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Short code
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Short codes, or short numbers, are short digit sequences, significantly shorter than telephone numbers, that are used to address messages in the Multimedia Messaging System (MMS) and short message service (SMS) systems of mobile network operators. In addition to messaging, they may be used in abbreviated dialing.
Short codes are designed to be easier to read and remember than telephone numbers. Short codes are unique to each operator at the technological level. Even so, providers generally have agreements to avoid overlaps. In some countries, such as the United States, some classes of numbers are inter-operator (used by multiple providers or carriers, U.S. inter-operator numbers are called common short codes).[1]
Short codes are widely used for value-added services such as charity donations, mobile services, ordering ringtones, and television program voting. Messages sent to a short code can be billed at a higher rate than a standard SMS and may even subscribe a customer to a recurring monthly service that will be added to the customer's mobile phone bill until the user texts, for example, the word "STOP" to terminate the service.[citation needed]
Short codes and service identifiers (prefix)[edit]
Short codes are often associated with automated services. An automated program can handle the response and typically requires the sender to start the message with a command word or prefix. The service then responds to the command appropriately.[citation needed]
In ads or in other printed material where a provider has to provide both a prefix and the short code number, the advertisement will typically follow this format:[citation needed]
- Example 1 - Long version: Text Football to 72404 for latest football news.
- Example 2 - Short version: football@72404
Regional differences[edit]
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Short Codes are five digits in length and start with 5, also are known as short codes for value added service.
Short codes are six or eight digits in length, starting with the prefix "19" followed by an additional four or six digits and two. Communications Alliance Ltd and WMC Global are responsible for governing premium and standard rate short codes in Australia. Transactional and Subscription services require a double sms MO opt-in or Web based opt-in with an MO reply.
Codes are five digits in length. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) issues and controls short codes in Bangladesh.
Codes are four digits in length.
Codes are three digits in length.
Codes are five digits in length.
Short Codes are four digits in length and start with 1.
Canadian Common Short Codes can be five or six digits long. Common Short Codes beginning with a leading '4' are reserved for private use by wireless network operators. Four-digit Common Short Codes are not permitted due to handset incompatibilities. Short code-based messages vary between zero-rated (paid for by campaign), standard rate (user is responsible for standard carrier charges), and premium rate (varies, C$1-10). Canadian Short codes are governed by the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association.[2]
Codes are three and four digits in length.
- Czech Republic
- Messages sent to/from these short codes are known as Premium Rate SMS. Codes are seven digits in length for MO and five (not billed) or eight (billed) for MT direction, starting with nine, while two or three (depending on billing type=MO/MT) trailing digits express the price, e.g. SMS sent to 9090930 is billed for Kč30. Leading three digits are purpose type prefixes (908 for micro payments, 909 for adult content and 900 for everything else), digits at position four and five determines the service provider registered by a network operator. There are also other four digit shortcodes, used by a network operators for service only purposes (operator dependent)
Codes are four digits in length.
Dominican Republic[edit]
Codes are four or five digits in length.
European Union[edit]
Common EU-wide codes start with 11. Examples include: 118xxx - directory services, 116xxx - emergency helplines. This is in addition to the EU-wide emergency number 112.
Codes are four digits in length and start with 8, like 8xxx. Although the telecom sector in Ethiopia is controlled by the government, short code services are outsourced to the private sector. The short codes are used mostly for fundraising, lottery and polling.
Codes are five or more digits in length, usually five or six.
Codes are five digits in length. Starting digits define the cost of the service.
Codes are four or five digits in length.
Codes are five digits in length.
Codes are four or five digits in length.
There are many companies in the Indian market who rent keywords, on a monthly basis, whose characters, on a typical telephone keypad, represent short codes. Short codes are five digits in length and have to start with the digit '5'. The five digits can be extended by three digits further representing three additional characters. Texts sent to these Short Codes are commonly referred to as Premium Rate SMS Messages and cost around Rs 1 to Rs 3 per text depending on the operator as well as the service. Any length of full message can be sent, ranging from 100–500 (some providers only support).
Codes are four digits in length with Rp2000 premium price.
Republic of Ireland[edit]
Short codes are five digits in length, and start with 5. The second digit generally indicates the maximum price, with 0 = completely free, 1 = standard text rate only, 3 = €0.60, and 7 having no maximum. Codes beginning 59 are ostensibly intended for adult services, but few if any of these codes are used.[3]
In Italy short codes have no fixed length, starting from three digits up to five. All short codes that start with the digit "4", are designated by a local telecommunications law for "network services". Widely known short codes are in the 48xxx range, commercial ringtones and mobile stuff download.
Korea, South[edit]
Codes are generally four to six digits in length, however short codes have no fixed length.
In Latvia short codes also have no fixed length, starting from three digits up to five. All 4 digit short codes that start with "118" or 5 digit short codes that start with "1184" are designated to information service providers.
In Lithuania short codes also have no fixed length, starting from three digits up to five. All short codes that start with the digit "1", are designated by a local telecommunications law for "network services".
Codes are five digits in length, start with "2" or "3", premium pricing from RM0.30 up to 10.00. Codes are MT billed so subscription services are allowed. Upon service description approval by mobile operators, dedicated codes are generally live in 4 weeks, and shared codes after 1 week.
Code are four keys digits in length.
Codes are three to four digits in length. Dialing short codes are generally 3 digits, and reserved for public services. SMS shortcodes are used for a range of purposes, and are four digits.
The Netherlands[edit]
Codes are four digits in length.
Codes are four to five digits in length.
Codes are four and five digits in length.
New Zealand[edit]
Codes are three and four digits in length.
Codes are three and four digits in length. Users are charged PKR 5 - PKR 25 per SMS sent on short codes. Mobile operators charge a setup fee, monthly fee and fee per keyword for short codes. Short codes usage must abide by the rules set by PTA (Pakistan Telecom Authority).
Codes are four digits in length.
Commercial codes are five digit long (1xxxx) and are reachable from both mobile and fixed networks. Calls to short codes - from any type of network - are routed based on the location of the number originating the call; hence, if wishing to reach a particular geographical area, the subscriber might need to prefix the short code with an appropriate area code.
Codes are four digits in length. The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) is a regulatory agency providing an environment that ensures reliable, affordable and viable infrastructure and services in information and communications technology (ICT) accessible to all.[4] Although the NTC is ultimately responsible for the governance of premium and non-premium shortcodes in the Philippines, the NTC's regulatory guidelines are not comprehensive when applied to shortcodes. Instead NTC's guidelines focus more on the carriers and the carrier's technical infrastructure. NTC's website does not contain any specific information with regard to premium SMS or standard rate SMS. There is relevant documentation for Bulk SMS and SPAM control via NTC's "AMENDMENT TO THE RULES AND REGULATIONS ON BROADCAST MESSAGING SERVICES", however again is not directly related to premium SMS.
Codes are four digits in length. The cost of the call or SMS to the short number varies from 1.2 to 300 rubles, depending on the number and the carrier.
Codes are four digits in length.
Codes are five digits in length.
South Africa[edit]
Codes are five digits in length. Short codes will start with either a "3" or "4". For example, 34001 or 42001. Each short code or short code range (a range will generally be 34000 to 34009) are assigned specific tariffs or end user prices (EUP). The tariff charges can range from R0.50 to R30.00 on mobile originated billing and from R0.50 to R50.00 using mobile terminated billing.[5][6] Due to high costs associated with short code rental many providers offer shared shortcodes, which greatly reduces costs.[7]
Codes are four digits in length.
Codes are five digits in length.
Codes are three to five digits in length (most popular codes are three digits long); codes starting with "6" are reserved for adult services.
Codes are usually four digits in length, starting with digits "19".
Codes are four digits in length.
United Kingdom[edit]
Codes are five digits in length, mostly starting with 6 or 8. Codes starting 70 are used by charities.[8] The range of codes may be expanded in time to use other leading digits such as 4. Adult related mobile services must use codes starting with 69 or 89. Mobile operators sometimes use proprietary codes (either with a different leading digit or shorter in length for their own use). SMS short codes are often owned by holding companies[9] who then lease them out to service providers and advertisers to promote SMS services, charitable fundraising and marketing promotions such as news alerts, voting and quizzes. Shortcodes can also be used to deliver additional content or a mobile URL link that when prompted opens the mobile web browser linking the user to a mobile web page. Premium SMS services use codes that can be set to deliver a charge to a participant's mobile phone (in accordance with the service provider's terms of service). Other codes (typically used by advertisers) can be free to receive "your standard rate applies" or free to send and receive. UK Premium rated SMS services are regulated by the Phone-paid Services Authority. All charges and associated terms linked to a premium code should be transparent to the consumer. To stop a subscription based shortcode service text the word 'STOP' to the shortcode number.
United States[edit]
As of May 31, 2006, the standard lengths for inter operable short codes are five and six digits.[10] Carriers use short codes with fewer digits for carrier-specific programs - e.g., "Text 611 to see how many minutes you have remaining on your plan." Codes starting with 1 are not permitted. Common short codes in the U.S. are leased by the program's registry service provider iconectiv, under a deal with the Common Short Code Administration[11] and CTIA.[12] Short codes are leased at a price, with a selected code costing twice that of a random code.[12] Some carriers assign a subset of their carrier-specific codes to third parties.[13]
U.S. Short codes currently work only in the U.S.[14]
"The Short Code Registry[15] maintains a single database of available, reserved and registered short codes. CTIA administers the Common Short Code program, and iconectiv[16] became the official U.S. Short Code Registry service provider in January, 2016. For more information, please see the Short Code Registry's Best Practices[17] and the Short Code Monitoring Handbook[18]."[19][20]
Texting the word "HELP" to a short code will get a terms and conditions message that contains, a Toll-Free phone number or a support email address, one of these required as a minimum, and other information from the leaseholder of the short code (message and data rates apply).[21][22]
Texting the word "STOP", or "END", or "QUIT", or "CANCEL", or "UNSUBSCRIBE" to a short code will get a response notifying users that they have not been blacklisted and providing details on how to be added to the blacklist if they wish, and that you are unsubscribed and no more messages will be sent.[23]
See also[edit]
- ^ Neufeld, Evan. "Common Short Codes: Cracking The Mobile Marketing Code" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- ^ "TXT Splash". Txt.ca. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
- ^ "Commission for Communications Regulation - RegTel Information". Regtel.ie. 2010-07-12. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
- ^ "The National Telecommunications Commission Web Portal". Portal.ntc.gov.ph. Archived from the original on 2011-09-30. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
- ^ "WASPA Website". Waspa.org.za. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
- ^ "sms c.o.d.e.s". Smscode.co.za. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
- ^ "Shared Shortcodes".
- ^ "Short-Codes.com". Short-Codes.com. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
- ^ "A Short Guide to a (UK) Short Code". SMSshortcodes.co.uk. 2009-03-11.
- ^ "Common Short Code Administration Announces Open Registration of 6-Digit Codes". Press Release. CTIA. 2006-05-31.
- ^ "CSCA COMMON SHORT CODE ADMINISTRATION Trademark of CTIA - THE WIRELESS ASSOCIATION - Registration Number 3081719 - Serial Number 78434150 :: Justia Trademarks". trademarks.justia.com. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
- ^ a b Alleven, Monica (2007-04-15). "Decoding Short Codes". WirelessWeek.
- ^ "CTIA Announced New Strategic Partner iconectiv for Common Short Code Registry Services". CTIA – The Wireless Association. 2015-07-30. Retrieved 2019-12-22.
- ^ "Short Code Registry | FAQs". usshortcodes.com. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
- ^ "Short Code Registry | short code campaigns Customer engagement". usshortcodes.com. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
- ^ "Homepage | iconectiv". iconectiv.com. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
- ^ "Short Code Registry | Best Practices short codes marketing campaign". usshortcodes.com. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
- ^ https://www.wmcglobal.com/storage/us_resources/ctia-short-code-monitoring-handbook-current-Short-Code-Monitoring-Handbook-v1.7.pdf
- ^ "Programs". www.ctia.org. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
- ^ "US Resources - WMC Global". www.wmcglobal.com. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
- ^ "Industry standards for US Short Code Terms of Service and Privacy policies". Twilio Support. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
- ^ "Short Code Terms of Service". Retrieved 2020-06-02.
- ^ "Industry standards for U.S. short code HELP and STOP". Twilio Support. Retrieved 2020-06-02.


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8 great budget inns for a night in Big Sur
Sure, we'd all like to stay at the Ventana Inn or Post Ranch Inn, but even the most special of occasions won't allow most of us to drop a month's rent for a night in Big Sur. Fortunately, California's most storied coast is dotted with modest inns that provide comfort, if not luxury.
Some of these places, including the first resorts built in Big Sur, have been tucked into the woods for decades and offer rustic accommodations where your stay will be much like it was for visitors in the 1930s and '40s. (Yes, that means no wireless access in some places, so think digital detox.) None can be described as truly cheap, but they put a Big Sur idyll in range of the average traveler's budget. And they drop you in the midst of that famous scenery that guests of Ventana or Post Ranch admire from their lofty heights.
From north to south, beginning 24 miles from Carmel and ending 27 miles from Hearst Castle:
Big Sur's first hotel and restaurant, built on the banks of the Big Sur River by one of the area's original homesteaders, celebrates its 80th anniversary this year. This is a family-oriented resort, with a river-view restaurant, general store and burrito bar, and outdoor pool. A motel-style building has 20 contemporary rooms, and the main lodge offers four two-room Riverside Suites, which just got a refresh. From spring to fall, the resort hosts jazz, zydeco and world music performances and barbecue on Sunday afternoons.
46840 Highway 1 at Pheneger Creek, (831) 667-2700. From $130.
Another of Big Sur's earliest resorts, and also family-oriented, this was a toll station when Highway 1 construction was completed in 1938. It lays claim to the only cabins standing on the banks of the Big Sur River, detached wood-paneled units with well-equipped full kitchens and private decks overlooking the water. The owners recently added numerous flowering plants, which are producing a riot of color throughout the grounds right now. The restaurant's breakfast menu draws raves from satisfied guests.
47047 Highway 1, (831) 667-2242. From $105.
Considered shockingly modern when it was built in 1957, this collection of lodge rooms and cabins in Big Sur's "sun belt" has been thoroughly updated with natural and recycled materials. The resulting boutique hotel made Travel+Leisure's list of World's Most Romantic Hotels in 2011. Except for some exposed brick walls that have been cleanly painted over, all the rusticity is outdoors; interiors have a bright 1950s retro feel. Sound-proofing was recently beefed up in the Adobe Motor Lodge, where the least expensive rooms are, and the Big Sur Roadhouse was renovated and opened last summer.
47080 Highway 1, (831) 667-2105). From $225.
Known as a riverside campground with the friendliest tavern in Big Sur ever since it opened in 1932, adjacent to what is now Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park, Fernwood added modern one-bedroom cabins in 2012. Tiny but well-equipped, they have fully equipped kitchens, dining room tables, bathrooms with tub and shower, and two bunk beds. Guests enjoy the outdoors experience without having to pitch a tent, and the tavern is still a popular watering hole that usually hosts live music on Saturday nights. For a more rustic experience without resorting to sleeping on the ground, less expensive tent cabins are also available.
47200 Highway 1, (831) 667-2422. From $205 for cabins, $80 for tent cabins.
In Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park, the lodge offers basic motel-style lodging in a gorgeous setting with access to myriad trails throughout the park. Standard rooms have a deck and views of mountains and trees; family rooms can sleep up to six people. For a premium, you can get rooms with wood-burning fireplaces, kitchenettes or both. The property includes a swimming pool, gift shop and general store.
47225 Highway 1, (831) 667-3100. From $19.
Definitely a love-it-or-hate-it kind of place, Deetjen's is a National Register historic property that preserves its creaks and gaps in the doors along with the "Big Sur style" architecture, a descendant of the architecture of Helmuth "Grandpa" Deetjen's native Norway. The antique-filled rooms were built from the 1930s to the 1960s, and each possesses its own personality. They haven't changed much save for the luxurious (and some would say incongruous) 100 percent linen bedclothes, but even those who find it a bit too rustic revel in the secluded setting at the edge of a redwood forest. The lush gardens and award-winning restaurant are the other top selling points.
48865 Highway 1, (831) 667-2377. From $105 shared bath, $160 private bath.
This southern Big Sur lodge is probably the best place to get a Ventana Inn-type view at a price within reach of the average worker bee. Built into a cliff on a finger of the Santa Lucia Mountains pushing out to sea, it offers seemingly endless vistas. The lodge is still in the family that built it in the 1930s (cabins seven through 10 are the originals). With just 10 rooms, it still exudes that old-time Big Sur atmosphere. Rooms are basic but updated; most recently they have been leveled, re-roofed and painted. The dining room was renovated this year as well. A new gift shop and arts and crafts gallery is scheduled to open this summer.
62400 Highway 1, (831) 688-4884. From $195 (April to October; as low as $150 in winter)
Set on high ground overlooking the Pacific, this highly eco-conscious resort is another place for panoramic views. Though it's also a campground — its 16 yurts are the very definition of "glamping." Comforts of a cabin meld with the exposure to nature usually reserved for tent campers, while a "spydome" literally allows occupants to sleep under the stars. The property also offers a heated ocean-view pool and hot tub, a gift shop and convenience store, a lodge and restaurant, and an outdoor sushi bar. This year, Treebones has new stone benches and retaining walls in the garden.
71895 Highway 1, (805) 927-2390. From $255. Closed the first two weeks of December.

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A DVB-T demodulator from Afatech. This is the company's second generation COFDM demodulator, and is the successor to the AF9005.
This chip is the main USB control/demux in some cheap DVB-T USB devices currently available, such as:
- The WandTV
- The Elements High Definition DVB-T Receiver Model no DK-5203.
- Dongles with USB ID 15a4:9016 (or 15a4:9015 ?), such as the A-Link DTU (m)
http://linuxtv.org/hg/~anttip/af9015/ (Supported tuners are: MT2060, MT2061 and QT1010.)
Vendor driver
There's a reportedly working vendor-written driver available from http://af.zsolttech.com/ (See also http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/127976/#1029411 and http://marc.info/?l=linux-dvb&m=119437953031536&w=2 and http://marc.info/?l=linux-dvb&m=119437137719022&w=2 )
I confirm that the driver from http://af.zsolttech.com/ works fine for Geniatech T328B in x86_64 linux (I use 184.108.40.206 SMP) when you patch the file MT2060M.h in the following way: replace
typedef unsigned long UData_t;
typedef unsigned int UData_t;
Then compile, install, modprobe dvb_usb_af9015 and you are finished. Remote control does not work for me. Anybody knows how to do this?
Driver Development Log
I'm currently writing a driver for this chip, and as there's not much around in terms of a howto on this subject, I thought it might be worth documenting the process.
I've got a head start in that there is an earlier chip from Afatech, the AF9005, for which drivers were recently written/developed. I've got the driver source code for that chip along with the documentation for that and my chip, so I'm going to be working on modifying the AF9005 drivers to work with the AF9015. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post the documentations here, I'll find out and if so a link will be posted.
To start with, there are some great Linux USB tutorials on Linux Journal:
- start here: How to Write a Linux USB Device Driver
- then here: Writing a Simple USB Driver
- Hot Plug
- and then: Snooping the USB Data Stream
Also get the source for V4L-DVB:
You will find the usb drivers are in ./v4l-dvb/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb. Have a bit of a browse through them while you're reading through the first article above, get a feel for how the driver is put together. (There is a procedure described in http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1067326).


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Giorgio: That's Alpha Wave Movement's track "Rubicon" from The Regions Between. Love that piece. Has a definite cinematic feel, a sort of 70s-romance tinge to it. That CD is a nice collection of unreleased work from AWM (Gregory Kyryluk). Worth finding and grabbing. It's here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/alphawave5 (Hope it's okay to post that link here....)Thanks for listening!
You'll hear me say it enough during the 'cast, but I want to thank you for listening. While the feedback's been minimal, the growing numbers of subscribers and the number of downloads, just shy of averaging 100 per episode as of this writing, tell me that the response is out there and it's good. So I'll just keep going. And I hope you'll be coming along.


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What are some great blogosphere/foodie-tested recipes?
I had a lot of success with the Rick Bayless Enchiladas Especiales Tacuba Style recipe from a while back, based a lot off of what SE-ers told me. I also had wild success with the NYTimes Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe as well (involving several people I rarely talk to hunting me down for the recipe, and inappropriate sounds being made while cookies were being ingested...)
So I want to know, what are some recipes that are extensively tested out by the blogosphere? I find looking at the photos of what a lot of people have tried, their various methods and approaches really helpful. I also trust (perhaps misplacedly so?) regular bloggers more than the average reviewer on allrecipes.com. Bloggers often note what went wrong, what they did differently from the original, ingredient brands, and tips. It's just very useful information that a short blurb of a review might not have - and they almost never have pictures on allrecipes (or other recipe sites) connecting the review with the recipe.
So...any thing that has caught like wildfire through blogging sites recently? Or in the past? I read SE and TheKitchn, but my lurking waxes and wanes, and I don't follow any blogs religiously. I assume some segment of population at SE does, and has a better finger on the pulse than I do.
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Amarilla's daughter Grace gave birth to Leola Vivian on the 12th of May 1902 in the county of Itasca. It was later decided that she was born in Grand Rapids but I am not totally convinced that it was Grand Rapids. The delayed birth certificate of my Aunt Leola Vivian was done in 1956 and even though her Uncle Alex, brother to Ronald her father, gave testimony, I am still not sure they lived in Grand Rapids back then.
Leola Vivian was her formal name but she usually went by Vivian or Vivi. I wrote about her on my other blog: The Man Who Lived Airplanes. That blog is about her baby brother Keith and the paternal side of the family on their father's side. Starting with the post dated June 5, 2010, Darling Vivian you will find more details and more pictures of Vivian as she was growing up. Later I post about her school activities, teaching and marriage and maybe a little bit more about her life in future posts.
Vivian was a beautiful little girl. Here is one of the photos featured on the blog mentioned above.
Grace, her mother filled out a Baby Book. I featured that in the post dated "Vivian's Baby Book!" June 16, 2010. As far as I know it is the only baby book she did for her children. Amarilla is mentioned as being a witness to Vivian's baby firsts. She is noted as giving her gifts.
Here is the link to The Man Who Lived Airplanes: http://macdonellfamily.wordpress.com/


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Monday, July 27, 2009
Movin' On Up
I finally got a large-format scanner. No more stitching 3 scans together in Photoshop for me, no siree. To celebrate, I've scanned in a page from my big sketch book (which is actually still a little too big). These Doc Ock sketches are from 2004.
For those of you who have ever contemplated the jump (and it is a big one), I got the Epson GT-20000. So far, so good.
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So Doc Ock is a Nike fan then, eh?ReplyDelete
Awesome! They really do make it hard to go back to a regular-sized scanner, don't they?ReplyDelete
I got a mustek scanner about 3 years back...unfortunately, the things don't have any sort of driver support or anything like that since they were as old as dirt when I got one...
Apparently, James. I don't recall ever getting paid for that product placement. Maybe I should make some calls.ReplyDelete
Drew, I had considered several different brands, including Mustek, but ultimately went with Epson because I trust the brand. I had eyed this particular model before, but they didn't support Macs at the time.
You definitely made a smart choice over Mustek. They're alright, but I imagine the Epson handles colors much better than the Mustek does (handles lineart fine though, but tends to wash out colors every now and then...)ReplyDelete
Plus, I'm sure you'll have driver support for quite awhile, heh.
My god.. that scanner is sexy.ReplyDelete
I agree, Eric. I agree.ReplyDelete


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Feb. 11, 2013
Natalie Wood and Joshua Swalls: Foul play, or splendid accidents?
Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner
Without a doubt, this glamorous woman's fatal midnight plummet from the deck of The Splendour into the cool ocean waters off Catalina Island in 1981 has got to be the most high profile "accidental drowning" on record.
In the hours preceding her watery demise, she was overheard loudly quarreling with an enraged and jealous husband. They had been at this all day, in fact. All evening they'd been drinking.
Married, divorced, and remarried for a second try, the two were known to have a volatile relationship, with more than their fair share of public and private disagreements, be they drunk or sober. But this argument was different. The worst one yet.
When she drowned, she had prominent contusions in "no particular pattern" all over the front and back of her body. Some of these were fresh injuries, said to have been obtained as she frantically grappled with a small, wooden dinghy secured to the side of the yacht. Some she'd received just days before plunging to her death.
She had a variety of unexplained abrasions, too: On her flawless face, on her lovely hands, on her shapely thighs and calves.
And, as demonstrated by her casual attire on the morning would-be rescuers fished her bruised body from the ocean—in a flannel nightgown, cotton socks, no lifejacket—she had clearly not entered the water voluntarily.
Yet it still took the loved ones of celebrated actress Natalie Wood over three decades to prove that her saltwater drowning was more than a little suspicious.
A perfect crime, re-evaluated
It was said to have been foretold by a family member that she would someday lose her life "in dark water," and on November 28, 1981, during an escalating argument with a husband on the rampage, die in dark water she did.
His famous wife had been lost at sea for practically two hours when Robert Wagner finally decided to report that Natalie Wood had gone missing from his boat. By that time she was surely dead, as the emergency personnel who first responded to his SOS call strongly suspected. Consequently, they found Wagner's delay peculiar and perplexing.
The actor's answer when questioned about it told them all they needed to know. "I thought she was off on another boat screwing around," a sweaty, anxious, and inebriated Wagner blurted, "because that's the kind of woman she is."
So there were already whispers of abuse and foul play even before Wood's beaten corpse was retrieved from the ocean a few hours later. Still, the coroner's office of Los Angeles County, where the deceased was immediately transported for autopsy, didn't hesitate to pronounce her drowning death an accident. Thereafter, these officials' final determination, signed, sealed and certified, would remain undisturbed for 31 consecutive years. Until, in the summer of 2012, they changed their minds at last:
AUTOPSY SUPPLEMENTAL #81-15167 ‒ WAGNER, NATALIE / A.K.A. WOOD, NATALIE: "The right forearm showed a 4 inch x 1 inch diffuse bruising on the lateral aspect and few bruises on back of hand. The left wrist showed a slight deformity in the lateral condyle of the ulna and there was also a superficial fresh bruise in this area 1/2 inch in diameter. There were multiple small 1/2 to 1 inch fresh bruises in the left anterior lateral thigh. There was a two inch recent bruise to the left knee. There were recent bruises to the right upper leg in the area and right ankle. The anterior neck showed a small scratch. There was also superficial abrasion in left forehead, left brow and left upper cheek area with an upward direction. There was white froth in the nasal oral area. There were recent bruises to the back of the left thigh. A few day old bruises were on the back of the right thigh and knee, but there were fresh bruises and scratches to the posterior leg…There are conflicting statements as to when the decedent went missing from the boat and whether there were verbal arguments between the decedent and her husband…This Examiner is unable to exclude non-accidental mechanism causing these injuries." — Dr. Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, Chief Medical Examiner and Coroner for the county of Los Angeles, California - 6/15/12
Semi-perfect crimes, reevaluated
Drowning is a fast and efficient way to end a life, but not usually the weapon of choice for murderers. Possibly because they'd have to get wet themselves to do it right.
Nonetheless, there are some people who adamantly believe a gang of serial killers has been roaming the United States and selecting college age males for death by drowning. Luring an unsuspecting victim to the waterfront, preferably one who's publicly intoxicated, and then drowning them when nobody's looking is "the perfect crime" such theorists claim. Water washes away all the evidence.
They've even dubbed these mysterious marauders of young men "The Smiley Face Killers" since this alleged band of evildoers has also been rumored to leave gloating graffiti at their crime scenes.
Ominous phrases, song lyrics, initials, and of course smiley faces, sometimes with horns drawn on them, these allegedly are the markings Smiley boldly leaves behind on nearby trees and walls and boulders and docks, after they've drowned someone…but not always.
To be sure, ever since 1997 when 21-year-old Patrick McNeill vanished from New York City and his badly decomposed corpse was found in the East River several weeks later, there have been hundreds of documented incidences of similar disappearances and drownings in America's northland. Moreover, just as diehard believers in the Smiley Face murder theory are claiming, there is by now a well established victimology of young men meeting such a tragic end.
Police are never able to solve this vexing syndrome, even if they try, which they usually don't, so conspiracists think they can.
Every compelling conspiracy theory that goes viral will invariably have its naysayers and critics though, and chief among those who periodically strive to debunk the Smiley Face one is the FBI, the Center for Homicide Research, a handful of expert criminologists and university professors, and swarms of local, outraged law enforcement agencies that feel self-conscious about clusters of young men drowning in their jurisdictions and don't want a lot of attention drawn to the situation.
It isn't, after all, an especially appealing feature of any municipality to have youths jumping in droves into icy rivers, lakes, ponds, and streams and perishing, but all of these authorities state, in no uncertain terms, that water recreational deaths really aren't that rare in the scheme of things.
More males drown while swimming and boating than females do anyway.
Serial killers do not drown their victims, they also add, so therefore these young men are simply drinking too much and, just as poor, drunken Natalie Wood did decades ago, they're somehow staggering into water and accidentally drowning.
It's a flimsy argument at best, and since it never fixes the problem opponents always cry foul in response to it. They counter with the obvious: that these guys aren't going swimming or boating in the wintertime, that most are barely over the legal limit for operating a motor vehicle, that only certain types of men are disappearing and drowning, and that Natalie Wood's death was hardly an accident.
Totally valid objections, each and every one of those. Except it's true that intentional drowning does not fit the motif of serial killers, for the very simple reason that it's much too speedy and bloodless a death to satisfy their perverse yearnings. These are deeply twisted creatures, and they seek power and pleasure exclusively through sexual assault, torture, brutal murder, and dismemberment. None of which is typically evidenced on the bodies of drowned men.
As well, even the most "organized" brand of psychopathic killer is, by virtue of profound mental disorder, incapable of teaming with others, let alone his own ilk, so the notion of a group of them somehow evading capture for more than 15 years, while fleetingly amusing to envision, is also rather specious.
Serial killings versus serial killers
Whether one is a police detective, a medical examiner, a professional private eye or a citizen sleuth, the sharpest tool anyone has for dissection and analysis will always be Occam's Razor, a tried and true principle which posits that the simplest hypothesis is most likely to be the correct one. Or, as Einstein so eloquently summed up in decades past, "Everything should be kept as simple as possible, but no simpler."
This is the only sensible approach to investigating because, otherwise, with every assumption that is made about a thing another possibility for error is introduced into the equation, increasing the probability that a theory is wrong…
The theorizing of the public and police concerning missing/drowned men are at extreme odds with each other, producing a stalemate. These two entrenched beliefs will always be irreconcilable because one is constructed on a plethora of odd assumptions and the other is overly simplistic.
Sadly, this has left the reasonable and important question as to why so many young males are now ending up dead in the water unanswered. But, while the drownings are most likely not due to a serial killing gang being at large in the region, their frequency shows they are by no means accidental, either.
In fact, stripped of all rhetoric and assorted red herrings, the evidentiary facts that have thus far accumulated in The Case Of the Drowning Men reveal the vast majority of victims were last seen being accosted by bouncers and/or cops only minutes before vanishing. A sharp razor is hardly necessary then to peel away such a thinly veiled mystery and see that their subsequent deaths are, instead, due to a pattern of excessive force. Inglorious and shameful as that truly is.
It's no secret that cops and bouncers are valued for their skilled aggressiveness, and that far too often such aggression erupts into acts of brutality. To address this chronic problem, technology for subduing people in "nonlethal" ways was invented, and over the past two decades such handheld devices have become so popular and affordable that even average citizens can purchase them now without too much difficulty or even background checks.
Unfortunately though, just like mercilessly pummeling a young man until he's rendered unconscious, employing a nonlethal weapon against him, such as a stun-gun or taser, can also lead to sudden death or a deathlike coma, especially if used improperly or to excess. Technically, this could be deemed an accidental consequence, yes, but it's clearly not one directly caused by inebriation.
When in the process of ejecting a young man from a bar and/or arresting him in this manner he does inadvertently die from being roughed up or repeatedly stunned, it's only then and there that a nearby river, lake, stream or pond presents itself as the ideal solution to the gruesomely unexpected.
The motive for such devious thinking is obvious: while disposal and cover up is an unpleasant business, it's better than facing community backlash and legal ramifications that result from a wrongful death.
Wrongful death and devious thinking
As with Natalie Wood's perilous tumble of convenience, pushing the dead or mortally injured over the railing of a ship positioned miles away from land, or else standing at the shoreline and heaving them on the count of three into a body of freshwater, is a crime after the fact. A desperate, kneejerk attempt by the felonious to hide and disguise the original offense.
And, like Wood, somebody fairly intoxicated, who's only been knocked unconscious or is comatose, could still "naturally" drown once fully submerged, displaying all the usual drowning symptoms when the bodies resurface again: saturated lungs, foam at the mouth, high levels of magnesium and chloride distributed unevenly in the left and right chambers of the heart, volumes of watery fluid in the stomach and diluted blood.
For that matter, anyone who's ever studied police forensics 101 knows that even a stone-cold cadaver can manage to draw some water into its air passages, if it soaks long enough.
When and if assault victims ditched in this underhanded manner are ever recovered, any telltale contusions and lacerations that may still be visible can easily be explained away as well—many bouncers are actually off-duty cops moonlighting as security for pubs and clubs, and every police department enjoys a cozy relationship with the local coroner's office.
That means it doesn't take a pre-planned, sophisticated plot to pull off an accidental drowning whenever one becomes necessary, nor to accomplish the misdeed time and time again without getting caught. A few confidential phone calls is all it would require.
This scheme will make manufactured drowning deaths seem to qualify as perfect crimes per se, but the success of the heartless ruse is dependant entirely on halfhearted investigations.
Fame and infamy
Thanks to Hollywood, the very machine that made Natalie Wood and her embroiled former husband Robert Wagner superstars, serial killers too have become celebrities. As a result, the public today is unabashedly enamored with such malevolent personalities, reimagining them as principled and omnipotent slayers, instead of the out-of-control sadists and psychos that they really are.
The present-day enthrallment with such monsters, promoted by blockbuster films like Silence of Lambs and Hannibal that grossly misrepresent these antisocial predators, has also led to widespread fallacies about them, too. Particularly as it relates to their prevalence.
In reality, serial killers are but a tiny fraction of the criminal population, and tortuous death at the hands of such deranged strangers only accounts for slightly less than one percent of all the murders committed annually. Whereas, in approximately 85 percent of all other homicides committed within this same time span, the victims were acquainted with their attackers. Many even related to them, either by blood or through marriage.
Likewise, despite the idea of a serial drowning gang being a premise worthy of the big screen, most if not all missing-found-drowned males were in fact last observed involved in disputes or physical altercations. So it's fair to conclude they were already dead or on the brink of dying when their bodies were surreptitiously placed in water. The drowning events, therefore, were not the real cause or manner of their deaths, but rather the violence that preceded them.
Fists, firearms or whatever, these kind of regular run-of-the-mill "crimes of passion," whether spontaneous or hastily premeditated, in clear view or covered up, are usually isolated acts of extreme aggression, occurring primarily in the victims' residences and, not infrequently, in public gathering places like bars and discotheques.
Admittedly, the odd serial slaying now and then by a coldblooded psychotic may be more luridly fascinating for some, but the truth is it's plain old passion, manifested in the form of a sudden blind and murderous rage, that is the source of nearly all homicides worldwide. Almost every single murder takes place in the heat of the moment, during some sort of impromptu confrontation between two or more average citizens which rapidly gets out of hand.
An angry friend or relative, a jilted, cheated lover, a bouncer annoyed with a boisterous patron, a cop on the beat resorting to excessive force or lethal tasering, a husband feeling cuckolded and hell-bent on revenge…forget about serial killers, these are society's homicidal maniacs. Normal people experiencing heightened emotions that set the stage for runaway violence which can, and often does, result in unintended deaths.
Universally, any indirect murder of this nature is classified as manslaughter, but, regardless that an assault turning deadly may indeed have been unanticipated, if the killing wasn't done in self-defense it can still carry a pretty hefty prison sentence.
Especially when the perpetrator endeavors to conceal his crime by secretly disposing of the victim…
Accidentally on purpose
Apart from the possibility that someone may have been bribed or even threatened back in 1981, it's not impossible that it was solely due to the fame of the people present on the night Natalie Wood drowned which served to influence the erroneous ruling that her death was purely an accident.
The testimonies of Wood's illustrious and equally drunken companions on that evening, Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken, were always in glaring contradiction, so who knows if LA County's former coroner wasn't a bit star-struck in deliberately choosing to disregard other qualifying factors, too. Namely, the couple's protracted squabbling on deck and below, the inordinate delay by Wagner in reporting his spouse missing, the ugly remarks he made about her to first responders, and indications of assault on her body when it was finally recovered a short distance from his yacht.
The hired skipper of The Splendour at the time has since also described a long and vicious argument Wagner had with Wood in their cabin and on deck prior to her falling overboard, as well as an elaborate cover-up of the same by the actor and his representatives in the days, weeks and months following her death.
Considering the actress had multiple, days-old bruising when she disappeared and drowned, the captain's tale of a final and fatal altercation between the unhappy twosome is therefore a credible story. One that challenges the iconic leading man's historical version of exactly how his 43-year-old, water-phobic wife entered the Pacific Ocean, and which, in light of the new inquest into the actual circumstances of her drowning and injuries, also explains why Robert Wagner is steadfastly refusing to cooperate with investigators.
Some fans and sympathizers speculate that Wagner, now in his 80s, has clammed up only on the good advice of his lawyers. He's a major celebrity, a veritable household name, they argue, and his silence is not an admission of guilt but rather to protect his career, his family and his legacy.
True or false motivations, only those conducting the fact-finding mission at this stage in the renewed inquest will be able one day to tell us. However, be he a famous man or just an infamous rogue in hiding, Wagner's stonewalling should be viewed no differently than any other prime suspect attempting to dodge a worrisome police probe, or, when made to answer under oath, outright lying or taking the Fifth to avoid self-incrimination. Acting belligerent or being uncooperative speaks for itself.
Not known
In his own brief but comparatively ordinary existence, 22-year-old Joshua Aaron Swalls, who somehow disappeared and "accidentally drowned" while visiting Indianapolis in November 2012, had probably never even heard of the late, great Natalie Wood. Nor does it seem very likely that he'd ever watched any of her once-groundbreaking movies either. His was a different era, one which came to an end for him much too soon.
Distanced by decades and thousands of miles, not to mention celebrity status, Joshua Swalls's accident and Natalie Wood's are obviously two distinctly unique events that happened to two distinctly unique individuals. Viewing their drowning deaths in terms of basic forensics, these are the other notable differences between them:
1. With a blood/alcohol concentration of 0.14, Natalie Wood was somewhat intoxicated when she drowned, and Joshua Swalls was not.
2. Wood died in saltwater off the coast of California; Swalls in the freshwater of a small, Indiana retention pond.
3. Wood's body was found within only hours of dying and well before rigormortis had fully set in; Swalls's decomposing corpse wasn't discovered until three weeks after he'd vanished.
4. Wood was a middle-aged female of petite stature; Swalls was tall, athletic and svelte, and had only just reached manhood.
Yet these two November drown victims have uncanny similarities in their cases that are impossible to ignore: Both went missing under extremely suspicious circumstances, with key witnesses to their disappearances and drownings issuing contradictory statements to investigators. Both suffered virtually identical injuries prior to dying which were inconsistent with those derived in standard drowning events. Both were clad in the type of clothing that clearly implied they had not planned on going swimming and therefore hadn't entered the water voluntarily.
And both of their cases were speedily closed by authorities as accidental, with no signs of foul play involved in either of them.
Still waters
"The deep blue sea" is, of course, very deep. But not necessarily peaceful. Still, it's not the type of body of water where a drown victim, once fully immersed, will be dragged across jagged rocks or other underwater obstacles. An action that commonly occurs in narrower, fast-flowing rivers and creeks and which contributes to most postmortem injuries, particularly to the face and hands.
By contrast, a pond, whether manmade or natural, tends to be quite shallow. But even if spring-fed, its waters are relatively calm as well. Therefore a drown victim, upon death, will, gently sink to the pond's silty bottom and then, when gases from putrefaction have filled their corpse to maximum capacity, lurch like a helium balloon to the surface once more.
Water and air temperature determines how quickly a cadaver does that, but in the time between these inevitable events—sinking, rotting, and ascending—those in ponds and wide open bodies of seawater will usually sustain no further injuries after death and during decomposition, unless nibbled away at by marine animals.
Bodies sunken in a river or creek naturally sustain more damages because if the currents are swift enough corpses can be tossed against submerged objects and dragged along stones in a riverbed. Once refloat finally occurs, they can then travel on the water's surface for several miles before they're sighted by anyone. As they're carried along like that, they can also collide with docks, barriers and piers, become ensnared by tree limbs or other floating debris, and even get mangled by the propeller blades of a passing craft.
However, any dedicated examiner conducting a thorough evaluation of such wounds can discern the difference between the ones which occurred after a victim had expired and those inflicted while they were still alive.
Decedent Joshua Swalls was delivered to the morgue for autopsy with pronounced "contusions of the right forehead and eyebrow, bridge of nose, and right zygomatic arch in the shape of a reverse C, continuous." He also had an "abrasion of tip of nose" and additional "abraded contusions to kneecaps bilateral, and to shins, multiple bilateral, with one underlying a tear in the left pants leg."
All of these injuries were judged by the medical examiner to have been received before or at the time he died, not after.
Given the way both Wood and Swalls presented at autopsy then, each clothed in non-swimming apparel and plainly beaten, the only nagging question left for authorities to answer was just how these two black-and-blue people had entered the water where they drowned and who it was that had previously assaulted them, since neither an ocean nor a pond could have possibly caused all their injuries.
Ascertaining the true sequence of events which ultimately led to a victim entering a body of water and then drowning in it is part of any complete forensic analysis, and a meticulous inquiry by a coroner is demanded as a matter of law in all premature deaths.
Everyone can agree that, whether perfect people or fundamentally flawed, dying at age 22 or age 43 is much too young to be considered natural. And anytime someone dies in water when not even engaged in any water-recreational activities should additionally raise eyebrows.
In each of these troubling cases police and medical examiners could also tell that the odds of either battered victim diving into that water on their own volition were fairly slim: Joshua Swalls wasn't drunk, wasn't on drugs, wasn't mentally defective, and wasn't going to take a quick dip in frigid weather; and Natalie Wood, who frankly didn't know how to swim because of an intense dread of water, had no history of ever being reckless with her life or suicidal.
On the other hand, she was known to be in a dragged-out domestic dispute with a spouse on a drunken tirade only moments before she "accidentally" fell into the Pacific Ocean. A man seeing red that night because he thought Wood and Walken were having an affair, and who's last words to his doomed wife were purported to have been "get off my f—cking boat."
It took the people who cared about her more than 30 years to achieve, but at last the dubious ruling on Natalie Wood's manner of death has been overturned and the long overdue investigation into the likelihood of homicide fully launched. But Joshua Swalls's drowning is every bit as questionable as hers is, and still it continues to be listed as an accident.
Will his loved ones have to wait three decades for justice, too?
Eponymous Rox is the author of The Case Of The Drowning Men and Hunting Smiley


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A girl, Brierley Howard, has been reunited with her pet dog, Iggy, almost five years after it vanished. The 12 year-old was overjoyed when she was told that Iggy the labrador had turned up 130 miles away.Iggy was an 18-month-old puppy when he disappeared in August 2005. Brierley and her brother Jasper, now 14, were devastated. Their mum and dad Karen and Eric believed he had been stolen.
But the family, from Balladen, in Rawtenstall, Lancs, are celebrating after Iggy was spotted wandering the streets in Leicester and taken to a vet.The vet discovered Iggy was fitted with a microchip and he has now been reunited with Brierley and her family.


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How to have an epic time at your favorite music festival
Guest Post By Courtney Cummings
When attending a music festival, there are a lot of decisions that need to be made in order to guarantee that you have an epic time. It's not as simple as buying your over priced ticket and finding a designated driver to make sure the weekend ends safely. You need to plan plan plan ahead. Here are a few tips from a music loving, hipster avoiding festival veteran.
1) Do not go with people you don't LOVE. This seems like it would be an obvious tip, but you must make the distinction between the friends you like to hang out with and those who you can actually tolerate for three inseparable days. Nothing is worse than being stuck to a kid that can't handle the heat, has claustrophobia or is just way too high maintenance. Look for people who are drawn to the same bands and don't mind taking a backseat to the bands on stage.
2) Drink TONS of water. Nothing is worse than being "that guy" who goes to the hospital because they didn't drink enough water. When attending a festival in the heat, you are going to get dehydrated. Nothing good comes out of that. So just remember that you would rather be listening to music than have an IV strapped to your arm with some unattractive nurse at your side. Water is free.
3) Don't let people know you're just looking to party. Music lovers plan their entire year around music festivals. After it is over, they spend weeks on end reliving the experience and wishing that they could wake up from this dream that is reality. If you are just looking to get drunk with your friends and don't really care about the music, do not let anyone figure it out. People will hate you, and there is no way you will achieve that coveted first row spot. Remembering the amazing acts before your eyes is a must!
4) Wear something you're comfortable in. Too many people go to these shindigs as if they are walking the red carpet. Yes, it is awesome to look like an over-styled hippie but not today folks. It is important to take into consideration that there will be mud, sweaty people and ketchup that falls from your hot dog. Make sure to be happy with your look, but keep the designer bags at home.
5) Look up bands you don't know. It's the best feeling in the world going to a live show and knowing every word to every song. Let's get real. This is rare for many people going to a massive festival. Familiarize yourself with the artists that strike your fancy. It is always so much better that way. Also, get to know the smaller up and comers. Festivals serve as an excellent opportunity for small bands to get exposure. If you check them out early, you'll be able to tell everyone that you knew of them even before they made it big.
6) Do something you won't regret. Going to one of these large events is one of the best things you will ever do. It is the ultimate celebration of youth and freedom. Embrace it. Don't be afraid to jump a fence or make the muddy grounds your personal slip-n-slide. The festival security is nearly nonexistent. In ten years, you will not kick yourself in the butt for crowd surfing or meeting your favorite band. Take advantage of this opportunity to be in the moment.


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Guest post by Career Trainer and Certified Professional Resume Writer Bob McIntosh.
I tell jobseekers in all my workshops that research is key to their job search. I'm being redundant, but it's true and worth repeating. Whether you're writing a résumé or cover letter, or preparing for an interview or a networking event, the time you put into research is a tremendous return on investment. This time well spent precedes submitting your résumé and being interviewed for positions advertised or not.
Let's look at the five steps you must take before you earn a seat at mid-court, the interview.
Step One
Candace Barr of Strategic Executive Connections writes that discovering which companies are growing the fastest is the start of the job search. "The very first step in your career transition, or executive job search should be research. So many people skip over this step quickly and do not take the time to really dig deep, consider their skill set as well as economic conditions when choosing target companies."
An excellent source of the Fastest Growing Companies is the Inc 5000 list. Here you can find a list of 5,000 companies that showed the fastest growth rate in 2010. This would be a great place to start your research, as Candace Barr suggests.
Step Two
Once you've located the companies you'd like to researched and decided which companies are the ones for which you would like to work, you should dedicate a great deal of your computer time visiting their websites.
Study what's happening at your chosen companies. Read pages on their products or services, their press releases (if it's a public company), biographies of the companies' principals, and any other information that will increase your knowledge of said companies. Your goal is to eventually make contact and meet with people at your target companies, so it makes sense to know about the companies before you engage in conversation. This research will also help when composing your résumé and cover letter and, of course, it will come into play at the interview.
Step Three
If you don't have familiar contacts at your favorite companies, you'll have to identify new potential contacts. You might be successful ferreting them out by calling reception, but chances are you'll have more success by utilizing LinkedIn's Companies feature. This feature of LinkedIn's is something my jobseekers have used to successfully make contact with people at their desired companies. Again, research is key in identifying the proper people with whom to speak.
Most likely you'll have first degree contacts that know the people you'd like to contact—contacts who could send an introduction to someone in the company. These contacts could include hiring managers, Human Resources, and directors of departments. If, on the other hand, you have a first degree contact at a company, she could initiate personal correspondence with the appropriate persons.
Step Four
Begin initial contact with those who you've identified as viable contacts. Your job is to become known to your desired companies. Will you be as well known as internal candidates? Probably not, but you'll be better known than the schmucks who apply cold for the advertised positions—the 20% of the jobs that thousands of other people are applying for. Let's face it; going through the process of applying for jobs on the major job boards is like being one of many casting your fishing line into a pool where one job exists. Instead spend your time on researching the companies so you'll have illuminating questions to ask.
So, how do you draw the attention of potential employers?
■ Send your résumé directly to someone you've contacted at the company and ask that it be considered or passed on to other companies. The risk in doing this is to be considered presumptuous. As well, your résumé will most likely be generic and unable to address the employer's immediate needs.
■ Contact someone via the phone and ask for an informational meeting. This is more acceptable than sending your résumé, for the reason mentioned above, but takes a great deal of courage. People these days are often busy and, despite wanting to speak with you, don't have a great deal of time to sit with you and provide you with the information you seek. So don't be disappointed if you don't get an enthusiastic reply.
■ Send a trusted and one-of-the-best-kept-secrets approach letter. The approach letter is similar to making a cold call to someone at a company, but it is in writing and, therefore, less bold. Employers are more likely to read an approach letter than return your call. Unfortunately, it's a slower process and doesn't yield immediate results.
■ A meeting with the hiring manager or even someone who does what you do continues your research efforts. You will ask illuminating questions that provoke informative conversation and ideally leads to meetings with other people in the company. At this point you're not asking for job, you're asking for advice and information.
Step Five
Sealing the deal. Follow up with everyone you contact at your selected companies. Send a brief e-mail or hard copy letter asking if they received your résumé or initial introductory letter. If you've met with them, thank them for their time and valuable information they've imparted. Send your inquiry no later than a week after first contact. For encouragement, I suggest you read Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi. It's probably the most recommended book in history and for good reason. Ferrazzi goes into great detail about his methods of building relationships through networking, while emphasizing the importance of constantly following up with valued contacts.
People in the career development industry never said finding a rewarding job is easy. In fact, the harder you work and more proactive you are, the greater the rewards will be. Take your job search into your own hands and don't rely on coming across your ideal job on Monster.com, Dice.com, or any of the other overused job boards. Your job is to secure an interview leading to the final prize, a job offer. But your researching skills are essential to finding the companies for which you'd like to work, identifying contacts within those companies, and getting yourself well-known by important decision makers.
A Career Development Trainer at the Center of Lowell in Massachusetts, Bob McIntosh, CPRW, MBTI Qualified, has designed workshops tailored to the needs of job seekers in need of expert resume, LinkedIn, and job search information. He frequently blogs on best practices in career search, resume writing, interviewing, and other topics at Things Career Related.


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vdrTUBE is a tool to convert VDR-recordings to flash videos (flv). vdrTUBE also creates the required (static) HTML pages along with a index of all converted recordings.
In newer versions it is also possible to play the converted recordings via mobile devices like PDA, PSP, WII, iPod Video and several mobile phones. If needed it can also create MP4 recordings for such devices and a video podcast for your convenience.
Installation and usage are kept simple with the inexperienced user in mind.
Hardware requirements
- The (included) ffmpeg binary is statically linked and therefore runs only on x86 architekture. It is still possible to use your own ffmpeg binary and this functionality has successfully been tested on Linux on PowerPC.
Software requirements
The following software is used by this project, but since everything is included you don't need to install anything but the vdrTUBE package itself.
- ffmpeg
- vdrconvert.pl
Just untar vdrtube-<VERSION>.tar.gz in a directory you like, change to this directory an start it with something like ./vdrtube.pl /path/to/recording/datedirectory.rec. After that you will find a set of statical HTML pages including the player and .flv video(s).
There is an example that show how to directly trigger conversion from inside vdr at helpers/reccmds/.
Known problems
VDR is very acceptive about incorrectable streams and data files, ffmpeg not always. In some cases this leads to recordings which cannot be converted. Often it helps if you run ProjectX (-tovdr) against the recording to cleanup possible problems in the MPEG-stream. Sometimes the reason for unconvertible recordings is a defect audio-track, so you could try a different one. Sometimes it's simply a quoting problem, so you better use parentheses around the recording name.


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It's Friday September 30th, 2011 and welcome to episode 124 of TechTalk4Teachers, I'm Tom Grissom. This episode we have an excerpt from a recent presentation given by the 2011 Illinois Teacher of the Year to a group of EIU preservice teachers from earlier this month. The Teacher of the Year event was organized by the EIU chapter of the Association for Childhood Education International. We also have another Teaching with Primary Sources segment where we will be talking with Dr. Cindy Rich the Director of the Teaching with Primary Sources program here at EIU about natural disaster resources available from the Library of Congress. September has also had a large number of technology related announcements so I will also share my Technology Pick of the Week.
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First up we have Annice Brave, the winner of the 2011 Illinois Teacher of the Year Award. She recently talked about a variety of topics related to education at an evening event here on campus. Her talk covered current educational news items including the movie Waiting for Superman, the Save our Schools march held this summer in Washington DC, how poverty is impacting our local schools and she ends her presentation by sharing her recent experiences with the other Teacher of the Year award winners from across the United States at Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. Without further delay here is an excerpt from the 2011 Illinois Teacher of the Year presentation given by Annice Brave to teacher education students here at Eastern Illinois University.
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Teaching with Primary Sources
Natural Disasters
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When teachers are looking for resources relative to this topic, the Library of Congress may not be the first place that comes to mind to look. Remember, primary sources are created for every event and come in many formats.
Natural disasters seem to be headlining the news more frequently. The story may have played out on the other side of the globe or within our own state or community. Even if we are not directly impacted by the event, it is amazing how many different disciplines and topics these discussions fit into. Regardless, we want to show our students ways that they can connect with these events and hopefully encourage them to learn more.
Let's take a look at the diverse scenarios relative to nature taken to the extreme are reflected in the Library of Congress digitized collections. We can take a look at items from the basic level of recognizing what they are, to how they fit into curriculum and sample activities that develop critical thinking skills.
Basic level of understanding: what are natural disasters and what types of primary sources exist that are relative? - earthquake, tornado, flood (hurricane, tsunami), drought (dust bowl), heat wave, blizzard, volcano & more.
- Basic search from homepage www.loc.gov for images, maps, docs, etc. – when I enter flood in the search box there are 6468 items displayed. I am shown a long list of relative terms such as flood control, floodplain, floods Mississippi, floods 1920-1930… The same would happen for tornado, blizzard, etc.
- Today in History http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/archive.html– archive search for flood gave 12 hits ranging from the 1775 creation of the Army Corp of Engineers to modern day. We heard about flooding farms and rerouting the Mississippi in So IL this year and I was fascinated by information on the Hoover Dam.
Ideas for different content areas
- Science – the most obvious fit. Beyond the homepage, primary sources in American Memory collection http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html Weather and events are referenced in the papers of Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln as well as those from the Chicago Daily News, Prairie Settlement and more. Do you know about Everyday Mysteries? http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/ from the Kids and Families link. Science based questions with answers and an opportunity to ask questions.
- Geography – Map Collections http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html offer resources for studying changes in landscapes over time, Places in the News http://www.loc.gov/today/placesinthenews/ .
- Social Studies/History – Use maps to research impact on communities, culture over time.
- Languages arts- setting and context, dust bowl 6 in American Memory – America from the Great Depression to World War II (Photographs from the FSA/OWI 1935-1945) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html , American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html and Voices from the Dust Bowl http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
Taking it into the Classroom and Critical Thinking
Nature's Fury – 7 a lesson for grades 6-12 looking at personal stories about natural disasters from the late 19th and early 20th centuries through newly invented motion pictures, panoramic photos, personal accounts and poignant song lyrics. http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/nature/
Topics in Chronicling America – 8 The Great San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 – various articles that students can review and compare perceptions from different newspapers http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/earthquake.html
Next month in honor of Veterans Day we will look at music available at www.loc.gov and discuss copyright, fair use and guidelines.
Technology Pick of the Week
My Technology Pick of the week this week is from the recent Amazon event held Wednesday in new York City. Amazon announced three new Kindle devices to add to their staple of ebook readers but the big news of the event was the affordable prices that will most likely bring the use of ebooks to the masses. The lowest cost device is the all new Kindle coming in at a price of $79. The middle model comes in two flavors and is called the Kindle Touch that has wifi with a price of $99 and the Kindle Touch 3G that has Whispersync that allows the purchase and downloading of content over the 3G network. The big news of the day however is the new Kinndle Fire that is a color tablet similar to the iPad but at less than half the cost with a starting price of $199. The Kindle Fire not only is an ebook reader but is also a tablet device that can playback HD movies and also download apps from the Amazon Store. These prices are the most affordable we have seen to date and most likely will give ebooks a boost with the general public.
Amazon Kindle
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From the Amazon website:
"We are excited to announce four new products: the all-new Kindle for only $79, two new touch Kindles – Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G – for $99 and $149, and a new class of Kindle – Kindle Fire – a beautiful full color Kindle for movies, TV shows, music, books, magazines, apps, games, web browsing and more, for only $199."
That wraps it up for episode 124 of TechTalk4Teachers. I want to thank the 2011 Illinois Teacher of the Year award winner, Annice Brave, for sharing her presentation. I also want to thank Dr. Rich for her Teaching with Primary Sources segment on natural disasters this month. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment or suggestion, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com or leave a comment on the Tech Talk for Teachers blog. Until next time, this is Tom Grissom. Keep on Learning.