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"As we see the conflicts die down in theaters overseas, we're going to have a lot more soldiers and family back home who have been dealing with over a decade of war and at that time, that's when we're going to start to see some issues that manifest themselves. We're going to see a need to keep the force resilient to help recover from back-to-back combat tours and shift to a more garrison-type environment. For us, we have an additional special mission that's going to continue for a long time and that's where the support of our fellow patrons in Kansas and our fellow citizens is going to be even more crucial," Blackmon told WIBW.
"Operation USO Support Kansas" will take place this Monday, February 4th. The call center phone bank will be open from 7 AM to 7 PM. To make a donation, call 1-855-USO-GIFT (876-4438).
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Our weekend forum is for issues related to "the sandwich generation." Coping with menopause, caring for aging parents, relations with adult children, grandchildren, going back to work after years at home. Want to hash out a difficulty, get some advice or share a strategy?
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I'll toss out some questions to get us rolling. How do you handle it when Mom or Dad starts slipping, mentally? Do you correct them when they get stories wrong or just play along? How do you respect your parents' dignity and wishes while over-riding clearly odd or confused requests?
Ok, I've regained some composure and do have some thoughts now. It's very difficult when your parents start failing, both mentally and physically. First and foremost we have to make sure we don't invade their privacy "too" much unless the situation becomes a real problem. I listen to stories at least 3 times some days and would love to go into the examining room with my parents when they see the doctor. At thus point it is a concern, but not a necessity in every case. Serious medical situations do require this, and that is when it gets hairy. What I do suggest is to make sure you take care of yourself. If You don't do that your own family will suffer when you start stretching yourself too thin. Our aging parents can be a big burden, but the key is to get as much information as possible and take care of your own health.
Hi! I'm 68 years old. I've been through the experience of both my mother and my husband's parents aging. It is so hard to see them this way, losing their independence because of failing health or mental capabilities. They have passed on now but we kept on loving them and respecting them and their wishes for as long as we could. When it was evident that they were unable to function on their own we always offered them them the choice of one thing or another to keep their dignity and independence going for as long as possible. We made contact with my husband's parents on a daily basis to let them know they were important to us, either a telephone call or a quick visit as they lived near us. My mother lived a nundred miles away in another city so we kept in touch by phone and drove to her city to visit as often as circumstances would permit. When she was eventually placed in a nursing home we would telephone and the caregiver would hold the phone to her ear so that she could hear us, even though she could no longer respond. We always told our parents we loved them and we prayed for them. As I'm getting older I'm becoming more able to understand what they were going through as they aged and I hope that our adult children will give my husband and me the respect and dignity which we will be longing for when we reach the stage of needing care.
What a lovely testimony, Mrs. R. Sounds like you did all you could to honor your parents according to the commandment. Thanks for sharing.


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| Romanow, Stephany, Hydrocarbon Processing Staff, Houston, TX
The latest expansion project includes an ethane cracker (EU3), two PE and two PP plants, and a low-density PE (LDPE) unit.
Ethylene is the bell-weather petrochemical and the feedstock for many petrochemicals and polymers. The
size of ethylene facilities has increased since the
first ethane crackers were constructed in the 1950s. With
advances in cracking technology, larger ethylene
complexes were possible, now reaching over 1 million tpy (1
MMtpy) of ethylene capacity.
Where is, and who operates, the largest ethylene
complex? Answer: Borouge, a joint venture
between Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) and Borealis,
operates the largest ethane cracker with 1.5 MMtpy of ethylene
Central to Borouges operations is the petrochemical production complex in
Ruwais, about 250 km west of Abu Dhabi City in the United Arab
Emirates (UAE). Borouge invested US$1.2 billion to build the
first petrochemical facility in the Middle
East. In 2001, Borouge started production with a total
manufacturing capacity of only 450,000 tpy (450 Mtpy) of
polyethylene (PE). By 2005, the complex consisted of an
ethylene cracker (EU1) built by the alliance of Bechtel and
Linde. Additionally, two Borstar bimodal PE units were
constructed by Tecnimont (PE1/PE2), each capable of producing
300 Mtpy of bimodal PE.
In 2010, under the project name of Borouge 2, Borouge
tripled the polyolefins manufacturing capacity of this complex.
The approximately $5 billion investment enabled Borouge to
produce a total of 2 MMtpy of Borstar polyolefins. This project
included an additional ethane cracker (EU2), a third PE unit,
an olefins conversion unit for the conversion of ethylene to
propylene, and two new polypropylene (PP) units, spearheading
the companys entrance into PP production.
The 1.5-MMtpy ethane cracker (EU2) was built by the Linde
Group at a cost of $1.3 billion, and it is considered to be the
largest in the world, as shown in Fig. 1. With
the first and second ethane crackers put into production,
Borouge can now produce 2.1 MMtpy of ethylene.
Fig. 1. Night view of
Borouge 2, the worlds
largest ethane cracker.
The project includes an ethane cracker (EU3), two PE units
and two PP units, as well as a low-density PE (LDPE) unit.
Bechtel is providing management support for this construction project. The projects new (and third for
Borouge) ethane cracker will produce 1.5 MMtpy of ethylene and
is being built by the Linde Group at a contract value of $1.075
The unique Borstar technology that Borouge uses in its
production enables the company to provide a differentiated
range of PE and PP innovative plastics solutions for
infrastructure applications (including pipe systems, and power
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Borouge is a leading provider of innovative, value creating
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Borouge is also investing in plants and logistics hubs in
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Borouge ensures that its customers throughout the value chain,
around the world, can always rely on superior products and
security of supply. Borouge is committed to the principles of
Responsible Care, and, together with Borealis, it proactively
contributes toward addressing the worlds water and
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borouge a joint venture between abu dhabi national oil co adnoc is largest industrial complexes whear we are already worked in ruwais industrial city so i like it
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[ I am a bit clueless about why this question is getting downvotes!? I put it up with a genuine serious interest and I don't seem to be making any egregious error either - apart from those unsure sentences which I have made with a "?" in the bracket. Please explain if something is terribly wrong with this question! Is this question too elementary for this forum? ]
Here by a "curve" I shall tend to think of algebraic curves in $\mathbb{CP}^2$
- Is reducibility or not of a curve a question of whether the defining equation factorizes (necessarily into linear factors?) or is something more demanded from the factors? If the curve is thought of as a monic (in $y$) element in $\mathbb{C}[x][y]$ (which it can always be) has even $1$ root isn't that sufficient to say that it is reducible?
The degree of an algebraic curve will be the highest degree homogeneous component in it and hence if it has a triple point that would imply that the third degree term is the only term. Hence further if this is an ordinary triple point that would mean that this only term (of third degree) has 3 distinct roots and hence the curve is reducible. Is the argument right?
- I would like to understand the other related such statements that I face like - a fourth degree curve with 4 singular (whether or not ordinary? whether or not distinct?) is also reducible, that if a fourth degree irreducible curve has 3 distinct singular points then they are necessarily double.
As the framing itself suggests, I am not sure of the statements and would like to know what is the precise statement that is correct and why.
Thought of as the monic polynomial (as in the first bullet point) if the curve has $0$ discriminant then it will have repeated roots. Is that then equivalent to saying that irreducibility implies that the discriminant is not identically $0$? (..or is some further work required?..)(I guess the converse is not true - a non-zero discriminant curve can still be reducible?--I guess so..)
What is the meaning of an "ordinary singular" point on a curve? I am aware of the notion of an "ordinary k-tuple" point. (...is it true that for $k>1$ such a point has to be singular?..seems so..)
What is the general way to connect reducibility or not of a curve with the fact as to whether or not it has singular points or how many of them does it have?


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If you shuffle n cards as follows: Go through the deck one card at a time and at each card, flip a fair coin. If the coin comes up head, then leave the card where it is, and if it comes up tails move that card to the end of the deck. For example, if n =4, and the initial ordering is 1,2,3,4, and outcome of the successive flips is h,t,t,h, then the ordering at the end of the round is 1,4,2,3. Assuming all possible outcomes of the coin flips are equally likely, what is the probability that the ordering after one round is the same as the initial ordering?
If the ordering after n flips is the same as the initial ordering, then you would have to roll all heads since rolling heads doesn't change the ordering. So the answer would be (1/2)^n?


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6 Things Everyone Knows About Women (That Aren't True)
We previously pointed out how some crude, absurd gender stereotypes are in fact proven true by science. But, in the interest of not letting 60s sitcoms have the last word on the differences between men and women, we should point out how many things "everyone knows" about women just plain aren't true, according to science. Like...
#6. Women Aren't As Aggressive
Remember that nursery rhyme about what little girls and little boys are made of? Boys are made of errant amphibians, mollusks and puppy parts while girls are made of sugar and spice and all that's nice. It'd be an adorable if it didn't also sum up gender expectations for the rest of your life.
Snails and dog tails make you more aggressive.
When we grow up, women are more likely to be penalized for displaying too much aggression, while men are rewarded for the exact same behavior.
Sometimes with millions of dollars.
When actually ...
Women might be the more aggressive of the genders.
Researchers found that when you deindividuate a person--or place the person in a situation where he or she doesn't have an individual identity--aggressive attitudes are amplified. This makes sense. It's probably why Marines are required to wear the same uniform, and hipsters are such pussies. Well, they tested this in the lab by having men and women play an interactive video game that required killing other players by dropping bombs on them.
They found that under normal circumstances, men dropped far more bombs than women. But in the deindividuated groups, women out-attacked the men every time, with an average of about five more bombs dropped per session.
Might as well face it, you're addicted to MASS MURDER.
Putting people, particularly women, in a situation where they are anonymous and don't have to conform to societal expectations is very powerful psychologically. And by very powerful, we mean it turns them into an unfeeling murder machines.
#5. Women Aren't as Horny as Men
When it comes to the topic of sex drive, everyone knows the stereotypes: Men are shameless swine who will nail anything with a pulse, and women are only interested in lovemaking that satisfies them on an emotional level.
Think back on your adolescence, and it seems self-evident, doesn't it? Boys are so sex-driven that they literally have to hide their protruding penises (penii?) with baggy jeans and Trapper Keepers. Girls rarely have that problem. And as adults, we all know that it's mostly men, not women, populating the porn-viewing public. The Kinsey Institute even says so. Obviously, men are much more interested in sex. Case closed.
When actually ...
Women are probably just as horny as men--they just don't want you to know it.
The "fan and demure smile" look is just a more elegant "hard-on poking through the jeans."
A recent study asked a large group of test subjects about their sexual behavior but put some clever controls in place. One group of respondents gave their answers while connected to a polygraph machine, and a second group was put in a with a researcher and told that their answers would be monitored. A control group was told their answers would remain completely anonymous.
It turns out that when women were faced with the chance of someone seeing their answers (the group with the researcher in the room) they all suddenly became contestants in a Miss Chastity pageant, reporting only half the number of sexual partners that the group connected to the lie detector claimed. But the women connected to the polygraph actually reported more sexual partners than the men in the same control group.
"Well, there's the weekly foursome, the monthly "Lezz-In" and the occasional anonymous stall sex."
Experts interpreted this as women feeling "pressure to adhere to sex role expectations that indicate (they) should be more relationship-oriented and should avoid being seen as promiscuous." Just like with the bombing experiment, take away what society expects of us, and our true colors show.
Most of those colors are shades of pink.
On a related note...
#4. Only Men Like Porn
The pimps who make up the advertising world have known for decades that the best way to catch a man's eye (and money) is with copious amounts of T&A. Men will line up to buy a large-caliber gunshot to the face as long as there's a scantily clad woman in a submissive pose somewhere telling them how awesome it's going to be.
But what about women? It's been widely believed that the fairer sex isn't affected by erotic imagery to the same degree that men are. And not just in advertising, but in movies, magazines or any other forms in which it might appear. Which is why you don't see half-naked beefcake flanking bottles of hair conditioner.
When actually ...
According to this study, women's brains react just as quickly to erotic images as men's do--and in fact the reaction may even be stronger.
They even use different "circuits" to process them as opposed to the pathways that are reserved for everyday images. Using EEG electrodes to monitor brain activity, researchers showed a group of female subjects pictures that ranged from pleasant to disturbing. Everything was cool until they got to photos that showed couples engaged in sensual poses.
Erotic images elicited neurons to fire at 160 milliseconds, which was 20 percent faster than even the quickest reactions to the non-erotic pictures--even if those pictures depicted immediate danger, like a snarling animal.
Above: less interesting than a penis.
If you've heard that stuff about how erotica turns women on only if there's some kind of deep backstory or emotional connection to what's going on, keep this in mind: 160 milliseconds means the women's brains were lighting up in response to the naked people well before they even consciously registered what they were seeing. Way before the thinking part of their brains could warm up, they already had an immediate, knee-jerk animal response that screamed, "LOOK! A BONER!"


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I am wondering what are the prerequisites for being a modern geometer? It seems that the amount you have to know is just huge: differential geometry, differential topology, algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, symplectic geometry, ... and then there is all kinds of overlap. So my question is the following: what should you know (from the topics I mentioned and the topics that I forgot) to call yourself a geometer (lets say by the time you get your Ph.D.)? And where are the best books/articles covering all that?
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The question asked effectively is "What does one have to know ... to call oneself a geometer?" and as several comments note, that question is tough to answer, nonspecific, and the answers are scary ... and yet the question swiftly picked up two "favorite" votes too.
If the question were rephrased as "What ideas are geometers pursuing?" then the MathOverflow community might be able to supply answers that are more specific, useful, and inspiring to students beginning their research.
Notable mathematicians have written many fine essays on this topic. Commonly these essays are more-or-less centered around a guiding idea that was articulated by Mac Lane in his Mathematics, Form and Function (1986) as follows (and I'm posting this as an "answer" solely to be able to format this quotation properly):
Nowadays the notion of "geometry" has become so broadly generalized, as to be effectively identical to Mac Lane's notion of "a piece of mathematics whose ideas shine through the display of manipulations."
For systems engineers nowadays (me in particular) geometry is largely about the dynamical flow of complex systems ... and of course we want our engineering understanding to "shine through the display of manipulations" .. but it would be a grave mistake to imagine that geometric understanding of dynamical systems is all that geometry is about ... because geometry has evolved to become a much broader notion than that.
Therefore, a reasonable piece of advice to young researchers nowadays—in math, science, engineering, and even medicine, it doesn't much matter which—is not to ask oneself "What articles and books should I read?" without first asking oneself the organizing question "What articles and books will I someday want to write? What will be the core ideas? How will I explain these core ideas clearly?"
As soon as you can write down those ideas in even a hazy and uncertain form, then your research career will have begun ... as you learn, your ideas will slowly take concrete form ... and almost certainly you will be led to the study of geometry in its many modern forms.
Perhaps this is why, 2400 years after Plato's Academy first affirmed it, the members emblem of the American Mathematical Society until recently (and maybe still?) said in greek: "Let none but geometers enter here".


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tea party ideological leader Sen. Jim DeMint says he's leaving the U.S. Senate in better shape than when he entered it.
DeMint shocked Washington on Thursday when he said he would step down on Jan. 1 to join the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. His departure comes just two years into a second, six-year term representing South Carolina.
The state's senior senator, Republican Lindsey Graham, says he didn't see DeMint's resignation coming.
While most of his colleagues were stunned, not all were saddened. DeMint sometimes frustrated follow Republicans by prizing ideology over electability.
He used his political action committee, the Senate Conservatives Fund, to bankroll candidates he backed. But candidates he actively supported in 2010 cost the GOP seats observers expected the party to win easily.


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State girls tournament brackets released
When the CIAC girls basketball tournament starts Monday night at sites across the state, 21 area teams will be alive with dreams of a final game at the Mohegan Sun Arena in mid-March. Certainly some of those hopes and wishes will be dashed quickly, but for the higher ranked teams a long postseason journey is a winter-long goal.
Pomperaug, which finished the regular season 19-1 before getting upset in the SWC tourney semifinals this week, is the highest ranked area team at No. 2 in the Class L field. Thomaston, which plays for the Berkshire League championship on its home floor Friday night against Lewis Mills, is the No. 3 seed in Class S.
NVL champion Torrington is the No. 9 seed in the powerful Class L bracket, which also features Watertown (19-1) as the No. 4 ranked team.
There are two matchups of area teams in the first round as Torrington will host NVL rival Crosby Monday, and Nonnewaug (No. 4 in Class M) will host Sacred Heart in the opening round Tuesday night.
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Monday, October 15, 2007
The Role of Regret in Trading
In that sense, emotion is an experiential barometer that connects us to our evaluations of events and situations in real time.
One of the most fundamental appraisals we can make is whether we have been right or wrong in our decisions and actions. When we deem that we have acted properly and effectively, we experience satisfaction and pride. When we perceive that we have fallen short in our actions, the result is frustration and regret.
When we experience regret, we act as our own judge and critic. For most people, this makes regret an aversive state. The desire to reduce or eliminate regret thus becomes a powerful motivation.
Consider the trader who exits a trade and takes a small profit, only to have the position move further in his direction. Although the trader has taken a profit, the dominant perception may be, "I should have held the position longer." Topmost of the mind is not the amount earned, but the amount left on the table.
Our trader is in a situation in which he may very well use the next trade to reduce his regret. Perhaps he will chase the market to get in on the move. Perhaps he will fade the market's move in hopes of undoing the missed opportunity. In either case, his trading decision is colored by his need to reduce his aversive state. It will not be a decision made solely on the basis of opportunity.
Some of the most painful trading incidents of regret occur when a trader misses a top or bottom in the market and then refuses to get into an indicated trade, hoping that the market will pull back and provide another opportunity for the perfect entry. Many times this leaves the trader on the sidelines for an extended move that had been anticipated, magnifying regret many times over.
Perfectionism is the close cousin of regret. When we set perfectionistic goals, we set ourselves up to fall short. This leaves us with plenty of opportunity for regret. It is difficult to experience confidence in trading when our self-appraisals chronically tell us that we're falling short.
Because we are fallible and markets are not perfectly predictable, there will always be opportunities for regret in trading. We will take profits too early and miss moves; we will hold on for large gains and see our paper profits eroded. At best we will take pieces of moves and participate in only a fraction of the moves generated by markets. Every trader must learn to live with a certain amount of regret.
That is not necessarily a bad thing. Regret can be a positive motivator as well as an emotional trap. When we look back on mistakes we make or opportunities we miss, regret can lead us to learn from those experiences so that we will not repeat them.
Regret is one of the prime motivators behind my position size management, which often has me scaling out of trades. It's not uncommon that I will have both a near-term price target for my trades (perhaps the midpoint of a trading range that we've re-entered) and a longer-term target (the opposite range extreme or the prior day's high or low). I've learned to take a portion of my profits at the initial target and leave a small position for the more extended move (with stop moved to breakeven).
What this accomplishes is the opportunity to be paid out when I'm right on a move and also the opportunity to benefit from the larger move. I avoid the regret of losing paper profits by waiting for the larger move and having the market reverse on me, and I avoid the regret of missing out on a larger move. My position management thus becomes a tool for maintaining psychological equilibrium.
If I experience a strong degree of regret during the trading day, I almost always shut my trading down. I've learned from hard-earned experience that trades tinged with regret rarely work out. When I'm trading well, I'm focused on the market and what it's doing. When I'm trading with regret, it's about me and "getting even". Indeed, when I find "should have" entering my thoughts, that's become a cue for me to step back from the screen.
There's a time and place for "should haves", usually during after-action reviews of the day's trade. Regret can be an effective prod to examine and improve trading, but it makes a poor rationale for placing trades.
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- bzak said...
Sometimes I will sell half of my position in a stock which I can see how regret really affects my emotions.
I want the stock to go down so that I can be right about my decision, but if the stock does go down I lose money. I can't 'win' or feel good about the trade, since I am forced to feel some regret.
The only good thing is that it teaches me how to more effectively deal with regret. I usually try to reframe my decisions, like thinking what I would do if I only held cash, ignoring all my past trades.
I am a long term trader, but regret in the short term affects my decisions more than probably any emotion. Thinking in a long term perspective can help remove some thoughts of regret, but it's easier said than done.
- StarPicker said...
Is there rampant fraud in our system ? Someone bought TEK (160K shares !!) right before market close on Friday (at 3:59pm !). Significantly more than average trade size during that day.
How come the SEC is not doing anything about such things ? A couple of times a year they catch some crook. But I see the fraud happening over and over again with stocks that make the big news. Little guys always lose.
- High Probability Trader said...
Nice post,
Exact reason why I need to strictly follow my trade signals, set a max loss limit for each trading day, and use good risk management to avoid emotional trading from taking over.
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Thanks for the comments on the post. I think it helps to regard regret as a style of thinking that personalizes negative outcomes. A different (and often more constructive) style is to regard negative outcomes as learning opportunities that provide us with goals for the next trading sessions.


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In SP2010 we have an option to check user permission incase user has many permission levels. How do we achieve the same in SP2007? I did install Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit for it as mentioned in microsoft site (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-sharepoint-services-help/check-permissions-for-a-user-or-group-HA010362860.aspx) but I cant see the option anywhere in Site setting.
Can anyone please help me incase I've missed something in between?
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Xbox LIVE issues being addressed as Ubisoft and Uplay games go offline, including Watch DogsWritten by: / / 10 Comments
If you've been trying to use a certain set of specific features on Xbox LIVE in the last twelve hours, then there's a good chance you've been thwarted at every turn because Microsoft's online service is currently experiencing a few issues.
At the moment, Microsoft has issued a warning for Xbox LIVE users with connection issues related to the 'Social and Gaming' portions of the online experience, writing that the ability to join other Xbox LIVE members in online games, as well as manage your friends lists and track what they're up to, are both affected.
But That's Not All
Ubisoft's Uplay service is also affected, as the maintenance team writes:
"Hi Xbox members, are you having trouble using the Uplay feature on games like Watch Dogs, Trials Fusion, Child of Light, and Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag? We are working with our partner to get the issue resolved as quickly as possible. Thanks for your patience."
Are you experiencing any Xbox LIVE issues, either on Xbox 360 or Xbox One, or has it been smooth sailing in the last twelve hours?
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Need help stretching your food budget this summer? Second Harvest Heartland and the Watonwan County Food Shelf are teaming up for a distribution of rescue produce and bread for Watonwan County residents.
The distribution will be held on Thursday, June 27 from 5 until 7 p.m. or until the items are gone, in the meeting room adjacent to the Watonwan County Food Shelf at 108 So. 8th St.
The distribution will end earlier if the products have all been distributed. Please bring a box for your items and enter the south door on the east side of the building.
Each family will need to fill out a short form before receiving the items. If you have any questions please call 375-2527 and leave a message.
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The NHRA Hot Rod Reunion is coming to town this weekend, and bringing 25,000-30,000 race fans along with it. Beech Bend Raceway will host the weekend's activities, which will include time trials, races, and a top 40-car parade.
The Bowling Green Visitor's Bureau estimates race visitors could spend up to $3 million while in town this weekend, a great kickoff to the summer tourist season for local businesses. This is the first year for this event to take place in Bowling Green, and local and national organizers say they hope it's not the last. Race promoters have reached a long-term agreement with owner Dallas Jones of Beech Bend Park.
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Deeplinks Blog posts about Travel Screening
Wired reporter Ryan Singel has a must-read piece providing an update on the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) outrageous behavior in testing the fundamentally flawed "Secure Flight" passenger-surveillance program:
Homeland Security officials who defied Congress and misled the public by creating secret files on American citizens while testing a new passenger screening program may have engaged in multiple counts of criminal conduct, and at least one employee has already lied to cover-up the misdeed.
On Monday, the Transportation Security Administration confirmed allegations that officials running the so-called Secure Flight program violated legally binding promises by secretly sharing and collecting detailed personal data on American citizens from commercial data brokers.
This week brought yet another privacy scandal for the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) fundamentally flawed "Secure Flight" passenger surveillance program. The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) chief privacy officer, Nuala O' Connor-Kelly, is launching an investigation to find out whether the program broke federal privacy law by hiding from the public the extent to which it has been digging through commercial databases for the private information of innocent Americans.
Secure Flight plans to force airlines and reservations services to hand over your personal travel information in order to match it against the names on secret government "watch lists" to decide whether you're allowed to fly.
Two government reports confirm what EFF and other privacy advocacy organizations have long known: the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) lied about its role in using airline passengers as guinea pigs for testing "Secure Flight" - the latest version of a fundamentally flawed passenger-profiling system for screening terrorists. And not only did TSA lie, it lied repeatedly, to everyone.
On Friday President Bush signed into law the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA; PDF), launching several flawed "security" schemes that EFF has long opposed. The media has focused on turf wars between the intelligence and defense communities, but the real story is how IRTPA trades basic rights for the illusion of security. For instance:
~ Section 1016 - a.k.a. "TIA II" ~
A clause authorizing the creation of a massive "Information Sharing Environment" (ISE) to link "all appropriate Federal, State, local, and tribal entities, and the private sector."
Bruce Schneier has a new op-ed questioning the rationale behind checking all air travelers against the government's "no-fly" list, the central feature of the new CAPPS II, "Secure Flight":
Imagine a list of suspected terrorists so dangerous that we can't ever let them fly, yet so innocent that we can't arrest them -- even under the draconian provisions of the Patriot Act.
This is the federal government's "no-fly" list. First circulated in the weeks after 9/11 as a counterterrorism tool, its details are shrouded in secrecy.
But, because the list is filled with inaccuracies and ambiguities, thousands of innocent, law-abiding Americans have been subjected to lengthy interrogations and invasive searches every time they fly, and sometimes forbidden to board airplanes.
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Drinking Myths You Probably Believe
Considering that booze is one of the pillars of human civilization, it's kind of shocking how little we know about it. For instance, we pointed out a while back that some popular misconceptions about alcohol persist despite being goddamned fatal.
So, before you get too drunk to read this, let's knock down a few more common ones, like ...
#5. Beer Gives You a Beer Gut
The Myth:
It's every beer drinker's unavoidable fate: the beer gut. The proof is all around us -- we all have at least one friend or family member who perennially looks like they're pregnant, regardless of their actual state of fertility or, for that matter, gender. And you, too, will get that nice round gut by middle age if you partake regularly.
"Every inch was worth it. Probably. I can't remember."
Your only choice in the matter is whether you suck it in whenever people approach or flaunt it like the wacky uncle who slaps his belly and boasts that "it all turns to penis after midnight."
The Reality:
The beer gut doesn't exist. Or rather, that massive mound you insist on calling your "one-pack" has nothing to do with actual beer consumption. Says who? Says science.
"Maybe we shouldn't have gotten liquored up before this test."
You see, some researchers got curious about this whole beer belly thing a while back, but presumably their stingy bosses wouldn't sign off on a never-ending supply of oat soda "for science." So they rounded up a 2,000-strong bunch of Czechs, a people who apparently wean their toddlers off of the bottle by offering them a nice stout. And what they found was at once surprising and freaking awesome: Beer appears to have absolutely nothing to do with the so-called beer gut.
In fact, research shows that the amount of beer you drink and the size of your belly have no correlation whatsoever. Hell, if you keep your beer intake under even a modicum of control, chances are it doesn't even do that much to your general weight gain.
So try an all-beer diet -- the worst that can happen is scurvy.
Now obviously beer has calories, so a huge intake will contribute to weight gain (especially since you tend to take very little exercise when you're constantly bombed). But even then, it's nothing more than what, say, a strict bacon sandwich diet would do to you -- any excess calories can lead to weight gain. And that weight may or may not settle right on your belly, depending on whether you're genetically predisposed to it.
That's right: There's a beer belly gene. People get fat in different ways, and abdominal obesity is just one of the many interesting fat-storing shapes that the human body can sculpt itself into if said human body doesn't take care of itself. So if you have the gene, you'll wind up having a pot belly eventually, regardless of your actual alcohol consumption. Unless, that is, you maintain a strict diet and exercise regimen for your entire life, but who the hell does that?
"Sixty more crunches and I can drink half a light beer!"
But if that's the case, then where did this fictional correlation between big bellies and beer drinking come from? One possible culprit is cirrhosis, a liver disease of chronic alcoholics that involves the swelling of the abdomen into that familiar beach ball shape. We guess somebody decided that calling it a "beer gut" instead of "organ failure" was less of a buzzkill at family reunions.
#4. Absinthe Is a Badass Hallucinogen
The Myth:
Absinthe is an intense hallucinogenic liquor once favored by artists such as Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Degas and Vincent Van Gogh. Concocted from wormwood and fever dreams, it's closer to doing drugs than doing most actual drugs. That's why it's been banned in so many countries, obviously.
Above: How people think absinthe works.
The Reality:
Nope. It's a myth. Always was.
The potentially toxic/hallucinogenic thujone that supposedly causes the psychoactive effects of absinthe only shows up in ridiculously small trace amounts. The whole reputation of absinthe is based on a very simple fact: It was a strong, no-frills-attached, cheap-as-muck liquor, and thus favored by big drinkers who couldn't afford fancy wines and beers because of the sheer amount of their intake.
"Please pour the next one into a bucket."
Because absinthe drinkers were the type who tended to drink a lot, their alcoholism symptoms were blamed on the "drug" effects of absinthe. The fact that many of these historical big drinkers went on to become famous artists didn't actually hurt its reputation, either: What are you going to do when you're a famous artist or writer and are asked about your tendency to ritualistically consume horrible under-the-counter ethanol products? Are you going to admit that you're crippled by alcoholism, or whip up a magical story of a mystical fairy drink that alters your consciousness and shows you, like, all the mysteries of the universe?
Absinthe has made somewhat of a comeback lately, and wouldn't you know -- it's still hyped as the druggy-sounding "green fairy." Of course, the stuff isn't any more dangerous than it ever was. Its purveyors are just ripping a forged page from the annals of history and feeding us the same bullshit our forefathers swallowed up, in hopes that its reputation will make you buy more of their swill.
"Absinthe! The only proper drink for the square-monocled gentleman."
#3. American Beer Is Weaker Than Others
The Myth:
American beer pretty much amounts to what you pee out after you've drunk some actual beer. That's right, the American lagers (Bud, Miller Lite, you know the ones) that Americans tend to prefer are way, way weaker than their foreign counterparts.
"Your puny beer isn't even worth invading the Sudetenland over."
It's one of those alcohol "myths" that are immediately verifiable with sheer, hard facts: Go on, grab a bottle of American beer and compare its alcohol percentage to, say, a Molson. You'll find that the Canadian brew is far more potent than its Stars 'n' Stripes cousin.
Molson: Because foreign beer can taste like urine, too.
The Reality:
The myth behind American beer being weak as piss stems from the fact that most countries measure beer alcohol percentage by volume. The U.S., continuing our proud tradition of shunning the rest of the world's measuring systems (just like that metric system bullshit), has traditionally measured alcohol exclusively by weight instead.
"Wait, is that talking about me or the bottle?"
Sadly, as reputations go, this proved to be American beer's undoing: When measuring alcohol by weight, each and every American beer ended up displaying a smaller alcohol percentage on the label than its foreign counterparts.
And despite the fact that U.S. breweries are now shying away from the traditional "alcohol by weight" system and embracing the "Screw this, we'll do what everyone else is doing" system, they're still fighting an uphill battle against the ingrained idea that American beer is weaker than the real beer the rest of the world brews.
You can try this with Miller Light, but everyone will just call you an alcoholic.


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What techniques should I be using when testing of a website for visually impaired users that commonly occur due to aging such as macular degeneration, needing reading glasses, possible loss of contrast ranges, etc.?
Note: The reason I wrote this answer highlighting the different checkpoints a person must do to ensure his site is accessible to people with limited vision is because I believe an understanding of the faults or design issues in the site will help define what the problems users might face while accessing the site
For starters, I strongly recommend considering testing your website to see how it handles screen readers as that is one potential user base you cannot avoid and also you cannot always assume that people might use magnifying tools to read content in case of low vision and screen readers are an expected accessibility tool not only for "blind" people but also people with limited vision. So by avoiding them you are technically alienating your own user group.
That said, there are some recommended practices about what should be done for ensuring visually impaired users can access your website.
I also recommend having a look at this article from Mashable
In closing here are some links worth checking out
Make Your Pages Accessible to the Visually Impaired
WebAim : understanding blindness
I assume you are asking how to do this manually, after having already built your website? However, it is possible to automate some of this testing while you are still developing. I'm not sure how many people are aware that this is possible, but I hope you (or your developers) find it useful.
If you have an automated integration testing environment set up (automated builds, automated tests etc.) it would be possible to automate the testing of certain pages by using capybara-accessible (for a Ruby on Rails environment). It allows you to automatically run accessibility audits for each page visited by a feature test (typically written using a tool such as RSpec). The audits are automatically performed by Google's accessibility developer tools, with reports generated from their open source Javascript libraries.
An example of some of the audit rules that are included in the reports:
One of the main benefits of automated accessibility testing (as with any automated code testing really), is the ability to pick up if a change in your code weeks or months down the line changes the accessibility of your site in ways that you may not have foreseen.
Another benefit is the reduced workload on your QA teams, allowing them to focus on specific interactions or complex pages.
This may not be a silver bullet, but may give you confidence on at least a baseline level of accessibility going forward.
There are several tools that can be used to verify contrast levels to make sure there is enough contrast between the color of your type and the background it's on. Here's a link to 10 such tools. http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200709/10_colour_contrast_checking_tools_to_improve_the_accessibility_of_your_design/
Regarding font size, just make sure you're using EM's to proportionally size things so that users can change their browser zoom settings and your layouts will still look OK.
If your user's eyesight is so bad that they need to use a screen reader, I would recommend doing a Google search for consultants that will help walk you through the process of getting your website to function well for screen readers. JAWS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAWS_(screen_reader) ) is currently the most popular. If you don't have the money for a consultant, download JAWS from the maker's website and play around with it along with reading their online tutorials. Getting your website to work properly with screen readers is tricky business, I've worked on a project before that required it and we had to hire a consultant.
Eyesight starts to degenerate from about mid 40s on and by 50 many people will be needing reading glasses.
People tend to resist getting glasses so there's a age group around 45 - 55 who will moan about your site if they can't read it because they don't want to wear glasses.
As always, the best way to test your website, is to recruit some users in this age range and test how they get on with it.


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Each speakeasy has 3 docks (majority, minority, and public), but within each of those docks/bays, how many trucks are allowed to queue? For example, say there is a speakeasy with 4 minority holders (no majority), can each holder put a truck in the minority (two star) loading dock?
The space on the board between the front of the speakeasy and the placeholders for Men of Action cards is only big enough to comfortably fit 2. But there is nothing in the rules (as far as I could see) which limited the number of trucks allowed in each dock.


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Think of it as a campus visit times ten. Advance Weekend is a unique opportunity for admitted and prospective students to experience life at Tippie, meet current students, and get answers to all their questions. At Advance, you'll attend sessions on academics and career services, experience Tippie's social life, get to know Iowa City, and much more! Advance will give you insight into: The culture and social life of Tippie and Iowa City Your future classmates -- not to mention insights from faculty and staff Our strong alumni network, including their reflections on their time at Tippie and how it prepared them to succeed The job search -- you'll hear success stories and learn what you can do to start off on the right track Info you absolutely must know before going back to school -- an "MBA Survival 101" session led by current students Much more than a campus visit, Tippie Advance is a unique opportunity you shouldn't miss!
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Each of our residential communities unique and offers opportunities for involvement and engagement within the building and throughout the entire campus community. In order to provide quality services that support our students' living and learning experience, there are several amenities that are consistent through the communities. Those include:
- Study Desks in addition to bed and clothing storage furniture
- Free laundry facilities in each building/community for student use
- Cable and Wi-Fi Internet access in every residence hall and apartment space on campus for student use
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Originally Posted by xpi0t0sI think it won't work because there are missing quotes:
Apart from that though the principle of putting one character in the C file and using a -D to place the code is absolutely fine, in fact this is what one of the IOCCC winners did (although his file was 3 characters long: A;<eof>).Code:puts(Hello, World!)
But, even if we add the quotes around "Hello, World!", I don't think it would work.
I don't think the idea of macro-ing the single char 'A' is alright, because the macro definition -DA=__FILE__ will cause A to be replaced by "void main(){puts("Hello, World!");}c.c"(** with the quotes **). Further due to the quotes, the macro -Dc=// becomes useless ! Because the compiler recognizes the whole program as one string, so does not replace the "c.c" at the end by "//.//".
So, the program after pre-processing only (check that with -E flag) will look like :
"void main(){puts("Hello, World!");}c.c"
I don't know if the way behavior of __FILE__ has been changed in recent gcc versions. May be earlier they didn't contain the quotes around the file-name.


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Continuing Education Blog
PNCA offers evening and weekend classes for adults and young people. For adults we offer courses in art, craft, and design, as well as professional development classes. For children we have Saturday classes during the school year and week-long camps during the summer. In addition to our regular teen classes, we also offer immersive summer Pre-College Studios. Our blog below gives you an idea of some of the goings on, and you can see our full course catalogue online here.
Our Fall Art Festival is Coming
At the end of each term we host something special for families and students participating in our program. This fall we will be hosting our Fall Art Festival and Family Day, which is a giant art party!
Last spring we hosted a similar event with tons of sweet family friendly activities. Here are some of the image captures from our Spring Festival.
Activities at this Fall's Art Festival will include:
Cardboard Robot Crafts
Big robots and small robots; if you can imagine it, you can build it! Use recycled materials to craft super amazing robots!
Prints & Patterns
Use Scratchfoam to make amazing images. Learn to make patterns and pull prints!
Mixed Media Drawing Table
Draw want you want, how you want! Use a variety of materials and different surfaces and you create your masterpiece.
Face Painting
You want it, we can paint it! We use kid-safe paints, raw skill, and
imagination to turn your child into a fantastic creature or character!
Play a Theremin
Meet with Continuing Education instructor Mark Keppinger, and discover the awesomeness that is playing a theremin.
Come on down to PNCA on November 15th between 11:30am and 2pm to party with the Youth Program!
The Big Draw
We had a blast on October 25th at PNCA, where we hosted one of the few Pacific Northwest BIG DRAW events featured during this annual drawing festival. We had so many activities, including our Big World Drawing, Animation, Drawing with Thread, and more. Here are a few snap shots from the day.
The BIG DRAW has been running since October 1st and will continue through November 2nd. BIG DRAW spans the UK and across the globe with events in over twenty other countries. The Big Draw offers thousands of enjoyable, and mainly free, drawing activities which connect people of all ages with museums, outdoor spaces, artists, designers, illustrators – and each other. These events are for those who love to draw, as well as for those who think they can't! We love to draw at PNCA, so it's only natural that we hosted this event.
Interview with Kinoko
kinokogallery is teaching Intro Comics with Pacific Northwest College of Art Continuing Education this fall. Kinoko graciously answered a couple of questions about the class and herself.
1. How and why did you conceived this class?
This class operates as a concise breakdown of the structure and understanding of comics. The class runs for 8 weeks and it offers students the basics to get them started in the practice of comics making.
2. Can you talk about what drew you to comic and graphic novels?
I have been drawing comics and self publishing since the 1990's. During the past five years, I have been doing more commercial, freelance work in comics as well as publishing my own work. It's really become the most appropriate outlet for me to process ideas and research towards an increasingly visual culture.
3. What can students expect to make in your class?
Students will be doing in class exercises and homework that will kick start the process of visual story telling. They will be creating 1-2 page comics experimenting with styles and visual techniques within the comics medium.
4. What are some of the challenges and opportunities being a woman in the graphic novel/comics field?
Thankfully, comics have become so mainstream now that we have graphic novels in every format, for all sorts of readers. There are even plenty of magazines printing pages of comics as a part of their monthly print publications now. There is more of a demand for comics today than ever before, which means a greater call for more voices within comics. That's all good new for cartooning.
5. What are you working on now?
My self-published graphic novel of The Epic of Gilgamesh was just picked up by the indie comics worlds Study Group site.
I'm looking forward to that going live. I'm also finishing up a few pieces for Design Week Portland coming in October. I will be tabling a few more cons this year including Short Run in Seattle this November, I am finalizing a new comic for the Comics Workbook site (comicsworkbook) site, and still in the research phase for my next long term project which will be focusing on East coast indigenous history in early America.
In Character: Celebrating Oregon Writers
We invite you to bring to life your favorite characters and narratives from Oregon writers in our new intergenerational, hands-on workshops, every third Saturday, 1:30-5pm (except December 13, 10-5pm), this fall. Give shape and colors, movement and interaction to characters or scenes dear to you through creative interpretation and transformation of texts by Oregon authors. Find inspiration in the sharing and collaboration at each workshop.
Ken Kesey: Illustration + Character Creation, Ages 14+, with Kinoko Evans; October 18
Raymond Carver: Animation + Hinge Puppets , Ages 15+, with Micah Weber; November 15
Opal Whiteley: Shadow Puppets, Ages 14+, with Alexey Moore; December 13
The only prerequisite is a passion for the particular writer and her/his stories; no art-making experience is required. All materials are provided. Bring a friend, spouse, child or mentor for free with advance rsvp!
Artwork by Kinoko Evans.
Bud Clark Commons TV
Bud Clark Commons TV is a collaborative program that supports people who have experienced homelessness to create and share videos of their own making. The program launched in 2012 as part of the first Bud Clark Commons Artist in Residence Program funded by The City of Portland Percent for Art Program through the Regional Arts and Culture Council. The group of founding artists included Carl Diehl (PNCA Assistant Professor), Ariana Jacob, Joan Lundell (Certificate Design '10; MFA CD '13), Mack McFarland (Exhibitions Coordinator for the Phillip Feldman Gallery), and Jeffrey. Most recently, Carmen Denison (MA CT/CR '13), Peter Falanga (MA CT/CR '13), Daniel Mackin (BFA '14) and Jill Falk (BFA '15) have coordinated BCCTV activities.
Collaboration and Community
BCCTV was founded as a collaborative project, and continues to run that way. Carmen Denison (MA CT/CR '13) took over coordination of the program with her colleague Peter Falanga (MA CT/CR '13) in the winter of 2012, soon to be followed by Daniel Mackin (BFA '14) (the program is currently coordinated by all three artists). BCCTV continues today as a series of workshops that focus on the core skills in filmmaking and video art, such as editing, lighting, narrative construction, and personal artistic development. Guided by our teachers Denison, Falanga, Mackin, and PNCA intern Jill Falk, each class is attended by seven to twelve participants. This creates a collaborative environment in which skills, experiences, and stories are shared. Between workshop series, attendees focus on long-term individual projects that, along with works made during the workshops, screen at the second annual BCCTV ON THE BIG SCREEN event. Through the support of PNCA, Transition Projects Inc., and donations from generous individual supporters, BCCTV can continue to engage artists, engender collaboration, and captivate audiences throughout Portland's entire creative community.
Bud Clark Commons
Bud Clark Commons is an innovative partnership between the Portland Housing Bureau, Home Forward, Transition Projects, Inc., and Multnomah County. The center provides vital resources, shelter, and housing placement services to individuals and families experiencing homelessness in Portland.
Tune In
See more about BCCTV and how PNCA alumni and students are making a difference in the Portland community at BCCTV Web and BCCTV Vimeo.
On the Cover
I am pleased that faculty member Kendra Larson has provided the original artwork for our fall publications. Her painting "November", acrylic on wood, 48" x36", 2014, is in the collection of Reto Rietmann, Reinach, Switzerland.
Larson says about the work: "This painting depicts Mt Adams last November. Every year, for my birthday, I go on a hike somewhere I have never hiked before. This striking place has burnt tree stands left over from the 2014 Cascade Creek Fire. Next to these, in stark contrast, is the fresh snow preparing the grounds for spring flowers. These two things, ash and snow, destruction and renewal, are powerful symbols. I painted the bark of these trees black with just a little of the brightly colored under painting peeking through. This was done to express the yet unseen life that these nurse logs will support. Even though this experience was in November, this painting could just as easily been about the coming of spring. I tend to be drawn to the time when seasons are changing. After this hike, as I was starting to paint, I couldn't ignore the memories of the bright sun. It was cold, but the sun shown adding dancing shadows and life to everything on the hillside."
This fall semester, Larson will teach Landscape Painting, October 1-November 19, and pre-college Figure, Form and Portraits , October 11-November 15.
On August 24, Larson's profile was featured as Saatchi Online Artist of the Day. Also, she currently has work included in the Fall National Juried Exhibition at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, August 30– October 5, 2014.
Kendra Larson received her BFA from PNCA and her MFA in Painting at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
A Conversation with Jessy Friedt, PNCA's Annual Giving Manager
What brought you to PNCA?
The journey to PNCA in all actuality probably started in my childhood. My love for the arts started as a singing, making, dancing, painting, and wildly imaginative kid (as most kids are.) Over the years, that love has developed into an understanding that having the arts in our lives plays a crucial role in creating a more empathetic, open and critical thinking community. Before coming to PNCA, I explored a life as a classical singer and after that worked for ten years with Portland Center Stage, managing the theater's individual giving program. When I started looking for the next place to continue my career, I was attracted to PNCA because there is something inspiring about spending your time in a place that has the buzz of students who are learning, examining and questioning all around you. It is PNCA's commitment to lifelong learning and the belief that creativity can literally change the world that drew me in. The particular job I took was compelling because I was given an opportunity to create a new giving program that focused on all levels of donors, engaging people in a new way around the work being done in and outside of the college walls.
What does "creativity works here" mean, look like in your context?
It means that creativity is "at work" at PNCA. It is a practice that is not only celebrated, but lives and breathes here. In my context of working in the fundraising office, which is typically not thought of as a creative place, I take it as a challenge that all of us who work at PNCA should be practicing creativity daily; not just students and faculty. In order to be successful and true to the PNCA mission, creativity needs to spill over in all aspects of the college.
There is a new giving program that recently rolled out at PNCA. What inspired you to start this program?
I wanted to start this program because I believe that as people become further engaged and involved with an organization they care about, the deeper their experience is and the stronger the organization ultimately becomes. I hope that these new giving levels and engagement benefits will connect people who are already giving to PNCA in a deeper way as well as encourage new people to think about philanthropy here.
Which benefit offered through the new individual giving program are you most excited about sharing?
I'm also pleased we can offer some fantastic discounts to PNCA donors for continuing education classes. It's never too late or too early to try something new and begin your own life of creative practice.
What would you like the community to know about PNCA?
Before working here, I had no idea that PNCA offered over 100 free public lectures and exhibits a year! That is an incredible resource for the community and one I wish more people knew about.
Jessy is more than thrilled to meet with you and learn about how you think creativity transforms our community and hear about your experience with PNCA. Feel free to call or email her. 503.821.8927 or email@example.com.
Individual giving at PNCA ranges from Friends of Art ($50-$249) to Visionary Circle ($20,000 and above). Take a look how you might engage with the College through PNCA's Giving Program.
Reflections on the Columbia Plateau
For eight consecutive years, Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts (CSIA) and the Pacific Northwest College of Art have teamed up for a four-day monotype retreat. Originally the idea of Patrick Forster, Director of Continuing Education at PNCA, this workshop developed into an annual tradition for artists from across the Pacific Northwest and the West Coast. Each year in late April, Frank Janzen, the master printer at CSIA, teaches different techniques and styles with amazing results.
Though it is not just the artwork produced at the workshop that matters, but each retreats atmosphere of camaraderie, shared sense of purpose and discovery in the transcendent environs of CSIA. Pam Hobert, artist and program alumna, says: "There is something very special about CSIA and working with Frank. There is a subtle magic connected to this place, the land, and the opportunity to work with Frank. We as a group, have made good, sometimes even great work. We've made good friendships. We are aware of how rare that is."
In celebration of the artistic achievements, past and current, of program participants, CSIA and PNCA have organized an exhibit cycle featuring the work of more than thirty program alumni and reflecting the power of place, community and collaboration. The first exhibit will be held at PNCA, October 2-31, 2014, and a second exhibit will be hosted by the Pendleton Center for the Arts, February 5-27, 2015.
You are cordially invited to the artists' reception at PNCA, Thursday, October 2, 2014, 5:30-7pm. The exhibit and reception are open and free to the public, though we appreciate your advance rsvp.
Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts provides opportunities for Native Americans through artistic development. With an emphasis on contemporary, fine-art printmaking, CSIA also functions as a venue to practice traditional Native American art practices — weaving, bead working and regalia making — of the Plateau region. With a spacious gallery and world-class printmaking studio, CSIA brings in emerging and established artists to produce monotypes, monoprints and editions — including lithographs, etchings, linocuts, woodcuts and more. CSIA's ever-growing portfolio of prints encompasses the work of many outstanding artists of diverse backgrounds and media. Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts is located within the historic St. Andrews mission schoolhouse, a few miles east of Pendleton, Oregon, at the base of the Blue Mountain foothills on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Learn more about Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts.
Uke Class
In Fall 2013 Continuing Education offered for the first time a course in building a Ukulele. Taught by BFA instructor and avid ukulele builder Frank Irby, the each student in the class builds an instrument starting from a set of koa wood. Luthier Max Sipe co-teaches and brings a wealth of professional experience to the classroom. The course itself was designed to not only enable students to build a ukulele but it teaches woodworking and wood-finished techniques that can translate to other projects. I documented the Fall 2013 course on the Continuing Education blog.
Thursday, October 3 was the first class of Ukulele building. After quick introductions and getting to meet the Instructor, Frank Irby, and Teaching Assistant Max Sipe, we got down to the business of ukes. Frank and Max showed us their own handcrafted ukes and Max's handmade inlays.
There are four sizes of ukuleles that are common: soprano (standard), concert, tenor, and baritone. In this class we will be building a tenor uke. Frank brought ukuleles of of all the sizes to see, hear and feel the differences. We talked about what made good instrument wood, including where it comes from, what makes the rings tighter and how the wood selected and harvested. Our ukuleles are being constructed out of Koa wood for the soundboard and body, mahogany for the necks and rosewood for the fret boards. We talked about how bracing effects sound, how we can create the best sounding uke and what you can do to add some personal style to your creation.
After learning about the power and hand tools we are going to use for the class (and the safety demo) we chose our bundles of body wood. They was an incredible variety in the looks of the bundles of koa, from reddish, marbled looking pieces to rich yellow.
We went over bookmatching and laid out our pieces for our soundboards and backs, finding the best looking combination and headed back to the shop to plane down our pieces to 3mm. Next class we start cutting out the body and moving forward.
Week 2
Blogging a CE class-second class of Ukulele Building
We arrived to class on Thursday ready to do some joining and bending. Half of the class started on cutting, measuring and bending the sides of our Ukes while the half began working joining the soundboards and the backs together.
Last week we found the best book-matched combinations and moving from there we first ran the edges of our boards through the planer to get them as evenly matched as the machine allowed. Next we used the sandpaper levels to get the sides perfectly straight.
After much testing and re-sanding it was time to move on to gluing the two pieces together. For the class we are using super glue and an activator to make it harden and dry quickly. The two pieces are laid out, roped together and glued.
Bending the sides
Moving on the sides, we measured and using the table saw, cut the sides to the proper shape. This involved clamping the sides to the a guide board to ensure the angle was true.
Now the nerve-wracking bit, bending sides to shape. The first part of this process was laying the heating blanket on the side bender (built by Frank) and the wet wood on top of that. While the wood heated and the molds were pressed slowly in to place we sprayed the wood down with water. When we got the wood clamped down completely it was left on the heat for 10 minutes.
Following ten minutes of heating and spraying with water, the sides were transferred into the molds to sit overnight and have their shape for good.
Next class we move on to cutting the soundboard and backs out.
Week 3
Class three focused on three parts of the construction-the decorative rosette, cutting the soundboard and back out, and adding the head and tail blocks to the sides of body.
The class began the process of adding the rosettes by tracing the finished shape on to the soundboard and finding the center of the sound-hole and measuring out where our rosettes would be. Choosing from scrap strips of wood, plastic and paper we sorted out what would make up the rosettes and measured that thickness. Max got the drill press with his circular cuter set up with the blades of the cutter matching the thickness of rosettes.
Now the materials were laid into the groove and glued into place. Followed by a run through the drum sander to smooth everything out and the back and soundboard cut into shape.
Tail and Head Block
The sides were placed back into the mold, measured and trimmed so that they lined up exactly. Each of the blocks was sanded to match the curve of the bottom or top and epoxied into place. While this was the step that required the least direction, the exacting nature of the fits made it more time consuming than expected. It was great to see the ukulele starting to take shape and gave us even more incentive to move forward.
Next week- kerfing the sides.
Week 4
Class four was all about the interior structure-the kerf binding and bracing, both the back and soundboard.
Reverse Kerfing
With the sides in the mold, we added the kefing pieces, which were pre-cut from mahogany. Using water and a heat gun, the were formed into the approximate shape, glued along the edges of the sides and clamped into place. The reverse kerfing will give the uke a solid structure and help it hold its shape.
While the kerfing dried, work began on making the bracing for the back.
The bracing is made from 1/4 inch strips of spruce. The majority of the rest of the class was cutting and shaping the bracing and thickness sanding the soundboard and back in preparation for gluing in the bracing.
Next week- Gluing the bracing, sanding the body and more.
Week 5
This week's class focused on making the bracing, preparing the sides and attaching the soundboard and back.
The bracing is made from pieces of spruce. These pieces were cut down to size and glued to the soundboard (supported on a flat surface) and the backs (supported on the 25 foot radius sanding disk, the braces for the back were sanded into this shape prior to gluing).
The back will have a slight dome shape giving the ukulele a stronger sound. The front is flat and you can see on the image below the patch to reinforce the bridge.
After the glue dried, mini planers and chisels were used to give the braces an arched shape and sloping toward the edges. This allowed for a lighter weight with plenty of support.
After completing the bracing we started working on evening out the sides of the uke, getting ready to add the soundboard and back. This involved an incredible amount of hand-sanding. The back on the 25ft dish and the front side on a flat surface. Notches were cut in the kerfing to allow the bracing to sit flush. The soundboard and backs are glued on using a go-bar system to hold the pieces together.
Next class: preparing the neck and fretboard.
Week 6
I this week's class we worked on preparing the neck block and a bit of catching up with constructing the body.
The first step of the neck was gluing the neck piece together at the scarf joint (which were pre-cut, thanks to Frank). We put glue on and and allowed it to dry on the exposed joint to provide a tackier surface when they are glued and clamped.
To clamp them a jig was set up on the table and the neck laid on its side. The jig prevented the two pieces from sliding apart.
After drying the heel was added to the neck. This was much simpler glue and clamp job.
Next week we finish the neck shape and fingerboard.
Week 7
Week 7 was a busy a busy week in the woodshop. On Thursday we started working on shaping the heel of the neck, adding the bolt to connect to the body and adding the head laminate.
The first step in shaping the heel by roughly cutting it out on the bandsaw. Followed by using the oscillating sander to shape the curve. The front of the headstock was made square on the belt sander.
Next we used the jig to measure and drill the hole for the bolt in the body and the nut in the neck.
Saturday! Max lead the open work time in the woodshop on Saturday where work began on cutting the banding. This involved using a router mounted to a guide arm. This was a nerve wracking experience with the possibility wrecking all of the work on the body.
After this was finished the binding was glued into the notch that was just cut.
Next week, getting toward the end.
Week 8
The eighth class and extra session concentrated on adding, leveling and shaping the frets. Hammering them into place was the quick part of the job, the leveling (through sanding flat) and shaping took the bulk of the time. We also cut the bridge out rosewood and epoxied it to the body. The shaping of the head was finished, the nut shaped and the saddle was added to the bridge. The lacquering process which took a couple of days and a lot of spraying, waiting and sanding was completed at home.
To complete the process the holes for the strings were drilled through the bridge and body. Using beads tied onto the strings, they were strung through the body and wound on the tuners. After a bit of adjusting the nut and saddle it was good to go.
PNCA Encaustic Studio
PNCA's Gallery 214 exhibits through July 23 the creations of participants in PNCA's Encaustic Studio that in past years has offered community artists a peer environment for exploring the encaustic medium and for critical peer dialogue about personal artistic practice.
The encaustic studio also offers opportunities to study with leading contemporary artists working in this medium. Recent master-workshops at PNCA have been Facilitated by visiting artists Timothy McDowell, Lisa Pressman, Mark Rediske, Andrea Schwartz-Feit and Nicholas Wilton.
Encaustic painting education at pnca started two decades ago under the leadership of former faculty member jef gunn and provost emeritus greg ware. Since 2011, Claudia Hollister has led the encaustic studio.
The image is provided courtesy of Kindra Crick, Empathy Molecule II, Encaustic Mixed Media, 2013.
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A team of CU-Boulder engineers traveled to Haiti this month to support the growth of green energy on the two-year anniversary of the country's devastating earthquake.
Engineering professors Alan Mickelson and Mike Hannigan and graduate student Matt Hulse collaborated with the Neges Foundation school at Leogane to create a vocational training program on the installation, operation and maintenance of renewable energy systems.
"I'm eager to learn about the people of Haiti and the services that they would like energy systems to provide," said Hannigan, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering. "Historically, the development of energy systems has shaped nations and economies, so the timing is right to pass along what we have learned about those energy systems that are sustainable."
The Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake that struck Haiti destroyed what little electricity infrastructure had existed in the country, plunging towns across the country into total darkness and forcing households to rely on high-cost diesel generators for power, according to news reports. As a result, families are unable to study or work at night, and the number of assaults, particularly against women and girls, has increased.
Studies point to Haiti's great potential for renewable energy, including solar, hydro and wind power. "The present lack of a Haitian power grid cries out for a distributed solution -- that is, one that grows from small, localized, renewable energy sources," said Mickelson, associate professor of electrical, computer and energy engineering.
About $35,000 has been provided for the initiative by CU-Boulder's Mortenson Center for Engineering in Developing Communities, the IEEE Foundation and the CU-Boulder Outreach Committee. The Mortenson Center is seeking additional funding to build upon the initiative and develop additional vocational training curriculum on sustainable and disaster-resistant design and construction.
The Mortenson Center was founded to promote integrated, participatory and sustainable solutions to the engineering challenges of the developing world, with a focus on clean drinking water, sanitation and hygiene; energy; sustainable and disaster-resistant building materials and shelter; and cook stoves and indoor air quality. For more information, go to http://mcedc.colorado.edu/.


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