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NextView Ventures
NextView is a new venture capital firm which provides seed stage capital to entrepreneurs starting internet-enabled businesses. Every entrepreneur has a passionate idea about what's next - we give them the funding and expertise to realize that vision. The firm empowers company founders to validate their concepts and create the next set of transformative companies. Our approach offers entrepreneurs the freedom to fully evaluate their funding options at the next stage of their company, maximizing flexibility on how they build it.
We are looking for a talented designer to help us design our corporate logo and brand identity now, and then assist us with future design needs as our marketing endeavors expand.
Our target audience is twofold.
Primarily, want to reach internet entrepreneurs who are ages 25-40. They are digital natives who have grown up immersed in technology and are starting companies to leverage that experience. Some are first-time entrepreneurs, while some are experienced having started and sold their previous companies.
We are a different type of venture firm and we want our logo to reflect that fact. We're not stodgy VCs in suits who don't get the internet or understand startups. Rather, we've previously been entrepreneurs ourselves and live our own lives embedded in a connected world.
Thus, we differentiate from our competition by:
1. Following an investment decision process which is clear, respectful, and timely.
2. Being entrepreneur-friendly in our approach – everything from philosophy to to detailed funding terms.
3. Providing hands-on advice and help in making our investments successful.
Our logo should reflect the energy and passion which we're bringing to our endeavor.
That being said, our secondary target audience is our own investors. Therefore, our logo must strike a balance between conveying excitement/uniqueness to forward-thinking entrepreneurs and engendering trust and confidence in people who are providing our own capital. As we raise our own funds, we must instill assure institutional investors who are investing their money.
On a tactical level, we will be using this logo immediately for our business cards and website, but would like it to be extensible to other collateral. As such, I'd like to have both a full color version and a black & white one which could be used. The new logo should include a smaller version (which may have a variation from the larger) for use on social media or other online places where a smaller icon is appropriate.
While our full name is "NextView Ventures", I'd like the name "NextView" to really stand out and the "Ventures" as a supporting word.
It is highly preferred that the logo isn't just letters, but contains an additional mark or visual component. I'd like it to contain some subtle embedded imagery that evokes the name, but not a literal translation. (Merely an example, but perhaps some lines resembling a window to connote a "view" could be incorporated). I am very open to new ideas about what that imagery.
At least, I'd like to have a two-toned logo with a primary and a secondary color. If it works, perhaps a slightly used tertiary color could be added that fits into the palette. Please avoid yellow, purple, pink, neon or pastel colors.
As discussed above, the logo should strike a balance between modern, yet still have a solid strong feel that conveys confidence.
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"Law & Order: SVU" is bringing back a very familiar face for May sweeps: Richard Belzer is returning to the long-running drama as John Munch, E! News confirmed.
Belzer, an original cast member on "Law & Order: SVU" (who has also played Munch on a total of 10 different shows), was last seen in the 2014 season 15 finale of the NBC series. He'll return to help the SVU squad take down a famous fashion photographer, played by Fisher Stevens, who is accused of preying on models. The photog apparently has been on Munch and Fin's (Ice-T) radar for some time.
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Refrigerator Monitoring, A Sequel
A version of this article appears in the September/October 2000 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
September 01, 2000
How briefly can you monitor refrigerator energy use and still get valid results? Home Energy takes another look at this timely topic.
Utility or public housing programs that replace inefficient refrigerators with more efficient models clearly save energy (see "Monitoring Refrigerator Energy Usage," HE, May/June '00, p. 32). But, how best to identify poor performers that need replacing is not as simple a question as it may first appear to be. The results of short-term monitoring of any given refrigerator can be affected by such factors as ambient temperature, control settings, the refrigerator's condition, food-loading patterns, and door openings. Even for simple replace/don't replace decisions, I believe that testing of automatic-defrost refrigerators should be conducted for well over two hours. This recommendation is based on extensive testing both in the field and in a laboratory test chamber, using a dedicated 11-channel data logger that was specially designed for testing refrigerators. To obtain a refrigerator's annual energy use rating, DOE regulations require manufacturers to monitor automatic- defrost refrigerators from the beginning of one defrost cycle to the beginning of the next. Testing is conducted on empty refrigerators with closed doors at an ambient temperature of 90°F for this "natural" ...
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Treadmills, ellipticals and dumbbells have staked their claim as traditional strength and cardio fitness staples, but some unique products on the market are trying to take a piece of that claim, often entering health clubs through the group exercise room. Although varying in price, many unique cardio or strength products can be purchased for less than traditional pieces of equipment and have more varying applications in fitness facilities.
Cost-effective options such as Kangoo Jumps can serve more clientele per dollar than a single piece of gym equipment, says Jill Boyer-Holland, Kangoo Jumps director of education and training coordinator in the United States. Based out of Switzerland, Kangoo Jumps were introduced in the United States a year ago as low-impact rebound sport shoes that reduce impact shock.
"A single piece of cardio equipment is going to cost $3,000 to $4,000, and only one person can use it for one hour," Boyer-Holland says. "That's 12 people on one piece of equipment. Whereas if you took 10 pairs of Kangoo Jump boots, that is 10 people per hour and 120 people potentially [per day] for the same dollars spent. There is very limited gym equipment for $1,195 that 10 people can use simultaneously 12 hours a day."
Unique products are most commonly introduced to members in group exercise classes because even though the learning curve may be low for many of them, members usually still need to be shown how to use them, says Quanita May, master trainer on the Freestyler, Surrey, British Columbia, which uses bands attached to a base for functional training. Once introduced to the product, members often will purchase their own to use at home.
From licensing to training, the programming, dynamic and education that are packaged with a product can popularize it even further by not only ensuring users are using the new product accurately but by adding excitement about the product for users.
Educating Members
Chuck Herman, director of sales and distribution at FIT One, Canton, OH, which developed the BallBike, uses the company's website, Facebook page and YouTube channel to educate facilities about how the bike is being used and the dynamics that the bike offers. FIT One offers in-services to facilities that purchase the BallBike as they continue to develop a certification for the product for group exercise instructors and personal trainers.
"We believe we have something of a niche product and having that certification further adds validity to what this product will bring to the table for any type of facility that decides to make that investment," Herman says. "We want to have a proprietary instruction that really educates the users and the people that are going to be educating their end users. It's about having proper form and technique and really making the experience one of a kind."
However, certain products, such as Nexersys, do not need this packaging because its interactive experience teaches, challenges and leads users to their fitness goals by providing personalized feedback through a simulated personal trainer.
"When people don't have the time for a personal trainer or the financial capacity to have one every time they work out, Nexersys is the machine that interacts with them like a personal trainer would," says Terry Jones, chairman and CEO of Nexersys, Austin, TX. "Unlike a television on a treadmill, which is just there to disguise the boredom and lack of interaction, the Nexersys replicates that personal training interaction with the user."
Although traditional strength and cardio fitness staples have their place in fitness facilities, through group exercise and personal training, these unique and innovative products are finding their fit in health clubs as well.


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Rock 'n' roll started out with music being the total thing. It wasn't what it's evolved into now, where the visual presentation is so important. Now it's pretty grandiose. The women are actually showgirls who do music. They might hate me for saying so, but they are definitely produced. I'm sure they make their own choices about what they like to wear, but they are packaged. Our style was more self-contained, not applied by an outside machine. But we didn't have the Internet, so we didn't have to worry about being overexposed.
That's one of the things I love about Gaga. She's completely mad, and she and her people choose some really frightening images. I remember years ago going to the club Jackie 60 and seeing people wearing meat clothing and doing all this really grisly fetish stuff. It all works its way into fashion—counterculture gets absorbed by the mass culture and feeds what's going on. I loved fashion magazines back when I was starting out, but it was painful at times because I couldn't get any of that stuff. But a good trenchcoat is a staple. It's always on the list.


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There is a long list of very interesting speakers there. David Peake, Steven Feuerstein, Joel Kallman, Dimitri Gielis, John Scott and Peter Raganitsch, just to name a few, have been selected to deliver presentations and keynotes at this event. And I'm proud to say that my name is also on that list.
I'm planning to do a presentation based on the following abstract:
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Many companies have invested in an APEX application or a Service Oriented Architecture. But why not use both? In this presentation we will see the possibilities offered by APEX and the Oracle SOA Suite to communicate and integrate with eachother.
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Technical debt is existing (technical) structures that stand in the way of making the next change. The interest is the cost of having to deal with those structures in your day-to-day work, and the down payment is the cost of making the structures apt for use.
Debt can be intentional in that you take shortcuts to meet an important deadline or to hit a market window. In this case you have an expected ROI for the loan you take, one that you hope will pay off more than the cost of later fixing the shortcuts taken.
Debt can also be the unintentional, and here it gets interesting. One type of debt is that which results from sloppiness, usually resulting in a messy code base. This type is not related to any kind of investment, hence there is no expected ROI, it is just like a loan for consumption of drugs; it will destroy you (your code) and your economy if it doesn't stop.
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Some people, among them Uncle Bob in this article, argues that messy code is not debt. I disagree, for the reasons above. I think Uncle Bob and others confuse debt that results from loans taken to make an investment, and debt resulting from neglect, lack of experience or incompetence. The cause is totally different, but you're still in debt.
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Interview with Qi ZHOU : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Qi ZHOU : This design is made for the most authoritative media agency in China. The main idea is about how to highlight the unique features of this media. We use organic shape to simulate the Chinese character which represent the corn value of this agency. At the same time, the high recognition body make this skyscraper outstanding in the urban background. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Qi ZHOU : In this design, we mainly focus on how to do something which will be a creative, contemporary and modern, but also reflect our culture and tradition. We are willing to realize an elegant, modern, poetic and most important a traditional skyscraper. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. 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text: There was never an accident that I have forgotten. If I missed a step and bruised my knee I bear the scar still. If I lost an opportunity because of a missed flight or any other I can still see its consequences. I bear the accidents in life. Only what I missed was that accident, -which also is an accident I believe, and it could have put all in its proper place and value.


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Elections bring issues out in the open, and expose ideas to the public. My country is preparing for a national election, so naturally taxes are being discussed. When I got my first paycheck, I was shocked and disappointed to see how much of MY money was going to taxes! I was very young then, and didn't know how much my pittance helped ME to become part of the adult world, by doing my part, paying my fair share, supporting my government and even my future self. The act of paying didn't engage my emotions, or make me feel part of my community then.
Back when I used Windows, I paid my fair share both by buying the software I used, but also by contributing to my favorite shareware applications. However, just as when I first paid taxes, I didn't feel part of the community, because all I gave was money.
As I became an adult, I began to contribute in some organizations where I felt that my work really did help to change the world, improve my culture, and my country.
Then I started using free software, and eventually learned that there are communities creating this software, and even more astonishing, that I could help. And not just with my money, although that is sometimes important. For instance, KDE welcomes all kinds of contribution; code, bug reporting, bug triage, and bug fixing. Writing documentation, press releases, news stories, interviews, blog posts, even tweet/dents. Art, graphics, design, videos, baked goods! Party planning, setting up meetings, sprints, summits, conferences, leadership, management, moving chairs, taking minutes--and giving money.
The foundation supporting KDE, the KDE e.V., needs supporting members, corporate sponsors, and even occasional small donations. All of that money is needed to support the office, fund sprints, and do large meeting start-up.
I'd like to urge you to become a Supporting Member if you use KDE software. Doing so will move your heart from feeling like a user, to feeling like a contributor to the community. If you can't afford Join the Game, please contribute as you can! The more you contribute, the more your KDE community becomes your family. Do it now. You'll be glad you did.


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Coastal Carolina offers up a case study in where not to throw the ball on a full-court in-bounds pass with seconds remaining in a tie game: a rainbow into the middle of the court is never really a safe bet. UNC-Asheville, in its second appearance on this site in two weeks, defeated Coastal Carolina 61-58 on the road after Matt Dickey's last-second steal and bucket.
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Word came early this morning that Carol Gossard had passed away, and it still doesn't seem possible. A profound sense of loss is being felt by her legion of friends because even though she was in her 80s, Carol was one of those larger-than-life types — someone you thought would live forever.
The end came peacefully; word is she died in her sleep at the Cheesman Park-area condo to which she had moved not long after her beloved husband, Bill, died about a decade ago. Read more…


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Clementine Cupcakes
Total TimePrep: 25 min. Bake: 15 min. + cooling
Makes2 dozen
- 1 package white cake mix (regular size)
- 3/4 cup water
- 4 egg whites
- 1/2 cup clementine juice (about 5 clementines)
- 1/4 cup canola oil
- 1 teaspoon grated clementine peel
- 4 clementines, peeled, sectioned and membrane removed
- 1/3 cup butter, softened
- 3 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon grated clementine peel
- 5 to 6 teaspoons clementine juice
- 3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 24 clementine sections with membrane (about 2-1/2 clementines)
- In a large bowl, combine the first six ingredients; beat on low speed for 30 seconds. Beat on medium for 2 minutes. Fill paper-lined muffin cups half full. Place one clementine section in the center of each; gently press down into batter. Chop remaining sections; sprinkle over batter.
- Bake at 350° for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
- For frosting, in a small bowl, beat butter until light and fluffy. Beat in the confectioners' sugar, clementine peel and enough juice to achieve spreading consistency. Frost cupcakes.
- In a small microwave-safe bowl, melt chocolate chips; stir until smooth. Dip clementine sections halfway into chocolate; allow excess to drip off. Place on a waxed paper-lined baking sheet; refrigerate until set. Place one on each cupcake.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 238 calories, 9g fat (3g saturated fat), 7mg cholesterol, 176mg sodium, 40g carbohydrate (29g sugars, 1g fiber), 2g protein.
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This is a good recipe but almost everyone who tried it did not like the whole section of clementine in the cupcake. Also, I found the frosting measurements did not work for me, I needed to add a bit more butter and juice.
Jan 17, 2012
Clementines are actually a variety of mandarin oranges. Citrus growers are now starting to grow them. Most are seedless, but some are not. Look for seedless on the box (as with oranges-no seeds are much nicer to eat). 'Cuties' are a brand that are seedless. Our Walmart has them sometimes, as do some of the local grocery stores.
Jan 25, 2009
Well, I looked in the right place and found it. It's a good thing it wasn't a snake!
Jan 25, 2009
Where is the nutrition info for this recipe?
Jan 13, 2009
Ajani, just use any other recipe and add the extras. Cake always has the basic same ingredients. Flour, liquid, oil, and something to make it rise. :)
Jan 12, 2009
Re: box mix VS scratch- Take any homemade recipe (in this case white cake) compare the ingredients, and substitute the obvious ingredients. Jucie for water etc., and leave the other ingredients "as is".
Jan 12, 2009
Once again a boxed mix recipe. For those of us who don't buy or do boxed mixes, do you have a recipe that can be used to make these (and your other boxed mix "recipes") from scratch?
Jan 12, 2009
A clementine is a small tangerene - very tasty
Jan 12, 2009
What is a Clementine?
Jan 3, 2009
Very tasty! I did not add the chocolate garnish and they were still great!


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Dean Birren names teaching, mentoring award winners
Student nominators praise Professors Katz, Morris, Shostak and Freeze
Dean of Arts and Sciences Susan Birren announced the four 2013 winners of major teaching and mentoring awards in the School of Arts and Sciences at a faculty meeting today:
- Associate Professor of Psychology Donald B. Katz, PhD, was awarded the Lerman-Neubauer '69 Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring.
- Assistant Professor of Sociology Sara Shostak, PhD, won the Michael L. Walzer '56 Award for Teaching.
- Associate Professor of Biology James R. Morris, PhD, won the Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
- Associate Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and Women's and Gender Studies ChaeRan Yoo Freeze, PhD, received the Dean's Mentoring Award for Outstanding Mentoring of Students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Also yesterday, Dean Lisa Lynch announced Heller School of Social Policy and Management teaching, mentoring and staff awards.
Donald B. Katz
The 2013 recipient of the Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer '69 and Joseph Neubauer Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring is Associate Professor of Psychology Donald B. Katz, PhD. The prize, established by Trustee Jeanette Lerman at the time of her marriage to Joseph Neubauer, requires its recipient to be not only an exceptional teacher, but also a person who is a presence in the co-curricular and extracurricular life of students, and who is known to be an exceptional mentor and advisor.
Katz has been teaching at Brandeis since 2002, after completing his BA in Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown, his PhD in Clinical Psychology and Neural Science at Indiana University and a postdoc at Duke Medical Center's Department of Neurobiology. His courses include "Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience" which enrolls more than 150 students, "Graduate Proseminar in Neuroscience," and "Advanced Topics in Behavioral Neuroscience." During his time at Brandeis he has advised first-year students and majors, served as the neuroscience graduate advising head and on senior thesis and dissertation committees. He has supervised undergraduates working in his lab and the lab rotations of neuroscience grad students, and has been an invited presenter to all students and their families at First Year Orientation, and at meetings organized by the Neuroscience Club and Neuro UDRs, and at information sessions for science and psychology majors. He is a previous recipient of the Michael L. Walzer '56 Award for Teaching. His university service includes membership on the First Year Advising Committee, the Committee on Academic Standing, the Graduate Admissions Committee for Neuroscience and the Volen Center steering committee.
Katz's research has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the NSF Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience program. He is also a recipient of the Ajinomoto Award for Young Investigators in Gustation and the Polak Award from the Association for Chemoreception Sciences, a society of neuroscientists involved in taste and smell research. His articles have been published in the Journal of Neurophysiology, Neuron, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology and Behavior, Journal of Neuroscience, Learning and Memory, Psychological Science, Brain and Language and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
"Don goes above and beyond his role as a professor," one of his student nominators wrote. "My first encounter of his advising really came when he told me the right way to go about asking for research positions. Don was incredibly helpful in not only the search for a lab, but also the securing of a position. In class, Don is one of the most engaging and interesting lecturers a student could have. If a topic has been challenged recently and what was once thought true is actually completely wrong, then he will let you know. Both in and out of the classroom, Don Katz showcases everything that is outstanding in a professor and mentor."
Sara Shostak
Assistant Professor of Sociology Sara Shostak, PhD, is the 31st recipient of the Michael L. Walzer '56 Award for Teaching. This award is given annually to a tenure-track assistant professor who combines superlative scholarship with inspired teaching.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Reed College who earned her MPH and PhD degrees from the Universities of California, Shostak joined the Brandeis faculty in 2006 after serving as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at Columbia University. She teaches courses in "Sociology of Science, Technology, and Medicine," "Sociology of Body and Health," "Environment, Health, and Society" and "Qualitative Sociology," and graduate courses in "Field Methods," "Inequality and Health" and "Approaches to Sociological Research." Her courses often incorporate experiential learning, writing intensive or oral communications components, such as a journal club section in which students present research articles related to course themes and topics.
Her book "Exposed Science: Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health," which draws on in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation with nearly 100 environmental health scientists, policy makers, and environmental health and justice activists, was published by the University of California Press earlier this year. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Sociology of Health and Illness, Social Science and Medicine, Teaching Sociology, the Annual Review of Sociology, and the American Journal of Sociology, where she served as associate editor of a special issue focused on "Exploring Genetics and Social Structure." Her research and teaching have been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the ASA Teaching Enhancement Fund, and the Epilepsy Foundation, to name only a few.
At Brandeis, Shostak is an active member of the Experiential Learning Committee, the steering committee of Environmental Studies and the Health: Science, Society, and Policy Executive Committee. She has also served as undergraduate advising head for the sociology major, and as an adviser to first-year students, senior thesis candidates and PhD students, and as a mentor to Schiff Fellows.
Students in her classes call her approachable, focused, passionate, open, caring yet strict, challenging and motivating, and a clear, intuitive and thought-provoking lecturer.
"Sara Shostak is simply the best teacher I have ever encountered in my life," one of her student nominators wrote. "Professor Shostak has the most incredible way of engaging a large lecture class as if it was a seminar. She creates a safe space so that each student feels comfortable voicing their opinions and concerns. I have never met a more enthusiastic instructor. She has inspired me to take my studies to the next step and pursue things that I would never have dreamed of. "
James R. Morris
The 28th recipient of the Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching is Associate Professor of Biology James R. Morris, PhD.
Morris earned his AB, PhD and MD degrees from Harvard. After teaching "Genomics" and "Genetics" at Harvard and completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard Center for Genomics Research and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, he began teaching at Brandeis in 2006. His courses include "Evolution," "Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy," "The Biology and Culture of Deafness," "Epigenetics," a First Year Seminar on "Darwin's On the Origin of Species" and the "Project Laboratory in Genetics and Genomics." He has participated in workshops or meetings organized by the National Academies Summer Institutes on Undergraduate Education in Biology, the AAAS Introductory Biology Project and the Rethinking Majors Biology Teaching Workshop.
Morris has published journal articles in Genetics and Science, and is the lead author of "Biology: How Life Works," a new college-level introductory biology textbook which emphasizes ways of thinking and key concepts that scientists use to understand the world around them and solve contemporary problems. He is co-principal investigator on an NSF grant on "The Molecular Basis of Thermal Preference Variation in Drosophila."
At Brandeis, he has chaired the Biology Curriculum Committee, and served on the Premedical Board of Advisors, the Committee on University Writing, the Oral Communications Committee and the Teaching with Technology Committee. He is also an affiliate of the Education, Environmental Studies and HSSP programs. Each year he advises 45 to 50 students, and writes 70 to 75 letters of recommendation.
"Professor Morris is an amazing professor, adviser and mentor," one of his student nominators wrote. "He is a dynamic and interactive teacher who really cares about his students and their grasp of the course material. In both of the classes I took with Professor Morris, I was blown away by his enthusiasm for the subject, his well-formulated lectures, and the diverse and creative nature of the assignments. I have learned so much from him—about science, about pedagogy and about being a caring and dedicated person. Professor Morris epitomizes the ideal of a Brandeis professor and has enriched my experience as a student here so much."
ChaeRan Yoo Freeze
ChaeRan Freeze, PhD, a professor in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and in Women's and Gender Studies, is this year's recipient of the Graduate Mentor Award in Arts and Sciences.
Freeze received her BA at the University of California, Irvine, and her MA and PhD at Brandeis. She has published research on Jewish families and Jewish history in Russia and Eastern Europe, and has received several awards, honors and grants.
"When I had her for the NEJS graduate proseminar, she recognized from my comments in class that I might be interested in women's and gender issues, although I had originally entered the program with a different direction in mind," one student nominator wrote. "When I agreed with her observation and expressed my surprise at this new area of interest, she eagerly offered up several interesting research areas and research materials. When I expressed interest in one of them, she told me about available grants and helped me draft my grant proposal."
From another student: "Even those taking her courses as electives are often enchanted with her ability to make history come alive. Even for the non-historians among us, the craft of deconstructing history raises awareness about how social discourse is shaped. We all begin to see ourselves as agents in the construction of culture…Her practice is to broaden our perception by suggesting projects that inspire students to continue the conversation and, in many cases, to advance in the field, seek funding for research, apply for professional positions and grow as professionals…By mentoring others, she has trained many of us to become mentors ourselves."
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management's annual awards also were announced today and are reported in a separate article. The International Business School will not announce its awards until graduation week.
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First Post-Election News Conference
Today will mark Obama's 20th formal solo White House news conference.
Nov. 14, 2012 -- President Obama faces the press today for the first time since his re-election amid the sexual scandal surrounding former CIA Director David Petraeus, and with the clock ticking toward the looming "fiscal cliff," both topics expected to take center stage this afternoon.
Today's 1:30PM event will mark Obama's 20th formal solo White House news conference, his first since March.
Since then, however, the president has fielded questions in a variety of other capacities. He last took questions from the White House press corps at an impromptu press conference in the briefing room in August, when the bulk of the questions revolved around the heated presidential campaign.
Before that, Obama answered a handful of reporters' questions following a briefing room statement on the economy in June, when he said "the private sector is doing fine" and set off a brief ruckus on the campaign trail. Later that month, at the G20 summit in Mexico, the president answered six questions from three reporters on the European debt crisis, the conflict in Syria, and the notion of politics stopping at the water's edge.
The president has also responded to the occasional shouted question from a White House reporter. Last month, after delivering a statement on Hurricane Sandy, the president answered a question about how the storm was affecting the election.
In the run-up to the election, the president gave interviews to talk shows and entertainment magazines, including US Weekly, Jay Leno, MTV and Rolling Stone.
Before he opens it up for questions, the president is expected to deliver a brief opening statement on his efforts to reach a bipartisan agreement to reduce the deficit and prevent the economy from going over the "fiscal cliff" of spending cuts and tax increases set to take effect on Jan 1.
The president has said he wants to preserve tax breaks for the middle class but has vowed to veto any bill that extends the Bush-era tax cuts for the top 2 percent of income earners.
Obama, who has said he is "open to compromise," is expected to urge House Republicans to pass the Senate bill that would extend tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans.


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Bachelor of Business Administration (Travel and Tourism) BBA-T&T is a three year full time program affiliated to Goa University. The objective of this program is to build competence in students to effectively undertake managerial jobs in Travel and Tourism related organizations.
Each year of this program consists of three terms, with an additional summer term (internship) of eight weeks in the first and second year. As a part of the curriculum the department conducts study tour for the first and the second years. Each term will be of three months duration inclusive of vacations.
Candidates who have passed Higher Secondary School Certificate examination are eligible to join the First Year BBA-T&T. The concerned candidates will have to answer the Common Entrance Test (Undergraduate Aptitude Test – UGAT) conducted by the All India Management Association (AIMA), New Delhi. They are required to fill in the UGAT application form indicating on the same the college of his/her preference. The date of test will be advertised on local dailies.
As per the Ordinance of the Goa University, the intake capacity is limited to 30 seats only.
The department adopts case study methodology of teaching to develop true managerial acumen in the students. Distinctive training methods like Seminars, Presentations, Group Discussions, Case studies, Role-plays etc are integrated.
Each term exposes students to a wide range of travel, tourism and management subjects. Apart from these subjects in each term perspective building electives are offered from already approved subjects under Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science and Technology including Indian History, Understanding Indian Society, Indian Heritage, History of Goa, Cultural History of Goa, Tourism Geography, etc. The program also trains the students in Soft Skills.
The program prepares students for positions of responsibility and management in the travel and tourism industry. It offers the specialized knowledge and practical skills that employers are looking for globally and locally.


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The New Zealand Heartland XV, formerly known as the New Zealand Divisional XV, was established in 1988 to expose players from Divisions Two and Three in the Air New Zealand NPC to rugby at a higher level. In 2006, Heartland Championship replaced the former Air New Zealand NPC Divisions Two and Three, and the competition has given more players the chance to push for national honours. The first New Zealand Heartland XV side toured the Pacific Islands in 2005 and they played six games (which they won), including matches against Tonga and Fiji. Since then the team has toured Argentina in 2006 and the United States in 2008, beating the Pacific Coast Grizzlies and a USA Select XV.
The team has been the launching pad of many All Blacks' careers including Carlos Spencer and Justin Marshall. Other players who made appearances for the New Zealand Heartland XV early in their careers include Jeff Wilson, Todd Blackadder, Norm Hewitt, Simon Culhane and Matthew Cooper.
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This series consists of talks in the area of Quantum Gravity.
Instead of formulating the state space of a quantum field theory over a single big Hilbert space, it has been proposed by Jerzy Kijowski to describe quantum states as projective families of density matrices over a collection of smaller, simpler Hilbert spaces. I will discuss the physical motivations for this approach and explain how it can be implemented in the context of LQG. While the resulting state space forms a natural extension of the Ashtekar-Lewandowski Hilbert space, it treats position and momentum variables on equal footing.
I offer a personal perspective on the causal dynamical triangulations approach to the construction of quantum theories of gravity. After briefly introducing the approach's formalism and results, I illuminate this perspective with 3+1 vignettes of recent and ongoing research.
A quantum isolated horizon can be modeled by an SU(2) Chern-Simons theory on a punctured 2-sphere. We show how a local 2-dimensional conformal symmetry arises at each puncture inducing an infinite set of new observables localized at the horizon which satisfy a Kac-Moody algebra. By means of the isolated horizon boundary conditions, we represent the gravitational fluxes degrees of freedom in terms of the zero modes of the Kac-Moody algebra defined on the boundary of a punctured disk. In this way, our construction encodes a precise notion of CFT/gravity correspondence.
We will discuss our work on (1) the global food crisis and the implications for how we can address hunger and social unrest around the world, (2) the financial crisis and the implications for the role of regulation in economic market stability, and (3) the Ebola epidemic and the vulnerability of global civilization to pandemics.
I will review recent work on tensorial group field theories (TGFTs). The renormalization methods being developed in this context provide more and more control over their field-theoretic structures, and for models which increasingly resemble loop quantum gravity. Perhaps surprisingly, some of these models are asymptotically free and can therefore be made sense of at arbitrary values of the (abstract) scale with respect to which they are organized. They define in this sense UV complete quantum field theories.
It is by now well established that black holes emit a thermal radiation and undergo an evaporation process. The original Hawking evaporation scenario, based on quantum fields on a classical background geometry, has been vastly extended and improved, in order to take into account in particular the backreaction of the radiation on the geometry. This can be done for example in a semiclassical setup, where the Einstein equations are sourced by an effective stress energy tensor.
I present a proposal for a worldline action for discretized gravity with the same field content as loop quantum gravity. The proposal is defined through its action, which is a one-dimensional integral over the edges of the discretization. Every edge carries a finite-dimensional phase space, and the evolution equations are generated by a Hamiltonian, which is a sum over the constraints of the theory. I will explain the relevance of the model, and close with possible relations to other approaches of quantum gravity, including: relative locality, causal sets and twistor theory.
I present a proposal for a worldline action for discretized gravity with the same field content as loop quantum gravity. The proposal is defined through its action, which is a one-dimensional integral over the edges of the discretization. Every edge carries a finite-dimensional phase space, and the evolution equations are generated by a Hamiltonian, which is a sum over the constraints of the theory.
We study in the context of loop quantum cosmology the effect of the analytic continuation that sends the Barbero-Immirzi parameter to a purely imaginary value. We show that this construction leads once again to a bouncing scenario, in which however the contracting and expanding phases on each side of the bounce are not symmetrical. Moreover, the minimal volume reached by the universe and the critical matter density become naturally independent of the Barbero-Immirzi parameter.


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February 23, 2012
Firefighters battle a large fire — fueled by high winds — at the Hampton Woods apartment complex, near 67th Street and Renner Road. The fire was reported about 7:15 p.m. Thursday. Firefighters believe everyone got out of the building safely.
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Emergency Disaster Services Joins Community Group to Feed the Hungry
Jackson, MS (February 26, 2014) -The Salvation Army EDS Department along with the Jackson Area Coordinate partnered with an area nonprofit to serve food to Jackson Mississippi's hungry and homeless.
Every Sunday afternoon, Why Not Now Ministries of Mississippi, joins area organizations and church groups to provide a meal to the most needy in the Jackson, MS area. While The Salvation Army already had a feeding program in place, one of The Salvation Army's most faithful disaster volunteers, Tony Kumor brought an idea up to the EDS department. Tony thought that this would be a good place to practice our food service along with helping those in need, and the EDS department agreed.
The Salvation Army's Emergency Disaster Services are constantly looking to train and practice their unique feeding ministry, so situations where they can exercise their resources are priceless. When the idea of using this practice time to serve the hungry of Jackson came up, it was an easy decision to make.
The Salvation Army and Why Not Now of Mississippi worked for most of the afternoon this past Sunday serving 125 individuals. Kumor stated that this number was up about 30 people from the previous week.
The Salvation Army stands ready to assist all those in need during times of national disasters, and personal ones.


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When: June 17, 2012
Where: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2012, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
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|Radu B. Rusu
|PCL: what's new?
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|David Doria
|Enhancing the PCL Usability: A GUI Front-End, Interfacing with VTK, and Image Processing on Structured Point Clouds. (presentation)
|14:30 - 15:00
|Suat Gedikli
|Harris keypoints: to 3D, 5D and beyond. (presentation)
|15:00 - 15:30
|Coffee Break
|15:30 - 16:00
|Maurice Fallon and Tom Whelan
|Large Scale Mapping and Localization: Kintinuous and KMCL (presentation - Maurice Fallon, presentation - Tom Whelan)
|16:00 - 16:30
|Stefan Holzer
|Object Detection: LINEMOD. (presentation)
|16:30 - 17:00
|Pat Marion
|PCL goes Mobile: iOS and Android 3D app programming. (presentation, movie1, movie2, movie3)
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For those who are considering setting up your Mac to run Linux instead of Mac OS X or to dual-boot, I thought I'd share my experience.
I now have my ancient PowerMac 1,1 dual-booting Mac OS X and Linux and running Windows XP in a VirtualBox virtual machine under Linux.
The first issue I ran into is that the Mac bootloader will not recognize Linux DVD's as bootable media. There is a special Debian install ISO that overcomes this problem but there is an easier and more versatile solution that also makes dual-booting super easy in the form of a free boot manager called rEFIt, which you can get at http://refit.sourceforge.net/.
rEFIt is super-easy to install. You just download it as a '.dmg' file, click on it, and it installs. After that, when you boot, you'll get a menu with graphical images (which are very nice by the way) for each bootable image, an Apple for Mac, Tux the penguin for Linux, etc.
Then to install Linux, you only need to place an appropriate 32 or 64-bit edition, as appropriate for your hardware, in your Superdrive, boot, and click on the image.
I tried a number of distributions, and I ended up with Debian because it both performs well, is stable, and has a large selection of applications available. Debian has supported Mac for many years and even has a version for the PowerPC Macs.
Along the way I tried OpenSuse (Yast is a great installer and I really would have liked to run OpenSuse), but the 32-bit version of OpenSuse wasn't stable. Fedora20 was stable but slow as snails. CentOS also stable but a severely inadequate availability of software for it. Debian has the next best installer, after OpenSuse's Yast, available (it's native installer is crap but Synaptic is nice).
Debian has been completely stable on the Mac, has some very nice Desktops (I personally prefer Mate with the Cairo dock), performs well, and has a huge amount of free software available.
I am running with MacOS on drive A, Debian on drive B, and it was very easy to install because Mac OpenBoot PROM (the Mac equivalent to a BIOS) does not re-arrange disks to make the boot disk the disk 0 as some PC Bios's do), so the install program defaults loaded the boot loader to the right place.
Linux performs much better than MacOS on the same PowerMac hardware. Under MacOS, I had problems with audio and video stuttering, and this is on a Quad core Xeon based machine with 4GB of RAM, so it really shouldn't have been a problem, but under Linux audio and video are smooth without the stutter. I haven't done any objective measurements on disk I/O but I can tell you Linux boots faster and subjectively feels much snappier.
Linux can mount HSFS just fine so I can get access to all my MacOS side files under Linux without any problems.
Getting Windows to run under VirtualBox on Linux also was easy but the 3D accelerated graphics are SLOW. There may be some tweaking to do yet.
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|What is social media?
You hear about social media just about everywhere you go - there's no escaping it! And, believe it or not, it's not just for kids anymore. Golden Girl Betty White re-launched her career using Facebook, Jerry Mathers, aka "The Beaver," is tweeting about how to live a longer and healthier life (even with diabetes), and an elderly couple's "Webcam 101" video goes viral on YouTube, making them instant Internet sensations.
The numbers don't lie. According to Pew Internet & American Life Project, social media use among Internet users ages 50 and older has nearly doubled - from 22% to 42% over the past year. Half (47%) of Internet users ages 50-64 and 26% users age 65 and older now use social media.
That's all nice and dandy, but what exactly is social media?
Social media consists of online tools and websites that encourage people to interact with companies, brands, and people (including celebrities and journalists) and form communities by creating, publishing, and sharing content. Social media is a two-way communication stream, whereas with traditional media, messaging is published through a one-way communication stream to the masses, e.g. radio, television and newspaper.
Social media is fast changing and take on many different forms, including social networking sites (e.g. Facebook, MySpace), blogs and microblogs (e.g. Twitter), content communities (e.g. YouTube, Flickr), virtual worlds (e.g. Second Life), social gaming, podcasts, and wikis, to name a few.
To give you a general idea of the social media landscape, here are some basic terms to help you get started.
Blog: an online journal that is usually (but not always) written by one person about a particular topic. It is updated on a regular basis with entries that appear in reverse chronological order. Blogs typically contain comments by other readers and links to other sites. Twitter is a popular form of "microblogging," which is a short form of a blog, limiting each message to 140 characters.
Podcast: a form of audio broadcasting that is available as a digital file (usually audio but sometimes video) that can be downloaded to a computer or portable device, such as an MP3 player or iPod. Podcasts usually contain talk back radio style content.
Social Networking Site: an online community that allows you to create a profile, add friends, share ideas and events, and communicate with other members. The most popular social networking site (and the most-visited website in the world), Facebook, allows you to reconnect and stay in touch with friends, family, classmates and colleagues. Eons is a social network designed for aging baby boomers and seniors.
Social Gaming: online games that are played with other people and include interactive elements or content that can be shared online. Social games are played on social networking sites, game portals and websites. Players create profiles, chat, and share information with other players. Winster is a social gaming site that appeals mostly to older adults. The games are designed to encourage a positive social interaction and provide a sense of community with like-minded individuals who enjoy playing collaborative games, not competitive ones.
Virtual World: an online computer-simulated space that includes aspects of real life with fantasy elements. Typically, you can create a representation of yourself (an avatar) and socialize with other "residents" of this online world. A popular virtual world is Second Life, which is being used by non-profits and businesses to run discussions, virtual events and fundraising.
Video/Photo Sharing sites: a website that hosts user-generated videos or photos that is shared on the Web. YouTube is the most popular video-sharing site on the Web, and also the second most visited website in the world.
Wiki: a website developed collaboratively by a community of users, allowing any user to add and edit content. The most popular wiki is Wikipedia, a publicly-written, collaborative encyclopedia available online.
This may all seem a little overwhelming at first, but don't be discouraged. The best way to dip your toes into social media is by joining a community that best suits you or sounds the most interesting to you.
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Since Internet users over the age of 50 are driving the growth of social media, companies and web designers are developing better computer technologies and websites that accommodate the specific needs of older Internet users.
Social media is not just a way to connect with grandkids, look at photos, and reconnect with old friends, but it's also a way to exercise the mind, lift spirits and boost morale.
"Don't get overwhelmed. It's daunting, but not impossible - just ask for help if you need it. Just like you helped your kids ride a bike, they can help you learn how to communicate with the world," advises Jerry Mathers, best known as the loveable Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver in the television sitcom series, Leave It to Beaver.
If your kids aren't around to help, there are plenty of organizations, like SeniorNet, and communities dedicated to providing older adults with computer education and social media classes. It's just a hop, skip and click away!


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Opinion analysis: The many faces of judicial minimalism
The most striking feature of Tuesday's opinion in United States v. Tohono O'odham Nation (No. 09-846) is the apparent disregard for judicial minimalism in Justice Kennedy's opinion for the Court. The Court, in an opinion joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito, held that 28 U.S.C. § 1500, which prohibits a suit in the Court of Federal Claims (CFC) on a claim "for or in respect to which" the plaintiff has a suit pending in another court, applies to suits that share operative facts, even if they request different relief. The Court need not have decided that question, however, unless it confronted two suits with no remedial overlap, for precedent had already established that Section 1500 bars the new suit if the two suits share operative facts and request overlapping relief.
The Court's opinion could therefore be characterized as abandoning judicial minimalism by refusing to decide the case on the narrowest possible grounds. The opinion refuses to even mention the preliminary question on which the oral argument focused: whether the Tohono O'odham Nation's two suits""one in the CFC seeking money damages for the government's breach of trust while managing Nation assets, and the other in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking an equitable accounting and an accompanying payment of any shortfall for the same breach of trust""do in fact seek overlapping relief. If so, that question could have been dispositive "" as it would have been for Justice Sotomayor, who filed an opinion concurring in the judgment that was joined by Justice Breyer.
Why would the Court decline to decide whether the two suits seek similar relief? The opinion itself provides no particular reason, other than a desire to move past the preliminary question to clarify the scope of Section 1500:
To continue to reserve the question [of whether § 1500 bars suits with no remedial overlap] would force the CFC to engage in an unnecessary and complicated remedial inquiry, and it would increase the expense and duration of litigation. The question thus demands an answer, and the answer is yes.
But comparing different types of relief is not difficult: as the concurrence points out, the CFC has been doing just that for almost fifty years in applying Section 1500. Instead, it is likely that the Court wanted to avoid deciding whether an equitable order to pay money is the same as money damages.
One possible reason emerges when one remembers that a distinction between those two forms of relief is the foundation of the district court's jurisdiction over any suits claiming money from the government. According to 5 U.S.C. § 702, district courts can hear claims against the United States only if they "seek[] relief other than money damages." Claims for money damages, by contrast, must be brought in the CFC. After Bowen v. Massachusetts (1988), however, a plaintiff could sue the United States for money outside of the CFC so long as he asked for an equitable order to pay money. Such a suit, the court reasoned, is distinct from a suit for money damages. Subsequently, lower courts have applied that reasoning to extend Bowen and allow suits against the government for money in the district court for a variety of plaintiffs, from government contractors and employees to claimants under many government spending programs.
A decision that the Nation's legal and equitable suits did not have overlapping relief would reconfirm that part of Bowen's reasoning and perhaps encourage lower courts to extend it yet further. That result, however, likely would be unacceptable to Justices Kennedy and Scalia, both of whom dissented in Bowen. On the other hand, a decision that the Nation's legal and equitable suits seek the same relief would undermine Bowen "" a result that Justices Kennedy and Scalia likely would welcome. But it would cause plaintiffs who now benefit from Bowen's extension to lose a forum to which they have become accustomed, a result perhaps unacceptable to other members of the majority.
By avoiding the question of remedial overlap, therefore, the Court may be postponing for another day a larger fight about the validity and reach of Bowen. The Court's opinion thus shows an impressive amount of judicial tact and displays a subtle understanding of the requirements of judicial minimalism, for by deciding one unnecessary issue, it avoids a yet more troublesome problem.
Recommended Citation: Daniel Thies, Opinion analysis: The many faces of judicial minimalism, SCOTUSblog (Apr. 29, 2011, 11:03 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2011/04/opinion-analysis-the-many-faces-of-judicial-minimalism-2/


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"The Office" actor John Kransinki and girlfriend/actress Emily Blunt got hitched in Como, Italy yesterday, Us Weekly reported.
"John and Emily were married on Saturday in a private ceremony," a representative for Krasinski said to the magazine.
Actor George Clooney and his girlfriend, Elisabetta Canalis, were at the Villa D'este where the wedding took the place, said Us. Kransinki and Blunt stayed at Clooney's residence in Italy's Lake Como last weekend.
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A source told Us that the ceremony took place outside and was "absolutely beautiful."
Blunt, 27, and Kransinki, 30, became engaged last August and have dated since 2008, according to People magazine. "The Office" actor had once dated actress Rashida Jones; Blunt, who starred in "The Devil Wears Prada," was formerly in a relationship with singer Michael Buble.
Fellow "Office" co-star Jenna Fischer recently married to writer Lee Kirk on Jul. 3.