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Most people would place me on the political right. Yet when it comes to health care, I am more egalitarian than almost everybody on the left. I always have been.

By that I mean I am more egalitarian than the defenders of the British National Health Service (NHS) and the defenders of Canada’s system of socialized medicine. I’m also more egalitarian than Paul Krugman and the leaders of the Physicians for a National Health Program. Not only that, but a great many Republicans agree with my approach to health care — even as they oppose ObamaCare.

One thing that adds to so much confusion is that people on the left have a huge investment in seeing themselves as more altruistic and more caring than everybody else. Paul Krugman, for example, refers to the Republican Party as the party of Scrooge and sees most elections as Dickensian morality plays — even though research shows that right-of-center folks are actually more generous than folks on the left, on the average.

Today, I ask you to put aside such foolish thoughts and seriously consider the titular issue of this post.

To introduce the discussion, I need to make three distinctions.

First, almost everybody on the left believes in a defined benefit approach to health care. My approach centers on defined contributions. Suppose you live in Britain and your kidneys give out. The British socialists created a health care system that promises to meet all your health care needs, but it may not always deliver. Britain has one of the lowest dialysis rates in all of Europe. In the United States we also take a defined benefit approach to kidney care and we actually deliver. Even if you are 80 years old and dying of cancer you can get dialysis and maybe even a kidney transplant — all courtesy of Uncle Sam. But it would be impossible to provide all health care that way.

ObamaCare is an example of a defined contribution benefit approach [thanks to Bob Graboyes for catching that error]. The law will eventually lay out in specific detail all manner of health care people are entitled to receive — often with no deductible or copayment. But it does almost nothing to ensure that providers will actually be able to deliver what has been promised. After 2018, the problem will get immeasurably worse as the ObamaCare subsidies grow no faster than gross domestic product, while the cost of the insurance that everyone has to buy will be growing at twice that rate.

Were I designing these systems, I would give Britons and Americans a fixed sum of money (the defined contribution) and let competition in the marketplace determine what care can be insured for that sum. For example, a health plan might specify in advance that it covers kidney care for otherwise healthy people, but limited care (and certainly no transplant) for someone who is terminally ill. Unlike ObamaCare, I would allow health plans to adopt cost-effectiveness standards, make coverage decisions based on those standards and advertise this fact in advance of enrollment. (More on this in a future Alert.) In other words, limits on coverage would be visible and transparent — not hidden and murky.

Second, almost everybody on the left prefers rationing by waiting to rationing by price. If you make the money price zero, you guarantee that demand will exceed supply for almost every kind of care. So what determines who gets what? The knee jerk response of people on the left is to assume that rationing by price favors the rich while rationing by waiting favors the poor. In fact the reverse is often true. If there are long waits to see doctors, rest assured that the wealthy and the powerful will get to the head of the queue in almost every country. But walk-in clinics (with posted money prices) are potentially providing low-cost, high-quality care to low-income families in cities all across America.

Just to drive this point home, the American health care system today (which is not what I favor) is probably more egalitarian than the health systems of either Canada or Britain.

Finally, every system in which care is rationed leaves individuals with the opportunity to pay out of pocket to obtain the care they cannot promptly get from their primary insurer. In Britain there is a vibrant parallel system of private care and private health insurance alongside the NHS. In Canada, there are fewer private options, but Canadians can cross the U.S. border for care — and many do. Invariably, people with money who are also defenders of socialized medicine take advantage of these options — giving rise (naturally) to charges of hypocrisy.

I would incorporate out-of-pocket spending options in a much fairer and much more straightforward way. I would encourage everyone — rich and poor — to consider adding to their public subsidy personal funds to obtain more care and prompter care. For example, an estimated 25,000 British cancer patients die prematurely because the NHS does not cover drugs that are routinely available in the United States and on the European continent. These drugs are generally very expensive and in most cases they are probably buying only a few months more of life. Patients who buy them privately, however, do so at considerable personal expense. I would allow supplemental insurance to cover the cost of these drugs and this insurance would likely be very inexpensive if purchased by healthy people.

More generally, I would allow people to add to their defined contribution and buy richer, more generous insurance if that is what they prefer.

Now to the Goodman plan for national health insurance — which is more liberal than all the plans that liberals seem to like.

I would offer a fixed sum, refundable tax credit to everyone. The amount would be roughly $2,500 for an adult and $8,000 for a family of four. The subsidy would be financed by replacing existing tax subsidies for health care and health insurance and by making some other tax credits (such as the $1,000 child credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit) conditional on proof of insurance for children.

The family tax credit I would offer is about half of the cost of typical employer family coverage. Nonetheless, I would expect insurers to begin offering plans that cost $8,000 or a little bit more. They would control costs by offering narrow networks (much as Walmart is now doing for its employees) and by eliminating coverage for procedures with marginal or questionable value. People who want to see any doctor and enter any hospital with very little out-of-pocket expense at the time of treatment would have to pay closer to $16,000 in annual premium. But that extra payment would be after-tax, with no subsidy from the government.

[Notice how easily I just solved the problem of cost. Those who want it can pay less for care than what the British pay — without a single demonstration project!]

People who turn down the tax credit and elect to remain uninsured would not be completely out in the cold. Unclaimed tax credit money would be sent to safety net institutions in the communities where the uninsured live. If the uninsured need care and cannot pay for it, these funds would be available for that purpose. In a sense, I am describing a system of universal coverage — even though not everyone would have an insurance card. Also, in the safety net system I would expect that rationing by waiting would be common.

The Obama administration the other day announced a long list of people who would not be subject to the ObamaCare mandate to buy health insurance. These included the Amish, Mennonites, legal aliens, Indian tribes, the homeless and millions of people who are not required to file income tax returns. By contrast, I would not have any mandate and I would not leave anybody out. I would offer the tax credit to everyone. I would also make unclaimed tax credit money available to pay for the care of any uninsured person who cannot pay his medical bills.

I would keep Medicaid as a backstop. Anyone, even Bill Gates, would be free to add about $500 to his refundable tax credit and enroll in Medicaid. By the same token, people in Medicaid would be able to leave that system and claim a tax credit to purchase private coverage if they prefer. [Hey, if the left wants a public plan option competing with private options, I’m happy to let them have it.]

I would not allow anyone to game the system, however. People would not be able to wait until they get sick to buy insurance or upgrade to more generous insurance with impunity.

I would place very few restrictions on what people must buy to qualify for the tax credits, other than these two: (1) reasonable catastrophic insurance and (2) change of health status insurance that would pay the extra premium needed if a person’s health deteriorated after becoming insured and there was a need to switch to another health plan. The first restriction protects society by insisting that people insure for care they are unlikely to be able to pay for on their own. The second leaves the insurance market free to price risk — thereby allowing a market for the care of sick people to thrive and flourish, as health plans compete to solve their problems.

There are some transition issues that I will ignore here except to say that I would keep one ObamaCare program that could be very useful: the federal risk pools. These are a much better way of dealing with the problems of pre-existing conditions than destroying the market for risk. The risk pools should also provide change of health status coverage — paying the extra premium needed if a chronic patient leaves the risk pool and enters another plan in the future.

So there you have it. Except for temporary extra help for the chronically ill (risk pools) and what should be temporary help for the poor (Medicaid), government would essentially treat everyone the same. It would give everyone the same basic subsidy and leave individual choice and the marketplace free to solve the remaining problems.

The result would be a system that would be unquestionably more equitable than what you see in either Britain or Canada and a lot more equitable than what we will experience under ObamaCare

 John C. GoodmanJohn C. Goodman is President of the National Center for Policy Analysis, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, and author of the bookPriceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis.

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This can be attributed partially to the short lapse of time between the period of its decline in use and now.

Secondly, printers of that day were not overly concerned with historical matters nor interested in the materials with which they worked, a fact borne out in an article published in 1891 that states, “One of the essential needs of the modern printing office is a supply of wood type, large or small, according to the class of work turned out. There is probably no article used by printers the manufacture of which is so little understood.”

Thirdly, the very nature of a piece printed with wood type did not lend itself to any degree of permanency. Therefore, book typographers as well as job printers failed to acknowledge or even observe wood type’s place in typographical history.

Without doubt, typographical forms of nineteenth century America conjure more associations to that perjod than do other manifestations issued in those years. With their multitude of inventive and imaginative forms and designs, they were expressive of their makers and of the people and spirit of the period.

They were used prolifically, announcing ship sailings and auctions, serving for land notices, wanted posters, theatre handbills. Even today their power to evoke an image is evident, and there are few circuses, theatres, or television Westerns that fail to capitalize on Victorian type for promotion purposes or as a means to conclusively establish the period.


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Advisory Council on Transportation Statistics

Federal Register Notice
September 10, 1999
Volume 64, Number 175

AGENCY: Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

ACTION: Notice of Meeting.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 10(A)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public law 72-363; 5 U.S.C. App.2) notice is hereby given of a meeting of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) Advisory Council on Transportation Statistics (ACTS) to be held Friday, September 17, 1999, 10:00 to 4:00 p.m. The meeting will take place at the U.S. Department of Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC in conference room 3328 of the Nassif Building.

The Advisory Council, called for under Section 6007 of Public law 102-240, Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, December 18, 1991, and chartered on June 19, 1995, was created to advise the Director of BTS on transportation statistics and analyses, including whether or not the statistics and analysis disseminated by the Bureau are of high quality and are based upon the best available objective information.

The agenda for this meeting will include an introduction of a new Advisory Council member, Director's programs update, BTS strategic plan, review of staffing, discussion of customer service outreach and marketing, report on focus groups held on BTS publications, update on safety conferences, identification of substantive issues, review of plans and schedule, other items of interest, discussion and agreement of date(s) for subsequent meetings, and comments from the floor.

Since access to the DOT building is controlled, all persons who plan to attend the meeting must notify Ms. Lillian ``Pidge'' Chapman, Council Liaison, on (202) 366-1270 prior to September 15. Attendance is open to the interested public but limited to space available. With the approval of the Chair, members of the public may present oral statements at the meeting. Noncommittee members wishing to present oral statements, obtain information, or who plan to access the building to attend the meeting should also contact Ms. Chapman.

Members of the public may present a written statement to the Council at any time.

Persons with a disability requiring special services, such as an interpreter for the hearing impaired, should contact Ms. Chapman (202) 366-1270 at least seven days prior to the meeting.

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A generator is a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy. This process relies on the relationship between electricity and magnetism. This invention has been a particularly useful contribution to the equipment industries, including logging, construction, agriculture, or transportation etc.

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[edit] Electrostatic Electricity

Electricity has no early beginnings as it has always been around but the first idea of its concept was not recorded until 1600 when William Gilbert used the term “electrica” in an academic publication. What electricity could accomplish was not fathomed at this time.[1]

Otto Von Guericke was one of the first to experiment with the concept of electricity and created a Madgeburg vacuum in 1663, which became known as the first electrostatic generator. The generator itself consisted of a rotating ball of sulfur. Rubbing the ball produced friction that converted into electrostatic energy.[2]

The rotor disc generator used electrostatic energy used a mercury based leather cushion in place of an operator’s hand to produce a stronger charge. Glass and rubber were materials used for the discs as generators evolved because they received the charges with less damage.

One version of the electrostatic disc machine was the Wimshurst machine, invented by James Wimshurst between 1880 and 1883. The Wimshurst machine induced electrostatic charge with two plexi-glass contra-rotary discs that caused friction with a metal foil section.[3]

Electrostatic generators were even operated by steam at one point. Their use didn’t become widespread due to the heavy costs and high maintenance associated with them.

The Van de Graaff generator is another example of the electrostatic generator and it is still in use to this day. A ball on the Van de Graafe generator receives a high electrostatic charge by tapes that move over it.[4]

[edit] Electromagnetic Electricity

The first person to successfully invent an electromagnetic device was Ruhmkorff in 1857. Rhumkorff’s invention essentially limited the use of electrostatic generators because it couldn’t produce the level of charge that electromagnetic could.

Michael Faraday invented the first electric generator in 1831. He induced a steady electric current by producing friction between two wires and a copper disc. He used an induction ring to transform electric currents from one point to another. An electric current was produced by attaching two wires to a copper pad. The copper pad rotated between two horseshoe magnets in order to produce a steady flow of electricity.[5]

The first generator for public used was the dynamo, invented by a Frenchmen named Hippolyte Pixii in 1833. Pixii developed on Faraday’s concepts of electromagnetic currents. He created a device that cranked electricity by hand. This type of generator created alternating currents by using a magnet with revolving coils. At the suggestion of a friend, Pixii included a a commutator, a device that changes alternating currents into direct currents.[6]

[edit] Features/How it Works

Generators measure their voltage in volts, frequency in hertz, and power in watts.

An engine generator or genset, is a combination of an electric motor and generator in one device and are used in circumstances that require a continuous flow of electricity. Reverse metering occurs when the genset produces more energy than is required and it is automatically returned to the device.[7]

Generators have had a huge impact on the construction, forestry, and transportation industries. The use of generators meant that projects could be worked on throughout the night, elongating the workday and that work could be carried out in various environments regardless of restrictions and without little worry of electricity supply.[8]

[edit] Types

Caterpillar supplies a range of diesel gensets with kilowatts of 12 to 10,475 and natural gas gensets with 11 to 4,9000 kilowatts.

The newest models include the C175 disel generator set  with a two to four megawatts of power. Cat generators come with a variety of attachments and features. Cat’s new line of generators meet the U.S. EPA guidelines regarding carbon emissions.[9]

Cummins Power Generation Inc. introduced a new line of generators just recently, including the 30-38VA, which generates 50 hertz and 27 to 35 kilowatts. Features include the PowerCommand 1.1 digital control, a Cummins Excitation Boost System or EBS, which provides one horsepower per kilowatt motor starting capability.

In 2007, Cummins produced gensets measured at 10, 15, 20, and 25 kilowatts, all with low emission diesel engines.[10]

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[edit] Used & Unused Generators for Sale

Search for unused and used generators being sold at Ritchie Bros. unreserved public auctions.

[edit] References

  1. History of Electrostatic Generator. HP. 2008-09-24.
  2. Guericke Bio. Corrosion-Doctors. 2008-09-24.
  3. Wimshurst. Physics. 2008-09-24.
  4. The History of the Electrostatic Generator. HP. 2008-09-24.
  5. Faraday. 2008-09-24.
  6. Hyppolyte-Pixii. 2008-09-24.
  7. What is a Genset. Wisegeek. 2008-09-24.
  8. Drushka, Ken. Tracks in the Forest. Timberjack Group: Helsinki, 1997.
  9. CDA. Cat. 2008-09-24.
  10. CDA. Cat. 2008-09-24.
  11. Generators. OMafra. Gov. 2008-09-24.


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The economy slows, CD sales slow.

The economy recovers, CD sales recover.

If I am going too fast for you with this complex and sophisticated economic argument, please let me know. I can’t make this explanation any simpler, but perhaps I can find some crayons or blocks for you to play with.

The simple truism above is well known to everyone outside of the music industry. For unknown reasons, the music industry and the RIAA act as if they are exempt from the business cycle. Most sectors of the economy suffer during recessions — the exceptions are “interest-rate sensitive” groups, like Autos, Home, and Durable Goods, which benefit from the falling rates which usually accompany economic slow downs.

As we have been discussing for quite sometime now, sales of discretionary entertainment products like CDs are not an exception.

Despite the high, illegally price-fixed costs of a CD, you don’t yet need to take out a mortgage to buy one. So there is simply no reason to believe that CD sales have ever benefited from a broader economic slowdown. Yet judging strictly from the public statements of the recording industry over the past 3 years, one would never have even known that a post tech-bubble recession happened from 2000-2003. They simply never mention it. The New York Times, in an article about the continued uptick in music sales (“CD Sales Rise, but Industry Is Still Wary“), never reaches the issue of the economic weakness during the past three years.

As the economy weakened, so have CD sales:

Annual CD sales
Source: New York Times

Not surprisingly, industry sales are running parallel to the broader economy.

Indeed, in the aftermath of the world’s greatest speculative bubble, during a recession and a bear market which saw the Nasdaq lose 80% of its value, the sector only saw a 12% drop in sales during the same period. Its hard to undestand why music executives are wringing their hands over this; Most businesses would have been thrilled with “only” seeing their business off by 12% during this period.

Since then, we have seen an improving economy. Although consumer confidence remains shaky — mostly due to anemic job growth — we have seen a general improvement in spending. This has been especially true in the second half of 2003, as the hottest part of the Iraq war passed.

As the economy continued to gather strength, sales of CDs recovered. The last quarter of 2003 saw a marked marked uptick in total album sales.

In addition to the economic recovery was an improvement in the product offering. The Times noted “last fall also benefited from a strong release schedule, with albums that became hits from the rappers OutKast and Ludacris; the pop singers Ruben Studdard, Rod Stewart and Josh Groban; and the rocker Sheryl Crow. Price cuts have also helped; some major-label albums now sell for closer to $10 than the nearly $20 that was formerly the industry standard.”

For the first six weeks of this year, album sales were up 13% from the same period one year ago.

The Times further noted “the industry’s critics have cited high CD prices and substandard music as the real reasons that annual album sales fell to 687 million units by last year, down by almost 100 million units, or 12.5 percent, from 2000.” The Times somehow omitted increased competition for consumers’ time from other leisure activities, radio station consolidation playing much less varied than ever, a 30% drop in the number of titles released, and of course, the recession, amongst other factors.

Go figure. Better product and an improving economic backdrop caused revenues to rise. (Would someone please get Harvard Business School on the phone — they need to know about this).

A large part of CD sales is that the music industry remains wed to a “superstar” business model. Despite the fact that consumers are demanding ever more diverse music in increasingly narrow genres, we see a continued overdependence upon a small number of artists producing the lion’s share of sales. This model –more suitable for the film industry than music — is vulnerable anytime there are weak offerings. That’s the risk when only a handful of artists become the main beneficiaries of the ever more consolidated radio industry’s limited playlists:

Album sales topped 17 million during Valentines Day week (Feb 9-15)

Source: New York Times

The industry must find other way to monetize music. Already, the cell phone Ring Tones business has emerged as a $3 Billion annual worldwide industry. And, its growing at double digit rates.

The question now remains whether the industry and the RIAA will continue its ruinous course of litigation and self destruction. As the industry alienates its customers, they risk losing an entire generation of muisic fans. “Some experts and users say that file sharers are only being more secretive, and that file swapping is actually increasing. At least two research firms say more than 150 million songs are being downloaded free every month.”

Young consumers are increasingly turning to other forms of entertainment –the internet, video games, and music DVDs. The industry should expect to see additional negative reactions, including boycotts and consumers increasingly seeking alternatives to mainstream fare, as they react to the music self inflicted foibles.

The danger is the industry may be alienating an entire generation of music fans. Once lost, these fans will be gone forever.

CD Sales Rise, but Industry Is Still Wary
N.Y. Times, February 23, 2004

Cashing In on Ring Tones
N.Y. Times, February 23, 2004

Song Trading Still Popular Despite Suits
Associated Press, February 22, 2004, 2:09 PM EST,0,1830859.story

Category: Finance, Music

Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor implied. If you could repeat previously discredited memes or steer the conversation into irrelevant, off topic discussions, it would be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.

5 Responses to “CD Sales Rise as Economy Recovers”

  1. ian says:

    Cheers on a great site! Having dated and co-habited with a Sony recording artist in the last few years, I have thoroughly enjoyed your comments on the turmoils of the industry. A year ago, I was in the studio and listened to her finished CD along with the producers and the head of Sony Music. He asked me if I would purchase this CD when it hit the shelves. I replied, “I don’t buy music anymore”, which is probably the worst thing you can say to a music industry head. Her album was later dropped. But the reality is, the medium has changed and there is no need for the middleman anymore. We have multimedia formats (american idol) where listeners can watch their stars develope as an artist, and you can parlay this person into a marketing machine (ie- Beyonce, lil Kim, Jay-Z, etc). Tommy Mottola had the foresight to see this shift, and one of the reasons he left Sony.

  2. More on the Music Industry

    Barry Ritholtz contintues to beat up on the music industry.The economy slows, CD sales slow. The economy recovers, CD sales recover. If I am going…

  3. the music industry is part of the economy?

    say it ain’t so, barry! can’t be! i dunno about this book-buying idea, but maybe you guys could all chip in and get me some crayons… …i am feeling a bit hungry :)…

  4. The Big Picture: CD Sales Rise as Economy Recovers

    The Big Picture: CD Sales Rise as Economy Recovers The economy slows, CD sales slow. The economy recovers, CD sales recover. If I am going too fast for you with this complex and sophisticated economic argument, please let me know.

  5. Rob says:

    This one is a classic! I emailed instapundit but I guess he didn’t pick my email out of the pile to read. This post deserves a bigger audience, though.


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The TM-1 is a must-have tool for keeping spokes properly and uniformly tensioned. It accurately and reliably measures the absolute tension of each of the spokes in a wheel, as well as the relative tension between all the spokes in a wheel. The TM-1 works on nearly any bicycle spoke??_no matter what the diameter, material, or shape. Not just for the experienced mechanic, the TM-1 is for anyone building or truing wheels, diagnosing wheel problems, or assembling new bikes.

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Weaknesses:    Translation between gauge scale and actual KGF chart.
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For years I used this as my only tool for checking tension, and it has done an admirable job and I have built a number of wheel sets as well as true up wheels with it.

There are several shortcoming though. First is that I find it tiresome to alternate between the spoke wrench and the meter constantly. Similarly threading the tool in between the spokes and getting on the narrow part of a double butted spoke is somewhat time consuming.

Second, when comparing with two other identical TM-1 tension meters I found discrepancies of up to 20kgf. Most measurements were within an acceptable range of +- 10kgf but 20kgf could be the difference between a good build and a cracked rim.

Lastly, the repeatability is difficult until you have used the tool for a while. Even with the same tool I would get some smaller (10kgf) variations in tension for the same spoke. This depended on how quickly I let the tool clamp on the spoke, how long it sat there and in some cases the angle that it was on the spoke.

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Kathryn Kempke Apr 08, 2015 at 09:14 PM

Hi Rion -

This will be my first RS event and I am looking forward to it. My husband and I were very disappointed that a sunset shoot at the Superstition Mountains was cancelled in favor of more class time. It seems a waste to travel to this location and spend a sunset hour indoors. Anyway, we are staying a day after, and I am asking if anyone is interested in trying to go do that shoot on our own if we can get info from the instructor on the best places to go.

If you or anyone else is interested, let me know.

Rion Millen Apr 09, 2015 at 06:01 PM

Amazingly, my image of Superstition Mtn is still in "Photos" on this site. I think a sunset shot would be the best and I'll be staying after but leaving the next day, so I might join you - we'll discuss later.

Kathryn Kempke Apr 06, 2015 at 08:00 PM

Is anyone registered for the April 16, 2015 program?
Rion Millen Apr 08, 2015 at 05:14 PM

Hi Kathryn. I'll be attending the April 16th class; looking at the availabl
Rion Millen Apr 08, 2015 at 05:18 PM

that is, looking at the Price Options, I see that the class is full (which is about 20-24 people usually). A couple of years ago, this was my very first RS class and I learned a lot. With Sedona and the Grand Canyon now on the schedule, I'm taking it again. If there is a question, I might be able to help answer it just based on my previous experience, otherwise I'll see you there.

Jonathan Feinberg Jan 13, 2015 at 05:18 PM

I took a class - actually 2 classes - on Photoshop Elements 12 and have it as an application on my laptop. It is a lot of fun to try to enhance your day's work after dinner, though it is easier to use iPhoto. Look forward to meeting fellow photographers
Rion Millen Apr 08, 2015 at 05:30 PM

Jonathon, just to give you a heads-up, Apple announced that they will be dropping iPhoto in a future release. I have already migrated to Lightroom which I love - more flexibility and more capability. You can migrate photos from Lightroom to Photoshop Elements and back fairly easily.

Annamarie Lavieri Jan 13, 2015 at 02:09 PM

Hi David, regarding equipment, I took this wonderful class a couple of years ago and I didn't think to bring a tripod.If it's easy
to do that it would be helpful, but it's not essential. Flash drive and extra batteries and battery charger are a must. I really enjoyed this class and I learned a lot. One of the best things about this program is that I was able to concentrate on photography and didn't have to plan where to go, when, or think about any of the logistics as it's all done for you! Enjoy!

Frances Wolff Jan 13, 2015 at 10:30 AM

Has ANYONE requested a roommate for the Feb 22nd program????

David Schneider Jan 12, 2015 at 02:01 PM

I am attending the Feb 22nd trip and was wondering what equipment to bring other than Camera and Laptop? Thanks for any input.
Ellie Knesper Jan 12, 2015 at 02:47 PM

Hi David. My husband and I participated in this program in November and we enjoyed it very much. Our literature did mention a few items that were helpful to have -- a graduated neutral density filter and a polarizing filter. For taking pictures of moving water, the neutral density filter was pretty much a necessity. I am fairly new to this so didn't realize that the two lenses that I have for my DSR camera require different size filters, so I was limited to just using the one lens when I wanted to use the filter. You also need a flash drive so that you can "turn in" a couple of pictures each day for the critique session. And of course you need a battery charger, and a second battery is great to have. Enjoy the program!
Ellie Knesper Jan 12, 2015 at 02:47 PM

Ellen Leible Jan 12, 2015 at 08:13 PM

I participated in this program last year and also enjoyed it very much. None of us that I knew of had a neutral density filter with them and most of our moving water shots were really good. A tripod is especially helpful for sunsets in the desert. The critique sessions were gentle and fun. I learned a lot from the discussions around all of the submitted photos. As Ellie mentioned a flash drive, extra batteries (I got caught just ONE time years ago without a spare and I never forgot it --- I now carry at least 2 extra) I hope you'll enjoy the program as much as I did.

Karel Kidwell Jan 04, 2015 at 01:46 PM

I am going to sign up for the Feb 22nd trip..
I will also request a roommate..
my email is karel.kidwell@yahoo.com
Frances Wolff Jan 04, 2015 at 02:17 PM

Karel - I just sent you an email.
Frances Wolff Jan 04, 2015 at 02:31 PM

actually two emails

Frances Wolff Dec 11, 2014 at 11:58 AM

The Feb 8-13 program was cancelled, so I signed up for the Feb 22-27 program. Anyone else sign up? Any one else request a roommate for this program?
Dorothy Allen Dec 22, 2014 at 05:22 PM

Hi Frances, I signed up for this program also. I will be rooming solo but I'm looking forward to meeting everyone. See you in February.

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1955 Topps All-American Football #36 Turk Edwards PSA MINT 9

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Abbeyjean’s Toddlerbot

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Source: Abbeyjean’s Toddlerbot

This started out as a balancing robot similar to the Gyro version of NXTWay and using Ramin’s RobotC program.

This worked first time which caught me by surprise – I mean where’s the fun in that? So I started playing around with the design. First I made it taller and taller but it still balanced ok so then I decided to see if I could make it stand up again if it fell down.

The result is ToddlerBot. I called it ToddlerBot because it is like a toddler tying to walk for the first time. It starts out face down on the floor, then it stands up and tries to move forward, but just like a toddler it falls dowm. After a few tears it struggles up again and toddles forward until it falls down again. And so on.

I used the HiTechnic Tilt sensor to detect when it had reached the upright position. I found I needed ‘arms’ at  the rear as well when it stood up, otherwise momentum tended to make it fall over backward before it could start balancing.

A single touch sensor serves the double purpose of detecting when it has fallen on its face and also when the ‘arms’ are fully retracted.

It still has the sonar sensor to detect obstacles but this is pretty much redundant as it never stays upright long enough to reach any obstacles. The extra motor and all the other bits increase the mass of the robot considerably, with the result that the balancing motors have trouble reacting fast enough to counter the extra momentum created as the robot tries to balance. But then that was the idea anyway.

If it falls over backwards, you’ll have to get ‘mummy’ to help it get up again.

Front view balancing with arms up

Written by Vu Nguyen

November 21st, 2009 at 11:19 am

Posted in Cool projects,NXT

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