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Last week, before a severe sinus infection hit me, I made a plain black top and this top. The above top is made from a lovely mint green jersey knit with black polka dots. This pattern has several pieces, sleeves, top front, top back and then lower front and lower back. It is based on a store bought top that I love wearing.
I finally started feeling human again last night and decided to draft my own cap sleeve top pattern. This is after I searched through my own (one million!) patterns and then went online and bought more patterns from http://www.sewingpatterns.com. Needless to say, the patterns I bought were not what I was looking for! But they are very nice...
Once again, I used bits and pieces of other patterns and the rest I did by hand. Think this will work. As soon as I have time, I plan to try this pattern out.
Hope you all have a great week!


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Keeping Up with the Joneses #99
With the birth of the first set of twins in the Jones family in three generations, the Jones household was expanding faster than expected. Felicia decided to build an upstairs area with two bedrooms to allow some family members to get away from the chaos.
The new bedrooms also provided a lot of inspiration for Edith to draw on while she painted. She wasn't far now from becoming both a Patron of the Arts and completing her dreams of being a Painter Extraordinaire.
While Edith spent her time painting, Erik was working towards his goals. He was a busy Sim, free of the duties of being an heir. He was a collector of rocks, plants, frogs and more, earning himself the Curator title. He then turned his mind to other skills, which lined up nicely with his career as an interstellar smuggler. He achieved the Nerd Brain and Freelance Botanist titles as well as the Mansion Baron and the Fabulously Wealthy aspirations. This earned him the Over Achiever nickname.
Meanwhile, Glen and Genesis had grown up. Glen was a mean little boy with lots of energy, so he spent most of his time on the monkey bars in the back yard.
Genesis was more of a geek than her brother, and was determined to be the smartest kid in school. Erik helped her by challenging her to many chess matches.
Sometimes he even let her win.

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Don Draper doesn't mind calling a woman a doll. Now, he is one.
AMC and Mattel Wednesday announced plans to launch a "Mad Men" series of Barbie dolls featuring four characters from the drama. Don and Betty Draper, Roger Sterling and Joan Hathaway will all be immortalized in the porcelain-like Silkstone.
"Each doll is stylized in iconic costumes from the series, and comes with accessories true to their show counterparts," Mattel promises. "Don Draper wears his classic, polished red-lined suit and comes accessorized with a hat, overcoat and brief case; Betty Draper's classic look is captured with unparalleled detail, from her faux pearl necklace to her pumps; Joan Holloway looks chic in a purple skirt suit and perfectly styled coif with her staple accessory – a pen necklace; and Roger Sterling is looking dapper in his monogrammed shirt."
Sketch drawings of the dolls will be included in the DVD release of "Mad Men Season Three" (dropping March 23). The dolls themselves go on sale in July for a suggested retail price of $74.95.
Here's how the foursome look:


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Famous rapper, Kanye West, found himself on a rather ugly side of plastic surgery when in 2007, his 58 year old mother, Donda, passed away due to complications with her liposuction and breast surgery after being performed by unqualified hands. Kanye is now banning his girlfriend, Kim Kardashian, from pursuing plastic surgery.
Kim, an open user of the non-surgical BOTOX® Cosmetic, has allegedly been banned by Kanye West from pursuing cosmetic surgery. Kanye's decision is influenced by the loss of his mother, Donda, who had died due to complications after undergoing liposuction and breast reduction. Due to health problems, Donda had been turned down for her procedure by several plastic surgeons before finding one that would treat her.
According to RadarOnline.com, Kim, who has recently given birth to daughter North West, "wanted to have surgery after giving birth because she wanted a head start on losing her baby weight."
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New Business Cards
One thing that I've really procrastinated on was making business cards. Part of that was the fact that I usually work with a project manager, hence not meeting clients directly all that often. The other part of that was, of course, plain laziness. However, I was going to attend an iPhone developer meetup (which went well, btw), so I thought I should have at least have some kind of business card ready.
So I went to Staples to get some blank business cards and markers. (I also realized that there was a strip club right across from Staples. Interesting. This was less than a mile from where I live and I have been driving by this area every day for the past year and never noticed it, but that's another story.) There were some that were more formal, CEO-looking, with gold frames and everything, but I felt like that was not quite me. So instead I went with this one that was sky blue with clouds on it.
And there was a sky/cloud background. So I thought, why not draw something sky-related on it? Might as well, right? So here's the outcome. (Click on the picture to see it bigger.)
As you can see, I started out just drawing the sun. Then some birds. And then I got bored and wanted to draw something more elaborate. What else had a sky background? Super Mario Brothers, of course! (Perhaps I thought of that because I just recently watched the Video Games Live concert on TV. It was pretty awesome, btw.)
What else was in the sky? Superman, airplanes, and Space Invaders! Of course there were also balloons. I love balloons.
Of course, after several of these, I sort of ran out of stuff that made sense. So we got Pac Man trying to eat the sun, and bad puns like "pi in the sky" and "cloud computing". And someone (very xkcd-looking) standing on a ladder (not quite a staircase to heaven). And finally, the really ambitious Duck Hunt. These ended up taking up too much space though, but I did have fun drawing them.
And there was a moment after I finished them that I just felt like I no longer wanted to part with these drawings. But hey, I was happy to share them when I was actually giving them out.
Who knows? Maybe I'll just keep making business cards this way.


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Just simply pick the discipline that you love and get your friends and family to choose what they'd like to do to complete your relay team.
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Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) is a rare but serious syndrome characterized by sudden acute respiratory distress following transfusion. It is defined as new, acute lung injury (ALI) during or within six hours after blood product administration in the absence of temporally-associated risk factors for ALI.
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Blend avocado slices, taco sauce, onion, lemon juice, salt and garlic powder in blender. Chill. Serve with chips.
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When was the last time you massaged your stomach?
A suggestion: Tennis ball, lie down. Tennis ball to belly. Gentle pressure. Close your eyes and feel the sensations. The last thing you ate will be on the right bottom. Your liver (15-20lbs of you), right above that.
Ladies - this could help with moon issues, irregularity and cramps, (low middle, of course you know where that is, how about the ovaries too?).
I am definitely not a doctor, just and advocate for self-care. 💕🙏🏽


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This is a duplicate of the entry for Hawk #5 , March 1954 (St. John 1953 series).
It's numbered Both as Hawk 5 and Approved 1, on the cover And in the indicia.
Pencils originally credited to John Buscema. Barry and Anderson are credited by JVJon at Digital Comics Museum.
The horse's head of Buscema is much shorter and broader than here, as can be seen in Roy Rogers #80. Buscema had stiffer people and very close fitting costumes this early, which can also be seen in Roy Rogers. Notice the head of the girl on page 3, especially the inking of her hair with many short penlines, and you have Murphy Anderson. Dan Barry and Murphy Anderson are both credited to this series in Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
Credited by JVJon at Digital Comics Museum.


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The beat is what you nod your head or tap your foot to when you hear a song you like. It is a pulse in music that everything lines up to. 99% of the time, a song will use a count of 4 beats, which we call a bar. Whatever strumming we do for 1 bar, we tend to repeat this throughout an entire song. So when you look at a song, only 1 bar of strumming may be shown, which you learn to repeat while playing whatever chord is written. How fast you count this 1, 2, 3, 4 is called the tempo, aka speed or bpm (beats per minute)
This is a great place to start when learning any new song as it gives you chance to learn the chord changes. Plus- many real songs actually start like this! Count 1, 2, 3, 4 at a slow, even pace (out loud if needs be) and strum an E chord every time you say beat 1.
The strumming for any song is only shown as a 1 bar pattern. This is generally repeated for an entire song.


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Floor mirrors are an important decorative element that can be used throughout the home in bedrooms, living rooms and many other living spaces. With their incredible reflective properties, these large mirrors will not only add light to any room but also create the illusion of a much bigger space. Aside from their decorative features, mirrors are also a functional tool for checking reflections. There are four main types of floor mirrors to choose from.
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Once hung on the wall, these long mirrors make your ceilings seem higher and the room more spacious. Though usually hung vertically, some of these basic mirrors come with mounting equipment to allow them to hang horizontally. A horizontally hung mirror looks great above the sofa, above a bathroom vanity, above the bed or on the wall in a narrow hallway. They can also be hung across from the dining room table in a fancy dining space.
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On Living and Dying Day 10 by Vince Horan
by Vince Horan of Compassion Zone
Clark Moustakas wrote a book called TURNING POINTS, back in the sixties. His central theme was that there are four or five "turning points" that change the course of one's life for better or worse. As I reflected on each of the "turning points" of my life I discovered that each event was a catalyst for change in the "box of beliefs" that I carried through each stage of my life. Neale Donald Walsh in his series titled "CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD," asserts that change must happen at the level of belief for it to be permanent. So many of my "turning points" changed the course of my life permanently; and not in a way my brain could have ever anticipated. I would like to share a few of my turning points with all of you.
I came into this life in an Irish/Italian catholic family. While I was born in Brooklyn, New York, my dad joined the Army when I was three, so we traveled oversees when I was very young. I never felt like Brooklyn was my home. The theme of my life at that time was, adapt, adapt, adapt! My mother was big on image. Her favorite saying was; "you'll never make the 400,"( a millionaires club in New York). My take away was that I was never enough as I was.
When my parents decided to retire and bought a home in Lakewood, Washington, I was enrolled in a Catholic school. This was my first experience of community and faith. I was wonderstruck with the stories, the rituals and the traditions. On the other hand I was filled with shame, fear and anxiety as my budding sexuality was met with an onslaught of judgment and condemnation. I was told I was a sinner and would spend many years of my afterlife in purgatory as penance for my shameful choices. While I continued to grow and pursue my vision for life; I felt split and always carried an underlying shame and belief in my unworthiness. I would strive to be impressive on the outside; but, always lived in fear of you discovering what a shameful sinner I was on the inside, and then you would abandon me.
In my early twenties a friend of mine and I decided to join the army. We were both following our father's legacies and would join on the buddy system so we could stay connected through each other's careers. We decided to be paratroopers and began our military careers. However, things changed rapidly because I was put on a different track than my friend. In Jump School, I broke my ankle. I was given six weeks to heal, thirty days of R&R at home, and then sent to Vietnam. My experience there was frightening. I was a twenty year old man, eight thousand miles from home in a war zone where living and dying was my number one preoccupation. I was scared out of my mind and in complete survival mode. Two and a half months later I stepped on a land mine. My life and career were now changed forever.
The twentieth year of my life was a significant turning point in my life. I broke my ankle in Jump School on my 20th birthday. After one year of Vietnam, the land mine and many months of surgeries and rehabilitation, I got out of the Army on my 21st birthday. I call that the year of transformation. In later years I would describe that time as a near death experience that transformed me from being "a warrior of the body", to "a warrior of the heart".
Upon my return from Vietnam, I immediately enrolled in college and pursued my academic, dating and drinking career. I had lots of sex, found the woman of my dreams, was known as one of the friendliest drunks on campus, and had enough intelligence to graduate and move on to graduate school. I managed to get a graduate degree and began my professional career as a counselor. My marriage was a mess. We separated once in grad school and the struggles continued into my career. I was still drinking heavily at the time.
Another turning point occurred on a weekend when my wife and I were contemplating divorce. She went home to her parents for the weekend and I went on a bender for the weekend with my neighbor in the apartment below our own. After two days of drinking, I awoke that Sunday morning with a hellacious headache and started what would turn out to be a six hour walk. That day May 12th, 1972, the last day I ever drank alcohol. We divorce soon after. I buried my feelings through lots of sexual exploits, but found myself depressed and questioning my life.
I was in dialogue with a friend from grad school who was also depressed and unhappy with his life and we both decided to leave our jobs and spend some time together traveling. I quit my job, sold everything I had and moved home. Within a few months my friend had closed up his life and we left on a road trip that landed us in the mountains of Colorado. We settled in a ski resort called Steamboat Springs. It was a small town at the time with one movie theater and lots of bars and the resort. My friend was contemplating suicide and had brought the book; ON DEATH AND DYING, by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. That book was transformative for me. It was my first introduction to the grieving process. The only movie in town was Woody Allen's, LOVE AND DEATH, which we saw about ten times. My friend would often drive off alone and I wasn't sure if he would come back. He was that depressed. His depression helped me decide I was not that depressed and wanted to live. The decision to live was another turning point that, once again, set in motion a series of events that were both healing and transformational.
I often muse that once I made the decision to live my life has been guided by a higher spiritual consciousness. Now I am aware that it was my higher consciousness in collaboration with the entourage of angels, guides, loved ones and Ascended Masters who had helped me decide my purpose on the planet and the script I had chosen to live.
After leaving Colorado, I returned home and looked for work. Traditional job searches were revealing nothing, so I decided to walk over to the Catholic Church of my childhood shame. I was greeted with open arms and began an odyssey that would, once again, change the direction of my life.
I had discovered that the church had changed dramatically from when I left in my adolescence. I was hired as the youth minister. I was encourage to attend, and did achieve a Doctor of Ministries degree from another Jesuit university. I was encouraged to attend a weekend retreat for the divorced, separated and widowed to see if I could expand the ministry of the church to those who had been ostracized by the church. The mass was in English, not Latin. The altar was turned to face the people. Confession and penance was changed to discernment and reconciliation. There was more openness and acceptance of other spiritual traditions. Compassion was growing in the "Body of Christ". My spiritual world view was expanding.
I met my wife Sandra and we were married in that community. We have been together more than 38 years. I became a trainer and board member of Beginning Experience and had a wonderful life of service to the divorced, separated and widowed internationally. It was through both participation and facilitation in the Beginning Experience that I understood the connection between the grief process and the death resurrection process, so central to the church. I lived and witnessed the death to life process a thousand times. My compassion for humanity and the process of life expanded.
Soon after our marriage my wife's sister sent her son to us for help. He was an alcoholic/ addict. It wasn't long before he was in an alcohol related accident which set in motion another turning point of my life. We did the interventions necessary to get him into treatment; but they wanted us to be a part of his family program. We resisted but decided to go to support him, so we thought. But as we sat in the lectures and family groups a new revelation happened. They weren't teaching me about his addiction and broken family system, they were talking about mine. While I had stopped drinking all those years ago, I had never done any counseling to address the underlying issues of my family's battle with alcoholism, or my own.
Once again I was being divinely guided into another element of self- revelation and healing. Both Sandra and I opened ourselves to individual, couples and group therapy. For me the exposure to more information and awareness about dysfunctional family systems and the coping strategies helped to normalize and make sense of my past. The realization that it wasn't just me; but that thousands of others suffered similar traumas, helped relieve the guilt and shame about my past. I participated in structured group environments that allowed me to release my secrets, anger, sadness and fear, that helped create a shift in my self-esteem, and a lessoning of my depression and anxiety. Being supported by others alleviated my fears of rejection and condemnation. Learning the new strategies for life and healthy communications skills, bolstered my optimism that I was capable of being the loving man I believed myself to be. Without our mutual surrender and vulnerability to our processes of recovery, our marriage would have never survived.
In therapy I learned about my Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). I now understood and had compassion for the walled off emotions I kept buried deep inside. I was afraid of how my rage would come out; so I pretended to not have any. I understood my own emotional disconnect that affected my wife and family. Eventually, I wrote a book about my Vietnam experience and my own personal struggles with PTSD. It is called; BOY SOLDIER. The trauma and grief of that experience took me more than twenty years to discover and heal. There was an emotional availability that was dead to my life. But with lots of healing and support my emotional life is alive and well.
As I sit here and reflect on all that I have revealed to you I feel hope and compassion. I realize that the shame, fear, guilt, anxiety and depression I lived was based in my own ignorance and the false beliefs handed down to me by those who influenced my life in my early years. The "box of beliefs" I held on to was based in an underlying belief that I was flawed by nature and needed to adapt to the expectations of others to survive, seek approval and find redemption for my sins. Fear of criticism, punishment, rejection, abandonment and eternal damnation, were the motivating factors for seeking approval and acceptance. As I lived in fear of judgment of others; I would even more harshly judge myself. I call this strategy, "abandon before you get abandoned". The visions and dreams I had for my life slowly diminished into passivity and despair. I lived to survive, not to thrive in life.
It was the wisdom and compassion of others that helped me see and then heal the dysfunction of the attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that kept me bound to my shame. I realize that many of these "turning points" of my life could have easily taken me into more profound depression and despair. I have witnessed many family members and friends who died early in life because of untreated or mistreated addictions, diseases, or emotional trauma. I am thankful that I fought through my resistance and surrendered to the support that was offered.
Perspectives on living and dying are directly tied to your "boxes of beliefs" about life and death. As I have already detailed, my early beliefs were based in fear and ignorance. But with education, love and support of others my views on living and dying have changed dramatically. I believe that fear needs information, and grief needs to be witnessed by the compassionate support of others. Because of these things I no longer fear life and have no shame or fear about death.
But now let me take you in a different direction. Let's talk about thinking outside our "box of beliefs," and expand our consciousness about living and dying. Do you believe you can live to be 300 years old? 600? Do you believe in re-incarnation? Do you believe there can be peace on earth? Do you believe you can become your own medical intuitive? Do you believe that there is no judgment from God? Do you believe that you are part of God? Do you believe that God resides within you? Do you believe that you can change water into wine? Do you believe that the earth has a consciousness that is directly entangled with human consciousness? Do you believe there is life elsewhere in the universe? The masters of the earth believe all these things. There are many stories of ancient civilizations that demonstrated all these things. Some current religions believe some of these things.
The great masters on the planet did not come to save us; they came to teach us how to save ourselves. Jesus said: I have given you all that my father has given me so that my joy may be yours and your joy may be complete. He went on to say that you could do things even greater than he. He was a master who lived and demonstrated the capacity for human consciousness to expand and become the masters of life.
Neale Donald Walsh suggests that life, love and god are interchangeable concepts of the fundamental energy of the universe. Dare to believe that we are in god and god is in us. If you believe any or all of these beliefs it will change forever how you view life and death.
Because I have chosen these beliefs, I have found more joy in life. I see death only as a transition into the next phase of my soul's evolution. I now view all of my past experiences as lessons and opportunities to grow my consciousness. I feel grateful for those who played significant roles in my life's evolution. I feel compassion for those mired in the darkness of their own fear and ignorance. I am more patient each day and take time to appreciate and thank the earth that I walk on. I meditate and pray more. I trust my intuition to guide me. I believe I am eternally loved. I laugh more. I play more. I am privileged to see my life's work; not as a job, but a lifestyle. I take nothing for granted. I look forward to what life brings as the next opportunity to expand my consciousness. I know that I have the freedom to choose what enhances or diminishes my well-being. I am honored to be a light-worker in service to life.
I am the owner/counselor of Horan Counseling Services for 24 years. I work with my wife Sandra. I have also owner/director/ counselor at Passages Professional Counseling Services for more than six years. I also worked in a drug and alcohol treatment center, was a Youth Minister at St. Frances Cabrini Parish, and a counselor at Catholic Community Services. I have a Doctor of Ministries degree from the Jesuit School of theology in Berkeley, CA., A Master's Degree in Counseling from Gonzaga University, and a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from Seattle University. I taught counseling at Pierce College in Lakewood, WA. And I am a Vietnam veteran.
Written for the On Living and Dying series. If you'd like to be a part of the challenge, find more info here: 365 Days On Living and Dying. But first leave a comment and let Vince know how you feel about what he said, and be sure to visit him over at Compassion Zone when you're done.
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This is such an interesting read. As I publish articles, I am hoping that each article published will inspire someone else to write something. This article has definitely given me much to pause and consider in my own life. I love that we got to learn so much about you here as well. Thanks so much for your contribution!
Ahh Vince, I was already half in love with you, and now it's for sure!! DO tell Sandy how lucky she is. I know you didn't write this to get these kinds of strokes but you are an exceptional man and it's been an honor and a pleasure to have crossed paths with you, even just a few times all those years ago. So glad you shared this!
It's intriguing to read a piece written with such raw honesty. I believe your journey of spiritual consciousness suggests one point that I have witnessed; awakening of spirituality contains ebbs and flows and often a circling back to the point where one began. Yours is well articulated. Thanks for sharing.
I'm so glad you participated in this event. You have so many important life experiences to share.
I find the concept of turning points very interesting. I certainly have had them too, but have never thought of them in that way. Thanks.


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The Native American Cultural Center at Yale
by Julia Luthringer
in Admissions, Diversity
In order to help prospective F&ES students gain a better understanding of student life on the Yale campus, we've decided to launch a series introducing the bevvy of student centers at the college and university open to all undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. This week, we outline the history and mission of the Native American Cultural Center (NACC).
Yale College graduated its first Native American student, Henry Roe Cloud of the Winnebago Tribe, in 1910. Since that time, the Native American presence has grown significantly on campus, and in 1989 the Association of Native Americans at Yale (ANAAY) was founded with the hopes of attracting more Native American professors and students to share their knowledge of their rich culture and history with the wider Yale audience. The NACC…
The Forest Dialogue Week at Yale
by Jena Clarke
in Admissions, Conferences, The School
Every morning at 9:00, the administration emails students the calendar of events at the school for the next seven days. A steady stream of guest speakers, informational interviews, and networking lunches vie for students' attention. This week's Forest Dialogue Week is a prime example of the embarrassment of riches we constantly face when sorting out our daily schedules.
The Forest Dialogue (TFD) is an organization that facilitates discussion and collaboration across stakeholders on the most pressing local and global issues facing forests and people. TFD Week at Yale brings together international leaders from the forest sector to address current issues in forest management and to build shared understanding and work towards collaborative solutions. Participants in TFD include activists, industry representatives, community leaders, academic researchers, and of course students…
Bicycling in New Haven
Beyond all the other changes I've experienced so far in coming to New Haven, one of the most drastic is my mode of transportation. Prior to my move, I would commute about 15 minutes per day from my residence to Pace Law School, which I considered a pretty easy drive after growing up in rural Pennsylvania, where it took that long just to reach a grocery store, much less my high school (which was located 45 minutes by car away from my house). The culture of Westchester, New York is not very bike-centric; though there's a Trader Joe's about a mile from where I lived and the gym is even closer than that, I would always drive there, though I often felt pretty guilty about my contributions to global warming…
Seeing the Forest from the Trees: Yale at the Global Gathering
by Alisa Zomer
in Conferences, Diversity, Field Trips, The School
Technology is not a silver bullet. These words of caution are oft repeated but hard to abide by, especially when we are constantly bombarded with new devices promising to improve how we eat, live and even how we think. The promise of "technology for good" is increasingly prominent in the environmental movement, which is seeking momentum to break the stalemate over international climate change negotiations and worsening environmental degradation.
The challenge then is how to embrace new technology with cautious optimism. One emerging tool for consideration is Global Forest Watch, a satellite-based tool to monitor deforestation in near real time, managed by the World Resources Institute. For three days (October 29-31), civil society experts from around the world are meeting in Bogota, Colombia to…
Liza Comita: representing women in environmental science
by Jena Clarke
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It's no secret that women are under-represented in STEM fields. The National Science Foundation reports that women comprise just over 40% of graduate students in science and technology. However, women with a Master's degree or higher who are actually employed in science or engineering occupations currently comprise only 30% of workers in those fields. For this reason alone, we are excited to welcome Dr. Liza Comita as an assistant professor of tropical forest management at F&ES. However, although Dr. Comita is an excellent role model for women pursuing STEM fields, this is far outshined by her depth of knowledge and experience, as well as the opportunities she brings for F&ES students to pursue tropical studies while at Yale.
This spring, Dr. Comita, along with Dr
F&ES Celebrates Diversity with its Annual International TGIF
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TGIF ("Thank God I'm a Forester") is a Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies tradition. The Friday events are hosted by the Forestry Club – a student-run group tasked with organizing FES social functions – and bring foresters together to relax, unwind, and enjoy each other's company after a week of hard work.
On Friday, the Forestry Club hosted its annual International TGIF – an evening intended to celebrate the School's diverse student body (roughly 30 percent of F&ES students come from abroad!). Flags and photos adorned Bowers Auditorium and music played while international students prepared dishes from their home countries to share with classmates. Many countries were represented, including Japan, Kenya, Mexico, and Norway –
Yale Students and New Haven Businesses Put Breast Cancer Awareness on Menu
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Before launching a campaign to raise funds for breast cancer awareness in New Haven this month, Maggie Thomas '15 M.E.M. and four other Yale students did their homework.
Their plan was to ask restaurants and bars across the city to add meals or drinks to their menus calling attention to the disease, as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Before making their pitches, they filled a spreadsheet with their negotiation questions, tailored for each business. (They asked one restaurant, for instance, "Would you consider putting a 'boobie burger' on your menu?") If the initial pitch didn't go well, they had a second question ready. And a third.
It turns out they didn't need a spreadsheet. "In every restaurant we started by asking our most ridiculous question —…
Professional Skills Courses at F&ES
by Julia Luthringer
in Admissions, The School
To follow up on my post last week about one-time Technical Skills Modules, I thought I'd go ahead and tell you a little bit more about the opportunity to learn professional skills here at F&ES through one-credit courses offered each semester that aim to teach us about skills we might need in our future careers. These courses, known as Professional Skills Courses, or PSCs, here on campus, usually meet once a week during the evening, and are often taught by professionals in the field, rather than professors at the university.
This semester I'm taking a PSC taught by Kris Morico, a Global Leader of several Corporate Environmental Programs at General Electric Co., with a background in environmental engineering. The course, titled "Foundations of Environmental Leadership and Management," is an…
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It's Friday and you've just finished and turned in your last problem set for the week, your classes are through for the day, and it's a beautiful day outside. There isn't much out there that would be better than taking a walk in the park, maybe running up to the top of East Rock, and grabbing a beer with some other foresters, right? What if I were to tell you that instead, a lot of people end up going to another class? One that doesn't even count for credit, but instead you just take for "fun"?
Sounds improbable, right? The last thing anyone wants to do on a Friday afternoon is take their few free hours during the week to sit in another class.
Turns out, though, many…
Takeaways From An Evening With Gus Speth
This past Thursday evening, I was fortunate to be in the audience of Dean Crane's leadership seminar, live-tweeting the week's eminent guest, former F&ES Dean Gus Speth. I had gone to see him give a lecture before, back in 2012 while I was a senior in college, while he was on tour promoting his book Bridge At the End Of the World. Since then, he has continued on the path that many consider "radical," advocating for a metamorphosis of our current consumerist economy into something that will work toward, not against, a sustainable future. Those in attendance were extremely enthusiastic to have our former dean back at Yale; for those who saw our F&ES'ers at the Climate March, our t-shirts actually had his face on them!…


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Furness Abbey, or what remains of it, is a Cistercian Abbey just outside Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. It was built by a community of monks in the 12th century and dissolved by Thomas Cromwell about 400 years later. Like other religious buildings which were destroyed during Henry VIII's 'Dissolution', parts of it were left intact as a reminder of the power of the king.
I have this fascination with ancient English buildings, especially ruins. There is something about them; an atmosphere; some connection with the past. I love to visit them and to soak up my surroundings.
Whalley Abbey in east Lancashire is one of my very favourite places, so I had high expectations of Furness, which had been described to me as being even more splendid.
I discovered a local bus service would take me from the train station at Dalton-in-Furness and drop me off half a mile from the entrance to the Abbey. The stop for this bus was, according to the Abbey website,'outside the station'; that wasn't true, but it was only a short walk away outside the tiniest town hall I've ever seen, in which resided the tourist information centre. The two staff members seemed a little surprised to meet an actual tourist and although helpful, were not particularly knowledgeable. One of them went online and found me the numbers of three local taxi firms. We'll come back to that later.
After leaving the bus I enjoyed the short walk (it didn't even seem like half a mile) along a peaceful lane to the Abbey entrance. As I strolled along I could smell the wild garlic mixed in with the roadside vegetation. Some farm animals grazed and lazed in a small field.
As Furness Abbey is owned by the English Heritage this means the admission price is higher than at similar sites not owned by them, and that their people are on hand to give information and sell you merchandise – whether you want these things or not. The entrance was inside a modern brick and glass annexe. I paid my admission fee and was invited to buy an information booklet. I declined, but was then made to wait whilst the young man flicked through the aforementioned booklet, summarising its main points. The poor soul had clearly been instructed to go through this script with each visitor and dared not deviate from it. Still within the entrance area was an interesting display and collection of artefacts, archaeological finds and photographs illustrating the Abbey's history.
Furness Abbey ruins were impressive. I spent some time sitting in the blazing heat just contemplating how magnificent the structure must once have been. The experience was marred slightly for me by quite high levels of noise coming from outside the Abbey site; some adjacent farm land was being used by picnicking families and what looked like a children's summer camp, and two motorcyclists performed seemingly endless circuits of a surrounding road. I guess ancient remains must defer to the here and now. Being in a more isolated location, Whalley Abbey in Lancashire is much more serene which is why it is also a popular retreat.
Nevertheless, Furness Abbey held its own and had some interesting little features such as troughs of wild herbs planted amongst the ruined stone walls.
Due to some structural instability, investigations and reparation work were being carried out and part of the main church building was surrounded by scaffold. This will be in place until 2016. I hope to go back and enter the ancient church, scaffold free.
When I'd looked around and spent some quiet time I decided to use the taxi numbers I'd been given to get back to the station. This turned out to be a waste of time: the first one-man enterprise was in Manchester; the second wouldn't be free for two hours and the third didn't even answer. This was to be my first encounter with unreliable single driver taxi firms in Cumbria, though not my last. The bus arrived just at the right time for me to head home whilst reflecting on my day.


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You may need to take over the old admins domain account to make sure that you can see the hidden OU.
You should be able to see all the OUs as a domain admin, but if the admin is sneaky enough he could hide an OU from you.
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If you're familiar with the Hitman video game or film, then you already pretty much know what's in store. In addition to the fatal assassin, Agent 47, you'll be exposed to some rather lethal weaponry along the reels in the form of his top tools of the trade including handguns, a knife, sniper rifle, poison syringe and even a rather grim wire contraption (for strangling people of course). Again, as we already warned, this game is NOT for the faint of heart!
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Hitman slots hit the market in 2007. A decade (plus) is a long time by any standards, and certainly for an online casino game to maintain its superiority. But with the ageless theme of intrigue and murder, as well as the superior software of Microgaming technology, it's been able to successfully stand the test of time.
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Red Dead Redemption Myths
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Red Dead Redemption is a 2010 open-world video game produced by Rockstar Studios. The game features a vast world to explore, and tales of paranormal phenomena within the game have already emerged. Many of the myths are inspired by folklore and legends from the American west, upon which the game is based.
The Tumbleweed Haunting
Many players have had disquieting experiences in the ghost town of Tumbleweed. Horses act strange in the town, rearing up and running away if not forced to stay. Horses made to remain in Tumbleweed have been known to die inexplicably. Throughout Tumbleweeds deserted streets the eerie howl of a dog can be heard at night, though the source of the cries cannot be found. Roaming the landscape are two skeletal horses, who limp around without a rider. Inexplicable shadows, like those cast by horses have been witnessed that move of their own accord without anything to cast them. At night a swarm of Bats can be found in Tumbleweed, which cannot be killed. They are the only bats found in the game. Inside furniture moves around by itself, as if being scraped across the floor by unseen hands. Doors will sometimes open without cause. The church bell is known to ring itself in the dead of night, and occasionally a phantom womans screams can be heard when passing the hanging post. The shadowy figure of a little girl has also been spotted in the town at night. Similarly, a horrifying apparition has been reported to appear at the windows of the mansion, from time to time. Inside the same mansion a lantern has been seen to roll back and forth without stopping.
An in-game newspaper article is devoted to the possibility of Tumbleweed being haunted, and NPC's who ride through the town typically make haste, as though they are frightened of something.
The Werewolf
The Werewolf is a legendary creature reported from Tall Trees in the West Elizabeth territory. The beast typically appears during the full moon and is extremely aggressive and exceptionally difficult to kill. It is very fast and is said to, if killed, transform into a man upon the break of dawn. When in it's wolf form, the werewolf is tall and slender, dark brown in colour and covered in thick coarse hair.
Similar to the Werewolf, sightings of a Bigfoot have emerged. These are, if anything substantial, merely mistaken reports of the Werewolf.
In the Undead Rising downloadable campaign, there is a mission revolving around Bigfoot.
A glitch in game can attribute the AI of the wolf into a Human, creating a creature known as "The Wolfman".
The Thunderbird
Reported from the sprawling desert, the Thunderbird is a gigantic flying creature, described as either a huge bird or a prehistoric creature. The Thunderbird is said to glide very slowly, rarely flapping its vast wings, and be unaffected by gunshots. It is known to fly out of the map altogether if pursued.
Thunderbirds appear in real North American folklore, and in Indian legends.
The UFO
Few sightings of the UFO have thus far emerged, although all accounts describe it as being a shining orb in the night sky, that soars slowly past the stars.
Gwangi is the affectionate nickname given to a creature reported from the in-game wilderness. The beast is described as resembling a therapodal dinosaur, most notably the Tyrannosaurus. It is exceptionally large and will, if discovered, attack the player. It is, clearly, very strong and at time of writing no reports of killing the beast have come to light.
The Tyrannosaurus appears to be an homage to the classic Ray Harryhausen film The Valley Of Gwangi, which featured cowboys capturing a living Tyrannosaurus in the wild west. It is worth noting that the film depicts the titular dinosaur with three claws on it's forearms when in reality Tyrannosaurus had only two. The creature reported from the game is said to have three claws, like Gwangi.
Apparentally substantiating claims of the creatures existence are large dinosaurian footprints which can be found from time to time in the desert.
The Train Lady
A ghostly woman who appears on misty nights, screaming on the train tracks before vanishing.
The Headless Horseman
From the shadowy Hollow Canyon a headless horseman is said to gallop out of the fog and will kill the player if they do not evade him in time. The Horseman, a reference, surely, to The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, seems to be impossible to kill.
The Hoop Snakes
Sightings of snakes biting their tails and rolling away in a wheel have been reported in-game. Most sightings involve the regular Rattlesnakes the player typically encounters in the desert, but others describe a different, hitherto unknown species of snake altogether.
The Zombie
A deceased corpse is said to wander certain ghost towns and heavily forested areas of the in-game world, moving slowly and attacking rarely. It is particularly easy to kill, but does not drop anything.
There has since been downloadable content that does add a campaign featuring zombies.
The Lights at Sidewinder Gulch
Three glowing orange lights can be found upon the ground at a certain spot in Sidewinder Gulch, forming a triangle on the the ground. The purpose of the mysterious Sidewinder Gulch Triangle is unclear, though many have speculated a link between the lights and the UFO.


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Talk Nation Radio for October 14, 2009
Dahr Jamail Lecture at ECSU on Reinventing Journalism in a Time of War
Special Thanks to Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic, CT where this program was taped and also to: Prof. Helma De Vries, Political Science Dept., who coordinated the event, and the campus human rights group, as well as sponsor, Promoting Enduring Peace, PEP, a Connecticut based peace group. Video of this event here taped by ECSU audio visual dept.
Produced by Dori Smith
Recorded September 21, 2009
Download at Pacifica's Audioport here and at Archive.org or Radio4all.net
Dahr Jamail spoke at Eastern Connecticut State University, [ECSU] in Willimantic, Connecticut before a crowd of several hundred students, professors, and members of the general public. The event September 21, 2009, marked the UN's International Day of Peace and was sponsored by Promoting Enduring Peace and campus groups. Link to video here.
You can learn more about Dahr Jamail's recent book, 'The Will to Resist, Soldiers who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan' at his web site dahr.org or at the publisher, Haymarket Books. Dahr Jamail's previous book was, 'Beyond the Green Zone, Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq'.


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3 things I learned while my plane crashed
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The new Blogger Template Designer has made it very easy to change overall blog width as well as the width of the main column and the sidebars. All you need to do is to sign into Dashboard, click DESIGN > TEMPLATE DESIGNER > ADJUST WIDTH and you will be provided with sliders to drag and drop to whatever values your heart desires, then click APPLY TO BLOG to save the new settings (see screenshot below):
Not only that, you can view the result of your selected changes below and if horrified by your changes, just click RESET WIDTHS TO TEMPLATE DEFAULT. (Note that while there is no slider to adjust the width of the main column, it would be indirectly set by the overall width - whatever width you have set for the sidebar)
However with the Simple (and I believe the others too) template, the overall width is limited to maximum 1000px. So what do you do when you want your overall blog width to be greater than 1000px.?
Well, while in the DESIGN tab/mode, click EDIT HTML to open the template editor and search for these codes (use ctrl+ F and search for, say, <b:template-skin> or any portion of the codes below:
<b:variable default='930px' name='content.width' type='length' value='1000px'/>
<b:variable default='0' name='main.column.left.width' type='length' value='0px'/>
then change that 1000px to whatever values you fancy and you would have changed the overall blog width.
BTW the default for the overall blog width is 930px which is roughly the value you would need to set in order to optimize your blog for 1024x768 screen resolution which is what many web designers are doing because the previous lowest denominator 800x600 screen is now used by very few people.


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This Sunday marks the two hundredth anniversary of Constitution's most famous battle. On August 19, 1812, the ship met and defeated the British frigate Guerriere. It was a decisive victory, as sensational then as it is interesting today. It was not the first American naval victory of the war (that honor went to USS Essex's crew, who captured HMS Alert on August 13), but it won ever-lasting laurels for the victors and established Constitution (newly christened "Old Ironsides") as a household name.
Constitution's log gives the best description of what happened next:
19 Aug 1812 [Wednesday]
"At 2 PM discovered a Sail to the Southward made all sail in chace, at 3 PM perceived the chace to be a Ship with her Starboard Tacks on board, close hauled by the wind, at 1/2 past closing fast with the chace who appeared to be a Frigate, at 1/4 before 5 PM the Frigate lay her Main Topsail to the Mast, Took in our Top Gallant Sails, Staysails, flying Jib, hauled the Courses up, took 2d Reef in the Topsails, and sent down the Royal Yards, and got all snug, and ready for action and beat to Quarters, at which our Crew gave three Cheers,
at 5 PM bore more up bringing the Chace to bear rather off the Starboard Bow, she at that time discovering herself to be an Enemy by hoisting three English Ensigns, at 5 min after 5 PM, she discharged her Starboard broadside at us without effect, her shot falling Short she immediately wore round, and discharged her Larboard Broadside two Shot of which hulled us and the remainder flying over, and through our rigging, we then hoisted our Ensign and a Jack at Fore and Main top Gallant Mast heads, the enemy still manouvring [sic] to rake us firing alternately his Broadsides, we returning his fire with as many of our Bow Guns from the Main Gun deck as we could bring to bear on her, at 3/4 past 5 PM the Enemy finding his attempt to rake us fruitless, bore up with the wind rather on his Larboard Quarter, we then sett our Main Top Gallant Sail and Steered down on his Beam in order to bring him to close action, at 5 minutes after 6 PM hauled down the Jib and lay the Main Top Sail Shivering and opened on him a heavy fire from all our Guns, at 15 minutes after 6 PM the Enemy's Mizen Mast fell over on the Starboard Side, on which our Crew gave three cheers, we then fore reaching on him, attempted raking of his Bow, but our braces being shot away and Jib Haulyards we could not effect it, he [sic] immediately attempted raking of our Stern but failed also, getting but one of his Guns to bear upon us, which he discharged with little or no effect, having his Bowsprit entangled in our Mizin Rigging,
our Marines during that time Keeping up a very brisk and gauling [sic] fire on him from the Tafferall [sic, taffrail, the railing at the ship's stern] and our Boarders preparing to board, at which time Lieutenant Charles Morris, and Lieutenant William S. Bush of the Marines fell from off the Tafferall [sic], the former severely wounded and the latter killed, our vessel having way on her shot clear of him, when immediately, it being then 30 minutes after 6 PM his Fore, and Main Masts fell over on the Starboard side,
|"[H]is Fore, and Main Masts fell over on the Starboard side." The third in a series of paintings of the battle between Constitution and Guerriere by George Ropes, Jr., 1813. USS Constitution Museum Collection.
Sett Fore and Main Course, and Stood to the Eastward and took one reef in the Topsails, in order to reeve our braces and haulyards which had been shot away; during which time the Enemy a complete wreck, under his Spritsail, fired a Gun in token of submission to Leeward which we answered as soon as our Topsails were sett, and our braces rove by wearing Ship, and running under his Lee, hauling up our Courses and laying our Main Topsail to the Mast, and sending a boat with Lieutenant Reed on board of the Prize, at 1/2 past 7 PM hoisted out all the Boats, to take out the Prisoners, sent the 2d & 3d cutters on board with the Surgeons Mate to assist in dressing the wounded, and the Sailing Master in the First Cutter with a Ten inch hawser to take the prize in tow, at 8 PM the boat returned leaving Lieutenant Reed in charge of the prize, and bringing with them Captain Dacres of formerly his Britannick Majesty's Ship Guerriere, Mounting 49 Carriage Guns, 30 of which were 18 pounders, on his Main Deck 14. 32 pounder Carronades on his quarter deck and one howitzer a 12 pound Caliber also; and 2. 32 pounder Carronades, and 2 twelve pounder long Guns on his Forecastle mannd with [blank- 311] Men including Marines, Boys, and officers, our loss sustained during the action in killed and wounded 14. Seven of which were killed, among the latter William S. Bush Senior Lieutenant of Marines, and among the latter [sic- former] Lieutenant Charles Morris dangerously, and Mr. Aylwin Sailing Master, slightly, one of the seamen of the number killed Robert Brice lost his life through want of precaution in not sponging the Gun being blown from the Muzzle of the piece, our standing and running Rigging much cut and one Shot through the Fore Mast, one through the Main Mast, and one through the heel of the fore Top Gallant Mast and the Starboard Cross Jack yard arm cut away, and also the Spare Top Sail Yard in the Main Chains, and the band for the slings of the Main Yard broken, our Spanker Boom and Gaff broken by the enemy when foul of our Mizin Rigging, at 11 AM [sic] the First Cutter returned with the Master finding it impracticable to get the prize in tow, having been obligated by the drift of the Wreck to slip the Hawser, during the night keeping at a convenient distance from the [prize] on different Tacks to receive the prisoners, and employed in Knotting and Splicing the rigging and getting the Ship clear for action; the sails also being much cut through with the Enemies [sic] shot."
So ended an eventful day. Constitution's surgeon, Dr. Amos Evans, recorded the damage done to his ship and the enemy. "Our crew behaved very nobly. They fought like heroes, and gave three cheers when the colours were hoisted. They also cheered when each of her [Guerriere's] masts went over the side, and when her colours were struck. Whilst she was on our stern one of her forward guns was run nearly into our Cabin window and fired, but did (fortunately) little or no execution. A shot that entered our after port on the starboard side of the gun deck killed 2 men at the after Gun and wounded one. From the firing of the first gun to the close of the action was one hour & ten minutes. The Guerriere had 15 killd and 62 wounded." The Americans lost seven killed and seven wounded.
At 7:30 the next morning, Lt. George Campbell Read, who had spent an uncomfortable night on Guerriere, hailed to say that the prize had five feet of water in the hold, and that none of the prisoners on board would help to pump the ship. Perhaps they could have plugged the holes, but the real problem was that there were not any spare spars on board with which to rig jury masts.
Captain Hull made the difficult decision to scuttle Guerriere.
"About 3 or 4 o'clock having got all the men from the Guerriere we set her on fire," wrote Amos Evans, "and before the officer had time to get on board our Ship with the boat she blew up, presenting a sight the most incomparably grand and magnificent I have experienced. No painter, no poet or historian could give on canvas or paper any description that could do justice to the scene."
|One painter did justice to the scene. The last in a series of paintings of the battle between Constitution and Guerriere by George Ropes, Jr., 1813. USS Constitution Museum Collection.
The United States Navy intends to commemorate the victory in style. On August 19, 2012, wind and weather conditions permitting, Constitution will stand down Boston Harbor under sail – the first time the shiphas done so since 1997. Fittingly, the ship will hoist her three topsails for the occasion – the same sail configuration that carried her into battle two hundred years ago.
For more information about this momentous event, click here.
The Author(s)
Matthew Brenckle
Research Historian, USS Constitution Museum
Matthew Brenckle was the Research Historian at the USS Constitution Museum from 2006 to 2016.


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A: As part of the standard immigrant visa process, the National Visa Center will coordinate with you to schedule your interview appointment at the appropriate post (now Stockholm) upon receiving your immigrant visa application and supporting paperwork. Similarly for diversity visa applicants, your case interview will be scheduled by the Kentucky Consular Center as part of the standard diversity visa process. If you wish to interview for your immigrant or diversity visa at another immigrant visa processing post besides Stockholm, you may make the request to the National Visa Center or the Kentucky Consular Center, respectively, prior to the time your appointment is scheduled in Stockholm.
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Beyonce Opens Up About Firing Her Father After Love Child Scandal
Beyonce Knowles will debut her highly anticipated, self-produced documentary on Feb. 16 and the singer will finally open up about her strained relationship with her father.
"Life Is But a Dream," which will air on the HBO network, gives viewers an up close and behind the scenes look into the private life of Beyonce, 31. The singer made headlines in 2011 when she abruptly fired her father, Matthew Knowles, who acted as her manager for over two decades.
In 2010 Matthew, who divorced Beyonce's mother Tina after 29 years of marriage in 2009, fathered a love child with Alexsandra Wright, a woman 20 years his junior. Subsequently, Beyonce ended her relationship with him "on a business level" although she eventually stopped speaking to him altogether, according to The New York Post.
"My soul has been tarnished," she declares in the documentary upon her decision to part ways professionally with her father.
"My father taught me so much about being a businesswoman. And I'm understanding him a lot now ... A lot of the crazy things he did were necessary," she says during another segment.
Tina, 59, and Beyonce have always maintained a close bond and the singer was reportedly devastated after learning that Matthew, 62, reportedly had an 18-months long affair with Wright, 38, during his marriage to Tina.
"Beyonce was horrified to find out her dad cheated on her mom. She always looked up to him, and she is very close to her mom, so this has hit her really hard," a source had told the New York Post ahead of Matthew's termination.
"She is refusing to speak to him, which is making things difficult where it comes to managing her career. Some people at Columbia [records] now think it would be better to move him aside," the source continued.
"My story has never been told— no one really knows who I am.... This movie has healed me in so many ways...It makes me want to cry," Beyonce recently told Vogue magazine's Jason Gay while fighting back tears. "I'm sorry, I'm very passionate about it, and it just feels good."


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If Night's Dawn Imposed All (I.N.D.I.A.) by Karsten Brustad
This piece invokes the ragas found in the music of India. The title is a little mysterious but refers to the calmness and tranquility often felt in the 'blue hour' in the evening before the darkness swallows everything. The work is built on a raga by the violinist L. Subramaniam and is a wonderfully evocative concert item. The work has been recorded by Sven Lundestad and Tom Simensen on their CD 'Trivium'
"This is one of the best pieces of music written for flute and guitar that it has been my pleasure to review. This is a beautifully written piece whether the instruments are playing individually or together the sounds are ravishing. ... Buy it and perform it!" - Classical Guitar Magazine
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Friends abroad
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Aigen im Ennstal (Steiermark)
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Kamala Nair's first novel was inspired by a trip to the tiny village in India where her father grew up. Nair describes her novel as a dark fairy tale, combined with a coming-of-age. Perfect choice for a teen summer read.
NAIR, Kamala. The Girl in the Garden: A Novel. 305p. Grand Central. 2011. Tr $24.99. ISBN 978-0-446-57268-2. LC 2010016492.
Adult/High School–Rakhee Singh is 10 when she journeys from Minnesota for a summer visit to her mother's family in a remote area of India. A shy but curious child, Rakhee hardly feels welcome when her cousins taunt her about the darkness of her skin and her aunts deride her weak eyesight, both of which she inherited from her father. She knows little of the provincial customs and caste structures and even less about the secrets that compel her extended family to behave so mysteriously and rudely around her. When Rakhee sneaks into the forbidden forest behind the family home, she discovers an exquisite walled-in garden where a girl has grown up completely isolated from the world. Rakhee befriends the mysterious girl, but her covert visits set in motion events that will tragically alter her family. It is not until many years later when Rakhee abandons her betrothed and returns to India that she finally confronts the complex relationships and entangled loves that seem to be her family heritage. Wanting her boyfriend to know the reason she has abandoned him, she leaves behind a manuscript telling the story of that long-ago summer. That manuscript becomes Nair's first novel. It is an engaging family drama of unspoken secrets that will satisfy teens who enjoy stories teeming with mysterious characters and set in exotic locales where wandering white peacocks, girls imprisoned in gardens, and doomed love all seem completely at home.–John Sexton, formerly at Westchester Library System


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the road to .09 micron production is one that not everyone will jump on. while 300 mm wafers and .09 micron production are great for dram (and intel pentium 4 chips), tsmc isn't sure that the increase in production capacity per wafer is good for everyone. the increase in wafer size to 300 mm from 200 mm and the ever-shrinking processes are making it harder for small, fabless customers to do small chip runs. well, i don't really see the problem here. why not just leave some 200 mm equipment around that uses .18 micron production? tsmc says that instead of doing that, they will be focusing on tracking very small production runs. basically, it seems to be getting more expensive to design and build chips. will this crush a lot of the little guys and turn chips into more of a commodity than a series of different designs? there's an interview with tsmc online at silicon strategies that gets into this a bit more.
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|humbug i say (11:30am est mon may 20 2002)
continued decreases in tech size is inevitable for everyone if they want to stay in the game. – by danny e.
|intel has 1. microns lines (12:39pm est mon may 20 2002)
still operating i dont see where this would be a problem for them, if they decided to sell off some of the excess fab space. – by nataku
|hmm… (12:56pm est mon may 20 2002)
kinda makes you wonder if it would make more sense for intel to stop designing poor, rube goldbergeque exuses for cpu's and simply convert themselves in to the 800 lb gorilla of the "leased fabs services industry" and leave the cpu designin' to the enginerds with talent� *cough*amd,sunandaimalliance*cough*
– by .03 �-moo
|.03 �-moo (1:16pm est mon may 20 2002)
thats why intel easy scalling less efficent processor is spanking the axp??? – by nataku
|spanking!? (1:31pm est mon may 20 2002)
i got your spanking right here:
– by .03 �-moo
|couldn't be further from the truth nataku (1:36pm est mon may 20 2002)
anyway what idiot pays p4 premium prices for a cpu that underperforms in the real world? only the idiots that believe the benchmarks taylored by intel's very own marketing department and pushed by intel mouthpiece sites such as thg.
– by nom$kissass
|marketing sales craps (2:10pm est mon may 20 2002)
intel uses billions of $ to sale craps to idiots. they got my money in the past and that's it. never again! – by intelphobe
|nom$kissass (4:34pm est mon may 20 2002)
last time i cheched a 1.6ghz p4a oc to 2.6ghz(its now has an all copper hs and a delta fan) it spanks every athlon becach execpt a dually in the fpu performance so i will stick with the p4. – by nataku
|.03 �-moo (4:47pm est mon may 20 2002)
that artical is 5 moths old and uses the old core. plus on hard ocp, thg, anand tech shows different results so i will stick with real sites.
i dont know why thg gets ripped on so much when other sites like hard ocp, and anand tech show the same results all within 1-2% of each other. – by nataku
|nataku (7:09pm est mon may 20 2002)
"last time i cheched a 1.6ghz p4a oc to 2.6ghz(its now has an all copper hs and a delta fan) it spanks every athlon becach execpt a dually in the fpu performance so i will stick with the p4."
and its stability is grade "a" while it's compiling linux kernel, huh? – by askheart
|multiprocessing and transmeta are the way to go (7:21pm est mon may 20 2002)
crusoe uses low count transistors and it's the coolest running x86 compatible processor on market. could it stack inside supercomputers?
if crusoes were extremely well succeeded tsmc should retreat from swapping off its "outdated" 200mm equipments. – by askheart
|nataku(2) (7:25pm est mon may 20 2002)
axps oc'ed to 1.9 ghz and a kt333 can eat 2.53 ghz pivs for dinner even in the piv-biased tom's benchmarking! – by askheart
|northwoods… (10:49pm est mon may 20 2002)
lets not forget about the overclocking potential of p4 northwoods. with air cooling, many people have taken a 1.8a to 2.6ghz. the palomino based xp's can barely make 1.95ghz with air cooling, and the 1.6a costs about $100 less than the xp2000+. tbred is not here yet. northwood is. i certinly respect amd and their processor, but the fact is that the northwood is not as weak a performer as the willmette. its easy to think of intel as evil chipzilla and amd as the underdog with the consumer's interests at heart, but both are for-profit corporations. i will build a computer this summer, and i will buy the platform that gives me the best value, regardless of the processor's manufacturer. – by northwood
|askheart (12:30am est tue may 21 2002)
if toms benching is sooooooo off why are the result within 1-2% of hardocps, anand techs and every other major site using high quality hardware???
yes the 1918mhz eats the p4 at 2.53 ghz up but it takes a killer water cooling setup to push the axp that far, the same setup can push the p4b to 3ghz.
the 1800mhz axp will be out next month nothing higher in june. intel will be pushing the 2.6 ghz p4 b and a out the door soon, followed by the 2.8ghz before the back to school buying frenzy. that maens 3.0ghz by the years end and 4ghz prescott in the start of the 2q. – by nataku
|nataku, axp eats in the price, nor biased benchmarking performance (8:13am est tue may 21 2002)
but the piv 2.53 is a great performer too. the only problem is the wiretricking and modding will be made to run a piv 60% higher stable enough. and the chipset? how long can it last? have you noticed that the ram does need to be pumped up along the cpu clock or piv overclocking should be less efficient?
athlon is still a .18um, its tweaking advantages are the free clock multiplier which means you don't have to force fsb clock if you don't want it, axp is a powerful execution core and it's very sufficient itself without stressing the ram and chipset, going forware we may talk about the simple modding which accomplishes to enable mp (does northwood support symmetric multiprocessing nataku?) and do imagine axp 2100+ what it can do for its price? or even a dual 2400+, funny a water cooler i can build just borrowing some few parts. overclock in an axp lasts, i knew a guy who did all of its 3d rendering work on a bunch of overclocked (and durable) athlon rigs.
now i say a vapochill case and piv would get near 4 ghz, a pity no ram can be overclocked enough to sustain decent level of bandwidth for the starved piv, then the performance increasement isn't optimal. and about the price? why don't we all go to stores and acquire vapochill cases and 2.53 ghz piv's? it's all about the price. now a dual axp 2400+ setup tweaked and watercooled is beginning to make some more sense. – by askheart
|here's a solution (4:54pm est tue may 21 2002)
actually this is done already, just sell chunks of wafers to the little guys. once they have a full wafer they can make a mask and do a few runs – by el barto
|askheart (11:10pm est tue may 21 2002)
so the p4 is a bandwith hog the fatsre you clock any chip the more bandwith it will take.
plus i have seen tons of 4ghz oc on p4 search for them but the processors are ln2 cooled but the boards woked fine.
rambus has pc1200 64bit moduals(basicly thats even faster that a quad channel pc1066 16 bit rambus setup just imagine dual channel) on the way in about a year that will feed the hungriest chips with ease.
so what was your whole point? – by nataku
|rambus' high latency (2:33am est tue feb 04 2003)
we all know about rambus… and how it can be made to look like the bomb…. high latency is still its downfall ddr/ddr2 all the way
– by ddrpissesonrambus
|all (11:18pm est fri aug 08 2003)
my dog is bigger then yours!!!!!! – by hyperthreader


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The council have now replaced the clubhouse door lock and the new code has been emailed out to all members. We are working towards getting the padlock on the gate replaced so will keep you updated!
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