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SpaBusiness Article summarizing my talk at the 2010 Global Spa Summit:
www.leisuremedia.com/digital/index1.cfm?codeid=16023&...
Marc Smith - Social media, sensors and spa
Social media has become a major force, as people search for services or discuss choices online with friends. Building a social media presence is now as important as traditional marketing, so if you don’t already have them, create your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare, and flickr accounts today, if only to listen to what your customers, or competitor's customers, are saying about you.
Once you’ve done this, more active engagement involves linking, blogging and replying to the people who are talking about you. This can be demanding and new staff may be needed. You should join these conversations because they’ll take place whether you contribute or not.
While there are costs in terms of time and expertise, there are also rewards, as you can access customer opinions more cheaply than through focus groups and with higher participation rates than surveys. You can also engage with influential advocates and enthusiasts.
Identifying key contributors in relevant conversations is the primary task of a social media strategy. Building a relationship with these central figures gives you greater reach and builds brand champions – the independent voices that can make (or break) your brand.
The science which enables us to understand the way all this works – Social Network Analysis (SNA) – is an arcane area of research that has traditionally required advanced maths and computing skills. That’s changing though, as new software makes analysing and visualising networks as easy as making a pie chart.
I work with the Social Media Research Foundation, a group dedicated to building open tools, data, and scholarship related to social media. The primary project from the Foundation is the 'network overview, discovery and exploration add-in for Excel' – the NodeXL Project for short – a free and open extension to the familiar spreadsheet.
Using NodeXL it’s easy to collect the network of people who have been talking about you online. If you need to learn about a topic quickly, you can identify key people and discussion areas and while search engines can only deliver lists of results, Social Network Analysis can answer questions like “are there sub-groups of people talking about me and what are their interests?”
Not everyone who tweets about your brand is equally connected to other people: some voices are louder than others. In a few clicks it’s possible to build a map of a community and see who’s talking about a topic and who’s at the center of the discussion.
Networks come in many shapes and sizes and network theory is a collection of measurements that capture their dimensions. The ‘vertex’ count shows how many people are in the network. The ‘edge’ count indicates how many connections there are among them and the ‘degree’ count shows who has the most connections.
Some networks are shaped like a sphere, some are fragmented like thousands of shards and others are shaped like an hourglass, with relatively separate clusters. Some people act as the bridge, connecting two otherwise separate clusters. These ‘between’ people can be brokers or gatekeepers. Sometimes people are firmly at the center of their core, but have limited connections to other clusters. Each plays an important function in the social media environment, and effective strategies need to focus on the cultivation of the right balance between different roles and engagement with people in critical locations on the graph.
A few minutes in NodeXL will allow you to identify a network of relevance to your business, identify the key contributors, and collect the topics being discussed.
_Mobile sensors_
More than three billion people carry mobile phones, that are rich with sensors for location (GPS), motion (accelerometer), light (video), and sound (microphone), meaning new forms of data from these devices and the sensors within them can now be added to the mix.
Phones also have devices that pick up radio tags like RFID and can measure heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, and even do glucose readings for diabetics. Health conscious, fitness-focused people are using these devices to track their workouts, with services like CureTogether, PatientsLikeMe, and products like FitBit being examples of this trend. Travellers are using cameras to snap pictures with geotags that link the picture to the location it was taken, while people with chronic illnesses can monitor and measure their vital signs and record dosages and responses.
Far from the secure world of private health information, social media has opened the door to millions of people broadcasting their vital signs to the world. How will spas respond when customers come to reception with terrabytes of their own health and activity data expecting customised service in return?
Drawings in the Detail Section of the MWS&DB
Had a long phone chat with Phil Halcrow 24-11-24 about the old days and 60 years of life since we last saw each other. I introduced him to caving and SUSS and share a few trips. He went onto many years of mapping, surveying and early IT in drilling and NSW Water Management....
Some sheets were plotted in pencil from Surveyor Field books @ 1:9600, and took a week or two. using 80ch scales, if I remember correctly, still have them with the Darmstadt Slide rules and 7 figure log tables, see below..
other dwgs were inked in from other workers plots, with careful STAEDTLER® lettering guides for street names and title blocks, and hand lettering elsewhere..
Not as great a collection as the ..
But seems a lot, and needs sorting and indexing, that is why I'm putting it on Flickr..
Gilets jaunes face à la justice :
3000 condamnations prononcées, 1000 peines de prison ferme
Pour accéder au site et aux différents dossiers:
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www.bastamag.net/Le-traitement-des-gilets-jaunes-par-la-j...
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www.bastamag.net/Un-rapport-denonce-un-maintien-de-l-ordr...
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Gear available for purchase is listed here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zrBzcCe2moh0CvZkhUuWSKXi2...
Are you new to Potted SL or just searching for a particular seed for that special pot? Look no further than our very own, official Potted wiki sheet! Find all the info you need on past and present seeds here: pottedinsl.com/official-spreadsheet/
There are a group of bees in the genus Andrena that form a fairly distinct subgenus called Tracandrena. They are notorious for being difficult to separate out and, in particular, the males all look pretty much the same. I have created a little Excel spreadsheet that help separate out the females, if anyone is interested. This specimen of Andrena forbesii Is one of those species, it is fairly common in the spring, where he collects pollen from a wide variety of woody plants. This Picture Was Taken by Wayne Boo.
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All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish.
Photography Information: Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all
Ye know on earth and all ye need to know
" Ode on a Grecian Urn"
John Keats
You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:www.extreme-macro.co.uk/
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland: bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
Freak In The Sheets Mug Funny Spreadsheet Excel Coffee Mug . Looking for a funny gift that's different and unique? That's what you get with the Freak In The Sheets Excel Mug! It's funny, it's trendy, and it's a great gift for anyone who works in an office.Are you a spreadsheet nerd like me? Do you love formulas, pivot tables, and macros but get turned off by their boring default appearance? Then this mug is for you! Need a new mug? Then look no further than the Freak In The Sheets Excel Mug. This excellent product is perfect for tea and coffee.Product detailDishwasher-safe: The cup is patented, independently tested to BS EN 12875-4 for a minimum of 3,000 dishwasher cycles and is 100% dishwasher safeMicrowave-safe: Mug can be safely placed in microwave for food or liquid heatingGlossy Finish: Full wraparound color decoration with a glossy finishORCA coating: Rigorously tested ORCA coating ensures a brighter color transfer and a harder coating quality. An ORCA logo is printed on the bottom of the mugSpecification- Processing Time: 3 – 5 working days average after payment and all designs updated correctly
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Sandro and I spent a lovely hour poring over a spreadsheet, a calendar and a map working out our itinerary for our trip.
We successfully filled in all our days with locations and visits to relatives, all the while, Abi had flaked it on her rug on the couch.
Here is how we used google spreadsheets to share the results of World Cup 2006 and our predictions too! (More details at my blog)
2007 State Meet Results
Posted in Kern XC Results, Schools, Championships, State, McFarland, Foothill, Wasco, Shafter, North, East, Liberty, Stockdale, Centennial, Delano, Highland, DyeStatCal, Garces, Frontier, Tehachapi
andynoise.com/blog/2007/11/18/2007-state-meet-entrants-fr...
i made this excel spreadsheet of kern’s state meet results HERE
photos HERE
dyestatcal reports that:
David McCuthcheon of Vista Murrieta and Riley Sullivan of Trabuco Hills (Mission Viejo) led a pack of eight runners through the mile in 4:46. Included in that pack was junior Chris Schwartz of Foothill (Bakersfield), who moved to a small lead over Brett Walters of Sultana (Hesperia) and Sullivan at two miles passed in 9:48. Schwartz maintained his lead the rest of the way finishing in 15:13 to Sullivan’s 15:14 and Walters’ 15:21.
boys div. one results:
1 363 CS Chris Schwartz JR Foothill 15:13 4:54
2 1894 SS Riley Sullivan SR Trabuco H 15:14 4:54
155 424 CS Cody Gragg SR North Bak 17:07 5:31
complete rsults HERE
boys div. two:
121 352 CS Oscar Fuentez SR East Bake 17:09 5:32
151 385 CS Talan Reed SR Liberty 17:29 5:38
21. 609 Highland ( 17:34 1:27:49)
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1 101 381 CS Angel Moreno SR 17:12
2 111 378 CS Colin Lewis SO 17:18
3 117 384 CS Jake Van Zandt SO 17:24
4 136 382 CS Austin Stapley SR 17:45
5 144 380 CS Codyh Hughes SR 18:10
6 (146) 379 CS Jeff Marsh SR 18:15
7 (158) 383 CS Joseph Cox SR 19:02
23. 647 Centennial ( 17:46 1:28:49)
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1 102 297 CS Arturo Ramirez SR 17:13
2 121 296 CS Brant Jones SR 17:28
3 131 294 CS Jim Diller SO 17:36
4 145 300 CS Chris Whitaker JR 18:14
5 148 298 CS Gehrig Smith JR 18:18
6 (159) 299 CS Zack Thomas SR 19:29
complete results HERE
boys div. three:
144 463 CS Asencion Mendoz JR Wasco 17:44 5:43
complete results HERE
DIVISION IV BOYS
49 368 CS Connor O’Malley SO Garces Me 17:00 5:29
3. 142 McFarland ( 16:47 1:23:55)
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1 16 405 CS Jesus Gomez SR 16:34
2 18 403 CS Alfonso Cisneros JR 16:35
3 21 404 CS Eddie Garcia JR 16:38
4 39 402 CS Marco Camargo SO 17:01
5 48 401 CS Francisco Nava FR 17:07
6 ( 49) 406 CS Marco Perez FR 17:08
7 ( 96) 400 CS Gerardo Alcala JR 17:44
complete results HERE
DIVISION I GIRLS:
84 423 CS Candace Carlson JR North Bak 19:28 6:16
189 451 CS Ashley Nolasco SR Stockdale 22:42 7:19
complete results HERE
DIVISION II GIRLS
189 351 CS Sophia Garcia FR East Bake 22:57 7:24
22. 644 Centennial ( 21:22 1:46:49)
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1 102 291 CS Ashlee Thomas SR 20:32
2 125 287 CS Lizzy Baker-Steimer SR 21:10
3 128 289 CS Kelsey Dahl JR 21:11
4 142 292 CS Rachel Tiner SR 21:48
5 147 288 CS Jessica Crowe JR 22:08
6 (149) 290 CS Monica Morley SR 22:11
7 (153) 293 CS Jacquelynn Vaughan SO 22:25
23. 686 Highland ( 21:39 1:48:12)
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1 126 1961 CS Gabrielle Breeding SR 21:10
2 130 1960 CS Angelina Roman SR 21:18
3 132 1963 CS Dennise Mercado SO 21:21
4 144 1964 CS Vikki Razo SR 21:51
5 154 1965 CS Jeannette Rodriguez SO 22:32
6 (155) 1966 CS Gabriela Rodier JR 22:49
7 (156) 1962 CS Angela Goodwin SR 23:11
complete results HERE
DIVISION III GIRLS
80 366 CS Halle Meadows FR Frontier 20:05 6:28
156 454 CS Sarah Whitson SO Tehachapi 21:36 6:57
172 453 CS Emily Leming SR Tehachapi 22:12 7:09
22. 602 Shafter ( 22:22 1:51:47)
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1 66 447 CS Cassandra Salazar SR 20:10
2 81 450 CS Elizabeth Wittenberg JR 20:28
3 145 444 CS Lindsee Handel FR 22:27
4 153 445 CS Katerina Plaza FR 23:39
5 157 449 CS Amy Waters SR 25:03
6 (160) 446 CS Anna Polley SR 27:10
complete results HERE
DIVISION IV GIRLS
46 399 CS Ruby Lara SO McFarland 20:13 6:31
112 398 CS Corina Garcia FR McFarland 21:24 6:54
137 452 CS Melinda Magee SR Taft 21:58 7:05
complete results HERE
DIVISION V GIRLS
141 267 CS Liz Adee SR Bakersfiel 23:41 7:38
168 270 CS Noemi Montoya JR Bakersfiel 27:13 8:46
complete results HERE
Oh how this horrible spreadsheet plagued us for months!! 5/2007 - 7/24/2007, to be exact. You can see all the areas we had to deal with on the right side (I will add notes describing them in more detail), and all the steps we had to do on the top. The first 6 columns represent over 50% of the total stress. Carolyn says that I actually did most of the polyurethaning while she was processing the brushes. Lots of "N/A"s near the end helped speed thigns up -- in some cases, 2 layers of polyurethane was sufficient. Individual judgments were made on a case-by-case basis, something a so-called professional would not bother with. WE WERE FINALLY DONE ENOUGH TO CELEBRATE!!
Actually, to be completely accurate -- we still had some final touch-up sanding to do... But nothing that required wood stain, polyurethane, ventilation, masks, gloves, dropclothes, painter's tape, and all the hassle. Just some casual final touches with the least rough (400-grit) sandpaper to ensure that the finaly (usually 4th) polyurethane coat was smooth.
BACKSTORY: Anyone who reads our contract (link below) can see that it specified to move the closet and built-in shelves. But Virginia Design Builders's workers -- the workers hired by Daniel M. Lopez -- were unable to properly move the closet without destroying it. And they "accidentally" threw away our shelves. They also broke the trim at the edge of the closet.
And then guess what? The asshole refused to stain ANY of it, despite the fact that the only reason the color now didn't match was due to their inability to properly execute a contract. (It was a 3 month contract and was not finished for over 3 years.) This left us having to stain WAY more wood than we otherwise would have. It was quite literally a difference of several months' work, as we both had jobs (at the time), and spare time at home has been in deficit for awhile.
STAINING IS A PAIN: Just for reference, proper wood staining is a MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR pain in the ass. The wood filling, the sanding, the pre-conditioning, staining, the wiping, the dropcloths, the multiple coats of everything, the (4) polyurethane coats [which often required holding a lamp in one hand, to reflect light on it to ensure evenness], and the final sanding. And don't get me started on the timing: Stain 20 minutes after pre-conditioning, but only for 2 hours; stain in 20 minute cycles consisting of 4 sub-cycles: stain area #1, stain area #2, wipe area #1, wipe area #2. Then break, get new gloves, and start over. A 20 minute cycle might equal 2 shelves, or 2 boards from ceiling to floor. Our spreadsheet had over 200 cells. At the end of the day, the only way to get stain off your skin was to apply paint thinner directly to your skin in violation of the instructions, common sense, and one's best interests...
sanding, wood staining.
cabinet, closet, paper, portal, shelf, spreadsheet.
120. 150. 220. 60. Mt. Trim. polyurethane.
Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
July 26, 2007.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
LEGAL: To see an official VA DPOR sanction of $500 (+$150) against Dan Lopez and Virginia Design Builders: www.acm.vt.edu/~clint/download/filedump/2008/daniel-m-lop... ... These people were suing him for $400K last time I checked.
To see OUR contract with Dan Lopez / Virginia Design Builders: www.acm.vt.edu/~clint/download/filedump/2008/daniel-m-lop... ... Just in case anybody doesn't believe me./B>
A spreadsheet for recording menu configuration for the Olympus OMD E-M5. Instructions for FOCUS PEAKING and SERVICE MENUS.
An AFOL working in a building being renovated in York spotted this amazing frozen moment. Here it is in all its grimy glory before Iain cleans it up; I'm so glad I got to see it in this ghost-like form. In the '60s LEGO began a sideline called Modulex, consisting of smaller bricks that are based on 1:1:1 ratio cubes. these were aimed at architects but later they released sets aimed at planners and project managers. Here we see the Yorkshire Building Society marking out two years with the month and week tiles. Tasks or projects are listed below on the large blank tiles and bricks added in the relevant weeks. Not seen here is the string attached to two bricks used as a current date marker, or things like a critical workflow path.
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In my garden
Pollen load clearly visible- light brown or caramel coloured. Handy mid-winter forage for the bees on a mild January day like today
for my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
Martin Welman agreed, the way A.R.G.U.S had become, bloated, slow, and ineffective, was nothing compared to what it could be. It disheartened him to think about. He felt, in a way, that he had helped the organization find its’ wings when it was but a fledgling. He was there Just after the beginning, and always thought he’d be there to see it end.
But that was not the case. Temple and Lyman had bigger plans. Better ones. They had designs that would cause A.R.G.U.S’s extinction, and soon that once mighty organization would be leveled to the ground.
And he wouldn’t have it any other way.
In a high-rise in Keystone City, A well-dressed man clinks a glass together, and look over the handful of faces at the table in front of him.
Temple: I want to thank you all for joining me. I know it wasn’t easy leaving your positions, your lives. But I promise you, this was worth it. You’ve made the right choice.
He sets the glass down, then takes a step to the right. Another man, across the wall to his left, nods and hits a button on a remote, triggering a screen to spread out on the wall, showing complex spreadsheets.
Temple: As you can see, A.R.G.U.S’s productivity has plummeted in recent years. What once was one of the most influential and thorough agencies for terrorism and Metahuman defense, has been reduced to pencil pushers, shiftless drones who only jump when the shiftless drone above them tells them to. But you are not shiftless drones.
The people at the table all nod their heads in agreement and look at each other earnestly. Martin Welman pounds a fist on the table and cries “hear, hear!”
Temple smiles and points at Martin, then indicates to the man with the remote, who presses the next button. Another slide goes by.
Temple: Now, with your funds, your cooperation, and your willingness to do good, I believe we can change all of that.
The slide changes.
Temple: Now, there are two methods of thought here, and at first, I was going to make the decision myself. But I am not above any of you, we’re all in this together, so I think, rather than me decide, we should cast this to a vote. All agreed?
Martin and the others murmur in agreement.
Temple: Splendid. Now, the first method of thought, is that we all pool our resources, and work to build our own agency to counteract A.R.G.U.S, show them up, humiliate them; and eventually render them obsolete.
The others and Martin murmur their interest.
Temple: And the second method of thought, is that we pool our resources and hire ourselves some contractors, then go through and . . . eliminate every A.R.G.U.S agent we find and rebuild from the ground up.
There are nods and smiles and conversation of approval.
Now, I will give you a few minutes to think it over, then, we shall vote.
He returns to the table and pours himself a glass of water. He sees Martin Welman, sitting in his seat, with a look of panic spreading through his face. Welman begins to sweat, to loosen his tie and shift uncomfortably in his seat. He’s become visibly pale, and jumps a little when Temple says,
Temple: Let us see the verdict. Now, all in favor of Option A, raise their hands.
The room is still. Temple smiles.
Temple: Now, all in favor of option B –
Hands raise unanimously. He outstretches his arms and smiles.
Temple: This is splendid, I’m glad you all wish for the same things. Now, I know of an agency outside of the law that can be a boon to us. I will review my connections with them. They’re an organization you may have heard of. They call themselves K—
Martin, suddenly standing: I apologize, Dan, but uh, I can’t be party to this. I only thought we would all be going into business together, starting a new firm. I didn’t realize we would resort to . . . to murder . . .
Dan Temple smiles and motions to the man with the remote control: Well, now you don’t have to, Martin.
Martin Welman crumples to the floor with a bullet in his brain.
Temple: Now, where were we? Ah Yes ---
But Temple can’t find it in himself to finish that sentence either. He finds himself blissful all of a sudden, restful even. He hadn’t even realized it until it happened, but now here he was, nearly falling asleep in front of his new partners.
His partners, likewise, have begun to feel drowsy, stretching out on the floor, and resting their heads on the table.
Unbeknownst to them, Hypnota stands in the doorway, doing what she does best.
Answer, behind her: Would you look at that. Better than Opium.
Hypnota: If you’d please, Mister Answer, I am nearly finished.
Answer: ‘Course, ‘course, knock em flat.
Behind them, Sonar fidgets impatiently. Though he was bred with many things, royal patience was not one of them, and there is something he’d like to get done soon. Bend notices, but says nothing. At both ends of the hallways, Danton Black stands watch, the blues insets of his suit glowing faintly.
Sonar’s attention rests finally on Agent Orange, jittering worse than Sonar. Agent Orange’s goggles look up at him,
Orange: Who is in that room I wonder.
Bend, also growing impatient: Why, I reckon it’s good old American President Richard Nixon, wouldn’t you, Wladon?
Sonar: I thought your president’s name was Donald?
Orange, standing and snarling ferociusly: NIXON. It’s because of that fucking Satanist my unit all died face down in the muck by the Viet-Cong’s hand! I’ll napalm him, just as he napalmed my entire division!
He fires a gas canister over Hypnota’s shoulder then charges forward. Answer slams her out of the way just as Orange barrels through, spraying napalm and chemicals in all directions. His attacks are met with the sounds of horrified and pained screams as Dan Temple and other clutch at their melting faces, appendages and bodies.
Then silence.
Agent Orange stands in the middle of the room, panting and giggling. Hypnota just stares at the carnage. It’s a stare that’s horrified, but not unfamiliar.
Answer: WHAT IN THE NAME OF COLONEL KURTZ JUST GOD DAMN HAPPENED.
Bend, casually: Waller said to eliminate the targets. She didn’t say how.
Answer: WHAT DID YOU THINK WE WERE DOING, HAVING A CLAM BAKE?
Bend, smiling: I’m sure what you and that sand-flea were doin’ would work fine, this just seemed faster.
He looks at Bito and grins. Wladon raises a hand to his mouth, and smiles behind it.
Answer slams Bend against the wall and jabs him rapidly and forcefully in the stomach with his cane, effectively destroying his smile.
Answer: I DON’T GIVE A BAT’S ASS. This was MY DAMN MISSION you worthless, whimpering, fingerless, d-grade moron. You do as I command or so help me I will shove this cane up your ass and whirl you around like a flag. You got that?
Bend slumps to the floor: Yeah . . . yeah I got it.
Answer: Good.
He strikes bend in the head with his cane. It’s one solid, ringing blow.
Answer: And don’t you ever refer to Ms. Bhatia in a racist manner in front of me ever again.
Bend: Y-yes . . . sir.
Answer: Doubleplusgood. Now stand up and take us home. Everybody gather around the asshole.
Sonar steps forward: Actually, dear leader, I have other plans.
Answer: Eh?
Before he can say anything else, there’s a furious ringing, followed by a few loud, staccato beeps. Little lights appear in each of the Squad Member’s necks, save for Answer’s. They each glow red once, then green, then wink out. Wladon stays where he stands, and holds aloft a tiny device that resembles a sort of detonator.
Hypnota: What is happening?
Sonar: I am glad you asked. When we were graced with the
presence of Mister Luthor, he assembled a device to deactivate his nanite and escape. Having studied that device, I had bits and pieces smuggled in, and, over time, made a little one of my own. Each and every one of you, save for our fearless leader of course, are now under my control.
Answer: You filthy bastard. I’ll tear your lungs out.
Sonar: Unlikely. Mister Black, if you’d be so kind to restrain him.
Multiplex’s dupes close in around Patten. One takes his cane, three more grab his arms and wrap their own around his chest. Answer is swearing a blue street and thrashing like a maniac, but it does no good.
Multiplex: Sorry, boss.
Multiplex: Sorry, boss.
Multiplex: Sorry, boss.
Multiplex: Sorry, boss.
Answer: I’ll find where you live, Wladon, and I’ll toss a fucking bomb in that place!
Sonar smiles: It is funny you should mention my home, Answer. Bend? If you’d please?
Bend stands, grinning widely: You got it, 'your highness', it’s about damn time we pulled this off.
He begins to create a green, angular portal around himself, Bend, Multiplex and his Dupes, Answer, still struggling, Hypnota with her hand on her mouth, and Orange, shivering in anticipation.
Sonar grabs the bottom of Answer’s mask, and lifts it up to expose Patten’s four-day stubble and reddened eyes.
Sonar: I say it is funny you should mention my home, Answer, because that is precisely where we are going.
There is the inevitable flash of green, leaving nothing but the charred bodies of the A.R.G.U.S agents. Martin Welman, his body charred through no fault of his own, soaks the carpet in red regret.
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Some time we need to show or to hide gridline in openoffice calc. It is easy to do that. Open Option Menu and from the option left menu choose Openoffice calc then view. You can give "Visual Aid" a check mark on or off to show or to hide gridline.
Body and controls of the Nikon D500.
Example Images from Nikon D500 Experience guide to the D500.
Setup your Menus and Custom Settings, for various shooting situations, with help from my Nikon D500 Setup Guide Spreadsheet:
blog.dojoklo.com/2016/05/24/nikon-d500-setup-guide-spread...
Apple Emoji set analyzed to provide their predominant colors. Alternate (but not necessarily improved) Emoji Histogram.
Followup #2: Cleaned-up code example now on GitHub:
github.com/mariuswatz/teaching/tree/master/EmojiColorsCSV
Followup #1: I've uploaded the CSV files with the values here:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16ZzyXz5_6A8trPTsn2J8nEGmL...
Nikon D750 with 24-120mm f/4G - JPEG, straight from camera.
Falmouth Auto Show, Cape Cod, Mass. - 1941 Oldsmobile.
Example images from Nikon D750 Experience
Setup your Menu and Custom Settings with my Nikon D750 Setup Guide Spreadsheet
blog.dojoklo.com/2014/09/25/nikon-d750-setup-guide-with-r...
Latest military casualty figures in proportion to each force's troop numbers. I think this gives a clearer sense of which armies are taking the most flak.
More here:
www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/afghanistan-troop-cas...
Inspired by data from the Guardian data blog:
www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/mar/01/iraq-afghani...
My reworked data here:
spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tY8Ijcw0qpO2xT8Y7B7AUww&a...
Body and controls of the Nikon D500.
Example Images from Nikon D500 Experience guide to the D500.
Setup your Menus and Custom Settings, for various shooting situations, with help from my Nikon D500 Setup Guide Spreadsheet:
blog.dojoklo.com/2016/05/24/nikon-d500-setup-guide-spread...
1. Tracking Your Money
If you want to do more with your money, it helps to first figure out what you are currently doing with your money.
You may have a good sense of your fixed monthly expenses (such as rent/mortgage, car payments, groceries, student loans), but smaller everyday expenses have a tendency to slip through the cracks — yet, nevertheless, add up.
A good exercise is to track how much you’re actually spending each day (that includes every cash/debit/credit purchase you make, plus every bill you pay) for a month or so.
You can do this by carrying around a notebook or saving all of your receipts and putting them into a spreadsheet on your computer. There are also a number of apps that can make the process of tracking your daily spending easy.
This can be an eye-opening exercise. Spending is so frictionless these days, many of us really don’t have a handle on how much money we are actually spending.
Seeing it all in black and white can help you think twice before buying something nonessential, and help you start becoming much more intentional with every dollar.
2. Setting up a Budget
Once you’ve done the work of tracking your monthly expenses, you may next want to compare this to how much money (after taxes) is coming in each month.
If you are consistently spending more than you are bringing in, you may want to set up a budget to help you get these two numbers better aligned.
The process requires grouping all of your spending into categories, seeing where you may be able to cut back, and then setting up some monthly spending parameters.
There are a number of tools and apps that can help you create — and stick with — a household budget, but even just keeping a ledger or a basic spreadsheet can help you gain more control over where money is falling through the cracks.
While the idea of living on a budget may sound like a drag, the truth is that planning how you want to spend your money can often lead to having more money to spend on the things you want. Plus, there are many types of budgets, and one of them probably suits your personal and financial style well.
A budget can also help guide your money toward short- and long-term financial goals like an emergency fund, a down payment for a house, and retirement savings.
3. Paying Bills on Time
Knowing when your bills are due and paying them on schedule could save you money in a few different ways.
First, it can help you to avoid paying interest and late-payment fees.
Second, It might also maintain your credit score. A good credit score is important because it can help you qualify for the best interest rates on credit cards and loans.
And the less money you have to pay in interest, the faster you’ll be able to pay off debts – and the more money you’ll have to spend on other things.
4. Negotiating a Better Deal
Some of those recurring bills (like cable, internet, your cellphone, car insurance) may not be set in stone.
It might take some research — and a little nerve — but you may be able to negotiate for a lower rate from some of your service providers, especially if you’re dealing with a company that’s in a competitive market.
Before you call or email a business or provider, it can help to know exactly how much you’re paying for a service, what you’re getting for your money, and how much the competition is charging for the same or similar service.
It’s also a good idea to make sure you are communicating with someone who actually has the power to lower your rate and, if not, ask to speak with someone who does.
It may also be helpful to let a provider know that if they can’t do better, you may decide to switch to another company (and you might).
You can also try to talk your way to a better deal with other expenses, such as negotiating medical bills.
5. Ditching Expensive Debt
Another way to help make your money go further is to spend less on interest payments on debt.
If you can pay down that debt, you could use the money you’re now throwing away on interest to pay other bills, build an emergency fund, invest for the future, or save for a vacation or some other goal.
Reducing debt is easier said than done, of course — but choosing the right debt reduction strategy may help.
• Since credit card debt typically costs the most in interest, you might consider chipping away at these debts first or, if possible, wiping them out completely. You could then move on to the debt with the next-highest interest rate, and so on.
• Another approach to reducing debt is to pay the minimum toward all your accounts, and then pay any extra you can toward the debt with the smallest balance. When that debt is paid off, you can move on to the next smallest balance, and so on.
• If you can qualify for a lower interest rate, another option might be to take out a personal loan that consolidates all those high-interest debts into one more manageable payment.
Getting rid of that damaging debt can have long-range consequences as well.
If you can lower your credit utilization ratio, which shows the amount of available credit you have, you could build your credit. And that, in turn, could make it easier to qualify for lower-interest loans and credit cards in the future.
6. Balking at Bank Fees
Unless you’re vigilant about checking your statements, you might not even notice the fees your bank may be charging every month for your checking and savings accounts.
They might include service fees, maintenance fees, ATM fees (if you don’t use in-network machines), minimum balance fees, overdraft or insufficient funds fees, and/or transaction fees. And all those little nips can take a toll over time and could even leave you with a negative bank balance.
If you see that your bank is hitting you with one or more monthly fees, you may want to consider shopping around for a less expensive bank, which might involve switching banks to an online-only financial institution. Because online financial institutions typically don’t have the same overhead costs banks with physical branches do, they generally offer low or no fees
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7. Pressing Pause on Impulse Purchases
If impulse purchases are your downfall, consider trying a temporary spending freeze, during which you avoid buying anything that isn’t a must.
Or maybe pick a single category (shoes, wine, concerts) or a specific store to stay away from for a certain period of time.
To help keep you motivated, you might track the money you didn’t spend during your freeze and then put it to use paying down debt, starting an emergency fund, or saving for a down payment on a home or other short-term financial goal.
Once you start seeing the benefits of saying no to impulse purchases, you may find yourself spending less even after the freeze is over.
8. Making Lists
Another way you may be able to make your money stretch is to make a list any time you’re going to shop, keep it in your pocket or on your phone, and then stick with it in the store.
And lists aren’t just for grocery shopping. You could make one before you hit the pharmacy, the mall, the local coffee shop, the sporting goods store, or just about anywhere you might wander off course.
Keeping a list close at hand can help avoid having to go back to the store because you forgot something (keeping store visits to a minimum), and you might be less tempted by items that aren’t on your list.
9. Click ‘Unsubscribe’
If your favorite retailers tend to bombard you with emails alerting you to their latest and greatest sale, you may want to think about getting off their e-mailing lists.
Sales and great deals are happening all the time, and generally the best time to purchase something is when you really need it.
Even if you don’t find that needed item at its lowest ever sale price, you will likely end up spending less than buying more things simply because they are on sale.
If the bait to buy doesn’t constantly land in your inbox, you’ll be less likely to take it (and won’t even know what you are missing out on). This move could quickly translate into more cash or one less bill at the end of the month.
10. Maximizing the Money You Save
Another way to stretch your dollars is to consider how you might get a higher return on any money that is sitting in the bank earning little to no interest.
Higher-yield savings options you might consider include an online savings account, checking and savings account, certificate of deposit (CD), or a money market account.
For a longer-term payoff (and potentially higher rate of return), you may also want to consider putting more money into your 401(k) or other retirement fund, as well as starting or adding to a non-retirement brokerage account.
11. Keeping the Change
Loose change may seem fairly worthless, but over time it actually can add up, and might help you help you pay a bill or buy a nice dinner.
Instead of letting coins live indefinitely in the bottom of your bag or the cup holder in your car, consider setting up one money jar in your home to collect it all.
Then, every month or so, you might sort and roll the coins to take to the bank. (You can also use a coin-counting machine, available in some stores, but keep in mind that some deduct a fee, or percentage of your change.)
If you rarely use cash anymore, you may still be able to make good use of virtual change. Many mobile apps (perhaps the one your bank provides) and credit/debit card accounts offer users the opportunity to automatically round up purchases to the nearest dollar and have that money transferred into a savings account.
So, for example, if you bought a doughnut for $1.25, the purchase would be rounded up to $2, and the extra 75 cents would be sent to your account to go toward a savings goal.
12. Using Windfalls Wisely
It can be incredibly tempting to use a tax refund or a work bonus to buy something fabulous. And there’s nothing wrong with an occasional splurge.
Detail of the body and controls of the Nikon D500.
Example Images from Nikon D500 Experience guide to the D500.
Setup your Menus and Custom Settings, for various shooting situations, with help from my Nikon D500 Setup Guide Spreadsheet:
blog.dojoklo.com/2016/05/24/nikon-d500-setup-guide-spread...
Microsoft Excel 2010 - What-If Analysis icon
I often need large pictures of Microsoft Excel icons to use in my teaching and couldn't find them anywhere, so I created my own. A bit rough but hopefully it is useful to you as well.
You may be interested to know that I actually created the icon in MS Excel 2010 and then took a screen shot. The squares are rows and columns and the text at the bottom is entered in a merged cell. That is also why it isn't exactly the same as the original icon.
As an ongoing fascination with making fake map-looking things in Excel via formatted pivot tables, here's one showing tornadoes in the US.
All about the process at: uxblog.idvsolutions.com
2007 State Meet Results
Posted in Kern XC Results, Schools, Championships, State, McFarland, Foothill, Wasco, Shafter, North, East, Liberty, Stockdale, Centennial, Delano, Highland, DyeStatCal, Garces, Frontier, Tehachapi
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i made this excel spreadsheet of kern’s state meet results HERE
photos HERE
dyestatcal reports that:
David McCuthcheon of Vista Murrieta and Riley Sullivan of Trabuco Hills (Mission Viejo) led a pack of eight runners through the mile in 4:46. Included in that pack was junior Chris Schwartz of Foothill (Bakersfield), who moved to a small lead over Brett Walters of Sultana (Hesperia) and Sullivan at two miles passed in 9:48. Schwartz maintained his lead the rest of the way finishing in 15:13 to Sullivan’s 15:14 and Walters’ 15:21.
boys div. one results:
1 363 CS Chris Schwartz JR Foothill 15:13 4:54
2 1894 SS Riley Sullivan SR Trabuco H 15:14 4:54
155 424 CS Cody Gragg SR North Bak 17:07 5:31
complete rsults HERE
boys div. two:
121 352 CS Oscar Fuentez SR East Bake 17:09 5:32
151 385 CS Talan Reed SR Liberty 17:29 5:38
21. 609 Highland ( 17:34 1:27:49)
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1 101 381 CS Angel Moreno SR 17:12
2 111 378 CS Colin Lewis SO 17:18
3 117 384 CS Jake Van Zandt SO 17:24
4 136 382 CS Austin Stapley SR 17:45
5 144 380 CS Codyh Hughes SR 18:10
6 (146) 379 CS Jeff Marsh SR 18:15
7 (158) 383 CS Joseph Cox SR 19:02
23. 647 Centennial ( 17:46 1:28:49)
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1 102 297 CS Arturo Ramirez SR 17:13
2 121 296 CS Brant Jones SR 17:28
3 131 294 CS Jim Diller SO 17:36
4 145 300 CS Chris Whitaker JR 18:14
5 148 298 CS Gehrig Smith JR 18:18
6 (159) 299 CS Zack Thomas SR 19:29
complete results HERE
boys div. three:
144 463 CS Asencion Mendoz JR Wasco 17:44 5:43
complete results HERE
DIVISION IV BOYS
49 368 CS Connor O’Malley SO Garces Me 17:00 5:29
3. 142 McFarland ( 16:47 1:23:55)
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1 16 405 CS Jesus Gomez SR 16:34
2 18 403 CS Alfonso Cisneros JR 16:35
3 21 404 CS Eddie Garcia JR 16:38
4 39 402 CS Marco Camargo SO 17:01
5 48 401 CS Francisco Nava FR 17:07
6 ( 49) 406 CS Marco Perez FR 17:08
7 ( 96) 400 CS Gerardo Alcala JR 17:44
complete results HERE
DIVISION I GIRLS:
84 423 CS Candace Carlson JR North Bak 19:28 6:16
189 451 CS Ashley Nolasco SR Stockdale 22:42 7:19
complete results HERE
DIVISION II GIRLS
189 351 CS Sophia Garcia FR East Bake 22:57 7:24
22. 644 Centennial ( 21:22 1:46:49)
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1 102 291 CS Ashlee Thomas SR 20:32
2 125 287 CS Lizzy Baker-Steimer SR 21:10
3 128 289 CS Kelsey Dahl JR 21:11
4 142 292 CS Rachel Tiner SR 21:48
5 147 288 CS Jessica Crowe JR 22:08
6 (149) 290 CS Monica Morley SR 22:11
7 (153) 293 CS Jacquelynn Vaughan SO 22:25
23. 686 Highland ( 21:39 1:48:12)
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1 126 1961 CS Gabrielle Breeding SR 21:10
2 130 1960 CS Angelina Roman SR 21:18
3 132 1963 CS Dennise Mercado SO 21:21
4 144 1964 CS Vikki Razo SR 21:51
5 154 1965 CS Jeannette Rodriguez SO 22:32
6 (155) 1966 CS Gabriela Rodier JR 22:49
7 (156) 1962 CS Angela Goodwin SR 23:11
complete results HERE
DIVISION III GIRLS
80 366 CS Halle Meadows FR Frontier 20:05 6:28
156 454 CS Sarah Whitson SO Tehachapi 21:36 6:57
172 453 CS Emily Leming SR Tehachapi 22:12 7:09
22. 602 Shafter ( 22:22 1:51:47)
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1 66 447 CS Cassandra Salazar SR 20:10
2 81 450 CS Elizabeth Wittenberg JR 20:28
3 145 444 CS Lindsee Handel FR 22:27
4 153 445 CS Katerina Plaza FR 23:39
5 157 449 CS Amy Waters SR 25:03
6 (160) 446 CS Anna Polley SR 27:10
complete results HERE
DIVISION IV GIRLS
46 399 CS Ruby Lara SO McFarland 20:13 6:31
112 398 CS Corina Garcia FR McFarland 21:24 6:54
137 452 CS Melinda Magee SR Taft 21:58 7:05
complete results HERE
DIVISION V GIRLS
141 267 CS Liz Adee SR Bakersfiel 23:41 7:38
168 270 CS Noemi Montoya JR Bakersfiel 27:13 8:46
complete results HERE
Map of billboards non-conforming to 1997 ordinance, according to spreadsheet prepared by City of Tacoma staff in 2007.
Can you find the city underneath the billboards?
Link to the interactive google map:
Nikon D750 with 24-120mm f/4G - NEF > DNG > processing > JPEG.
Falmouth Auto Show, Cape Cod, Mass. - 1969 Ford Mustang Shelby GT 350.
Example images from Nikon D750 Experience
Setup your Menu and Custom Settings with my Nikon D750 Setup Guide Spreadsheet
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There is a thread on this in the strobist group discussions.
My wife was out having fun with her girlfriends, so I decided to have
some geeky fun at home with flashes, tape measures and a flash meter.
After blinding my eyes with a few hundred pops and some exercises in
trigonometry and spreadsheet programming I got the following results:
SB-800 flash power at different zoom settings
SB-24 flash power at different zoom settings
I wanted to know what is the exact effect of the flash head zoom
setting on my two main work horse flashes, the Nikon SB-24 and the
Nikon SB-800. I decided to measure the power of the flashes with a
flash meter at various angles and different zoom settings.
This was my setup. I mounted the flash on a light stand and pointed it
at another light stand at a distance of 200 centimeters. I placed a
tripod 200 centimeters left from the flash, forming a right-angled
triangle.
Then I ran a metal tape measure from the tripod to the other light
stand at the same height as the flash head. The distance from the
flash to each end of the measure was 200 cm, and the measure was at an
angle of 45 degrees from the flash head axis.
I set the flash at 1/4 manual power and mounted a wireless flash
trigger for triggering the flash.
I measured the output level of the flash every 10 centimeters along
the tape measure with my Sekonic L-308B light meter. I did this at
every zoom setting for both of the flashes. I pointed the dome of the
flash meter always towards the flash.
When I had gathered all the data, I entered it into a spreadsheet
(OpenOffice.org). I calculated the angle and distance from flash for
each measurement point, and adjusted the results based on distance and
the inverse squre law fall-off of light (as if each measurement had
been taken at constant distance from flash).
Then I generated two charts that show the light output of the flashes
at different angles from the flash head axis. The light output is
given in f-stops relative to f/11 at ISO200, i.e. -1 is f/8, -2.5 is f/4.8 etc.
Lighting info for this setup shot: The visible SB-800 on light stand
is at 1/4 manual power. There is also an SB-24 with a CTO gel on full
manual power that is on a table at right and pointed at the ceiling.
In addition, there is an SB-16 at 85 mm with a 3/4 CTO gel behind the
table seen in the photo and pointed at the SB-800. The SB-800 and
SB-24 were triggered by a wireless eBay trigger and the SB-16 was
triggered by an optical trigger.
The black fabric hanging from a microphone boom stand is used to
flag off reflections from the surrounding room.