Hi, Last fall, the excellent folks at the Diamond Light Source invited me to present a three day XAS training course. All of my lectures and software demonstrations were recorded on camera, as were the desktop sessions on the presentation computer. The Diamond technical staff did a great job assembling all of this information into streaming videos, which they are now hosting on their web site. Here is the URL: http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Home/Events/Past_events/XAS-workshop-2011.html In total, there are several hours of videos of me presenting lectures and teaching the audience how to use the most recent versions of Athena and Artemis. The editing is great -- it transitions very nicely between the camera and the desktop. Really the only problem with the videos is that you will have to watch many hours of my ugly mug :) I'd like to thank Paul Quinn, Fred Mosselmans, and Shu Hayama for inviting me, organizing the event, and making the videos happen. If you find the videos helpful, be sure to let them know. For folks just learning XAS and for those wanting to learn how to use the newest versions of Athena and Artemis, the Diamond folk have done a very kind thing. Regards, B PS: As a Linux user, it was not immediately obvious to me how to use the Microsoft Media Server (mms:) links on the Diamond web page. Here is a hint that worked for me for viewing them from Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/747274 I configured Firefox to send the video to VLC, although any video player should work. Presumably, something similar can be done in other browsers. -- Bruce Ravel ------------------------------------ bravel@bnl.gov National Institute of Standards and Technology Synchrotron Methods Group at NSLS --- Beamlines U7A, X24A, X23A2 Building 535A Upton NY, 11973 Homepage: http://xafs.org/BruceRavel Software: https://github.com/bruceravel