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Note: This game is also titled Gundam True Odyssey: Shitsu Warate G No Densetsu.Defeating Big Zam
Get all your characters to level 21 or 22. Upgrade everything you can before you start the fight. It is recommended your front lines consist of the Tristan (Gundam), Hal (Gelgoog Special), and Tremmie (Keampher). The shotgun should be equipped to the Keampher because of the speed of the MS. Have the Xamel Cannon equipped to the Guncannon MS and keep your Gyan Guncannon and whatever mech Gavenger is using in the back lines to charge. When you see the Big Zam about to use his boost attack, switch whichever character has the lowest energy to the ones with the highest. Use Gavenger's Chaff Field. This will block every attack from the Big Zam except his earthquake attack. However, remember the Chaff Field only lasts for a single turn and the Big Zam uses boost attacks for three or four turns in a row. Keep Gavenger's energy up. He only needs to use Chaff Field for the first two attacks because the third is usually earthquake (unless he uses the full charge technique). Then, Chaff Field the first two and ignore the last two attacks. While Gavenger has the Chaff Field up use your other character's boost attacks. Try to stick to melee attacks and do not use the Guncannon's Mega Fire. Use the Xamel Cannon, because like the shotgun it reduces target armor by 30% and you cannot use it with Megafire. You will not win this fight by sheer force. Have Tristan use the Heal All technique and you should have a few repair units in your items screen; do not be afraid to use them. Also, use Offense Hack to keep him from using his big attack. Note: If he uses his big attack without you using the Chaff Field, at least one of your characters will die.


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- Click here to watch Amelia featured on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – Oklahoma Christian University (OC) student Amelia Hamrick appears to have unlocked a 500-year-old musical mystery.
The 20-year-old junior from Bedford, Texas, identified and transcribed a song based on an overlooked section of the famous painting, "The Garden of Earthly Delights." European artist Hieronymous Bosch created the painting around the year 1500.
Hamrick, a student in OC's Honors Program, is attending Oklahoma Christian on a music scholarship and plays the baritone, bass trombone and tuba. She is believed to be the first person to transcribe and play the song.
Hamrick learned about the painting in her OC Honors course, Western Thought and Expression.
"Another OC student and I were looking at the painting one night," Hamrick said. "We noticed, much to our amusement, music written on the posterior of one of the characters, in an area that's easy to overlook. I decided to transcribe it into modern notation, assuming the second line of the staff is C, as is common for chants from that time period."
After recording the song, Hamrick posted the audio file on her personal blog, where it began to gain a lot of attention online and around the globe.
"I still can't believe this took off like it did," Hamrick said. "I just threw it together in 30 minutes at one in the morning."
Hamrick is recording a second version of the song with assistance from Oklahoma Christian music professor John Fletcher, who is quite proud of Hamrick.
"It does not surprise me at all that she would jump in and do this," Fletcher said. "She was simply interested in the joy of discovering something new."
According to Hamrick, the Music History course taught by Professor Emeritus Harold Fletcher helped her compose the song.
"We read about Gregorian notation and notation for other types of music during that period," Hamrick said. "We were tested over a lot of recordings, so I had to listen to quite a bit of music that is very different from how music sounds today."
Music has always played a big part in Hamrick's life, despite her reverse-slope hearing loss. Her parents both earned music degrees from Oklahoma Christian. Her father has a doctorate in musicology and both are librarians.
Hamrick is following in their footsteps; she is double-majoring in music and information sciences, and hopes to become a librarian herself. Her parents are continuing to help as she makes a new recording of the song.
"I am pretty lucky that my dad's specialty was music from the 1500s and 1600s," Hamrick said.
Hamrick hopes to expand the project for additional academic and entertainment purposes. She would love to have the Oklahoma Christian Chorale and Band record the song. In addition, there are other unrecorded songs in Bosch's paintings, though they're located in less amusing places.
"I hope to transcribe those songs as well," Hamrick said. "Plus, as an Honors student, I think this experience might make a great capstone catalyst project for research and creative activity."
Recognized as one of the best universities in the western United States by U.S. News and World Report and The Princeton Review, Oklahoma Christian offers undergraduate programs in more than 60 fields of study, an undergraduate Honors Program, and graduate programs in accountancy, business administration, engineering, Christian ministry, divinity, and theological studies.
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The Saints and coach Sean Payton previously had reached an agreement in principle on a new contract. The agreement in principle has now become an agreement in reality.
The team has announced that Payton's new five-year contract has been signed."I am excited that we have finalized this contract with Sean," Saints owner Tom Benson said. "He has been a great leader for our organization. He and Mickey [Loomis] have built a foundation of success as they have built the roster. We have already begun preparations for the 2013 season and I look forward to getting Sean back in the building as soon as possible, as I know our fans do as well."
"Sean has been a critical part of our success, getting him signed to a long-term deal is very important to our organization and we are pleased to have it finalized," Loomis said. "We have already begun the process of planning for the 2013 season, turning the page on 2012. We have challenges ahead, but they are nothing we cannot overcome. I know Sean is ready to get back to football in 2013."
Payton can't get back to football until he's reinstated by Commissioner Roger Goodell. The league says there's no timetable for considering whether and when Payton will be allowed to return from a suspension that is supposed to last through the Super Bowl.
Given that the Saints' season is over and preparations are beginning for 2013, there seems to be no further reason to delay taking up the question of whether he should be allowed to return to work.


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Sharing food is one way we nurture and care for those we love. When a seriously ill family member doesn't eat the way we think they should, it can be very distressing. Here are some things to consider if you are caring for a person with a serious or life-threatening condition.
Nutrition, eating and serious illness
- Advanced illness and special diets
- Nutritional needs at the end of life
- Refusing to eat
- Starting or discontinuing artificial feeding
Advanced illness and special diets
Seriously ill individuals frequently have chronic conditions such as diabetes or heart disease. These conditions are known to respond well to specialized diets. Certainly if the person you care for is healthy and active, it is wise to stick to these diets as much as possible. But in the case of an advanced illness, there are other factors to consider.
Quality of life just as important
For instance, the American Dietetic Association has written a position paper supporting liberalized diets for the frail elderly. Although the context is for nursing homes, the principles apply for any adult with an advanced illness. They state that quality of life can be just as important to the frail elderly person as is nutrition. Eating is not just a biological process. Food has many social, cultural, and psychological meanings as well. These factors have a strong influence on our enjoyment of life.
Comfort foods
As for daily living, dieticians have determined that a restrictive diet for frail elders may not be all that helpful.
If medicines can compensate for a change in eating habits, dieticians now encourage the seriously ill to add "comfort foods" to their diets.
The goal of healthy eating is to affect overall health. If restrictive diets (for instance, reduced fat foods) are altering a frail patient's ability to enjoy life, then the dietary regimen may not be meeting its goal of overall health and well being.
The take-home message?
What individuals with an advanced, life threatening illness eat is generally not as important as how much they enjoy the experience of eating.
Nutritional needs at the end of life
When a seriously ill family member doesn't eat, it can be very distressing. Depending on the disease, however, eating less or even not eating can be a very normal part of the process.
Reduced need for food
Sometimes forcing someone to eat can make things worse. If the person you care for is near the end of life, his or her body does not have enough strength to handle digestion, breathing, thinking, and fighting the disease all at once. Under some circumstances, eating, digesting, and eliminating food can be painful. Eating can provoke distressing symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, and bloating.
Reduced need for water
Toward the end, even the simple intake of fluids can make it difficult to breathe because of a buildup of secretions in the lungs. As contrary as it might seem, at the end of life, food and fluids appear to cause more distress than going without.
Refusing to eat
With terminal diseases such as cancer, it is normal to lose one's appetite. In fact, feeding a patient artificially (through a tube, for example) may cause a tumor to grow even faster.
A natural part of the process
Not eating may be one of the body's natural defense mechanisms. Forcing food is not likely to help dying patients "keep up their strength." Near the end of life the effort required to eat, digest, and eliminate simply becomes too much to handle. Loss of appetite is a natural part of the dying process. You will be doing the person you care for a favor to honor his or her wishes regarding food.
The biology of not eating
If an individual near the end of life chooses not to eat or not to drink water and nature is allowed to take its course, that person will probably die within 10 to 14 days. If he or she continues to take in fluids, the dying process may be prolonged by several weeks.
Not like starving
Refusing food or water during terminal illness is not like starvation. It does not cause a painful death. Quite the contrary; after a day with no food or water, the body produces a natural painkiller. The patient loses any sensation of hunger or thirst and even seems to experience a slight euphoria.
Lack of fluids may also help the patient be more comfortable because it reduces symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, bloating, and diarrhea. It can also help decrease the amount of fluid buildup in the lungs, which can reduce the need for bothersome suctioning procedures. The only discomfort identified is a parched or dry mouth that often happens with dehydration. Lip balm for the lips and ice chips or a mouth swab dipped in water can do much to relieve the symptoms of dry mouth.Return to top
Starting or discontinuing artificial feeding
As mentioned in the previous paragraphs, losing the desire to eat is a natural part of the dying process. Forcing food and fluids on the patient can in fact cause more discomfort in his or her final days.
Difficult decision
If a patient is no longer able to communicate preferences, the decision to start or stop artificial feeding may be one of the more difficult decisions a family has to make. In the absence of an advanced directive, you must weigh the pros and cons, following your own understanding of your loved one's desires regarding quality of life.
Artificial feeding does not prevent dying
It can be disconcerting to decide to withhold food or fluids. Despite evidence that this choice may well be the most merciful one, many people find it difficult to think that they may be starving their loved one to death. Each family must come to terms with their own understanding of their loved one's wishes and their own version of compassion. Whatever you decide, it is important to remember that artificial feeding may postpone the moment of death by days or weeks, but it will not keep a terminally ill person from dying.


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by Wesley Ratko
It all started with a cupcake. Specifically, a red velvet cupcake and a conversation between two friends about where in Chestnut Hill to find the best one. Five bakeries along the Avenue offer a wide variety of treats to the conscientious connoisseur of confections, and Laura Anderson Zhu – newly relocated from Queens, New York – was interested in trying them all. But not without a little help.
The idea to sample an assortment of goods from Chestnut Hill's bakeshops came from Laura's friend Amy Lynch, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania who suggested that a side-by-side comparison would offer a better perspective than sampling one cupcake at a time. With a salad and a bottle of wine, she said, the taste test could become a decadent dinner party.
Thus began the great Chestnut Hill Bakery Tasting.
Laura, 30, moved to Chestnut Hill last fall with her husband, John, and one-year-old son Sam. John works in information technology in Manhattan and commutes four days a week from their home on Ardleigh Street. Laura stays at home with Sam. She's known Amy since middle school in North Carolina where they both grew up.
I came along as Amy's date – as a reporter for the Local. It seemed like a good opportunity to learn more about a few of the businesses on the Avenue. And, of course, to indulge my sweet tooth.
We split into two groups, each responsible for getting a cupcake, a cookie, a pastry and a specialty item. Amy and I went to Night Kitchen Bakery at 7725 Germantown Ave., the Baker Street Bread Company at 8009 Germantown Ave., and Metropolitan at 8607 Germantown Ave. Laura and John collected their goods from Bredenbeck's at 8126 Germantown Ave. and Cake at 8501 Germantown Ave.
Our visits to Baker Street and Metropolitan offered too many unsweetened options for us to remain steadfast to our assigned categories, and by the time we arrived at the Zhu residence our experiment had grown to include bread tasting as well.
Once there, our selections were sorted by category and labeled with the name of the bakery it represented. From Night Kitchen, Amy and I brought an iced brownie, a cinnamon bun, a chocolate chip cookie and the Rocky Road Cupcake – a devil's food cake topped with marshmallow and covered in a chocolate butter cream icing.
From Baker Street Bread, we offered an assortment of its dinner rolls, a tomato pie and, yes, a chocolate chip cookie. Metropolitan also provided us with comparisons for our bread tasting, as well as a berry and cheese Danish, a chocolate-chip walnut cookie (close enough), and a cannoli.
Awaiting us at the Zhu house were cookies (chocolate-chip and ginger from Cake, chocolate-chip and peanut butter from Bredenbeck's, tarts (chocolate peanut butter caramel, citron from Cake, fruit tart from Bredenbeck's), and cupcakes (carrot cake with cream cheese icing from Cake, turtle and lemon curd from Bredenbeck's). An éclair and a cannoli from Bredenbeck's completed the spread.
With the salad course came the bread tasting. Everyone, including Sam, liked the tomato pie enough so that there wasn't any left by the end. John felt the bread from Baker Street had a better texture, but the flavor of Metropolitan bread stood out. Laura disagreed, saying she thought Baker Street breads – especially the rustic Italian – stood out. Her favorite, though, was the raisin walnut from Baker Street.
Amy preferred both Baker Street and Metropolitan for their raisin breads. Of the Metropolitan raisin nut, she said it tasted more like a confection than a dinner roll, sweet and nutty. This reporter fell in love with Baker Street's pumpernickel, although the tomato pie was a close second.
The group felt that while Metropolitan's bread selections were all excellent, Baker Street offered real standouts in terms of both flavor and texture.
In cupcakes, Night Kitchen's Rocky Road cupcake won the crowd over. Bredenbeck's lemon curd cupcake drew some favorable responses (especially from this reporter), as did their turtle cupcake, but the pound cake base didn't appeal to Laura. Cake's carrot cake cupcake drew some positive reviews for its cream cheese frosting, but the concentration of raisins in the cake prevented it from getting a higher rating.
Cookie tasting proved to be the most controversial item of the evening, with no one favorite emerging. The chocolate-chip cookie from the Baker Street Bread Company was largely thought to be the best tasting, but didn't offer the texture that Night Kitchen's chocolate chip offered. Cake's ginger cookie drew high praise for its understated flavor.
Metropolitan's berry cheese Danish, which Laura complemented by saying she didn't typically care for Danish, was a standout, as was Night Kitchen's cinnamon bun, which Amy said was "clearly bad for you," the way any good cinnamon bun should be. Laura and I both liked the citron tart more than any other item on the table, which we all felt was Cake's best offering. Bredenbeck's cannoli was rich, decadent and by far the best from that establishment.
For those of you who read this and decide to plan your own tasting dinner party, a word to the wise: Save your carb loading for the night before a marathon. Where the point of our experiment was to taste and judge, this reporter foolishly started out the night by eating most of our initial offerings, which made it difficult to fully enjoy the sweets reserved for the end of the meal.
We never did find a red velvet cupcake.


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While its overall impact has been limited to date, the recent outbreak of the Roron virus (aka W32/Oror-B) has served to remind P2P users of the added danger they face when downloading and swapping files.
Spreading by e-mail, local area and peer-to-peer networks Roron is the latest in a series of viruses which takes advantage of the increasingly popularity of file sharing technology.
The W32/Oror-B virus masquerades as a License Confirmation for the popular WinZip compression program and appears with the text:
"Your version of WinZip Self-Extractor is not licensed, or the license information is missing or corrupted. Please contact the program vendor or the web site (www.WinZip.com)for additional information"
As well as ensuring its propagation through local and P2P networks the virus installs a backdoor Trojan in the mIRC folder.
With the prevalence of such viruses increasing with the popularity of P2P technology, file-swapping technology Kazaa's owners Sharman Networks have taken measures to include a "lite" version of Bullguard software with each download.
"Kazaa won't be affected by a viral infection, but like email it is another door through which viruses can come to get into your network," explained Sharman Networks marketing manager Michael Liubinskas. "We recommend all users install anti-virus software, and the Bullguard brand is designed specifically to protect P2P networks."
Liubinskas went on to point out that the latest versions of the Kazaa download contained upgraded security features.
"If people are concerned regarding security they are best advised to log on to Kazaa and renew the download, because the latest version includes the Bullguard lite anti-virus software and a series of security patches which make Kazaa safer to use," Liubinskas says.
While anti-virus software vendors rate the Roron as a fairly low threat, most say they are monitoring the situation. Sophos recently posted an updated virus profile for Roron virus, and plans to integrate appropriate virus protection into its December 2002 software release.
"E-mail and P2P users should be aware of it but shouldn't be afraid in anyway," said Paul Ducklin, head of global support for Sophos. "We have only had one report from the wild at this stage."
Similarly Allan Bell, marketing director for Network Associates says while the virus has had a minimal impact, users are best advised to ensure their personal firewall is up to date, especially if they have recently installed a broadband connection.
"Really you should not be on broadband until you got a firewall in place," Bell said. "The risks are just too high."
Similarly Sharman Network's Liubinskas recommends P2P users scan all downloads to provide an extra level of protection against infection.


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Dover, NH — Just two and a half years after being purchased by low-priced, no-frills franchisor Planet Fitness, World Gym changed hands again late last year when the Joyce J. Cammilleri family bought the franchise for undisclosed terms from Planet Fitness, Dover, NH. The deal includes the World Gym brand, as well as the relationship with the franchisees. Mike Uretz, former president and CEO of World Gym who had sold the franchise to Planet Fitness in 2006, will serve as an advisor to World Gym's new operators.
"We are super excited to be associated with World Gym," says Guy Cammilleri, managing director. "We want to become the No. 1 iconic brand in the world for the fitness industry."
Upon announcing the deal, Cammilleri said in a statement that the company would return to Southern California.
"My brothers were amateur bodybuilders, and we grew up in Southern California," he says.
Cammilleri says they are considering establishing a corporate gym in the Pasadena, CA, area. In the meantime, Cammilleri and Karin Michael, director of franchisee relations, are reaching out to World Gym franchisees.
"While all the strategies to help lead World Gym to achieve our vision are not developed yet, we view that as a collaborative process," Cammilleri says. "We're on the phones every day with franchisees to get their opinions on where World Gym should go, and we're in the process of setting up an advisory board of franchisees."
Cammilleri says the company hopes to have rebranding strategies in place within the next five to seven months.
The Cammilleri family has a background as private investors and formerly co-owned and operated JOICO International, a global salon hair care brand, which was sold to Shiseido Cosmetics in 2001. The family has known Uretz for several years, values his industry experience and asked him to join the team as an advisor, Cammilleri says.
"Given Mike's long history in the industry, we really value his wisdom and knowledge," Cammilleri says. "He helped advise us with the escrow, and now we're on the phone and on e-mail with him every day to figure out how to move forward and achieve our vision."


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FLANKER Jevon Groves has left Newport Gwent Dragons and is poised to return to Welsh rivals Cardiff Blues.
The 26-year-old from Llantrisant was out of contract and was offered a fresh deal on reduced terms by the Dragons.
The athletic back row forward has instead accepted a contract with Wales Sevens and is set to head back to the Blues, who released the former Wales Under-20s captain in 2008, as part of the deal.
He will be reunited with coach Paul John at the Arms Park, the man who made him captain of his country at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi four years ago.
Groves made 20 appearances for the Dragons this season ¬– taking his tally to 66 over five seasons – and scored one try, a superb solo effort to salvage a draw against Zebre in Parma.
He played for Cross Keys against Pontypridd in Sunday's Principality Premiership final and has also been assistant forwards coach at Pandy Park this season. Next term he will either play for Ponty or Cardiff when not required by the Blues or Wales Sevens.
Groves is the second back row forward to swap Newport for Cardiff after Ieuan Jones, 20, penned a deal with the Arms Park outfit.
The Dragons look likely to use captain Andrew Coombs on the blindside as well as second row next season following the summer signings of Ligtoring Landman and Ian Gough, who join burgeoning locks Cory Hill Matthew Screech and Joe Davies in the squad.
Wales Under-20s back row forwards Scott Matthews and James Benjamin, who are set to be influential players at June's Junior World Championship, will also figure more prominently.
- Former Dragons back row forward Jamie Ringer has joined Glamorgan Wanderers as head coach.
The 37-year-old, who played 140 times for the Rodney Parade region, will work alongside ex-Newport, Pontypool and Ebbw Vale back Nick Wakley at the Swalec Division One East outfit.


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text: Hi Dow, The QLE7240 DDR HCA is not available yet, but we do not expect that it would have any substantial advantage on NAMD as compared to the QLE7140 (SDR), because we don't believe that NAMD requires substantial pt to pt bandwidth from the interconnect. The TACC cluster is not using QLogic InfiniBand (IB) cards, but I believe they are SDR IB cards from another vendor. Just last week I submitted a result to the folks at UIUC with results on a similar cluster with the QLE7140. It has not yet shown up on their results page, but in essence, the scalability is similar until around 256 cores, at which point the results diverge with the QLE7140 cluster dramatically outperforming the TACC cluster at 512 cores. I expect the QLE7140 results will show up in the next week or so on that website, (http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/performance.html) so you can compare to TACC performance at that time. On that site you can also see performance with a number of other machines, including an SGI Altix with much higher pt to pt bandwidth yet worse scaling than IB, which is part of why I don't think DDR will improve results. If you are interested in other MD codes, we have found advantages on codes like CHARMM and GROMACS as well. Some of thsee are detailed in a white paper on our website: http://www.qlogic.com/documents/datasheets/knowledge_data/whitepapers/HSG-WP07005.pdf Fair notice: I work for QLogic on the InfiniPath product line. I have tried my best to make what bias I have open and clear. -Kevin On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 14:03, Dow Hurst DPHURST wrote: > I'd like to get advice on how latency affects scaling of molecular dynamics > codes versus total bandwidth of the interconnect card. We use NAMD as the > molecular dynamics code and have had Ammasso RDMA interconnects. Right > now, we have a chance to upgrade and add nodes to our cluster using > Infiniband. I've found that NAMD was coded to be latency tolerant, > however, I'd like to scale up to 64 cores and beyond. I'm going blind > reading IB card specs, performance benchmarks, and searching Google. I'd > love some advice from someone who knows whether a consistent very low > latency IB card, such as the Infinipath QLE7140, is better/worse for NAMD > than a higher latency but higher bandwidth card such as the QLE7240? I can > tell that Lonestar at TACC has great NAMD performance but I can't tell what > IB card is used. I imagine that switch performance plays a large role too. > Thanks for your time, > Dow > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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Beginning next year, foreign-born adults attending Auckland's Concordia Institute will be required to take sex education. School leaders made the decision after finding many of the students had been taught little or nothing about sex in their native lands. The instruction is necessary to help them "cope with the new-found freedom of living away from the controls of their parents," said Isaac Phua, the facility's director. "Lack of sexual knowledge is especially true for students from Asia, where formal sex education is not a norm at schools and where the topic is generally taboo," he said. "It is dangerous when the only sex advice they can get is from their peers."
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Subject: Counterfeit Money Orders; Counterfeit Cashier's Checks
Date: February 7, 2007
Description: Peoples National Bank
Counterfeit Money Orders and Cashier's Checks of Peoples National Bank, Hallstead, PA
To: Chief Executive Officers of All National Banks; All State Banking Authorities; Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Director, Office of Thrift Supervision; Conference of State Bank Supervisors; Deputy Comptrollers (districts); Assistant Deputy Comptrollers; District Counsel; and All Examining Personnel
The above-named bank has reported that counterfeit money orders and cashier's checks issued in the bank's name and using a correct routing number 031311807 are being presented nationwide for payment in connection with an Internet purchase overpayment scam
Neither the counterfeit money orders nor the counterfeit cashier's checks resemble authentic items.
The counterfeit money orders may be identified by the following: a standard check stock of unknown color with a security strip in the top border which states: "THIS DOCUMENT HAS A COLORED BACKGROUND AND MICROPRINTING. THE REVERSE SIDE INCLUDES AN ARTIFICIAL WATERMARK." The bank name and address appear in the lower-left portion of the instrument. The items do not include the bank's logo nor any security verbiage under the payee line.
The counterfeit cashier's checks have a strong resemblance to the counterfeit money orders and can be identified by the following: a standard check stock, possibly light blue in color with a marbled background. The words "CASHIER'S CHECK" are located in the upper-left portion of the item followed by a remitter line. The serial number and date are located in the upper-right corner of the check, and the bank name and address appear in the lower-left portion of the instrument. Items may be presented with a remitter name of "KESER MEGAN."
Victims of this overpayment scheme have received the counterfeit items via UPS as payment for merchandise they had personally advertised on CraigsList.com. The counterfeit items are made payable for amounts greater than the sale price of the items being purchased. The con-artist requests the victims to deposit the items into their bank accounts and immediately wire the excess funds to a third party via Western Union.
For additional information and guidance or to verify the authenticity of Peoples National Bank's money orders, please contact Dawn Price, Bank Secrecy Act Officer, PO Box A, Hallstead, PA 18822, by telephone at (570) 879-2175, by fax at (570) 879-5113, or via e-mail at [email@example.com].
Consumers who receive a counterfeit item and associated material should file complaints with the following agencies:
Additional information concerning this matter that you believe should be brought to the attention of the OCC may be forwarded to:
E-mail: email@example.com
For additional information regarding other types of financial fraud, please visit the OCC's anti-fraud resource at: https://www.occ.gov/topics/consumer-protection/fraud-resources/index-fraud-resources.html.


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This photo is from the ex-job, about five weeks ago; the show was over some time ago, but I'm only now getting around to writing about it.
Also: I really wish people would think before they name plants things like "fedtschenkoi." I'm sure whoever it was thought that they had a good reason for naming it that, but come on. There's no reason good enough to inflict a consonant blend like "dtsch" on the world.
It's not even funny. I could forgive it if it were done for comic effect.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Pretty picture: Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi
8 comments:
- James Stapley said...
In my mind, this plant must be "Kalanchoe Fetchin'Koi", complete with handy little fishing nets.
- February 13, 2012 at 6:21 AM
- orchideya said...
As far as I know, the plant was named in honour of the russian botanist Boris Alexeevich Fedtschenko (1872-1947), who was director of the Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden. Believe it or not, but in russian language the combination of tsch is actually one cyrillic letter ч :).
- February 13, 2012 at 6:52 AM
Mr and Mrs Fedtschenko and son might disagree about their remembrance by posterity.
Along with Sedum fedtschenkoi, Pseudosedum fedtschenkoanum, Rosa fedtschenkoana and, probably, many more.
- February 13, 2012 at 6:53 AM
- Matti said...
Ahh, Fetchen' Koi. I like that. I've never even trid to say that one outloud. But now I can. Matti
- February 13, 2012 at 7:21 AM
- Andrew Ablėnas said...
Instead of trying to pronounce the name I'm going to look at the lovely flowers.
- February 13, 2012 at 12:15 PM
Orchideya, Boris Alexeevitsch was the son who was trained and accompanied on expeditions by his mother Olga Alexandrovna. She had partnered his father Alexei Pavlovitsch on a three year botanical expedition but Alexei died in a climbing accident on Mont Blanc eight months after the birth of Boris (who was born in Russian 1872 but western 1873). I know some plants are said to be named after Olga Alexandrovna, not sure if the family Fedtschenko were all honoured in that way.
- February 13, 2012 at 2:20 PM
- Garden Broad said...
Pretty blooms! I bet there aren't many koi as fetching as they are :P
- February 13, 2012 at 5:43 PM
Actually, the name's spelling looks SO weird to us because it is (for some reason) spelled according to the rules of German language. In German, the sound which corresponds to the English "ch" is written as "tsch" (as in word "Deutsch" - "German").
- March 30, 2012 at 10:03 PM


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yesterday, i was browsing my machine and what i found was, in most of the folders there were two folders I never heard of before. These were "folder.htt" and "destop.ini". In some folders, these were hidden but in some they weren't. Also, when I scaned my computer using AVG 7 and Mcafee 9, these werent detected as a virus! Although the folders were empty but I still doubt that they maybe some new kinda virus! Can someone help?


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text: On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Joe Landman <landman at scalableinformatics.com> wrote: > YAML is nice until you accidentally change indentation. Then the game is > over. Having bolluxed up many fortran codes in my (distant past), I have to > say "just say no" to things *requiring* indentation. In YAML's case, it > suffers from the same problem with Python (yeah, I am gonna get some nasty > dirty emails now). Structure by indentation is IMO *evil*. I have heard > that GvR actually agrees with this, though that is 3rd order hearsay. <snarky> Unlike C where getting the bracket nesting wrong can never mess up the code and no one has ever been caught out by the indenting not matching the bracketing. </snarky :)> Fortran was bad because you had to line things up in particular columns [1]. The "significant whitespace is bad" was really just a slogan for "we don't like how early versions of Fortran did things". Python (and Haskell) don't work like early Fortran did either. [1] This seems to have been the result of mapping the code to punch cards. Schiavo Simon


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GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) � A statue of a Union soldier on the Gettysburg battlefield damaged by high winds is back on its post in time for the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the pivotal battle of the American Civil War.
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to visit this crossroads town in south-central Pennsylvania over a 10-day period starting today to commemorate the Battle of Gettysburg, which took place July 1-3, 1863. The schedule is chock-full of re-enactments and battlefield tours, plus the National Park Service's official commemorative ceremony on Sunday night featuring historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.
"It's been three or four years of planning," Park Service spokesman Mike Litterst said. "In a lot of ways, this is the Olympic moment for Gettysburg."
It is one in which one of the battlefield's most memorable statues has been returned to its pedestal after being felled by high winds Tuesday.
The monument to the 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry portrays a Union soldier swinging his rifle like a club. The musket barrel was bent after landing on the ground, and the shoulder area suffered a little damage, Litterst said.
The monument restoration staff gave it a temporary fix to allow it to be displayed during the anniversary week events.
Monuments typically mark � or come close to marking � the locations on the battlefield at which soldiers fought. The 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry defended a key spot on the third day of battle against the famed Confederate advance known as "Pickett's Charge."
It will stay up through anniversary events before being taken down for more extensive repairs.
"All things considered, the damage could have been much, much worse," Litterst said.
The Blue-Gray Alliance, a re-enactment group, opened the schedule today with its first of three days of battle re-creations on a private farm. Organizers expected about 10,000 Civil War buffs to take part.
The National Park Service programs include a Pickett's Charge "commemorative march" on the actual battlefield, during which nine park rangers will lead groups representing each of the nine Confederate brigades that took part in the failed assault on the entrenched Union positions on Cemetery Ridge.
Another re-enactment held by the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee is scheduled on a farm north of town July 4-7. Re-enactments are held on private properties. Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, with about 51,000 casualties.


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Unlike Ola, Uber has gone the way of slower growth in India. Insiders say that may not necessarily be a bad thing for the global ride-hailing leader. Crucially, Uber's India team wears a much more settled look than Ola's as they embark on the next phase of their rivalry.
Kotak Mutual Fund FMPs should have been investing in secure debt rather than against pledged shares of the Zee promoter. The fund is so confident about getting its money back that it isn't willing to mark down its investment. Debt funds should not be taking equity risks.
ET Prime brainstormed with the current and past chiefs of BSNL on how to revive the bleeding telecom PSUs. The verdict: Become leaner, exploit the stronghold in rural India, leverage the optical-fibre backbone, and offer end-to-end enterprise services. 4G and 5G spectrum will be the lifeline. Can the government provide the support they need?
When it comes to saving, investing, availing credit, building a portfolio, creating wealth, or buying a house, young Indians have no idea where to go. This, for many new-age fintech entrepreneurs, is both an opportunity and a challenge.
A Monday meeting with lenders ended on an inconclusive note. Signalling fresh trouble, the aviation ministry is said to be revisiting the contentious Jet-Etihad deal files. Industry insiders fear that in peak election season, the government will let Jet's revival plan stutter before letting it quietly die.


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|Join hundreds of other Developers and InfoSec professionals for Training, Sessions and Community at our first conference of 2019
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Location: IBM/Watchfire Offices, Sapir 1, Herzliya Pituach
OWASP AppSec US 2009 Highlights
Ofer Maor, Hacktics
In this lecture we will review the highlights of the last OWASP AppSec Conference in DC. We review some of the trends in application security, and updates to OWASP Projects. Among other topics, we will discuss the upcoming launch of the new OWASP Top 10 (2010), which is now in Release Candidate state, and reflects the changes in the spread of various application attacks.
Decompilation Injection
Maty Siman, Checkmarx
The presentation will show a novel way to protect .NET assemblies against reverse-engineering and recompilation. By injecting them with commands that are activated only at the recompilation stage, the application retroactively detects the reverse-engineering process and acts upon it.


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If you're looking for inspiration for meatless Fridays during Lent or just love to eat fish and shellfish, here are 21 piscine recipes that are sure to please. And before you hit the fishmonger, you may want to arm yourself with the resources in our Sustainable Seafood 101 roundup.
Seared Scallops with Spring Onion and Tarragon Cream by lastnightsdinner
Salmon in Sorrel Sauce by MrsWheelbarrow
Olive Oil Poached Fish or Shellfish by amanda
Fish Baked in Foil with Fennel and Lime by merrill
Vietnamese-Inspired Sweet & Spicy Catfish with Pickled Vegetables by melissav
Mussels for One (or Two) by lastnightsdinner
Suya Swordfish by Kitchen Butterfly
Fried Oysters with Saffron Aioli by Savorykitchen
Hot Smoked Salmon, Soba and Asian Greens Salad by cheese1227
Tuna Noodle Casserole - Redux by fiveandspice
Whole Baked Fish in Sea Salt with Parsley Gremolata by TasteFood
Leftover Salmon Kedgeree by deensiebat
Mediterranean Octopus Salad by Sasa Stucin
Sicilian-Style Swordfish by cucinettaNYC
Salmon Papillotes with Red Peppercorns, Lime and Fresh Ginger by Babette's Feast
Cod Mare Chiaro by Giulia Melucci
Linguine with Sardines, Fennel & Tomato by lastnightsdinner


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Fannie Mae warns of nearing double-dip recession
Fannie Mae stopped short of forecasting another double-dip recession for the U.S. economy Monday, but warned recent indicators show one could be nearing. "Key factors, including revisions to gross domestic product data, have revealed that we have a bigger hole to dig out of, which explains the consumer angst over the lack of employment growth," Fannie Mae Chief Economist Doug Duncan said. "Moreover, European financial market and fiscal policy turmoil, coupled with the U.S. debt ceiling debate, have hit on consumer confidence, which is at recessionary levels." Fannie expects economic growth to drop to 1.4% this year, down from a 3.1% growth last year. In 2012, Fannie doesn't expect the economy to grow at the rate measured in 2010. Duncan said concerns over the mortgage market took a backseat to more macroeconomic factors in the minds of many consumers. In a survey conducted in July, Fannie found 70% of Americans believe the economy is on the wrong track, up from 60% the year before. There is one exception: rentals. The rental vacancy rate — or the share of rental housing vacant for renting — dropped 50 basis points in the second quarter to 9.2%. It's the lowest rate in nine years. The Obama administration wants to take advantage of the new demand, putting out a request for information in recent weeks for ideas to rent out previously foreclosed properties held by Fannie, Freddie Mac and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Still, Duncan echoed a Standard & Poor's analyst note over the weekend, when he said demand for buying new homes remains elusive. "In turn, despite historically low interest rates, consumers are still saying they don't see this as a good time to go out and borrow money to buy a house," Duncan said. Write to Jon Prior. Follow him on Twitter @JonAPrior.


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Andrew Luck and Cam Newton were the first two picks by Deion Sanders in Wednesday's inaugural Pro Bowl draft.
It's hard to argue with the strategy, and it could prove especially intriguing if they are on the field at the same time.
Luck told reporters he hopes he and Newton get on the field together, according to The Charlotte Observer.
"Who knows?" Newton said. "Stay tuned."
Newton and Luck famously had nearly identical results during their respective NFL Scouting Combine performances. Both players have the size and speed to work as option quarterbacks, if just for a few plays in an all-star game. It's not like anyone is going to try to injure them during the Pro Bowl.
The latest "Around The League Podcast" looked at weaknesses for the two Super Bowl teams.


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We all deal with certain amounts of stress in our lives. How we cope, though, sets us apart.
"I probably smoke too many cigarettes, which isn't a very good thing," said Elijah Wood, best known for playing Frodo Baggins in "The Lord of the Rings" movies. "I don't have any extraordinary sort of coping mechanism. I certainly don't talk to a dog."
That's exactly what his character does in "Wilfred," the unapologetically bizarre FX comedy that premieres at 9 p.m. June 23. Wood plays Ryan, a suicidal guy who strikes up a relationship with his neighbor's dog, Wilfred. Except while everyone else sees Wilfred as an actual mutt, Ryan sees a foul-mouthed, weed-smoking Australian man in a mangy dog suit who goads Ryan into stepping out of his funk in many adventurous ways.
"It was just the funniest thing I've ever read," Wood said during an exclusive interview with RedEye. "I've never read anything like it. I've certainly never seen anything like it on television and I just thought the pilot script was so hilarious."
The show is an American remake of a cult Aussie comedy created by Jason Gann, who reprises his role as Wilfred, and as co-executive producer and writer, in the FX version.
If the word "remake" gives you pause, relax. As Wood explains, having Gann onboard was a selling point in his decision to accept the role. "I knew that the integrity of the original show would be upheld and the original vision and that was really exciting to me," he said.
Also exciting was the chance to do two things the 30-year-old hadn't done before: a TV series, and comedy.
"As an actor I think I'm always looking for roles that are very different from anything I've done and in an interest to continue to challenge myself and keep myself interested, and also just to sort of explore new territory," said Wood, who will return to Middle Earth for Peter Jackson's "LOTR" prequel, "The Hobbit."
Being a fan of TV—Wood counts AMC's "Mad Men," "The Killing" and "Breaking Bad," along with HBO's "Game of Thrones" and "True Blood," as some of his current favorites—he had no qualms about moving to the smaller screen. In fact, some of the TV scripts he'd been shown were "leaps and bounds better" than the film screenplays he'd seen, he said. And "Wilfred" was the alpha of the litter.
"A lot of the comedy that [Gann] comes up with, even though it's heightened and he's a man in a dog suit, it does come from a place of honesty and there's something real happening there, too," Wood said. "It's great; it's a lot of fun to watch."
The comedy shifts from jokes about Wilfred's bodily functions to "dogisms"—the things that dogs do are lot funnier when a guy in a dog suit does them—and also the hard lessons that Wilfred tries to teach Ryan.
"I think the scripts are really layered," Wood said. "I think that the show will be enjoyed on repeat watches of it because there are a lot of things going on that you could miss."
One thing Wood's fans won't miss in "Wilfred" is seeing that he can do comedy. Gann says that before the two met when Wood auditioned for "Wilfred," he remembered Wood from to non-comedy roles, in "The Good Son" and "Sin City."
"Before he came in I was like, 'I hope this guy's good, 'cause he's Elijah Wood, like that would be really cool having him in the show,'" Gann said. "And we read together and he was just head and shoulders above the rest."
Wood nailed the part of Ryan, Gann said, who is essentially the straight man to Wilfred's comic.
"He's Dean Martin to Wilfred's Jerry Lewis at times, but everyone knows Dean Martin was an amazing comic in his own right," he said. "To be a good straight man, you need to be a fantastic comic. And when he needs to do that, Elijah does that great and it's really great to watch him in the moments where Ryan gets to be really funny."


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New Media, New Modes: On "Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media"
Humorous and surprising, smart and provocative, Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media (MIT Press, 2010) jumps from opposing viewpoints to opposing personalities, from one arts trajectory to another. The entire book is a dialectic exercise: none of its problems or theories are solved or concluded, but are rather complicated through revelations around their origins, arguments and appropriations. Overall, the book adopts the collaborative style and hyperlinked approach of the media and practice it purports to rethink. In other words, it is not just the content of the book that asks us to rethink curating, but the reading itself; by the end, we are forced to digest and internalize the consistently problematized behaviors of the "media formerly known as new."
Screening Screens
Kate Mondloch's first book, Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art (University of Minnesota Press), is a welcome study of the cathode ray tubes, liquid crystal and plasma displays, and film, video and data projections that "pervade contemporary life" (xi). The author reminds us that screens are not just "illusionist windows" into other spaces or worlds, but also "physical, material entities [that] beckon, provoke, separate, and seduce" (xii). Most importantly, however, Mondloch's approach is that of an art historian. She does not merely use art as a case study for media theory, but rather makes the contributions of artists her central focus in this, the first in-depth study of the space between bodies and screens in contemporary art.
Action, Reaction, and Phenomenon
In his book, Parables for the Virtual, Brian Massumi calls for "movement, sensation, and qualities of experience" to be put back into our understandings of embodiment. He says that contemporary society comprehends bodies, and by extension the world, almost exclusively through linguistic and visual apprehension. They are defined by their images, their symbols, what they look like and how we write and talk about them. Massumi wants to instead "engage with continuity," to encourage a processual and active approach to embodied experience. In essence, Massumi proposes that our theories "feel" again. "Act/React", curator George Fifield's "dream exhibition" that opened at the Milwaukee Art Museum last week, picks up on these phenomenologist principles. He and his selected artists invite viewer-participants to physically explore their embodied and continuous relationships to each other, the screen, space, biology, art history and perhaps more.
Fifield is quick to point out that all the works on show are unhindered by traditional interface objects such as the mouse and keyboard. Most of them instead employ computer vision technologies, more commonly known as interactive video. Here, the combined use of digital video cameras and custom computer software allows each artwork to "see," and respond to, bodies, colors and/or motion in the space of the museum. The few works not using cameras in this fashion employ similar technologies towards the same end. While this homogeneity means that the works might at first seem too similar in their interactions, their one-to-one responsiveness, and their lack of other new media-specific explorations -- such as networked art or dynamic appropriation and re-mixing systems -- it also accomplishes something most museum-based "state of the digital art" shows don't. It uses just one avenue of interest by contemporary media artists in order to dig much deeper into what their practice means, and why it's important. "Act/React" encourages an extremely varied and nuanced investigation of our embodied experiences in our own surroundings. As the curator himself notes in the Museum's press release, "If in the last century the crisis of representation was resolved by new ways of seeing, then in the twenty-first century the challenge is for artists to suggest new ways of experiencing...This is contemporary art about contemporary existence." This exhibition, in other words, implores us to look at action and reaction, at our embodied relationships, as critical experience. It is a contemporary investigation of phenomenology.
Art and Technology MFA at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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This is a research/creation studio arts program that centers on the study and use of new technologies in relation to traditional visual art, cultural studies and contemporary philosophy. Students conduct their own intensive research into, and production of, electronic, digital, new and/or hybridized art forms; they receive continuous guidance and feedback on their trajectories of study and art-making from graduate faculty; and they take courses along with all other MFA students across "older" media and materials, so as to practice speaking with and back to the various discourses of art, culture, and new domains. They receive intimate instruction through small classes, guided independent research and, eventually, a committee of three or more professors working with them on their thesis exhibition and writing.
Art and Technology is not a discipline, as it does not ask us to be disciplined. It is an approach, a set of strategies that frame and amplify who and how we are, and more importantly how we could be.
Given the collaborative and dialogical nature of digital communities, all graduate students are assigned either solo or shared studio spaces for their work in the same building, and they have access to multimedia, computer vision, electronics, and 3d printing and rapid prototyping labs and instructors to work with. They may also use other facilities in the department, including ceramics studios, darks rooms, a foundry, wood and metal shops, and printmaking and fibers labs, among others. Most of our MFA students receive some form of financial support, and many of the top applications are fully supported through Project Assistantships, Teaching Assistantships (often with individual studio lecturing in the digital arts major), or Fellowships at the school. The Art and Technology concentration is for students who work across concepts and materials, new and traditional media, and thinking and making, while understanding that all are integral to our larger cultural practices.
The application deadline for Fall 2014 admission is February 1, 2014. Fellowship applications are due January 7, 2014
(Please note that there are several sources of funding other than the fellowships. Apply even if you miss that deadline!)
There are two sites that you should visit for information on applying to the Graduate Program in the Department of Art and Design:
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The application is a two-part process that includes the following components:
- Online application to the Graduate School plus supporting materials sent to them, by late November/early December, to allow time for processing.
- CD or DVD portfolio and additional materials sent to the Department of Art and Design by either January 7 (for fellowship applications) or February 1, 2014.
Applications for Teaching Assistantships, Project Assistantships are also on the department website above. The university also offers the Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship (DGSF) for students with exhibition or publication records, and the Advanced Opportunity Program (AOP) Fellowship for applicants who are a members of groups underrepresented in graduate study or are otherwise disadvantaged. For more information, go to: http://graduateschool.uwm.edu/students/financial-support/fellowships/.
Finally, for international students, I recommend you also visit the UW-Milwaukee Center for International Education website:
Center for International Education: http://www4.uwm.edu/cie/futurestudents/69/
Here, you will find information about the international graduate student application process, including information on degree documentation, English proficiency exams, and tuition.
Do not hesitate to contact Nathaniel Stern at email@example.com and/or the Art and Design graduate office at email@example.com if you have any questions! Warmly,
Dr. Nathaniel Stern
Associate Professor of Art and Design
Head of Digital Studio Practice
Peck School of the Arts
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Breaking the Ice
Lecturer or Associate Lecturer in Digital Studio Practice - Physical Computing
United States of America
Starting Date:
August 19, 2013
Position Description:
The Digital Studio Practice area and Department of Art and Design at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee seeks a colleague with expertise in physical computing / creative microcontrolling. The Lecturer will teach Physical Computing courses with Arduino, sensors, and kinetic parts, and additional courses in the Digital Studio Practice program, and/or other area(s) of expertise, within the Department Art and Design. Involvement and advanced studio work with our Interdisciplinary Arts and Technology program – across Art and Design, Dance, Film, and Music – is also expected. Depending on scheduling and the candidate's abilities and interests, other teaching may include but not be limited to fabrication, digital imaging, design and visual communication, interactive art, collaborations with engineering or information studies, and/or advanced, rotating topic courses. The new colleague will teach 8 units per academic year - 4, three-credit courses per semester - with the potential for departmental service in lieu of classes when appropriate. The latter might include curricular coordination, helping to manage and support studio facilities, or supporting the department's programs. Academic Staff members are expected to continue productive engagement in their chosen studio research activities.
Program Description:
The Department of Art & Design has 24 full-time faculty members and 12 full-time academic staff members and offers BA, BFA, MA and MFA degrees in the areas of Ceramics, Cross- Disciplinary Studio, Digital Studio Practice, Fibers, Graphic Design, Jewelry/Metalsmithing, Painting/Drawing, Photography, Print/Narrative Forms, and Sculpture, as well as BFA and MS degrees in Art Education.
The Peck School of the Arts (PSOA), with more than 2000 majors, is one of the largest and most exciting programs in the arts in the state and region. PSOA is home to the newly established Design Research Institute and has a legacy of outstanding programs in Art & Design, Dance, Film, Music, Theatre, and a professional gallery, INOVA, the Institute of Visual Arts. PSOA is dynamic, creative and collaborative within the university and within the Milwaukee community.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is one of two public doctoral research universities in Wisconsin, offering more than 30,000 students a comprehensive liberal arts and professional education through 180 degree and certificate programs.
Experience with Physical Computing, and MFA or equivalent terminal degree in Art, Digital Media, Architecture or Design is required.
Preferred Qualifications include: 1) ability to teach beginning and advanced Physical Computing courses, and support Senior-level projects; 2) ability to teach other departmental courses, across theory or practice, related to Digital Studio Practice; 3) demonstrated expertise with a wide range of digital processes, materials and approaches; 4) strong design research or art exhibition record; 5) diverse knowledge of contemporary art or design, and how they relate to digital cultural practices; 6) capacity to work with faculty and administrators in organizing materials, labs and facilities; 7) prior teaching experience in higher education.
Salary is commensurate with experience.
Application Procedures:
Persons interested in being considered for this position must apply through the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment Site: http://jobs.uwm.edu/. The direct link to the posting is http://jobs.uwm.edu/postings/12039 . Completed online applications must include a letter of application describing interest in and qualifications for the position; a curriculum vitae which includes applicant's email address; a brief research plan; a teaching statement; and a separate document listing the names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of three references. Do not include letters of reference with application.
In addition, please email the Search Committee at email@example.com a PDF document or ONE URL with a menu / list of links that will direct the committee to work samples. This should include:
• Appropriate evidence of professional activity: Art and Design research, up to 20 images (these may include installation shots and details) and/or up to 12 minutes of video excerpts (~2 minutes per video - you may include both excerpts and full-length pieces).
• If available, examples of student work from classes taught, clearly labeled with class level, representing the breadth of applicant's teaching experience. Format should be the same as your professional work, above, a URL or PDF with up to 20 images and/or up to 12 minutes of video excerpts.
The search committee may request additional materials later.
Application Deadline:
Continuous recruitment. Screening begins February 1, 2013 and continues until position is filled. Applications received after January 31, 2013 may not receive consideration.
UWM is an affirmative action, equal employment opportunity employer.
All finalists for this position will require a criminal records review consistent with the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act.
The names of those nominees and applicants who have not requested that their identities be withheld and the names of all finalists will be released upon request.
For the UWM Campus Security Report, go to www.cleryact.uwm.edu, or contact the Office of Student Life, Mellencamp Hall 118, at 414-229-4632 for a paper copy.
The Nonhuman Turn in 21st Century Studies
United States of America
May 3-5, 2012
This conference takes up the "nonhuman turn" that has been emerging in the arts, humanities, and social sciences over the past few decades. Intensifying in the 21st century, this nonhuman turn can be traced to a variety of different intellectual and theoretical developments from the last decades of the 20th century:
actor-network theory, particularly Bruno Latour's career-long project to articulate technical mediation, nonhuman agency, and the politics of things;
affect theory, both in its philosophical and psychological manifestations and as it has been mobilized by queer theory;
animal studies, as developed in the work of Donna Haraway, projects for animal rights, and a more general critique of speciesism;
the assemblage theory of Gilles Deleuze, Manuel DeLanda, Latour, and others;
new brain sciences like neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence;
new media theory, especially as it has paid close attention to technical networks, material interfaces, and computational analysis;
the new materialism in feminism, philosophy, and Marxism;
varieties of speculative realism like object-oriented philosophy, vitalism, and panpsychism; and
systems theory in its social, technical, and ecological manifestations.
Such varied analytical and theoretical formations obviously diverge and disagree in many of their aims, objects, and methodologies. But they are all of a piece in taking up aspects of the nonhuman as critical to the future of 21st century studies in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The conference is meant to address the future of 21st century studies by exploring how the nonhuman turn might provide a way forward for the arts, humanities, and social sciences in light of the difficult challenges of the 21st century.
Speakers include: Jane Bennett(Political Science, Johns Hopkins); Ian Bogost (Literature, Communication, Culture, Georgia Tech); Bill Brown (English, Chicago); Wendy Chun (Media and Modern Culture, Brown); Mark Hansen (Literature, Duke); Erin Manning (Philosophy/Dance, Concordia University, Montreal); Brian Massumi (Philosophy, University of Montreal); Tim Morton (English, UC-Davis).
Please send abstracts of up to 400 words by Monday, December 19, 2011, to Richard Grusin, Director, Center for 21st Century Studies firstname.lastname@example.com. Acceptances will be sent by Monday, January 23, 2012.
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Apple just obtained the holy trinity of tech plays, CNBC's Jim Cramer said Tuesday.
"Apple is a cloud play," Cramer said on "Squawk on the Street." "Apple is a social play. Apple is a mobile play. That's what's needed—the trinity."
Cramer's comments came as Apple announced an acquisition of social media research company Topsy, and UBS upgraded the tech company's stock to a "buy" from "neutral." Cramer said UBS' price target of $650 per share was not a reach.
The upgrade also comes as Fortune.com reported that Apple seems closer to reaching an iPhone distribution deal with China Mobile, the world's biggest wireless carrier.
(Read more: China Mobile drops hint of long-awaited Apple deal)


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Ah, my favorite genre, the mishmash that is folk/alt-country/alt-folk/americana, whatever you want to call it. Whatever the moniker you choose, it's the heartsbloody, dirty-handed songs of the people, and excluding blues & blues rock, there isn't anything better to listen to. Lately there's been a slew of good stuff coming down the pike like the train rolling past Folsom Prison. Let's take a listen, shall we? *beep* [advance filmstrip]
01. The Felice Brothers — Yonder Is the Clock
Though the album is (on the whole) rather lugubrious, all the Felice Brothers elements are there — death, brawling, the mob, you know, stuff like that. I'm not a person that throws around the word "authentic," thanks to a lot of theory training, but the Felice Brothers strike me as a deeply human band. Entry track is "Run Chicken Run," a romping singalong about how chickens don't get no life after death. (Unless you read that one Shalom Auslander story.)
The Felice Brothers — Site | Myspace | Label (Team Love)
The Felice Brothers — Run Chicken Run
The Felice Brothers — Boy From Lawrence County
02. Justin Townes Earle — Midnight At the Movies
I have not heard the entire JTE album yet, but I love the juxtaposition between the two songs I do have. "Midnight At the Movies" is kind of this micro-study of humanity, this guy who's reaching out for anything but who mostly ends up with his flicks. And then "Mama's Eyes" is this really warm, human introspection about parents and where a person gets his physical and mental traits. I love them both! And probably whatever else happens to be on an album between them.
Justin Townes Earle — Myspace | Label (Bloodshot)
JTE — Midnight At the Movies (sxsw showcase version)
JTE — Mama's Eyes
03. Scott H Biram — Something's Wrong / Lost Forever
This one I haven't heard either, but I'm a Biram fan and from the two tracks that Bloodshot released, I'm thinking it is standard Biram fare, all hellfire and brimstone. Woot! Smells like sulfur up in here.
Scott H Biram — Site | Myspace | Label (Bloodshot)
Scott H Biram — Still Drunk, Still Crazy, Still Blue
Scott H Biram — Judgment Day
04. Roadside Graves — My Son's Home
Straddling the pointy pointy fence between alt-country and folk, these guys come from New Jersey, of all places. But there is no Bon Jovi in these stark, deceptively simple songs. The harmony is a little shaky in "Far and Wide," but that's practically a bonus. The album is not out yet, but enjoy these previews.
Roadside Graves — Site | Myspace | Label (Autumn Tone)


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White Lake, N.C. – In a one-hole playoff, the Coker Cobras and Chris Marsh won the Carolina Sands Intercollegiate tournament. The Cobras dropped 11 strokes from their first round and held off the Barton Bulldogs for the win, while Marsh dropped two strokes to take home medalist honors.
Coker shot a combined 567 (-9) to bring home their second Carolina Sands in the last two years.
Marsh (Georgetown, SC) fired a combined 138 (-6), while John LaDow (Pottstown, PA) and Diego Polo (Guatemala City, Guatemala) each placed seventh with scores of 142 (-2). Jimmy Gillam (Tyrone, PA) shot a 145 (+1) and placed 13th, with Jared Crane (Greenville, SC) shot a 155 (+11).
Coker will now prepare for the 2009 Conference Carolinas Golf Tournament in Clemmons, N.C. on April 20-21.


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1 Overview
This library provides a wrapper interface to gnuplot. Using the library, mzscheme programs can spawn inferior gnuplot processes and plot data to windows or hardcopy with a programmatic interface.
The library assumes gnuplot version 4.x (tested with 4.2.3).
1.1 License
(C) Copyright 2008 Dimitris Vyzovitis <vyzo at media.mit.edu>
gnuplot.plt is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
gnuplot.plt is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with gnuplot.plt. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
2.1 Gnuplot processes
gnuplot-spawn spawns a gnuplot processes, using (gnuplot-program).
When read? is #t then output from gnuplot can be collected through the port accessible with gnuplot-input-port. gnuplot-writeln can be used to write directly to the process's input port.
The processes is garbage collected when unreachable, but can be explicitly killed with gnuplot-kill
The gnuplot executable.
Defaults to "gnuplot" under unix/macosx and "pgnuplot.exe" under windows.
2.2 Data sources
|data : list?
|fname : path-string? = #f
|comments : list? = #f
|tmpdir : path-string? = #f
|bin? : bool? = #f
Creates a data source using data, which must be a list of lists of numbers, written to a temporary file when fname is #f.
When bin? is #f files are written in ascii, optionally prepending comments from comments which when supplied must be a list of strings. When bin? is #t data is written in binary form, following gnuplot's binary matrix file format.
Temporary files are automatically deleted when the data sources become unreachable.
|(gnuplot-data/file fname [bin?]) → gnuplot-data?
|fname : path-string?
|bin? : bool? = #f
Create a data source using an existing file.
|(gnuplot-data? o) → bool?
|o : any
#t when o is a gnuplot data source.
2.3 Plotting
Plotting is controlled using a simple translation scheme that maps items to gnuplot's idiosyncratic syntax, with the following grammar:
|(item <data> <item> ...)
|(seq <item> ...)
|(seq: <item> ...)
|(seq* <item> ...)
|(<number>/#f <number>/#f)
|(<symbol> <number>/#f <number>/#f)
|(= <symbol> <item>)
|(path <path-string>)
|(str <string>)
source-item – is a plot directive.
sequence-item – is mapped to a sequence of items, joined with ",", ":", or " " respectively.
range-item – is a plot range.
param-item – is a parametric expression.
path-item – is a single quoted string, while a str-item is a double-quoted string.
empty-item – is translated to an empty string
Any other object is translated to its printed representation using format.
|(gnuplot-item data [options]) → item?
|data : gnuplot-data?
|options : plot-item? = null
Create a plot item, using data as the data source, prepended to options.
Basic plotting functions.
range, when present, must be a list of range items.
|gplot : gnuplot?
|layout : list? = null
|plot : procedure?
Performs a multiplot, with layout a list of items, by calling the plot procedures in order with gplot as argument.
|gplot : gnuplot?
|fname : path-string?
|plot : procedure? = gnuplot-replot
|term : item? = '(postscript color)
Plots with output to file.
Modify plot options.
3 Example
Here we use a simple iterative example to illustrate how to use the library, assuming familiarity with gnuplot.
First, let's create a gnuplot process and a simple data source:
|(define gplot (gnuplot-spawn))
|(define sin+cos
|(build-list 200
|(lambda (x)
|(let ((x (/ (* x pi) 100)))
|(list x (sin x) (cos x))))))
|(define mydata (gnuplot-data sin+cos))
Here, mydata is a data source that contains 200 samples from the sin and cos functions.
We can split the two functions, creating two plot items:
|(define mysin
|(gnuplot-item mydata '(using (seq: 1 2) title (str "sin(x)") with line 1)))
|(define mycos
|(gnuplot-item mydata '(using (seq: 1 3) title (str "cos(x)") with line 2)))
Now, to plot the two functions together:
|(gnuplot-set gplot '(title (str "my trigonometrics")))
|(gnuplot-plot gplot #:range `((#f ,(* 2 pi)) ()) mysin mycos)
We can take a hardcopy of the plot using gnuplot-hardcopy:
(gnuplot-hardcopy gplot "/tmp/trig.eps")
If your gnuplot was compiled with libgd support, then you can print directly to an image:
(gnuplot-hardcopy gplot "/tmp/trig.png" #:term '(png))
We can create a multiplot layout using gnuplot-multiplot:
|(define (plot-sin gplot)
|(gnuplot-plot gplot #:range `((#f ,(* 2 pi)) ()) mysin))
|(define (plot-cos gplot)
|(gnuplot-plot gplot #:range `((#f ,(* 2 pi)) ()) mycos))
|(gnuplot-reset gplot) ; reset plotting
|(gnuplot-multiplot gplot
|#:layout '(layout (seq 2 1) title (str "multiplot layout"))
|plot-sin plot-cos)
Finally, to take a hard copy of the multiplot layout:
|(gnuplot-hardcopy gplot "/tmp/multi.eps"
|(lambda (gplot)
|(gnuplot-multiplot gplot
|#:layout '(layout (seq 2 1) title (str "multiplot layout"))
|plot-sin plot-cos)))


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Scenes from Round 1
Scenes from Round 1
World No. 1 Rory Mcllroy, who opened with a 70, hits his approach on 18.
Matt Jones releases his follow-through after his tee shot on No. 11.
Englishman Ian Poulter gets a read on a putt on the fifth green.
Ryo Ishikawa (white shirt) and Justin Hicks (blue shirt) help Phil Mickelson look for his ball in a hazard on the second hole.
Hunter Mahan blasts from a greenside bunker on the third hole.
US Open champion Martin Kaymer and his caddie line up a putt on the eighth hole.
Adam Scott knocks it onto the 18th green.
Hunter Mahan tees off on the fourth hole.
Gary Woodland negotiates a downhill lie on the 15th hole.
Early leader Keegan Bradley reacts to a missed putt on the 13th green.
Phil Mickelson escapes a bunker on the eighth hole.
Andres Romero of Argentina tees off on No. 4.
Jason Day makes a splash in a bunker on No. 3.
Justin Hicks applies the body English to his approach on No. 9.
Ryan Moore inspects his club after a shot on 14.
William McGirt prepares to putt on the third hole.
Phil Mickelson walks up the sixth fairway.


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This is the first is a number of posts about homemade beauty products. About 2 years ago, I became very interested in home made beauty products, and read every book I knew on the subject.
I want to teach you how to make your own goodies, and also offer all the different options out there (this is for your own use after all) so that there is always a substitute in place.
So in celebration of all things naturel and in light of the current financial climate, lets get in the kitchen and save some pennies!
There is also a video version of this tutorial, which you may like to watch if you want to see the actual process and if you like paws.
Sugar Lip Scrubs are very popular at the moment and some of them are pretty expensive considering the main ingredient is the rather inexpensive sugar. I would choose to make my own any day because it would probably end up costing no more then a few pounds.
My recipe is Cosmetic Candy's Mango Sugar Lip Scrub! Yeah!
You will need:
1. Sugar.
You can use caster (which I am using) or granulated (rougher in texture) or brown (larger pieces, more exfoliating) not anything too soft which will melt.
2. An Oil
You need a good oil to mix with the sugar that is a nice tasting one. Avoid kitchen oils (like Olive and Sunflower) stick to Sweet Almond, Jojoba or Castor Oil. I am using Sweet Almond:
3. A Butter
You don't HAVE to use a butter – oil and sugar is enough but for the purpose of adding extra smoothness and moisture to the lips I would add a little butter as in: Cocoa Butter and Shea Butter – I am using Mango Butter:
4. An Essential Oil or Flavouring
You can use an essential oil which is suitable for the lips for example, Peppermint, Spearmint, Lemon, Lime OR buy a special flavour oil. I choose a Mango flavour oil:
So to recap I am using:
30 grams Sugar
35ml Sweet Almond Oil
15 grams Mango Butter
Mango Flavour Oil – 2-3 drops
Makes about 4 smaller tubs (about 50 grams of product)
Equipment you will need:
A bowl and spoon:
Put the sugar in the bowl and break up any lumps with your spoon. Then, add the oil, stirring until smooth:
The texture should be quite thick – you don't want too much oil sitting on top but we still need to add the Mango Butter:
To melt butters and waxes you need to use a Bain Marie, which is basically some boiling water with a bowl on top so that the product can melt gently, without burning. You can do this with any sauceman and bowl, mine has an attachment:
This Bain Marie is from Ikea, its about £4. Pour your boiling water in and get it on the hob.
Put your mango butter in and keep stirring until it melts. Do not over heat butters as this can make them go grainy:
Melted down it just looks like an oil (note this picture is not on a hob, but you need to use one so it melts quicker!). You can also microwave it, but this takes more guesswork:
Pour the oil into the sugar – and it looks a bit watery now. If it looks too wet add more sugar so that the grains are visible, but remember the Mango butter will set once cold:
Add a few drops of Mango Flavour oil (or any of your choice) – not too many it smells strong!:
Check that the texture is quite thick and that it sits on the spoon ok, if not add some sugar:
Now, use a small spoon and put into your chosen pot(s):
Finished Mango Scrubs. I could have melted down some yellow lipstick (yes, I have yellow lipstick) or put some lip safe dye in to make it look mangoey but I'd rather not add dye for the sake of it! Lovely scrubs and will keep pretty well for at least 6 months:
The texture:
As for supplies, the best places to look are Supermarkets, Pharmacies and Natural Food Shops (like Holland and Barretts) and on the net (www.eBay.com, www.akamuti.co.uk, www.akomaskincare.co.uk, www.thesoapkitchen.co.uk). It's actually not expensive at all to buy Sweet Almond oil and a Butter
Remember to watch our video if you need more detailed instructions. Look out for the next Homemade Beauty Lesson, and let me know if you make this scrub!


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Technology and the Future of Neighbourhood Policing
As delegates gather for IACP 2012, policing in democratic societies faces the twin challenges of increasing demand and diminishing resources. The period from the mid-1990s has seen the widespread adoption in Europe, North America, Australia and elsewhere of neighbourhood or community policing models. Governments and police forces have responded to popular demand for policing to be responsive to local demand to address crime and antisocial behavior, and to do so in a way which reassures the public that issues of public safety are being actively addressed. It has been an agenda which is rooted in an understanding of and responsiveness to the priorities of local communities.
Public sector budgets almost everywhere are under pressure, and so is neighbourhood policing. Prevention and reassurance are at risk of becoming the focus for cuts, whatever the longer term impact on reassurance and public safety.
So if there is to be a successful future for community policing, it needs to be on a sustainable and innovative basis. This is not just a question of technology, but technology can play its part. There are three areas in which this is the case:
- An information rich police service will be able to apply data analytics to identify not only hot spots, but also the likely future migration of hot spots for certain types of crime. This predictive policing is discussed by police leaders including Bill Bratton and in the Rand Corporation's book Moving Towards the Future of Policing. In the UK, the Institute of Crime Science at University College London is among those working with police forces to build models which identify when and where burglaries are more likely to occur in future.
- Developments in mobile technology will enable police forces to give officers on the street the information they need to know how to engage effectively in communities and increase the time which is available for street patrol.
- Social media provides new ways for the police to engage with the public and to share information which is relevant to very localised communities and their issues. The work promoted by the Association of Chief Police Officers in the UK under the banner of Engage and by the IACP Centre for Social Media in the US are assisting police forces in using new media to strengthen their relationship with the public and hence to boost neighbourhood policing.
The riots in London and other UK cities in summer 2011 demonstrated the changing nature of the relationship between police and the public in an information rich society. Despite initial concerns about possible use of social media by rioters, analysis carried out by the London School of Economics and the Guardian newspaper and published as Reading the Riots shows that users of social media were overwhelmingly supportive of the police and the subsequent clean-up operation. Social media served as a means of dispelling unfounded rumours. A number of police forces used their own sites as a means of reassuring the public by giving updates about what was – and wasn't – happening. It was apparent that this was most successful where police forces had already established trust in their social media sites, most often by effective use of the medium by neighbourhood officers.
In a networked world in which access to social media and mobile communications is widespread, police forces no longer command a monopoly of tactical communications at street level. Budget cuts mean that they cannot sustain neighbourhood policing by simple increases in numbers. But their access to analytics, the use of mobile communications and engagement of the public through social media are all means by which they can target resources, maintain their visible presence and strengthen public engagement, support and participation in achieving the goals of community policing.
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The way we read has changed. So should our accessories. This colorful cover, with a convenient L-shaped opening, makes for easy access to your E-reader, while a lightweight protective foam keeps all of your favorite stories safe. A final touch, an inside pocket grants the perfect spot for an ID card. And they all lived happily ever after. Shown in Purple Punch
- 6¼" x 8½" x ¾"
- L-shaped opening
- Padded with lightweight, protective foam
- Accommodates most E-readers and Nintendo DS
- Inside pocket with name card