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"Very few people in the world ride big mountain lines the way Ralph does," said Jeremy Jones. "It's no surprise he took the Freeride World Tour crown this year. It's an epic accomplishment and we can't wait to celebrate back home with him."
Teton Gravity Research caught up with Backstrom for an interview after the win. Here's what he had to say about his line choice at Verbier:
TGR: You dropped first and wound up staying on top. Tell me about your line choice. Also tell us how nerve-wracking it was to be in the hot seat for the entire competition.
RB: I knew I was going to be dropping first 2-3 days before the comp; just had a really strong feeling. The only thing was that I thought the skiers were going to be going first. When we heard that the snowboarders were going to go first, I knew I still had the 1st bib. It can be a bit nerve wracking going first, but most riders in AK prefer to go first, right? I had been in Verbier for 5 days or so before the comp and had picked a line out. After 2 bad line choices/falls in the prior comps, I picked the first line that spoke to me when I saw the face. Then, the night before the comp, I kept having these micro dreams/thoughts that parts of my line were too tight for the amount of slough that would be moving, and kept having trouble visualizing individual turns. So I woke up super tired, and the fog didn't help me feel any more awake. I definitely wasn't in a state to ride a technical line. I changed my line minutes before I left the judges tent to start hiking to something less technical and less exposed. It wasn't until I saw my score that I knew how good my run was. I had flown passed some features I'd planned to hit, so thought I'd be easy to beat. I definitely dodged some bullets sitting there at the bottom watching the others come down!
TGR: What was going through your head when you dropped into the Bec?
RB: I was so rushed before we dropped I didn't have time to think at all. A couple riders and myself were talking to Nicolas Hale-Woods on speaker phone about contingency plans if the fog didn't clear. It cleared right then, and he said, "forerunner in 2 minutes!" After he dropped, the starter said, "Ralph Backstrom 2 minutes! No, 1 minute!" I even forgot to put on my backpack up there.
Check out TetonGravity.com for the full interview with Backstrom.
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Turn on the TV, glance at a newspaper, pick up a magazine, or surf the Internet and you're apt to find products and programs promising to help you lose weight. Many of us want to shed pounds to look and feel better, so such advertising finds a ready audience.
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If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Truth is, there are no foods or pills that will burn or melt fat away. You should be skeptical of any diet or product that:
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Rawhide is the name given to the current development version of Fedora. It consists of a package repository called "rawhide" and contains the latest build of all Fedora packages updated on a daily basis. Nightly live image builds are also available during the early portion of the Fedora Release Life Cycle.
Rawhide is sometimes called "development" or "master" (as it's the "master" branch in Package git repositories).
Rawhide has the following Goals:
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- To allow advanced users access to the newest usable packages in a rolling manner.
- To allow incremental changes to packages that are either too minor or major to go to stable Fedora releases.
- To identify and fix issues with packages before they reach a stable release of Fedora.
Using Rawhide
This section discusses rawhide's target users and how to test Rawhide with Live media, within a virtual installation or on a bare metal installation.
Rawhide is targeted at advanced users, testers and package maintainers.
As a rawhide consumer, you should:
- Be willing to update on an almost daily basis. Rawhide gets hundreds of updates a day, and applying those updates on a regular basis allows you to more easily troubleshoot issues.
- Be willing and able to troubleshoot problems. From time to time there are problems with Rawhide packages, and you will need strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to gather information for bug reports. You need a good understanding of yum and how to downgrade packages, as well as boot time troubleshooting.
- Have time and desire to always be able to learn new interfaces and changes. Rawhide packages stick closely to upstream projects, so interfaces and command-line options are subject to frequent changes.
- Frequent reboots to test new kernel versions and confirm functionality of the boot process. If you can't reboot often, consider using a stable release instead.
- Be willing and able to report bugs as you find them and help maintainers gather information to fix them.
If the above doesn't match you, you may wish to instead follow the Branched release (depending on the point in the release cycle) or use regular stable Fedora releases.
Live media
After the release of the previous final release, but before the Branch event, nightly builds will be composed from Rawhide. You may be able to use these automated Live images to boot and test Rawhide. These images are automatically composed and not tested by QA.
Virtual instances
You may wish to install and run Rawhide in a virtual machine (VM) instance. This allows you to test Rawhide when not running Linux, or avoid any impact to your day-to-day workflow.
See the section below on setting up a Rawhide install.
Getting a Rawhide install
The Rawhide tree is not directly installable so you will often need to install in several steps.
Install from Live media
If Live media are being composed from Rawhide (see above), you may be able to download the Live media, copy it to local media, boot and install Rawhide.
This is the most fragile way to get a Rawhide install, as Live media is only produced at some points in the cycle, sometimes does not compose, and when it does, may not install correctly.
Point installer to Rawhide
You can sometimes install Rawhide by using a stable install media and pointing it to the Rawhide repository for packages to install.
- Download the latest stable or branched install media. (netinstall or DVD install)
- Copy to local media (USB or DVD or CD)
- Boot media and go to the 'Install Source' section and manually enter:
(or i386 for 32bit)
- Finish the install as normal.
For this method to work, there should be no major changes in Rawhide that the installer is not ready for, such as packages it depends on being retired or other similar situations.
Yum from Existing install
You may use yum to upgrade from the most recent Stable or Branched release. You will need to have such an install in place and should likely update to the newest updates before starting.
See Upgrading Fedora using yum Rawhide info
This method may fail if there are upgrade path issues (newer packages in Stable or Branched than Rawhide), or broken dependencies.
There are a number of ways to communicate with other Rawhide users:
Rawhide discussion is on topic and welcome in both the #fedora-devel and #fedora-qa IRC channels.
Mailing Lists
Rawhide discussion is on topic and welcome in both the test and devel lists.
Rawhide bugs should be reported against the Fedora Product, rawhide version and the affected component. Please do follow best practices when filing. Remember that IRC and mailing lists are useful to help narrow down if some behavior is a bug or where to report it, but are themselves not bug reporting channels. Always file bugs in Bugzilla.
Note that broken dependencies are mailed to maintainers for each daily Rawhide compose where a package has such broken dependencies. Therefore, it's usually not worth filing a bug for broken dependencies unless they don't appear in the daily report, or you have a fix or improvement to suggest.
Producing Rawhide
The Rawhide repository is composed every day starting at 08:15UTC. All rawhide builds in the buildsystem at that time are composed and pushed out to mirrors. Rawhide is under "development/rawhide" on the mirrors. You can find a local "development" mirror on the public mirror list. Compose time varies depending on number of changes but is typically between 5 and 8 hours.
Composes are done in a rawhide chroot using the 'mash' tool called from a script maintained by Fedora Release engineering: http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/releng/tree/scripts/buildrawhide If the base set of packages in rawhide needed to compose rawhide are broken, the daily compose may fail.
A report for each Rawhide compose is sent to to the test and the devel lists. This report contains output from the 'repodiff' tool from the previous compose as well as a broken dependency report for packages with broken dependencies. Additionally, private email is sent to maintainers with packages containing broken dependencies.
Package maintainers should read and follow the Rawhide updates policy for building any packages in Rawhide.
If needed and approved by FESCo, Mass Rebuilds are done by release-engineering in Rawhide a month or so before the next release branches from it. Typically these are done for a global change over all packages such as a new gcc release, or rpm package format.
Rawhide packages are currently not signed. Work is ongoing to sign at least the majority of them.
Questions and Answers
Q: Doesn't rawhide eat babies / kill pets / burn down houses / break constantly?
A: No. Please stop telling anyone that.
Q: So Rawhide is very stable and we can all use it?
A: No. See audience above. There are things that break from time to time, but if you are able to downgrade or troubleshoot such issues aren't too severe, however most users should stick to Stable Fedora releases.
Q: I'm using a Stable Fedora release, but I want the newer package for foo thats only available in Rawhide. Can I just yum install it?
A: No. Mixing releases like this is a very bad idea. Your better options are:
- Obtain the src.rpm for the package you wish and try and rpmbuild --rebuild it (which may or may not work depending on dependencies)
- Ask the Fedora maintainer in a bug report to update the stable version if permitted by policy.
Q: I want to run the rawhide kernel on my Stable Fedora machine. Can I do that?
A: Sometimes yes. The kernel is more self contained than other rawhide packages and you also can easily boot your older kernel. Simply download and yum install the package.
Q: Is Rawhide a "rolling release" ?
A: It depends on how you define that, but yes.
Q: How can I tell when the rawhide compose for the day has finished?
A: You can see the reports it sends to the test and the devel lists. You can also watch fedmsg for the messages that rawhide compose has finished.
Hints and Tips
- Your package management system can be of great help in diagnosing and working around issues you find. Do read up and understand: 'yum downgrade' 'yum history' 'yum update --skip-broken' 'koji download-build'.
- You should update frequently (preferably every day). This allows you to more easily narrow down when a problem or issue appeared. If you apply a week of Rawhide updates at once you have many more packages to examine to narrow down issues.
- Reboot often (preferably whenever new kernels arrive). This allows you to test the boot up process and packages related to it, as well as newer kernels. Read and understand the Dracut troubleshooting steps.
- Follow the test and the devel lists for rawhide issues, try and at least skim them before doing your daily Rawhide updates. Look for '[rawhide]' subjects or reports of issues. Additionally if you find a problem and are not sure what to file bugs against you can open a discussion there.
- Rawhide kernels are made with a large amount of debugging enabled. You can often gain a good deal of performance by passing "slub_debug=-" to your kernel boot line in /etc/grub2.cfg. Additionally, you can run kernels in the Rawhide Kernel Nodebug repo that have all debugging disabled.
- If you are using a graphical desktop environment in your Rawhide install, you may wish to install several of them. This allows you to still login and troubleshoot when your primary desktop environment is not working for some reason.
- Have a rescue media handy of the current stable Fedora release for emergencies.
Red Hat Linux "Raw Hide" announcement: on lwn
The name might come from the song with the same name that starts with "Rolling, rolling, rolling, ..."
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Tuesday, November 10
Cooking With Beer: A Rockin' Recipe for Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Maple Smoked Bacon and Beer
The Food Blogga Getting Guys To Eat Vegetables Algorithm:
1. Don't tell them they're vegetables.
2. If #1 fails, then bread it and fry it.
3. If #2 fails, then add bacon.
4. If #3 fails, then add bacon and beer.
5. If #4 fails, then, well, #4 never fails, so don't worry about it.
I created this recipe for Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Maple Smoked Bacon and Beer in honor of San Diego Beer Week and used one of my favorite local San Diego beers called Arrogant Bastard Ale. (Is that the best beer name ever?) This dish rocks. It's sweet, salty, smoky, and tangy. It's great with beer buddies like pork and beef and goes really well with chicken sandwiches and salmon burgers.
So give it a try, and let me know how things work out for 'ya.
For more about San Diego Beer Week and cooking with beer, check out my last post, which includes a recipe for Dill and Beer Quick Bread, and my SDNN piece "Eight Great Events Brewing at San Diego Beer Week."
Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Maple Smoked Bacon and Beer
Serves 4 or 2 hungry guys
Print recipe only here.
2 large orange-fleshed sweet potatoes or Garnet yams
olive oil to brush on the flesh
6 strips maple smoked bacon
1 tablespoon butter
1 yellow onion, thinly sliced
2 teaspoons light brown sugar
2/3 cup beer, preferably dark ale
2 tablespoons maple syrup
freshly ground black pepper
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line a large baking sheet with aluminum foil, for easy clean up. Wash potatoes and pat dry. Brush flesh with a little bit of olive oil. Place flesh side down on the prepared baking sheet. Cook for 40-50 minutes, or until tender when pierced with a fork.
2. In a large skillet over medium heat, add bacon. Cook, turning frequently, until browned and crisp, about 6-8 minutes. Transfer to a paper-toweled lined plate to drain. Cool completely. Chop finely, reserving one slice for garnish.
3. Once the potatoes are cooked, remove from oven and cool for 5-10 minutes. Scoop out the flesh and set aside.
4. In a large skillet over medium-low heat, melt 1 tablespoon butter. Add sliced onions and brown sugar; stir occasionally, until the onions caramelize and turn a deep golden brown, about 10-12 minutes. Add beer and cook 2 minutes. Add maple syrup. Stir well and cook 3-4 minutes. Add roasted potatoes and bacon to skillet. Stir well. Season with freshly ground black pepper. Garnish with reserved bacon.
Here are more guy-friendly vegetable recipes from Food Blogga:
Roasted Asparagus with Breadcrumbs and Parmesan
Mediterranean Jacket Potatoes
Caramelized Plantains with Honey and Lime
Roasted Root Vegetables with Maple Sage Glaze
String Beans with Prosciutto, Pine Nuts, and Meyer Lemon
Here are more tasty sweet potato recipes:
Smoked Chile Scalloped Sweet Potatoes recipe at One For The Table
Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Lime Syrup and Chives recipe at Rookie Cookie
Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Red Onion recipe at The Passionate Cook
Sweet Potato Pancakes at Serious Eats
27 comments:
- Colleen said...
Oh, your guy rules are right on! Bacon usually does the trick, but beer certainly can't hurt. This sounds amazing.
- November 10, 2009 at 8:39 PM
- ali @ gimme some oven said...
CHEERS to that that algorithm. :)
Will have to try these!!
- November 10, 2009 at 9:41 PM
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
I love the name of that ale ;-P! A highly flavorful dish! Yummy!
- November 10, 2009 at 10:09 PM
- Meeta K. Wolff said...
an incredible sweet potato recipe susan. really like the flavor combination! and here's to that Algorithm!
- November 10, 2009 at 11:54 PM
- T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types said...
Great idea! There are so many subtle flavors in beer that can be brought out with food. And, when I visit San Diego, I'm going to request "The Food Blogga Beer Tour!"
- November 11, 2009 at 2:46 AM
- Sara, Ms Adventures in Italy said...
Yum, I tried that beer when I was in OB this summer! Cooking with beer is fun - I love throwing it in with sausages :)
- November 11, 2009 at 3:18 AM
- The Teacher Cooks said...
This is unreal. Now will have to prepare this. Yesterday ate lunch at Gabe's here in town and had a side of sweet potatoes with sausage, peppers and onions. All of it was all diced and browned in olive oil with seasonings that the chef would not disclose. It was the greatest. Do you think that it could be done with butternut squash? I have 4 of them that I need to do something with. Thanks for this recipe.
- November 11, 2009 at 4:35 AM
- glutenfreeforgood said...
Wow, this looks absolutely delicious. Must figure out a GF alternative for the beer. Hmmm? Green's Pathfinder Gluten Free Dubbel Dark Beer, maybe? I'll give it a try. Thanks for the inspiration.
- November 11, 2009 at 5:55 AM
- Debbie said...
I love cooking with beer. I've used it in a cake and in chili! The sweet potatoes with the bacon look terrific!
- November 11, 2009 at 7:51 AM
- Eve Fox said...
Sounds delicious! Gonna have to try this one out.
- November 11, 2009 at 7:56 AM
- Future Grown-Up said...
Forget the guys, I'm making this for myself!
- November 11, 2009 at 7:59 AM
- Kara said...
YUM Beer, sweet potatoes and bacon? Yes please.
I was reading about Garnet yams just the other day... are they truly the same thing as our usual sweet potatoes?
- November 11, 2009 at 8:06 AM
- lisaiscooking said...
This sounds like a great mix of flavors!
- November 11, 2009 at 9:32 AM
- Kelsey said...
You have hit the nail on the head. Heck, even I'll eat anything with bacon and beer in it! I love the name of that beer, too, so creative and hilarious.
- November 11, 2009 at 12:15 PM
- Cakelaw said...
LOL - gotta love a beer called Arrogant Bastard Beer - that's a beer with a sense of humour. The dish itself sounds devine - sweet potato, maple syrup and bacon - yum!!
- November 11, 2009 at 2:38 PM
- Johanna GGG said...
I don't eat bacon but I love this recipe - maybe I could make it with smoked paprika or veg bacon - it seems worth the effort to find a substitution - and yes, that beer has the best name ever
- November 11, 2009 at 3:58 PM
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
With a name like that this has to be the best beer ever...I can only imagine!!!!
- November 11, 2009 at 4:09 PM
- GF Gidget said...
Normally I skip beer related recipes since I am gluten free. However, I just so happen to have a few bottles of GF beer in my refrigerator! Hmm... any suggestions for my first recipe using beer?
- November 11, 2009 at 6:20 PM
- Unknown said...
It's liked you climbed inside my husband's head! His three favorite substances, in order, are beer, bacon, and maple syrup! And I have lots of sweet potatoes from my CSA box lying around. Thank you thank you thank you.
- November 11, 2009 at 6:27 PM
- Mimi said...
I've cooked sweet potatoes many way and still no takers here. Maybe beer and bacon will be the ticket.
- November 11, 2009 at 9:44 PM
- Melanie said...
You left out my favorite part of this beer... the back of the bottle. It's truly hilarious! In this household, I'm the one who won't eat sweet potatoes (unless they are fried deeply enough to remove the sweet potato flavor!).
- November 12, 2009 at 4:31 AM
- dom said...
This sounds delicious!! I am going to try it today!
- November 12, 2009 at 11:12 AM
- Cookie baker Lynn said...
I know some hungry guys that would luuuuuuv this! Sweet potatoes, bacon, and beer - what's not to love?
- November 13, 2009 at 8:52 AM
- Tall Pale Jason said...
Honestly, as a beer snob, I couldn't care less for Arrogant Bastard.
- November 13, 2009 at 5:03 PM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
colleen-Nope. It can't!
rosa-Me too!
tw-Ooh, I'll have to brush up on my tour guide jokes then.
sara-Oh, beer and sausages are so good together, esp. brats.
theteachercooks-Oh, yes. I use butternut squash and sweet potatoes interchangeably in many recipes. And the dish you described sounds wonderful.
gffg-Oh, I hope you do try it.
debbie-I love it in chili too.
eve-Hope you like it!
futuregrownup-You go, girl!
kara-They're technically different, but are used interchangeably in recipes. I love garnet yams-- they're really creamy.
kelsey-It's hysterical, I know.
cakelaw-Playful and tasty. You don't get better than that.
johanna-I'm not one to advocate meat substitutes, but this dish is so good, I'll give you the go-ahead on it. :)
val-Awesome, awesome name.
gfgidget-Honestly, no. I haven't cooked with GF beer. But please let me know how it turns out if you try it. Good luck!
mara-You're so welcome! What a cute comment. :)
mimi-It will do it. I promise.
melanie-You're right! My bad. Remove the taste of the sweet potato? Whaaaat?! ;)
dom-Yay! Let me know what you think!
lynn-There's nothing not to love!
tallpalejason-Everyone's got their preferences.
- November 13, 2009 at 6:48 PM
- Jeanne said...
LOL - love the guy's guide to veg!! This sounds delectable - although I'd never thought to pair beer with sweet potato. Definitely want ot experiment on my husband...!
- November 19, 2009 at 7:13 AM
Holy Moly! That's one fabulous recipe! I'm sooo making this for my boyfriend. Thanks!
- November 24, 2009 at 9:37 AM


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[hold it]
[breathe out]
Now I know it's possible you're joking with all of this, making fun of it, etc. And maybe you tell yourself you are kidding and you are not really like this. But there's some little hints. The fact that the girl in the comic calls the guy "this jerk." I feel like if the comic were totally kidding she wouldn't call him a jerk, because she doesn't think he is. But it feels like an artist putting words in her mouth. "Oooh, look at me, I'm a stupid woman who doesn't know what's best for me, I'm going to date this jerk."
The dude starts out by talking to the girl - which means that in the world of the comic, it's an imagined conversation. He isn't actually going to tell her any of this. It's an imagined conversation, from the main dude's head, and how does Randall write this unless he's been there? Most of the people I've talked to - and people seem to want to talk to me about this comic way more than other ones - have been reading it as "holy shit that freaks me out" and very few enjoyed it.
But don't take my word for it. Let's see how the fans reacted!
Dnumde Setnad is hopefully kidding because DO YOU KNOW HOW FUCKED UP YOU SOUND TALKING ABOUT BEING ATTRACTED TO A 14 YEAR OLD ON WORLD OF WARCRAFT??? update: Ok, this one's a bit unfair, as upon rereading the post in light of Sean's comment below, the dude is probably her age (I assumed that that "she was in my class" was a warcraft like half-breed shaman dwarf thing, but it looks like he means like in school). Still: He describes himself as being attracted to a girl who is " 'role-play-married' to God knows who as a night elf" so he's got to earn at least a bit of an honerable mention for weirdness, no?
Somedude04 has apparently tried this in real life! 5 TIMES. holy fucking christ! i guess he wins points for perseverence and sheer CREEPYNESS
"About the strip itself, I don't see why so many people think the comic is creepy. It's about a shy guy who really wants to date this girl, but he's afraid, so he's going to try to get close to her so maybe she'll see something in him. Seems like a good strategy to me" Yeah probably! Go for it! Not creepy at all, I totally agree.
And the winner of the Creepiest Stalker of the Creepy Stalkers Award goes to...MR. KOKURO! Holy crap, kokuro, you are freaking weird! Way to tell everyone on the internet about your skeezy plans.
But of course, that's just my reading. How did you fine people react?
PS creepy! creepy creepy creepy creeeeeeepy creeping sketchy creepy CREEPY!


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The not-for-profit Object Management Group (OMG) computer industry consortium reports this week that it has taken a definitive decision to adopt the Automated Function Point specification (AFP) — a specification dedicated to automating the counting of function points.
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OMG's board of directors and the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) really led the push for this adoption.
NOTE: CISQ is an IT industry leadership group comprised of IT executives from the Global 2000, system integrators, outsourced service providers, and software technology vendors committed to introduce a computable metrics standard for measuring software quality and size.
"The announcement by OMG of a specification for [AFP] counting should dramatically expand the use of Function Points for sizing IT applications," stated Dr. Bill Curtis, Director, CISQ. "By dramatically reducing the cost of counting and eliminating the problem of inconsistency among manual counters, automated Function Point measurement can become a standard component of the software development and maintenance process."
Counting guidelines laid down by the International Function Point User Group (IFPUG) ascribe to AFP as a standard for automating the function-point measure. Further then, OMG chairman Richard Mark Soley reminds us that this method has been around since the end of the 1970s.
The problem (and hence the reason for the insistence on a standard) here is that function-point "estimation" has always been inherently flawed, says Soley. He explains that two separate developers could spend time counting the same code base and come back with two different numbers. Worse still, a single individual could (potentially) count the same code twice and get two differing results.
"With the new OMG Automated Function Point specification, function-point counts aren't estimations; they're counts — consistent from count to count and person to person. Even more importantly, the standard is detailed enough to be automatable; i.e., it can be carried out by a program. This means it's cheap, consistent, and simple to use — a major maturation of the technology," he said.
"The arrival of automated high-speed function point counting...will elevate the importance of function point analysis from being a tool for mid-range applications to becoming a powerful tool for executive analysis of the largest and costliest software applications," says Capers Jones, software industry measurement expert, VP and CTO, Namcook Analytics. "Both software productivity and software quality data based on function points will expand rapidly, as will reliable software benchmarks."


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Insulation: Make sure your contractors properly insulate your walls. MSN also recommends having someone inspect the insulation before it's covered up.
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I'm late for work (but then when aren't I?).
I'm sitting on a train that's stopped due to signal failure ahead.
No, I'm on a train that's reversed back to a previous station so people can get off.
I'm sitting here wondering whether I should be patient, or maybe I should get off, put one foot in front of the other and keep moving.
It's the 1st step that's a killer.
Oh, and that's how I am finding WoW right now. It's broken, too many things wrong.
Do I get off, or stay on?
It definitely doesn't help that I haven't had the time to keep up with the news. Even if I had read just one of Cynwise's posts I would have realized that the best way to greet 5.04 was to wipe everything and start fresh.
Well, I've read that now… when I have some time I will return, wipe the adding, wipe the toolbars, wipe it all and start fresh… one toon at a time.
Damn you time.
The time to clear it all out.
The time to add one piece back at a time and make sure it works for me.
The time to retrain my fingers, my brain.
The time to do this across 6 toons, 9 specs (assuming I don't bother to respec the other dual specs).
Someone mentioned this was the month to prepare for MoP… I'm not sure if that's enough time and even if it is, which toons to I focus on as I can't level them all at once (well I could, but then I'd be cursing because I wasn't in level 90 BGs and Arenas.
- Gnomeaggedon: you'd kill me, I'd kill me if I didn't… but I think for now (as for a long time), it's down to one spec.
- Squidly: He's been my favorite alt for a long time, I think he needs a place near the lead… but that's two specs, heals and dps…
- Getafixsnow: I was enjoying the Druid, I guess I will drag him along sometime, but I will feel compelled to have both specs running… I raised him for the versatility, guess I need to continue, at least get the basics sorted.
- Gnomeadeaden: Afterthought… He can wait.
- Nocanhazgold: The only melee toon I have ever enjoyed (even if that enjoyment waivers)… He's not even 85… decisions decisions…
- Enslavegurl: Dirty dirty Warlock. Not yet 80… back burner…
- Snowdabow: My 1st ever character, a Horde Hunter… only level 51. I jumped on him the other day… then remembered why he has been level 51 for 6 years. Meh… he can wait another 6 years.
I figure it is going to take me a night per toon just to sort out the toolbars, the adding and to get the most basic of feels for them.
At my current play rate (with work consuming most days and nights and weekends mainly given over to Odin), I figure I will have them sorted a month into MoP… mmm maybe I should buy that one day… when I have the time.
I need to get it all going sooner rather than later, I need to work on those PvP achievements… Ohhh hang on… they are all Battlemasters now…
Remind me again why I'm doing this?
Gnomer and Out!
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You don't always have to be on the fly to enjoy a holiday movie. There are several classics on DVD and home video that are worth renting, if they're not a permanent part of your home library already. Here are five @ The Movies recommendations from holidays past and present that you can watch while roasting chestnuts on an open fire.
"It's a Wonderful Life" (1946): Starring the late, great Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed, this magical Frank Capra film is arguably one of the best holiday films, if not best films, period, of all time. The film finds a despondent businessman George Bailey (Stewart) on Christmas Eve, ready to take his own life until an angel named Clarence (Henry Travers) shows him how drastically different life in Bedford Falls, N.Y., would have been if Bailey were never born. And with the evil banker, Mr. Potter (a deliciously villainous Lionel Barrymore) in charge of the town that never got to experience Bailey's positive influence, things aren't looking very pretty. It's a real tearjerker that never grows tired.
"White Christmas" (1954): Not nearly as serious as "It's a Wonderful Life," "White Christmas" follows a pair of Army buddies-turned-entertainers Bob Wallace and Phil Davis (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) and a sister-singing duo Betty and Judy Haynes (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen) who come together to stage a show to save a resort owed by Wallace and Davis' former Army commander. The musical includes such standout songs as "Sisters" and "Gee! I Wish I Was Back in the Army" and is topped off by Crosby and company singing the Irvin Berlin classic, "White Christmas."
"A Christmas Story" (1983): Starring a fresh-faced Peter Billingsley, "A Christmas Story" tells the sweet tale of Ralphie (Billingsley) and his quest to get a Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun for Christmas. It's set in Indiana, with Ralphie's working-class dad (Darren McGavin) nailing the role as the tight-fisted Old Man. To say "A Christmas Story" is just the story of one kid's Christmas is like saying "It's A Wonderful Life" is about how George Bailey is a guy who lives in Bedford Falls. Like the Capra classic, "A Christmas Story" is about life, love, growing up, growing old and appreciating the things that matter.
"The Santa Clause 2" (2002): The best of "The Santa Clause" trilogy, this family romp finds Allen's tenure as St. Nick coming to an end unless he can find a Mrs. Claus. He finds his match in Carol Newman (Elizabeth Mitchell), a school principal, who, along with her staff, learns what it's like to be a kid again thanks to Santa's magic. The film is a wonderful trip down memory lane for baby boomers, as Santa manages to tap into their childhood memories by providing adults with the nostalgic toys they grew up with.
"Elf" (2003): "Elf" is a raucous family comedy about Buddy, an orphaned toddler who accidentally stows himself away in Santa's (Ed Asner) sack of presents and ends up at the North Pole. Adopted there by one of Santa's head elves (Bob Newhart), Buddy (Will Ferrell) grows up to be an outcast because of his unwieldy size and definitive lack of toy-making talent. Urged to find his real father (James Caan) in New York City, Buddy discovers a town loaded with a load of people who have lost their belief in Christmas, and it's up to him to turn it around. It's easily one of Ferrell's best performances in a film not only because of his humor, but also for a magical childlike innocence and vulnerability comparable to Tom Hanks' brilliant performance in "Big."
Of course, there are several others on DVD that are worth mentioning, including the 1947 version of "Miracle on 34th Street," "The Polar Express" (2004), "Scrooged" (1988) and the perennial television classics, "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (1964), "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" (1970), "Frosty the Snowman" (1969) and both the animated and feature film versions of "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (1966 and 2000, respectively).
And that's it for the recommendations for holiday films past and present. Happy Holidays!
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More than 200 developers packed Town Hall in the Adobe San Francisco office on Monday night for our Game Developer Tools launch event. Fun and excitement poured from every part of the room with remote-controlled Angry Birds, vintage arcade games and new iPad AIR apps. It was a great time with great partners – Zynga, Rumble, KIXEYE, Kabam, GREE, EA and Milkman Games – and really amazing responses from the game developer community. All of the announcement information can be found in the blog post from Adobe Gaming director Emmy Huang, but we also wanted to share the recap video below for those who couldn't make it in person.
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After all the warnings about crocodiles, this was the last place we expected it would be safe to go back in the water.
However, it turned out the creek was named after a geological formation that looked like a crocodile "and there have never been any reports of crocodiles," said guide Steve Egan.
So we all hopped off the zodiacs to climb up the concrete steps built by miners from the iron ore mine on nearby Cockatoo Island as a weekend retreat.
Then we plunged in and swam under the waterfall - grateful for only the third opportunity to have a refreshing swim because of the saltwater crocodiles that inhabit most of the area.
This was the final wilderness stop on our 10-day Orion Expedition Cruise along the Kimberley Coast, the last frontier here in northwest Australia.
With only 53 staterooms and suites, the 103-metre, 4,000-tonne Orion is small enough to sail into areas otherwise accessible only by air.
The Orion does Kimberley cruises during the Down Under winter (April to September), offering the combination of expedition adventures and five-star luxury accommodation and dining.
Large cruise ships have their own appeal. But for a more exclusive, exciting adventure - combining nature with culture and history - we enjoyed being with a relatively small group and a simple daily program: buffet breakfast, a morning excursion ashore or on the water, back to the ship for an extensive buffet lunch, the afternoon expedition, an oral/ photo roundup of the day's activities and then a gourmet sit-down dinner which we chose to eat on deck.
In the movie, The Adjustment Bureau, the protagonists keep opening doors on to new scenes and into new experiences.
We felt that way about this Kimberley cruise.
We boarded in Darwin, at the Top End of Australia. After two days' orientation lectures while sailing in the Timor Sea with a brief stop in East Timor (a requirement because of Orion's designation as an international cruise line), we landed in Wyndham, the most northerly town in Western Australia.
Opening the first door, half the passengers took a two-hour flight to the honeycombed Bungle Bungles, discovered only in the 1980s when a TV crew was making a documentary.
The rest went up the Ord River in a boat with three 350-h.p. engines to find freshwater crocs that can be almost as large as salties.
The next day we anchored in Koolama Bay, where during the Second World War three Japanese floatplanes bombed the Koolama, a supply ship about the same size as Orion, stranding 160 passengers and crew in this remote area.
So we opened our next door: a trip in the Zodiacs along an eroded sandstone gorge - home to various birds, rock wallabies and saltwater crocodiles - to King George River Falls, the highest in the Kimberley at 83 metres. Some passengers then hiked to the top of the twin falls, while most of the rest of us settled for the view from the base.
A few of the Zodiacs "initiated" their passengers with a swing under the falls, somehow managing to leave the drivers dry.
And then a delicious surprise: Tucked in behind a rocky cliff we found a Zodiac from the ship serving champagne and orange juice along with gourmet croissants. That hit the spot after a couple of hours on the water.
The next day and another door: We visited Vansittart Bay and Jar Island, named after Malay earthenware jar fragments found on the beach.
We hiked ashore to visit three galleries of Aboriginal rock art - known by two very different names. Gwion Gwion art because legend has it the Gwion birds pecked the rocks until their beaks bled, then used a tail feather and their own blood to create the paintings. Then also known as Bradshaw's paintings after the explorer Joseph Bradshaw. The paintings are estimated to be 20,000 to 30,000 years old.
That afternoon, yet another door opened when we visited the wreckage of a C-53 plane, the military version of the DC-3, which had made a forced landing on Feb. 26, 1942, after faulty navigation left it short of fuel.
The plane was still fairly intact and well preserved; we could imagine what the crew, who all survived, felt like on this deserted spot until they were rescued after being spotted by a Qantas floatplane.
The aeronautical mood continued the next morning when we went through a door - or rather no door - to board a helicopter which had landed on the beach for our flight to the top of the Mitchell Falls.
It was an unexpected thrill to sit on an outside back seat - truly outside as there were no doors.
After we took off and the wind whipped in, we realized why we had been told to put all loose items into a bag which had then been safely stowed before takeoff.
Before flying back over the vast Kimberley Tableland, we had time for a swim in the pools atop the falls, again after being reassured no crocodiles had ever been seen in the area.
Throughout the cruise passengers signed up for fishing trips, hauling in (and usually releasing) sea perch, fingermark, coral trout, red emperor, golden trevally, grey reef shark, tusk fish and countless batfish.
About now we started to lose track of the number of doors we had opened, as we landed at Raft Point to hike up to an amazing gallery rich with Wandjina style rock art, characterized by figures with large mouthless faces and large black eyes.
We hugged the occasional bottle-shaped boab tree along the way, icons of the Kimberley.
In the afternoon a door opened on to Montgomery Reef where, with a quiet roar, the ocean cascaded off 400 square kilometres of reef.
As the tide goes out, it actually looks like the reef is rising out of the water. During spring tides, the reef rises above the surrounding falling ocean by as much as four metres.
Seabirds feed on fish stranded on the reef, while sharks, turtles and various fish feast on the creatures washed off the reef.
We fed on rum punch provided by the beach bar set up on a sand island that also emerged as the tide fell.
Turning tides featured again on the following day when a door opened so we could see Talbot Bay's horizontal waterfalls. It took a 450-hp engine to propel the fast boat with its passengers through the narrow gap as the changing tide forced a torrent of water to rush from one side of the gap to the other.
Nearby we saw the dramatic uplifting of sedimentary rock caused by ancient land mass collisions.
We were reluctant to open the last new scene/experience door the next day when we came to Yampi Sound and Crocodile Creek. My companion and I lingered in the water as long as we dared and stayed to help dismantle the margaritas bar so we could all catch the last Zodiac back to the ship.
Day 11 and all the ship's doors opened as we disembarked in Broome, the pearling town on Australia's west coast, meeting the new passengers who were about to embark on the Orion's return voyage to Darwin.
We held the doors open and wished them bon voyage.
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Kimberley cruise fares range from $9,000 to $19,000 per person, double occupancy.
For more details about Orion and Orion II cruises, go to www.orionexpedition.com


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The surname Almond appears in my tree eleven times at the moment. The name is found in my ancestry and also my wife's. As far as I can tell so far there is no direct connection between the two family lines. My ancestors are found in Lancashire and those of my wife are in Lincolnshire.
According to surnamedb website the surname is of Old French and Anglo Saxon origin. It is said to have two possible sources.
Firstly, it may be from the English name for someone from Germany. This is derived from the Anglo Norman French word "aleman" meaning German or "alemayne" meaning Germany. This is said to be a Germanic tribal name, probably meaning "all the men".
The second source is from the Olde English pre 7th Century personal name " Athelmund". This is made up of two elements – "athel" meaning noble, and "mund" meaning protection.
There is no evidence of any connection with the almond nut or tree.
The personal name was first recorded as "Almund" and "Ailmundus" in the Domesday Book of 1086. The surname was first recorded in the late 13th Century when Thomas Ailmun can be found in the "Hundred Rolls of Cambridgeshire" dated 1279.
William and Awdry Almond were some of the earliest settlers in the New World, leaving London on the "Abigail" in JUne 1635, bound for New England.
In the 1911 Census for England and Wales there are at least 5147 people recorded with the name Almond.


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2012 Holiday Gift Guide: Apple iPad mini
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Features, Handhelds, Women, Men, Techies, Teens, Under $500,
Next up in our 2012 Holiday Gift Guide is the Apple iPad mini. We're sure many of you expected to see this one here, but we weren't so sure until we got our hands on one, and realized after a couple of weeks that our full-sized iPad with Retina display was collecting dust. The iPad mini lives up the the hype that it has generated for years, and it is beautifully designed, what with its anogized aluminum shell. Battery life seem to be better than any iPad before it, and the display, while not Retina quality, is not that bad at all. You get the 7.9-inch 1024 x 768 display powered by a dual-core A5 processor and 512MB RAM in a package that weighs just 0.68 pounds. Prices start at $329, and you can get one now from Apple.
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2012 Holiday Gift Guide: Sony SDHC flash memory cards
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We try and feature some lust-worthy gadgets in our 2012 Holiday Gift Guide, but we also like to call out great deals on things that you need for those gadgets as well, and that's why we are recommending the 32GB and 16GB Sony SDHC class 10 flash memory cards. Amazon currently has an amazing deal on these cards, sellign each at a substantial discount. The 32GB cards are 67% off, while the 16GB variety are 65% off. Of course, you can use these in anything from a digital camera, to the new Wii U, to simple file storage for your computer. Check them out on Amazon now!
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2012 Holiday Gift Guide: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Extended Edition Blu-ray
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We love to focus on great tech deals in our 2012 Holiday Gift Guide as well, and that's why we are recommending The Lord of the Rings Extended Edition Blu-ray--it's currently available as an Amazon Gold Box special, and that makes it $43.49. That is a 64% discount off of Amazon's regular price, and makes a great gift for the movie lover in your life. The set includes the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King Extended Editions,) and has a bunch of footage that was left out of the theatrical releases of the films. Pick this set up today from Amazon before the price goes back up!
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We continue our 2012 Holiday Gift Guide with the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet. Why the Fire, and not the Kindle Fire HD? While the HD is a fine tablet in its own right, the price of the regular Kindle Fire is just right--especially if you buy quickly! As it turns out, Amazon is selling the Kindle Fire at a 20% discount for the next 3 hours (or until it runs out of stock, whichever comes first!) Amazon's looking to disrupt the tablet landscape with the Fire, and is pricing the Fire aggressively at $129 during this sale.
Purchasers of the Kindle Fire also get a 30-day trial of Amazon Prime, which'll let you get a nice sampling of what the company's Video on Demand service offers. Other services you can access from the Fire include Amazon's Android Appstore, Kindle books, a host of magazines, Cloud Drive, Cloud Player, and the Amazon MP3 service.
You can pick up a Kindle Fire now for $129 on Amazon. If you miss the sale, it's still a good deal at its regular $159 price.
Honorable Mention: Kindle Fire HD - $199
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2012 Holiday Gift Guide: Halo 4 Limited Edition
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Microsoft, Video Games, Men, Teens, Under $100, Under $250, Under $500,
Halo 4 launched today, and is downright amazing. If there's a gamer in your life who didn't already pick this one up, do them a favor and grab them a copy of this Limited Edition version, because this one is good enough to make it into our 2012 Holiday Gift Guide. What sets the Halo 4 Limited Edition apart from the standard version? Well, a lot. Read on, but just remember that these are going to go fast. We don't expect to see the Limited Edition version in stock for more than a few more days:
- Spartan-IV "Recruit" In-Game Armor
- Spartan-IV "Prime" In-Game Armor Skin
- Assault Rifle "Prime" In-Game Weapon Skin
- "Prime" In-Game Emblem
- Xbox LIVE Avatar "Recruit" Armor
- Cryo-Tube Xbox LIVE Avatar Prop
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2012 Holiday Gift Guide: iPod touch 5th generation
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Handhelds, Techies, Teens, Under $250, Under $500,
Apple's focused on the iPod touch as being the "funnest iPod ever" for a while now, but the introduction of the fifth generation model put it over the top. You've got the new 4-inch Retina display, FaceTime HD video chat, 5 megapixel rear camera with 1080p video recording, and built-in gyroscope all packed into the thinnest iPod touch ever--and now it's available in a bunch of colors - silver, pink, green, blue, black red, and yellow. Of course, you need great software running on hardware like this, and the App Store fits the bill with over 700,000 apps available. A great gift for teens who don't need an iPhone, or anyone who wants a mobile iOS device that isn't a phone. Prices start at $299 (or $295 on Amazon) for the new 5th generation model, and $199 (or $195 on Amazon) for the older 4th generation version:
Be sure to check out the rest of the stuff in our 2012 Holiday Gift Guide, we're adding new suggestions every day!
2011 Holiday Gift Guide Giveaway: Microsoft Touch Mouse
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Accessories, Features, PC / Laptop, Peripherals, Women, Men, Techies, Teens, Under $100, Under $250, Under $50, Under $500,
This 2011 Holiday Gift Guide entry is targeted at making computing a little more fun and futuristic - and we're even giving this one away! The Microsoft Touch Mouse is made exclusively for use with Windows 7. It's got a multitouch surface, allowing you to use natural touch gestures to perform common tasks. Basically, think of it as the Apple Magic Mouse, but for your Windows PC. It's got support for one-, two-, and three-findered gestures, and runs on 2 AA batteries. They sell for $79, but you can get one on Amazon now for $41, which is a whopping 48% discount.
Or, you can win one here! We are giving one of these Microsoft Touch Mouse prizes away as we continue our holiday giveaway series. Simply use the widget below to enter to win. We've got a lot of ways for you to enter, but don't check off any that you don't actually perform. If you do, you'll be eliminated:
2011 Holiday Gift Guide: Lomography Sprocket Rocket 915
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Cameras, Features, PC / Laptop, Techies, Teens, Under $100, Under $250, Under $500,
Here's a more unique entry for our 2011 Holiday Gift Guide. This is the Lomography Sprocket Rocket. The plastic-bodied Rocket camera has a wide-angle frame that exposes the film all the way to the edges, out past the sprocket holes. It also lets you rewind the film for those cool double exposures. They typicalls sell for $89, but you can grab one on Amazon for $78.50, a 12% savings.
2011 Holiday Gift Guide: Free 4G Android smartphones at Radio Shack
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Smartphones, Hot Deals, Family, Women, Men, Teens, Under $100, Under $25, Under $250, Under $50, Under $500,
Our 2011 Holiday Gift Guide tries to hit you with gift recommendations at all different price points, and this one may be the least expensive. Radio Shack is selling a bunch of 4G Android smartphones for free, with two-year contract, this holiday season. You can get devices like the Samsung Stratosphere for Verizon, Samsung Infuse 4G for AT&T, and the HTC EVO Design 4G for Sprint. All of these devices support faster data speeds, and at a price of free, they're a tremendous deal.
2011 Holiday Gift Guide: Dismember-Me Plush Zombie
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Accessories, Toys, Men, Kids, Teens, Under $100, Under $25, Under $250, Under $50, Under $500,
We've got another inexpensive, yet awesome, entry for our 2011 Holiday Gift Guide, this one focusing on the undead. Do you know what happens when you take old broken plush toys and bury them in the woods by the light of the full moon while whistling the theme song from "Halloween"? Unfortunately nothing...which is why the skillful design monkeys over at ThinkGeek were forced to come-up with their own scary (but cute) zombie plush.
The Dismember-Me Plush Zombie begs to be torn limb from limb. After all he is a decaying re-animated corpse turned into irresistible cuddly plush. Rip off an arm... he doesn't mind. Tear him in half.. he'll barely notice. Pull off his legs... ok now he's getting a bit annoyed. Steal his brain... now you've really done it. Keep your teddy bears under close guard tonight because undead plush have come back from hell to walk the earth.
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Monday, January 7, 2013
»Will Parnell, Early Childhood Education faculty, presented "Teacher Collaboration Experiences: Finding the Extraordinary in the Everyday Moments" at the annual National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators conference, Atlanta, Nov. 7.
»Yasmeen Hanoosh, World Languages and Literatures faculty, authored an article, "Contempt: State Literati vs. Street Literati in Modern Iraq," polished in the Journal of Arabic Literature, Brill Publishing, 43.
»Mellie Pullman, Business Administration faculty, had her papers titled "Integrating Sustainability into Core Supply Chain Classes" and "Resource Scarcity: Research Opportunities in Supply Chain Management" presented at the Decision Science Institute Confe
»Ken Ruoff, History, delivered a lecture on "Japanese Tourism to Korea, Circa 1940: The Tension Between Tourism Promotion and Assimilation Policies" at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan, during December.
»Kathy Rupley, Business Administration faculty, presented "From Stand-Alone CSR Reporting to Integrated Reporting" (co-authored with Darrell Brown and Scott Marshall) in a conference session at the PSU International Conference on Business & Sustainability,
»Meiru Liu, International Management and Confucius Institute faculty, presented "Meeting Challenges and Solving Issues by Developing Creative Programs – A CI's Model" at the annual conference of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in
»Christof Teuscher, Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty, presented a paper, "A Structural Analysis of Evolved Complex Networks-on-Chip," at the 5th International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures in Vancouver, B.C. The paper is co-authored
»Susan Chan, Music faculty, has received an Individual Artist Fellowship award from the Oregon Arts Commission in recognition of her artistic achievements. In selecting artists to receive the fellowships, the commission looks to Oregon artists of outstandi
»Erica Wagner, Business Administration faculty, had her co-authored paper titled "Continued Use of IT: An Emotional Relationship" presented at the International Conference on Information Systems, Orlando, Fla., Dec. 16-19.
»Piman Limpaphayom, Business Administration faculty, was an invited speaker and moderator at the Asian Roundtable on Corporate Governance organized jointly by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo,
»Pat Boas, Art faculty, is exhibiting three lithographs in a group exhibition of the Ford Family Foundation titled Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts Golden Spot Residencies Award prints at PDX Contemporary Art Gallery in Portland, Jan. 3–19.
»Jacqueline B. Temple, Yer Thao, and Samuel D. Henry, Education faculty, authored a chapter, "Multiple Voices: Same Song" published in Mentoring Faculty of Color, Dwayne Mack, ed., Mac Farland & Co., 2013.
»Craig Epplin, World Languages and Literatures, authored "Concrete Scrawls: The Wires and Words of León Ferrari" published in Third Text, Vol. 26, Issue 6.
»Tom Larsen, Library faculty, gave a week-long series of training sessions to a group of catalog librarians from libraries in Central Vietnam at Trung Tam Thong Tin Hoc Lieu, Dai Hoc Da Nang (Learning and Information Resource Center of the University of Da
»Emily Ford, Library faculty, co-authored "Open Ethos Publishing at Code4Lib Journal and In the Library with the Lead Pipe" published in In the Library with the Lead Pipe, Dec. 12.
»Elizabeth Almer, Business Administration faculty, joined the editorial board of Behavioral Research in Accounting through the end of 2015. The journal is published by the Accounting, Behavior and Organizations Section of the American Accounting Associatio
»Haley Holmes, Business Administration, had her article titled "Serving High Achieving Students Through "Honors Tracks"" published in the December 2012 issue of the quarterly e-zine Academic Advising Today.
»Shung Jae Shin, Business Administration faculty, joined the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Psychology. The journal emphasizes the publication of original investigations that contribute new knowledge and understanding to fields of applied psycho
»David Johns, Political Science adjunct faculty, co-authored "Policy Foundations for a Path Forward in Large Landscape Connectivity Conservation" published in 30Ecological Restoration 4, December 2012.
»Stefan Talke, Civil and Environmental Engineering, had his research mentioned in the Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union journal, Vol. 93, Issue 48. The article mentioned Talke and his colleague's historical tide gauge data, which shows Hurricane
»Sean Kohles, Mechanical and Materials Engineering and Biology faculty, co-authored "Assessing Specific Causation of Mesothelioma Following Exposure to Chrysotile Asbestos-Containing Brake Dust" published in the International Journal of Occupational and En
»Talya Bauer, Business Administration faculty, gave a talk titled "Maximizing Onboarding Success: Best Practices in Action" at the Onboarding Conference hosted by the Conference Board, New York, Dec. 4.
»Inger M. Olsen, World Languages and Literatures faculty, translated "Where We Built and Live" by Ivar Kirkegaard, The Danish Born American, published in The Bridge, Vol. 35, No. 1 and 2, 2012.
»Brian Bolton, Business Administration faculty, presented "Bank Executive Compensation and Capital Requirements Reform" at the 2012 Conference on Corporate Governance of Financial Institutions at the Bank of Netherlands in Amsterdam, Nov. 8-9.
»Alexander Ruzicka and Melinda Hutson, Geology faculty, co-authored with others "Large Silica-Rich Igneous-Textured Inclusions in the Buzzard Coulee Chondrite: Condensates, Differentiates, or Impact Melts?" published in Meteritics and Planetary Science, Vo
»Dave Ervin, Economics and Environmental Science and Management faculty, presented "The Economics of Business Sustainability" at the NW Environmental Conference held in Portland on Dec. 5.
»Robert Schroeder, Library faculty, co-authored "Embedding Affective Learning Outcomes in Library Instruction" published in the journal Communications in Information Literacy, Vol. 6, Issue 1, December 2012.
»Karen L. Karavanic, Computer Science faculty, presented "An Educator's Toolbox for CUDA," an invited, full-day seminar for high performance computing educators as part of SC 2012, The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, St
»Pete Tashman, Business Administration faculty, authored an article titled "MNE/NGO Partnerships and the Legitimacy of the Firm" published in the December 2012 issue of International Business Review.
»Leerom Medovoi, presented "Anti-Fundamentalism and the Racial Enemy of Globalization: 1979–2012" at the American Studies Association Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Nov. 18.


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The Giving Pledge, started in 2010 by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates to invite the world's wealthiest individuals and families to commit half of their wealth to charitable causes, has become a cross-border endeavor with pledges by a dozen signatories from across the globe.
Billionaire families from Australia, Germany, India, Malaysia, Russia, South Africa, Ukraine and the United Kingdom have joined the Giving Pledge, bringing the total to 105 families committed to the pledge, according to a press statement.
The new members come from diverse industry and geographic backgrounds and give to a variety of issue areas. Many of them have been working to make an impact through philanthropy for several years.
The 105 pledgers range in age from 28 to 97. Globally, they represent nine countries. In the U.S., they come from 23 states and the District of Columbia, with the largest contingents from New York and California.
Pledgers give to a wide variety of causes, including education, health, medical research, social services and the environment. Some have already given away the majority of their wealth, while others are just getting started, the statement said.
Following are the 12 new signatories along with excerpts from their pledge letters.
Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro
Net Worth: $15.9 billion (Forbes 2012)
"I strongly believe that those of us who are privileged to have wealth should contribute significantly to try and create a better world for the millions who are far less privileged. I will continue to act on this belief."
Andrew Forrest, non-executive chairman of Fortescue Metals Group, and Nicola Forrest
Net Worth: $5.8 billion (Forbes 2012)
"While giving responsibly is challenging to do well, you will find it even more satisfying than the exhilaration you experienced when creating your enterprises. It was your logic, intuition, focus, foresight, good fortune, relentless determination and work capacity that produced the wealth you now ponder the future of. Yet it is also these same powerful talents that cause you to ask yourself, could I become a major philanthropist and responsibly use my wealth to improve communities and the lives of those less fortunate, potentially touching millions of people?"
Hasso Plattner, co-founder of the software company SAP
Net Worth: $7.2 billion (Forbes 2012)
"More than 20 years ago, I set up a foundation focusing on education and global health challenges. It is extremely rewarding to see the impact money well spent can have. I had the great privilege to study at one of the best German technical universities, University of Karlsruhe, and the education was nearly free. Without question this became the foundation for my personal success.
"On one hand I feel obliged to support the company I once co-founded, and on the other hand I want to give back to the society which enabled my education. The foundation is a way to do both."
Vladimir Potanin, chairman of Interros
Net Worth: $14.5 billion (Forbes 2012)
"Several years ago I announced my decision to donate a major part of my wealth to philanthropy. I genuinely believe that wealth should work for public good and, therefore, I am trying to make my own contribution toward a better world, especially toward a better future for my own country, Russia.
"I am confident that one cannot solve social problems by simply writing a check. Personal involvement is of great importance, and that is why in 1999 I established my own foundation to support programs in the area of education, culture and philanthropy development."
Net Worth: Vincent Tan Chee Yioun, chairman of Berjaya Group
$1.2 billion (Forbes 2012)
"I am also keenly aware that there is only so much money that a person needs for himself and his family, and this brings home the sense that when one is blessed with great wealth beyond what is needed, there is a corresponding moral and social responsibility to put the money to good use. For this reason, I have for many years done my part to help the less fortunate and underprivileged through monetary donations and other means of material support. I have also established a foundation known as Better Malaysia Foundation to organize and focus these efforts with the aim of giving back to the community and generally making Malaysia a better place. This, in part, is also to return to society what I have benefited through the support my fellow Malaysians have given to the various businesses of both the publicly listed Berjaya group of companies of which I am the major shareholder and my other privately held concerns."
South Africa
Patrice Tlhopane Motsepe, founder and executive chairman of African Rainbow Minerals, and Precious Motsepe
Net Worth: $2.7 billion (Forbes 2012)
"This selfless and compassionate characteristic is part of the age-old African culture of giving and caring for your neighbor and other members of your community. In South Africa it is embodied in the spirit and tradition of Ubuntu/Botho, in terms of which your well-being, happiness and success is dependent upon and influenced by the wellbeing, happiness and success of others…
"[We] recognise the huge responsibility and duty that the Motsepe family has to poor, unemployed, disabled, women, youth, workers and marginalized South Africans. We also have an ongoing obligation of nation building, uniting black and white South Africans and contributing toward making Africa and the world a better place."
Victor Pinchuk, founder and main owner of international investment advisory firm EastOne Group, and of Interpipe Group
Net Worth: $4.2 billion (Forbes 2012)
"My goal in my social investments is to empower the next generation to change their country and the world. To enable them to build a new country based on openness and an understanding of the world of today and tomorrow. My focus is on using innovative approaches to provide access to education, health care and the inspirational power of contemporary art. Combined with modern and innovative business projects, I believe this constitutes a powerful formula for change. I have taken my first steps, with large-scale scholarships programs, opening a museum of contemporary art with free admission, and establishing a network of neonatal clinics—but this is just the beginning.
"I have a particular focus on my own country, Ukraine, and its integration with the world. As a post-Soviet society, Ukraine needs the support of "social investors" in order to implement reforms and to promote ideas like the rule of law. We face a long road ahead compared to Western countries, and we who have already benefitted from change must help more."
United Kingdom
Richard Branson, founder and chairman of Virgin Group, and Joan Branson
Net Worth: $4.2 billion (Forbes 2012)
"'Stuff' really is not what brings happiness. Family, friends, good health and the satisfaction that comes from making a positive difference are what really matters.
"Happily our children, who will be our principal heirs, agree with me on this. As and when we take monies out of the Virgin Group of companies the majority of it will be invested in entrepreneurial approaches to help make a difference in the world. We want the value created by the Virgin Group to be used to invest in new collaborative approaches to addressing issues, where business, governments and not-for-profits join forces to create a healthy, equitable and peaceful world for future generations to enjoy."
John Caudwell, businessman
Net Worth: $2.6 billion (Forbes 2012)
"At the moment, my main charitable cause in terms of passion is Caudwell Children. This charity helps children in dire medical need, whatever their illness. It helps children whose parents don't have the financial ability to help them themselves. Caudwell Children helps about 3,000 children each year, and in some cases completely transforms their lives; in others it makes their lives more bearable, while for some it can make their dying wishes come true.
"My hope for Caudwell Children is that we will eventually help every eligible child in the U.K. and in other countries if I can find like-minded individuals to help me."
Christopher Hohn, hedge fund manager
Hohn set up The Children's Investment Fund in 2003, a hedge fund run by his wife, Jamie Cooper-Hohn. Its aim is to donate a portion of its profit to help children in developing countries. TCI gives 0.5% of its assets to The Children's Investment Fund Foundation UK each year, with a further 0.5% of assets for every year during which the fund achieves returns of more than 11%. Bloomberg reported in January that TCI had $8.5 billion under management.
Mo Ibrahim, mobile communications entrepreneur
Net Worth: $1.1 billion (Forbes 2012)
"In 2006 I launched the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to focus on the issues of good governance and leadership in Africa. Good governance is the basket of public goods governments must deliver to its people [including] security, rule of law, economic opportunity, infrastructure, management of public finance, transparency, education, health and citizens' rights. We need to move from narrative and rhetoric to facts and figures. Our Index of African Governance measures well over 100 parameters to evaluate government delivery in every African country. Effectively, we are producing an annual scorecard to measure performance. The objective is not to name or shame anybody but to understand where we are, what works and what doesn't and to facilitate an objective discussion between all governments, parliaments, academics, business, civil society and beyond."
David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville, former chairman of supermarket chain Sainsbury's
Net Worth: $1.1 billion (Forbes 2012)
"The approach of my wife, Susie, and I to philanthropy is very simple. We do not believe that spending any more money on ourselves or our family would add anything to our happiness. However, using it to support social progress we have found deeply fulfilling. We focus on a few areas which require investment and which we care about deeply, and seeing these projects develop and bring major benefits to people has been a life-enhancing experience."
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Gifts of time, talent, and resources from scores of volunteers are what set Deerfield apart. The success of the Annual Fund is directly attributable to the over 400 alumni volunteers who keep their peers in touch with the Deerfield community. Personal relationships make the difference at Deerfield… You are our greatest advocate!
Learn more about volunteering or make your gift today.
"Why does Deerfield need my support every year?"
In a labor intensive industry such as education, where student-to-teacher ratios are a competitive advantage, there are significant costs associated with having the best people working at Deerfield. People are Deerfield's greatest asset – and its greatest expense. Salaries and benefits for faculty and staff make up approximately 55% of Deerfield's budget.
Simply put, quality is expensive. Deerfield strives to offer its students programs, experiences, and a curriculum that is unparalleled – and doing that costs money. We look to our alumni, parents, and friends to help offset the costs associated with the high-quality education that Deerfield provides. Competitive faculty salaries, exceptional arts and athletics resources and a substantial financial aid program are made possible thanks to your support year after year.
Annual Fund donors at the $25,000 level or higher who direct their gifts toward financial aid can now be matched with a current student through Deerfield's Annual Fund Scholars Program.
For more information, contact Betsey Dickson '94, Director of the Annual Fund.