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I'd like to know if it is legal to install the msttcorefonts package and also if installing Windows software using Wine is also legal? I currently live in Brazil and I don't know what specific rules apply over here, but would appreciate any feedback on this matter. Thanks in advance!
In short: It's not a case of copyright law because Microsoft allows the redistribution of the font installers and it allows users to install the fonts (regardless of OS).
It does not allow for redistribution of the TTF font files on their own, so, for example, it would not allow for a distribution like Ubuntu to include them by default.
Sidebar: The newer (Vista-era) fonts like Consolas, Segoe, Cambria, Candara have explicit "only for Windows" junk in their licenses, but these fonts aren't included in
Wine is less black and white.
If you need a bullet-proof legal way to run a Windows application from within Ubuntu, virtualisation is probably the key. A real licensed copy of Windows running will do almost anything you want it to (with a performance hit).
I am not a lawyer, but generally speaking packages that are included in the official Ubuntu repositories are not encumbered by any copyright or patent restrictions that would make it a tort or crime to install. A number of useful packages are excluded from the official software sources because it would be unlawful for some users in some places to install them, due to such concerns. One example of such a package is
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Airport hotels
There is one hotel at Washington Dulles International Airport, the Marriott. Several others are available within a 3km (2 mile) radius, and there are many other options in the surrounding area, and of course in Washington DC itself. Many of the local hotels offer shuttle services.
Washington Dulles Airport Marriott
The 368-room Washington Dulles Airport Marriott is located within the airport grounds, but also provides a shuttle bus service to the terminal building. It has a fitness centre, indoor and outdoor pools, and a choice of restaurants. It also offers meeting and events facilities, and is set in landscaped grounds.Dulles 45020 Aviation Drive Virginia 20166 United States Tel: (703) 471 9500. Web: www.marriott.com
Comfort Inn Dulles International Airport
The Comfort Inn is located less than 7km (4.5 miles) from Washington Dulles International Airport and is linked by a free shuttle bus service. Hotel facilities include free internet and an on-site fitness centre.Herndon 200 Elden Street Virginia 20170 United States Tel: (703) 437 7555. Web: www.comfortinn.com
Courtyard Herndon Reston
Located less than 10km (6 miles) from Washington Dulles International Airport, the Courtyard Herndon Reston hotel offers an airport shuttle bus service, free internet, a fitness centre and on-site dining.Chantilly 14036 Thunderbolt Place Virginia 20151 United States Tel: (703) 478 9400. Web: www.marriott.com
Hilton Washington Dulles
A large (450-room) hotel, the Hilton offers a free shuttle service to and from Washington Dulles International Airport. It has a 24-hour business centre, indoor and outdoor pools, and a choice of restaurants plus room service around the clock.Herndon 13869 Park Center Road Virginia 20171 United States Tel: (703) 478 2900. Web: www.hilton.com
Holiday Inn Express Herndon Dulles Airport
Breakfast is included in the room rate at the Holiday Inn Express, which is a short drive to Washington Dulles International Airport and within walking distance of both a shopping area and restaurants. 'Park & Fly' packages are available, using the hotel's shuttle bus service. Free internet and access to the local YMCA's pool is also offered.Herndon 485 Elden Street Virginia 20170 United States Tel: (703) 478 9777. Web: www.hiherndon.com
Crowne Plaza Washington Dulles Airport
Free shuttles operate between the Crowne Plaza and Washington Dulles International Airport. The hotel provides free Wi-Fi access, a restaurant/bar, fitness centre, business centre and car rental on site. It is close to the Worldgate Center Mall, which has shops, restaurants and a cinema.Herndon 2200 Centreville Road Virginia 20170 United States Tel: (703) 471 6700. Web: www.cpdulles.com

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In climbing, a double fisherman's knot is used to tie together two separate pieces of rope.
How would I tie such a knot?
The best answer to this might be - don't.
A double fishermans is very strong and secure, but it has serious downsides. The main being that the knot can become impossible to undo if the rope gets wet and strongly loaded, but also the knot can get caught over an edge.
At a course a few years ago (run by the MLTA) I was taught that a simple overhand can be used. It is simpler, easy to untie and less likely to jam when pulling over an edge.
See "Euro Death-Knot" Testing for the safety information about the flat overhand bend and related knots. Never use a flat figure-8 bend in a critical application.


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L.A.LIVE is a one-of-a-kind entertainment campus, L.A. LIVE is a genuine world-class sports and entertainment destination near Nokia Theater and STAPLES Center.
Los Angeles Convention Center
The Los Angeles Convention Center is located 1 mile north of our Los Angeles (USC) property, on Figueroa St.
Shrine Auditorium
The Shrine Auditorium is home to a variety of events. Past events have included the Academy, Golden Globe and Grammy Awards. The Shrine Auditorium is located 0.1 miles southwest of our Los Angeles (USC) property on Royal St at Jefferson Blvd.
Orthopedic Hospital
Orthopedic Hospital is located 0.7 miles north of our Los Angeles (USC) property.
AAA Headquarters
The AAA Headquarters are located 0.3 miles north of our Los Angeles (USC) property on Figueroa St
Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral
Our Lady of the Angeles Cathedral is under construction and is located on Temple and Hope Streets in Downtown Los Angeles.
St. John's Church
St. John's Church is a Romanesque Episcopal church and is located 0.3 miles north of our Los Angeles (USC) property.
St. Vincent De Paul Church
St. Vincent's Church is a historic and beautiful Doheny contribution. The Catholic church is located 0.2 miles north of our Los Angeles (USC) property.
Koreatown, just west of Downtown, is a neighborhood nearly every Angeleno travels through, but few take the time to explore. What a shame. For starters, sample the outstanding Korean barbecue at Woo Lae Oak or Soot Bull Jeep. Those with insatiable appetites might consider Shilla, an all-you-can-eat buffet where the lobster is plentiful. In the rear of Shilla are some of the most plush and high-tech private karaoke booths around; the system even scores your performance. (Talk sbout pressure!) Korean and Korean-American artists exhibit their work at the Korean Cultural Center Art Gallery. Two other area favorites are the indoor driving ranges along Olympic Boulevard, and Beverly Hot Springs, a popular spa.
Little Tokyo
In addition to the Japanese American National Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art at the Geffen, Little Tokyo offers dozens of restaurants, from inexpensive Suehiro, a favorite late-night hang of artists who live in nearby lofts, to chic R23, a hard-to-find sushi bar where the decor is minimal and the sushi pristine. A Thousand Cranes in the New Otani Hotel, another good choice, offers a view of a serene Japanese garden; the garden alone is worth a visit. For shoppers, the area is especially rich in ceramics; don't miss Little Tokyo Clayworks. At night, check out the scene at Downtown's premiere rock haunt, Al's Bar. Or test your karaoke skills with the 20-something crowd at Restaurant Oiwake.
Olvera Street
Vendors at Olvera Street, a permanent open-air marketplace just north of Little Tokyo, sell all varieties of knickknacks. But there are real finds here, too. Casa de Souza, for instance, imports folk art from Mexico and Central America. Bazaar de Mexico specializes in sterling silver jewelry and traditional Mexican clothing. And the area represents the city's beginnings. In fact, Los Angeles' first home, Avila Adobe, built in the early 1800s, still stands here. Don't leave without sampling fresh tortillas from La Luz del Dia, or margaritas and mariachi music on the patio at La Golondrina. Also worthwhile is a quick trip across the street to poke your head into Union Station. To the east, on a corner in Boyle Heights, Mariachi Plaza is a striking new 40-foot-tall, blue-tiled dome pavilion and sculpture at a spot where mariachis have gathered for decades.
The biggest draw at nearby Chinatown might be dim sum on the weekend. Thousands of people pour into banquet-style restaurants such as Empress Pavilion, Ocean Seafood, and ABC Seafood for savory dumplings that won't break the bank. Chinatown is also home to beloved Phillippe the Original, one of two L.A. eateries that claims to have invented the French dip. After lunch, stroll along Broadway, the main drag. Here you'll find dozens of herb shops selling a mind boggling array of ginseng as well as colorful gift shops stocked with silk pajamas, embroidered slippers, decorative fans and jade bangles. One of the best is Imperial Dragon Gifts, a favorite of fashion stylists.
Leimert Park
Leimert Park, location of the recently cancelled 'Moesha' show on UPN, is enjoying a renaissance spurred by the recent renovation of the 70-year-old Leimert Plaza Park (host to more festivals, including an annual Kwaanza celebration, than any other park in Los Angeles). At Babe & Rickey's Inn, you can sit back and listen to some of the best Blues around, while Fifth Street Dick's Coffee House and The World Stage remain the destinations for jazz. Several boutiques around Kongo Square sell authentic African clothing. And you won't find more talented braiders in one area. The Museum in Black is especially popular with young people.
California African-American Museum
The California African-American Museum is located in Exposition Park, 0.6 miles south of our Los Angeles (USC) property on Figueroa St.
California Science Center
The California Science Center has hands-on exhibits relating to physics, space, the environment, and health. An IMAX Theater is also on-site which uses a five-story screen and surround sound to take audiences on three-dimensional experiences. The California Science Center is located in Exposition Park, 0.6 miles south of our Los Angeles (USC) property. Explore the world of science and how it relates to everyday life through more than 100 interactive exhibits, art, live presentations and an IMAX-3D Theater.
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
The Natural History Museum contains detailed habitats of African, North American, and exotic mammals. The museum is located in Exposition Park, 0.9 miles south of our Los Angeles (USC) property.
Southwest Museum
The Southwest Museum features the art and cultures of the native peoples of California, the Southwest, the Great Plains and the Northwest Coast, Hopi, Kachina, Southwest. 234 Museum Drive.
Huntington Library, Art Collections, etc.
An oasis of art and culture set amidst breathtaking gardens, four galleries and a library showcasing magnificent collections of rare books, manuscripts, and art. 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino.
Autry Museum of Western Heritage
Relive the early years of the American West, including the romantic images created by Hollywood. 4700 Western Heritage Way.
Museum of Contemporary Art
The Museum of Contemporary Art, located in Downtown Los Angeles, is the only institution in Los Angeles devoted exclusively to art from 1940 to the present. Robert Rauschenberg's "Untitled Combine (Man with White Shoes)", 1955. 250 South Grand Avenue.
Museum of Tolerance
Established to help visitors understand and experience discrimination, the Museum of Tolerance is a high-tech interactive look at hate, tolerance and one's own biases. 9786 West Pico Blvd.
Museum of Latin American Art
The only museum in the western United States to exclusively feature contemporary Latin American Art. 628 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach.
Museum of Neon Art
Grand at Olympic
Watts Museum
Watts Museum of Art, History and Culture, 10950 South Central Avenue. Historical events and cultural legacies provide a view into a collection of memorable experiences through the gathering of people, documents, and artifacts.
Hollywood Entertainment Museum
Celebrates Hollywood and the entertainment arts of film, television, sound recording and new media with interactive exhibits. 7021 Hollywood Boulevard.
Banning Residence Museum
401 East M Street, Wilmington, CA, just off Pacific Coast Highway
Ennis-Brown House
2655 Glendower Avenue, Los Angeles. 323-660-0607.
Fort MacArthur Museum
3605 South Gaffey St. San Pedro, CA 310-548-2631
The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive. Parking reservations are required! 310-440-7300.
The Hollywood Bowl Museum
2301 North Highland Avenue. 323-850-2058.
Hollywood Heritage Museum
2100 North Highland Avenue. 323-874-2276
Homestead Museum
15415 East Don Julian Road, City of Industry. 626-968-8492
Japanese American National Museum
369 East First Street, Los Angeles. 800-461-5266. A must see!! Stunning exhibits of the WWII Japanese American Internment Camps.
Lomita Railroad Museum Foundation
2137 West 250th Street, Lomita. 310-326-6255.
Los Angeles Children's Museum
Los Angeles Mall, 310 North Main Street, Los Angeles. 213-687-8801.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard. 323-857-6000.
Los Angeles Maritime Museum
Berth 84, San Pedro. 310-548-7618.
Museum in Black
4331 Degman Boulevard, Los Angeles. 323-292-9528.
Norton Simon Museum
411 West Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena. Seven centuries of European art from the Renaissance to the 20th century are on view as well as an outstanding collection of Asian Sculptures spanning a period of 2000 years.
Museum of Flying
2772 Donald Douglas Loop North, Santa Monica. 310-392-8822.
Museum of Television and Radio
465 North Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills. 310-786-1000.
Page Museum, LaBrea Tar Pits
5801 Wilshire Boulevard. 323-934-7243.
Penske Racing Museum
3534 North Peck Road, El Monte. 626-580-6013.
Petersen Automotive Museum
6060 Wilshire Boulevard. 323-930-CARS.
S.S. Lane Victory Memorial Museum
Berth 94, San Pedro. 310-519-9545.
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 North Sepulveda Blvd. 310-440-4500.
Travel Town Museum
A must for Children! See live trains, take trips on miniatures. At Griffith Park. 5200 Zoo Drive. 323-662-5874.
UCLA Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Boulevard. 310-443-7000.
USC Fisher Gallery
823 Exposition Boulevard, 213-740-4561. Walking distance to the LA-USC property.
Wells Fargo History Museum
Wells Fargo Center, 333 South Grand Avenue. 213-253-7166.
Ripley's Believe it or Not
Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum on Hollywood Boulevard.
Space Shuttle Endeavour Pavilion
The Samuel Oschin Space Shuttle Endeavour Display Pavilion will be opening on October 30, 2012 where the Space Shuttle Endeavour will call home. Along with the Space Shuttle Endeavour, the pavilion will also house videos and artifacts from the Space Shuttle Endeavour's missions. Tickets for specific timed showings are recommended and can be found here:Space Shuttle Endeavour Information and Tickets
Santa Monica Mountain Range and Recreation Area
The Santa Monica Mountain Range and Recreation area, offering breathtaking views of the L.A. Basin and San Fernando Valley from its summits, is L.A.'s premier outdoor spot. The sprawling 65,000-acre park runs from the Hollywood Hills to the Ventura County line and features some splendid hiking trails, lush rolling hills broken by stream-cut canyons, shady oak groves, meadows, waterfalls, valleys and sandy beaches. The park is open year-round, and most park sites are open from sunrise to sunset.
Griffith Park
Griffith Park is the country's largest and boasts picnic grounds, horseback rides, pony rides, golf courses, a major zoo and an observatory. A trail from the observatory offers a close-up view of the famed Hollywood sign. Interestingly enough, you don't have to leave the urban jungle to escape it. Runyon Canyon Park in Hollywood, once owned by Irish tenor John McCormack, is a much-beloved hiking destination.
Universal City
University City offers many attractions such as Universal Studios Hollywood, and the recently expanded City Walk which contains shops and restaurants such as the Hard Rock Cafe. Universal City is located 12 miles northwest of our Los Angeles (USC) property.
The Original Pantry Cafe
Owned by former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan, the Pantry opened its doors in 1924 and offers all-American basics in an old, coffee-shop environment. Open 24 hours. The restaurant is located at 877 South Figueroa St, 1.8 miles north of our Los Angeles (USC) property.
Rosen Brewery
On Western at 4th Street. A Korea Town original. Featured in the Los Angeles Times, this microbrewery is a spacious, beautiful locale. The hand-crafted ales are some of the tastiest to be found in Los Angeles. The 188" television features sports video, while soft rock is played. The food is excellent. The huge bar is full service. Worth a stop, if even only to sample the Korea Town Ale!
Bonaventure Brewing Company - American
404 South Figueroa St, #418A. 213-236-0802. Fine Brewpub Dining.
Brasserie - Continental
711 South Hope Street. 213-683-1234.
Checkers - American
535 South Grand Avenue. 213-624-0000.
City Grill - American
930 Wilshire Boulevard. 213-627-4289.
Emerald Grill - Continental
1020 South Figueroa Street. 213-743-7618.
Ciudad - Mexican
Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milikan's (Two Hot Tamales) stunning restaurant at the Figueroa Courtyard, Figueroa at 3rd Street.
Engine Company #28 - American
644 South Figueroa Street. 213-624-6996.
Fox Sports Sky Box - American
In the Staples Center, 1111 South Figueroa Street, 213-742-7345.
Gazebo - Continental
930 Wilshire Boulevard. 213-629-4321.
Moody's Bar and Grille - American
333 S. Figueroa Street. 213-617-6023.
Pacific Dining Car - American/Continental
1310 West 6th Street. 213-483-6000.
Philippe The Original - American
One of two claimants to the creation of the French Dip. 1001 North Alameda Street. 213-628-3781.
Sidewalk Cafe - American/Continental
404 South Figueroa Street. 213-624-1000.
Cha Cha Cha - Caribbean
656 North Virgil Street. 323-664-7723.
Back Door Pub - Spanish
813 South Flower Street, 213-627-6981.
Windows Steaks and Martinis
1150 South Olive Street, 213-746-1554
The Sonora Cafe - Southwestern
180 South LaBrea Avenue, 323-857-1800
Ciao Trattoria - Italian
815 West 7th Street, 213-624-2244
Garden Grill - Japanese
120 South Los Angeles Street, 213-253-9263
Atlas Supper Club - International Cuisine
3760 Wilshire Boulevard, 213-380-8400
The Grinder
Located half a block away from our property.
The 901 Bar and Grill
A fan favorite for Trojan fans! No Bruin fans welcome here! Join the crowd on Sunday's to watch your favorite NFL teams on the 50" Plasmas.
Los Angeles Jewelry District
The Jewelry District is located near 7th and Hill Streets in Downtown Los Angeles and is 1.2 miles north of our Los Angeles (USC) property.
Los Angeles Fashion District
The Fashion District is located near 9th and Los Angeles Streets in Downtown Los Angeles and is 1.3 miles north of our Los Angeles (USC) property.
Macy's Plaza
Macy's Plaza features Macy's department store along with many other specialty stores and restaurants. The shopping area is located at 750 W 7th St, 2.3 miles northeast of our Los Angeles (USC) property.
7+Fig is an open-air, three level shopping center that features more than 35 specialty stores along with a Robinsons-May department store. There is a food court as well as a California Pizza Kitchen restaurant. The mall is located at 735 S. Figueroa St, 2 miles north of our Los Angeles (USC) property.
Universal City Walk
Universal City has just added an IMAX 3D theater, a dozen specialty shops and more than 20 new dining and entertainment choices in its biggest expansion since the complex opened. New to the mix are virtual racing, rock 'n roll bowling, vintage clothing and Harley Davidson boutiques, Cafe Tu Tu Tango and a dueling piano bar. Perched on a picturesteque hill northwest of the Hollywood Hills, the promenade connects Universal Studios, Universal Amphitheatre and Universal City Cinemas. 9 miles northwest of the Inn.
Aquarium of the Pacific
100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach, CA. 562-590-3100
Blue Line Station
The Metro Blue Line light rail station is located 1.7 miles northwest of our Los Angeles (USC) property on Washington Blvd at San Pedro St.
University of Southern California (USC)
The University of Southern California (USC) is adjacent to our Los Angeles (USC) property. Founded in 1880, USC is the oldest and largest private research university on the West Coast and is the largest private employer in Los Angeles County.
Hebrew Union College
The Hebrew Union College is located 0.3 miles from our Los Angeles (USC) property on 32nd St and University Ave.
Marymount College
Marymount College, a Catholic college, is located 0.5 miles north of our Los Angeles (USC) property.
Dodger Stadium
Dodger Stadium is the home of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team and is located 5.1 miles northeast of our Los Angeles (USC) property.
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, site of the 1932 and 1984 Olympics and current home of USC Trojans football, is located 0.6 miles south of our Los Angeles (USC) property in Exposition Park.
Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena
The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena is located 0.6 miles south of our Los Angeles (USC) property in Exposition Park.
Staples Center
The Staples Center is the current home to the Los Angeles Lakers, Kings, Sparks, and Avengers. The venue is located 1.2 miles north of our Los Angeles (USC) property on Figueroa Street. The Staples Center is a $375 million, state-of-the-art arena located next to the Convention Center, and is downtown L.A.'s most significant and exciting new sports and entertainment complex. Not only home to the sports teams mentioned above, it also hosts top-ticket acts like Bruce Springsteen and Bette Midler, and the 2000 Democratic National Convention. Staples is a riot of unusual shapes. One end resembles the bow of a ship; the tilted roof has a surfboard-shaped super truss.
Nearby beaches: Santa Monica: 13 miles; Manhattan Beach: 16.9 miles
Boat charters available at the Los Angeles Harbor: 20 miles
Nearby bowling center: Shatto 39 Lanes: 3.7 miles
Fitness Centers / Gyms
Nearby fitness centers: Bally Total Fitness: 2.1 miles; 24 Hour Fitness: 2.6 miles
Nearby golf courses: Elite Golf USA: 3.2 miles; Los Feliz Municipal Golf Course: 9.9 miles
Ice Skating
Nearby ice skating rink: Culver Ice Rink: 10.1 miles
Nearby tennis courts: La Cienega Park Tennis Center: 8.4 miles; Plummer Park: 10.1 miles
7000 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood. 323-466-7000
Laugh Factory
8001 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood. 323-656-1336
Mystery Event Theatre
2629 Main Street, Santa Monica. 310-399-1507
The Sun Theatre
2200 East Katella Avenue, Anaheim. 714-712-2700
Ahmanson Theatre
The Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County. 135 North Grand Avenue. 213-628-2772
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
The Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County. 135 North Grand Avenue. 213-972-7211
Geffen Playhouse
10886 LeConte Avenue. 310-208-6500
L.A. Theatre Works
681 Venice Boulevard, Venice. 800-708-8863. 310-827-0808
Mark Taper Forum
The Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County. 135 North Grand Avenue. 213-628-2772
Shubert Theatre
2020 Avenue of the Stars. 310-201-1500


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Strengthening Good Behaviors and Reducing Bad BehaviorsTo strengthen a good behavior:
- Use positive feedback.
- When your children behave, reward them by thanking them. When you see your children sharing, tell them that they should be proud of themselves.
- Use positive feedback to strengthen the opposite behavior. Examples:
- If you want to reduce the amount of arguing between two children, call attention to the time when they are not arguing.
- If your children have a negative attitude, reward anything positive.
- Use extinction to eliminate any rewards for misbehavior. Examples:
- Do not give in to your children's demands.
- Ignore your children when they try to get your attention in a negative way.
- Use punishment. Examples:
- A child who comes home late cannot go out the next day.
- A child who does not do his chores forfeits part of his allowance.
|Positive feedback feels good to give and receive.
|Punishment creates unpleasant feelings, often anger.
|Positive feedback emphasizes good behavior. It teaches children to think.
|Punishment draws attention to misbehavior.
|Positive feedback increases motivation.
|Punishment can have a negative effect on motivation.
|Positive feedback creates feelings of success.
|Punishment can cause children to feel like failures.
|Positive feedback improves a child's self-esteem.
|Punishment can have a negative impact on self-esteem.
|Positive feedback gives children self-confidence.
|Punishment weakens self-confidence.
|Positive feedback teaches children to trust their decisions.
|Punishment does not teach trust. It sometimes teaches fear.
|Positive feedback motivates children to seek goals.
|Punishment may cause children to feel despair: "Why try? I always get in trouble anyway."
|Positive feedback develops responsibility: "When I make good decisions, I feel good."
|Punishment often teaches children to avoid admitting responsibility for their actions.
|Positive feedback promotes healthy family relationships.
|Punishment may alienate family members.
|Positive feedback encourages children to talk to their parents.
|Punishment discourages children from talking to their parents.
|Positive feedback teaches children to be positive with others.
|Punishment that is aggressive teaches children to be aggressive toward others.
|Positive feedback is easy to use effectively.
|Punishment is difficult to use easily.
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From How to Behave So Your Children Will, Too!. Copyright � Sal Severe, 2000. Used by arrangement with Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.If you'd like to buy this book, click here or on the book cover. Get a 15% discount with the coupon code FENPARENT.


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HOT ROD Pinup Girls - Broad AppealWritten by David Freiburger on April 1, 2011 Contributors: The Hot Rod Archives, Randy Lorenzen Hotties Then And Now, Or, Another Episode Of HOT ROD's Semifrequent Girlie Pictorial That Sends Librarians Into The Tremors
Adam and Eve, hot rods, and girls. One leads to the next-always has. Even at the seminal hot rod show-the famed 1948 exposition at the Los Angeles Armory-B-actress Colleen Townsend vamped for the wagging tongues. From the beginning, HOT ROD included girls in the magazine as straight eye candy; later, the ladies were popular set dressing alongside cars, and subsequently, they've appeared participating in the hobby hands-on. The magazine's May '49 cover was the first with a posed driveway scene and also the first to feature a female. The implicit message was, of course, that if you drive a hot rod, dolls will dig you. For Nov. '49, that memo was also issued to the custom guys, as the cover model could not keep her hands off of Jack Calori's '36 Ford. By the time the '50s were over, we'd seen cover girls as illustrations, roadster passengers, prom queens, cheerleaders, car detailers, moms, and bathing beauties.
No doubt, the wolf-attacks-pedestrian scene with the Dick Flint roadster on May '52 was the most famous of all. The cover touted "over half-million copies," and the magazine sold roughly that on the newsstand alone when Pat Ganahl revived the girlie concept for the "First (And Last?) Swimsuit Issue" in Apr. '87. What he intended as pure camp (an inflatable palm tree poked from an edge of the cover, nearly cropped out by panicking newsstand execs) wound up as a best seller and therefore an annual obligation until 1995. The Apr. '01 issue taunted a "Pin Ups" cover, but it sold poorly as the retro trend was not yet broadly accepted. Then there's today, when we get demand for 'em. Forthwith, we deliver.
Hey, it's a sexist hobby, as we will be told by the dozens of ladies who will write to us whingeing over this story. For the rest of you, enjoy this collection of hotties then and now.
See More On Video We filmed all our pinup girls during the HOT ROD photo shoot, so if you want to see them live and behind the scenes, look for the action on the video page of HOTROD.com or at our YouTube channel, YouTube.com/HotRodMagazine. Subscribe while you're there so you can be notified of all our new videos well before press time.
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GENESEO, N.Y. - Five professors and two professional staff members from the State University of New York at Geneseo are among the recipients of Chancellor's Awards for Excellence for the 2009-10 academic year. The awards are SUNY system-level honors conferred to acknowledge and provide system-wide recognition for consistently superior professional achievement and to encourage the ongoing pursuit of excellence.
Receiving Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Teaching were Ganie DeHart, professor and chair of the Department of Psychology; Scott Giorgis, associate professor of geological sciences; and Chi-Ming Tang, associate professor of mathematics. Mark Mitschow, professor of accounting, received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. Margaret Stolee, assistant professor of history, received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service. Leonard Sancilio, dean of students, received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service. The Chancellor's Award for Classified Service went to Christie Reed, keyboard specialist in the Office of Admissions.
"As SUNY campuses celebrate the achievements of students and faculty for this academic year, it is my pleasure to honor the recipients of this year's Chancellor's Award for Excellence," said SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher. "Each of this year's 274 recipients has demonstrated extraordinary dedication to students and an exceptional commitment to excellence."
Ganie DeHart began at Geneseo in 1988 and is chair of the Department of Psychology. She is an active researcher in the field of children's socio-emotional development and has taught hundreds of undergraduate students about child development, cross-cultural psychology and how to conduct first-rate behavioral research. As a responsive instructor with rigorous standards, she develops powerful relationships with students while guiding them toward their highest potential.
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Chi-Ming Tang has been teaching mathematics at Geneseo for 30 years and has an especially strong following from the freshmen who take his early calculus classes. He is known as a rigorous instructor who has very high expectations of his students. He has moved from his original field of statistics to running the actuarial science program at Geneseo, where he has been singularly successful.
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All NFS4 tutorials I have encountered so far recommend bind mounting real directories into the export root. Is this a technical necessity? If I had a directory that's only meant to be exported, is it sufficient to make it a subdirectory of the export root or does it really need to be bind mounted?
It's not compulsory. It gives you flexibility to export other filesystems which were mounted at arbitrary locations. I guess it's good practice; it would let you change the "real" mount point of the filesystems without necessarily confusing NFS clients.
It's not compulsory to use separate filesystems either, but
unless you explicitly enable subtree_check, you can only export whole filesystems. It would look like you're exporting part of a filesystem, but there wouldn't be any security enforcing that.


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- Is the wedge product of two harmonic forms on a compact Riemannian manifold harmonic? I'm looking for a counter-example that the textbooks say exists.
- I would like to see a counter example that is on a complex manifold, Ricci-flat (or Einstein) manifold or both, if it is at all possible.
- In general, I'm trying to understand the interaction between the wedge product, Hodge star and the Laplacian on forms and it's eigen-vectors, references will be much appreciated.
It is easy to construct examples on Riemann surfaces of genus >1. Take any surface like this. Let A and B be two harmonic 1-forms, that are not proportional. Then A \wegde B is non-zero, but it vanishes at some point, since both A and B have zeros. At the same time a harmonic 2 form on a Rieamann surface is constant. Explicite examples of 1-forms on Rieamann surfaces can be obtained as real parts of holomorphic 1-forms.
Note of course that the above example is complex, and Einstein just take the standard metric of curvature -1. If you want an example on a Ricci flat manifold you should take a K3 surface. It is complex and admits a Ricci flat metric. Now, its second cohomology has dimesnion 22. Now it should be possible to find two anti-self-dual two-forms whose wedge product vanishes at one point on K3 but is not identically zero. This is because the dimesnion of the space of self dual forms is 19 which is big enought to get vanishing at one point
Interestingly in (24) of hep-th/9603176 it is mistakenly claimed that the wedge product of harmonic forms is automatically harmonic. Because it is false we still do not know the predicted existence of those middle dimensional $L^2$ harmonic forms on these non-compact complete hyperkahler manifolds.
Generically, the wedge product of two harmonic forms will not be harmonic. It is harder to find examples than counter-examples. For example, on compact Lie groups with a bi-invariant metric or, more generally, on riemannian symmetric spaces, harmonic forms are invariant and invariance is preserved by the wedge product. In general, though, this is not the case.
According to Kotschick (see, e.g., this paper) manifolds admitting a metric with this property are called geometrically formal and their topology is strongly constrained. He has examples, already in dimension 4, of manifolds which are not geometrically formal.
Here's a counterexample from the theory of nilmanifolds, which by their very nature are not formal. Take a compact quotient $H^3/\Gamma$ of the Heisenberg group. It admits invariant 1-forms $e^1,e^2,e^3$ with $de^1=0=de^2$ and $de^3=e^1\wedge e^2$. Then $e^1,e^2$ are harmonic, but $e^1\wedge e^2$ is exact, so not harmonic. You can take a product with $S^1$ to get a complex (non-Kähler) surface on which the same thing works, but not I am afraid Ricci-flat or Einstein.
Using homological perturbation theory, one can repair this defect. More precisely, on the space of harmonic forms, there is an $A_\infty$ structure with no differential whose 2-ary operation (multiplication) is constructed by wedging two harmonic forms then projecting the result back to the space of harmonic forms. See "Strong homotopy algebras of Kahler manifolds" by S.A. Merkulov (Int. Math. Res. Lett. no. 3 153--164) for details of the construction.
EDIT: Also, if the manifold is compact then the natural inclusion of harmonic forms into arbitrary forms becomes an equivalence of $A_\infty$ algebras, where the space of all forms has its usual dg-algebra structure.


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I want to sell private video content on my website.
What is the best way to create an online video-on-demand service with this requirements:
- The video must be private and secure
- Analytics
- Must use a CDN
- Flash video player
What's the best solution(s) for this? What web apps can I use to do this?


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So I am building an application using Facebook login and authenthication. Everything is fine and dandy using the code below (as per the doc)
require 'facebook-php-sdk/src/facebook.php';
$facebook = new Facebook(array(
'appId' => 'YOUR_APP_ID',
'secret' => 'YOUR_APP_SECRET',
// Get User ID
$user = $facebook->getUser();
if ($user) {
try {
// Proceed knowing you have a logged in user who's authenticated.
$user_profile = $facebook->api('/me');
} catch (FacebookApiException $e) {
$user = null;
My Question is how do I tell if the user is logged in without doing all of the above all over again elsewhere. For example in my view how would I be able to quickly test if a user is logged in or not?
Would I simply call
Facebook::getUser() if so it didn't work in my Codeigniter application. I tried the code below in my view.
$user = Facebook::getUser();
and got the error:
A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Undefined property: CI_Loader::$user
Filename: src/base_facebook.php
Line Number: 504
Fatal error: Call to undefined method CI_Loader::getUserFromAvailableData() in /home/syklone911/webapps/meme/application/libraries/facebook/src/base_facebook.php on line 509
Can someone shed some light on this ?


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Pulling Their Weight
Thanks to the International Senior Lawyers Project, Law School graduates with considerable professional experience are able to make an impact in developing nations around the globe
The seeds for the legal adventure Richard Spencer '69 recently experienced in Mongolia were planted in 2001 during a torrential rainstorm in Darhad Valley near the Russian border, where he was befriended by a group of nomadic herders—but he would not know this until some five years later. That is when Spencer contacted the International Senior Lawyers Project (ISLP), a global pro bono organization founded by a group of public service–minded lawyers aiming to marry two trends: the vast need throughout the developing world for highly skilled legal assistance, and the swelling ranks of experienced attorneys, near or at retirement, who want to stay professionally active.
Initially, ISLP staff offered Spencer an assignment in India. "I thought about it," he says, "but concluded that, as a country lawyer from Maine, I would not have the slightest idea how to have any impact on a country with a billion people."
Undeterred, ISLP Executive Director Jean Berman called back a year later with an offer to work on environmental issues in Mongolia, where rivers were being polluted by unregulated mining triggered by the collapse of the economy after the Soviet Union's downfall. Contamination of rivers and aquifers was making herding increasingly difficult and had driven thousands of traditional herders to the already overcrowded capital city of Ulan Bator.
This offer was more appealing to Spencer, who, as an attorney with Drummond Woodsum & MacMahon, cut his professional teeth during the 1970s-era environmental movement. Plus, Spencer fondly recalled his 2001 holiday to Mongolia, and the warm hospitality of the herders who sheltered him in their yurt. Through a skilled translator, he had traded stories with his hosts while waiting out the storm. After learning Spencer was a lawyer representing Maine dairy farmers, the herders asked him to return and help them with an array of challenges—legal and otherwise—that they faced on a daily basis. "[At the time], I couldn't quite imagine how that would happen," Spencer says.
The second phone call from ISLP provided his answer and set the stage for Spencer to spend four months working in Ulan Bator with the Centre for Human Rights and Development (CHRD), a small public interest organization that would become a leading player in Mongolia's nascent environmental movement.
Spencer arrived as an ISLP volunteer just as mining damage to the environment was rising to the top of the national agenda. (Yurts would soon sprout on the national parliament grounds, housing herdsmen on a hunger strike.) Soon he was helping lead strategic litigation workshops for advocates hoping to protect the rivers.
Then, on a six-day tour into the Gobi Desert, Spencer witnessed the environmental devastation for himself. In what could have doubled for a scene from a Hieronymus Bosch painting, hundreds of unregulated "ninja miners," carrying green wash tubs and children on their backs, stood in freezing cold water and used highly toxic mercury to separate out gold from gravel. He also visited an area where the Ongi River had dried up as a result of climate change, deforestation, and mining near the headwaters.
Back in the capital, Spencer used a moot court exercise to teach his CHRD colleagues potential strategies for contesting a request by the country's largest mining company for a license to excavate a river bed for gold. Passions on the issue were already high; a few months earlier, local herders had formed a human chain to block company dredgers before police intervened.
One of Spencer's proudest career moments, he says, was when a Mongolian judge agreed to invalidate that mining license. It was a victory celebrated with vodka and fermented horse milk.
Soon after, Spencer helped CHRD renegotiate two additional mining licenses to protect "special-needs areas" containing dinosaur bones, rare plants, and the remains of a Mongolian royal compound. Before heading home to Maine, he gathered an array of best mining practices from around the world, helping to inspire a new environmental coalition that successfully lobbied for mining law amendments.
Richard Spencer's work in Mongolia provides just one example of the mission undertaken by ISLP, which last year deployed 57 volunteers to work on 76 projects in 22 countries from Afghanistan to Zambia. That level of activity marked a 50 percent increase from the previous year and reflects a growing interest in global pro bono work among baby boomer–generation lawyers reaching retirement age. In monetary terms, ISLP volunteers and their law firms donated 30,800 hours of legal assistance last year worth more than $12.5 million.
In several African nations, ISLP volunteers have trained government officials to craft intellectual property laws and negotiate better trade deals with international partners. In Bulgaria, ISLP sent a veteran public defender to launch the country's first public defense training project, and in China, the organization has focused on the juvenile justice system. Elsewhere, ISLP has set up websites and funded lawyer-bloggers to cover important international court cases, such as the trial of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori.
Volunteers work on discrete legal issues, but also strive to develop the capacity of locals, lawyers, and nonprofit organizations to meet specific community needs—which can run the gamut from human rights litigation to developing advanced dispute-resolution procedures. Participating lawyers are carefully chosen for relevant skills and often make an incalculable difference in their host countries, even when challenged with significant language and cultural barriers.
The genesis of ISLP can be traced to a 1999 lunch between Anthony Essaye and Robert Kapp, two wizened Washington, D.C.–based international lawyers with activist track records. Approaching retirement age, the two yearned to stay active and make a global impact. They recruited cofounder Richard Winfield, a media law specialist and a lecturer-in-law at Columbia whose firm, Clifford Chance, has hosted ISLP, rent-free, in its New York City offices since the organization opened its doors in 2001.
Winfield's contributions have been mostly in the realm of media law reform, first in East and Central European countries as they emerged from Soviet domination, and more recently in the Middle East. "[These countries] are not likely to become Jeffersonian democracies any time soon," says Winfield, who spent more than three decades as general counsel for The Associated Press. But he is confident that even limited media reforms are having some positive impact. "We wouldn't be doing this stuff if we didn't believe there was improvement, that there was progress, and that this is a valuable service that we offer," he adds. "And you can't beat our rates, either."
In recent years, Africa has emerged as a sort of pro bono ground zero for ISLP, especially places like Malawi and Zambia, where people need help negotiating better trade deals and devising more favorable natural resources contracts. In Liberia, the organization has spearheaded nearly a dozen development projects. There, ISLP lawyers renegotiated a rubber agreement with Firestone and an iron ore mining agreement with steel behemoth ArcelorMittal that together will yield the nation a net gain of hundreds of millions of dollars over the next few decades.
ISLP's achievements have triggered a flood of requests to work similar wonders for countries such as Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, and Rwanda. Brian Fix '68, a partner at Salans and an ISLP volunteer who had done legal work in West Africa since the 1960s, is now helping Sierra Leone improve its standing in contracts involving diamond mines (once the source of the infamous "blood diamonds" that fueled that country's civil war). While it is early in that process, Fix notes that these contract revisions are raising the bar throughout the region. "There is now more of an effort to compare government policies and analogous contract terms within the African continent," he says.
The World Bank has also taken notice of ISLP's work and asked the organization to review foreign contracts exploiting methane gas at the bottom of Lake Kivu, which is shared by the Congo and Rwanda. The gas could be used to power turbines to make electricity, a vital goal in Rwanda, where only 6 percent of people have access to electric power.
"[The agreements] were terrible, very unfair to the Rwandans," says ISLP attorney Stephen W. Stein '62, a partner at Kelley Drye & Warren. Stein and his fellow ISLP volunteers drew up a legal memo explaining the contract deficiencies and how they could be addressed. As a result, the Rwanda Ministry of Infrastructure asked the ISLP team to work with them on drafting new contracts—recently signed—for the construction of a power-generating plant that will more than double the number of citizens in Rwanda with access to electricity.
Improvements along those lines are no accident, either. Columbia Law School Professor Peter Rosenblum '92 LL.M., who has been active in an array of human rights issues in Africa for 20 years, says he gets more traction when he teams up with ISLP lawyers. "People like me are used to being the kind of goody-goody at the table, and when the real people who make the economic decisions come in, you [often] got pushed aside," he says. "But the ISLP lawyers, people who are deeply knowledgeable commercial lawyers with a sense of commitment to development issues, bring a whole new level of legitimacy, and it really changes the quality of what you can do in a room."
For ISLP lawyers like Brian Fix and Stephen Stein, drawing up more equitable contacts is only the first step in bringing about positive change.
"More favorable contract terms are only as valuable as the capacity and determination of the government to implement them," explains Fix. "It is fine to say that the
ministry shall have the power to issue regulations re: (a), (b), or (c), but unless the ministry takes that power seriously, and acts upon it, you do not have the compliance
you asked for."
Richard Winfield echoes the importance of follow up. "A model or form will take you just so far," he says. "You have to recognize political, cultural, historical, not to mention religious realities. The best we can do is describe what we understand to be the international norms, the best practices, and then encourage the men and women we work with to see if they can convince the policymakers to adopt as close to the international norms as possible."
Of course, no one said making change on an international level would be a breeze. And, ultimately, the challenge is part of the appeal for those working with ISLP. For participants, the program provides a level of satisfaction and accomplishment that is meaningful on a host of levels.
"It's gratifying work," says Stein, "and a bit of an ego trip, because you are doing good things. But mostly it is very interesting work, and there is a feeling that you are helping people who might otherwise not get the help they need."
The organization's executive director, Jean Berman, hears similar comments often. "Volunteers have told us over and over that their appreciation of the importance of law has been renewed," she says. "They are blown away by the courageous and hard-working people they meet and are thrilled to be able to help out where they can."
And, she says, participants tend to request repeat assignments.
Richard Spencer may end up being one of those repeat volunteers, thanks to how much he enjoyed his ISLP experience in Mongolia. Spencer and his wife, an artist who taught a course in printmaking at the university in Ulan Bator, arrived in Mongolia in time for festivities centered on the 800th anniversary of Genghis Khan's unification of the Mongol tribes. They enjoyed a spring filled with plays, concerts, and art exhibits celebrating Mongolia's history and the achievements of its 13th century empire. When he returned home, Spencer learned that, in a way, he had been following a path set by Mongolia's most accomplished—and, to be sure, most controversial—nation builder. Genghis Khan was, after all, Mongolia's first noted environmentalist, Spencer explains. The ancient ruler promulgated a safe drinking water law (by making it an offense to use one's bare hands to fetch it) and prohibited the hunting of animals and birds during the breeding season.


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taking rough numbers from here and here, it seems that with natural cosmic radiation sources, we could sustain $10^6$ muon-catalyzed fusion reactions per square-meter per minute. This would be $14 \times 10^6$ MeV of neutron energy (for D-T reactions, assuming 14 MeV per event) per square-meter per minute. In Watts-hour this would be $4 \times 10^{-12}$ KWh
I think this is the right estimate, but wanted to check if someone spots a problem with my estimate


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A site of mine is going to be featured on a very popular tech blog. I already upgraded my server to handle the traffic. What other things should I be prepared for?
Apart from the other fine suggestions so far, you might also want to run your site through some benchmark tools like Google's Page Speed and YSlow – if you don't understand or want some more information about some of the results, there are some blogs that go into more depth with explanations – to see if some simple changes to what you have could translate into some cheap performance gains without throwing more money and hardware at the problem.
You could also run preemptive load and performance tests using free tools before and after any changes you make to see what the performance gain is if any.
Instead of generating pure static pages as John Conde recommends you could set up a cache like e.g. Varnish. Varnish is then taking all the requests and caches them for later use. This way the web server has to handle a lot less requests.
If an article or specific pages are being featured you should create static versions of them. Serving static pages uses far less resources then dynamic pages.
What did you upgrade to handle the traffic? You should put it onto an ec2 server with scalr to bring up extra server instances if traffic increases plus add a load balancer


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Arts and Crafts…and a GIVEAWAY!…
Today is an exciting day for me! As you'll read in KnitBits #307, Booklet #290 Vintage™: Arts and Crafts is my very first complete collection. When we planned the fall collection, we talked about the need for a book of designs for young, preteens and yes, "tweens," a cutesy word for a really underserved demographic in the knitting world.
Since I was the closest thing to a tween on staff, the task fell up on me to design for this age group. Knowing that some tweens grow faster than others, we decided to include sizes that go all the way up to a ladies' large. The lovely model wearing Miroux is my size (5'8″, around 34B):
I confess, I was a bit nervous designing for tweens. I spent hours looking around websites, trying to get a feel for what that age group wants to wear. I remember being insanely particular which probably drove my mother crazy. As long as I was WARM, it didn't matter what color or brand or whatever I was wearing…I, of course, felt differently!
One lucky day, Mary, one of our sample knitters, stopped by with her beautiful daughters and their friends in tow. I seized the opportunity for a little market research and asked them to draw some sketches of the sort of things they would like to wear. I was delighted when they brought in their sketches–they were TOTALLY in line with what I'd been working on! Simple, earthy colors with touches of bright, stripes, blouse-y shapes, comfortable details like pockets, hoods and handwarmers, all tween approved =)
I had so much fun styling this photoshoot. I sourced some awesome jewelry made from recycled materials (the tweens also noted that they were way into being green, which thrilled me). The model above is wearing some necklaces made from recycled magazines and the models below are wearing pins made from soda cans!
ETA: OK, so it wasn't as hard as I thought! Glad so many of you know the film (rent it if you don't, it's very crafty!!) I'll pick a winner from ALL the comments. But enough about the patterns, it's PRIZE TIME! Tell me in the comments what inspired the names for these patterns. Next week I'll pick 1 lucky winner from the correct entries who will win these accessories , a copy of Booklet #290 Vintage: Arts and Crafts and Vintage yarn to knit Diorama!
Okay, over and out everyone, have a great weekend!!
ponka #
oooh oooh! pick me!
I think these are all terms from La Science des Reves (The Science of Sleep.) Michel Gondry FTW!
My favorite Gondry movie is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. So good I almost wanted to dye my hair orange!August 28, 2009
Melody Netzer #
I'm pretty sure they are all from the French film The Science of Sleep from a few years ago. What a great way to name the patterns. They look adorable and I would love to knit some up for the tweens in my life.August 28, 2009
I have to admit that I googled a couple of the names together, and I came up with the Gael Garcia Bernal movie "The Science of Sleep" that I haven't watched yet. I got it through Netflix and it just sat here for a few weeks last year despite my love for Gael and other movies this director has made. This reminds me I still want to see it!August 28, 2009
kelly-ann (on Ravelry) #
Okay, I had to look up the names and found it on Wiki – hope that is okay!
The Science Of Sleep – a 2006 film. It looks very intriguing and I need to check out the movie!
By the way, thanks for designing for the tweens. My young ones are not tweens yet, but it is nice to see Berroco trying to fill the pattern void (e.g., mens patterns).August 28, 2009
I have to admit I had to look up the terms, but I found the same information Ponka did! They seem to be common to The Science of Sleep, which I have never heard of! I guess I'm too far away from the right age group!
Anyway, I love the patterns offered by Berroco offers and would love a chance to win this new booklet and the yarn too!
MGMAugust 28, 2009
Lisa #
Nicely named designs that seem to have been inspired by the Michel Gondry movie "La Science des Reves" (the science of dreams), released in 2006.August 28, 2009
youluckypeople #
I haven't seen this movie but is La Science des **Reves** (the Science of Sleep) correct? Directed by Micheal **Gondry**, **Stefano Miroux** is the main character and there is another character named Christine **Miroux**, according to the plot keywords list there is knitting (**tricoter**), and **parallel worlds & parallel time** his dreams I'm thinking. I think Golden is **Golden Artist Colors, Inc.** and the artist uses golden products. I am really stuck on random, diorama & synch but I guess I need to see the movie to get them.
I like these kind of contests.August 28, 2009
j #
Cirilia, congratulations! Just beautifully done, designs and booklet. I watched the audio slideshow earlier. You say you're inspired by French, and really who isn't?
And yes, wonderful idea to design especially for this age group. My daughter will love these!
The new yarn, Vintage, has beautiful, beautiful colors. I'll be sure to look for it at the yarn store.August 28, 2009
Go Cirilia!!!! Congratulations. I hope you will do many many more booklets!
I've been meaning ot tell you how nice it was to talk to you at the Portland airport while we were waiting to board our plane. You were knitting a baby sweater out of Sox and I kept thinking the whole time…that color looks so familiar….when I got home, there was a skein of it sitting right there! I'd been wanting to make a pair of socks out of that very same color. I just hadn't gotten around to it yet, but am now working on my second sock already.
All the Best to you. I'll be going to my LYS, scouting for your booklet.August 28, 2009
RachelB #
La science des rêves
google is my friend. I was going to say I can't remember the last time I went to the movies but I do because it was so bad.
I love Diorama & Stéfane. I keep thinking I need to knit a sweater with short sleeves ala the '40s but maybe I can just make long cuffs that could be folded way out of the wayAugust 28, 2009
Sophia #
Love the Science of Sleep inspired names!August 28, 2009
Science of Sleep gets my vote, Ms. C.. Congratulations on a wonderful collection and a very inspiring booklet. Beautiful portraits and fun accessories!
P.S. I particularly like the range of modern colors in the vintage wool. Can't wait to do some colorwork. I'm thinking mittens for the holidays.August 28, 2009
Sandra Streifel #
Can I play if I just copy off someone else's paper? "The Science of Sleep" sounds worth seeing, but I wonder why they didn't choose the literal translation of "La Science des Reves" which is "The Science of Dreams"? Nice book of Christmas presents, Cirilia–I must have a pop can pin!August 28, 2009
miko #
you know i saw this movie when it came out (The Science of Sleep) and it wasn't until I was looking it up that I remembered those names. The best thing about that movie was all the cool crafty set pieces that were used.August 28, 2009
Love these patterns! You've really nailed it for your target market. I'm constantly looking for interesting tween knits that aren't sexy or too grown-up. I've already posted about this in our Tween knitting Ravelry group. Great job!!!!August 28, 2009
They are from 'The Science of Dreams'! So excited this is a tween pattern booklet, my daughter is just entering the tween stage and its tough to find the right pattern for fit and style that she likes. Thanks!August 28, 2009
Rowena C #
This is from the movie 'La Science des Reves' (the science of sleep) by Michel Gondry. In the movie Stephane Miroux is in a dream / fantasy part.
Hope that is most of the names! I always miss these contests. I love this booklet and have 2 beautiful little nieces who are very fashionable tweens.August 28, 2009
Julie #
The Science of Sleep…cute designs!August 28, 2009
Cat #
The names are from the movie "The Science of Sleep". Thanks for designing such great knits. I love them!August 28, 2009
Olga #
The names are from the Science of Sleep (La science des rêves).August 29, 2009
Jean in Maine #
On IMDB, La Science des Reves (The Science of Sheep). Congratulations, Cirilia, on your awesome collection.
Jean in MaineAugust 29, 2009
Carmen #
The Science of Sleep?
Those vintage patterns look great!August 29, 2009
Elizabeth #
so everyone got the right answer in before I did, but I'll enter anyway. Gael Garcia Bernal is so dreamy. And so is Vintage, which I'm using right now for a baby blanket. I love this booklet, and I'm no tween!August 29, 2009
Vickie #
A day late & a dollar short. I thought the names came from geometry (I'm not familiar with that movie.) I hope I can still be entered in the contest.August 30, 2009
Emily #
I tried googling a bunch of the pattern names, but it kept coming up with websites about this pattern book, not about the movie. I had never heard of "The Science of Sleep" before, but I have now read the entire Wikipedia page…it sounds interesting.
I really like Golden…I hope I would still be able to make it for myself, even though I'm not a tween or even a tween anymore!August 31, 2009
Barbie #
Pick me! *Standing on a chair waving*
The Science of Sleep —I own it!August 31, 2009
I tried googling a bunch of the pattern names, but it kept coming up with websites about this pattern book, not about the movie. I had never heard of "The Science of Sleep" before, but I have now read the entire Wikipedia page…it sounds interesting.
I really like Golden…I hope I would still be able to make it for myself, even though I'm not a tween or even a tween anymore!;. All the best!!August 31, 2009
cline #
Def. science of sleep! and here's on right back at you (I love guess that movie):
Pick Flick, Pick Flick!!August 31, 2009
Science of Sleep it is! Great designs… my stepkids are 13 & 16, so this is very handy!September 2, 2009
BJ Free #
Those are really wonderful patterns.September 2, 2009
Amy H #
Science of sleep is what everyone thinks. I'm not in to anything French but I am into knitting for "tweens" I love the designs. Most of what I knit for my granddaughters will be something they have seen one of their American icons wear. It's always fun, interesting and heartwarming when I get pictures of them wearing what I've made.September 4, 2009
hmmm, i am thinking of my least favorite classes … algebra and geometry! (of course my 17 year old loves them and is going into elec engineering…not from her mom that's for sure!) love the new designs and your photoshoot looks very teen inspired! (and i love the recycled props!)September 5, 2009
"The Science of Sleep!" Great movie.
Great patterns too! Even though I'm pushing 30, I still like some "tween" clothes and always unabashedly wander over to the Juniors section at TJ Maxx. Grownups love hoods and earthy colors too! Thanks for including our sizes in the patterns. I really liked Diorama and Miroux.September 5, 2009
balzac #
Congratulations on creating such beautiful designs.October 12, 2009
knittywitty #
Delightful. Can't wait to see what you come up for the boy side!November 7, 2009


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Modex 2012: Welcome back Crisplant
Crisplant, a tilt-tray sorter, relaunched by the Beumer Group
February 08, 2012 - MMH Editorial
The Crisplant tilt tray sortation system was a sight for sore eyes for end users who visited the Beumer Group (Booth 2315) at Modex 2012.
Crisplant, which was acquired by Beumer in 2009 and re-launched last year, supplies a line of tilt tray sorters that complements the company's existing line of materials handling equipment to provide a comprehensive line of solutions.
According to Lance Anderson, Beumer's director of sales for sortation and distribution, the line of Crisplant tilt tray sorters is supported by a team of technicians and spare parts from its New Jersey headquarters location. This enables a rapid response to customer needs in the form of technical support or overnight parts delivery.
With the software, technical support and steel components provided locally, there is roughly a 50/50 split of responsibility between Europe and the United States, which lets the experts be the experts, says Anderson.
Modex 2012 is scheduled to be held February 6-9, 2012 in Atlanta's Georgia World Congress Center. The tradeshow will showcase the latest manufacturing, distribution and supply chain solutions in the material handling and logistics industry. Modern's complete Modex 2012 coverage.
Hytrol and Beumer Group launch alliance
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NEW MANCHESTER - The sound of barking dogs at the Hancock County Animal Shelter is so loud sometimes that it's hard to think, much less speak.
A marked contrast with the quiet cats that far outnumber the dogs at the shelter.
Soon, those dogs will be able to bark to their hearts' content in 14 new outdoor runs.
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NEW KENNEL — An unidentified worker with Sky Construction Inc. of Fairmont, W.Va., nails some studs in the roof of a new kennel facility Thursday at the Hancock County Animal Shelter on Gas Valley Road in New Manchester. — Stephen Huba
The new facilities, scheduled for completion by the end of August, will improve the quality of services for the hundreds of dogs that are brought to the shelter every year, said Ruthanne Danford, a Hancock County Animal Shelter Foundation board member.
"We just wanted to have a nice place where we could exercise the dogs," she said. "We've been wanting to add on to the shelter for the last few years. It's going to be so much better for the employees and the animals."
The shelter is operated by the Hancock County Animal Shelter Foundation through an annual contract with Hancock County commissioners, who lease the building on Gas Valley Road to the foundation. The shelter is funded through private donations, revenues generated by a tax levy and support from the county commissioners.
But the new, partly enclosed runs, at a pricetag of $195,000, are being funded entirely by foundation donations, Danford said.
The runs will provide shelter for the dogs, while giving them an option to be inside or outside. At approximately 10 feet wide and 25 feet long, they will replace a series of runs that sit on a slope and are difficult to maintain because of mud, Danford said.
"We'd have to bring in three truckloads of crushed limestone a year. That's 20 tons each. But it just kept sinking in, there was so much mud," she said. "The dogs were muddy all the time."
The foundation board is planning other improvements for the shelter, including interior renovations and the construction of a large, enclosed area where the outdoor runs currently are.
Shelter officials say the improvements will help them deal with the increasing number of animals - mostly dogs and cats - that are brought to the shelter every year. In 2012, the shelter took in an estimated 590 dogs and 780 cats, Danford said.
Currently, the shelter has about 50 dogs, including puppies, and 120 cats, including kittens. "This is kitten season," shelter spokesman Glen Thomson said. "Once the weather starts to get warm and the cats go into heat, we start to get all kinds of mother cats and kittens in."
Most of those animals are kept until they are adopted, but some that are too sick or too aggressive have to be euthanized, Thomson said.
Animals that are adopted go only to homes that pass a screening process, which may include home visits and reference checks. The standard adoption fee of $150 for average-sized male dogs and $165 for female dogs covers the cost of shots, worming, flea treatment and spaying or neutering, Thomson said.
"We always want to make sure they get spayed or neutered because there's enough out there," he said.
For the month of July, the shelter is offering discounted adoptions: $50 for kittens, $50 for adult dogs and $25 for adult cats. The shelter also takes animals for adoption to the Petsmart at Robinson Town Center every weekend.


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Meet Torrington's great Charlie Strid
TORRINGTON --- The fleeting moment lasted no longer than it took a running back to dash through one of the holes that guard Charlie Strid had created. Yet, Jim Brown's comments during his Pro Football Hall of Fame induction validated the superior strength, agility and talent with which Strid, the former Torrington High two-way lineman, played the game.
"Jim Brown mentioned my brother in his Hall of Fame speech," Gerry Strid said. "He used almost the exact same words that he said after the (1957) Cotton Bowl game 'It was guys like Chuck Strid that made me the back that I was in college.'"
Brown went on to earn distinction as one of history's greatest football players by the time his NFL career was over.
Strid, who exhibited enough skill and toughness that Green Bay picked him in the NFL draft in 1958, the same year they drafted Jim Taylor, Ray Nitschke, Jerry Kramer and Strid's Syracuse teammate, Mike Bill.
Both Bill and Strid told the Pakcers they weren't interested in playing in the NFL, and Strid returned to his home state after his college career at Syracuse and became a successful businessman.
"What they offered was $6,700 to get our brains beat in for $75 per week," Bill said. "(My father) told me, 'I didn't raise you to go to Syracuse and be an idiot. You are not playing.'"
According to Bill, the Packers didn't take no for an answer easily. He said they were drafted because Syracuse alum and Green Bay All-Pro center Jim Ringo returned to his alma mater for spring practice to help coach the linemen. He took a real liking to both Strid and Bill, and he pushed for them to get drafted. Bill said that when Vince Lombardi became the Packers coach in 1959, he contacted him again about giving the NFL a shot.
"I called my dad all flatter," Bill said. "Vince Lombardi called. Sure enough, my dad said, 'I told you before you are going to make the biggest mistake of your life.' So I called them back and said, 'I can't do it.' I'm sure the Packers did the same thing with Charlie, also."
While he preferred not to relive his football glory days as an adult, it was an amazing career in high school and college, and but for a few more dollars he could have been on one of the greatest football teams that ever played, the 1960s Green Bay Packers.
Strid, who died on New Year's Day in 2011, might not have gotten the accolades that players who score touchdowns do, but the ferocious lineman who made opponents tremble up and down the Naugatuck Valley is our choice as Torrington's representative in the Red Zone Hall of Fame.
Great football teams are built on the strength of the men in the trenches, and so we are starting ours with a lineman good enough to impress a coach named Vince Lombardi [--] before ultimately turning him down.
Despite getting picked by the Packers in the 1958 draft, Strid had someone telling him that it was in his best interests to walk away from football. His mother and father had pushed him to go to college so he would create better career opportunities for himself, and he was also anxious to marry his high school sweetheart, Marcia Givanni.
"Back then, pro football players in the 1950s didn't make a whole lot of money," said Strid's son, Scott. "They all had offseason jobs. My dad was a very serious guy, and he was going to get married to my mother so he wanted to get on with his life. They were engaged his senior year at Syracuse. He wanted to start a family, and football wasn't really the way he thought he was going to be able to provide."
Scott said his father took a sales position at Anaconda American Brass, and worked his way up to several senior executive positions. Eventually, he and a partner created Ansonia Copper and Brass. They ran that for a decade before selling it to a group of employees to retire.
Gerry Strid said his brother never had any regrets about his career choice, because he was a family man at heart. But he was very passionate about football.
He played well enough in high school to be named All-Naugatuck Valley League in 1952, the first year the coaches picked an all-league team. He earned himself an opportunity to then play a year of prep school at Suffield Academy.
"Defensively, he was dominating," said Gerry Strid, eight years younger. "He was like Howie Long on defense. The kid was everywhere. I bet you in every high school game he played, he accounted for 60 percent of the tackles and was in on almost every play. You couldn't keep him out of there. The ball would be centered and Charlie was off to the races."
Strid played two ways at Syracuse, blocking for Brown on offense and playing defensive tackle. At a little over 6-foot-1 and 235 pounds, he was relatively low to the ground and powerful. He was barrel-chested with big strong hands developed from spending summers working from sunrise until dark at an uncle's dairy farm.
Gerry Strid, who watched his brother play high school ball without a facemask, loved Charlie's toughness.
He vividly remembers his game against Army in 1956 during which Syracuse upset the Black Knights, 13-0, with Charlie making the key play. He hit Army fullback Pat Uebel forcing a fumble and then recovered it at the Black Knight 26-yard line.
"I was so excited watching," Gerry said. "He made the play of the game, no two ways about it. They were all shaking hands afterward. There were a couple cadets that walked by with tears in their eyes. I remember the exact words they said to each other. They said, 'If we can't win on the football field, how are we ever going to win on the battlefield?' That has stuck with me my whole life, and I might have been 11 back then."
Gerry said what made that game even more incredible was that Strid was hit hard earlier in the game and had to be administered smelling salts on the sideline to revive him enough so he could continue playing.
"He had gotten blasted in a way that today you would sit out with a concussion," Gerry said. "But he had the smelling salts under his nose. He was all dirty and had this determined look on his face. He went back into the game in the fourth quarter like so many of those guys used to do.
"As tough as he was on the field, he was very much a gentleman off the field. He was a great father, friend, husband and brother. He was just a great, great guy. I miss him big time."
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Would installing Ubuntu 12.10 only and not alongside Windows 8 remove everything I have?
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If you click 'Clean Install' in the install selection, it will remove Windows 8 and all that comes with it.
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DURANT, Okla. -- City leaders in Durant voted on Tuesday to hold an election that will give residents the choice whether or not to raise sales taxes to pay for a new high school. We asked resident Thursday if a new school is to be built, what would they like to see?
It has been over fifty years since the city of Durant's high school was built. Now, half a century later, a new school may be in the city's plans, but it is up to residents to make that dream a reality.
A plot of land along Highway 69/75 could soon be home to a $41 million state-of-the-art high school, but before bulldozers dig in, residents have to go to the polls.
All of the parents we spoke too say they are in favor of a new school and Durant Independent School District Officials hope the idea gains even more popularity.
"We'll be able to put technology in we'll be able to put in the most current labs and give access to the world of technology," Durant president Margaret Cole says.
On Tuesday, Durant city leaders approved a resolution that would allow residents to vote on a less than 1% (5/8%) sales tax increase over the next 25 years to pay for construction of the new high school.
Superintendent Dr. Terry James says overcrowding in a 100-year-old middle school is the driving force behind building a new school.
"We'll be able to put technology in we'll be able to put in the most current labs and give access to the world of technology."
If a new school is built, DISD officials say middle school students will attend class at the old high school to give them more room to learn.
The deadline to register to vote in the sales tax election is March 3. The actual voting set to take place on April 1.