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Area: 20,742 sq. km. (8,008 sq. mi.); about the size of Massachusetts.
Cities: Capital--San Salvador (pop. 1.6 million). Other cities--Santa Ana, San Miguel, Soyapango, and Apopa.
Terrain: Mountains separate country into three distinct regions--southern coastal belt, central valleys and plateaus, and northern mountains.
Climate: Tropical, distinct wet and dry seasons.
Nationality: Noun and adjective--Salvadoran(s).
Population (2009 est.): 7.2 million.
Annual population growth rate (2009 est.): 1.7%.
Ethnic groups: Mestizo 90%, indigenous 1%, Caucasian 9%.
Religion (2003 est.): About 57% Roman Catholic, with significant and growing numbers of Protestant groups.
Language: Spanish.
Education: Free through high school. Attendance (grades 1-9)--92.4%. Literacy--86.1% nationally; 77.6% in rural areas.
Health: Infant mortality rate (2006)--22/1,000 (source: UNICEF). Life expectancy at birth (2008)--72.1 years.
Work force (about 2.4 million, 2009): Agriculture--21%; retail, hotels, and restaurants--29%; industry--15%; construction--5%; other services--30% (2009).
Type: Republic.
Constitution: December 20, 1983.
Independence: September 15, 1821.
Branches: Executive--president and vice president. Legislative--84-member Legislative Assembly. Judicial--independent (Supreme Court).
Administrative subdivisions: 14 departments.
Political parties (represented in the legislature): Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), National Conciliation Party (PCN), Christian Democratic Party (PDC), and Democratic Change (CD).
Suffrage: Universal at 18.
GDP (2010): $21.8 billion; PPP GDP (2010): $43.98 billion.
GDP annual real growth rate (2010): 0.7%-1.0%.
Per capita income (2009): $3,429; PPP per capita income (2010): $7,300.
Agriculture (11% of GDP, 2010): Products--coffee, sugar, livestock, corn, poultry, and sorghum. Arable, cultivated, or pasture land--68% (2005).
Industry (29.1% of GDP, 2010): Types--textiles and apparel, medicines, food and beverage processing, clothing, chemical products, petroleum products, electronics, call centers.
Trade (2010): Exports--$4.5 billion: textiles and apparel, ethyl alcohol, coffee, sugar, medicines, iron and steel products, tuna, light manufacturing, and paper products. Major markets--U.S. 48.3%, Central American Common Market (CACM) 35.5%. Imports--$8.5 billion: petroleum, iron products, machines and mechanical devices, cars, medicines, consumer goods, foodstuffs, capital goods, and raw industrial materials. Major suppliers--U.S. 36.5%, CACM 19.5%.
El Salvador's population numbers about 7.2 million. Almost 90% is of mixed Indian and Spanish extraction. About 1% is indigenous; very few Indians have retained their customs and traditions. The country's people are largely Roman Catholic and Protestant. Spanish is the language spoken by virtually all inhabitants. The capital city of San Salvador has about 1.6 million people; an estimated 37.3% of El Salvador's population lives in rural areas.
The Pipil Indians, descendants of the Aztecs, and the Pocomames and Lencas were the original inhabitants of El Salvador.
The first Salvadoran territory visited by Spaniards was Meanguera Island, located in the Gulf of Fonseca, where Spanish Admiral Andres Nino led an expedition to Central America and disembarked on May 31, 1522. In June 1524, the Spanish Captain Pedro de Alvarado started a war to conquer Cuscatlan. His cousin Diego de Alvarado established the village of San Salvador in April 1525. In 1546, Charles I of Spain granted San Salvador the title of city.
During the subsequent years, the country evolved under Spanish rule; however, toward the end of 1810 many people began to express discontent. On November 5, 1811, when Priest Jose Matias Delgado rang the bells of La Merced Church in San Salvador calling for insurrection, the people began to band together for freedom.
In 1821, El Salvador and the other Central American provinces declared their independence from Spain. When these provinces were joined with Mexico in early 1822, El Salvador resisted, insisting on autonomy for the Central American countries. In 1823, the United Provinces of Central America was formed of the five Central American states under Gen. Manuel Jose Arce. When this federation was dissolved in 1838, El Salvador became an independent republic. El Salvador's early history as an independent state--as with others in Central America--was marked by frequent revolutions; not until the period 1900-30 was relative stability achieved. Following a deterioration in the country's democratic institutions in the 1970s a period of civil war followed from 1980-1992. More than 75,000 people are estimated to have died in the conflict. In January 1992, after prolonged negotiations, the opposing sides signed peace accords which ended the war, brought the military under civilian control, and allowed the former guerillas to form a legitimate political party and participate in elections.
El Salvador is a democratic republic governed by a president and an 84-member unicameral Legislative Assembly. The president is elected by universal suffrage by absolute majority vote and serves for a 5-year term. A second round runoff is required in the event that no candidate receives more than 50% of the first round vote. Members of the assembly are elected based on the number of votes that their parties obtain in each department (circumscriptive suffrage) and serve for 3-year terms. The country has an independent judiciary and Supreme Court. Legislative and municipal elections were held in January 2009, and presidential elections were held in March 2009.
Political Landscape
Hard-line conservatives, including some members of the military, created the Nationalist Republican Alliance party (ARENA) in 1981. ARENA almost won the election in 1984 with solid private sector and rural farmer support. By 1989, ARENA had attracted the support of business groups. Multiple factors contributed to ARENA victories in the 1988 legislative and 1989 presidential elections, including allegations of corruption in the ruling Christian Democratic party which had poor relations with the private sector, and historically low prices for the nation's main agricultural exports.
The successes of Alfredo Cristiani's 1989-94 administration in achieving a peace agreement to end the civil war and in improving the nation's economy helped ARENA--led by former San Salvador mayor Armando Calderon Sol--keep both the presidency and a working majority in the Legislative Assembly in the 1994 elections. ARENA's legislative position was weakened in the 1997 elections, but it recovered its strength, helped by divisions in the opposition, in time for another victory in the 1999 presidential race, bringing President Francisco Guillermo Flores Perez to office. Flores concentrated on modernizing the economy and strengthening bilateral relations with the United States. Under his presidency El Salvador committed itself to combating international terrorism, including sending troops to aid in the reconstruction of Iraq. El Salvador also played a key role in negotiations for the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR).
Taking advantage of both public apprehension of Flores' policies and ARENA infighting, the chief opposition party, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), was able to score a significant victory against ARENA in the March 2003 legislative and municipal elections. ARENA, left with only 29 seats in the 84-seat Legislative Assembly, was forced to court the right-wing National Conciliation Party (PCN) in order to form a majority voting bloc. However, in 2003 the PCN entered into a loose partnership with the FMLN, further limiting ARENA's ability to maneuver in the legislature.
Despite these constraints, ARENA made a strong showing in the March 2004 presidential election, which was marked by an unprecedented 67% voter turnout. ARENA candidate Elias Antonio "Tony" Saca handily defeated the FMLN candidate and party head Shafik Handal, garnering 57.7% of the votes cast. The defeat of the FMLN's presidential candidate rekindled an internal FMLN struggle between hardliners and more moderate members who saw the party's 2004 defeat as a call for reform.
In January 2009 legislative and municipal elections, the incumbent ARENA party garnered 32 assembly deputies and 122 mayoralties, while the opposition FMLN won 35 legislative seats and 75 city halls (plus 21 additional mayoralties in which they participated as part of a coalition). The PCN, PDC, and CD carried 11, 5, and 1 assembly seats, respectively. The new assembly took office in May 2009. In October 2009, twelve ARENA deputies left the party to form a new movement, the Great Alliance for National Unity (GANA), and two other deputies (one each from ARENA and the PCN) left their parties to become independents. As of January 2010, the assembly was composed as follows: FMLN - 35 seats, ARENA - 19 seats, GANA - 12 seats, PCN - 10 seats, PDC - 5 seats, CD - 1 seat, independent deputies - 2 seats. In December 2009, former President Antonio Saca was expelled from ARENA for his suspected involvement in the defection of the GANA deputies.
On March 15, 2009, FMLN candidate Mauricio Funes won El Salvador's presidential elections, defeating ARENA candidate Rodrigo Avila. Final vote totals were 51.3% for the FMLN and 48.7% for ARENA. The elections marked the first time since the 1992 peace agreement that ended the civil war that an FMLN candidate was elected president and the first left-of-center government in El Salvador's history. President Funes was inaugurated on June 1, 2009.
Human Rights and Post-War Reforms
During the 12-year civil war, human rights violations by both the government security forces and left-wing guerillas were rampant. The accords established a Truth Commission under UN auspices to investigate the most serious cases. The commission recommended that those identified as human rights violators be removed from all government and military posts. Thereafter, the Legislative Assembly granted amnesty for political crimes committed during the war. Among those freed as a result were the Salvadoran Armed Forces (ESAF) officers convicted in the November 1989 Jesuit murders and the FMLN ex-combatants held for the 1991 murders of two U.S. servicemen. The peace accords also established the Ad Hoc Commission to evaluate the human rights record of the ESAF officer corps.
In accordance with the peace agreements, the constitution was amended to prohibit the military from playing an internal security role except under extraordinary circumstances. Demobilization of Salvadoran military forces generally proceeded on schedule throughout the process. The Treasury Police, National Guard, and National Police were abolished, and military intelligence functions were transferred to civilian control. By 1993--9 months ahead of schedule--the military had cut personnel from a war-time high of 63,000 to the level of 32,000 required by the peace accords. By 1999, ESAF strength stood at less than 15,000, including uniformed and non-uniformed personnel, consisting of personnel in the army, navy, and air force. A purge of military officers accused of human rights abuses and corruption was completed in 1993 in compliance with the Ad Hoc Commission's recommendations. The military's new doctrine, professionalism, and complete withdrawal from political and economic affairs have made it one of the most respected institutions in El Salvador.
More than 35,000 eligible beneficiaries from among the former guerrillas and soldiers who fought in the war received land under the peace accord-mandated land transfer program, which ended in January 1997. The majority of them also received agricultural credits.
National Civilian Police
The National Civilian Police (PNC), created to replace the discredited public security forces, deployed its first officers in March 1993 and was present throughout the country by the end of 1994. The PNC has about 16,000 officers. The United States, originally through the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) and subsequently through the Department of State's Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, led international support for the PNC and the National Public Security Academy (ANSP), providing about $32 million in non-lethal equipment and training since 1992.
Following the peace accords, both the Truth Commission and the Joint Group identified weaknesses in the judiciary and recommended solutions, including the replacement of all the magistrates on the Supreme Court. This recommendation was fulfilled in 1994 when an entirely new court was elected, but weaknesses remain. The process of replacing judges in the lower courts, and of strengthening the attorney generals' and public defender's offices, has moved slowly. The government continues to work in all of these areas with the help of international donors, including the United States. Action on peace accord-driven constitutional reforms designed to improve the administration of justice was largely completed in 1996 with legislative approval of several amendments and the revision of the Criminal Procedure Code--with broad political consensus.
Principal Government Officials
President--Carlos Mauricio FUNES Cartagena
Vice President--Salvador SANCHEZ CEREN
Minister of Foreign Relations--Hugo Roger MARTINEZ Bonilla
Ambassador to the United States--Francisco ALTSCHUL Fuentes
Representative to the OAS--Luis MENENDEZ Castro (interim)
Representative to the UN--Carmen Maria GALLARDO de Hernandez
El Salvador maintains an Embassy in the United States at 1400 16th Street NW, Washington, DC, 20036 (tel: 202-595-7500). There are consulates in Atlanta, GA; Brentwood, NY; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; Elizabeth, NJ; Houston, TX; Las Vegas, NV; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL; New York, NY; Nogales, AZ; Santa Ana, CA; San Francisco, CA; and Woodbridge, VA.
The Salvadoran economy continues to benefit from a commitment to free markets and careful fiscal management. The economy has been growing at a steady and moderate pace since the signing of peace accords in 1992, and poverty was cut from 66% in 1991 to 37.8% in 2009. Much of the improvement in El Salvador's economy is a result of the privatization of the banking system, telecommunications, public pensions, electrical distribution and some electrical generation; reduction of import duties; elimination of price controls; and improved enforcement of intellectual property rights. Capping those reforms, on January 1, 2001, the U.S. dollar became legal tender in El Salvador. The economy is now fully dollarized.
The Salvadoran Government has maintained fiscal discipline during post-war reconstruction and reconstruction following earthquakes in 2001 and hurricanes in 1998 and 2005. Taxes levied by the government include a value added tax (VAT) of 13%, income tax of 20%, excise taxes on alcohol and cigarettes, and import duties. The VAT accounted for about 49.7% of total tax revenues in 2010. El Salvador's public external debt in December 2009 was about $11.2 billion, 53% of GDP.
Years of civil war, fought largely in the rural areas, had a devastating impact on agricultural production in El Salvador. The agricultural sector experienced significant recovery, buoyed in part by higher world prices for coffee and sugarcane and increased diversification into horticultural crops. Seeking to develop new growth sectors and employment opportunities, El Salvador created new export industries through fiscal incentives for free trade zones. The largest beneficiary has been the textile and apparel (maquila) sector, which directly provides approximately 80,000 jobs. Services, including retail and financial, have also shown strong employment growth, with about 59% of the total labor force now employed in the sector.
Remittances from Salvadorans working in the United States are an important source of income for many families in El Salvador. In 2010, the Central Bank estimated that remittances totaled $3.5 billion. UN Development Program (UNDP) surveys show that an estimated 22.3% of families receive remittances.
Under its export-led growth strategy, El Salvador has pursued economic integration with its Central American neighbors and negotiated trade agreements with the Dominican Republic, Chile, Mexico, Panama, Taiwan, Colombia, and the United States. In 2010, Central America signed an Association Agreement with the European Union that includes the establishment of a free trade area. The Central American countries are negotiating a free trade agreement with Canada. El Salvador is negotiating a partial-scope agreement with Cuba that is expected to be finalized during 2011. El Salvador also expects to begin Pacific Arc forum negotiations to reach a trade agreement aimed at creating a common production platform; forum members are Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Peru, Chile, and Ecuador. Exports and Imports both grew by 17.8% in 2010. As in previous years, the large trade deficit was offset by family remittances.
The U.S.-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), implemented between El Salvador and the United States on March 1, 2006, provides El Salvador preferential access to U.S. markets. Textiles and apparel, shoes, and processed foods are among the sectors that benefit. In addition to trade benefits, CAFTA-DR also provides trade capacity building, particularly in the environment and labor areas, and a framework for additional reforms on issues such as intellectual property rights, dispute resolution, and customs that will improve El Salvador's investment climate. For sensitive sectors such as agriculture, the agreement includes generous phase-in periods to allow Salvadoran producers an opportunity to become more competitive.
U.S. support for privatization of the electrical and telecommunications markets markedly expanded opportunities for U.S. investment in the country. More than 300 U.S. companies have established either a permanent commercial presence in El Salvador or work through representative offices in the country. The U.S. Department of Commerce maintains a Country Commercial Guide for U.S. businesses seeking detailed information on business opportunities in El Salvador.
On November 29, 2006, the Government of El Salvador and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) signed a 5-year, $461 million anti-poverty Compact to stimulate economic growth and reduce poverty in the country's northern region. The grant seeks to improve the lives of approximately 850,000 Salvadorans through investments in education, public services, enterprise development, and transportation infrastructure. The Compact entered into force in September 2007, and it is expected that incomes in the region will increase by 20% over the 5-year term of the Compact, and by 30% within 10 years of the start of the Compact.
Natural Disasters
Located on the Pacific's earthquake-prone Ring of Fire and at latitudes plagued by hurricanes, El Salvador's history is a litany of catastrophe, including the Great Hurricane of 1780 that killed 22,000 in Central America and earthquakes in 1854 and 1917 that devastated El Salvador and destroyed most of the capital city. More recently, an October 1986 earthquake killed 1,400 and seriously damaged the nation's infrastructure. In 1998, Hurricane Mitch killed 10,000 in the region, although El Salvador--lacking a Caribbean coast--suffered less than Honduras and Nicaragua. Major earthquakes in January and February of 2001 took another 1,000 lives and left thousands more homeless and jobless. El Salvador's largest volcano, Santa Ana (also known by its indigenous name Ilamatepec), erupted in October 2005, spewing sulfuric gas, ash, and rock on surrounding communities and coffee plantations, killing two people and permanently displacing 5,000. Also in October 2005, Hurricane Stan unleashed heavy rains that caused flooding throughout El Salvador. In all, the flooding caused 67 deaths and more than 50,000 people were evacuated at some point during the crisis. Damages from the storm were estimated at $355.6 million. In November 2008, rains from Tropical Storm Ida caused flooding and mudslides that killed at least 199 and left extensive property damage in the departments of Cuscatlan, La Paz, San Vicente, and San Salvador. In 2010 property evacuation operations by the authorities prevented a higher number of deaths. In June 2010, Tropical Storm Alex killed 5 people and damaged 349 homes, and in September 2010, Tropical Storm Matthew killed 3 people and damaged 141 homes.
El Salvador is a member of the United Nations and several of its specialized agencies, the Organization of American States (OAS), the Central American Common Market (CACM), the Central American Parliament, and the Central American Integration System (SICA). It actively participates in the Central American Security Commission (CASC), which seeks to promote regional arms control. From 2002-2003, El Salvador was chair of the OAS anti-terrorism coordinating body, CICTE. El Salvador also is a member of the World Trade Organization and is pursuing regional free trade agreements. An active participant in the Summit of the Americas process, El Salvador has chaired a working group on market access under the Free Trade Area of the Americas initiative. El Salvador has joined its six Central American neighbors in signing the Alliance for Sustainable Development, known as the Conjunta Centroamerica-USA or CONCAUSA to promote sustainable economic development in the region.
El Salvador enjoys normal diplomatic and trade relations with all of its neighboring countries including Honduras, with which it has previously had territorial disputes. While the two nations continue to disagree over the status of their maritime borders in the Gulf of Fonseca, they have agreed to settle their land-border disputes with the International Court of Justice (ICJ). In September 1992, the Court awarded most of the territory in question to Honduras. In January 1998, Honduras and El Salvador signed a border demarcation treaty to implement the terms of the ICJ decree although delays continue due to technical difficulties.
U.S.-Salvadoran relations remain close and strong. U.S. policy toward El Salvador promotes the strengthening of El Salvador's democratic institutions, rule of law, judicial reform, national reconciliation and reconstruction, and economic opportunity and growth. El Salvador was a committed member of the coalition of nations fighting against terrorism and sent 11 rotations of troops to Iraq to support Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2003 through 2008.
The U.S. and Salvadoran Governments cooperate closely to combat narcotics trafficking and organized crime. El Salvador hosts the International Law Enforcement Academy, which provides training to police, prosecutors, and other officials from across the Latin American region. El Salvador's Air Force installation near Comalapa Airport houses a monitoring facility that surveils narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and El Salvador's National Civilian Police jointly operate the Transnational Anti-Gang unit, which addresses the growing problem of street gangs in both countries. In January 2009, the U.S. and El Salvador signed letters of agreement committing both countries to work jointly under the Merida Initiative to fight crime and drug trafficking.
U.S. ties to El Salvador are dynamic and growing. More than 19,000 American citizens live and work full-time in El Salvador. Most are private business people and their families, but a small number of American citizen retirees have been drawn to El Salvador by favorable tax conditions. The Embassy's consular section provides a full range of citizenship services to this community. The American Chamber of Commerce in El Salvador is located at World Trade Center, Torre 2, local No. 308, 89 Av. Nte. Col. Escalon, phone: 2263-9494.
Principal U.S. Embassy Officials
Ambassador--Mari Carmen Aponte
Deputy Chief of Mission--Robert Blau
Acting USAID Mission Director--Carl B. Derrick
Political Counselor--Maeve Dwyer
Economic Counselor--Mitchell Ferguson
Commercial Counselor--Michael L. McGee
Public Affairs Counselor--Marti Estell
Consul General--Kathryn Cabral
The U.S. Embassy in El Salvador is located at Final Blvd. Santa Elena, Antiguo Cuscatlan, La Libertad (phone (503) 2501-2999; fax number (503) 2501-2150). Website: http://sansalvador.usembassy.gov/


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New FY 07/08 FOCUS Form Available on FOCUS Website
University objectives for FY07 include that all M&P staff receive written performance feedback and have written goals for FY 07/08. Since the 2005 introduction of FOCUS, Yale's performance management program, feedback and suggestions for improving the program have been received. The FOCUS form has been modified to incorporate many of these recommendations.
Beginning in FY07/08 the University will move to one uniform performance review form for all employees. This will allow for greater consistency in performance management at Yale. The new, recommended form, along with the original FOCUS forms, can be found at http://learn.caim.yale.edu/lcdb/focus/forms.htm. While use of the new form is recommended, this year you may use any of the FOCUS forms, or a department designed form.
To support you and your staff in the performance feedback process, there are several classes available at the Learning Center called "FOCUS: Goal Setting and Feedback." A training schedule can be found at www.yale.edu/focus.
If you need assistance in any of these areas, call your HR Generalist or the Learning Center at 432-5660.

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NYU Florence offers a broad range of courses, with a strong focus on the humanities and social sciences. Innovative, site-specific offerings in art history, history, literature and cinema are featured alongside a vibrant curriculum in sociology, politics and economics. These courses not only take advantage of the extraordinary cultural resources provided by the city of Florence, and its strategic position within Italy and Europe, but also of a unique array of co-curricular lectures and activities that make the Florence campus a dynamic center for scholarly exchange and global policy discussions.
What can study abroad in Florence mean to students? An encounter with the city of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio; direct examination of world-famous masterpieces of art in the "birthplace" of the Renaissance; to consider contemporary social issues at a campus where encounters for students with major European and American protagonists of world social and economic policy are a regular occurrence.
Throughout the year, students at NYU Florence benefit from the opportunity to participate directly in the high-level political, social and cultural policy dialogues organized on our campus. In previous years, we have hosted both Republican and Democrat presidential campaign managers, had a three-way dialogue with leading local Christian, Muslim and Jewish leaders, and held a student-organized contemporary poetry slam. Through La Pietra Dialogues, interested students also have the opportunity to participate directly in the organization of the events that bring these outstanding figures to NYU Florence.
NYU Florence provides the atmosphere of a small college campus while studying abroad. An extremely low student to faculty ratio ensures small class size; many courses are organized partly or entirely as seminars. Our 57-acre estate, with olive groves and gardens, has five villas that provide a home to NYU Florence. These include Villa La Pietra with its house museum, and formal gardens. Students enjoy the opportunity to "live" Villa La Pietra during: visits to the collection; poetry readings, concerts, performances and lectures that take place inside or in the gardens of the villa
Academic Calendar: Fall/Spring/Full Year
Credits: 12 to 18 NYU credits
Faculty: 60 instructors
Student Body:
350 fall semester
375 spring semester
(includes 100 freshman)
Course Language: English & Italian
Affiliated Institution:
University of Florence
Housing: On-campus villas, Off-campus residences, Homestays
Meals: On-campus cafeteria option
Staff: 25 administrative staff
Currency: Euro
Population of Florence: 400,000
Official Language: Italian
The following NYU departments are key contributors to the NYU Florence curriculum. Partnerships indicate departments with a significant curricular stake. Affiliations indicate the offering or development of at least one course.
Faculty of Arts & Science
Art History
Liberal Studies
Cinema Studies
Faculty of Arts & Science
College Core Curriculum
Comparative Literature
Creative Writing
European and Mediterranean Studies
Medieval/Renaissance Studies
Religious Studies
Art & Art Professions
Media, Culture and Communication
Villa La Pietra is the jewel in the crown of New York University's global program. Bequeathed to NYU in 1994 by Sir Harold Acton, the Florentine study abroad campus consists of 5 historic villas and 57 acres of gardens and olive groves. Villa La Pietra, the Acton Collection, and the Garden are maintained as they were by the Acton family and serve as an inspiration to all who live and study on the campus.
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LPD convenes some of the world's foremost scholars, policy makers, practitioners, business leaders, public intellectuals and artists whose ideas and work have made a significant cultural or intellectual contribution to global society and the revival of the spirit of humanism for which Florence is known. They gather at Villa la Pietra, New York University's exceptional site in Florence, to confront some of the most intractable issues of contemporary society through the creative interplay of ideas and perspectives.
LPD fosters the creation of partnerships across disciplines, cultures and institutions, as an established center in the heart of Europe attached to an American university with branches throughout the world, and contributes to the emerging global civic discourse that is at the heart of NYU's mission as a global network university.
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I have no hard drive installed, Only USB thumb drive. Will this be a problem?
It will work just fine. I've often used it as a tool to diagnose computers with hard drives that have quit working.
If you want to save stuff, you could plug in a thumb drive or a USB hard drive and save it to that. A thumb drive will show up just like it would on a normal Ubuntu install.
Another option if you want persistence is to make a LiveUSB drive with Ubuntu's startup disk creator and use the option to have persistence.
As long as you have RAM go for it, a LiveCD does not need a hard disk or even a writable media installed to run properly.
It should work fine, I've used a live CD on machines with totally broken hard drives with no problem.
If you want persistence you'll need to boot off a USB key instead of a CD.


text: We have shading in this tutorial of Shane Walsh (played brilliantly by Jon Bernthal). Shane, a deputy partner and best friend of Rick Grimes, believed Rick to be dead when the Zombies took over. After protecting Rick's wife and having an affair with her, Rick shows up. Lori dumps Shane returns to Rick and from then on Shane battles for Rick's family. Status: Dead. Killed by Rick, Shane becomes a Zombie and then is killed by Carl (Rick's young son). Let me know what you think of this tut by commenting, faving or clicking on "Love It"! Peace n love to ya


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Picky Eater
Q: How do I get my six-year-old to eat more of a variety of foods? She would be happy to live on chicken tenders, pizza, and hot dogs. I remember my mom forcing me to eat things that I did not like and I swore that I would never do that to my child. My husband thinks that she shouldn't be given a choice at dinner; whatever the family eats, she should eat. Can you give me some advice?
A: There is no one "right" answer to your question. As a pediatrician, I can tell you that healthy children will not starve themselves, and you can feel comfortable saying no to requests for specific foods. Eventually, your child will eat because she becomes hungry, and you don't want to indulge poor nutritional habits by allowing her to eat only the high-fat foods that she likes. It's important to include enough calcium, vitamins, and other nutrients in the foods your daughter eats, and there needs to be some variety.
Children need to have some choices about what they eat. I think that blindly giving commands to "clean your plate" doesn't teach children to know when they're hungry and when they are full. It doesn't teach them how to make proper food choices when they are away from your table. Given the alarming rise in both obesity and eating disorders in children in this country, I think it's important to give a child some element of control over her food intake.
My advice is to prepare healthful meals that you approve of, and always try to include one dish (whether the main course or a side dish) that you know your daughter likes. Serve smaller portions of the things she doesn't like, and require that she taste everything. In this way, she will learn to keep trying new things even if she "knows" she doesn't like it. Kids' tastes do change, and something that she dislikes now may become appealing to her in the near future. After tasting everything, if she does not want to eat the new foods, don't force her. I think it's reasonable to have a couple of agreed-upon standby items available in the house that anyone who doesn't like the meal can eat instead: Yogurt, bagels, fruit, and raw veggies (carrots and cucumbers, for example) are all good choices.
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Shari Nethersole is a physician at Children's Hospital, Boston, and an instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She graduated from Yale University and Harvard Medical School, and did her internship and residency at Children's Hospital, Boston. As a pediatrician, she tries to work with parents to identify and address their concerns.


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I would like to know what are the assumptions about the spacetime metric between the neutrinos emiter and detector, I mean, perhaps (just a stab in the dark) could be a mistake to asume the metric of the middle spacetime, because we don't really know how clocks behave at every centimeter of the beam path.
I've asked about this (before knowing the noisy news about OPERA results)
Is there a single metric for a given system?
What are the assumptions about the spacetime metric? Could those be the problem?


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5 Behind the Scenes Details That Change How You See Movies
Everyone has dreamed of working in movies at one time or another -- in fact, we bet a good many of the people reading this still do. And why not? Even if you don't get famous, you still get to hang around famous people and work on stuff that will get seen around the world.
But of course, working in movies -- behind or in front of the camera -- is still just a job, and despite the giant cocaine-and-sex parties that must be going on somewhere in Hollywood, there's a lot about filming a movie that the average person gets wrong.
To get a look at what happens on both sides of the camera, we interviewed a grip/electrician named Holden Wilson and a stand-in/background actor who, to preserve his anonymity, has asked to be referred to as Thrust Neckpunch. They told us ...
#5. Movies Are a Massively Convoluted Cut-and-Paste Project
Marvel Studios
Obviously, when you see Tony Stark jump off the roof of an exploding building, that's not really Robert Downey Jr. -- stunt doubles and CGI are there to make sure the franchise's $50 million star doesn't accidentally get whipped in half by Mickey Rourke. But what you don't realize is how little of the star is actually in the movie. When they show anything that isn't the actor's face, there's a good chance the person you're looking at is someone like the stand-in we spoke to.
Marvel Studios
Robert Downey Jr. is way too famous to play his own back.
For instance, the hands shifting gears in the Fast and the Furious movies? All of the males were those of our actor, Thrust Neckpunch (again, not his real name). You're not going to notice that the hand that's only on the screen for half a second doesn't really belong to Vin Diesel, even if it isn't soaked in the blood of the thousands of people he's killed over his movie career, and Vin's time is too valuable to sit there and film a bunch of gear changes. So, they just grab a stand-in whose hands sort of maybe look like Diesel's in the right light.
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You can tell it's Vin Diesel's real hand by his two extra thumbs.
That scene in Iron Man where Tony is being marched around by terrorists and has a bag over his head, clutching a car battery to his chest? Someone in charge of casting realized "Hey, if we put a bag over his head, we don't have to pay Robert Downey Jr. to do this shot. Someone get Thrust Neckpunch over here!" The same thing happens later when a reporter hands him photos of Stark weapons being used to murder innocent people. When the camera pans down to show him flipping through the photos, those hands don't belong to Robert Downey Jr.
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Thirty seconds of filming his hands costs more than most small businesses ever make.
It's also done for convenience, too. The camera angle required for the photo shot would've required Downey Jr. to stand bent over backward for hours at a time so the camera could fit where his head should be, and that's not something you subject an A-list actor to, even if you are paying him enough to actually become Iron Man in real life, should he so desire it.
Also, remember that the interior and exterior of a location in a movie may, in reality, be in different cities. In True Blood (where Thrust worked as an extra), the interior of the Fangtasia Bar is a sound stage, and the exterior is a real bar, miles away. So something as simple as a character walking into a building requires multiple shots and miles of travel. Well, you can't have the actors doing that shit, so you have the extra walk toward the building for the exterior shot, then cut to the star on the sound stage once he's inside.
Then you just FedEx the extra back to Los Angeles and keep right on filming.
So what looks like a single performance can, in reality, be the Frankensteinian creation of a whole bunch of actors and extras having their performances stitched together. Thrust said he once filmed a scene where he was a police officer frisking someone. He had no lines, but when he watched the finished scene later, his character had a line dubbed over the shot. Why? Well, it's actually cheaper to do things this way and pay two people -- the voice actor and the filmed actor -- because they can both be listed as "extras," rather than actors.
This haphazard, cobbled-together method of filmmaking is one reason why ...
#4. On Set, It's Impossible to Tell if the Movie Sucks
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"Wait!" you say, "How can you not know if the movie is going to be good when everyone has read the script?" Well, actors get scripts. The crew, as grip/electrician Holden Wilson told us, usually does not.
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"Andy Dick? Guess this job ain't going on the resume."
They get the scenes they're shooting the night before or the day of -- one page at a time. The most efficient sets are lucky to get 14 to 16 shots done in a day, and when you're shooting a scene or two per day, it's impossible to get a sense of the big picture. Remember, movies are never filmed in chronological order, because it all depends on when sets, locations, or people become available. Anything shot outside is at the mercy of Mother Nature.
That means you'll never get context for what you're shooting until you see the whole thing later. So when somebody like Holden finds himself filming a scene in which a man is watching porn with one hand fixed firmly upon his junk and the other clutching a ventriloquist's dummy, he just has to go with it (he assures us that's an actual example, by the way). Hey, the ending of Apocalypse Now probably looked like the work of a deranged madman at the time -- you won't know until months or years later whether your movie will win an Oscar or wind up in the porn dungeon of some creep with a puppet fetish.
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"Is ... is he acting? Because that looks like a real knife."
And when you consider how nightmarish the scheduling is on a film, it's amazing anyone on the set can keep track of what's going on. In addition to working around the narrow windows of availability of the cast (actors tend to juggle multiple projects at once, so you may only have them for a few days or weeks at a stretch), there are rules on top of rules about who can work when. You can make an adult work a 12-hour shift, but not children. So, every scene that has the kid in it has to be scheduled in that narrow gap before he has to be sent back to the orphanage. Same with animals -- they're only available at certain times and for so long. True Blood uses real wolves in some of its werewolf scenes -- you don't want them overworked, hungry, or cranky.
Jack Nicholson is the same way, although we hear he's even more of a biter.
So what we're saying is that if you're filming an ostrich-back race in the Coliseum between two 5-year-olds, good luck having those three things available at the same time. And even more luck figuring out how they got there when they were 30 years old and solving a murder in a Canadian brothel in the scene you filmed that morning.
#3. Some of the "Fun" Scenes to Film Are Really the Worst
Imagine this: You're tasked with filming a late-night orgy scene out in the woods -- you know, standard fare for True Blood. It doesn't get any better than that. You're going to spend the next 12 hours surrounded by beautiful, naked actors pretending to have sex with one another.
"Ants! AAAAAAAAANTS!"
But according to Thrust, there's a catch. Several, really. First, it's almost freezing outside, but you don't worry about your junk turning into a dongsicle, thanks to Catch 2: Your junk is securely inside a drawstring pouch to ... protect some degree of modesty? You'd think those dick pouches (the norm for Hollywood sex scenes) would just make it weirder.
But those scenes can be a nightmare for the crew, too, since some actors are so hung up about their privacy that you have to jump through hoops to get them to disrobe and pretend to do the nasty on camera. In some cases, the scene has to be shot with a skeleton crew behind closed doors in order to minimize the number of people who see the actors' naked vampire butts jiggling around. Which seems strange, since millions of people are going to see them anyway:
Just as long as none of those gross craft services people see this.
Then there are the fight scenes, the hallmark of a great action movie. That part is fun, right? You get to pretend to be a badass on camera, fake punching people and watching them go flying! Well, these "fights" are really more like dances -- carefully memorized sequences that have to be rehearsed endlessly. That means actors learn the entire fight, punch by punch and block by block, from start to finish. And then they shoot it. Over. And over. And over.
And there is often little margin for error, above and beyond the obvious prohibition against accidentally crushing Alexander Skarsgard's scrotum. Oftentimes a director will want a fight scene to be one continuous take, which means everyone -- the actors, the camera crew, the lighting technicians -- has to be absolutely perfect for the duration of the entire fight. This translates to "You're going to film this scene until Bruce Lee comes to you in a heat-exhaustion-induced fever dream and imbues you with the ability to get it done."
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LAS VEGAS � The first commercial solar array to be built on federal public land began producing electricity Monday from a sun-baked site in the Mojave Desert south of Las Vegas near the Nevada-California line.
Before flipping the switch on the Enbridge Silver State North Solar Project, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar hailed it as �a landmark for America, a landmark for the solar industry and a landmark for how we use public lands.�
�This is the first of these projects to connect to the grid,� Salazar said.
Salazar noted that the federal Interior Department approved 16 other solar projects since 2009 on public land around the nation. Combined, the projects are expected to produce up to 560 megawatts of electricity, or enough to power 2.3 million homes.
Salazar touted the project about 40 miles south of Las Vegas as part of an Obama administration �all-of-the-above energy strategy� aimed at increasing the amount of �affordable, reliable and sustainable� domestic power.
Canada-based Enbridge Inc. owns the 50-megawatt photovoltaic array covering nearly 1 square mile in the Ivanpah Valley near Primm. It was built by First Solar Inc. of Tempe, Ariz., and is expected to produce enough electricity to power almost 10,000 homes. Nevada�s main electric utility, NV Energy Inc., is committed to buying the power for the next 25 years.
�We�ll be able to say, �We were here when,�� Frank DeRosa, a First Solar executive, said during the dedication ceremony.
Most NV Energy-owned gas-fired and coal-fueled generating stations around the state produce more than 500 megawatts of electricity. The largest produces about 1,100 megawatts.
At 50 megawatts, DeRosa said the scale of the Silver State North project would demonstrate that solar energy could be a �mainstream� power source while using no water and producing no polluting emissions.
Officials also noted that state law requires NV Energy to get 25 percent of its electricity from alternative sources by 2025.


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Since it is located within Bukittinggi city, visitors can choose hotels with appropriate facilities downtown so they could walk to Panorama park.
Walking down into the Japanese bunker can be a challenge with some narrow spaces to squeeze through. While originally it would've been very dark and cold these tunnels today now have lamps and proper ventilation.
Most of these tunnels will soon have rooms to display photographs, a museum of struggle, and a mini theater. At the entrance gate, visitors can see a map of this bunker and each tunnel now has information boards about its functions. This bunker also has CCTV cameras.
The entrance to the Japanese bunker is located in Panorama Park, where you can also enjoy the beautiful scenery of Ngarai Sianok.
This Park is about 1 km away from the Bukittinggi city center. Visitors can use private cars or sado/andong (public carriage) from the city center to this Park while enjoying the cool air of Bukittinggi.
From Minangkabau international airport, you can take a rented car or minibus to Bukittinggi. You can find the minibus at the exit gate of the airport at Simpang Ketaping. Distance from Padang to Bukittinggi is 90 km.


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I recently noted that there is an option in the options inspector to set a merge interval for cell changes. This (I think) prevents a quick series of changes from spamming your notebook history with a bunch of times that can bloat the file size and make the history hard to inerpret. That's great moving forward, but my old heavily used notebooks already have a ton of these closely spaced change times. Is there some easy way to retroactively apply the merge interval to the notebook history?
The only thing I came up with was to
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python maybe?) and compare them, making appropriate deletions as the file is parsed. I kind of worry that letting a script tinker with the raw notebook text risks breaking things, which would be bad, since these are my most heavily used notebooks.


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Most LNG sold in Asia is by long-term contract linked to crude-oil prices which have stayed higher than piped-gas prices. "All this oil system should go," said Veerappa Moily, India's energy minister.
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SEOUL -- Asia should have its own liquefied natural
gas-price index, India's energy minister said on
"We are thinking of an Asian index," Petroleum and Natural
Gas Minister Veerappa Moily said.
India and Japan recently said they
will form an LNG buyers' group to influence prices. "Ultimately
these are the largest consuming countries. There should be a
proper measure."
Most LNG sold in Asia is by long-term contract linked to
crude-oil prices which have stayed higher than piped-gas
prices. "All this oil system should go," Mr. Moily said on the
sidelines of a meeting of energy ministers in Seoul.
Asian countries -- the biggest buyers of LNG shipped by sea
-- can pay five or six times more than consumers of piped gas
in North America, where prices have fallen because increased
supply from shale deposits.
India's weakening currency has made LNG imports even more
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COPPERAS COVE (September 28, 2012)-The 15th annual National Night Out kick off party has been scheduled for Saturday from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m.
The Copperas Cove Police Department will be hosting the public event which has been moved indoors to accomodate inclement weather.
The 15th annual National Night Out kick off party is being relocated from the downtown area to the Copperas Cove Civic Center, located at 1206 West Avenue B (FM 1113).
Hotdogs, chips, cookies, popcorn, soft drinks, and sno-cones will be served.
There will be a number of events for children and adults, as well as door prizes that will be given away throughout the evening.
Some of the events are at no charge and others are priced at 25 cents each.
McGruff the Crime Dog, Sparky the Fire Dog, Recycle Michael, and H-E-Buddy will all be at the party for the 3rd annual "Dance Off."
Musical entertainment will be provided by the YMCA.
National Night Out is designed to heighten crime and drug prevention awareness, generate support for and participation in local anti-crime programs, strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnership, and send a message to criminals letting them know that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back.
National Night Out is scheduled for Tuesday from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m.
For more information, contact Sergeant Kevin Keller at (254) 547-8222 ext 6956.


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Microsoft MVPs Rob Miles and Andy Wigley are back! The "Building Applications for Windows Phone "Mango" Jump Start" was hosted by Microsoft Learning as a follow-up to last year's Windows Phone 7 Jump Start sessions. Mobile application developers rave about the fast-paced, demo-rich, real-world and often-times humorous approach Rob and Andy use to deliver this timely content. Now that "Mango" has made such a huge splash in the industry, we've asked them to put together another great course.
This course is specially tailored for developers looking to build cool applications and games for the new Windows Phone Mango Platform.
In module two, Rob and Andy explain and demonstrate how to leverage Silverlight to build Windows Phone applications. The content explains why applications should leverage the METRO design style then moves into Silverlight Components, methods for creating a Silverlight Application, XAML, Layout options and finishes with Components and Events.
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Professor Kris Gutiérrez has a rule about her after-school program at Alicia Sanchez Elementary School in Lafayette:
"If you're not having fun, something is going wrong."
And nothing is going wrong on this spring afternoon. About 40 second- to fifth-graders are in small groups avidly working to program their own computer games, construct electrical circuits and build model solar-powered cars.
And some of them have been doing it for several years.
Working side-by-side with CU-Boulder students ranging from undergraduates to postdoctoral researchers, the children are part of a voluntary program aimed at enhancing learning in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, for both children and potential elementary school teachers. But it goes far beyond that. The program is called El Pueblo Mágico – The Magical Community.
On a recent afternoon a little boy in a Broncos jersey picked up a long tube and raised it high over his head to connect it to another tube in a problem-solving activity in which children build an intricate pathway for a marble to travel across a large board. Suddenly, a string of about 30 marbles streaked through a long trail of clear winding pipes before other delighted students caught them in a cup.
"That was awesome," Gutiérrez said. "I want to see you do that again."
About 50 CU students and 150 Sanchez students are involved. The CU undergraduates attend a class on learning theory on campus and then practice implementing at the school what they learned in the classroom.
Because some of the elementary students have been in the program far longer than the college students, sometimes their roles get reversed as a designed feature of the program.
"They already know how to build a solar car," doctoral student Monica Gonzalez said of the after-school program veterans. "They're teaching the undergraduates how to make solar cars. They taught me."
It's no accident that El Pueblo Mágico may look a bit like the nationally known Exploratorium in San Francisco (a science discovery center for all ages) because Gutiérrez worked there as an Osher Fellow and maintains a continuing relationship.
The open-ended experiments are designed to engage and encourage creative outcomes. The environment is aimed at providing educational opportunities that are both "meaningful and enjoyable" -- things there might not always be time for during the regular school day, she said.
"We think we can be much more innovative after school," Gutiérrez said. "Here, we want a fifth grader and second grader and an undergraduate student working together to solve problems."
And there's much more happening than just STEM learning. Gonzalez is conducting research in Latino/a literacy studies, which also is integrated into the program. The students are videotaped as they work for later analysis by graduate students.
Senior Jake Nelsen is majoring in psychology at CU-Boulder with a minor in education. He previously took the learning theory class and now serves as a Learning Assistant to help other undergraduates who are taking it.
The undergraduates write "field notes" documenting both the children's learning at Sanchez as well as their own. "It's just a good learning opportunity all the way through for everyone involved," he said.
"To watch (the Sanchez students) go through the process and have those 'aha' moments is really rewarding for me," Nelson said.
"This is the favorite thing I do right now."
Sanchez Elementary is a small neighborhood school committed to engaging its children in innovative learning. About 80 percent of the students qualify for meal assistance, 40 percent are English language learners and 18 percent have special needs. Seventy percent of the students are Hispanic and seven years ago, the state said the school needed to improve.
"We are so fortunate at Sanchez to be the recipient of this brainchild of Dr. Gutiérrez," said Principal Doris Candelarie, who was named the 2014 Colorado National Distinguished Principal of the Year. "You can feel this buzz of energy. It's electric."
One of the things the program tries to do is provide access to educational opportunities and technology that many middle-class students and their families take for granted, Gutiérrez said. "When there's no computer at home, students from low-income families don't have the opportunity to keep doing at home what they were doing at school."
Gutiérrez recently received a MacArthur Foundation Connected Learning Research grant to follow students back into their homes to understand how such families use new media technologies. There aren't many computers in such homes, but there are smartphones with access to broadband -- and she thinks that has big potential.
Gutiérrez designed and directed a similar program to El Pueblo Mágico in Los Angeles that was one of the longest standing partnerships between a community school and the University of California, Los Angeles. She is now the inaugural Provost's Chair and Professor of Learning Sciences and Literacy in the CU-Boulder School of Education.
Her program is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Chancellor's STEM initiative, CU Outreach, a WISE grant, the CU Learning Assistant Program and the School of Education. She also partners with CU-Boulder computer science Professor Alexander Reppening.
At the end of the year, students in the program come to Boulder to learn about the university, have lunch and show what they have created.
Candelarie gives the program credit for contributing to a rise in her school's test scores in recent years. And she strongly praises the way Gutiérrez has been able to tie together research, extensive knowledge on learning theory and the preparation of novice teachers.
"I've been working in education for 25 years and I've never seen anything like it," she said.
Gutiérrez, who lives in Lafayette, is finishing her fourth year at Sanchez this year.
"It's been one of my rules as a professor that I do something in my own backyard," she said. "We should be resources for the community."


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freek is a person who loves to have sex with children and old grannies. he also watches grannyporn all the time.
if someone has a menage a trois with a granny and a baby, he's a freek
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alternate to freak; a person who like to get down in bed.
"That girl's a freek!"
by Silent Ninja c1998 July 15, 2003
A Freek is a person that is to weird to be a freak. the term freek describes a person that has no problem being weird, and do not care what people think about them.
I am a freek and I'm proud of it!
by freek4life August 26, 2009
A person who is half-French and half-Greek
Dude! Your Mom is French and your Dad is Greek so you're a Freek!
by Peter C. Melonas February 12, 2009
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Omg! That guys a freek! He's so cool he can be joey one day.
by smacdat May 13, 2007
Someone who likes to spoil and ruin things. A person who is never there when you need him, and always there when you wish he isn't there. A Freek will also go or stay home often on a friday or saturday evening for no good reason.
Isn't he going with us!? What a Freek!
Where is he?
At home being Freek.
Where is he?
At home being Freek.
by octopuseater April 25, 2010
it means That ur BIGGER then an freak.your Better. You have More Fun. your More Wild.and people LOVE you! BUT your can also be a BITCH & Bold.hahaha But they still Love you,no matter what you do.
gurl #1= Ew did see wat that Freek did at the party last night?
gurl#2= Yeah Wat Was She Thinking..
gurl#3= I thought it Seem Kool..
gurl#1 & #2= *Walks away*
gurl#2= Yeah Wat Was She Thinking..
gurl#3= I thought it Seem Kool..
gurl#1 & #2= *Walks away*
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A posting rat - a forum troll. One who furiously posts under multiple identities using multiple IP locations to trick the viewer into thinking there are many posters when there is only one.
FREEk is the same as SybilFREEk
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Several Brandon Bradshaw supporters rallied in front of the Warren County Justice Center this morning.
Friends, family, and some who didn't even know Bradshaw were rallying for answers in the case.
People at the rally say they fear the Bradshaw story has come to a stalemate since his funeral nearly two weeks ago.
Frustration continues to grow as many question what prompted off-duty court security officer Tommy Brown to allegedly shoot Bradshaw.
"People need answers really everybody in Bowling Green is talking about it and say it's the most hushed up thing they've ever seen," says Bradshaw supporter, Donna Ashby.
"Brandon doesn't have any voice anymore. There's no voice, we're the only voice that he has at this point," says "Rivers", also a Bradshaw supporter.
Kentucky State Police have finished their investigation, and it has been passed on to the Warren County Commonwealth Attorney.


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Does Shalach Manos require a Messenger and why?
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The Binyan Tzion, questions if you are Yotzei the Mitzva of Mishloach Manos if you bring it yourself, since Mishloach implies that you must send it with a Shaliach. Others like the Eishel Avrohom and Rav Shlomo Kluger hold that you are certainly Yotzei if you bring it personally. Sending it is a leniency that the Anshei Knesses HaGedola allowed. Moreover you can only make a Shaliach for something that you can do yourself. If you can't give Mishloach Manos by yourself you wouldn't be able to make a Shaliach.
The Dvar Avraham chelek 1:13 brings a shittah from a reading in the Ran that one needs to use a agent to fulfill mitzvah.
The Kaf Hachaim 695:41 writes the opinion of Binyan Tzion (Gershon gold sourced) and says that the Torah uses the term send in diffrent cases(Noach,Avraham)but was not done through a agent and he holds one does not need one to fulfill the mitzvah.


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Where Heidi Julavits failed, the military-industrial complex may have succeeded. "Snark" has jumped the shark:
Meet the Snark - an Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle of immense capability that demonstrates just how far the breed has come in such a short period of time. Constructed mainly of Carbon Fibre and Kevlar, the Snark is light and fast (280 km/h), quiet (special rotor blades make it extremely quiet ), virtually invisible to radar or infrared detection.
What makes the machine even more terrible is its powerful payload : The Snark discharges thousands of tiny Elizabeth Spierses per minute.
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I read somewhere that you get exposed to a non-negligible amount of radiation from the sun when you travel by air. Would this affect an unborn child's fragile DNA?!
Unless you're flight crew, frequent flyer or there's a solar storm, radiation is not a significant problem. The radiation comes from space in general and not significantly from the sun, so a night flight has pretty much the same radiation level.
source: In-Flight Radiation Exposure During Pregnancy (PDF), American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
This page contains the best Q&A about in-flight radiation concerns I've found. (Summary: It's generally safe.)
You can use this online calculator to determine how much radiation your flight would bring. To give you some perspective, this chart (here's another) shows that one flight across the USA brings you only 40 microsievert, which is one 25th of the yearly limit recommended by EPA, or just a few times more than a day's worth of background radiation on the ground. So if you fly 25 times in a year, you're still within safe limits.
Notable safety exception:
source: babycenter.com
But even solar flares aren't that dangerous, according to the Q&A page linked above:
This radiation chart, while not made by scientists can help you get the gist of how much radiation can come from various sources. Notice that an airplane flight is in the first section. It has a lot of squares, which makes it looks scary. However, you'll notice in the second section that "living in a brick, stone, or concrete building for a year gives one almost twice the radiation that a plane trip does. And millions (billions?) of people live in concrete apartment buildings and have no problems producing healthy children. Hopefully this will help put you at ease.
Airlines will not allow you to fly after a certain amount, and this varies airline by airline. We've been turfed off a flight at 34 weeks, so I'd advise you to contact the airline before booking a flight anywhere; travel agents will not ask you if you're pregnant.
Some other points I have found:
This is a scientific study on the issue. I haven't read this cover to cover, but if you want actual facts and figures, I am sure they'd be in here.
In flight radiation exposure during flight
But there is one paragraph in the summary worth note:
One final note (and this from myself) is that if you're carrying twins, I would be worried about travelling at any stage over 30 weeks as they are born earlier. Just something to keep in mind. I fly quite extensively and my wife and kids have always joined me wherever I am, whenever they can. She's flown many, many times pregnant, and as long as you take the precautions you need to (more exercise, more fluids etc), you'll be grand.
For reasonable amounts of air travel, radiation levels are too low to be a concern (per the Mayo Clinic):
Always check with your physician before flying while pregnant. Many doctors will tell expectant mothers not to fly after 36 weeks.
The risks of miscarriage or flight-related complications are lowest between weeks 14 and 28. During the first trimester morning sickness and other pregnancy symptoms can make flying particularly uncomfortable.


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April 14, 1994-March 12, 1995
Apr 01, 1994
Dia Center for the Arts will present a new project by the Irish artist James Coleman together with a retrospective overview of his work, opening to the public on April 14, 1994 at 548 West 22nd Street. The new slide-tape work will be shown throughout the year, while past works will be shown in three parts: April 14-June 19, 1994, September-December, 1994, and January-March, 1995. Hours are Thursday-Sunday, 12 noon-6 p.m.
Since the early seventies, James Coleman has been redefining traditions of representation and picture making usually associated with painting through his use of various media: photography, film, theater, and, particularly, slide-tape. Frustrating traditional modes of perception, Coleman's work forces the spectator to be conscious of the act of perception. While the earlier works define perception as grounded in real time and real space, the later works investigate the psychologically, socially, and historically conditioned character of perception.
Coleman's new project for Dia Center for the Arts completes a trilogy, begun with Background, 1991, and Lapsus Exposure, 1992. These works will be shown as a whole in the third part of the exhibition. The show will travel to Le Nouveau Musée in Villeurbanne in 1995 and in 1996 to the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid.
Funding for this project has been provided by The Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, Inc., the Dia Art Council, the major annual support group of Dia Center for the Arts, and the Dia Art Circle. Support for the 1993-94 exhibitions program has also been provided through a generous grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
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May one activate a glow stick on Shabbos? (In other words, is there a prohibition on activating the chemical reaction which produces the light in a glow stick?)
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I am a rabbi in Birmingham. When we have tornadoes which knock out power we recommend people use light sticks. There is no heat generated, the light is a simple chemical reaction. breaking the inner glass is not mekalkel as what you are doing is not destructive it is in fact constructive. Think of cutting a cucumber for salad...yeah you are breaking something but it is for a constructive purpose so it is not mekalkel.
Not every cutting act or breaking act is forbidden. It must fit into a category of melakha. The three categories of cutting are Gozez and Kore'a and mekhatech.
Gozez requires that the cutting be done inorder to improve the item that it is being cut off from the av melakha only applies in animals and people but the toladot apply globally (bekhorot 24b, tosafot bekhorot 25a, Eglei Tal Melekhet Gozez). This is shearing a sheep or getting a hair cut.
Koreya: requires that the tearing be done inorder to sew back. This means that if you have two pieces of cloth that are coming apart you may not separate them so that you can resew them. This melakha only applies to soft bendable materials (cloth etc.) and not to things like metal or wood or glass (minhat chinuch shabbat 24 and elsewhere I cant remember or find at the moment) and though not the main stream view may pasken that it only applies to woven materials.
Mekhatekh, this only applies when cutting something to a specific size or shape (rambam 11, chayei adam)
The category of breaking is only applicable if you in the process do a melakha. Or if it is destroying inorder to build however, if there is no constructive nature to the act there is no issur (maybe baal tashchit though it wouldnt apply in this case) The gemara posits that even if a man is breaking something inorder to show his anger in his household that may not be completely non-constructive.
All this being said, I dont let my children play with the light sticks on shabbat and we don't take them out unless there is a power outage. I dont think that it would be assur for them to do so but I dont think that it is shabbostik (it is not in the spirit of shabbat). In the case that you really need them for light it is certainly better than any alternative such as a flashlight. So in summary I think that it is permitted but I think that it lessens the shabbat experience (except for when it doesn't)
Aside from the chemical reaction (about which I don't know whether that would be permissible on Shabbos), there is also the fact that in activating it you're breaking the inner glass tube. At the very least, if we consider this מקלקל (a destructive act), then I would think it would be prohibited Rabbinically.
It's discussed by Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner, along with the chemical reaction causing self-heating meals, in this mp3. (Also see his source sheet.) It's been discussed in some Hebrew-language halacha journals recently.
It appears to be at most rabbinically prohibited, at least at first glance.


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- Subject: Naval History
- Date Available: August 2011
Between 1906 and 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built five battlecruisers, each one bigger than the last, culminating in the mighty HMS Hood, the largest warship of her day. Like most shipyards of the time, Clydebank employed professional photographers to record the whole process of construction, using large-plate cameras that produced photos of stunning clarity and detail, although very few of the images have ever been published. This pictorial collection, with its lengthy and informative captions, offers ship modelers and enthusiasts a wealth of visual information simply unobtainable elsewhere.
Ian Johnston is the author of several books, including Ships for a Nation, and Beardmore Built, the story of another great Clydeside yard.
Praise for Clydebank Battlecruisers
"Clydebank Battlecruisers has to be one of the outstanding publications of the year, and anyone with an interest in the major ships of the Grand Fleet or shipbuilding on the Clyde will want to own it."
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Thank you Vincen, you are a star!
Your suggestion was just what I needed ...
"Be careful to use the HTML editor when you edit a post and not the formatted tab as it messes HTML codes and stuffs like that ! URL of your post to check what's wrong?"
together with hints from Sam it made me look much more closely to what was happening to the text I was entering and editing.
Perhaps I was being naive in thinking that with WordPress I did not need to consider the HTML detail and thought I could just work on the "Visual" tag, but I should have realised.
In the 1990s we transferred and edited survey data with ASCII files and I was always advising Customers to use a pure text editor and not a word processor (e.g. Word) which would add hidden spurious characters and corrupt the data, so once I switched to the "HTML" tag and started looking closely at the HTML I could work out what was going on and what to do about it.
For example, when I looked at the text in the "Visual" tag:
[pano file=http://360hugh.co.uk/wp-content/uplo...arth-House.swf]
in the "HTML" tag it was nice clean HTML code:

[pano file="http://360hugh.co.uk/wp-content/uplo...arth-House.swf"]

but when I started editing it in the "Visual" tag then looked again in the "HTML" tag it had changed:

[pano file=<a href="http://360hugh.co.uk/wp-content/uplo...se.swf]

which resulted in the error message:
Please enter file name or URL"
so the lesson is to work with the HTML!
I still find it strange that when using the WordPress commands "Upload/Insert", "Gallery (X)", "Show", "Embed in post" that the text:
[pano file=http://360hugh.co.uk/wp-content/uplo...arth-House.swf]
shows under the "Visual" tag but appears under the "HTML" tag as:

which is why it vanishes when clicking "Update".
So, like most things to do with computers and programming the error message points to the apparent problem and not the true problem, so I was not having any problem with PanoPress, but a problem with WordPress and now I "can see clearly again" I thouroughly endorse Andrews comment:
"Panopress is the way to go and Sam's the man!"
Many thanks people, Hugh.


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This question is related to one I asked previously. This is probably a little harder. I had a crack at it today, but have become stuck. I suspect the result is buried in the order statistics literature somewhere, and perhaps somebody is familiar with it. That, or Peter might insta-solve again :).
Given a vector $s$ of integers let $d(s)$ be the maximum difference between any two integers in $s$ when sorted in ascending order. That is, if we sort $s$ in ascending order to obtain $v$, then $$d(s) = \max_{i} (v_{i+1} - v_i).$$
For $s$ a vector of length $m$ from $\lbrace 1,2,\dots,n\rbrace^m$ we must have $0 \leq d(s) < n$.
Given $0 \leq k < n$, how may such vectors have $d(s) = k$ ?
Again, I'm more interested in the case where $n$ is much larger than $m$ and if reasonable bounds can be found for $d(s)$, then this would be useful too.
Note: If $N_k$ is the answer for $k$. Then you should have $n^m = \sum_{k=0}^{n-1}N_k$


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Can anything be said in general about the rank etc over $\mathbb{Q}$ of the family of Weierstrass equations (in slightly non-standard form) $x (x^2 - 1) = c (c^2 - 1) y^2$ for various given rational values of $c$ ? I have a good reason for asking, so this isn't idle curiosity.
Naturally, it would be simplest if the Weierstrass equation has the same behaviour for each of these values of $c$, or least with a manageable (finite) amount of variation. Obviously there is always a solution $x, |y| = c, 1$; but that might be a trivial solution of a rank 0 case.


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I have a question about surgery.
Let $G= \mathbb{Z}_m \times \mathbb{Z}$ and $M$ be a oriented 3-manifold with G-action. i.e. There exists a map $f\colon M/G \to BG$, where $BG$ is classifying space.($BG=K(G,1)=K(\mathbb{Z}_m \times \mathbb{Z},1)).$ Therefore, we can regard $(M/G,f)\in \Omega^{SO}_3(K(G,1))$, where $\Omega^{SO}_3(X)$ is (3-dimensional oriented) bordism group of $X$. By using Leray-Serre spectral sequence, we can easily see that $\Omega^{SO}_3(K(G,1))=H_3(G)=\mathbb{Z}_m$ (By using Kunneth fomula) Therefore, $\exists$ r>0 such that $r(M/G,f)$ is nullbordant over $G$. (we can choose $r =m$) That is, there exists a 4-manifold $V$ with G-action such that $\partial V = M$ and $\partial (V/G) = M/G$ and induced map $g\colon V/G\to BG$ is an extension of $f\colon M/G \to BG$.
$\underline{Question}$ : Can I do a surgery on $V/G$ to make $\pi_1(V/G)=G$ without losing $G$ action on $V$?


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Julia Broxholm
D.M.A. University of Michigan; M.M. University of Michigan; B.M. University of Michigan
Soprano Julia Broxholm has a career that spans opera to Broadway, oratorio to vocal chamber music, and recitalist to recording artist. In recent years she has devoted herself to teaching and the results are spectacular. Her former students are leading players on stages on Broadway, in Las Vegas, in national touring companies, and in Europe. Noted for her understanding of vocal technique and articulation of text, she is quickly becoming a most sought after pedagogue.
Her operatic roles have included Alice Ford in Verdi's Falstaff, the title role in Floyd's Susannah, Susanna in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale and Musetta in Puccini's La Boheme She has also appeared in numerous musical theater roles, most recently in a production of Follies with Donna McKechnie and original Broadway cast members Marti Rolph, Virginia Sandifur, Kurt Peterson, and Harvey Evans, doing the big number, "Broadway Baby". She is passionate and accomplished in the musical theater repertoire.
In oratorio she has been soloist in all of the major choral works: Handel's Messiah, Saul, Solomon and Israel in Egypt, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Brahms' Ein Deutches Requiem,Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Haydn's The Creation, Bach's St. John Passion and St. Matthew Passion, Mozart's Requiem, Orff's Carmina Burana, Faure's Requiem and Poulenc's Gloria as well as numerous other smaller works. She was highly praised by the composer for her performance in Dave Brubeck's La Fiesta de la Posada.
In the area of vocal chamber music she was a founding member of SATB, a vocal quartet specializing in vocal chamber music of the 19th and 20th centuries. Her performances with SATB have taken her from the Cayman Islands International Music Festival to Severance Hall in Cleveland, and Kilbourn Hall at Eastman School of Music. Recordings include two releases with SATB; Magic, and It's a Grand Night….Four Singing. . A recent project has been a series of premier performances of Byna, Life Songs of a Southern Appalachian Woman of Cherokee Indian Descent. Byna is the collaboration of a North Carolina composer and playwright, and has been receiving performances throughout the Appalachian mountain region. While in Michigan she is a regular artist appearing with Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, Lansing Symphony Orchestra, and the Flint Symphony in repertoire from Beethoven Symphony to programs featuring the music of George Gershwin.
As a recitalist she is well known for her performances of vocal literature by American composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. She continues to work with Steven Blier, coaching this repertoire, and collaborates with Russell Miller in performances of this exciting song literature. With pianist Martin Katz and clarinetist Fred Ormand, she has recorded the major literature for soprano, clarinet, and piano. Of Shepherds, Romance and Love features music of the 19th century, and the more recently released Transience includes the song cycles Ariel by Ned Rorem, and To Be Sung Upon the Water by Dominick Argento as well as Toot Suite, a set of classic songs from the musical theater world. She is quickly becoming known in this repertoire which includes some of the most recognized vocal chamber music with instruments. Composer John Harbison was effusive in his praise of her performance of his Chorale Cantata. In the May/June 2008 issue of American Record Guide, respected music critic Robert Moore wrote of her performance in Transience, "Julia Broxholm offers striking readings and displays impeccable vocal technique, marked by purity of tone, clarity of articulation, and effortless-sounding singing above the staff. "
Dr. Broxholm received a D.M.A in vocal performance from the University of Michigan where she was lauded for setting a new standard of excellence for performing musicians in the areas of research and performance.


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I have a machine (A) behind a firewall with no access to the Internet, on this machine I can NFS mount directories on another machine (B) which can access internet, and is accessible from Internet, but I cannot install anything on this machine (B).
I want to keep a directory on (A) in sync with my Dropbox (that I use on all my other machines (not A or B), all of them connect to Internet regularly).
The solution that I came up with is to have a
cron job on (A), to call two
rsync commands to sync a directory on (A) with an NFS mounted directory which is actually on (B).
Then I can have a cron job on some other machine on the Internet that syncs my Dropbox with the directory on (B).
Anyone can see any problems with this plan, or has a better suggestion?
Anything other unix utility besides
cron and


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The Key (Hardcover)
Hunted. Hounded. Haunted.
She is the most important person in the world. She is The Key
Journalist Liv Adamsen has escaped from the highly secretive Citadel at the heart of the ancient city of Ruin and now lies in isolation, staring at hospital walls as blank as her memory. Despite her inability to recall her past, something strange is stirring within her. She feels possessed by a sen-sation she can't name and plagued by whispers only she can hear: "KuShiKaam," the key.
To others the meaning is clear. For a mercenary operating in the Syrian Desert, a man known only as "the Ghost," Liv may hold the key to one of history's most powerful secrets. For the brotherhood of monks in the Citadelnow cursed by a terrible plagueher return to Turkey may be the only way to ensure their survival. And for a powerful faction in Vatican City, her very existence threatens the success of a desperate plan to save the church from ruin.
At the center of events that defy explanation and hunted by someone she believes might be trying to kill her, Liv turns to the only person she can trusta foundation worker named Gabriel Mann. Together they must elude capture and journey to the place where all life began. From New York to Rome to the deserts of the Middle East, worlds collide in a race to uncover a revelation dating from the creation of man in this electrifying follow-up to the international bestseller Sanctus.
About the Author
Simon Toyne is the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy: Sanctus, The Key, and The Tower. A writer, director, and producer in British television for twenty years, he worked on several award-winning shows, one of which won a BAFTA. His books have been translated into twenty-seven languages and published in more than fifty countries. He lives with his wife and family in England and the south of France, where he is at work on his second Solomon Creed novel.
Praise For…
"If you like your secrets deeply hidden and your action breakneck, then Toyne's sophomore thriller is just the ticket. . . . As in his debut, Toyne delivers a gripping, intricate story of religious and political intrigue that's sweeping yet somehow intimate and very personal. Wow."
-Booklist (starred review) on The Key
"[Sanctus] might turn out to be the next great cliffhanger conspiracy thriller."
-Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Sanctus
"Hard to think of it as a debut, better to think of it as the beginning of a massive new adventure, and a so-long to Dan Brown. . . ."
-The Daily Mirror (UK) on Sanctus
"When you read Sanctus, you'll see just how frightening, ruthless and relentlessly entertaining an order of monks can be. Haunting in the best way."
-Brad Meltzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Inner Circle
"Remarkable . . . Its 'just one more page, one more chapter' urgency keeps you reading into the night, and the final revelation of the Citadel's secret is haunting."
-Library Journal (starred review) on Sanctus
"In British author Toyne's stellar first in a projected trilogy, a thriller in the Dan Brown tradition . . . The truly mind-boggling revelation will leave astounded readers eager for the next installment."
-Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Sanctus
"Well-written, fast-paced and delivered with an admirable economy of words . . . an edge-of-the-seat story filled with action and adventure, as well as a puzzle that the main characters must somehow put together before the world simply disappears. . . . [A] taut thriller."
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