition series in which auto companies could build their own components. By its first season, though, the rules had changed to a more-open series in which teams could choose their engines. By the time first season began, it was a spec-racer format in which all competitors had to use the same electric motor developed by McLaren. Equipmake's customer saw their dreams of competing in Formula E's inaugural season fly out the window. Meanwhile, Foley's team had an unfinished motor on their hands.

Illustration of Ariel Hipercar

Soon after, they caught wind that British sports car manufacturer Ariel (remember the Atom?) was designing a jet engine/hybrid electric supercar, the Hipercar, and Ariel needed a manufacturer to supply the electric wheel hub motors. Having proved the APM 200 concept for Formula E, it was a short hop fro Foley to adapt the spoke motor design for a road car. The Hipercar, coming in 2020, will pack four of Equipmake's APM 200 spoke motors, each generating 299 hp and 332 ft-lb. of torque. The same motor will also power a low-cost electric bus planned to begin service testing that year.

The hitch is that while it'll hit the market soon in the low-volume Hipercar, Equipmake's spoke motor is at least three years away from mass production, says Foley, and more like five. “Our expectation is that in two years time, we'll be starting at around 1,000 a year,” he says, “but that's on a manual (hand-made) manufacturing basis that requires two or three people.” Run with more people working a multiple-shift schedule, he says they're gearing up for 10,000 per year.

Designers of electric sports cars, in particular, want motors to be smaller and lighter in order to reduce unsprung wheel weight that bogs down handling and agility. Designers of all electric cars want motors to be lighter so that cars have less weight to push around and be more energy efficient. If the same motor can work as well for a low-cost all-electric bus as for a hybrid supercar, and if Equipmake can scale up production quickly enough to keep pace with the industry's electrification, the spoke motor of the future may be one of the few cases in which engine evolution actually means cheaper, simpler materials.

This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io
Advertisement - Continue Reading Below
More From Smart Your Engine


text:
Home Porters Hero Slider Home sign Home m Home 01 Home d Home 01 Shape porters earth 1500px 2 Home m Shape 01 Home d Shape 01 Legacy Porters Hero Slider Legacy Home m Legacy 01 Home d Legacy 01 Future Porters Hero Slider Future Home m Future 01 Home d Future 01 Belong Porters MPS Ring 2 Home m Belong 01 Home d Belong 01

In 1843, Sarah Porter founded a school. Her purpose? To create access to transformational education.

Today, Miss Porter’s School augments that legacy with innovation to prepare young women to shape a changing world.

Slide Home m Evolve 02 Home d Evolve 02

How can an interdisciplinary curriculum help solve humanity’s pressing problems?

How could the democratization of the South Korean beauty industry shape health and inclusivity?

Can art shape the way we think about the environment, and even spur us to advocacy?

How can medicine be equitable, when the underlying research is often biased toward certain ethnic groups?

What power does choreography have to call our attention to social issues?

How does the experiences of Mexican and Filipino immigrants to the United States compare and contrast?

Can engineers use a virtual program to design life-saving ventilators?

Could cutting-edge blockchain technology help bring safety to the diamond mining industry across Africa?

Slide Home d Sisters 02 Home m Sisters 02

Lifelong friends, endless fun, and a caring support system.

Slide Home d Explore 03 Home m Explore 03
How will you expand your mind at porter’s?

Miss Porters 06 Miss Porters 03 IMG 0303 scaled Miss Porters 08 Miss Porters 07 Porters College Counseling 01 1 of 3

Slide Home d Future 03 Home m Future 03

How will you unlock your future?

Imagining a future at Porter’s?


text:
We are currently experiencing a problem with patron login and are working to resolve the problem. The Classic Catalog (under the "How Do I..." tab) is working if you want to log in to your account. If you need help with renewals or holds, please call 771-2730 and we'll be happy to assist you. Our apologies for the inconvenience.

image scan of the Emancipation Proclamation

Emancipation Proclamation. Lithograph by L. Lipman, Milwaukee, Wisc., Feb. 26, 1864. Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.

Today marks the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth, the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, on June 19th, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger led Union soldiers into Galveston, Texas, with the news that the War was over and slavery was abolished. According to Juneteenth.com, there are several guesses as to why the two year delay. Some speculate, that the messenger carrying the notice from the Federal government was murdered. Another theory assumes, that the information was withheld by slave owners hoping to continue to have labor for their cotton harvests.

Pres. Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation had little impact on the people of Texas, since there were few Union troops around at the time to enforce it. But, with the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee in April 1865 and the arrival of Gen. Gordon Granger’s regiment in Galveston, troops were finally strong enough to enforce the executive order. Newly freed men rejoiced, originating the annual “Juneteenth” celebration, which commemorates the freeing of the slaves in Texas.

Although Juneteenth has been informally celebrated each year since 1865, it wasn’t until June 3, 1979, that Texas became the first state to proclaim Juneteenth an official state holiday.

Photo of Uncle Billy McCrew, freed slave

Billy McCrea, a former slave who remembered the Union troops coming into Texas in 1865 and being told that he was free. Photo by Ruby Terrill Lomax, September 30, 1940.

Currently only Hawaii, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana are the only states that do not celebrate Juneteenth.

Juneteenth Resources and Local Events:

  • PPL resources regarding Juneteenth and Emancipation.
  • For a list of African American parks from the National Parks Service, please click here.
  • For recordings of former Texas slaves, please click here.
  • For African American Culture in Maine, please click here.
  • For information on African American genealogy from the Library of Congress, please click here.
  • The Freedmen’s Bureau Project has compiled nearly 1.8 million records of men, women and children, searchable online. To use this database to find your African American ancestry, please click here.
  • For the “resolution recognizing the historical significance of Juneteenth Independence Day and expressing the sense of the Senate that history should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future” by the 111th US Congress, please click here.
  • For the African American Biographical Database, collecting information on African Americans from 1790 – 1950, please click here.

  • Juneteenth! with Janaesound, Rodney Mashia, B. Aull, Abdul Ali
    Fri, June 19, 2020, State Theatre Facebook   Doors: 8:00pm – Show: 8:00pm – all ages
  • The third and final installment in Maine Inside Out’s outdoor June performance series is a recognition and celebration of Juneteenth in Portland’s Congress Square Park. Hosted by the MIO Portland group, the event will feature the final performance of MIO’s original play “Unspoken Truth” along with original artwork created in partnership with the Maine Center for Electronic Music. Please come join us for the final performance of this powerful, bold play.
  • The Slave Liberation Project, Installation by Hi Tiger in honor of Juneteenth
    Friday, June 19th, 5:30 – 7:30 Engine, 163 Main Street, Biddeford
  • The National Museum of African American History & Culture’s virtual event, Juneteenth: A Celebration Of Resilience
posted: , by Raminta Moore
tags: Adults | Seniors | Art & Culture | Genealogy
View Posts by Date:
Filter Posts:
Connect with the Library:


text:
Search Port Orange Real Estate

Featured Port Orange Neighborhoods

Port Orange Real Estate

Discover the lifestyles, neighborhoods and homes for sale in Port Orange. We invite you to learn more about living in Port Orange.

Your Port Orange Realtor

The best way to buy and sell real estate in Port Orange, Florida

Port Orange boasts more than 150 distinct neighborhoods that encompass an array of housing options. From world-class golf course communities, to luxurious estate homes, riverfront condos, homes with acreage, and affordable, well-constructed family homes, Port Orange has a home for you! Life in Port Orange is bolstered by comfort and convenience. Whether it be the array of locally-owned restaurants and retail stores, the instant Interstate 95 highway access, a pristine parks system, or the close proximity to the World’s Most Famous Beach, you will enjoy a quality of life that is unmatched and truly indescribable. As the saying goes, “Home is where the heart is,” and our heart has, and always be, right here in Port Orange.

Let us help make our hometown yours! Call (386) 527-8577 today.


text:
One thing I often think about is generosity—what it means to be generous, how to be generous.

It’s not just a matter of buying presents for people—though presents are important, too. I hate to shop, and I don’t much like to receive stuff myself, so I’m reluctant to give things to people. I’ve been trying to be better about giving gifts when appropriate, and also trying to figure out how to be generous in intangible ways.

Baltasar Gracian wrote, “The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.”

A friend of mine once told me about a gift she received that’s a perfect example of this kind of generosity. Her friend told her, “For Christmas, I’m going to replace every burned-out lightbulb in your house.” And she did. She went around the house, took out every burned-out bulb, went to the hardware store to buy replacements, and put fresh bulbs in every empty socket.

And when my friend went to her hardware closet the following weekend, she discovered that she’d also received stacks and stacks of spare bulbs.

What a great idea! What a simple yet brilliant gesture. It reminded me of the scene in Anne Lamott’s fantastic memoir Operating Instructions, when a man from her church comes to help her with her new baby, and ends up cleaning her bathroom.

When I was thinking about how to be generous, I found myself thinking, “If I were a professional chef, I could cook…or if I were really good at computers, I could help someone set up their system…but I don’t really have any special skills. What can I do?” Well, I could change some lightbulbs.

Over the years, I’ve tried to find ways to be generous that tap into my own nature. Helping friends clean out their closets is my favorite thing to do (I love to do this so much that really, they’re the ones being generous to me, by letting me come over). I’ve reviewed friends’ books on Amazon, given helpful information, repeated behind-the-back compliments I hear (hearing that someone complimented you when you weren’t present is always more gratifying, because it’s presumably more sincere), taken photos of other people’s kids and sending them copies, etc. Sometimes I do buy things for people.

What has surprised me (though it’s really not surprising) is that the most effective way to be generous is to connect people. I’ve had a few MAJOR hits—when I’ve introduced people who then made life-altering changes (business and personal) based on that new relationship. And the crazy thing is that it took so little effort on my part. A quick conversation, a few emails, a few prods, and—wham.

And who is made happiest by such an act of generosity? Me! This is the heart of happiness, the fundamental truth that sounds like a commercial for an Oprah episode. Nothing makes me happier than helping someone else to be happy. Do good, feel good! Try it at home!

It sounds so priggish, but zoikes, it really does work!

Gretchen Rubin is the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Happiness Project—an account of the year she spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific studies, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier—and the recently released Happier at Home and Better Than Before. On her popular blog, The Happiness Project, she reports on her daily adventures in the pursuit of happiness. For more doses of happiness and other happenings, follow Gretchen on Facebook and Twitter.

Image courtesy of


text:
There is a powerful connection between visualization and motivation.

Today, I want to explain how “creating the right pictures in your head” can increase your motivation to achieve anything you can imagine in life.

When some people hear the word, “visualization,” think it means sitting around daydreaming. But that’s not all it is.

Visualization is a powerful tool that can help you achieve any goal, such as writing a book, getting a promotion, making more money, paying off your debts, becoming financially independent, taking that dream vacation you want, losing weight, or improving your golf game.

Visualization is the practice of intentionally creating detailed pictures in your mind – both still pictures and movies – of the outcomes you want to achieve.

Visualization helps you achieve your goals for several reasons.

Structural Tension

Visualization works because it creates something called “structural tension.”

This is a psychological term for something that happens in your subconscious mind when you visualize something that doesn’t exist or hasn’t happened yet.

When you clearly visualize something — and generate all of the emotional feelings you would if you were actually achieving that situation — you experience the same physiological reactions as if you were actually living that experience.

Your subconscious mind seeks to resolve the tension your visualization has created.

There are only two ways it can do that. It can either give up the goal or it can figure out how to make it happen.

Imagine Goals Already Achieved

If you make it a daily discipline to be in a state of visualization and motivation, you are setting yourself up to achieve your goals.

Imagine the end result as already achieved, like brushing your teeth every day, you’ll find yourself making decisions and taking actions that move you in the direction of your goal — even if you’re not consciously aware of it.

A Visualization Example

For example, let’s say you dream of living in Australia for a year.

You imagine yourself getting on the plane, finding a nice place to live on the beach, and spending your days surfing and making friends with the locals.

Every day you take time to imagine yourself living this dream life in Australia.

You imagine how it will feel, who will be there with you, what it will look like, sound like, smell, feel, and taste like.

And before you know it, you start to get creative ideas about how to make this dream a reality.

You find yourself taking actions and making decisions that will help you get to Australia.

You spend your lunch hour researching job opportunities in Australia, and what you need to do to get a visa.

You start to notice more people around you speaking with an Australian accent, and you find yourself striking up conversations with them.

As a result, you make more Australian friends and you are building connections with people who might be able to help you achieve your goals.

You find yourself starting to save money for your big move. And you take advantage of every opportunity that brings you closer to your dreams.

Why? Because the structural tension will create the motivation to actually take the action steps to make it happen.

And it will help you maintain motivation even when you are faced with obstacles and challenges.

How to Start Visualizing

The great thing is, that visualization is a fairly easy skill to master. Plus, you can do it pretty much anywhere — at home, at work, on a bus, or in the park.

You can practice anywhere that you can sit for a few minutes without too many distractions.

All you have to do is close your eyes and imagine yourself experiencing your desired outcome.

What goals do you want to achieve? What will your life look like when you achieve it? Where will you be? What will your surroundings look like? How will it feel? What sounds will you be hearing? What will it smell, and taste like?

Your visualization can be created to appear like a movie in your head. You might even imagine yourself sitting in a theatre, watching it play out like a movie on a screen.

Or it might be like a dream or a video game where you are a part of the action.

However you imagine your vision, immerse yourself in the experience as deeply as you can, so that every detail is as clear as possible.

Whether it is something you clearly see, like a 4D high definition picture, or just more like an intense thought you are thinking.

Visualization Challenge

I encourage you to engage in this practice every single day.

Practice first thing in the morning, right after you get up, and right before you go to bed at night.

That way, you go to bed with your goals fixed firmly in your mind, giving your subconscious mind something to work on while you sleep.

You’ll find yourself waking up and starting your day crystal clear on what your goals and priorities are.

Once you make visualization and motivation a non-negotiable part of your daily practice, you’ll find it so much easier to stay motivated and focused.

You’ll be working towards creating your ideal life and making all your dreams come true.

Try it for 30 days in a row and I guarantee you will begin to see results!

As the beloved originator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series, Jack Canfield fostered the emergence of inspirational anthologies as a genre—and watched it grow to a billion dollar market. As the driving force behind the development and delivery of over 100 million books sold through the Chicken Soup for the Soul® franchise, Jack Canfield is uniquely qualified to talk about success. Jack is America’s #1 Success Coach and wrote the life-changing book The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be and Jack speaks around the world on this subject. Check out his newest book The 30-Day Sobriety Solution: How to Cut Back or Quit Drinking in the Privacy of Your Own Home. Follow Jack at and sign up for his free resources today!

Image courtesy of Tony Pham.


text:
Drexel Adds to Sales Team

Published online: Jun 29, 2020 Articles
Viewed 241 time(s)

Drexel Chemical Company announces the addition of Steven Martin as its mid-South sales representative, responsible for sales in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, the Missouri bootheel and western Tennessee.

Martin graduated from Arkansas State University in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in plant science and received a master’s in weed science from the University of Arkansas in 2017. His previous experience includes positions with Greenpoint Ag, the University of Arkansas and Winfield Solutions. Martin is a certified crop advisor licensed for Arkansas.

He resides in Portland, Ark., and can be contacted at (901) 314-1951 or smartin@drexchem.com.


text:
Lithium LiFePO4 vs Lead-Acid cost analysis

Lithium Ion benefits and costs

We take the example of a solar installation for a standalone building (Self Sufficient Home). The storage capacity for the battery is 50KWh.

The application need is summarized in the above table:

Stored Energy50KWh
Cycling frequency1 x discharge/charge per day
Average ambient temperature23°C
Expected Lifespan3000 Cycles, or 8 years

The costs of delivery and installation are calculated on a volume ratio of 6:1 for Lithium system compared to a lead-acid system. This assessment is based on the fact that the lithium-ion has an energy density of 3.5 times Lead-Acid and a discharge rate of 100% compared to 50% for AGM batteries.

Based on the estimated lifetime of the system, the lead-acid battery solution-based must be replaced 5 times after initial installation. Lithium Iron phosphate solution-based is not replaced during operation (3000 cycles are expected from the battery at 100% DoD cycles)

The cost per cycle, measured in € / kWh / Cycle, is the key figure to understand the business model. To calculate it, we consider the sum of the cost of batteries + transportation and installation costs (multiplied by the number of times the battery is replaced during its lifetime). The sum of these costs is divided by the net consumption of the system (50kWh per cycle, 365 cycles per year, 8.2 years of use). The result is summarized in the table below:

Lead-Acid AGMLithium-Ion
Installed capacity100 KWh50 KWh
Usable capacity50 KWh50 KWh
Lifespan500 cycles at 50% DoD (Depth of Discharge)3000 cycles at 100% DoD
Number of installations6 (1 + 5 replacements)1
Battery cost60 000€ (100€/KWh x 100 x 6)25 000€ (500€/KWh x 50 x 1)
Installation cost12 000 € (2000 € per install x 6)2000 € (one shot install)
Transportation cost6 000€ (1 000€ per transport x 6)1 000€ (one shot install)
TOTAL COST78 000€28 000€
Cost per usable KWh per cycle0.42€ / usable kWh (78 000 / 3000 / 50) 0.18€ / usable kWh (28 000 / 3000 / 50)

In summary, the total cost of ownership per usable kWh is about 2.33 times cheaper for a lithium-based solution than for a lead acid solution.

We note that despite the higher facial cost of Lithium technology, the cost per stored and supplied kWh remains much lower than for Lead-Acid technology. The reason is related to the intrinsic qualities of lithium-ion batteries but also linked to lower transportation costs.

This case is valid for any type of application requiring deep discharge cycle. EV traction or autonomous systems match the same criteria. On the other hand, for UPS systems or back-up batteries, the above model can not be applied because the discharge cycles are by definition random for such systems.

This article is the exclusive property of PowerTech Systems.
Reproduction prohibited without permission.

Modular batteries for electric traction : PowerModule®
ESS Modular Systems : PowerRack®
Drop-In AGM Replacement : PowerBrick®


text:
• Log In
For free help with your job search, call (800) 776-8383.

Sutter Solano Medical Center

Sutter Solano Medical Center Logo Vallejo is just 45 to 60 minutes northeast of San Francisco and only about 30 minutes from the Napa Valley. Live and play in the famed Napa Valley wine country. A strong economy and affordable housing has meant new prosperity for Vallejo as new businesses and residents come to the city. Some are attracted by the beautifully restored Victorian homes and store fronts; others are attracted by the newer homes in the Northgate and Hiddenbrooke developments. Waterfront and Mare Island redevelopment have become a community effort, with input from residents helping to shape the future of what could become the most important economic generator of the city. The city has its own Ferry Terminal, and the ferry service serves as a model for the rest of the Bay Area, helping make Vallejo a transportation and commuter hub for the North Bay. Six Flags Marine World, restaurants, and the downtown Farmers Market also contribute to making Vallejo the vibrant community it is today.
  • Video
  • Slideshow


text:
Email Disclaimer

Unfortunately configuring an email disclaimer to be automatically added by the server to the footer of all emails is not possible with the Small Business Premium edition of Office 365. Certainly possible and easily configured with the Enterprise editions of Office 365 but not with the small business edition. Work around is to configure your Outlook signature block. How do you get everyone in your organisation to use the same text? Copy the text as html, save it in a shared location and then manually configure. Not pretty but effective.

Leave Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *


text:
Presentation Magazine

8 Public Speaking Lessons (From Sports Coaches)

Rick Sheridan looks at the public speaking lessons that can be taken from sports coaches’ motivational speeches.

Many of the winning sports coaches can deliver powerful speeches that are capable of motivating their athletes to accomplish great performances.

Characteristics of pep talks

Here are some characteristics of pep talks that Sellers (2012) identifies that are very similar to what is taught in the college-level Fundamentals of Public Speaking:

1. Don’t be afraid to show some passion

The top coaches believe in what they are saying, and are not afraid to get emotional and show some passion.

They often have a mastery of their tone and body language that inspires and motivates the players.

2. Include real-life examples the audience can identify with

The top coaches often include real-life examples in their pep talks that the players can relate to and identify with.

This might include an anecdote about a well-known player, a picture, a chart, an old helmet, a championship ball, etc.

3. Pause after key statements so your message can be processed

They know their audience. They know what will work and what won’t.

They make eye contact frequently with almost everyone in the room.

They pause after making key statements, giving players time to process what they said.

They are able to go from sombre to passionate in the same sentence.

How to give a speech before a championship game

Further lessons from sports coaches can be summarised from the article ‘How to Give a Speech Before a Championship Game’ (cited below):

4. Remind your audience why they are there

Remind your team how they got this far. There are reasons why your team is playing for the big game.

Talk to your team about everything they have gone through during the season, especially any obstacles they have overcome.

Your team will remember this part of the speech during the game, especially if they find themselves trailing at some point.

5. Remind them of what they have already achieved

Tell your team how proud you are of them.

It’s important to let your players know that they’ve already achieved so much by just getting this far.

Don’t be afraid to criticise poor performance at the same time.

6. Take steps to eliminate over-confidence

Emphasise how talented the opposing team is. Many teams lose big games due to over-confidence or a belief that the other team is a joke.

Make sure your players know just how good the opposing players are – and that they never let their guard down during the game.

7. Encourage self-belief

Explain to your team why you’re going to win the championship game.

Many players and coaches believe that it is a risk to have this much confidence heading into a championship game.

Any good coach or player will tell you that if you don’t believe you’re going to win a game, you won’t.

Do everything you can to make your team not just believe, but know that they’re going to win the championship game.

8. End your speech on a high

End your speech emphatically and dramatically. You could end it with a quote from a famous coach or player or by yelling your closing points.

The hope here is that your players will come roaring out of the locker room ready to win a championship.

In conclusion, public speakers should examine sports coaches’ pep talks as a way to improve their own performance and delivery.

Although sometimes the coaches’ language is too rough for typical public speaking, we can still learn some amazing skills from the best pep talks.

Rick Sheridan

Rick Sheridan

Many of the techniques are similar to the skills that we learn as public speakers, only they are often delivered with more passion.

Here a few great (YouTube) pep talks to get you started:

With thanks to Rick Sheridan, a journalist and assistant professor of communications at Wilberforce University in Ohio, USA.

Published On: 9th Dec 2014

Read more about -
Public Speaking,Speaking Articles ,

Leave a Comment
Leave a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

What are you looking for?
PowerPoint Templates
PowerPoint Templates by Category


text:
Sector Specialists With Flexible Investment Mandate
Sector Specialists With Flexible Investment Mandate

Investment Strategy

Sector Specialist

Our only business is private equity. We focus exclusively on investing in the financial services industry across Europe. Key subsector focus on Insurance Services, Life insurance, Healthcare Services, Insurance Distribution, Financial Markets, Consumer Finance, Business Outsourcing, P&C Insurance, Asset & Wealth Management and Payments.

assets management
Should be:
  • Payments
  • Financial markets
  • Asset and wealth management
  • Insurance distribution
  • Business Outsourcing
  • P&C Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Healthcare services
  • Consumer finance
  • Insurance services
Investment Philosophy
Specialism: focus exclusively on opportunities within the middle market financial services sector where have a deep sector expertise and there is less competition
Thesis based: invest behind robust investment themes that have been developed alongside leading industry experts and executives
Growth investing: create value through underlying revenue and earnings growth in the business and not through financial engineering
Aligned incentivization: structure deals so management are significant shareholders in businesses where we invest
Capital preservation: focus on deals offering attractive risk adjusted returns with emphasis on downside protection
Value Creation
Introduction to new customers / partners: leveraging network with sector and senior advisors to introduce strategic relationships to expedite growth
Strengthening management team and governance: attracting and recruiting senior executives/non-executive directors that can help management teams expediate growth
M&A sourcing: sourcing and financing of accretive acquisition opportunities
Financial reporting: improving management information and KPI tracking to improve conversion rates, profitability and get insights on financial performance
Capital raising and structuring: providing growth capital to fund growth for team hires, product development and optimizing capital structure to enhance shareholder value creation