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Flying out of Washington D.C.'s Reagan National Airport on Friday—why doesn't that fucking airport have WiFi?—I spotted these buttons by the cash register in the newspaper/water/candy shop at my gate. You can see McCain, Guiliani, and Romney buttons in there—but look close and you'll see an Edwards button too. I dug around and found a single Hillary button. So despite appearances this newspaper/water/candy shop is not partisan. So what accounts for the button gap? Here's what I think happened: Dem buttons are selling and GOP buttons are not.
I'm guessing the bin was filled with a roughly equal number of Dem and GOP buttons at first. But since Democratic travelers are excited about the upcoming election and happy about their field of candidate, Dems are buying buttons. Republican travelers, on the other hand, are terrified of the coming presidential election and extremely unhappy with GOP candidates and consequently aren't not buying buttons. Which means the shop is stuck with GOP buttons, which means market forces have conspired to create a button gap—and the impression of partisanship—at the newspaper/water/candy shop at Reagan National.
I have some actual evidence to support my button gap theory: Dem candidates are outraising GOP candidates—in the South. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that Dem presidential candidates are raising more money in the American South than GOP presidential candidates. Says TPM Cafe…
The key is that this Dem success is not the result of a single superstar candidate. As it happens, the top three Dems—Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards—are all doing well in the south.
In other race-for-the-White-House news… Edwards is leading in the polls in Iowa, according to the Des Moines Register, followed by Obama, Clinton, and a surprisingly strong showing by Richardson…

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Dan van Husen (born April 30, 1945) is a German actor who has also performed in Hollywood films.
Dan van Husen was born in Gummersbach. He was first discovered by Italian producers while working as a club disc jockey in Spain and began working increasingly seriously as an actor in the late 60's. He has appeared in twenty Italo Westerns in six or seven years and before branching out to diverse roles and genres. In the years 1968-1974 he participated in more than 24 Italo Westerns, amongst others directed by Sergio Corbucci, Sergio Martino, Enzo G. Castellari etc. In 1977 Dan was also involved in the play Courage at the Schauspielhaus Bochum,Germany, directed by Jérôme Savary.
Van Husen is credited for numerous further film appearances such as Fellini Casanova, by Federico Fellini, in Salon Kitty by Tinto Brass and Nosferatu the Vampyre directed by Werner Herzog, amongst others.
Dan has also worked in German TV series such as Der Alte, Derrick, Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei and many more. He has often been cast as a rogue as in the television disaster film Tsunami or in the '80s cult film Ritchy Guitar of Michael Laux, and in the film Cold and Dark directed by Andrew Goth.
In 2001 he worked on Band of Brothers, a Steven Spielberg production, Perfect Strangers (BBC TV series) directed by Stephen Poliakoff and in Enemy at the Gates directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, as well as Hart's War directed by Gregory Hoblit in 2002.
In 2006, he acted in the German television film Karol Woityla directed by Gero von Boehm and in 2007 in Gellert, a motion picture film under the direction of Ayassi with Ken Duken and the German TV crime series SOKO Wismar.
In February/March 2008 he worked on Oorlogswinter (Winter in Wartime) a Dutch movie based on the hit novel by the same name, written by Jan Terlouw and directed (and written) by Martin Koolhoven. In June and July 2010 worked in southern California in the American Western film Scarlet Worm, the role of the antagonist Heinrich Kley, directed by Michael Fredianelli.
In 2011, he worked in the American film production Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, directed by Jo Kastner, and got invited to the Spaghetti Western Film Festival in Los Angeles on 19 March of that year. He attended the Almería Western Film Festival from 8 - 11 September 2011, and received a lifetime achievement award in the western film genre. He then got invited to the Lund International Fantastic Film Festival in Sweden, the 15 -24 September 2011. He attended the Cinefest 2011, VIII. Internationales Festival des deutschen Film-Erbes Hamburg from 12 - 20 November 2011.
He currently lives near London, England.
Selected filmography[edit]
- Sons of Satan (1968)
- More Dollars for the MacGregors (1970)
- John Glückstadt (1975)
- Salon Kitty (1976)
- Cipolla Colt (1976)
- Aufforderung zum Tanz (1977, TV film)
- Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
- Derrick - Season 6, Episode 6: "Tandem" (1979, TV)
- Derrick - Season 7, Episode 4: "Tödliche Sekunden" (1980, TV)
- The Sea Wolves (1980)
- Wild Geese II (1985)
- Richy Guitar (1985)
- Enemy at the Gates (2001)
- Hart's War (2002)
- Winter in Wartime (film) (2008)
- The Scarlet Worm (2011)
External links[edit]
- Dan van Husen at the Internet Movie Database
- [1] Dan van Husen home page
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Continuing its strong growth, the United States installed 1,354 megawatts (MW)[i] of solar photovoltaics (PV) in Q3 2014, up 41 percent over the same period last year. The numbers come from the latest edition of GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association's (SEIA) U.S. Solar Market Insight Report, released today. According to the report, Q3 was the nation's second largest quarter ever for PV installations and brings the country's cumulative solar PV capacity to 16.1 gigawatts (GW), with another 1.4 GW of concentrating solar power (CSP) capacity.
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Swedish flat-pack furniture giant IKEA will start selling residential solar panels at its stores in Britain, the first step in its plan to bring renewable energy to the mainstream market worldwide.
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When I visited the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, which sits in the Mojave Desert on the border between California and Nevada, I had to be careful where I looked. The engineers warned me not to look directly at the receivers arrayed on top of the centralized solar towers, which collected the desert sunlight concentrated by thousands of mirrors on the desert floor. The solar receiver was as bright as the heart of the sun, glowing with a retina-melting white. I had to force myself to look away.
A Community Solar Gold Standard?
Joy Hughes was living in the San Luis Valley of Colorado, a place with a "tremendous amount of solar potential," so good that the valley's residents were being overwhelmed by proposals for large-scale solar power plants. One had a "field of things like radar dishes" and another included a "600 foot tower." The influx of outside companies seeking solar profit led Joy to ask, "Why not just set up solar arrays that can provide power for people in the local community and offset their electric bills?"


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Major League Gaming has released the 2012 fall season competition schedule, which will include three arena events and conclude with the Fall Championship November 2-4 at the Dallas Convention Center.
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The 28-year-old model took to Instagram Sunday night to share a selfie of herself and husband John Legend sitting in the audience at the Grammy Awards. But the twosome's romantic moment was hijacked by the How I Met Your Mother star as evidenced by the picture she shared on the site.
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This video should probably be prefaced with the disclaimer "Do not attempt this at home," followed immediately by, "Holy fiery hell, that is awesome."
That, in this case, is an incredible Fantastic Four promotional stunt by viral-marketing agency Thinkmodo, which attached a flammable dummy to a drone, set it alight, and then flew it into the night sky, making it appear as if Johnny Storm had appeared, in the red-hot flesh.
Superhero names carry a lot of weight, both in their fictional universes and our world. As we've seen time and again in comics, sometimes a costumed identity proves more popular than the actual character, leading to the decision to put someone else in the costume, either in an effort to boost reader interest (and, therefore, sales) or to simply take the story in a different direction.
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- continually complaining or faultfinding
- example: a shrewish wife
- synonym of shrewish: nagging
- similar: ill-natured
Alternative definition of the adjective shrewish
- Of or pertaining to a shrew, a nagging, ill-tempered woman.
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Essential 18037 Pages English Dictionary (2015)
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Inclining to shrew; disposing to curse or scold; hence, vicious; malicious; evil; wicked; mischievous; vexatious; rough; unfair; shrewish.
Dickens Dictionary (MAXNotes Literature Guides) (2015)
A tall young lady, very much addicted to pattens in private life ; slender and shrewish, of a rather uncomfortable figure, and though not absolutely ill-looking, of a sharp and acid visage. Note. — Mrs. Varden's servant and maid-of-all-work.
Webster's II New College Dictionary (1999)
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or showing clever awareness and resourcefulness <a shrewd judge of character > <a shrewd investmcnt> shrewish .shrdb'lshl adj. Ill-tempered : nagging <a shrewish neighbor> — shrew 'ish.ly miv — shrew'ish-ness n shrew male n.
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This study examined the impact of the Interneton personal and sexual safety for women meeting men through online ads. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected with an online survey. Of the 740 women who completed the survey, 568 reported having met in person with a man who answered their online personal ad. Results revealed that women used e-mail communication prior to a face-to-face meeting to negotiate such issues as safety, boundaries, sexual preferences, history of sexually transmitted infections, and condom use. Thirty percent of respondents engaged in sexual activity on their first encounter. Seventy-seven percent of respondents who met an online partner did not use condoms for their first sexual encounter. The high frequency and intensity of e-mail communication prior to meeting in person cultivated acceleration of intimacy for the individuals involved and may have affected women's decisions to engage in risky sexual behaviors.
Keywordswomen's sexual health the Internet condom use sexual risk taking Internet dating
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17 April 2008
A Flowery Rainy Day
Anyway, today's challenge at SCS was to use an acrylic item on your card. Hmmmm Acrylic item????? I was pretty sure I didn't have any, but checking my stuff I found a beautiful acrylic umbrella, now, where I can use it?? Yesterday, Tammi from Wish Rak group sent me the most beautiful Tilda (Magnolia Stamps) images, I don't know the name of it, but it has flowers on her hand, so I decided to add the umbrella there, LOL.
I colored my image with Colored Pencils "Sargent Arts". I've received some sweet comments about my coloring in other cards, thanks a lot, I used this colored pencils, nothing else, I usually color the borders first and them I blend it with another color. I colored in circles, so then you don't see the lines on your image.
I embossed the wings with Gold embossing powder.
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Embellishments: Acrylic Umbrella, Acrylic Buttons, Yellow Ribbon, Brads, Gold stickles.
I hope you like it.
Have a great day.
God bless.
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so, so pretty, great coloring abd choice of colors.ReplyDelete
Super cute Giovana, LOVE the darling image and sweet design. Jennifer :)ReplyDelete
Beautifully colored, Giovana, and I love the little buttons! I'm sorry that you feel lousy, ad I hope that you start feeling better very soon!ReplyDelete
How CUTE!! I love the buttons you added. Sorry to hear about the asthma. My daughter (25 year old) has had bad bad asthma since she was little. It's not fun -- I know. I worry about all the medications and stuff she does for it...but the alternative isn't good so I guess that's how it is. Hope you get better!ReplyDelete
hi Giovana. I hope you are feeling better:) I have been visiting your blog for awhile now and I just LOVE it. This card is super cute. Also, I gave you an award over at my blog so be sure to check it out:)ReplyDelete


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Schooling shows offer a great opportunity for H & G students who want to get a bit of the showing bug! This friendly atmosphere is a very positive environment for beginner show riders to learn the ropes of showing that is very cost effective. These shows are typically one-day shows and usually last all day long. At these shows, you can progress from walk/trot to 2'9" jumping classes! These shows also enable more experienced riders the ability to gain more confidence and time in the show ring. These shows are a great way to start your showing career, or continue your progress through the levels of showing!
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Again, coinciding with First Second Books' Vampire Month, here's the next in our alphabet of comic book vampires!
This is one of the major ones!
Morbius showed up in Amazing Spider-Man #101, one of the first examples of the loosening of the Comics Code guidelines (this also led to the Tomb of Dracula, Werewolf by Night, etc.)
Michael Morbius was a scientist who tried to cure a disease he had with some old fashioned Curt Conners style experimenting, and the result was that he became LIKE a vampire (without actually becoming a vampire).
He soon gained his own feature in Adventures of Fear…
In the 1990s, Morbius became a lot more of an actual vampire in the pages of his ongoing series (which was a major part of the Midnight Sons line of comics at Marvel).
Honestly, I don't think nearly enough has been done with Morbius – the guy is really interesting, especially the way he has a lot of the same problems as vampires without TECHNICALLY being a vampire – and over the years, it seems writers have mostly tried to get AWAY from that uniqueness and make him more like a generic vampire.
I loved the way Roy Thomas and Gil Kane made him so distinct.
Recently, he showed up working for SHIELD against Blade – that was interesting, I'll admit.
"Shall not the Alphabet of all the earth do right?"
GENESIS ch. 18, verse 25
Brian —
Nice write-up. But. Would you please get back to your "JUDGING BOOKS BY THEIR COVERS" feature?
[i]"Recently, he showed up working for SHIELD against Blade – that was interesting, I'll admit."[/i]
Might I ask WHERE this took place?
I know Blade has been popping up recently in Marvel Comics Presents… was it there?
Great project! I really enjoy reading about the vampires of the comics world
O yeah, i've read the Spider-Man 101, when it appeared in Germany a long time ago.
Thank you for reminding me.
SanctumSanctorumComix – I believe it happened in Blade's recent solo book, but don't know th numbers of the issues (not much to pick from, #1-12).
My only favorite issue of Paul Jenkins' Spectacular Spider-Man series (other than #27, his and Mark Buckingham's farewell from the character) was #14 with artist Paolo Rivera and pitted Spidey against Morbius. It was more a story about the battle and Peter in the eyes of a disabled young man.
Wasn't Morbius created in to order to liberalize the code? My understanding was that he was created in such a way that he skirted the the definition of a vampire frowned upon by the code, which was vampiric creatures of a supernatural nature. Morbius's scientific origins weren't covered by the code and hence was able to slip past as a protest to the code's conservative nature.
Yeah, I always thought that the whole "vampire-like scientifically-created, set apart from both humans and proper vampires" angle made him much more interesting, and moving him towards being just another generic vampire type was just a stupid squandering of the character's potential. I suppose it was a response to one of those flare ups of interest in vampires that happen from time to time, but it was still just a waste of the character.
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Sports Gossip: The Monday Morning Couch Potatoes
Water Cooler Topic #3
Grammy whammyEarlier this month, the 49th annual Grammy nominations were released, and R&B legend Mary J. Blige led the way with eight nods, including one for Best R&B Album and Female R&B Vocal Performance. The award for Album Of The Year will be decided among the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Justin Timberlake, The Dixie Chicks, Gnarls Barkley, and John Mayer.
Pete's take: Good to see that Justin Timberlake is getting some respect here. Talk about two extremes, though. The same month that his former girlfriend was caught on film strutting around Los Angeles with no underpants, he's being honored for his musical talents. I like that "SexyBack" song and am certain that it will win whatever award it's up for. Then again, I was outraged last week when I found out that Weird Al Yankovic's "White & Nerdy" wasn't up for "Best Hip-Hop Record" this year. But, I'm probably not the "expert," here.
Adam's take: Scanning the list of nominated artists for the 49th Grammy Awards really made me smile, as there was not one mention of Nickelback or Creed anywhere to be found. You may not know it because MTV only has TV shows and terrestrial radio only has commercials, but music has been great this year. With bands like Keane and The Raconteurs getting their due with Grammy nods, it seems as though mainstream music doesn't have to be awful.
Water Coolet Topic #4
A Meche investmentGil Meche and his career 55-44 record signed a five-year, $55-million deal with the Kansas City Royals on December 7, 2006. Meche, a third starter with the Mariners, was 11-8 with a 4.48 ERA in 2006.
Pete's take: I can't remember the last time a guy named Gil made sports headlines, but I can remember the last time a guy named Gil made an impact on America. That would be the early '90s, when Tecmo Super Bowl came out for the NES, and Saints kick-return man Gil Fenerty entered our lives. If you recall, by just zigging and zagging with the D-Pad, you could return any kick with the pixilated version of Fenerty. If Gil Meche has half the success of the video game version of the other Gil, the Royals pulled off the deal of the century.
Adam's take: Outside of just about any free agent signing by the Washington Redskins, this mammoth Meche deal has to be one of the worst of the year. There were probably only about a handful of available players that the Royals could have signed that would have actually made them worse than they are already are — Gil Meche being one of them. Meche is set to make $55 million through the course of this deal, and between 1999 and 2005 he has won 44 games in the majors. I knew Kansas City was desperate, but $1.2 million per win isn't exactly a good return rate on an investment.
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HS Valentine's Headshot Show - CHECK YOUR ENTRIESJournal Entry: Sun Feb 3, 2013, 10:21 AM
Okay guys, the show is officially closed!
I've now weeded through my notes and added all the entries to the entry journals. Please double check that your entries are there and the information is correct.
If you sent me a note but your entries aren't featured, you've either forgotten to link to the actual entry, failed to fill out the form properly, or something else along those lines.
Please send me a new note with all the correct information filled out and I'lll add it.
I will give you guys 2 days to make sure everything is okay before I proceed on to judging!
New update! Please read under "Classes"
It'll make my life so much easier.
Running: February 3rd - February 28th
Event Type: Headshot show
Class/Classes: Up to you! + Kissing Booth
Restrictions: Valentine's theme.
This show is sanctioned with Norwegian-Warmblood, so your NWB is awarded 0.5 extra KP upon entering!
HS Valentine's Headshot Show
What is this?! Why have I not seen a single Valentines show this year? Either I'm blind, or the HARPG community is missing out!
I realize the deadline is already really close, so I've decided to make this a headshot-only show. I'm sure you guys can conjure up some time to paint a lovely portrait of your horse in a span of 3 weeks if you really want to!
There is also a special class for those sexy steeds and lovely lady horses that are pros at giving kisses!
❤ Only headshots, 3/4 shots and full bodies are not accepted.
❤ This is Valentine's themed, so please keep this in mind. Can be anything from pink tack, to a red color palette, to your horse carrying a rose! Be as creative as you can!
❤ Points will not be taken off if you draw your horse rearing/bucking/knocking a pole, etc.
❤ No pre-registration required. Just send your entry to me in a when it is done.
❤ Extra images are not required, and will not give you extra points. However, they are always lovely to see!
❤ Stories are not required, and will not give you extra points.
❤ Traced images will most likely not be the winning entry. However if you still wish to do so go for it, but remember to give credit where it is due. If I suspect you've done so and you don't give credit, do not expect to place well.
❤ A colored, shaded entry is a must.
❤ 2 entries max per person!
❤ PDD accepted, but each person has to draw their own entry entirely. So one person still submits their own entry.
❤ You do not HAVE to make a background, but it is doubtful that you will still place without one. No photo backgrounds please. The background is completely up to you, just keep in mind that you are in Norway during the peak of wintertime.
❤ Fantasy breeds are welcome.
❤ You must own the horse to show it!
❤ Tack & equipment up to you.
❤ You do not have to braid manes and tails, but please make your horse look presentable!
❤ Horses/ponies and riders can be any age.
Up to you!
Draw your horse doing what he's best at!
If a lot of people enter in the same class, I will divide the entries up.
In your artist's comments, please fill out the following form:
Horse Reference -
Breed -
Discipline -
Kissing Booth
Draw your horse showing us his best smooch! It doesn't matter if he's kissing his handler, another horse, or the camera!
If you draw another horse, he is only there as a prop, much like the camera or handler. There is only one horse eligible for placing. Please make sure to state this on your entry.
❤ Effort (1-10 points)
❤ Creativity (1-10 points)
❤ Shading (1-5 points)
❤ Background (1-5 points)
❤ Valentine's theme (1-5 points)
❤ How it all comes together (1-5 points)
want to donate something? please click the link above to donate points, or me to donate art
Headshot Class
First Place
100 - TackRack
25 - broomstick88
20 - Horsechik4evr
Norwegian-Warmblood token or simple painting of your horse - TackRack
Shaded portrait - AnimalArtKingdom
Cell shaded headshot - Eternityspool
Flatcolor fullbody - Yumpy
Fullbody with ribbon & trophy - Horsechik4evr
Full Body - 3101996
Second Place
100 - TackRack
Colored sketch of your horse - TackRack
Halfbody with ribbon & trophy - Horsechik4evr
Sketchy colored chibi - 0cto4ttack
Third Place
75 - TackRack
Detailed headshot with ribbon & trophy - Horsechik4evr
Kissing Booth
First Place
150 - TackRack
Norwegian-Warmblood token or simple painting of your horse - TackRack
Shaded portrait - AnimalArtKingdom
Cell shaded headshot - Eternityspool
Headshot - Stillre
Colored & shaded headshot - bobdebob97
Second Place
100 - TackRack
Colored sketch of your horse - TackRack
Headshot - 3101996
Third Place
75 - TackRack
Sketchy full body - EventingNerd
See you there!
I guess now the judging begins?
Getting excited!
I'm going to start judging in two days after everyone has gotten the chance to check their entries
did I send you both pic's?:$ I'm not sure.
can i make a entry today ?
Don't want to be one of "those people" who is like ohmygawd, did you get y entry, did you get it skksjfhjdisn, but I sent you a note with my entry for the Kissing Booth and didn't see it listed . . . I'm only asking being dA likes to eat my notes. ^.^' I sent it the 27th, in case you want to look back.
Yep, I got it I haven't had time to sit down and update the list yet
cannot wait for the results x.x
Oh no! I wish I entered before. What shows do you have now?
Haha none at the moment
OK thanks.
I have gone and looked at The Stallion Society and found a few show jumpers that I like and are darker.
I have gone and looked at The Stallion Society and found a few show jumpers that I like and are darker.
Today is the end date, no?
that's great! Might be able to finish my entry now, thank you so much
Omg yay thank you for that <3
did I hear.. Sweden?! :''D
Stockholm It's like my second home haha
Hey maybe I can squeeze another entry in!!
But I agree w/ DemiWolfe.. *twitch twitch* xDD Waitin' for shows to end makes me antsy!
But I agree w/ DemiWolfe.. *twitch twitch* xDD Waitin' for shows to end makes me antsy!
I knowww! But this is the easiest way. I'm sure you guys will survive haha
So is this being extended until March 6th then?
A week from now, yes. Unfortunately my social life comes before a harpg show x)
tomarrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! excited for results!
can i enter with an already drawn headshot? Just for fun
so to get this clear (cos im a dummy )
i can enter the headshot class with my horse - he's a #BlueMoonstoneHorse so would that be ok? enter with a headshot him doing dressage is that all ok? xD and when is the ending date?
i can enter the headshot class with my horse - he's a #BlueMoonstoneHorse so would that be ok? enter with a headshot him doing dressage is that all ok? xD and when is the ending date?
End date is at the top! Yep any breed is allowed as long as it's a head shot
Hey Tack! Though I've donated a prize, is it still fine for me to enter that class?


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I just tried to upgrade my Firefox 19 to 22, but after this something went wrong. The last time I tried to upgrade, the same problem appeared and I cannot solve it. So, I downgraded to Firefox 19 and went ahead until today.
Now I upgraded it again (after creating the backups of my profile and all the rest), but the same problem appeared. In short: the window is "messed up", the addons don't work, the tabs of my session are lost and when I recovered a backup of them, Firefox was unable to load the pages.
At this point I decided to remove everything about Firefox and recover it later from my backups. First of all I tried to use the uninstall/helper.exe in the Firefox directory, but it doesn't run: I click two times but nothing happens; and the same does the entry in the Contro Panel/Uninstall a program. So I decided to get tougher and use Revo Uninstaller Pro (it clear the register and remove all the files and directories around the system left by ad unaccurate uninstaller). But, again, the new installation has the same, identical problems of the upgrade (i tried to remove/install everything tree times).
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This document relates only to the Canada Graduate Scholarships-Masters Program (CGS M).
1. Whom should I contact if I have questions about the program?
Your first point of contact must be the Faculty of Graduate Studies (or its equivalent) at the institution(s) where you intend to apply.
2. Where can I find important information regarding the program?
Refer to the Tri-Agency Harmonization of the Canada Graduate Scholarships page for a list of all the documents related to this program.
You must submit your application to the institution(s) where you intend to take up an award. The application form is available in the Research Portal (refer to the Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master's Program description).
4. How can I verify whether my program of study is eligible?
An eligible graduate program must have a significant research component. To confirm whether your program meets the eligibility criteria, you must consult the Faculty of Graduate Studies (or its equivalent) at the institution(s) where you intend to apply.
5. How do I choose the agency to which I want to submit my application?
The application form asks applicants to identify a Field of Research (i.e., Health, Natural Sciences and Engineering, or Social Sciences and Humanities), which will identify the agency responsible for offering the award. If your proposed research includes disciplines covering more than one field of research, you must consult the institution(s) where you intend to apply in order to help guide the choice of Field of Research in the application form. To ensure you are selecting the appropriate field of research, refer to Selecting the Appropriate Federal Granting Agency.
6. To be eligible to apply, must the first-class average be achieved in each of the last two completed years of study (full-time equivalent), or over both years combined?
To be eligible to apply, you must have achieved a first-class average in each of the last two completed years of study (full-time equivalent). Institutions will count two sessions of part-time study as one session of full-time study.
Refer to the Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master's Award Holder's Guide for details regarding part-time admission.
7. Am I eligible to apply if I have previously held funding at the master's level?
If you previously held a CGS M award, you are not eligible to apply. You may be eligible to apply for a CGS M if you have held funding from other sources.
8. To be eligible to apply, do I need to be registered in my program of study?
Your application will be deemed ineligible if you have not applied for admission to an eligible program of study by the deadline for your intended graduate program or by March 15, whichever comes first. If you have applied for admission, but you have not been formally accepted in your program of study, the offer of award will be considered conditional. Once you are accepted, the offer of award will be considered official.
9. Can I submit my application to more than one institution?
Yes. Within your application, you can select up to five institutions. You must carefully select all institutions where you intend to hold the award. Under no circumstances will you be able to add other institutions to your application after its submission. However, only institutions where you have applied or where you intend to apply for admission should be selected.
10. Can I submit my application to an institution that does not have an allocation in my Field of Research?
No. Once you select a Field of Research in the application form, the proposed institution(s) available to you will only be those with a Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master's Award Allocation in that chosen Field of Research. You must ensure that your application (i.e., research) is eligible within the Field of Research that you have selected. Similarly, you are responsible for ensuring that the institution(s) where you will submit your application has an eligible program of study in your research discipline. For further information, you must consult with the institution(s) prior to submitting your application. Otherwise, your application may become ineligible.
11. Which Canadian Common CV (CCV) template (CV Type) must be used for the application?
You must ensure to select the CGS M CCV template (CV Type). Other templates (CV Types) of the CCV cannot be attached to the application. For detailed instructions on how to complete and upload your CCV, refer to the Canadian Common CV (CCV) How to Complete the Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master's Version.
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An application will be considered complete once all of its mandatory sections have been completed, including uploads and the two reference assessments. A green checkmark will appear for each completed section that has been saved and validated. It is important to note that a complete application does not necessarily mean that all the required information has been included. A green checkmark will appear when a section appears to have been completed or a document has been uploaded, regardless of its content. You are responsible to ensure that the required content has been provided.
It is important that you view your application before you submit it, by clicking on Export application and attachments to PDF. This will allow you to confirm if all sections of the application have been duly completed and if your attachments have been uploaded successfully.
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Awards must be held at the institution from which the offer of award originated and are not intended to be portable between institutions. If you have selected more than one institution in your application (up to five can be selected), it is possible that you may receive offers of award from more than one institution. You will have to choose one among the multiple offers. For additional information, refer to the Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master's Award Holder's Guide.
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Institutions will begin releasing results in the Research Portal as of April 1. As a courtesy, you will receive a system-generated email inviting you to log in to the Research Portal each time the status of your application changes. It is your responsibility to regularly verify the Research Portal as of April 1 for results of the competition.
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In order to view the application status, you must first log in to your Research Portal account and click Open to access the Application Overview page (which contains your application, the CCV and all the attachments). In the Application Status section, you will be able to view the current application status(es).
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You can find them on a map. Barely. Little towns that used to be rather important hubs dot the Virginia countryside, dating from the days when agriculture ruled along with the horse and buggy or mule and wagon. These central spots, often near rail stations, rivers, or better roads, were communities in their own right and many have faded away as the interstate system grew. The Lost Communities of Virginia, by Terri Fisher and Kirsten Sparenborg, takes a look at these fading places, several of them near our area, including Mineral, Woodford, and Milford.
Fans of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café can relate to little Milford, situated in Caroline County and still located on a railroad line. Originally the popular area here was Doguetown, named for the Dogue Indians who used the Mattaponi River for transportation. Milford, named for a nearby plantation in 1792, also used the river as a point for shipping—and inspecting—tobacco. The Mattaponi River was connected to both the York River and the Chesapeake Bay. By the early 1840s, the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad ran from Richmond to Aquia Creek with a stop in Milford. Milford's North-South railroad connections made it a target in the Civil War.
The opening months of the Civil War had a certain boldness and cachet to them. Young men in particular signed up in droves. Picnickers came down from D.C. to take a gander at the First Battle of Manassas, discovering all too quickly that war is no theatrical entertainment. However, four years later when the South was playing an end-game, the damage to not just its army but also to its civilians was clearly a factor in its surrender. In 1863, there had been bread riots in Richmond. In 1864, the Shenandoah Valley's crops and businesses had been burned by Union General Sheridan who was advised by his commander Grant to "Give the enemy no rest ... Do all the damage to railroads and crops you can."
And so it was. The civilians and soldiers alike were hit with shortages, and the last year of the war was a particularly brutal time. In William C. Davis' and James I. Robertson, Jr.'s Virginia at War: 1865, the editors include eight essays by modern scholars and a diary from a Virginia woman, the wife of a minister, who observed that last year from her refugee quarters in Richmond where she served as a nurse and a clerk.
A customer recently called me to tell me that he loved The President's House, by Margaret Truman, so when I gave a talk in Northern Virginia a few days later, I passed on the recommendation to the group. The next customer who read it just called to tell me that he is really enjoying this book, too. Several of the book reviews said that it is a fun and interesting look at the White House written by a woman who has a deep love for this national icon because she was lucky enough to grow up there.
The personal histories included in All There Is are compelling and powerful. Some are joyous celebrations of love and companionship, while others are stoic accounts of tragedy and perseverance. Despite their differences, each narrative is characterized by an overpowering sense of authenticity. The stories recorded in All There Is were not shared for personal gain or publicity. Rather, they were collected through the efforts of StoryCorps, an oral history project that allows any willing volunteer to record his or her most precious memories and experiences. The participants share the most essential aspects of their lives in interviews that are recorded for their personal archives and, in many cases, for the American Folklife Center.
Since its debut in 2003, the StoryCorps project has spread across the United States, recording over 40,000 interviews. As Dave Isay, StoryCorps' founder, states, "StoryCorps' mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. With a relentless focus on recording the stories of people who are often excluded from the historical record, StoryCorps captures lives that would otherwise be lost to history and reminds the nation that every story matters and every voice counts."
The Seventeenth Child, by Dorothy Marie Rice & Lucille Mabel Walthall Payne, sets down the memories of a childhood lived in the countryside of 1930s Virginia by a black woman who grew up before the Civil Rights Movement made so many gains. These remembrances are plain, soft-spoken and ring true to an age that was certainly different from the one we know. In some ways, it was a harder time as in her earliest years even basic food was very hard to come by and the sharecropping system made it difficult for all farmers, black and white, to get ahead or even stay afloat during the bad harvest years.
But it was the warmth of family, faith, shared hardship and simple joys that made those days good as well as difficult. The children worked, not only because their help was needed but because it was understood that working was a good thing in and of itself. They helped pull and tend tobacco, can vegetables, sew quilts, raise chickens, and shell corn. Lucille Payne tells of how hard it was to earn money. How sometimes her mother might not be paid much more than fifty cents for a hard day's washing of filthy clothes in a dark and cold shed. Well, fifty cents and a hambone that might not be fit to eat without it being scrubbed, too, and sometimes not even then. But her mother said, "Well, you accept what they give you; next time it might be better."
It wasn't all about acceptance. Sometimes Lucille would see her mother spit in the water while she washed and she would ask her why she did that. "That helps to get them clean." But I know she was just so angry because she had to survive. When you have so many children you have to survive the best way you can. Likewise, when white children rode the bus to their segregated school, leaving the black children to walk and even calling them names, the black children got a bit of revenge…and a chance to be better than their so-called betters with an act of charity.
There was more than one wide-scale genocide in the 20th century. In 1916, the Turkish Minister of the Interior Talaat Pasha sent a letter to the government of Aleppo in Syria reminding them that all Armenians living in Turkey were be destroyed completely: "An end must be put to their existence, however criminal the measures taken may be, and no regard must be paid to either age or sex nor to conscientious scruples." It was an order that was to be echoed by Adolph Hitler in 1939 in pursuing the end of "the Polish-speaking race." Hitler added, "After all, who remembers today the extermination of the Armenians?"
Beginning April 2, 2012, the National Archives will provide access to the images of the 1940 U.S. Federal census for the very first time. Unlike previous census years, the images of the 1940 U.S. Federal Census will be made available as free digital images at http://1940census.archives.gov. Genealogists have waited for this day for years and are eager to get a first look.
When one thinks about the U.S. Civil War, or the War Between the States, one does not come up with images of food and recipes. Rather, it is the exact opposite: we think about hunger and even starvation. But the truth is, some of the most creative recipes are invented at times when the basic food elements are scarce.
When I began began doing genealogical research many years ago, like all beginners I focused on marriage records, birth and death records--when they were available, and wills. Then came deeds and other land records, and through using them I discovered the world of "courts of chancery" and "chancery records."
Not all Virginia courts judged cases the same way, you see. Some courts decided cases based on written laws that either specifically allowed or specifically prohibited various actions in certain circumstances. There was in these courts no latitude for judicial interpretation; there were no "grey areas."
Other courts, however, dealt with issues of equity or fairness in a much more flexible way--Chancery Courts. These courts decided cases which codified law could not readily accomodate, and these cases were usually land disputes, divisions of estates, divorce petitions, and business partnership disputes.
Chancery Court files are filled with subpoenas, depositions of witnesses, affidavits and other items of enormous interest to genealogists!
The Library of Virginia in Richmond has been diligently digitizing and indexing old chancery records, covering cases from the early eighteenth century through World War I. The database now includes hundreds of thousands of items. Several jurisdictions of interest to us are already completed! You may now find and view online the scanned chancery records for Westmoreland County, 1753-1913; Caroline County, 1787-1849; and Culpeper County, 1829-1913. Others will be made available in due course.
Virginia's many rivers were strategic points in the Civil War. Thousands of men had to cross them at a time, whether by boat or pontoon bridge, or, in shallower places, on foot. Major rivers slowed down--or, in the case of flood, could block movement entirely. Generals placed their supply depots on rivers, and gunboats patrolled the waters, blasting artillery positions as well as enemy strongholds in large plantation houses.
In Mark Nesbitt's Rebel Rivers, readers are treated to an easy-to-follow guide to river sites and their Civil War history. Rebel Rivers, published by Stackpole Books, is available to check out from the library. The author is also the creator of the Ghosts of Gettysburg Candlelight Walking Tours® and the Ghosts of Fredericksburg Tours.
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Based on the Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey 1995 and the British Workplace Employee Relations Survey 1998. Explores the incidence and nature of equal opportunities practices and investigates their effect on on firm performance, using productivity as a measure of performance. Focuses on small and medium-size enterprises and compares their case with larger firms.
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The rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has been watched by millions through the lens of social media. This "crowd" of social media users has given the group broad reach resulting in a massive online support community that is an essential element of their public affairs and resourcing strategies. Other extremist groups have begun to leverage social media as well. Online Extremist Community (OEC) detection holds great potential to enable social media intelligence (SOCMINT) mining as well as informed strategies to disrupt these online communities. I present Iterative Vertex Clustering and Classification (IVCC), a scalable analytic approach for OEC detection in annotated heterogeneous networks, and propose several extensions to this methodology to help provide policy makers the ability to identify these communities at scale to understand members' interests and influence. Ultimately, these methods could provide unique insights to shape information operations, intervention strategies, and policy decisions.
In this thesis, I propose the following contributions:
- efficient search and discovery of OEC members via semi-supervised dense community detection
- an active learning framework to incorporate regional expertise and enable monitoring of highly dynamic OECs
- a formal study of mention strategies used to gain social influence in within a target online community
- an extended literature review of methods applicable to detection, analysis, and disruption of OECs
The contributions proposed in this thesis will be applied to four large Twitter corpora containing distinct online communities of interest. My goal is to provide a substantive foundation enabling follow-on work in this emergent area so critical to counter-terrorism and national security.
Thesis Committee:
Kathleen M. Carley (Chair, ISR)
Daniel Neill (Heinz)
Dr. Zico Kolter (CSD/ISR)
Randy Garrett (IronNet Cybersecurity Inc.)
Social identities, the labels we use to describe ourselves and others, carry with them stereotypes that have significant impacts on our social lives. Our stereotypes, sometimes without us knowing, guide our decisions on whom to talk to and whom to stay away from, whom to befriend and whom to bully, whom to treat with reverence and whom to view with disgust.
Despite the omnipotent impact of identities and stereotypes on our lives, existing methods used to understand them are lacking. In this thesis, I first develop three novel computational tools that further our ability to test and utilize existing social theory on identity and stereotypes. These tools include a method to extract identities from Twitter data, a method to infer affective stereotypes from newspaper data and a method to infer both affective and semantic stereotypes from Twitter data. Case studies using these methods provide insights into Twitter data relevant to the Eric Garner and Michael Brown tragedies and both Twitter and newspaper data from the Arab Spring'.
Results from these case studies motivate the need for not only new methods for existing theory, but new social theory as well. To this end, I develop a new socio-theoretic model of identity labeling - how we choose which label to apply to others in a particular situation. The model combines data, methods and theory from the social sciences and machine learning, providing an important example of the surprisingly rich interconnections between these fields.
Thesis Committee:
Kathleen M. Carley (Chair)
Jason Hong (HCII)
Eric Xing (MLD/LTI,/CSD)
Lynn Smith-Lovin (Duke University)
Robert L. Wilson (Department of Sociology)
It is essentially impossible to build modern software without extensive supply chains. Supply chains decrease development risk, but typically at the cost of increased security risk. In particular, it is often difficult to trust or verify that a component contains no unwanted behaviors, vulnerabilities, or malicious code that may harm an application or its users.
Sandboxes provide relief by encapsulating a component and imposing a security policy on it. Instead of trusting or verifying the component, we must trust or verify the relatively simple sandbox. Given this appealing prospect, researchers have spent decades developing new sandboxes. However, sandboxes are rarely used in practice. What is hampering adoption? This thesis advances our understanding of and overcomes some barriers to adoption.
We begin by systematically analyzing a decade of sandboxing research from relevant top-tier conferences. This work uncovers our first two challenges: sandbox researchers often (1) use relatively subjective validation techniques and (2) ignore usability.
We then focus on the Java sandbox to empirically study its use within the open source community. We find unnecessary complexity in the sandbox that has promoted a thriving exploit landscape. We develop run time monitors for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that disable these complexity points, stopping sandbox escaping exploits without breaking compatibility with benign applications. However, we found no cases where the sandbox was successfully used for security purposes, which motivated us to overcome necessary complexity via tooling. Our tools help users derive and refine a security policy and impose it on targeted Java application components.
Finally, we observe vulnerability-inducing design and implementation complexity in adopted sandboxes, and thus develop and evaluate a sandboxing technique that leverages cloud computing environments to execute untrusted computations. Any malicious outcomes produced by the computations are contained by ephemeral virtual machines.
We evaluate our tools and sandbox in a series of case studies that investigate hard-to-sandbox cases in collaboration with industrial partners.
Thesis Committee:
Jonathan Aldrich (Co-chair)
William L. Scherlis (Co-chair)
Lujo Bauer (ECE/ISR)
Bruno Amizic (The Boeing Company)
With the emergence of the Internet of Things and a data-centric economy, where a growing number of products, services and business processes rely on the collection and processing of user data, people are increasingly confronted with an unmanageable number of privacy decisions. What is needed is a new, more scalable paradigm that empowers them to regain control over their data. Over the past ten years, my group at CMU has been working towards the development of personalized privacy assistants. To be effective, these assistants will have to be capable of incrementally learning the privacy preferences of their users, semi-automatically configure many privacy settings on their behalf and generally alert their users about privacy practices they may not be expecting. These assistants will have to be minimally disruptive, limiting their interactions with us to the bare minimum, yet knowing enough about us to make many decisions on our behalf.
Through these very selective interactions, they will alert us about practices we may not feel comfortable with, confirm privacy settings they are not sure how to configure, refine models of our preferences, and occasionally nudge us to carefully (re)consider the implications of some of our privacy decisions.
As part of this presentation, I will summarize our progress in this area, focusing in particular on a series of pilot studies conducted to evaluate personalized privacy assistant functionality developed to help smartphone users manage their mobile app privacy settings. I will also review some of the ethical and business challenges that the development of this type of technology needs to consider.
Norman Sadeh is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests span mobile and pervasive computing, cybersecurity and privacy, human computer interaction, machine learning and personal assistants. Norman is director of the School of Computer Science's Mobile Commerce Lab and also co-founder and co-director of the School of Computer Science's Master's Program in Privacy Engineering. He also co-founded and served as co-director of the School's PhD Program in Societal Computing during its first ten years.
Dr. Sadeh is also co-founder, chairman and chief scientist of Wombat Security Technologies, a CMU spinoff that sells a unique suite of cybersecurity training products and anti-phishing filtering technologies. Norman has been on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon since 1991 and is also well-known for his work on the livehoods project as well as earlier work in scheduling, constraint satisfaction and constrained optimization, supply chain management and Semantic Web technologies. In the late nineties, he served as Chief Scientist of the European Union's $600M e-Work and e-Commerce program, which at the time included all pan-European research in cyber security and online privacy.
Norman received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, an MSc, also in computer science, from the University of Southern California, and a BS/MSc in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics from Brussels Free University.
We need better tools for C, such as source browsers, bug finders, and automated refactorings. The problem is that large C systems such as Linux are software product lines, containing thousands of configuration variables controlling every aspect of the software from architecture features to file systems and drivers. The challenge for software tools is to analyze all configurations of the source code without succumbing to exponential explosion due to variability.
Bug-finding is one area where such capability is useful. Even trivial bugs like linker errors become hard to find when they only appear in certain configurations, because testing each configuration one-at-a-time is infeasible. Previous work shows that such variability bugs do appear in the Linux kernel source but, lacking automated tools, finds them by examining patches to the source. To support variability-aware tools, we focus on two key subproblems, parsing and the build system, and show how these components work together to enable a simple variability-aware bug-finder for linker errors.
A configuration-preserving preprocessor and parser called SuperC collects all function calls and definitions along with their conditions. Then, a configuration-preserving Makefile evaluator called Kmax collects all compilation units and their conditions. To find linker errors, a boolean expression representing the potential linker error is constructed for each function call. The expression combines the conditions at the definition site and its compilation unit, the call site and its compilation unit, and the Linux feature model. A SAT solver then determines whether a linker error exists in any configuration. Evaluation shows that known bugs can be found and that the finder scales across the entire Linux kernel source code.
Paul Gazillo is currently a post-doctoral associate at Yale university where I research static analyses to find complexity attacks on software. I received my PhD from New York University December 2015, where my research focused on enabling software tools for C programs in the presence of the C preprocessor and variability. Before beginning the PhD, I was a research data analyst for Educational Testing Service.
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are software-controlled systems that have complex interactions with the physical world. Many CPS, such as autonomous drones and self-driving cars, are becoming increasingly more embedded in our society, and therefore safety-critical and demanding of rigorous quality assurance. To this end, CPS engineering relies on modeling methods from diverse scientific and engineering fields, for example control theory and real-time scheduling. Diverse modeling methods are difficult to combine with each other due to their complexity and heterogeneity. Inconsistencies between models and analyses that come from different modeling methods often lead to implicit design errors, which subsequently can cause critical CPS failures with loss of lives and substantial material resources.
To detect and prevent inconsistencies between CPS modeling methods, this thesis investigates an improved architectural approach to integration of CPS modeling methods. This approach relies on architectural views (annotated component-and-connector models) to abstract out and check integration-relevant information from detailed models (e.g., hybrid programs). On top of these views I introduce a novel integration perspective based analyses -- algorithms and procedures that interpret and augment models. For each analysis I propose to specify a contract that captures inputs, outputs, assumptions and guarantees of the analysis in terms of view elements. A particularly challenging task is creating a language to express assumptions, guarantees, and consistency statements over heterogeneous models and views. This language needs to strike a balance between expressiveness and decidability to be effective in the CPS context.
The conceptual advances of this thesis enable a new level of automation for CPS modeling method integration. I will implement these advances in a toolset that will support automated model-view synchronization, analysis execution, and verification of semantic consistency between models. This toolset will serve as a means of evaluating the proposed integration approach in case studies of realistic CPS systems, such as autonomous spacecraft and collaborative robots. I will validate claims about correctness, effectiveness, and generality of my approach.
Thesis Committee:
David Garlan (Chair, ISR)
André Platzer (CSD CMU)
Bruce Krogh (ECE CMU)
Dionisio de Niz (Software Engineering Institute, CMU)
John Day (Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA)
Solving the expression problem requires a language or system to allow one to add new variants to a datatype as well as new operations over it while ensuring strong static type safety without re-compiling the existing implementation. The independently-extensible version goes a step further to require that these extensions can be added in any order. In extensible languages this amounts to adding new (abstract) syntax to a language and new semantic analyses or translations to it. Attribute grammars solve these versions of the expression problem, but with forwarding and a modular well-definedness analysis they also solve a version that requires that no 'glue' code need be written to combine the various extensions. This means that the composition can always be done safely and automatically. Using these techniques we have built ableC, an extensible language framework for C in which non-export programmers can select the language extensions that best fit their task at hand with the confidence that the supporting tools can generate a working compiler for their custom language.
Eric Van Wyk's research focuses on programming languages, in particular extensible programming languages and compilers, applications of temporal logic, and algebraic compilers. In 2005 he was awarded a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship and the National Science Foundation's CAREER award in 2004.
He has authored or co-authored more than 25 publications, including journal and conference papers, articles and technical reports. Van Wyk has developed various software packages including the Silver attribute grammar specification and evaluation system, extensible specifications of Java 1.4 and ANSI C written in Silver, and various domain-specific language extensions for these Java and C specifications. He is a member of ACM, ACM SIGPLAN, IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society, and is involved in numerous conference committees. Van Wyk also does outreach, serving as a member of the St. Louis Park High School School Business and Information Technology Advisory Board.
Faculty Host: Jonathan Aldrich
Structured probabilistic inference has shown to be useful in modeling complex latent structures of data. One successful way in which this technique has been applied is in the discovery of latent topical structures of text data, which is usually referred to as topic modeling. With the recent popularity of mobile devices and social networking, we can now easily acquire text data attached to meta information, such as geo-spatial coordinates and time stamps. This metadata can provide rich and accurate information that is helpful in answering many research questions related to spatial and temporal reasoning. However, such data must be treated differently from text data. For example, spatial data is usually organized in terms of a two dimensional region while temporal information can exhibit periodicities. While some work existing in the topic modeling community that utilizes some of the meta information, these models largely focused on incorporating metadata into text analysis, rather than providing models that make full use of the joint distribution of meta-information and text.
In this thesis, I propose the event detection problem, which is a multi-dimensional latent clustering problem on spatial, temporal and textual data. The event detection problem can be treated as a generalization of the topic modeling problem where events can be considered as topics that are augmented by location and time. Preliminary models can effectively learn the representations of major events covered in a corpus of Twitter data and can also be used for various prediction tasks such as predicting the spatial coordinates, time stamps of the documents as well as estimating life cycles of new born events.
The approaches proposed in this thesis are largely based on Bayesian non-parametric methods to deal with steaming data and unpredictable number of data clusters. The research proposed will not only serve the event detection problem itself but also shed light into a more general structured clustering problem in spatial, temporal and textual data.
Thesis Committee:
Kathleen M. Carley (Chair)
Huan Liu (School of Computing, Informatics, & Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University)
Tom Mitchell (Machine Learning/CMU)
Alexander J. Smola (Machine Learning/CMU)
Software development environments are increasingly integrating social media features that allow transparency of software projects and developers by making visible all work-related activity that software developers can use to enhance their work. Developers in these environments often choose to interact with other projects or developers, whether through forming dependencies, learning from an expert, or evaluating code contributions. Transparency can inform these decisions by allowing interested developers to see an entire network of information, such as all the developers that work on a particular project and their prior development history. With this promise of staying aware and interacting with an ecosystem of potentially millions of projects and developers comes the peril of consuming overwhelming amounts of mostly noisy information generated by the broadcast development activity of these projects and developers. However, by identifying what information developers need to be aware of in transparent environments, there is the opportunity to inform new practices and tools that assist developers in their tasks by only displaying information that is most relevant for the current task.
My dissertation work is to identify signals that developers make use of during tasks in transparent development environments and to use this knowledge to create tools that assist developers in performing these tasks. When developers are evaluating contributions, they make use of technical signals from the contribution and social signals from the submitter such as social connections and prior interaction on the project. Developers solving problems through discussion on contributions use signals such as the political influence of the community and how new the submitter is to inform decisions such as the scope of implemented solutions and the necessary amount of etiquette in a response. When deciding to use or participate in a project, developers make inferences about working dynamics, personal utility, and the project's community. I propose the development of a tool that uses signals to assist developers in finding and evaluating projects in transparent development environments. Depending on the user's current task, the tool should visualize different relevant project-related signals to assist the developer in evaluating projects. For example, a user looking to find a project to form a dependency with will see signals for a project's maturity while a user looking to find a project to learn from might see signals for popularity. The development of this tool will occur in 2 phases: 1) enhanced project summary and 2) personalized project search. The enhanced project summary phase augments potential projects with additional signals that assist the user in evaluating and selecting projects. The personalized project search phase uses information about the user and potential projects to select only relevant projects for the particular user to evaluate.
Thesis Committee:
James Herbsleb (Co-chair)
Laura Dabbish (Co-chair)
Claire Le Goues
André van der Hoek (University of California, Irvine)


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This beautiful book by Julie Campbell and Alex S. MacLean is an excellent reference for coming to grips with that slippery but important issue, density. Density can have both positive and negative connotations -- and effects -- depending on its context and execution. The photos in Visualizing Density illustrate this wonderfully, and can help us get a better mental grasp on the variety of ways people can live at a variety of different density levels. --Post Carbon Cities
This vivid and visual book is one of the essential guides to understanding the concept of density. It provides aerial photos and street pattern maps for the entire range of housing density in America from 0.2 units per acre in Beverly Hills to nearly 300 units per acre in New York City. In this book version of the 2007 Planetizen Top Website: Visualizing Density, Campoli presents accurate descriptions of density and land use patterns in the United States, and offers the stepping stones to planning and designing for a society of greater density. MacLean s beautiful and varied aerial photography gives an impressive view of hundreds of parts of the country and, at the same time, a disturbing look at the wasteful development pattern that has persevered in the U.S. for decades. --Planetizen Top 10 Books for 2008


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The operator of Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium is locked in a
contract dispute with the company that controversially ousted
Dunedin audiovisual providers for work at major city venues.
Ratepayers will not be hit in the pocket again despite the
company running Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium missing its
mark by nearly $700,000.
New financial figures have pumped up the price of Dunedin's
Forsyth Barr Stadium to as high as $266 million.
The news Dunedin will host seven of the matches in the 2015
Fifa Under-20 World Cup is fantastic for football and
sporting fans alike - and a timely boost for the city.
The beautiful game and some of its best young players are
coming to Dunedin, with confirmation Forsyth Barr Stadium
will host seven matches during the 2015 Fifa Under-20 World
The Dunedin Railway Station is fully tenanted, following
confirmation Dunedin Venues Management Ltd (DVML) has leased
a space there.
Dunedin Venues Management Ltd continues to be in talks about
bringing another international act to Forsyth Barr Stadium,
but any guesses as to who that might be are simply conjecture
at this stage, a spokeswoman says.
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much the stadium is costing the council and ratepayers? The
deputy chairman of the finance committee, Cr Richard Thomson,
explains the official council view while council critic
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Forsyth Barr Stadium could host its third major international
concert later this year, just months after Paul Simon appears
on stage.
Dunedin Venues Management Ltd has revealed another healthy
profit of more than $750,000 from hosting the All Blacks and
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