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BVU Earns High Rankings for Academic Quality, Value Among Midwest Colleges
BVU Earns High Rankings for Academic Quality, Value Among Midwest Colleges
Buena Vista University has been named a top school in the U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges 2013" publication.
BVU is tied for 9th among "Best Regional Colleges in the Midwest," up one spot from a year ago and ranks third in "Great Schools at Great Prices."
"While the U.S. News ranking is not a definitive measure of the quality of a Buena Vista University education, it does indicate the high regard in which our institution is held by academic leaders in our region," says Dr. David Evans, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty. "Many of the elements going into the U.S. News rankings are indicators of our commitment to our students' education: a high proportion of small classes and a student-to-faculty ratio that ensure that all students can receive individual attention, and an aggressive approach to student success. We are proud of this recognition but are much prouder of the excellent qualities BVU has that have led us to receive it."
"America's Best Colleges 2013" formulates the college rankings through an accumulation of data on a peer assessment test, freshman retention rate, graduation rate, class size and student-to-faculty ratio. It also takes into account the percentage of full time faculty, the ratio of students who were in the 25th to 75th percentile on their ACT or SAT scores, and the percentage of freshman in the top 25 percent of their graduating class.
There are 99 Midwestern schools in the category in which BVU tied for ninth. Nationwide, the report categorizes 370 institutions as "Regional colleges," which are defined as those that focus almost entirely on the undergraduate experience and offer a broad range of programs in the liberal arts. U.S. News rankings in all categories include more than 1,500 schools nationwide.
The "Great Schools at Great Prices" category takes into account a college's academic quality, based on its U.S. News "Best Colleges 2013" ranking, and the 2011-12 net cost of attendance for a student who receives the average level of need-based financial aid.
The U.S. News publication states "The higher the quality of the program and the lower the cost, the better the deal. Only schools ranked in or near the top half of their categories are included because U.S. News considers the most significant values to be among colleges that are above average academically."
BVU has also been named to a list of "Military Friendly Schools" by Victory Media, an organization that helps service personnel make the transition to civilian life. The list recognizes the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools that are doing the most in working with America's military service members, veterans, and spouses as students to help ensure their success on campus. More than 12,000 VA-approved schools nationwide were surveyed to develop the list.


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5 Celeb-Inspired Prom Looks That'll Land You On the A-List
Whether you're an unabashed girly girl or favor pants over frilly frocks, we've put together a star-worthy look for you.
-Diana Denza
No matter where you live, there's one four letter word that's on every high school senior's lips: prom. If you're one of those college-bound girls, your last hurrah should be perfect. While we can't guarantee that your limo driver will show up on time or your arch-rival won't try to outshine you on the dance floor, we can show you how to look like a star with prom ensembles inspired by Hollywood's leading ladies. Even if Ryan Gosling and Taylor Lautner are just out of reach, there's always that smoldering cutie from physics. And when you look this good, anything is possible!
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Stone sculpture is the result of forming 3-dimensional visually interesting objects from stone. Carving stone into sculpture is an activity older than civilization itself. Prehistoric sculptures were usually human forms, such as the Venus of Willendorf and the faceless statues of the Cycladic cultures of ancient Greece. Later cultures devised animal, human-animal and abstract forms in stone. The earliest cultures used abrasive techniques, and modern technology employs pneumatic hammers and other devices. But for most of human history, sculptors used hammer and chisel as the basic tools for carving stone. (Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sculpture)
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Population Estimates of Counties in the United States, 1971-1974 (ICPSR 7500)
Published: Feb 16, 1992
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United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census
Version V1
This study provides annual estimates of the population of all counties and county equivalents in the United States for the years 1971-1974. Also included are county-level estimates of the components of population change (births, deaths, and net migration) for the same years. County equivalents are parishes in Louisiana, census divisions in Alaska, and independent cities in Virginia and Missouri. The dataset was prepared by ICPSR from Current Population Reports published by the Census Bureau and originally compiled by the Census Bureau with the assistance of designated state agencies in the Federal/State Cooperative Program for Population Estimates. Several ICPSR geographic identification variables were included in the dataset to improve its utility and maintain the comparability of the present data with other county-level materials in the ICPSR archive. ICPSR also calculated some variable values that were missing from the Census Bureau reports.
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The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.
United States population between 1970-1974.
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(1) United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. ESTIMATES OF THE POPULATION OF COUNTIES: JULY 1, 1971 AND 1972. (2) United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. ESTIMATES OF THE POPULATION OF COUNTIES: JULY 1, 1973 AND 1974
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- Standardized missing values.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.
- The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.
This study is provided by ICPSR. ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for a diverse and expanding social science research community.


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Question: Are people with depression more likely to abuse others, or be the victims of abuse?
Answer: In general, patients with depression tend to have a very low self-image and they have real cognitive dysfunction about themselves. And because they think so poorly of themselves and have terribly inappropriate self-reproach and guilt about themselves, they often end up in abusive relationships in which they have not only been abused as children, but now as adults are in situations of abuse and domestic violence. Rarely do such individuals go on to abuse others.
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Estes Valley Recreation and Park District (EVRPD), in partnership with the Town of Estes Park, the Estes Park School District R-3, the Estes Park Medical Center, and the Estes Valley Public Library District, will be hosting a series of public forums on Wednesday, Dec. 4, to receive input and feedback from our community on a proposed Community Wellness Recreation Center (CWRC). The goal of these public forums is to present information about the project and gather feedback from citizens at-large regarding potential programs, services, and amenities citizens are most interested in having in a future community center facility. PROS Consulting was hired from a field of highly-qualified firms to perform the CWRC feasibility study and PROS will also facilitate the public forum meetings.
Public input from our community is a very important piece of the feasibility study. We need to hear from community members' needs and desires and how we can collaborate with local agencies, service and program providers, and local businesses to create a facility that best serves our community by maximizing available resources for the greater good of the entire community. We were fortunate to hear from over 90 interested citizens during our focus groups meetings on Nov. 20 and 21, which provided valuable information.
The public forum meetings will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 4, in the Town of Estes Park Museum meeting room, located at 200 Fourth Street in Estes Park. The first meeting is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. and a second meeting will be held at 6 p.m. A third public forum will be hosted on the same day at 2 p.m. at the Estes Park School District R-3 school campus. We will meet with a variety of students from the elementary, middle, and high schools to gauge their interests and receive their feedback.
A needs assessment survey is planned to be mailed out near the first part of January in 2014 to the entire Estes Valley Community including Glen Haven, Meeker Park, Allenspark, Drake, Pinewood Springs, and Estes Park to provide everyone in the valley an opportunity to provide input and feedback on a future CWRC. For more details please visit evrpd.com or call 970-586-8191 to speak with executive director, Skyler Rorabaugh. Please join us in taking part in the planning of a better Estes Valley Community. We hope to see you on Wednesday, December 4 at one of the public forums!
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Chicken Bow Tie Alfredo Recipe
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Bow ties are back in style in this meaty pasta dish. Because real Parmigiana-Reggiano cheese has an intense flavor, you can get away with using less, making it ideal for healthy cooking. —Healthy Cooking Test Kitchen
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- 4 cups uncooked multigrain bow tie pasta
- 1/2 pound sliced fresh mushrooms
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/2 cup white wine or reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 4 ounces fat-free cream cheese, cubed
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 2 cups whole milk
- 2 cups cubed cooked chicken breast
- 1/2 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh basil or 2 teaspoons dried basil
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- Additional grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, optional
- Cook pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray, saute mushrooms and onion in oil until tender. Add the garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Stir in wine. Bring to a boil; cook for 2 minutes. Stir in cream cheese until melted.
- Combine cornstarch and milk until smooth; stir into skillet. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Add the chicken, cheese, basil, pepper and salt; cook and stir until cheese is melted.
- Drain pasta; add to chicken mixture. Heat through. Sprinkle with additional cheese if desired. Yield: 6 servings.
Originally published as Chicken Bow Tie Alfredo in Healthy Cooking April/May 2012, p61
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Reviewed Aug. 18, 2012
"Love it!! I always add extra garlic!"
Reviewed May. 6, 2012
"the 40 minute time is a bit optimistic, it assumes you have a pot of water boiled already for the pasta the chicken is already cooked. I wish recipes would assume I am starting from uncooked stuff, so the times are more realistic. It's a very good dish, even with regular parmesan cheese and reheats very well for leftovers."
Reviewed Mar. 28, 2012
"Delicious and easy! My entire family loved it!"
Reviewed Mar. 20, 2012
"This was simple and fast to make and tasted delicious. My husband and I both loved it!"


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At Asana, the collaboration software startup from Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein, the culture is designed to be "transparent 'til it hurts." Here's how to replicate it for pain-free productivity.
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Honesty / Trasnparency is the best policy. A cliche' but true. Build trust with your team and they will follow you anywhere.
Just as important as the ideas on transparency is the notion of being original and pushing beyond standard operations. As you might guess, I like the "Start with Hiring" and "Create a Roadmap" ideas. Pay particular attention to how these strategies allow "wrong-fit" employees to opt out of the selection process.


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NEW DELHI (AP) — Hundreds of people, mostly students, marched through the streets of the Indian capital on Saturday demanding prompt implementation of a government panel's recommendation that India strictly enforce sexual assault laws, commit to holding speedy rape trials and change the antiquated penal code to protect women.
"Freedom for Women," the protesters chanted as they marched to Jantar Mantar, the main area for protests close to India's parliament in New Delhi. The march was organized by the All India Students Association and several other groups.
The government set up the panel in response to last month's gang rape and killing of a physiotherapy student on a New Delhi bus, which triggered massive protests across India blaming the government for failure to control crimes against women.
India's president also lent support to the women's demands, saying "If today young Indians feel outraged, can we blame our youth?"
"It is time for the nation to reset its moral compass," President Pranab Mukherjee said in a speech carried live on radio and television on Friday on the eve of India's Republic Day.
Gitanjali, a 38-year-old social development professional, said she joined the march because it was a way to show overwhelming support for women. She uses one name.
The panel, headed by retired Chief Justice J.S. Verma, issued its findings Wednesday after considering more than 80,000 suggestions for a complete overhaul in the criminal justice system's treatment of violence against women. The suggestions included banning a traumatic vaginal exam of rape victims and ending political interference in sex crime cases.
On Thursday, a fast-track courted started trial of five men charged with attacking the 23-year-old woman and a male friend on a bus as it was driven through the streets of India's capital. The woman was raped and assaulted with a metal bar on Dec. 16 and eventually died of her injuries. If convicted, they face death penalty.
A separate court will decide next week if a sixth suspect in the case is a juvenile.
The panel recommended to the government that police and other officials should be punished if they fail to act against crimes against women.
It called for a crackdown on dowry payments to enhance women's status, since families are often forced into massive debt to get their daughters married. It also suggested the government appoint more judges to lessen the backlog of cases and ensure swift justice, and it called for updating the law to include crimes such as voyeurism and stalking.


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Joining Together
Joining Together
Circle Ten Council and NeTseO Trails Council have merged in order to strengthen Scouting across Northeast Texas and Southeast Oklahoma.
Scouts in both councils wear the same uniform, follow the same advancement program, and subscribe to the same Oath and Law. Day-to-day operations in a unit will not be affected.
A merged council creates more robust programs and allows more youth to benefit from Scouting's life-changing programs.


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UPDATE: After just one bury, this article too was deleted from Digg's upcoming category.
The self-proclaimed 'digital democracy' Digg.com has been caught red-handed artificially suppressing and censoring Ron Paul stories by expunging them from the website with just one bury, despite the fact that thousands of other Digg users are voting the stories up.
Digg allows users to vote stories up (digg them) or vote them down (bury them). The content of Digg's main page, which receives millions of readers a day, is decided upon this apparently democratic system.
For months allegations have been flying around concerning how stories about Ron Paul, which routinely receive well over a thousand diggs, rarely make it to the main page on Digg as a "popular" item.
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Speculation centered around organized armies of Neo-Con bury brigades that flag each other when new Ron Paul stories emerge and bury them en masse to prevent wider exposure. The fact that hordes of trolls are stomping around Digg acting as electronic thought control police has been widely documented in the past. However, the popularity of Ron Paul is so mammoth that Digg has been forced to employ extra measures of censorship to block hundreds of stories about the Congressman from becoming viral.
It has now emerged that Digg has either directly implemented a policy to expunge Ron Paul stories from the website or that it has empowered "super-users" the influence to eliminate Paul stories with just one bury, even if the story has thousands of diggs from other users.
The revelation that Digg is artificially suppressing political content that it doesn't like actually appeared on an anti-Ron Paul website, TechCrunch, which has ridiculed Paul supporters in the past.
The writer, Duncan Riley, submitted his story about Paypal freezing the funds of Ron Paul supporters to Digg and tracked its progress via the Ajaxonomy Bury Recorder (ABR) service, a tool "that allows you to see the the number of buries on a Digg story by the time of each bury, the reason and at what stage in the voting process it was buried."
"Thinking that the Ron Paul story might get a few votes, I decided to run it in ABR through out the afternoon to see what might happen," writes Riley.
"At exactly 43 votes the story received one bury for spam, and then it completely disappeared from the upcoming sidebar at Digg in its particular category. I ran a search for TechCrunch posts (newest via URL) on Digg to see whether it was there; nothing, clicked the include buried stories post: bingo, the post appeared in the list."
"There have been rumors and suggestions that certain users at Digg have "special powers" in the past, so what I saw could simply be one of those users who can alone bury stories submitted to Digg, at any stage of the voting process. Or (with tin foil hat on) Digg might have decided to ban Ron Paul. There's zero way of knowing, and Digg never talks about its internal workings so we have no way of finding out which one it is, or even if it's a combination of both. I wonder how long it will take for someone on Digg to bury this post?" he concludes.
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The power of Digg to set the national news agenda is evidenced by the fact that it receives easily more traffic than the iconic Drudge Report and more visitors than any U.S. newspaper website.
Digg's ranking system is subject to the whim of a notorious "Bury Brigade" that obsessively votes down anti-establishment political content, leading many like Wired News to attack the concept that Digg is some kind of online democracy.
These new revelations prove that not only has Digg been hijacked by Neo-Con trolls, but it has also engaged in a deliberate censorship policy to suppress stories about Congressman Ron Paul's presidential campaign, proving itself equally corrupt as the corporate-owned U.S. media.
In it's preamble Digg claims, "You won't find editors at Digg — we're here to provide a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we're changing the way people consume information online."
The fact that Digg has been caught unfairly editing out Ron Paul material completely invalidates this statement.
We invite our readers to contact Digg via [email protected] and politely inform them that political thought control is anti-American, dangerous to free speech and completely hypocritical for a website that bills itself as some kind of democratic voice for the people.
This is an absolute disgrace and we should do everything in our power to expose Digg.com as a mere tool of the political establishment.
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"Masterpiece Photographs from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts: The Curatorial Legacy of Carroll T. Hartwell
Saturday, October 4, 2008—Sunday, January 25, 2009
Harrison Photography Gallery 365
Free Exhibition
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts holds the Upper Midwest's most significant permanent collection of fine photographs. Numbering about 10,000 photographs, it covers the entire history of the medium, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.
This exhibition features the fifty most salient and fully-realized photographs in the museum's holdings. It begins with a 1845 salt print by the English inventor William Henry Fox Talbot and ends with a 2002 color portrait by Alec Soth, from his series "Sleeping by the Mississippi." In between, the genres of documentary photography, photo-journalism, and street photography are well represented in the show. Included are Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" and Arthur Rothstein's "Dust Storm," both iconic images from the Great Depression. Among the most recognizable pictures are Edward Weston's "Pepper No. 30" (1930) and Ansel Adams's "Moonrise, Hernandez" (1941). The names of other photographers represented reads like a Who's Who? of photography: Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Richard Avedon, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Lewis W. Hine, Man Ray, W. Eugene Smith, Alfred Stieglitz, and Paul Strand.
This exhibition marks the first time the MIA has presented such a select grouping of its most important photographs together. The exhibition and its accompanying publication commemorate the significant collecting legacy of Carroll T. (Ted) Hartwell, the founding curator of the department, who died in 2007. It reveals Mr. Hartwell's critical eye for singular historical pieces as well as his belief in the influence and vitality of accomplished living photographers.
Major support for this exhibition is provided by Alfred and Ingrid Lenz Harrison, Elisabeth J. Dayton, Cy and Paula DeCosse through The Minneapolis Foundation, Walt McCarthy and Clara Ueland, Frederick and Virginia Scheel, Harry M. Drake, Martin and Lora Weinstein, and Myron and Anita Kunin."
Readers of this blog will recall my remembrance of my mentor Ted Hartwell, first posted on July 11, 2007.
I hope many of you will have the great pleasure of seeing the collection that Ted built, much of it through the generosity of the photography community he inspired in Minnesota.
Aperture published "The Making of a Collection" in 1984 celebrating this wonderful collection.
This exhibition is on view until January 25th, 2009; see related events on JANUARY 15th, including a tour of the exhibition with curator Christian A. Peterson. A must! Christian has worked in the department alongside Ted since the early 1980's; his insights on the making of this exhibition will be wonderful to hear.


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NFB Educational Workshops: For the Love of Making MoviesEducation
Educators have the opportunity to take their students on a field trip to the NFB Educational Workshop Spaces. Here, they will meet our team of experienced media and education specialists, who facilitate animation and documentary workshops for students of all ages in both Montreal and Toronto. We offer stop-motion animation, Norman McLaren animation, documentary and digital storytelling workshops. Check out our Educational Workshop offers!
It wasn't until my 2nd year of university that I discovered my love of filmmaking. I took my very first film class, Introduction to Film and Video, at UBC. I had an extremely passionate and dynamic teaching assistant who spoke with wide eyes and rigour about cinema, and who ultimately inspired me to make films. I was keen and quickly became involved with the UBC Film Society. I even taught myself how to make a stop-motion animation, using a book by the famous Aardman Animation studio and an old camera. Instantly, I knew that I would commit to this craft and become a filmmaker and share my new passion with others.
That was 10 years ago, and since then I've been making films, teaching film and animation and, of course, I am still learning about this constantly changing medium. Now I work at the NFB Education offices in Montreal: a place where I can share my passion for film and animation and provide a space for students to become inspired and make their own films (yes, dream job). To be honest, I don't know if I would be here if it weren't for the teacher at UBC who shared his passion for filmmaking with me.
Who knows where one of our workshops will take your students?
Here are the bios of the incredible NFB workshop team members in Montreal and Toronto:
Fouad Sassi, Education Specialist/Workshop Facilitator, Montreal
After completing a BA in Psychology and a BA in Film Studies at University Paris 8 in France, Fouad Sassi came to Canada in 2004 for an MA in Film Studies at l'Université de Montréal. In 2006, he worked on a feature film (On the Trail of Igor Rizzi) as production manager and first assistant director. He completed his Master's degree in 2008.
Anne Koizumi, Education Specialist/Workshop Facilitator, Montreal
Anne Koizumi completed her undergraduate studies in Film Production at the University of British Columbia and her MFA in Film Production at York University in 2011. In 2006, she was invited by the National Film Board of Canada to participate in Hothouse 3, an intensive animation program for emerging animators, where she completed her first professional film, A Prairie Story.
Jessie Curell, Education Specialist/Team Leader, Montreal
Jessie Curell holds a BA in Anthropology, a Graduate Diploma in Communications and an MA in Media Production. She combines her educational background with her prior work experience in various Canadian communities, with organizations such as CBC Radio, the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Leave Out Violence Media Education, and Regent Park Focus Media Center.
Marc-André Roy, Education Specialist/Workshop Facilitator, Montreal
Marc-André has worked at the National Film Board for nine years as a workshop facilitator. He is highly involved in the development and design of the educational workshops at the NFB. He continues to develop his skills as a workshop facilitator and education specialist through extensive film and video training. He studied visual arts at Cégep du Vieux-Montreal and UQAM. He is also a painter, writer and photographer.
Dan Thornhill, Technical and Production Coordinator Education Programs, Toronto
Dan Thornhill is an OCAD graduate who is always keeping up with new technologies and user experiences. Starting at the NFB in 2003 he has had various roles and been involved in a number of interactive installations, frequently incorporating video, sound, sculpture, electronics and programming. His most recent project was the "How to Build an Igloo" exhibit which has appeared at the Canadian Museum of Nature and the NFB Mediatheque in Toronto, and can be experienced at Jacques-Cartier Park on Canada Day.
Claudia Sicondolfo, Education Specialist/Team Leader, Toronto
Claudia completed her BA Honours degree in English and Film Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, and is an MA graduate of the Cinema and Media Studies program at York University in Toronto. Her MA research focused on emerging media's relationship with community engagement and pedagogy.
Renée Lottridge, Education Specialist/Workshop Facilitator, Toronto
After receiving an undergraduate degree in Fine Arts Cultural Studies from York University, Renée pursued her passion for education and language arts by teaching English as a Second Language for several years in Montreal, Mexico and her hometown of Toronto. Following two glorious months travelling around South America, Renée once again returned to Toronto to pursue her Master's degree in Adult Education at University of Toronto.
Ashley Catania, Education Specialist/Workshop Facilitator, Toronto
Ashley Catania recently completed her BA degree, with a focus in film and gender studies, at Ryerson University, and has a Visual Arts Certificate from Sheridan College. Passionate about social justice and media criticism, Ashley plans to pursue further education, studying social representations within cinema.
Laurence Desrosiers-Guité, Education Specialist/Workshop Facilitator, Toronto
Laurence Desrosiers-Guité, or simply Lolo, is a Montreal native who migrated to Ontario almost 10 years ago. She studied anthropology and international development at the University of Ottawa. Culture, children and art are her heart and soul. In addition to working for the National Film Board of Canada, Lolo is a visual artist.


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Keloids are a benign skin growth that are characterized by smooth, firm, raised, fibrous growths on the skin that form in wound sites. Keloids are more common in African-Americans.
Keloids respond poorly to most treatment approaches. Injections of corticosteroid drugs may help to flatten the keloids. Other treatment approaches may include surgery or silicone patches to further flatten the keloids.
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UPDATE: Read the whole story and the complaint, which was released Saturday.
Attorney General Pam Bondi will sue BP and Halliburton on Saturday, the three-year anniversary of the oil spill that killed 11 workers, for the state's economic losses, her office announced today.
Bondi will file the lawsuit in the U.S. Northern District Court in Panama City under the Oil Pollution Act without fanfare. The statute of limitation for filing a claim under the OPA expires after three years. The lawsuit does not address the spill's impact on environmental resources, which "continue to be assessed," states a press release.
Bondi hired four law firms on a contingency basis last year to work on the state's case. Bondi spokeswoman Jenn Meale said a draft of the lawsuit is protected under public record law as an attorney work product.
"The lawsuit includes numerous federal, state and maritime counts. Under the Oil Pollution Act, the State of Florida is entitled to the revenues it lost due to the oil spill, including sales and use taxes; corporate taxes; documentary stamp taxes; cigarette surcharges; cigarette excise taxes; beer, wine, and liquor taxes; fuel taxes; rental car surcharges; and utility taxes and receipts. The State is also seeking punitive damages under maritime and Florida common law due to the egregious nature of the misconduct that led to this environmental and economic disaster."


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Serenade No. 10 'Gran Partita' : Work information
- Composers
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( Music, Images,)
- Performed by
- Philharmonia Virtuosi, Richard Kapp (Conductor)
This work
- Work name
- Serenade No. 10 'Gran Partita'
- Work number
- Key
- B flat
- Genre
- Composed
- 1781-01-01 02:00:00
This recording
- Label
- Essay
- Producer
- Mikhail Liberman
- Engineer
- Mikhail Liberman
- Recording date
- 1991-01-10 00:00:00
Mozart's supreme acheivement in wind writing, the Serenade No. 10 'Gran Partita', was composed during the early Vienna years, sometime between 1781 and 1784. It has even been suggested that Mozart wrote the work specifically as a gift to his wife, Constanze, when the pair married on 4th August 1782.
Whatever its origins, the Serenade showcases Mozart's sublime handling of instrumental colour, contrasting the various tones created by the players in a bewildering variety of combinations. The famous opening of the Adagio, for example, with its pulsing accompanimental basset horns and arching oboe solo is a moment of exquisite genius.
The work is scored for the traditional eight-part Harmonie of wind instruments with added basset horns, horns and a double bass, totalling 13 players. Its many moments of tenderness and exuberance in the seven movements are, in turns, heart-warming and exhilarating, and the Serenade has become one of Mozart's most popular creations.
The Composers
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are generally held to mark the peak of Viennese Classicism. As a composer who excelled in every genre, he can be rightly regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music.
Born on 27 January 1756 in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang received his musical education from his father, Leopold and quickly showed aptitude, playing his sister's piano pieces at the age of four and composing from the age of five. Leopold, fully aware of the remarkable talents of Wolfgang and his sister, Nannerl, took the family around Europe, showcasing his children before Kings and Queens.
Having toured as a child prodigy for ten years and come into contact with all manner of musical styles and practices, including a meeting with J C Bach in London, Mozart began his adult musical career in Salzburg in 1773 in the employ of the Archbishop.
Although the greater part of his job was to compose church music, the young Mozart quickly became the chief composer of instrumental and vocal music in Salzburg and gradually became more dissatisfied with his position. Matters came to a head in 1781 when Mozart realised he could make a living as a freelance musician in Vienna. By the end of 1781, having obtained a release from his employment, he was established as the greatest keyboard player in the Austrian capital.
Mozart's finest works date from the ten years he spent in Vienna, the last years of his tragically short life. His reputation as a composer was immediately established with the opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and shortly after he married Constanze Weber. Their marriage appears to have a happy one, though both were financially naive.
The busiest years were between 1784 and 1788, in a period of financial security. Mozart gave numerous subscription concerts, for which he composed a dozen excellent piano concerti, in addition to private concerts for the local nobility. In 1784 Mozart also became a freemason at a lodge in Vienna and often composed music for meetings, most notably the Mauerische Trauermusik.
Opera, however, was still Mozart's priority and he scored great successes in Vienna and Prague with Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni. These were followed in the final two years of his life by three more operatic masterpieces: Così fan Tutte, La Clemenza di Tito and Die Zauberflöte.
After the death of Leopold in May 1787 and a temporary lull in creative activity, Mozart began to give fewer concerts. His finances suffered as a result and from mid-1788 he was often in debt, forced to rely on loans from friends. However, the Mozarts never had to do without servants or any other luxuries of their class.
Mozart's work was still attracting international interest and was widely published. He was working on a Requiem commission when he died on 5 December 1791 from rheumatic inflammatory fever, but there is no evidence that this was in any way a burden on him as is sometimes suggested. Nor is there any evidence that he was poisoned, by Salieri or anybody else. He was buried in a common grave, as was the usual custom at the time, on a calm, mild day (not the snowy, stormy day of legend).
Mozart's reputation continued to spread after his death with Breitkopf & Härtel releasing a 'collected edition' of Mozart's works as early as 1798. In 1862, Köchel released his thematic catalogue of Mozart's works (works in Mozart's catalogue are thus prefixed by the letter K) prompting Breitkopf to publish a 'complete edition' between 1877 and 1883. His popularity has, if anything, grown to new heights in recent times with the majority of his works occupying prominent places in the repertory.


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Sammy Hagar Not Impressed With New Van Halen Tunes
In a new interview, Chickenfoot singer and former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar talks candidly about what he thinks of the new Van Halen material featuring original lead singer David Lee Roth.
When asked about his feeling about the new Van Halen album, 'A Different Kind of Truth,' Hagar tells RadioMetal.com, "What I've heard so far, I wasn't impressed with at all, personally. I think in Chickenfoot, we've raised the bar a little bit on what a four-piece rock band can do, and I think they chose to take the easy route and take some of their old stuff and and re-record it instead of writing new songs. Who is Van Halen today? I don't know, I don't think the fans are going to be happy with it. I couldn't care less if it's the biggest album of the year, that wouldn't be important to me, what is important to me is that, as artists, why would you do that?"
He goes on to say, "They haven't released an album since my last album in something like 1991 or '92, and then they just go back. To me it makes a strange statement, it kind of says, 'We don't have anything, we're not a band anymore, we're not creative.'"
Hagar continues to view his opinion on the new Van Halen music as follows, "I think there's zero inspiration and zero creativity. If there was any, they would write new songs. What does the band do? When Chickenfoot got together for our first album, we were four new guys and we got together and wrote ten, twelve songs and made an album. When we decided to do our second album, we didn't go back and take the two songs that were left over from the first album, we wrote all brand new songs."
When asked about the comparison between Chickenfoot and Van Halen and if it bothers him, Hagar says, "I think it's a joke, sure I love the comparison as long as it's fair. Not because you're a big Eddie Van Halen fan, you think that he's God therefore you think that he's better than Joe [Satriani], you have to be bipartisan and just listen and watch both of them play."
"Listen, I played with them both, I can tell you right now: there is no comparison today. Never mind the innovator that Eddie was. I'm talking about what they can play today."


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Submission + - Is Whitelisting The Answer To The Rise In Data Breaches? (forbes.com)
MojoKid writes: It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that cyber criminals are quickly getting more sophisticated than current security, intrusion detection and prevention technology can defend against. And you have to wonder if the computer security industry as a whole is willing to take the disruptive measures required to address the issue head-on. One way to tackle the surging data breach epidemic is with a technology called "whitelisting." It's not going to sound too sexy to the average end user and frankly, even CIOs may find it unfashionable but in short, whitelisting is a method of locking-down a machine such that only trusted executables, DLLs and other necessary system and application components are allowed to run – everything else is denied. A few start-up security companies are beginning to appear in this space. The idea is to start with a known, clean system installation and then lock it down in that state so absolutely nothing can be changed. If you follow system security, regardless of your opinion on the concept of whitelisting, it's pretty clear the traditional conventions of AV, anti-malware, intrusion detection and prevention are no longer working.


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By Alex Young
When Andre Villas-Boas was appointed as Harry Redknapp's replacement at Tottenham in June, Jermain Defoe could be forgiven for feeling anxious regarding his future at White Hart Lane.
Indeed, Daniel Sturridge - a similar player to Defoe with his darting sprints and preference to run off the last man - did not have the most enjoyable of times under the Portuguese at Chelsea by being shunted out of position, but the 2012-13 season could not have played out much better for the diminutive forward thus far.
Villas-Boas has put faith in Defoe, and it has paid off. Five goals in just 10 Premier League games – almost half of last season's total of 11 already – is evident of how much the striker is thriving by being the sole focal point.
But, it hasn't all been rosy behind the scenes. Emmanuel Adebayor joined after a highly successful loan spell last season under Harry Redknapp but, as exclusively revealed by Goal.com on Thursday, has demanded two talks with his manager after failing to start a game three months into the season.
The solution? Ditch his strict 4-5-1 formation and throw the Togo international alongside Defoe in a two-man attack.
"We set out with 4-4-2 and two strikers, and we'll see how the game goes," Villas-Boas told ITV ahead of the game.
Well, it went well, Andre. Adebayor was understandably intially rusty after a lack of regular match action, but the pair slipped back into the same understanding that Redknapp forged over the course of last term almost immediately.
With under 10 minutes on the clock, Gareth Bale – in one of many driven crosses from the left – found Adebayor inside the area with his back to goal. A neat flick and turn sent the ball towards his partner in a better position, with only a mistimed half-volley of his own failing to make the net bulge.
And this was the pattern throughout. With the dazzling Bale supplying support from the left, the highly impressive Tom Carroll continually finding space in the middle and the ever-reliable pair of Aaron Lennon and Kyle Walker overlapping on the right, the two strikers were able to pick their runs with ease.
Ahead of the game, the possibility of Adebayor stifling Defoe could well have been a feverous one throughout north London but the former Manchester City man was very much playing a supporting role to, in fact, heighten the England international's presence.
And this was no more evident in the hat-trick goal. With Spurs' dominance starting to slip and still only holding onto a one-goal advantage, Kyle Naughton's aimless punt clear was picked up by Adebayor on the right-hand touchline, brought down away from the onrushing Ales Mertelj and weighted into the path of Tom Huddlestone, who sent Bale on his way to find Defoe.
The partnership will have impressed all in attendance at White Hart Lane on Thursday but Defoe will be hoping that Roy Hodgson was, sheepishly, viewing at home.
The England boss announced his squad to face Sweden in the friendly next Wednesday, with Defoe was omitted, despite a goal against Italy in August and, most recently, against Moldova in the World Cup 2014 qualifier in September.
How does a footballer answer his critics? A hat-trick will do.Follow Alex Young on


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Ahhhh... it worked!
I am not off to check facebook statuses... I'm off to bed!
Good night!
Ahhhh... it worked!
I am not off to check facebook statuses... I'm off to bed!
Good night!
Posted by Darby at 10:40 PM
i'm here!!! you are soooo right about weird dreams about folks you haven't seen in forever. oh, and i had a history teacher that would write PTL on our papers b/c they were basically all essay. if you got it right, that was what he wrote. sooooo funny cause i still say it!! better go. a little girl wants her mama. i literally crawled in here.
Congrats! Big job and it looks great! I love the pic up top! Is it istock photo? I'm looking for some right now and can't find what I want...
Love the name! Love the look! Way to go!!!
Love, Love, Love the new header! Did you design it?
You left and i followed!!
Crazy question, most likely...but, why did you move to another blog address? Of course your readers will follow you wherever you roam as you are the highlight of many people's days!
i have followed you here, wouldn't miss it! love the new header!
Darby, I love the background....Can you tell me (or all of us) who did it?
Love it!
love you!
I'm here! agree totally about the FB dreams - what were your reasons for moving the blog (does it have to do with names???) And how in the heck did you get all your old posts on here?
I followed, LOVE your blog!
Here and happy to be so! I love your new site-especially the shadowy pictograph of your children and dog.
So cute!
I followed! Love the new header! Will you share details on it?
Love the new header! I don't Facebook, but people say I should. I guess I figure that I spend enough time on my blog, so that's good for now.
LOVE the new header! Congratulations and PTL on the move. Oh, and I totally understand what you mean about the facebook thing, totally happens to me all the time!
I am still reading...I love reading your blog.
I had to totally remove myself from Facebook. It took too much of my time. I could not seem to ignore it... but, that is just me. Life is SO much simpler without it. PTL!
Darby this is SO pretty! Loving the new header more than words can express. In total agreement on the facebook thing. I just started a couple of months ago and I see it could be very dangerous, as if I don't spend enough time online browsing blogs!:-) Anyway, love the new address, can't wait to see more.
your new site looks fabulous!!!
I'm with ya girl!!! Loving the new header too! I'm inspired, I'll have to get my 'designer' sister in on that to help me! PTL!!!!
Love your comments about FB and the new header! I totally agree as I'm having some crazy dreams. I even had one last week involving a H.S. boyfriend who is a FB friend. I changed history in my dream - this time I broke up with him. It made me feel a lot better! :-)
Love your new look! After being contacted via FB by 2 old flames, I thought about putting a warning on my Profile:"If you are an olf boyfriend, leave me the hell alone!" Ha!
too funny about facebook! I get lost on that dumb site... and it really does make you think about people that you haven't seen in years and years... love the "new" blog :)
It looks great - I've been contemplating a change, too, but don't quite know what direction to go. I can't believe I haven't made the Facebook and dream connection yet, but it's totally true! Last night I dreamed I couldn't remember the combination to my locker . . .
I followed! I love the silhouette as the header. You should check out Sharyn Sowell. She is an artist that creates beautiful silhouettes. I bet you would enjoy her work. Have a great day!
most certainly-i am here! how is morgan's eye?
YES, FB is neat at firt to reconnect, but wastes SO MUCH time, now. Considering deleting myself so i don't spend the time on it!
What can I say that others haven't? The new look is wonderful and the title just blew me away. Another of your many talents! Yes I am here and looking forward to more time with you.
-love your new place
-had the dreams
-agree that fb is a time vacuum
Love your new look! Of course I will follow :)
FB is terrible but I can't look away!
amen!!! lots of dreams about RANDOM people!!
love the new blog? why the move? [since it wasn't over to typepad? just curious!]
love the header. it's precious...
i have totally had random dreams after facebooking late into the night. hilarious. love your new blog header... precious!
i just put julianna down for a nap with no pacifier.. i am getting rid of it for good. prayers for strength please! :)
Such a good point about Facebook that I had not realized!!! I have been having the strangest dreams since joining and always about people I have not seen in years. Thanks for enlightening me!
The new blog looks great!
I love the new header but I can't get any of your pictures to show up. I wonder why? Anyone else have this problem?
that is totally true about fb! i have become quite the addict! i love your new blog and would follow you anywhere...a little weird since i don't actually know you, but i adore your blog and your sweet family. i hope you don't mind that i stole that picture of the fb message to put on my blog...thanks!
Love the new header! What font is that?
and i followed. totally agree about the facebook thing. i waste many a precious minutes on there. so now after blog reading, i'm NOT going to facebook!
Darby- That is too funny that your mention weird dreams and facebook..... it tends to happen to me a lot! And being that I am pregnant I feel that these dreams are even more strange and I tend to remember every second of them!! Logging on to facebook at 2 am when I can't sleep does not help either!! Love the new blog!
Congratulations on your new address! :) Glad the move went smoothly.
I love your new header as well - adorable! I've been meaning to order a personalized print from saratams on etsy ever since you featured it w/ some of your faves around the holidays. This is a good reminder. There's a wall in the kids playroom crying out for one of those prints!
FB is completely addictive and it's amazing how all of a sudden people you haven't thought about in years are a regular part of your day. Fun and weird at the same time! :) I also laugh b/c I can't believe the things I remember out of the blue - phrases and jokes that have been lying dormant in my head have been reawakened. It's as if I were still in high school!
Hey...I am here...cute heading! I am scared I will forget the address...but I think you will leave the old one up for a while to get me here? So glad it worked...now, I am curious...why did you move it? Mandy
First time commenter, but faithful reader.
Darby, you are incredibly - creatively clever.
My family and I moved from B'ham, AL in May of last year and a few months ago landed on your blog via BBTN. To my surprise, it was the post where you were posing in your newly made apron (adorable by the way) and my heart skipped a beat because your kitchen looked just like our B'ham home kitchen (from the photo) right down to the two different cabinet/drawer knows and handles. For a (very) brief moment I thought it was our beloved home.
Any who, love the header, love your blog.
Just wanted to let you know that I followed you! :)
The new site looks wonderful! I recognize the artist - Saratams from Etsy? Precious!
Can't wait to continue keepin' up!
forget my other comment, must have been my other computer acting up! the blog looks great
i'm with you! your title is great -- one of my fave pete seeger songs [assuming that's where it came from?!]
LOL (laugh out loud - he he) at your chatting and facebook! I have also had the bizarre dreams about people after reconnecting on facebook.
Love your new design.
Hi! I love the title of this post!! ;) You're too cute, girl!
I like the new blog, but I'm curious why?
I might try to ring you today just to catch up.
Both Rhys and I had GREAT dr's appointments this week, so we've been on the go! :) AND I got my hair cut again! Rhys went with me! :) He is doing great as my little partner!
Okay, I hope to talk today. I did get your IM last night, but you were signed off before I could turn around to the computer! :) Russell just got home, and we were enjoying dinner together before I collapsed on the sofa, Rhys and my head in Russell's lap! :)
Don't you just LOVE it!? :)
I'm a pretty new follower anyway but I'm addicted to your blog! I found yours after Erika's, which I found via Courtney @ Inside the Loop-- I also live in Houston-- and I love all the great things you do on here! -Jess
Pleated Apron: Post or printable PDF
Roman Shade
Clothing Tags
Stamped Onesies {with fabric paint}
Fabric Flowers for bows and pins
Personalized Labels: StepbyStep
Hair Bow Tutorial
Eyelet Sock Tutorial
Tierd Skirt Tutorial {pics coming soon!}
Sling Pictures & Info
Sewing & Embroidery Info
Appliques 101 {without an Embroidery Machine}
House Renovations:
part 1 (the den)
part 2 (the office)
part 3 (the LR & DR)
part 4 (the kitchen & FR)
part 5 (the master bedroom)
part 6 (the orange bathroom)
the nursery
the girls room
& keeping honest:
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Yes, Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Dave Nonis is willing to trade Nazem Kadri. No, he's not trying to trade Kadri.
If you find that confusing, if not counterintuitive, hey, don't worry about it — because it is.
Nonis was speaking on TSN 1050 on Thursday afternoon. He was asked directly if he was willing to trade Kadri, the team's most talented center, and answered thusly, according to a transcript by @Hope_Smoke:
"I think it's easy to say that Kadri is struggling but he's having a decent year. It's not like he's not putting up points. Last year he was producing against other teams' 2nd and 3rd lines. This year he is playing against better players … Kadri and (Jake) Gardiner's names are brought up quite a bit, so is (Morgan) Rielly's. We'd be willing to trade Kadri. There's a difference between willing to and trying to. If the right deal comes up we would do it."
And that's the rub for Nonis; sure, Kadri, at 23, is dealing with a down-tick in production. After a 44-point season last year in 48 games, he's at 27 (11 goals, 16 assists) through 45 games. Part of that was to be expected, though; he was aided last year by Toronto's high shooting percentage with him on the ice at even strength (15.2 percent), which meant more points. That's swung in the other direction this year, to 7.4 percent. That's a bit below the league average, around 8 percent.
From a less quantifiable standpoint, and within the context of the Leafs as a team, Kadri is the most offensively gifted center in a center-starved organization. He's also still quite young. In short, he's the exact sort of player Toronto needs, and unless they move him as part of a deal for a blue-chip, better-than-him center, it's tough to see how a move would make sense.
So sure, Nonis can be willing to trade Kadri — for a really, really good center. (Whether he's wise to say that on the radio is another issue entirely). But for the good of his team, he shouldn't be too quick on the trigger, because "the right deal" isn't going to be easy to find. Most teams like to hold on to their own really, really good centers.


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Brown walked back his comments on the Dan Patrick Show
Brown walked back his comments on the Dan Patrick Show
no mensa candidate tim brown is. he has a college degree ? from nd? jerry rice went to auto mechanic school. don't know about the game plan change or even how much it changed from what they practiced. barret robbins was probably only one of the raiders who did a bit too much partying before the game. you know they had their reputation to uphold as bad azzes. if callahan is guilty of anything it's not changing the play signals from what gruden had.
The Raiders ran the ball 11 times the whole game! Gannon threw 44 passes and THREE pick sixes.
39. Barrett Robbins
Sport: Football
Criminal History: Attempted murder, releasing arrest, drug possession
Time Behind Bars: Five years
In January '03 Barret Robbins wrecked, what on the surface, was a pretty amazing life. As a highly paid NFL star, the Raiders center was days away from starting in the Super Bowl. Then, **** happened.
In a manic state Robbins disappeared from the team, surfacing days later with drugs in his system. The Raiders center (who was responsible for pass-protection calls) blamed himself for Oakland's 48-21 Super Bowl XXXVII loss. After undergoing treatment, Robbins regained his position with the team only to be released after testing positive for steroids.
His life continued to spin out of control when a brawl with police officers in Miami left the bipolar former football star with three gunshot wounds and five years probation. Robbins was sentenced to a five-year prison sentence last year for drug possession and probation violation.
I went to this a Super Bowl in SD and the last pick 6 won me a lot of cash.
Maybe I should send BC a thank you card.
Brown and Rice sound like a couple of whiners. Embarrassing especially for Rice.


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Mac OSX Installation
From Gerris
←Older revision | Newer revision→
OS X 10.4 (Intel) Installation
Below are steps that have worked for at least three people, installing Gerris under Mac OS X 10.4 (Intel).
- You will need the Apple development tools installed - this is a free download from http://developer.apple.com/tools/.
- Check that you have Apple's X11 and the X11 SDK installed. They are not installed by default on a new machine (at least as far I could figure out). If X11 is not installed, in OS X 10.4 you need to reinstall your system from the DVD (See here). Reinstalling the system will not remove your user files. (For comparison, on my system, the versions were X11 1.1.3 - XFree86 4.4.0 .)
- Install Fink (http://finkproject.org).
- Install various dependencies that Gerris requires.
sudo fink install pkgconfig glib2 glib2-dev glib2-shlibs gtk+2 gtk+2-dev \ gtkglext1 startup-notification-dev \ startup-notification-shlibs
Other packages may also be necessary. Look at the error messages during the configuration steps below to see what packages may be missing. Then the best way to resolve the problem may be to install "fink commander". Then search for all the packages that have a name beginning with pango, gtk+, atk1 and install all of them. Trial and error should eventually lead you to a full installation of all the necessary packages.
- Install darcs (needed to obtain the latest version of Gerris, GTS, and GfsView - the packaged versions available on the web do not work). Darcs is not available in Fink either.
- Download the DMG from http://glozer.net/darcs/, and mount it.
- From the DMG, Drag GMP.Framework into /Library/Frameworks.
- From the DMG, put the 'darcs' executable wherever you wish (e.g. /usr/local/bin).
- From a suitable folder, obtain the latest versions of GTS, Gerris, and GfsView.
darcs get http://gfs.sf.net/darcs/gerris/gerris-stable darcs get http://gts.sf.net/darcs/gts-mainline darcs get http://gfs.sourceforge.net/darcs/gfsview/gfsview-mainline
- We will install these in /opt/gerris to keep them isolated from the rest of the system. This requires /opt/gerris/lib/pkgconfig to be added to your PKG_CONFIG_PATH. This directory does not exist yet - it will be created in the next step.
echo "export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/opt/gerris/lib/pkgconfig" >> ~/.profile
- Check your version of automake:
% automake --version
Currently (November 8, 2007) this installation procedure works with automake 1.6.3 which ison your system by default. Delete any more recent automake package: check for instance automake packages installed by fink. In the future, more recent packages may be needed.
- Add the gerris directory to your path (so gts-config works properly).
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/opt/gerris/bin" >> ~/.profile
- Compile and install GTS, Gerris and GfsView.
cd gts-mainline sh autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gerris make && make install cd ../gerris-stable sh autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gerris make && make install cd ../gfsview-mainline sh autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gerris make && make install
- Test your installation. Beware of end of line characters.
- You're done !
Optional tools
If we want to generate MPEG movies using ppm2mpeg we will need ffmpeg which is not available in Fink stable, so we must install it manually.
- Download the latest SVN snapshot from http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg-export-snapshot.tar.bz2
- Unpack and install it.
tar -xvjf ffmpeg-export-snapshot.tar.bz2 cd ffmpeg-export-<insert date here> ./configure --prefix=/opt/gerris make && make install


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A Possible Free Agent Signing
So today I was checking out some articles on the web and came across a whole bunch of possible moves the Yankees could and should make during the off-season.
I saw the laundry list of players the Yanks should acquire: John Lackey, Roy Halladay, Matt Holliday, etc. But one name I saw struck my attention. I remember seeing this kid on an ESPN piece not long ago and his story really captivated me.
I am of course speaking about Aroldis Chapman.
This 21 year-old left-hander and native of Cuba has been called one of the "best pitchers in the world right now who is not in the major leagues."
That's a pretty bold statement if you ask me.
Chapman has been through a lot in his young life. In the spring of 2008, he attempted to defect from Cuba to the United States, but was caught before he could flee. Chapman was then sent to Havana to meet with President Raul Castro, who suspended him from the National Series season and told him he could not play on the Cuban Olympic baseball team in Beijing.
He was however allowed to participate in the World Baseball Classic this past March, pitching for the Cuban team in the international tournament. He was not all that impressive however, going 0-1 with a bloated 5.68 ERA in two appearances.
Chapman walked four batters over the 6 2/3 innings he pitched, but also struck out eight.
This past summer, Chapman finally broke free from the Cuban chains and defected. While the Cuban National team was playing in the World Port Tournament in the Netherlands on July 1, Chapman walked out the front door of the hotel and like a man who had just committed a crime he got into a getaway car driven by an accomplice.
That has "mafia movie" written all over it.
Chapman escaped and now lives somewhere in Andorra, a small country located in southwestern Europe. Although he hasn't made it to the United States yet, he has contacted Major League Baseball and petitioned for free agency.
And now everybody wants him.
If the Yankees were to sign him, he would not be the first Cuban-defected pitcher to don the pinstripes. "El Duque," also known as Orlando Hernandez, defected from Cuba in 1998 and joined up with the Yanks in mid-season.
Hernandez certainly helped the pitching staff in '98, tossing some huge games for the Yankees down the stretch and in the postseason. His teammates sometimes got agitated with him because he went through violent mood swings, but I guess they looked past it since he pitched well.
Chapman is not a big kid–he's only 6'4, 180 pounds. He is a fast kid–he supposedly throws 102 miles per hour. He looks like he has the potential and makeup of a future ace. But looks can be deceiving; he hasn't really been tested yet, so I can't say if I want him or I don't want him on the Yankees.
I mean, Kei Igawa pitched well in another country, how did that work out?
But I think Chapman is a lot different than Igawa; if the scouts are calling him "one of the best pitchers in the world not currently in the majors," then there must be something special about him.
I also think he is brave. The kid can probably never go back to his home country. If he goes back to Cuba, there's a good chance he will be killed by his government; they get angry at these pitchers who defect, being that baseball is huge there. And everyone he loves is there–his mom, his dad, his two sisters, his girlfriend, and oh, yeah, his child.
Chapman, the 21 year-old baby, has a baby of his own.
I don't think I could ever make that sacrifice. Well first of all, it makes me sad that he is a year younger than me and already has a child. I can't even get a date at this point, let alone have a baby (but that's another story for another day!)
But having to leave behind everything that you love for the sake of baseball–that is dedication and pure love of the game. I love baseball, but I'm not sure I would love it enough to leave everyone I know and love behind.
In any event, Chapman will be pursued by many teams this off-season. So far from what I have read today, the Yankees, Mets, and Red Sox are interested in him. Which team he chooses obviously remains to be seen, as this winter is very young.
Good luck with your decision, Aroldis. Choose wisely. But just remember what team will be defending champions in 2010…


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Sun's Linux Desktop ("JDS") Looks Just Like Windows to an Expert...for better or worse.
Anyone familiar with the Sun booth this year knows they run only one or two Windows machines. The rest are Sun's new Linux desktop, Java Desktop System.
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Released to theaters on October 17, the game-inspired flick was panned by reviewers, but topped the box office during its first weekend. Overall, the movie is said to have grossed $40 million in the domestic box office.
Director Moore had previously revealed that he was prepping a "Gamer Dedicated Cut" of the movie for its home release, explaining that the new version features "some extra sensibilities for people who really adore the game."


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"Suspicion-less searches" comes in handy
"We had your laptop searched for no reason, we never suspected you of doing anything wrong..."
This way, nobody could ever complain of discriminatory treatment based on race, nationality, religion, etc.
Detroit is in the Constitution-Free Zone [aclu.org], so this isn't much of a surprise. It's sad what we threw away in the War on Drugs, and will of course perpetuate in the Wars on Whatever's Handy.
It gives no information.
This does:
Basically, 99% of Californians are considered to be living "on the border", which is crazy.
It's crazy on several levels.
First, the actual border between the U.S. and international waters is several miles out. The place where water meets shore is not actually the border.
Second, people living "on the coast" aren't literally on the coast, they are unambiguously on the U.S. side of the border, but "on" in that context means "adjacent to". So it's basically a pun on two different uses of the word "on".
Third and most ridiculously, the definition of border they are using includes being 50 miles from the border!
So even if we took the actual land/water line to be the border, and accepted the metaphorical usage of "on" in the phrase "I live on the coast in California".... If you were living 50 miles away from the coast, you wouldn't say "I live on the coast"! You'd say "I live an hour away from the coast."
That's why it's crazy.
The US border patrol operates fixed and roving checkpoints as much as 100 miles from the nearest border, even on roads that do not cross the border. The fact that you are unambiguously on the U.S. side of the border is irrelevant. You can still be searched and your stuff seized without warrant and now without suspicion.
I know, I've gone through those checkpoints. It's irrelevant to them that I'm not actually at the border because they're using a crazy definition of "border", but it's very relevant to the Constitutional issues. That's the whole fucking point!
This is the one to ram the point home!
http://www.aclu.org/constitution-free-zone-map [aclu.org]
live in the orange? then this story applies to you!
they can search whatever the hell they want if you live there.
no warrant
no recourse
http://bit.ly/100MILES [bit.ly]
Am I the only one who wants the ACLU to publish a map of the revised US map, if you remove the parts that aren't covered by the US Constitution
And flag, blacking out the affected stars and what stripes correspond to affected states and original 13 colonies respectively. Or make the stars look like cigar burns and the stripes like ash.
Based on the treatment of Wikileaks, the US citizens accused of terrorism, police spying on purely political organizations, etc, etc, it looks like their website already has such a map here [aclu.org].
Also consider that an international airport qualifies as a border for customs and immigration purposes, so presumably the next argument will be that arbitrary searches are allowed within 100 miles of one.
Yeah, posting the map alone is rather nonsense. If I remember correctly, it's the zone US custom says they can still halt you and search your luggage and vehicle for customs, without any warrant, or at least the ACLU's interpretation of it.
In practice, I suspect it's 100 miles from a land border - not the whole west and east coast - and they will probably have seen you cross the border and sent a patrol out to search you. But in a literal reading of the law, neither is a requirement. In principle they can s
There are no rights in those zones. Those zones will be growing to encompass the entire country, soon.
Considering the way the government is behaving today and the way the courts are acting, I don't think anything short of a Constitutional amendment is going to protect our property against unreasonable searches and seizures. But something like that would probably never get the 2/3 majority it would need in Congress.
I don't think anything short of a Constitutional amendment is going to protect our property against unreasonable searches and seizures
Great idea!
I would propose maybe the following wording:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to b
It's sad what we threw away in the War on Drugs
Yeah, such as a snowball's chance in hell of solving any drug problems.
Imprisoning a million people for non-violent offences and turning them into hardened criminals isn't exactly the greatest crime-fighting strategy ever devised. Especially when it costs 55,000 USD per person per year. But then why bother trying to improve recividism rates when, with privatised prisons, you have a financial incentive to keep as many people in prison as possible?
Similar situation south of the border. I hate being sent on business travels to a country that hates my people an treats me like a coke dealer and reserves the right to look at my junk on a whim. So I refuse to carry my own equipment there, insisting on my boss providing equipment on arrival. It works because company laptops aren't personally assigned.
How does this differ from warrant-less searches of anything else when crossing US Borders (pockets, glove box, trunk, luggage, etc)?
I travel with a laptop for remote access to business stuff, even on holidays (emergencies only, of course). Because of travel to the USA I've specifically bought a EEE that could be confiscated without too much out of pocket expense, but it's a real pain to operate some things on the tiny 10" screen instead of my purpose-bought Dell.
Does this seriously bother any other
I travel internationally frequently on business as do many of my friends and colleges. Of the over 50 total trips I'm aware of my circle of acquaintances taking, never once has anyone been stopped for a warrantless computer search. While there are certainly personal liberty concerns related to presumption of guilt/innocence or guilt by association, the practical reality is that unless you're a friend of Julian Assange, you're not likely to ever encounter this.
And even this friend of Julian Assange was not forced to divulge his encryption key and had his laptop returned. (http://randomchaos.us/hacking/another-hacker%E2%80%99s-laptop-cell-phones-searched-at-border.html)
So if you are concerned about the potential of these searches, encryption may be a more practical way to feel safer.
"So if you are concerned about the potential of these searches, encryption may be a more practical way to feel safer."
I'm sure an American Muslim traveling on business with his company's confidential data, encrypted to prevent corporate espionage, feels oh so safe and unlikely to be inconvenienced by a search.
While there are certainly personal liberty concerns related to presumption of guilt/innocence or guilt by association, the practical reality is that unless you're a friend of Julian Assange, you're not likely to ever encounter this.
Or you look Muslim. Or you just happen to be someone who pissed off a border agent or TSA guard. Maybe in practice it doesn't hit you personally, but when it comes to civil liberties an encroachment on anybody is an encroachment on everybody.
It's worth noting that the uproar about the backscatter machines really started when wealthier white guys started getting the same sort of degrading treatment that non-white travelers had been getting for years. I certainly noticed the last time I flew anywhere (which w
Just have it shipped to your hotel before you arrive. Notify the hotel to expect a package and hold it for you and you shouldn't have a problem. Which, of course, just goes to show what a ridiculous piece of security theater the whole thing is.
If they're consistent, that also allows warrantless searches of any postal package - and I think they do. Happened to me once here in Norway, the package had a nice sticker saying opened by customs.
The best option is just to have a clean machine and download everything over the Internet. Last I checked there was no such thing as digital customs. Security theater doesn't even being to cover how silly this is.
Considering I live ~1.5hrs from 3 major US border points, 2hrs from 5 border points. I consider the entire thing useless, including one point that is unmanned. Traveling to the US is a pain in the ass, I haven't done it in nearly 3 years. Hell traveling to asia and europe is easier. If they don't want my business, or my tourist money that's fine. Because Japan does even if they require biometric data upon entering.
can someone explain what justification they are offering for this decision? besides what seems to be the only obvious answer of simply allowing the law enforcement to do whatever they please?
As someone else above mentioned it's about this: Constitution Free Zone [aclu.org]. They are basically validating that the Constitution Free Zone pertains to computers/data just as much as it pertains to your pockets, bag, car trunk, etc.
Mind, I don't agree with it and never have but there is a lot of precedence for this. I'd like to see the whole shebang overturned but we're definitely only going to see the digital aspect of it get worse unless all this "close to the border" BS is completely overturned.
I'm guessing the justification would be that inspecting your data is merely the electronic equivalent of searching your possessions and your person.
It is an interesting question: what is the legal status of your data? Is it your "possession"? Can having certain types of data be considered an illegal act? Can possession of data make one dangerous to others?
can someone explain what justification they are offering for this decision? besides what seems to be the only obvious answer of simply allowing the law enforcement to do whatever they please?
I dunno, the official list will have stuff like "obscene materials" (child porn), terrorist activities, and the like.
A reason you won't see is "we want your corporate secrets". Industrial espionage - nothing's better than seeing a competitor crossing hte border, seizing his laptop and sending it off the American company
can someone explain what justification they are offering for this decision? besides what seems to be the only obvious answer of simply allowing the law enforcement to do whatever they please?
Won't somebody think of the children? Law enforcement needs to be able to stop people from importing kitty porn into the states at the border! Because obviously there is no other way to get data into the US than hand carrying it on a laptop! If you are against having your laptop arbitrarily taken away from you at the border, then you must be in favor of child pornography, you pervert!
If you have to travel outside the US, make use of FTP, webmail, etc to move your sensitive data. And own a cheapass laptop that you don't mind getting confiscated.
If you have to travel outside the US, make use of FTP, webmail, etc to move your sensitive data.
Yeah, cause that's secure.
Then the Constitution needs to be fixed.
Don't worry, it's not, but the Constitution has been deemed a threat to national security and as such has been demoted in level of importance.
Then the Constitution needs to be fixed.
I think your/their constitution has been "fixed" a few too many times already.
The problem is people who are still prepared to travel to the USA. You are the ones making this acceptable. You are the ones happy to bring your productivity and your coin into a country which should be ostracised until it stops treating visitors as criminals and returns to something resembling reasonable.
I gave up my business interests in the US following their slow bastardisation of the notion of rights after 2001. I made a personal loss, but I feel all the more human for it. And it serves its purpose. Af
Oh, but I am. And I agree about the feel more human. Oddly, I've never felt more human since I moved to Canada from the UK. It's not perfect, but I feel I have more of a say and that the politicians are less slimy. Alas, that is changing too though
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but before we all start quoting 1984...hasn't this kind of search always been legal in the United States?
"That searches made at the border, pursuant to the longstanding right of the sovereign to protect itself by stopping and examining persons and property crossing into this country, are reasonable simply by virtue of the fact that they occur at the border, should, by now, require no extended demonstration...Authorized by the First Congress (1789)"
Yes, but for data, it doesn't seem to make much sense since the same search doesn't occur for data that travels over the border. All I have to do is wipe my drive before I enter, then pull the data over the net later. Just because it's legal, doesn't mean it makes any sense.
So border searches have always been legal. The Supreme Court has ruled before that you've no expectation of privacy at the border, and that nations have the right to secure their borders by searches. This has been pretty uncontroversial for a long time. However the thing is these searches were for security and for preventing smuggling and the like. So what they could do (and did) was check your bags, your car, etc for contraband and/or dangerous items. Then you were on your way.
Well laptops are different and make two new problems:
1) They are actually seizing them, with no evidence of anything wrong. In past searches they could look through your stuff for any reason or no reason at all, but if everything was fine, you went on your way. With laptops they claim the right to seize them, and hold them for an indefinite period. That is real different than a search. Imagine if at the border they took your bag and said "We are going to take this off to check. We won't tell you who gets to look at it or when you can have it back. We don't have any evidence there is anything wrong, but we are taking it anyhow."
2) Computers are like journals, or other personal writings in many ways and those were not searched/copied at the border. So while they could go through your bag and look for drugs, they couldn't take your personal papers, copy them, and read through them. They weren't allowed to pry in to any and every detail of your life, just check for security reasons or smuggling reasons. You can see how a laptop, particularly one that has e-mail stored on it, would be very similar to personal papers.
That's the issue here. Nobody is saying they can't have a look at the laptop to make sure it isn't a bomb, or hasn't had its innards removed and replaced with drugs. What they are saying is they shouldn't be able to take the laptop, hold on to it for an indefinite time, copy the data, hand it out to other federal agencies and not tell you who, and so on.
That searches made at the border
The point is, that the word border is being redefined to cover places where 66% of US citizens live. Basically this means that officials can seize the personal possessions of most Americans without any legal recourse at all.
Perhaps you believe that these officials can be trusted. Perhaps that is the case today. However, there is a reason why "malfeasance" is a word in the dictionary.
And the Terrorists WON!!!!
You're just getting that?
I blame Bill Clinton. If he hadn't been busy getting a blowjob from a fat chick he'd have been able to go to Afghanistan, climb up the side of a mountain with a bowie knife in his teeth, and gut that bin Laden sonofabitch while he slept.
I also blame W. Actually, I do really blame W. He did more to exacerbate the fear than he did to assuage it. And he did nothing but inflame antiamerican sentiment among Muslims and pretty much anyone else who was watching him start the Iraq war w
In this case, Tallman ruled that such transportation is justified because the forensic tools need to adequately search the computers were located at another facility.
"The border search doctrine is not so rigid as to require the United States to equip every entry point -- no matter how desolate or infrequently traveled -- with inspectors and sophisticated forensic equipment," Tallman said in his ruling.
In situations where "logic and practicality" may require equipment presented at the border to be transporte
about border search being different from search inside the country.
What it says is
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Doesn't even say "citizens". Just says "people". I.e., this whole thing about warrantless border searches is and always has been unconstitutional.
But I don't expect the Alice in Wonderland court to overturn it. They'll just point to the turtles going all the way down and say that's what they've balanced the world on, therefore one more turtle will be fine.
They dont call it the Ninth Circus for nothing
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Niki Lauda says Mercedes is "constantly learning new things" about its new engine ahead of the start of testing.
The first test in Jerez takes place in just over three weeks' time, with the new 1.6-litre V6 turbo engines set to receive their first track test in the 2014 cars. Lauda told Auto Motor und Sport that Mercedes has so far found cooling to be a key aspect, as the engines are very susceptible to overheating.
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In recent years, chronic diseases have gradually overtaken infectious diseases as the most common causes of death. Fast-food culture is lowering the age at which people are affected by metabolic disorders and obesity has become one of the most important causes of death.
In promoting public health, the National Health Insurance (NHI) program excessively over-emphasizes clinical treatment, while paying scant attention to prevention. The result is Taiwanese have grown accustomed to visiting hospitals for every problem, big or small, even visiting multiple hospitals for the same illness. Taiwanese also have a bad habit of taking lots of supplements and tonics, which can damage the kidneys, thus making an extraordinarily high number of people dependent on renal dialysis. People have forgotten that exercise is the most effective and cheapest kind of medicine.
The nation's biggest health problem is that a far lower proportion of young and middle-aged people are in the habit of taking regular exercise compared with their counterparts in advanced European and American countries. Furthermore, physical education classes in high schools are often canceled and replaced by classes in exam subjects. Many college students who would like to take physical exercise classes find that there are few available.
Meanwhile, workers suffer harsh conditions under a market-driven economy. Many employees are so overworked that they have no time or energy left for exercise. This widespread lack of physical exercise is becoming a long-term crisis for the economy.
Government officials should change Taiwan so that it becomes known as a place where everyone takes part in sports and fitness activities.
First, the Executive Yuan should promote popular participation in sports and fitness. By encouraging businesses to gradually reduce working hours and set up sports and fitness clubs, employees could get regular exercise. County and city governments should organize sport-related competitions and social activities at weekends. Time should be set aside for civil servants to do fitness activities, just as hours are allocated for mandatory education and training.
The availability of physical education and students' levels of physical fitness should be included in the assessment criteria for schools. The business world must get used to the idea that workers are an important asset, and firms should provide motivation and facilities for employees to take exercise.
Second, the Department of Health (DOH), should adjust NHI payouts to provide incentives based on improvement in patients' health. Health indices integrated with medical information systems can be used to determine payments based on health outcomes rather than the number of patients seen. This would help cut the NHI's expenditure as the second-generation NHI program comes into operation.
Third, when the proposed Ministry of Health and Welfare is eventually established, the existing Bureau of Health Promotion and the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control should be combined. Like the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the amalgamated bureau could integrate management of infectious and chronic diseases for more effective prevention. After all, metabolic disorders are an important cause of death for people suffering from infectious diseases, such as influenza and dengue hemorrhagic fever. This kind of integration would be of considerable benefit in improving the health of Taiwanese.
Health is our single most precious asset. Hopefully, Taiwan can serve as a successful model for advocating exercise for all citizens and promoting health for all in Asia.
King Chwan-chuen is a professor in the college of public health at National Taiwan University.
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Americans sure do love football. NCAA Football 14--the last game in the series before EA Sports moves to the more generic "College Football" name--topped the charts. The retail version of Minecraft for Xbox 360 managed to jump a spot on the list from #3 to #2 proving that Notch's blocky build 'em up shows no sign of slowing down. Naughty Dog's PS3-exclusive The Last of Us drops from #1 to #3, but it's reassuring that people seem to like good games.
Once again, Nintendo 3DS is the best-selling system for the month. Odd to think that the console was so troubled at launch, no? Nintendo is certainly hoping for a similar turnaround with Wii U. "July 2013 was another positive month for 3DS software sales, with strong double-digit growth in both units and dollars," NPD industry analyst, Liam Callahan said. "Besides launches like Shin Megami Tensei IV, growth was driven by continued success from games that have launched over the past few months like Animal Crossing: New Leaf, and Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon."
According to Nintendo of America, Animal Crossing sold over 660K units so far, while Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon has over 820K in sales.
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- NBA 2K13 (360, PS3, Wii, Wii U, PSP, PC)
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