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Rob Reid made quite the splash with his humorous/serious TED talk on Copyright Math. Hearing it calls for a more detailed explanation of the numbers he used, and Reid has laid it all bare.
Reid isn't done with the music industry, either. Ars has learned some new details about Reid's debut novel, Year Zero. Due out in July, Year Zero is a science fiction novel set in a galaxy that's rather nearby. Specifically, it's set on a cute (but quite possibly doomed) planet called Earth, where litigious entertainment industry lawyers nearly ruin human civilization. So as you can see, this is clearly fiction. Not a Swiftian commentary on our society, no sir.
And there's good news for those of you who loathe the written word, as we've just learned that Daily Show Resident Expert (and human-shaped PC from the Mac commercials) John Hodgman will be reading the book's audio edition. At first I was rather surprised to hear this, because Hodgman is a deranged, barefoot millionaire whose hobbies include hurling 5-hour energy drinks and mayonnaise at unsuspecting theater goers. (As our Chicagoland readers can discover for themselves by attending his Chicago show this Sunday. He's in the region this week, so check out his schedule. I saw him earlier in LA, and it was brilliant.) So I e-mailed him some questions about his involvement.
Ars Technica: Mr. Hodgman, why is there no extant technology—indeed, not even your own particular inventions—that can read and record this work for you, surpassing both your soothing but organically limited voice, and your stamina?
John Hodgman: Of course there are many programs now that can read electronic books aloud to those who are impaired or simply too lazy to read, but none of them are quite so robotic and soulless as I am. Despite every possible intervention, they still sound too human, too frail, and too questioning to compete with the sheer authority of my own-HAL-like rendition. Also, when the aliens do discover they owe us unimaginable sums in back royalties, I want to get my cut.
Ars: A second question, if I may: do you anticipate needing to trim back the mustache to performance/athletic levels of trim, for the sake of the performance? And are you being properly compensated for such a sacrifice?
JH: The benefit of a mustache is that it acts as a natural pop filter. In recording terms, this is a shielding device used to decrease the "popping" sound of aspirated plosives and to protect the mic from saliva. If I did not have this mustache, I would have to wear a piece of foam rubber under my nose like a normal voice artist. And I would have to wring out foam rubber spit valve every 15 minutes. Mustaches can safely hold saliva for days.
You read it here first.
We also went straight to the author himself to get the lowdown on the book. Since Reid is mainly known for being an entrepreneur (having started the company that built the Rhapsody music service) I had to ask him if it was true that his book was really part of a Faustian bargain, whereby he gains literacy and a humorous libretto in exchange for his soul—a small price to pay for success these days.
"A couple years back, my wife and I were traveling through Colombia for New Year's Eve," Reid replied, with enough earnestness that I figure this isn't code for a coke-laden LA New Year's Eve Party. "Toward the end of the trip she got sick. We were at the end of our trip and had read all of our books. So I started writing what became the prologue of Year Zero, and would read the new parts to my wife whenever she woke up. By the time we got home, we were both having fun with this, so I kept it up. Next thing I knew, eighteen months had passed, and I had a finished manuscript."
That reply didn't get me closer to the bottom of any conspiracy, so I tried the friendly tack.
"Clearly this is supposed to be a fun book," I said. "Aliens are usually fun when they're not anally probing you. How did you hit on this ridiculous idea involving aliens?"
"The aliens in the books that I read as a kid were all obnoxiously superior to us in every imaginable way," Reid replied. "To the extent that they had any interest in us, it was due to something completely unrelated to human society. They wanted our planet. They wanted our phosphates. They wanted our pituitary glands.
"This always bugged me. Just once, I wanted aliens who thought we were awesome. Galaxy Quest whetted my appetite—but those aliens thought we were awesome by mistake. The trick, of course, is figuring out how primitives like us could possibly awe a galaxy-hopping civilization. Then it hit me—any aliens who listen to both sides of Led Zeppelin IV won't just think we were awesome. They'll know it."
Trying to get the mini-interview back on track, I asked Reid if there was a serious message to the book, or if it was all just fun and games. After all, Copyright Math is rather serious when you get to the core of it.
"First, Led Zeppelin IV kicks ass (particularly 'When the Levee Breaks.') Secondly, while it's all tied up in a playful storyline, I do make some serious points about the insanity of certain copyright laws, as well as the corrupting influence that media lobbyists can have on Washington."
Reid knows all too well the corrupting influence of deep-pocketed players who see new technologies in terms of the old. But sometimes what stands in the way of progress is a willingness to experiment, to break from "shooting the proscenium arch," as Reid would say.
Back in 1997, Reid wrote about how all new media technologies are originally—and rather uncreatively—put to use serving older technologies. When movie cameras were first invented, early cinematographers were at a loss with how to make use of them. It's no surprise that one of the first uses was to record a play, a kind of "early-gen media technology." Likewise, the first TV news anchors read the news to us on screen, just as their radio counterparts had done before—newspaper in hand, speaking into a microphone materializing at the end of a speaker cone. When asked if reading a book into a microphone isn't just another form of shooting the proscenium arch, Reid conceded that it could be, adding, "but not if its Hodgman."
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GOP legislator collaborates for school relief
It's a rare thing for minority Republicans to get their way in the state House of Representatives, where a 99-52 majority means Democrats can get just about anything they want.
But late on the evening of May 9, toward the end of a 10-hour legislative day, second-term Rep. Gail Lavielle, R-Wilton, succeeded in persuading Democrats to adopt an amendment.
The bill was about fostering innovation in public schools, and Lavielle saw the moment as a good time to help both higher-performing and lower-achieving school districts. The bill passed 135-0 and now heads to the Senate.
"I was pleased at how well it went," said Lavielle, a former corporate executive who is on the legislative Education Committee. "I introduced something very similar last year around this time, but there was not an appetite for it."
The amendment calls for a task force to study the possibility of giving schools relief from expensive state mandates.
Under Lavielle's bill, high-performing schools such as Weston High School and New Canaan High School could have more field trips and laboratory work in lieu of mandatory class time. Group learning and online learning could also replace classroom lessons.
In addition, Lavielle's bill would include the five low-income districts that show the greatest decrease in the achievement gap from July 2010 to July 2012. As a whole, Connecticut has the largest gap in the nation between high-performing and low-performing schools.
Lavielle said that while some legislative task forces can create reports that do nothing but gather dust, her proposed eight-member group appointed by legislative leaders would have a narrow scope and an Oct. 1 deadline.
In 2012, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy created the Red Tape Review and Removal Task Force, which Lavielle said produced a dry report that seems to have gone nowhere, especially on the issue of mandate relief.
An example of her mandate relief would be to allow schools to divert from the so-called common core of classes and create other curriculum options. Another example would be to cut down on reports that many teachers say eat up time that would be better used for instruction.
"I think it's just been long in coming," Lavielle said, adding that it won't cost any money, but it has the potential to save money and resources.
"I was very happy (at the bill's passage in the House)," she said. "It appears to be a sincere desire for collaboration from both sides. This can't be one of those task forces that do nothing."
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It was once the source of life, light and warmth. But now the sun has turned the entire world into a baked and barren wasteland. In order to survive, people must protect themselves against the suns scorching light. Marie, her little sister Leonie and Phillip head for the mountains in a car with covered windows. Rumour has it there is still water there. Along the way they run into Tom, a first-rate mechanic, who becomes indispensible. But can they trust him? Tension grows in the small group. As if things were not bad enough, they are lured into an ambush. Their real battle for survival begins.


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Cinnamon rolls seem to have us wrapped around their pretty little spirals, incapable of resisting the temptation of their sweet stickiness and that buttery frosting on every soft, cinnamony bite. I have only eaten a cinnamon roll from Cinnabon once or twice in my life, because I know how unhealthy they are, but the scent of them is in every airport and shopping mall out there. They should have their own theme song. I think it would go something like this one... "Don't, don't you want me? You know I don't believe it when you say that you don't need me..."
And you DO need these cookies. :)
During the holidays, I love to make cinnamon rolls with grated almond paste sprinkled on the dough, along with the cinnamon and sugar. But Jamie doesn't love almond paste as much as I do, so I try to go easy on that for him.
When I decided to try making a cinnamon roll cookie, I first tried adapting one of my other cookie recipes, but they spread out too much, and became more flat and crispy than I wanted, as well as tasted a little too much like Snickerdoodles. Of course, the snickerdoodle taste is always going to be there a little, because of the cinnamon and sugar aspect, but I wanted a puffier cookie that looked a little more like a cinnamon roll. And I love snickerdoodles, but that's not what I was after here. So those cookies went into the freezer, to be used as the crust for a snickerdoodle pie sometime this winter.
For the second try, I went with just plain sugar cookie mix. Now, I like making cookies from scratch. But sugar cookies are the one exception. I'm not sure why I've never come up with my own sugar cookie recipe, but the mix you can buy just works so well, and I love the taste. So there.
As yummy as these were just minutes out of the oven, I liked them even better the next day, and they stayed soft for days after.
Did I mention that you NEED these cookies in your life this winter?
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- 1 package Sugar Cookie Mix, prepared according to the directions on the package
- 1 tablespoon melted butter
- 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon light corn syrup
- 2 teaspoons milk
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
Mix up the Sugar Cookie dough according to the directions on the package. On a well-floured (or powdered sugared) surface, roll out the dough to a 1/4 inch thickness, measuring about 10x16 inches in width and length. (When rolling out sweet dough, I like to use powdered sugar instead of flour for rolling.)
Brush the dough with the melted butter, then sprinkle with the granulated sugar and cinnamon. Carefully roll the dough up into a log, from one short end to the other, so that you have a 16-inch cookie log. Dampen your fingers with a little water to seal the edge of the dough. Cut into 2 8-inch logs, and wrap each in plastic wrap, then in foil. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or freeze for 1 hour.
Preheat the oven to 375. Remove one of the cookie logs from its foil and plastic wrap and carefully slice into 3/4 inch thick slices. Place on a Silpat baking sheet or on parchment paper, and bake for 8-9 minutes, until edges are golden brown and centers still look slightly underbaked. During each baking round, keep the remainder of the dough very cold so it slices easily and doesn't spread too much when it bakes.
Remove the cookies from the oven and cool for 1 minute on the baking sheet then carefully transfer to wax paper on the counter. Cookies are very fragile while warm since the centers have not completely set yet, so be carefully when transferring them. Also, you don't want to cool these on wire racks - they will just fall through the rack. Bake the remainder of the cookies.
In a small bowl, whisk together the powdered sugar, corn syrup, milk and vanilla until smooth. Using a piping tool with a small round tip, or just a plastic bag with the corner snipped off, and drizzle the glaze over each cookie. The glaze will set in about 10-15 minutes.
Store leftover cookies in an airtight container. These cookies are even better the next day!
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Course No. FND 104 Credits: 3.0
Faculty Gerald Shamray | Jimmy Kuehnle | Scott Ligon | Scott Goss
Prerequisite(s) Digital Color
Explores crucial and far-reaching concepts associated with digital art and technology as these concepts interface with foundational concepts of aesthetics and visual communications. Digital synthesis explores: the assembly and creation of imagery from different source materials; time-based images using various approaches to animation; the structure and logic of narrative storytelling with digital video; and the structure and logic of interactivity through the creation of work where the structure, sequence and outcome is influenced by the participation of the viewer. Course structure consists of introductory concept lectures, technical instruction, lab time with guidance and group critique of finished assignments. Prerequisite: FND 103D Digital Color. Offered spring.
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Suzanne McGinness completed her BFA in Illustration at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She received a Master o...more
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Dead Trigger 2 launches on Facebook today as free-to-play release
Dead Trigger 2 developer Madfinger Games has launched its mobile shooter on Facebook as a free-to-play experience.
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Dead Trigger 2 developer Madfinger Games has confirmed that the release date of its PC, Android and iOS shooter will be revealed next week at Tokyo Games Show. The studio has also sent us a list of piping hot gameplay details. Grab a spoon and dig in here.
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Serana is a pure-blood Vampire and follower who accompanies you throughout the Dawnguard questline. Her father is the vampire Lord Harkon. No matter which side you choose she still helps you. When you first meet Serana, she was imprisoned along with an Elder Scroll in an underground tomb within Dimhollow Crypt.
The purity of her vampiric blood gives her the title Daughter of Coldharbour. If you complete the entire Dawnguard questline, she becomes a permanent follower. She remains a vampire but can be cured if you play the dawngruard and if are nice to her. and can, at your request, turn you into a Vampire Lord.


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So Ashley Judd is studying at Harvard. She's enrolled in the Mid-Career Master in Public Administration program and isn't waiting for frosh week to pass before pulling celebrity rank. This time though she's using the faculty and not her mute stones.
According to Boston.com:
"If you happen to see Ashley Judd wandering the halls at Harvard, approach at your own peril."
Ashley has requested that her file be sealed – understandable, I guess, but certainly not a luxury every student enjoys. On top of that, police presence has been arranged at all coffee breaks to protect her from randoms coming up to pry. The excuse is that these randoms could eventually turn out to be reporters.
An email was sent to staff informing them of these procedures offering suggestions about what to do if anyone gets too nosy about the "B List actress". Heh.
No but seriously…
The purpose of university is to learn in community, non?
Oh I know. I know she has such a pretty smile and those warm cheeks and even a dimple or two and it's so hard to believe someone who looks so nice really isn't nice inside. Sigh. Haven't we learned from Reese Witherspoon's bitchface?
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I like a good runner as much as the next guy; any game that requires me to run forward and time my taps to keep my on-screen character alive for as long as possible. From Canabalt to Jetpack Joyride to Temple Run, the key to a good running mobile game is simplicity.
Save Them All certainly keeps things simple, though it does add a few gameplay wrinkles to the foundation of its most obvious influence, Adam Atomic's Canabalt. You play a guy who has to run across rooftops during an alien invasion (sound familiar?). However, this particular guy is something of a superhero, and in addition to simply avoiding death for as long as possible, you'll also have to rescue distressed citizens (who are for some reason on the rooftops), collect orbs, and occasionally punch zombies and aliens into bloody pulps.
The game gives you a nice set of powers, from double-jumps to air-smashes, all of which unlock over a series of levels. Yeah, levels—in another switch from the typical endless runner-game, Save Them All has levels that you can actually beat. Mind, they're really just time limits that you have to hit, but the sense of progression is markedly different from Jetpack Joyride and Canabalt. That's perfectly okay, it's just different.
The game is satisfying, tricky, and compulsive, and is certainly a good way to spend a buck and your next week on public transportation. Just remember: Eyes on the prize, and don't forget to punch those aliens.
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We couldn't help but notice some parallels between Guy Pearce's amazing cop role in "Animal Kingdom" and his breakout role in 1997's "L.A. Confidential."
In both he's an honest cop in a terribly corrupt system on deadly streets where shotguns rule. Except this time he's not hiding his Australian accent and he's showing off a killer 'stache -- circa Melbourne, Australia in the 1980s in which "Kingdom" is set.
When PopcornBiz spoke to the film's star Ben Mendelsohn, he too noticed the "Confidential" parallels in the story: "It's a good point," he says.
But most of all he was impressed with the Pearce mustache, calling it "masterful."
"He turned up on the set with a Civil War hero mustache," Mendelsohn laughs. "I didn't have to say much. My eyebrows raised and I gave him a smile and we had a chuckle. And then we went to work."
Of course Mendelsohn couldn't say much playing the twisted head of a dysfunctional crime family.
"I've got a terrible haircut in the film and he's got a bad 'stache," says Mendelsohn. "Guy and I have known each other for a long time. There wasn't much to say."
That said, both performances are fantastic despite the period hair requirements. And Mendelsohn says that Pearce's backing of the film is a big reason the cameras ever got rolling.
"He carries a tremendous amount of weight," says Mendelsohn. "Guy is a real hero of the Australian film industry."
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NEW YORK — Henrik Lundqvist is playing so well lately, the Rangers' don't have to generate a whole lot of offense to win.
NEW YORK — Henrik Lundqvist is playing so well lately, the Rangers' don't have to generate a whole lot of offense to win.
With speed throughout the lineup and a power play that is clicking on a nightly basis, it is no wonder why the Rangers are on quite a roll.
Rick Nash scored two of New York's three first-period goals, and Lundqvist won for the fifth time in six outings as the surging Rangers beat the sliding Washington Capitals 4-1 on Sunday night.
"Starts are important," Lundqvist said. "If you can jump out and start the right way and then get the momentum, then I think you set the tone for the rest of the game and you gain confidence right away."
The Rangers' offense broke out for the second straight day, after winning 1-0 over Detroit on Thursday. They recorded four goals for the third time in five games.
Lundqvist, who got the day off when New York won 4-1 at Ottawa on Saturday, was sharp in making 24 saves. He has allowed fewer than three goals in six consecutive starts. New York, 11-3-1 in its last 15 games, improved to 12-11-3 at home.
"It was a tough back-to-back for us," Nash said of the Rangers' weekend sweep. "Traveling (Saturday) and coming home to a team that is right on our heels ... it's a huge four points."
Washington dropped its fifth straight (0-3-2) and completed a winless three-game trip against Metropolitan Division foes. The second-place Rangers lead the fifth-place Capitals, who have played two fewer games, by five points.
"We're in a slump right now, that's for sure," Capitals forward Nicklas Backstrom said. "It's tough, but we've got to find a way to get through it. We've got to start playing way better than we're doing right now."
Nash scored 1:10 in and added a power-play tally later in the first, giving him seven goals in eight games. Derek Stepan also scored in the first to chase goalie Philipp Grubauer. Ryan Callahan added a short-handed goal in the second.
Alex Ovechkin netted the only goal for Washington, which committed four penalties in the second to thwart hopes of a comeback.
"All the experienced guys, we've got to really stick together here and battle through," Backstrom said. "It's tough, but I think we're going to turn this around, and we're going to do it next game. We're going to be much stronger after that."
Despite recording only nine shots in the first, New York carried a 3-0 lead into the intermission.
Nash got the offense churning when he intercepted a clearing attempt by defenseman Dmitry Orlov at the left point and steamed into the Washington zone. He cruised through the left circle, came in alone on Grubauer, shifted to his backhand and lifted in a shot.
After New York killed off Washington's first power play, the Rangers went on a 5-on-3 advantage with 4:13 remaining after Martin Erat and Karl Alzner took hooking penalties 23 seconds apart.
Nash made the most of that and squeezed a shot from the right circle through Grubauer for his team-leading 14th goal at 16:06.
Stepan pushed the lead to three just 2 seconds after Alzner's penalty expired. After breaking a 13-game goal drought Saturday, Stepan netted his second in two days when he snapped in a wrist shot from above the circles.
That ended Grubauer's short night as he was replaced by Braden Holtby. Grubauer was pulled in the first period for the second straight game. He yielded three goals on 14 shots Friday in a loss to Columbus.
"It's not the way I wanted it to go," Grubauer said. "It's my job to stop the puck, and I didn't stop it today."
Washington produced a brief spark when slashing calls against Chris Kreider, in the final minute of the first, and Carl Hagelin in the opening minute of the second, gave the Capitals a two-man advantage and generated a goal.
Ovechkin took a pass from Mike Green in the left circle and one-timed a hard shot that beat Lundqvist at 59 seconds for his NHL-leading 35th goal and fourth in six games. Washington put more pressure on during the second half of the power play, but the Rangers netted the next goal.
Dominic Moore and Callahan raced out on a short-handed 2-on-1 rush, and Moore fired a shot that Holtby deflected back into the slot. The hard-charging Callahan beat Orlov to the puck and slammed a shot in before barreling into the net.
"You're not going out on the PK and thinking, 'I want to score a goal by any means,'" Callahan said. "I feel like with the guys we have killing, and the speed we have on our killers, if the opportunity presents itself, we are going to go for it."
Green had a goal waved off by a Capitals penalty in the second.


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Answers to most financial aid questions can be found at http://studentaid.ed.gov/
What information do I need when I fill out a FAFSA?
Am I an Independent or Dependent student?
Who is my 'parent' when I fill out the FAFSA?
Where can I find out more information about Bright Futures?
Disbursement – How is aid paid to me & when?
Student financial aid such as Pell, SEOG and Direct Loans are awarded to student accounts as authorizations. Approximately four weeks after the term starts, financial aid is paid to student accounts through the disbursement process.
There is an EXCEPTION for student loans:
· Students that request a loan for one term or who are on financial aid probation will receive their funds in 2 disbursements. The first payment will be made on the normal disbursement date. The second payment will be made after 60% of the term has been completed.
On DISBURSEMENT DAY, the Financial Aid and Business Offices will be busy with the following tasks:
· Verify student attendance/enrollment – loan funds are not paid to students that have less than 6 credit hours of attendance
· Calculate student credit balances from financial aid and student term payments
· Subtract all student charges for tuition, fees, books
· Calculate refunds after term charges
· Generate refund checks
· Mail checks to students
What is FKCC's federal school code?
FKCC's Federal School Code is 001485.
What is the FAFSA?
The FAFSA is the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.
You need to fill out the FAFSA to be eligible for grants, work-study jobs, student loans and scholarships.
You can apply online at www.fafsa.ed.gov.
To complete your application, you will need a FAFSA ID to electronically sign your FAFSA. This is to ensure your privacy and security. You can obtain your FAFSA ID at https://fsaid.ed.gov.
When should I apply for financial aid?
The Free Application for FAFSA is available every year on January 1st.
You should apply early even if you are not planning to start school until the summer or fall. That way you can figure out how you are going to pay for school before you begin. A student must have valid ISIR data/paper SAR at the institution prior to the last day of enrollment at that campus to be considered for payment.
I do not think I will qualify for financial aid. Should I still apply?
Yes. Many scholarships and state grants require completion of the FAFSA at www.fafsa.ed.gov.
Do I have to reapply for financial aid each year?
Yes, you must apply for Financial Aid each year. You can apply online at www.fafsa.ed.gov.
Do I have to wait for admission before applying for financial aid?
No, but you do have to be admitted and registered to receive financial aid.
Do I have to be enrolled full-time to receive financial aid?
No. In some cases if you are eligible for financial aid, the amount of aid you receive will be determined by the number of credits you are enrolled in. Be aware that some grants, scholarships and loan programs do require students to be enrolled at least half-time or full-time in order to be eligible.
If I am a Non-U.S. Citizen can I still receive financial aid?
Yes if you are determined to be an eligible non-citizen. The following types of non-citizens are eligible for federal financial aid:
US Permanent Residents with a Permanent Resident Card (I-551) or Conditional Permanent Resident (I-551C) or those with an Arrival-Departure Record (I-94) showing the destinations of Refugee, Asylum Granted, Parolee or Cuban- Haitian Entrant or those with an Immigration Court document approving Asylum or documentation or entering the U.S. under provisions of the Victims or Trafficking and Violence Protection Act are eligible for federal financial aid.
Are international students eligible to receive state or federal financial aid?
No. There are, however a number of privately funded scholarship programs for International students. Go to www.iefa.org to explore your options.
What does 'EFC' stand for?
The term EFC stands for: Expected Family Contribution. Your Expected Family Contribution (EFC) is the number that's used to determine your eligibility for federal student aid. The EFC is not the amount of money that your family must provide.
What is a Pell Grant? How can I get one?
Pell Grants are federally-funded, need-based, cash grants given to college students to help pay for college. Pell Grants can be awarded up to $6,095 for the 2018-19 school year. Pell Grants do not have to be paid back. Fill out the FAFSA to be considered for a Pell Grant. Any Pell Grant-eligible student whose parent or guardian died as a result of military service in Iraq or Afghanistan after Sept.11, 2001 will receive the maximum award amount. The student must be under 24 years old or enrolled at least part-time in college at the time of their parent's or guardian's death.
What if I am a student at FKCC but I want to take a course or courses at another institution?
Students can only receive financial aid through one institution at a time. If you want to take courses elsewhere temporarily you must complete the Transient Student Association Application at Florida Virtual Campus and a CFK-Consortium-Agreement. It is the students responsibility to transfer funds received to pay funds due elsewhere. FKCC does not pay fees at other institutions directly.
What do I need to do to allow a third party (parent, spouse, etc) to discuss details of my student account with FKCC?
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) does not allow details of a student's account to be disclosed to a third party without written permission from the student. A completed FERPA Consent Form must be submitted to Enrollment Services before staff members will discuss any specific details regarding a student.


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Bangladesh Seeks To Throttle Independent News Sites And Their Awkward Stories
from the good-news-only dept
One of the great things about online news sites is that they are so easy to set up: you don't need a printing press or huge numbers of journalists -- you just start posting interesting stories to the Web and you are away. That is, you do unless you happen to live in Bangladesh, where new regulations will make it much harder to set up news sites, as this story from Access Now explains:
the regulation "stipulates that a onetime payment of Bangladeshi Taka 500,000 (USD $6,100) should be deposited with the Ministry of Information to get a license for an online news portal. Each year this license should be renewed by paying 50,000 Taka (USD $610). The license fee can be revised by the government at anytime."
Bangladesh is not only one of the poorest nations on earth, it also does pretty badly when it comes to press freedom, ranking 129 out of 179 countries listed on Reporters Without Borders' Press Freedom Index for 2011-12. The new regulations seem likely to push it further down that list, not least thanks to rules like these:
To put those numbers in context, the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in Bangladesh, when adjusted for purchasing power parity, is roughly USD $1,700 per year. That ranks 196th in the world, right near the bottom.
The following program/news should not be published/broadcast: … (b) Any news/program that is violating the main principles of the state and the governance; … (e) Any indecent or provocative satire/music/advertisement/news or any program with subtitles that may pollute, corrupt or hurt peoples' feeling and morality. … (k) Any news/program that may hurt the feeling of any friendly country.
Other requirements are that the servers running the news site must be located inside Bangladesh, and that their IP addresses must be provided to the Ministry of Information. More bizarrely:
No local online portal should link to other local and international news portals.
As the Access Now piece points out, this suggests the Bangladeshi government doesn't understand how the Internet works, since a news site without links to other online news stories is doomed to parochialism.
Or maybe that's the point. After all, it seems pretty clear that the measures are designed to stifle dissent and criticism of the government by making it very hard for independent news sites to be created except by well-funded outfits more interested in profits than protest, and hobbling them in various ways even if they do. It's particularly sad to see Bangladesh trying to restrict the use of a wonderful technology that could do so much to help lift its people from the difficult circumstances in which they live.
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Plant Growth Lesson Plan: What Plants Need Interactive
Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12
In this lesson plan which is adaptable for grades 6-12, students use a free online science interactive to explore how a plant's environmental conditions affect its growth and development. Students work in teams to adjust the resources the plant receives and view the results. They will learn what happens to plants in green light, or if different gases are present in the atmosphere.
Students will:
- Work collaboratively to identify the environmental conditions a plant needs to survive.
- Make predictions and test hypotheses about how various levels of light, liquids, and gases affect plant growth.
- Interactive whiteboard
- Computer with internet access
- Four small dry erase boards, iPad/tablets, or large sheet of papers
Preparation:This lesson plan features the game What Plants Need in which students explore how the resources a plant receives affects its growth and development. What Plants Need is a drag and drop interactive in which players adjust the resources a plant receives and view the results. Players will learn what happens to plants in green light, or if different gases are present in the atmosphere.
To prepare for this lesson, preview the Plant Growth movie and the What Plants Need interactive, and plan how to adapt the resources for your students' needs.
Lesson Procedure:
- Divide the class into groups, and tell students they will be using an online interactive to explore the conditions a plant needs in order to grow. They will compete against the other teams to create conditions that allow their plant to not only survive, but thrive.
- Give each team several minutes to brainstorm the basic needs of plants, as well as factors that could adversely affect a plant's growth. Teams should record their ideas on a small dry erase board, iPad/tablet, or a sheet of paper.
- Play the Plant Growth movie and have students check off the factors they listed as a team. You may want to award each team one point for each factor they listed. Afterward, talk about what students learned. Are there any conditions that were not included in the movie? What else could affect plant growth?
- Project the game What Plants Need. Explain that students will need to choose from the parameters on the left column of the game to find the optimal conditions for plant growth. Students must select the right types of light, gases and liquids to grow their plant. The right hand column displays the sugar and oxygen production within the chloroplast. Players may zoom in or out of the chloroplast with the magnification control.
- Experiment with the interactive a bit, guiding a class discussion as students make hypotheses, test their predictions, and make cause and effect connections.
- Provide time for each team to plan and record a strategy for keeping their plant alive. You may want students to complete this portion of the activity based on what they already know about plant growth, or you may allow teams to try out the interactive on computers.
- Have the teams take turns coming up to the interactive whiteboard to explain their strategy and test it out for the rest of the class to see. Facilitate a discussion about the different combinations of light, liquids, and gases, and guide students to make inferences and draw conclusions.
- Encourage students to reflect on the environmental conditions they explored through the interactive. You may want students to design and conduct a real-life experiment based around one or more variables they explored in the interactive, and track the results over time.
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Wednesday, February 3
Super Bowl Party Recipes: Roasted Tomatillo Guacamole (And Lots More!)
As football fans gear up for Super Bowl Sunday, they'll buy more than 50 million pounds of avocados, almost all of which will be transformed into guacamole. How will all this guacamole get eaten? With chips, of course. 15, 000 tons of chips.
That's enough guacamole to cover a football field, end zone to end zone, waist deep.
Guacamole couldn't be easier to make, so skip the pre-made containers at the super market and make your own this year.
Though I love traditional guacamole, I'll be making my Roasted Tomatillo Guacamole Sunday, a palette-tingling concoction of silky avocado, tangy tomatillos, and hot serrano chili. Tomatillos (toh-MAH-tee-YOS), also known as green tomatoes, are a staple in Mexican cuisine, beloved for their tart, citric flavor, not unlike a Granny Smith apple. When selecting, look for smooth, crisp, papery skin and firm, brightly colored green fruit.
Even though I have eaten the following Super Bowl dishes several times in preparation for my NPR piece, Kicking Off A New Super Bowl Menu, I'll be making them again on Sunday.
After all, if I don't have a hot bowl of Chocolate-Chipotle Chili to eat at halftime, what else am I going to do to distract myself from the halftime show?
I also wouldn't feel right celebrating Super Bowl Sunday without my good friend, Jose Cuervo, and the Tequila-Lime Shrimp Pizza he inspired.
As for chicken wings, well, come on, you have to eat chicken wings on Super Bowl Sunday. It doesn't matter if they're classic buffalo wings or these Maple-Chili-Beer Chicken Wings. Just remember, Chicken wings : Super Bowl Sunday :: Turkey : Thanksgiving.
Game on.
Here are more Super Bowl party foods from Food Blogga you might enjoy:
Spicy Black Bean Dip
Whole Wheat Veggie Pizza
The Southwest Hamburger
Potato, Rosemary, and Gorgonzola Pizza
Pork Tenderloin Sandwich (for Colts fans only!)
Chocolate Stout Pudding (for adults only!)
Maple Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies
Here are more tasty guacamole recipes you might enjoy:
Perfect Guacamole recipe from Simply Recipes
Extraordinary Guacamole recipe from Cookie Baker Lynn
Guacamole and Bacon Chunky Dip recipe at Serious Eats
Mango-Pomegranate Guacamole recipe at A Hint of Honey
13 comments:
- Dandy said...
Chocolate Chipotle Chili? I think I love you. Is that awkward?
- February 3, 2010 at 8:51 AM
- Katie @ goodLife {eats} said...
I'm not really a football fan, but I love SuperBowl inspired recipes. I've recently started using Tomatillos and I love them. Will have to try the guacamole.
- February 3, 2010 at 9:58 AM
- Cajun Chef Ryan said...
I love this collection of southwest inspired dishes! Perfect for football watching this Sunday!
Geaux Saints!!!!
- February 3, 2010 at 10:19 AM
- Sarah said...
I love tomatillos. Those wings look finger-lickin' good!
- February 3, 2010 at 12:17 PM
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
Well, I'm not too interested in the Super Bowl (gasp!), but I'd love to hanging out at your house and enjoying this wonderful menu!
- February 3, 2010 at 4:54 PM
- Unplanned Cooking said...
Wow! This makes me want to have a Super Bowl party, even though we (the Vikings) got beat out of it. I always make the traditional type of guacamole. Would love to try yours.
- February 3, 2010 at 5:25 PM
- kate said...
wow, look at that, I'm already drooling, great color, looks delicious
- February 3, 2010 at 7:32 PM
- Peabody said...
Yum! Lots of options to choose from, and all look good.
- February 3, 2010 at 10:57 PM
- T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types said...
Maybe we should just rename Superbowl Sunday "Guacamole Day" in honor of your recipe! :-)
- February 4, 2010 at 2:57 AM
- Cara said...
Just wanted to say I love the photo of the chili. Nice work! Chilis and soups can be pretty tricky to make look nice in a photo (well, I'm still working on it!)
- February 4, 2010 at 5:04 AM
- Tasty Eats At Home said...
Yum! It's not even 8am yet and now I want superbowl food.
- February 4, 2010 at 5:54 AM
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
Wnat's a superbowl party without dip, wings and pizza.
- February 4, 2010 at 8:37 AM
- The Short (dis)Order Cook said...
Great recipes all around. I love guacamole and tomatillo-based sauces, so this one is right up my alley.
- February 5, 2010 at 11:31 AM


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This weekend, August 3-5, we'll celebrate the 12th annual Satchmo Summer Fest, a music festival in the French Quarter at the Old U.S. Mint paying tribute to New Orleans' favorite son, Louis Armstrong. There are special lectures and seminars on his music and the early jazz of New Orleans, as well as a stellar lineup of performances by brass bands, traditional jazz bands, and jazz bands, all tuned up to show off Louis' music. And of course, there's always wonderful food at our festivals.
Satchmo was born on August 4, 1901 (although he claimed to be born on the 4th of July!) The first Summer Fest commemorated the 100th anniversary of his birth. Armstrong grew up poor in the city. His legal father abandoned his mother when he was an infant, and he didn't see much of her either. She went to live in the Perdido/Liberty St. neighborhood known as Storyville, home to pimps and prostitutes. Armstrong's paternal grandmother and uncle took care of him. He briefly went to school, but quit when he was 11 and earned money by singing on the streets with other youngsters and working random jobs.
When he fired a 38-caliber pistol on New Year's Eve 1913 (probably acquired from one of his "stepfathers"), Armstrong was arrested and ended up in a Colored Home for Boys. Its structure and discipline helped him develop, but he got a real start in life when Peter Davis, his professor who taught at the school, introduced him to the bugle and cornet. He played in the Home's brass band at picnics, socials, and funerals. Young Louis rapidly absorbed what he could learn from the local players who were on the scene in those days–Bunk Johnson, Buddy Petit, Kid Or, and especially "King" Joe Oliver. He started playing with Kid Ory's band in 1919, when Oliver left the city. Before long, Armstrong went up to Chicago to play with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, but he soon struck out on his own. Switching from cornet to trumpet, he became a star.
NOLA's own back-of-town rough and rowdy music developed into a new art form—jazz– under his leadership. As an individual, Armstrong essentially invented the virtuoso solo that is now standard in jazz music, but his syncopated, rhythmic style and prototype "scat" singing also paved the way for later jazz singers like Ella Fitzgerald. Duke Ellington called him "Mr. Jazz." Armstrong's voice, trumpet, and beaming face made him famous. He spread the joyous spirit of the cities music everywhere he went. He traveled and performed the world over for the Department of State, becoming "America's ambassador of goodwill."
Armstrong died in 1971. At his funeral, honorary pallbearers included Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, and Johnny Carson, among others. He was one of a kind. We never stop learning from his example of grace, talent, and incandescent joy. Go out and find out more at Satchmo Summer Fest!


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VICTORIA - For the political party chosen to form government in the May 14 election, one of the biggest challenges will be dealing with B.C.'s burgeoning "banana" movement.
I'm not talking big groceries.
BANANA is the acronym for "build absolutely nothing anywhere near anyone," a sentiment that would appear to be manifesting itself with increasing regularity in British Columbia.
One could get the impression that within a day or two of anyone proposing to build anything in this province, somebody will be assembling a coalition — environmentalists, community activists, First Nations, or all of the foregoing — to make sure it never, ever gets off the ground.
Increase the shipment of goods through the country's major port on the West Coast?
Never, say citizens against port expansion.
Ship more coal through Metro Vancouver? Not in our watery backyard.
Tankers? Don't even think of it. Pipelines? Eek! Refineries? Hand me the smelling salts!
Nor is this anti-development stance confined to the protectionist Lower Mainland.
The Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline is pretty much a dead letter in large measure because of widespread opposition in the region through which it would pass. Hard to think of a major mine that doesn't face an uphill fight for approval.
Logging protests have been in relative abeyance over the past decade, probably because the coastal industry itself has been in stasis for much of the time.
The obstacles multiply once one turns to the challenge of coming up with the energy sources needed to power any major expansion in the resource or industrial sector.
Natural gas-fired generation is the most attractive option on the cost side for making electricity, owing to the North America-wide glut of supply.
B.C. has gobs of the stuff. The generating plants could be built close to where the power is needed, reducing the cost and loss associated with lengthy transmission lines. And in some jurisdictions, natural gas is regarded as a plausibly "green" option to, say, burning coal.
But along with all the potential megawatts, gas-fired plants would generate a lot of emissions and controversy in B.C.
BC Hydro's proposal to locate a natural gas plant at Duke Point near Nanaimo ran into ferocious opposition a generation ago. Ditto when the Americans wanted to build one on their side of the border, near Abbotsford. BC Hydro's giant Burrard thermal station remains idle for most of the time owing to concerns about its affect on air quality.
Nor is the proven option of renewable water power as acceptable as it once was in a province that has long enjoyed the benefits of relatively cheap power from massive hydroelectric dams.
Private run-of-the-river projects have been trashed by environmentalists, recreational fishers, and ideologues alike. As for the proposal to build a publicly owned hydroelectric dam at Site C on the Peace River, the coalition against it remains as determined to prevent flooding of agricultural land as it was 30 years ago when BC Hydro first touted the idea.
Wind farms, like run-of-the-river projects, offer an intermittent source of power that complements the storage capacity of hydroelectric dams. But when the Haida proposed a large-scale wind farm in the waters off their islands, it was denounced as a threat to sea life and migratory birds.
Even tidal power does not escape approbation in this obstructionist province. All three tidal generating sites under consideration at the south end of Vancouver Island are said to pose a threat to orca habitat and to other marine life.
New sources of power are critical to proceeding with the large-scale manufacture of liquefied natural gas for export, essential to shoring up provincial revenues and production against slumping markets in North America.
LNG terminals, being a combination of a compressor and a freezer, are huge users of power. They can be powered by consumption of natural gas itself — direct drive, as it is known, being the method for making LNG in rival jurisdictions around the world.
But that option is not the preferred one in a province with ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Then there's the related controversy over the process of fracking, whereby liquid is injected into shale deposits deep in the earth to crack the rock and free up the natural gas that is trapped there.
Though both the governing B.C. Liberals and the opposition New Democrats have played down concerns about fracking, still the process is an emerging target for environmentalists in many quarters.
Not to say that the province should put all of its developmental eggs into one growth strategy, be it LNG, mining, forestry or anything else. Nor is there any avoiding environmental review or the court-mandated obligation to consult First Nations and accommodate their interests.
But neither can the next government of the province surrender to all of the groups of — to use another tongue-in-cheek term — "citizens against virtually everything" or CAVES, as they've also been called.
A no-growth economy is not an option in a province where the population is both growing and aging, the one demanding more homes, wider educational opportunities and new means of making a living; the other necessitating more access to increasingly expensive public health care and support services of every kind.
All of which argues that the party winning the election will need to break the news to British Columbians that our days as a "banana" province are over. We should choose wisely among growth opportunities. But we can't say no to everything.


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State's claim over bridge collapse can proceed
The Minnesota Supreme Court says the state may seek compensation from a California design firm that tried to block lawsuits over the Minneapolis bridge collapse.
Wednesday's ruling allows the state's claim against Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. of Pasadena to proceed.
The Supreme Court says statutes passed in 2008 allow the state to seek reimbursement from parties that may have contributed to the 2007 collapse that killed 13 people and injured 145. A federal investigation found a design flaw was a key cause.
The Supreme Court says the statutes don't violate Jacobs' constitutional rights. The state has paid over $37 million to victims, through those statutes and an emergency fund.
Also Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled a lawsuit filed by another firm seeking to share liability with Jacobs could be dismissed.
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Free Pillow Patterns
Batik Log Cabin Pillow
A pillow of Log Cabin blocks showcases beautiful batiks in a rainbow of colors.
2 Wishes
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Three's Company
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Blueberry Twist
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I've Got a Notion
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Garden Party Pillow
Arrange brightly colored hexagons to mimic flowers and leaves to create a pillow perfect for spring.
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Patchwork Pillow Pair
Piece squares and rectangles into classic Pineapple and Log Cabin blocks to easily create a stunning sun-and-sky color duo.
Romance in Red
Combine simple designs and classic red-and-cream prints for an endearing cozy pillow.
Summer Fun Pillow
One simple block in assorted fabrics yields a knockout throw pillow.
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Quilters who finish more make more. And for quilters who love to decorate their homes, these small projects fill that desire perfectly. This magazine features an array of 20+ new and favorite patterns. The hardest part will be deciding which one to make first!
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Large pillows are great for lounging, but they can also add a punch of color to any room. Use durable home decor fabrics, plush fabrics, or soft quilting cottons to make a the set of pillows.
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Ornate Floral Pillow
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Bright and Bubbly Pillow
Happy appliquéd circles arranged in a flower shape fill a bright pillow. The ragged edges of the appliqués add to the project's breezy charm while orange piping frames the aqua background and echoes the center circle.
Rickrack and Bow Pillow
Combine a pack of charm squares and jumbo rickrack to make a stylish pillow.
Fussy-Cut Flowers Pillow
Fussy-cut delicate floral designs to showcase in appliquéd circles on a round pillow.
Country Windmills Star Pillow
Use scraps to piece a matching star block pillow and zigzag pillowcase.
Rail Fence Pillow
Sew four blocks in a variety of favorite cool-tone solids, then set them on point with an additional cool-tone solid to make a 16"-square pillow.
Spot On! Pillow
Contrasting fabrics, eye-catching appliqués, and frayed edges create visual and textural appeal in this pillow. You'll quilt the pillow top before creating the ragged-edge look.
Pastel Delectable Mountains Pillow
Create pillows (and an exquisite bed quilt) in crisp, cool colors.
Just a Dash Pillow
A single block composed of a stripe, dot, and swirling floral results in a sophisticated pillow.
Neutral Print Pillows
The use of coordinating prints makes these pillows look more complicated than they are. Their neutral colors help them transition through decor changes.
Hourglass Pillow
Four triangles make a merry, square pillow! Three bright prints form the hourglass block pillow. Complete it with a covered button center and piped edging.
House and Heart Pillow
Use precut 10-inch squares and fat quarters to create a reversible pillow. Appliqué house and heart shapes, then frame each appliquéd block with stripe and tone-on-tone borders.
Rickrack Pillow
Use large rickrack and prints to create a square patchwork pillow.
Premade Ruffle Pillow
Sew a simple, yet elegant, pillow using 2"-wide premade ruffles.
Cute Cowboy Pillow
Make a western-theme pillow using star, plaid, and bandana prints.
Button-Band Pillow
Red-and-cream prints create an elegant pillow when combined with buttons.
Sweet Retreat Decorative Pillow
Add cottage chic style to any bedroom with free patterns for a decorative pillow, coordinating shams, bed skirt, and nightstand slipcover.
Patchwork Pillow
Gather your scraps and use this free pillow pattern to make a rectangular patchwork pillow.


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Actress Rose McGowan says she will plead not guilty when she is arraigned Thursday on a drug charge outside Washington, D.C.
McGowan surrendered to Airports Authority Police on Tuesday, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said. She was charged with possession of a controlled substance and released on $5,000 bond.
The felony charge stems from what police say were narcotics found among McGowan's personal belongings left behind on a flight to Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia on Jan. 20, Inauguration Day.
U.S. & World
McGowan and her lawyer, Jim Hundley, told The New Yorker that cocaine found in McGowan's wallet could have been planted. She realized after the flight, as she headed to the Women's March, that her wallet was gone and said she does not use cocaine.
"Imagining I'm going into sisterly solidarity, I can think of nothing more opposed to that, energetically, that I would want in my body at that moment," she told The New Yorker.
McGowan is among several actresses who have said movie mogul Harvey Weinstein forced them into unwanted sex, something Weinstein has denied.
McGowan told The New Yorker that even though the warrant was issued Feb. 1, she didn't respond to it for months out of fear that she was being followed by people hired by Weinstein. She says she hired a private investigator to investigate whether the warrant was real.
McGowan reacted on Twitter to news of the warrant in October.
"Are they trying to silence me? There is a warrant out for my arrest in Virginia. What a load of HORSES---," she said.
McGowan has become one of the leading voices against sexual assault and harassment in Hollywood in recent months.
At her first public comments since accusing film producer Harvey Weinstein of rape, McGowan said she has been "silenced for 20 years" but won't remain quiet about sexual assault and harassment.
On Twitter, McGowan has amassed supporters and urged them to call out harassment using the #RoseArmy hashtag. McGowan has starred in several films, including "Scream," ''Jawbreaker," and "Planet Terror," as well as the early 2000s television series "Charmed."


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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here's an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,800 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it would take about 30 trips to carry that many people.
Click here to see the complete report.
Of interest (perhaps only to me) in this report–the common topic(s) of past posts that continue to bring traffic to the blog, and the fact that I posted NOTHING last year, which is pretty sad. One reason I'm posting this report of last year's (non)activity, then, is to encourage one of my resolutions for 2014: revive the blog!
It's likely that the topic of most interest will see more post. What else will I be writing? To be determined. Suggestions welcome!


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Arthritis seminar planned Saturday, June 29
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A free seminar about arthritis and its treatment is open to the public on Saturday, June 29 at 10 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church. Various forms of arthritis affect
50 million Americans or one in five adults. For more information, see the June 27 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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"Welcome to American Idol, Plano, Texas," said the announcer on Monday morning.
And the crowd of aspiring contestants at McCall Plaza in downtown Plano cheered. They were there to try out for ABC's second season of the rebooted reality TV competition show. Registration started at 7 a.m. and the auditions started at 9.
American Idol sent buses across the country in search of its next cast of hopefuls. The buses will roll through Houston on Sept. 4, and Austin and Oklahoma City on Sept. 6.
From those who just thought it was "time to get out here" like Victoria Stewart to those like Ashton Kuyle, who tried out 10 years ago when he was 16, singers lined up to give it a shot. It's not a long shot, either; American Idol included 13 North Texans last season, which was won by Maddie Poppe and judged by Luke Bryan, Katie Perry and Lionel Richie.
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Book Chapter
Interoperable Convergence of Storage, Networking, and Computation," Advances in Information and Communication: Proceedings of the 2019 Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC), no. 2: Springer International Publishing, pp. 667-690, 2020. (1.8 MB)"
Scalable Dense Linear Algebra on Heterogeneous Hardware," HPC: Transition Towards Exascale Processing, in the series Advances in Parallel Computing, 2013. (760.32 KB)"
Conference Paper
Accelerating NWChem Coupled Cluster through dataflow-based Execution," 11th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2015), Krakow, Poland, Springer International Publishing, September 2015. (452.82 KB)"
Characterization of Power Usage and Performance in Data-Intensive Applications using MapReduce over MPI," 2019 International Conference on Parallel Computing (ParCo2019), Prague, Czech Republic, September 2019."
Counter Inspection Toolkit: Making Sense out of Hardware Performance Events," 11th International Workshop on Parallel Tools for High Performance Computing, Dresden, Germany, Cham, Switzerland: Springer, February 2019. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-11987-4_2 (216.39 KB)"
From Serial Loops to Parallel Execution on Distributed Systems," International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par '12), Rhodes, Greece, August 2012. (203.08 KB)"
PaRSEC in Practice: Optimizing a Legacy Chemistry Application through Distributed Task-Based Execution," 2015 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, Chicago, IL, IEEE, September 2015. (1.77 MB)"
Power Monitoring with PAPI for Extreme Scale Architectures and Dataflow-based Programming Models," 2014 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, no. ICL-UT-14-04, Madrid, Spain, IEEE, September 2014. DOI: 10.1109/CLUSTER.2014.6968672 (3.45 MB)"
PTG: An Abstraction for Unhindered Parallelism," International Workshop on Domain-Specific Languages and High-Level Frameworks for High Performance Computing (WOLFHPC), New Orleans, LA, IEEE Press, November 2014. (480.05 KB)"
Search Space Generation and Pruning System for Autotuners," 30th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Chicago, IL, IEEE, May 2016. (555.44 KB)"
Software-Defined Events through PAPI," 2019 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, IEEE, May 2019. DOI: 10.1109/IPDPSW.2019.00069 (446.41 KB)"
Utilizing Dataflow-based Execution for Coupled Cluster Methods," 2014 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, no. ICL-UT-14-02, Madrid, Spain, IEEE, September 2014. (260.23 KB)"
What it Takes to keep PAPI Instrumental for the HPC Community," 1st Workshop on Sustainable Scientific Software (CW3S19), Collegeville, Minnesota, July 2019. (50.57 KB)"
Conference Proceedings
BlackjackBench: Hardware Characterization with Portable Micro-Benchmarks and Automatic Statistical Analysis of Results," IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (submitted), Anchorage, AK, May 2011."
DAGuE: A Generic Distributed DAG Engine for High Performance Computing," Proceedings of the Workshops of the 25th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPDPS 2011 Workshops), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, IEEE, pp. 1151-1158, 00 2011. (830.85 KB)"
Flexible Development of Dense Linear Algebra Algorithms on Massively Parallel Architectures with DPLASMA," Proceedings of the Workshops of the 25th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPDPS 2011 Workshops), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, IEEE, pp. 1432-1441, May 2011. (1.26 MB)"
MPI-aware Compiler Optimizations for Improving Communication-Computation Overlap," Proceedings of the 23rd annual International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS '09), Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, ACM, pp. 316-325, June 2009. (308.92 KB)"
Power Management and Event Verification in PAPI," Tools for High Performance Computing 2015: Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Parallel Tools for High Performance Computing, September 2015, Dresden, Germany, Dresden, Germany, Springer International Publishing, pp. pp. 41-51, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-39589-0_4 (565.14 KB)"
Scalable Runtime for MPI: Efficiently Building the Communication Infrastructure," Proceedings of Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface - 18th European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI 2011, vol. 6960, Santorini, Greece, Springer, pp. 342-344, September 2011. (115.75 KB)"
Journal Article
Accelerating NWChem Coupled Cluster through dataflow-based Execution," The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, vol. 32, issue 4, pp. 540--551, July 2018. DOI: 10.1177/1094342016672543 (1.68 MB)"
Accelerating NWChem Coupled Cluster through Dataflow-Based Execution," The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, pp. 1–13, January 2017. DOI: 10.1177/1094342016672543 (4.07 MB)"
BlackjackBench: Portable Hardware Characterization with Automated Results Analysis," The Computer Journal, March 2013. DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/bxt057 (408.45 KB)"
DAGuE: A generic distributed DAG Engine for High Performance Computing.," Parallel Computing, vol. 38, no. 1-2: Elsevier, pp. 27-51, 00 2012. (830.85 KB)"
Dense Linear Algebra on Distributed Heterogeneous Hardware with a Symbolic DAG Approach," Scalable Computing and Communications: Theory and Practice: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 699-735, March 2013. (1.01 MB)"
An Efficient Distributed Randomized Algorithm for Solving Large Dense Symmetric Indefinite Linear Systems," Parallel Computing, vol. 40, issue 7, pp. 213-223, July 2014. DOI: 10.1016/j.parco.2013.12.003 (1.42 MB)"
Evaluation of Dataflow Programming Models for Electronic Structure Theory," Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience: Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Algorithms, vol. 2018, issue e4490, pp. 1–20, May 2018. DOI: 10.1002/cpe.4490 (1.69 MB)"
Impact of Kernel-Assisted MPI Communication over Scientific Applications: CPMD and FFTW," 18th EuroMPI, Santorini, Greece, Springer, pp. 247-254, September 2011."
OMPIO: A Modular Software Architecture for MPI I/O," 18th EuroMPI, Santorini, Greece, Springer, pp. 81-89, September 2011."
PAPI Software-Defined Events for in-Depth Performance Analysis," The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, vol. 33, issue 6, pp. 1113-1127, November 2019. (442.39 KB)"
PaRSEC: Exploiting Heterogeneity to Enhance Scalability," IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 15, issue 6, pp. 36-45, November 2013. DOI: 10.1109/MCSE.2013.98 (2.16 MB)"
Does your tool support PAPI SDEs yet? , Tahoe City, CA, 13th Scalable Tools Workshop, July 2019. (3.09 MB)
PAPI: Counting outside the Box , Barcelona, Spain, 8th JLESC Meeting, April 2018.
PAPI's new Software-Defined Events for in-depth Performance Analysis , Dresden, Germany, 13th Parallel Tools Workshop, September 2019. (3.14 MB)
PAPI's New Software-Defined Events for In-Depth Performance Analysis , Lyon, France, CCDSC 2018: Workshop on Clusters, Clouds, and Data for Scientific Computing, September 2018.
Software-Defined Events through PAPI for In-Depth Analysis of Application Performance , Basel, Switzerland, 5th Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference (PASC18), July 2018.
Understanding Native Event Semantics , Knoxville, TN, 9th JLESC Workshop, April 2019. (2.33 MB)
What it Takes to keep PAPI Instrumental for the HPC Community , Collegeville, MN, The 2019 Collegeville Workshop on Sustainable Scientific Software (CW3S19), July 2019. (3.29 MB)
Is your scheduling good? How would you know? , Bordeaux, France, 14th Scheduling for Large Scale Systems Workshop, June 2019. (2.5 MB)
Tech Report
DAGuE: A generic distributed DAG engine for high performance computing," Innovative Computing Laboratory Technical Report, no. ICL-UT-10-01, April 2010. (830.85 KB)"
Distributed Dense Numerical Linear Algebra Algorithms on Massively Parallel Architectures: DPLASMA," University of Tennessee Computer Science Technical Report, UT-CS-10-660, September 2010. (366.26 KB)"
Distributed-Memory Task Execution and Dependence Tracking within DAGuE and the DPLASMA Project," Innovative Computing Laboratory Technical Report, no. ICL-UT-10-02, 00 2010. (400.75 KB)"
An efficient distributed randomized solver with application to large dense linear systems," ICL Technical Report, no. ICL-UT-12-02, July 2012. (626.26 KB)"
Formulation of Requirements for new PAPI++ Software Package: Part I: Survey Results," PAPI++ Working Notes, no. No. 1, ICL-UT-20-02: Innovative Computing Laboratory, University of Tennessee Knoxville, January 2020. (1.49 MB)"
Roadmap for the Development of a Linear Algebra Library for Exascale Computing: SLATE: Software for Linear Algebra Targeting Exascale," SLATE Working Notes, no. 1, ICL-UT-17-02: Innovative Computing Laboratory, University of Tennessee, June 2017. (2.8 MB)"
Software-Defined Events (SDEs) in MAGMA-Sparse," Innovative Computing Laboratory Technical Report, no. ICL-UT-18-12: University of Tennessee, December 2018. (481.69 KB)"


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Aneta Genova is an Associate Teaching Professor in the School of Fashion and the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons School of Design in New York City. She holds a BFA in Fashion Design and an MFA in Design and Technology.
As part time faculty at Parsons Aneta's focus is on accessory design, fashion product and fashion and technology. She teaches core curriculum and elective classes in the BFA Fashion Design and the MFA Design + Technology programs, engaging students into a broad range of cross-disciplinary creative methodologies from traditional fashion techniques to the latest innovative technologies.
Aneta Genova has more than 20 years of experience in the Fashion Design Garment/Accessory industries as a designer, creative director, business owner, and college professor. She is a recipient of numerous grants and has authored an Accessory Design textbook and co-authored a Fashion and Technology textbook, published by Fairchild Books.
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