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The deadline for scholarship applications at Iowa Lakes Community College for the upcoming 2013-2014 academic year is rapidly approaching.
Students are advised that to be considered for scholarships at Iowa Lakes, they are required to complete an online scholarship application which includes submitting the completed form as well as securing two online recommendations no later than 11:59 p.m., Monday, April 1. The application forms can be found at www.iowalakes.edu/scholarships.
Potential scholarship recipients must apply each academic year. The current applications are for the 2013-2014 college year.
"I'd like to remind potential applicants that not all of our scholarships are need-based," said Jolene Rogers, Executive Director of Institutional Advancement. "We have many scholarships that are academically based – or are for a specific program."
The best thing to do is go online and apply, according to Rogers.
"The donors in our area have been very generous in their giving," said Rogers. "They want to see young people in this region succeed."
To be eligible for need-based scholarships offered by Iowa Lakes Community College, students' FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) information results must be submitted to the college prior to April 1 as well.
All scholarship competitions use the same form. Deadline for all Iowa Lakes scholarships – for students to receive funds for the upcoming academic year, starting with funding in the fall semester – must be completed by April 1.
Those with any questions about applying for scholarships should contact Kaycee Matheason at 712-362-0410; or Jolene Rogers, Executive Director of Institutional Advancement at 712-362-0491 or 800-242-5106 ext. 4491.


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'Mike Keenan doesn't know whether he'll have a job come Monday. The Boston Bruins have 10 days after the season to decide whether they want to pick up the first of two remaining options on his three-year contract to coach the team. If they make the playoffs, Keenan will likely stick around. If they don't, chances are he's headed for the gallows.'
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Trust is the new currency by which customers evaluate the merits of new-home builders, according to ground-breaking national research of more than 21,500 new- home shoppers in the Lifestory Research Most Trusted Builders in America Study SM.
The study finds that three-fourths of customers (76 percent) report that trust is a critical criterion by which they evaluate the merits of a home builder before making a purchase decision, placing significant emphasis on the perceived trustworthiness of home builder brands. "Home builders need to begin to ask themselves how consumers see their brand in regards to trust if they wish to effectively compete in the current marketplace," said Lifestory Research President and CEO Eric Snider. "We find that the trust held by a customer toward a home builder is playing a central role among home shoppers as they seek to reduce uncertainty in the high-risk decision of purchasing a new home."
The Lifestory Research Most Trusted Builders in America Study tracks 133 home builder brands in the top 27 housing markets in the United States. However, for purposes of examining builders at the national level for this release, a builder brand was included if a builder was in the top 30 builders in the United States and was selling homes in at least three markets. Based on this, the following brands were included in the national study of the Most Trusted Builders in America: Ashton Woods, Beazer, Centex, DR Horton, David Weekley, Del Webb, Drees, Gehan, Highland (TX), KB Home, KHovnanian, Lennar, M/I, Meritage, Perry, Pulte, Richmond American, Ryan, Ryland, Shea, Standard Pacific, Taylor Morrison, Toll Brothers, Trilogy by Shea Homes, and Woodside.
The Most Trusted Builder in America was Ashton Woods, the nation's 25th largest builder selling homes in Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Orlando, Phoenix, Raleigh, San Antonio and Tampa. Ashton Woods produced a Net Trust Quotient Score of 111, followed in order by David Weekley Homes (108.5), Trilogy by Shea Homes (106.9), Perry Homes (106.8), Drees Homes (106.8), Meritage Homes (104.2), Highland Homes of Texas (104.2), Taylor Morrison Homes (101.6), M/I Homes (100.8), and Woodside Homes (100.8). Trilogy by Shea Homes also was recognized as the Most Trusted Active Adult Builder in America.
In a shift away from product usage and satisfaction research, Lifestory Research's investigation focuses on how brands influence the purchase behavior of home shoppers. "We have seen a fundamental shift in consumer psychology that has occurred in response to the massive social revolution that has taken place over the last several years," Snider said. "Consumers are referencing customer advocacy organizations less for product information; instead, people are turning to their peers, friends, and digital social networks to garner opinions. Moreover, in the process of shopping for a home, consumers rely upon their direct experience they have with the multitude of builder brands in a given marketplace. As a result, we have seen brands rise in importance in the consumer purchase process."
The study, in its first year, evaluates attitudes from thousands of consumers who are actively in the process of shopping for a new home in one of the top 27 housing markets in the United States. Trust is measured through the Lifestory Research Net Trust Quotient Score. This score is based on the fundamental perspective that every organization's customer can be divided into three categories: "advocates" are customers who feel a significant trust toward a given brand; "neutrals" are customers who trust a specific brand, but they do not see a specific brand as standing on the shoulders of other brands in regards to trust; and "antagonists" are skeptics who have little, if any, trust in a specific brand.
The most effective way to gauge the trust of a brand is to take the percentage of customers who are trust advocates and subtract the percentage of people who are dis-trusters. Scores are standardized (using z scores and t scores) with 100 being equal to the overall average. Scores can array above and below the 100 point average. Each Net Trust Quotient Score represents the net value of a brand on trust. A brand with a high positive score is an indication that the brand is trusted by a large portion of the target market. Conversely, a low score is an indication that the brand is not trusted by the consumer marketplace.
To qualify to participate in the study, participants must have met all of the following criteria: Household located in the metro area of one of the 27 markets in the study (see link for list of markets), a household income in excess of $50,000, between the ages of 25 and 69, actively shopping for a home during the last 90 days, and with intentions of owning their next home (versus renting).
Detailed information about the study can be found at www.lifestoryresearch.com/builderrankings.


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Sally Batton finished her 28th season as head coach of the Dartmouth Equestrian Team and Director of Riding in 2017.
Since coming to Dartmouth in 1990, Batton has led the Dartmouth Equestrian team to four Ivy League titles, in 1997, 2007, 2010 and 2014 and also sent numerous Dartmouth riders to the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA) National Championships. In 2008, Batton was named the American Riding Instructors' Association Instructor of the Year, and is certified Level III in ARIA in Hunter Seat and Recreational Riding.
Arriving at Dartmouth from Centenary College in N.J., she was on the faculty in the Equine Studies program, and coached their IHSA team, qualifying the team for two National Championships.
Batton coached the Dartmouth Equestrian Team to IHSA Zone I, Region 2 titles in 2005, 2007 and 2014. In addition in 2014, she guided the team to the IHSA Zone I New England Championship title, which qualified the team for the 2014 IHSA National Championships, where they took home 10th place.
In 2015, Dartmouth finally enjoyed success at the highest level as Anna Knowles was the National Champion in the McDonald Scholarship Challenge with Nathalie Ferneau earning the title of Reserve National Champion in the competition.
In 2017, Batton saw Team co-captains Meg Rauner and Claire Bick earn National Reserve Championship honors in Intermediate Equitation on the Flat and Novice Equitation on the Flat, respectively.
Batton has served on the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association Board of Directors since 1984, first as a Regional President, then chair of numerous committees, and has served as IHSA National Steward since 2001. Batton was awarded the 2013 IHSA Lifetime Achievement Award. Serving on the Board of the American Polocrosse Association for many years, she also coached the Dartmouth Polocrosse Club. In 1990, Batton's book on the sport was published, Polocrosse: Australian Made, Internationally Played.
A 1983 graduate from Lake Erie College in Ohio, Batton earned a bachelor's degree in Equine Studies before earning a master's degree in Communications at Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1989. Sally is also the President of the IHSA Professional Horseman's Association chapter and is President and Founder of the Athletic Equestrian League.


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I'm 30 years old and am just over 5 months pregnant with my first baby.
This was an unplanned pregnancy and I am finding it very hard to deal with the emotional and mood rollercoaster I seem to constantly be on. It's putting a big strain on my relationship.
I thought I might come on to this forum to be able to talk about how i'm feeling, as I don't think the people around understand. Some try to be a support but others try to "snap me out of it" which doesn't work. That only makes it worse.
I really wish I could be excited, like other new mums :'-( I just don't know how to get happy and stay happy about my pregnancy.
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I am so sorry to hear that you are feeling down. I hope you are able to gain some support from this forum. Are you able to talk to your midwife or doctor about how you are feeling? They need to know that you are feeling down. It is important to know that not everyone feels "happy" about being pregnant. Many pregnancies, like yours, are unplanned. It is okay to feel unhappy, mad, stressed or a whole range of feelings for a short time, but it is not okay to feel down all the time. Sometimes you have to get help to show you the way through. It is a great idea to find someone you can talk to - so if you can't find anyone with your family or circle of friends can I suggest talking to someone professionally. They can help you work through your feelings. Why don't you check out Beyond Blue's website. They have lots of support lines for depression (they list postnatal depression - but these services usually provide help during pregnancy). You don't need to feel alone.
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you posted a few weeks ago now..but I just wanted to say that my pregnancy was very planned(IVF), and it still took my months to feel happy and connected about it. I know it's different, but you don't need to feel bad about feeling bad (or not feeling good).


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Over the last week I made a cake for my daughter's closest friend's 2 year old birthday party. I did 4 9" rounds of genoise riche, trimmed and filled with lemon curd flavored IMBC. I had some lemon curd left so I used it for a thin crumb coat over the top of the cake, then frosted the whole thing with the lemon mousseline. Probably wouldn't do that again thought since it made the top very slippery. For the fondant I used half a recipe of the marshmallow fondant described here: http://whatscookingamerica.net/PegW/Fondant.htm
I kneaded up the fondant white, then later kneaded in Americolor gels. The black took a while to knead in enough color to make it an even black, and the fondant seemed much more fragile and prone to tearing after mixing in the color. The white behaved beautifully. Overall I'd say my experience was pretty good with this fondant, my first. It certainly makes nicer looking decorations than my awful piping and frosting technique would have! I don't really care for it to eat, but some people said it tasted good when the cake was served. Cake probably ended up with somewhat too much frosting on it between a thick filling and frosting with the buttercream, then several layers of fondant. It was good though, and the birthday boy seemed to like it.
I did have some difficulties. First was a carton of suspect eggs, bought from the corner store. After making up two batches sequentially of the genoise and a full recipe of mousseline, my wife smelled the egg shells and thought they smelled really bad. They did smell kind of funny, so given that we were going to serve this at a kid's party and she is pregnant too we decided to trash the lot and start over with new eggs.
Second difficulty was in making the genoise. I seem to end up with chunks of unincorporated flour in settled to the bottom of the cake, which I can see when I trim it. Also it doesn't end up as thick as it is supposed to be, and near the top the size of the bubbles in the cake get to be quite large. Also it has kind of a not very smooth texture in your mouth. I had the same exact problem when I made biscuit de savoie last month. I'm sifting the flour onto the egg foam in maybe 4 batches, but it still seems to clump up. I'm folding it in with either a big rubber spatula or a slotted plastic one. I guess I'm not folding enough… Any tips?
Putting on the syrup is also a relatively new thing for me, and I didn't feel great about my results with a silicone basting brush. What ended up working well for me was to pour out a measured amount of syrup on a big plate, then invert a cake layer onto the syrup and kind of pat it down so it can absorb the syrup on the plate. Like letting standing water soak into a sponge.
Also putting the fondant on the wheels of the bus seemed impossible to do without lots of folds near the bottom where there was too much material after draping a rolled out round over the piece of cake. I'm also into sewing, and this seems exactly like putting a piece of flat fabric onto a 3D shape; you will need to have seams and darts to make it fit. But people seem to be able to put fondant on 3D shapes without getting creases. Hmmm.
A while back I wrote about my challenges getting IMBC to come together without a huge amount of beating and plenty of curdling and worrying. I'm happy to report that this time all three batches that I made (one of which got thrown out) came together fine and without curdling at all. I think I'm just getting more practice with pouring the syrup in while manipulating the speed control on the kitchenaide, judging butter temp, etc. I did get curdling when I rebeat the lemon BC later before putting in on the cake. I probably didn't let it warm up enough out of the fridge. It did eventually recover, but it took a lot of beating, and splashed a lot of liquid out of the KA.
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A local rabbi is named one of America's Most Inspiring Rabbis, Beth Shalom gets a new chazzan, actor Joel Polis gets rave reviews in the West Coast run of a play that premiered here some years back and more good news in this week's column.
Cantor Jeffrey S. Weber has been chosen the new chazzan of Beth Sholom Congregation in Elkins Park, taking on his new post on July 1. The native of Valley Forge, raised in Commack, N.Y., is an alum of the Juilliard School of Music. Weber received his diploma of chazzan and a subsequent master's degree in Sacred Music from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He previously served as cantor at Temple Beth Sholom in Sarasota, Fla.
American Airlines Group and subsidiary US Airways are being saluted by the Philadelphia-Israel Chamber of Commerce, which will bestow its prestigious 2014 Yitzhak Rabin Public Service Award on the two at a special gathering here on April 8. Both are being cited, in part, for being catalysts "for business and economic development, especially with Israel."
Yaron Sideman, consul general of Israel to the Mid-Atlantic States, has been chosen for the executive committee of the Consular Corps Association of Philadelphia, serving as vice president.
Lenore Steiner has been chosen a member of the board of directors of the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation.
Havertown's Mike Tollin executive produced Summer Dreams, a CBS documentary offering an insider's special look at athletes' actions and lifestyles during the National Basketball Association's off-season. Among Tollin's many film credits is Radio Daze.
Rabbi Yael Levy of Mishkan Shalom Synagogue has been named one of 2014 America's Most Inspiring Rabbis, by the Jewish Daily Forward.
Oreland's Joel Polis has garnered raves for a variety of roles he plays — including the Rebbe — in the Los Angeles premiere of My Name Is Asher Lev, based on the novel by the late Chaim Potok. The play premiered some years back in Philadelphia and then went on to a successful off-Broadway run. The L.A. production is by the Fountain Theatre; locally, it had been premiered by the Arden Theater.
Gladwyne's Sara Greenberg has joined forces with Della Heiman, both students at the Harvard Business School, to form Inside IL, a company which positions MBA students from across the nation with companies in Israel.
The Klein JCC's recent annual Home Delivered Meals, March for Meals Celebration and Volunteer Recognition Luncheon honored Subaru of America/ Cherry Hill, N.J., with a Corporate Leadership Award; the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust of Gladwyne, Pa., with a Community Leadership Award; and Jack Belitsky; Judy Einhorn of Marlton, N.J.; and David and Jeanette Auerbach of Elkins Park with the Nina Cohen Award, named after the late former director of the Home Delivered Meals Program.
Marc Erlbaum, guiding spirit behind Nationlight Productions and a film producer and writer, has founded eflixir, a new movie streaming service that donates portions of money raised to Free the Children.
Lou Balcher has been appointed national director of the American Friends of the Kaplan Medical Center, which is stationed in Rehovot, Israel. Balcher comes to this position from his years as director of academic affairs, speakers bureau and community relations for the Consulate General of Israel to the Mid-Atlantic Region.


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Genealogists spend a lot of time thinking about dead people. Come on, admit it: When you're poking around in 1800s census records and poring over dusty turn-of-the-century diaries to break through a mile-high brick wall, it's easy to overlook the living, breathing members of your family tree.
So what's the antidote to your genealogy-induced dead-relative syndrome? Planning a "roots reunion." More than a traditional "lets-get-together-and-grill-out-and-play-softball" gathering, a roots reunion incorporates activities, decorations and roods that focus on your family's unique history. It lets you introduce your living relatives to the fascinating people behind the names on your pedigree chart.


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The Foo Fighters have booked a performance at one of New York City's biggest Super Bowl parties. They'll be among the headliners at the 2014 Bud Light Hotel concert series, which is set to take place the weekend before the big football game.
The shows will be held in a special heated amphitheater across the street from the Bud Light Hotel cruise ship, which will be docked on the Hudson River near the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum.
The festivities start January 30th with the Roots performing alongside Run-D.M.C., Busta Rhymes, and others as part of a tribute to New York hip-hop. Imagine Dragons will keep things going on the 31st, and the Foo Fighters will share the bill with Zac Brown Band on February 1st.
Foo frontman Dave Grohl recently teamed up with Brown and company to produce their latest release, The Grohl Sessions, Volume One.
The Bud Light Hotel concert series will come to an end February 2nd - a.k.a. Super Bowl Sunday - with pre-game performances from Fall Out Boy and Jake Owen.
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This Seattle singer-songwriter considers her fifth album to be her "road record": All of the songs are about movement of some sort or another, and all of them were written while she was on tour last year. Produced by band member Tucker Martine, the album is more lively and dynamic than 2004's austere Carbon Glacier, making good use of her excellent band the Tortured Souls, who combine various guitars, keyboards, percussion, viola (courtesy of guest musician Eyvind Kang) and electronics for a sound that could be described as avant-garde folk-pop. Always an evocative songwriter, Veirs has come up with some of her most memorable songs to date. 7/21/2005 - Don Yates
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News—Guardian of Dead Sea Scrolls to speak October 24–26
The Center for Holy Lands Studies in conjunction with the Shrine of the Book will present the Dead Sea Scrolls Lecture Series with Dr. Adolfo Roitman, curator of the Shrine of the Book and guardian of the Dead Sea Scrolls, October 24–26, at the Cardone Media Center (corner of Division and Boonville). The public is invited to attend.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Dr. Adolfo Roitman, will present a free public lecture on Thursday, Oct. 27, at 7 p.m. in the Evangel University chapel auditorium.
Roitman serves as curator of the Shrine of the Book, which houses the Dead Sea Scroll collection at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, one of the world's leading archaeological museums.
The presentation, titled "The Dead Sea Scrolls in the 21st Century," is co-sponsored by Evangel's theology department and the Assemblies of God Center for Holy Lands Studies.
About Dr. Roitman
Dr. Adolfo Roitman serves as the curator of the Shrine of the Book, which houses the Dead Sea Scroll collection at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, one of the world's leading archaeological museums.
Roitman's main lecture topics include early Jewish literature, the history and significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls and biblical interpretation. Roitman has also served as a visiting scholar in several universities across the United States and Central and South America.
An ordained conservative rabbi, Roitman earned his Ph.D. in Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1993. His fields of research include comparative religion, anthropological science and art history. Roitman is a member of the World Union of Jewish Studies and the Society of Biblical Literature.
The Assemblies of God Center for Holy Lands Studies, a co-sponsor of Dr. Roitman's lecture series, is the first institution of its kind for any denomination. The Center educates participants about the geography, people and cultures of the Bible and hosts interactive study trips and educational institutes in Israel. Trips are open for any interested participant and are geared toward students, educators, pastors and administrators.
Evangel is a private, Christian university of arts, sciences and professions that offers more than 100 undergraduate academic programs and 11 master's programs. The fall 2011 enrollment has reached a record 2,168 students.
Evangel University is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission (312-263-0456, http://hlcommission.org), the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, the National Association of Schools of Music, and the Council on Social Work Education.
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Fox Still Dismissing Spending Cuts As Economic Fallout Begins
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Fox News hosts have been dismissing the effects of the across-the-board government spending cuts known as sequestration, claiming that "nothing is happening" following the cuts taking effect. But the cuts are already having negative economic consequences that will continue unless the cuts are replaced.
"Nothing Is Happening": Fox Hosts Dismiss Sequestration Cuts
Hannity: Obama's "Doomsday Sequester Narrative Is Unraveling Faster Than We Can Keep Up." On the March 5 edition of Hannity, host Sean Hannity said, "Meanwhile, tonight, President Panic's doomsday sequester narrative is unraveling faster than we can keep up. Now, Barack Nostradamus Obama predicted a Mayan apocalypse if sequester went into effect. And now his unfulfilled prophecies are mounting and forcing his administration to do what they do best -- lie to you, the American people." [Fox News, Hannity, 3/5/13]
Cavuto: "Three Days In" To Sequestration Cuts And "Nothing Is Happening." Host Neil Cavuto opened the March 6 edition of Your World with Neil Cavuto by saying, "three business days in -- sequestration frustration is now a contagion. But not because bad things are happening. No, no, no. Because nothing is happening." [Fox News, Your World with Neil Cavuto, 3/6/13]
Fox's Dobbs: Sequestration Cuts Are "Far More Harmless Than Many Suggest." On the March 5 edition of Fox Business' Lou Dobbs Tonight, host Lou Dobbs said that the impact of the cuts would be "far more harmless than many suggest." [Fox Business, Lou Dobbs Tonight, 3/5/13]
Obama Repeatedly Said Cuts Would Have Negative Effects That Would Not "Be Felt Overnight" ...
Obama: Although It "Won't Be Felt Overnight," Automatic Spending Cuts "Will Weaken America's Economic Recovery" And "Our Military Readiness." In a speech in Newport News, Virginia, on February 26, Obama said:
Instead of cutting out the government spending we don't need -- wasteful programs that don't work, special interest tax loopholes and tax breaks -- what the sequester does is it uses a meat cleaver approach to gut critical investments in things like education and national security and lifesaving medical research.
And the impact of this policy won't be felt overnight, but it will be real. The sequester will weaken America's economic recovery. It will weaken our military readiness. And it will weaken the basic services that the American people depend on every single day.
Already, the uncertainty around these cuts is having an effect. Companies are starting to prepare for layoff notices. Families are preparing to cut back on expenses. And the longer these cuts are in place, the greater the damage. [WhiteHouse.gov, 2/26/13]
Obama: "Not Everyone Will Feel The Pain Of These Cuts Right Away" But "The Pain ... Will Be Real." In a statement preceding a press conference on March 1, Obama said the cuts would "hurt our economy" and "cost us jobs." He later said:
Now, what's important to understand is that not everyone will feel the pain of these cuts right away. The pain, though, will be real. Beginning this week, many middle-class families will have their lives disrupted in significant ways. Businesses that work with the military, like the Virginia shipbuilder that I visited on Tuesday, may have to lay folks off. Communities near military bases will take a serious blow. Hundreds of thousands of Americans who serve their country -- Border Patrol agents, FBI agents, civilians who work at the Pentagon -- all will suffer significant pay cuts and furloughs.
All of this will cause a ripple effect throughout our economy. Layoffs and pay cuts means that people have less money in their pockets, and that means that they have less money to spend at local businesses. That means lower profits. That means fewer hires. The longer these cuts remain in place, the greater the damage to our economy -- a slow grind that will intensify with each passing day.
So economists are estimating that as a consequence of this sequester, that we could see growth cut by over one-half of 1 percent. It will cost about 750,000 jobs at a time when we should be growing jobs more quickly. [WhiteHouse.gov, 3/1/13]
... And The Cuts Are Already Having And Will Continue To Have Serious Economic Effects
American Prospect: Spending Cuts Could "Cost Roughly 700,000 Jobs" And Slow GDP Growth By 0.5 Or 0.6 Percent. In an article titled, "Obama Didn't Cry Wolf on the Sequester," The American Prospect noted that "[s]equester furloughs have already begun for some federal workers" and noted:
Private forecasting firm Macroeconomic Advisers estimates "sequestration would cost roughly 700,000 jobs (including reductions in armed forces)," while Moody's Analytics predicts a hit to real gross domestic product of 0.5 percent, just a hair below Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's prediction 0.6 percent fiscal drag. [The American Prospect, 3/6/13]
Republican Governor Bob McDonnell To Obama: Spending Cuts Pose "Potential Devastation" To Virginia Residents. In a February 18 letter, Virginia's Republican governor Bob McDonnell asked Obama to take action to repeal the spending cuts, writing, "I write today to respectfully request your immediate attention to address the potential devastation that looming cuts to defense due to sequestration will have on national security and on the economic well-being of the citizens of the Commonwealth. ... The automatic sequestration reductions mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011 are already having a significant adverse effect on the Commonwealth." [Governor.Virginia.gov, 2/18/13]
Wash. Post: Many Defense Department Employees Face "A 20 Percent Pay Cut For Nearly Half The Year." A Washington Post article about the effects of the sequester on the Defense Department stated:
Navy and Air Force employees, along with nearly all other Defense Department civilians, are facing unpaid furloughs of 22 days from late April through September, which would be spread out as one day a week on average. That would amount to a 20 percent pay cut for nearly half the year. [The Washington Post, 3/5/13]
Wash. Post: Furlough-Caused Financial Problems Could Affect Security Clearances. The Post article also explained that federal employees holding security clearances could run into financial troubles because of the cuts, which could affect those employees' clearances:
Federal employees holding security clearances who run into financial trouble due to sequestration-caused furloughs should bring that issue to their agency's attention to help protect their cleared status, according to two military services.
In guidance that could apply equally to employees of other agencies, the Navy has said its employees should notify their supervisors or their security officers in writing if the forced unpaid leave time causes financial troubles that would act as a security red flag.
Indebtedness is one of the potential indicators of reliability, trustworthiness and judgment that go into a decision on granting or continuing security clearances, which are needed for many federal jobs. [The Washington Post, 3/5/13]
Wash. Post: Education Cuts To Impact "Poor And Disabled Children" And Schools On Native American Reservations And Military Bases. A March 5 Washington Post article explained that the cuts would have an adverse effect on "schools on Indian reservations and military bases, which receive a larger share of their funds from Washington as compensation for the fact that they can't raise funds from local property taxes [as most schools do]." The article noted that a school district on a Native American reservation in Arizona is considering "closing three of its seven schools as a result of the federal sequester." The article further stated that while public education is mostly funded by state and local governments, "[f]ederal dollars," which will be cut, "are largely concentrated on poor children and those with disabilities." [The Washington Post, 3/5/13]
NY Times Blog: EPA, FEMA, National Park Systems Will Be Adversely Affected By Cuts. A post on the New York Times blog IHT Rendezvous noted that staff at the Environmental Protection Agency will face furloughs and some "will temporarily lose their jobs." The EPA has also said, the post continued, that "it would have to reduce the number of environmental inspections, enforcement of rules at Superfund sites (sites contaminated by hazardous substances), groundwater cleanup actions and much more." The post noted that federal disaster relief and the National Park system will also both see cuts. [The New York Times, IHT Rendezvous, 3/4/13]
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Based on some past failures with client's websites, and with the realization that just having a nice HTML website isn't enough, I want to learn how to add Audio and Video to my personal website.
But I have no clue of where to begin?!
It would be nice to add a couple of simple, yet professional looking videos to my website.
Specifically, I would like to do "Customer Testimonials", because I think that would really help me to establish rapport and trust with potential customers. (In addition, having audio or videos would "spice things up" a bit too!)
Here is hoping that you don't say, "Go buy $10,000 in video and editing equipment" or "Go hire a Hollywood producer"?! :eek:
On one hand, adding audio and video to my website will probably require A LOT of work, but then again, think of how many 14 year old kids out there get on nationwide TV and become rich and famous for the most obnoxious YouTube videos...
Can someone help get me started?
Go buy a cheap video camera (preferably digital), take your video, import onto your computer and edit with iMovie (should already be on your Mac), then click Share to upload it straight to YouTube. Then embed it into your web page. Easy. And cheap.
If I give $20 Aussie dollars, will you do it for me?! :lol:
Back in the "old days", websites had Flash (??) videos that would play when you visited the website. (I guess sites still do that with advertisements.)
Not sure if people will find that obnoxious or not?! :-/
I was thinking of interviewing a customer or prop person on a topic that relates to my business. For example, maybe there would be a 200px by 200px "video" of some female talking about how incorporating her business was a great idea. People would see the lady talking, and hopefully think, "Hmmm... let me turn on the sound and see what she is talking about?!"
Don't you think that would make my website more interesting?
If you want to add video customer testimonials, certainly do it as cheaply as possible because, and no offence, personally I think unverifiable testimonials on any website are a waste of time.
Think about it - have you ever seen a bad testimonial on a website? And it's nearly impossible to determine if the testimonials are genuine and truthful, let alone just "cash for comment".
just my :twocents:
Like Max above, I don't find testimonial vids very interesting. They are really ads, as they can say anything they like, and who wants to watch an ad? What I really do like on sites these days are intro videos that give a demo of the product being sold. These can be very handy, and are more engaging that a long series of paragraphs trying to do the same. There are some really nice ones out there. If you like, check out this one on the goodsie website (it's the demo video, in the center down near the bottom of the home page, which seems a little silly to me, but o well ...)
Add a capital K and I'll think about it.
Here are some samples that I found online which represent what I had in mind...
Well, Ralph, if you sing, "My heart is beating like a jungle drum.. JA BOM BA BOOM JA <whatever>", I just might... :lol:
You could do all (or most) of that with iMovie, but they are using nice cameras (and camera work) there, so you will probably get much lesser quality with a cheaper camera and cheaper mics etc.
I know you are in Australia, Ralph, but how much do you think it would cost just to pay someone to do it for me?
I would only want like a 60-second interview/ad/testimonial.
Nothing too fancy... Just something that looks good, and shows how everyday people like my products and services. (I chose the videos above because most of them looked "organic" and "earthy" and a little more believable than something produced in Hollywood...)
Hi Debbie, Put yourself on the other side and envision what would be an interesting video relevant to what you're selling. What would they want to see? Maybe a tutorial with slides and a voice over. That would be free. You can download free software if you don't have a mac.
in that case a few hundred $$$ should get you something half decent - and that's AUD, not USD which ain't worth much nowadays :lol:
Those videos do look simple and earthy (especially the first) but that belies a lot of skill. The typical home job video looks pretty tacky and cheap, so doesn't cut it for business, IMHO. I have no idea how much it would cost to have something like this done professionally, but I'd say a few thousand dollars at least.
That's the problem, really: "It would be nice ..." I'm tired of hearing "it would be nice" from clients. If you are running a business, "nice" doesn't cut it. It needs to make you money, meaning that it's worth putting money into it. I'm not being harsh here, just practical. If, in your judgement, having a video would bring in more revenue, then do it well ... or "nicely" (ha ha).
It doesn't sound nearly as good in a bass-baritone voice (mellifluous though it be ... )
Yes, I'm sure you could get something for a few hundred dollars, both in Australia and in the US. You might not get much editing thrown in, though, and I'm not sure the quality would be worth it. I know a guy who runs a pretty nice business, and he got someone (obviously on the cheap) to record him talking about what he does to go on his website. And it's fine (hosted by YouTube and all), but I still feel it was just a bit too "home made", and thus detracted from his site more than anything.
yeah, I guess it depends on high the bar is set when the criteria is "Nothing too fancy..." :). I was also assuming mate's rates.
You are probably right.
The typical home job video looks pretty tacky and cheap, so doesn't cut it for business, IMHO.
Again, you are probably right.
I have no idea how much it would cost to have something like this done professionally, but I'd say a few thousand dollars at least.
Sounds about right.
That is why I am here asking for expert advice...
Yes, I think offering strategically chosen videos and podcasts would make my business and website more 2.0 and 21st century.
Whether I can afford it or not remains to be seen?! (:
If I did pay someone to do it for me "professionally", then how much work would I have on my end from a web design standpoint? (This goes back to my first thread about Video Formats on YouTube)
So what do you think direction I should go?
Stick with stellar HTML/CSS/Content-only? Delve into the netherworld of web video? Maybe focus more on audio (e.g. podcasts)?
How do you think that Video like I'm describing compares to well-done Audio as far as Return On Investment (ROI)?
Do you do Sha-na-na?!
Ah, but don't get sucked into that line of thinking. The point is, would they make you money or not? That's the only question to be asking. And we can't answer that for you. It would require research of some kind ... perhaps such as showing samples of text to people with and without a video and asking them if it influences them at all .. but this can get complex (and expensive). It's tough doing this sort of thing on a small budget. But I'm starting to find that, unless you can demonstrate clearly that you will make money from spending money, then don't do it.
If I did pay someone to do it for me "professionally", then how much work would I have on my end from a web design standpoint?
Not necessarily all that much. Of course, those people could put it on YouTube for you, in which case you'd have virtually no work to do at all. Or you could host it on your own site, which is quite easy. Ideally, the video person would supply the video in a range of formats ... but even if they just gave you an .flv, that would cover most scenarios.
No. (Or at least, I don't think so, as I don't know what it is.)
Don't know?! If I did, I would be rich!
That's the only question to be asking. And we can't answer that for you. It would require research of some kind ... perhaps such as showing samples of text to people with and without a video and asking them if it influences them at all .. but this can get complex (and expensive). It's tough doing this sort of thing on a small budget. But I'm starting to find that, unless you can demonstrate clearly that you will make money from spending money, then don't do it.
Yes, I see your point.
Okay, Ralph, so play "customer" for me.
Let's say there is some product or service out there that in which you are mildly interested. So you go check out the website... (The product or service shouldn't really matter for our purposes, other than you are a prospective customer.)
Now, let's say you could watch a 30 to 60-second video which describes "The Problem" and then shows how this company's products/service offer "The Solution".
How much more appealing would watching a video - that shows "The Problem" and offers "The Solution(s)" - be versus just reading about it in plain, boring text?
And what if it was the same scenario above, but this time Audio/Podcasts?
(In either case, there would always be Copy to back up the Video/Audio.)
With having "The TV Generation" out there, and now "The You Tube Generation" following behind it, I think that customers often get lazy and would rather sit there passively and watch (i.e. be told) about a product/service than have to actually take time to read and digest?! (Obviously there are lots of out there that have no problems reading up on things we might want to buy - doing the research - but those kinds of people may be more in the minority these days when most people view the world through a TV, Computer, or Cell Phone screen...)
With the advent of iPhones, it seems like offering Podcasts that people can listen to anytime, anywhere, might also be a powerful selling tool.
But I don't know?!
Tell me what you think...
Well, I was referring to a 70's TV show called "Sha Na Na" that had this quirky, deep-voiced guy called "Bowzer" on it. (Watching the old clips online, I'm embarrassed to even bring him up! Funny how time changes our "memories"?!)
Here is a "slice of Americana" that you might appreciate if you have a deep voice...
[INDENT]Sha Na Na - Bowzer doesn't know the meaning of unlucky
Sha Na Na - Mr Bass Man
Johnny Cymbal - Mr. Bass Man (original)
Sha Na Na - Pretty Little Angel Eyes
Curtis Lee & The Halos - Pretty Little Angel Eyes (original)
[/INDENT](Here is hoping the Mods don't mind me answering an off-topic question with some supporting links?!) :angel5:[/ot]
As a general rule, it wouldn't. Not to me. I hate watching website videos, because they're almost universally a waste of time. Unless there is something very visual that can't be described as easily as it can be demonstrated, I would much rather read about it and/or look at diagrams. I can read it at my own pace, I can go back and re-read it if it wasn't clear or I can scan ahead if I've got it. It doesn't interrupt any other audio/visual that I might have on at the time.
"Home-made" video for the web is usually dull and boring. About the only one that I choose to watch is Matt Cutts' channel, because it's very informative, but even that – even with all the power and resources of Google behind it – rarely gives any kind of information or point of interest that couldn't be just as easily conveyed in illustrated text.
I'm not saying I'm a typical customer.
Okay. One vote against Audio/Video!
You may be right. But did you watch the videos I posted above in Post #6?
What did you think about those videos?
Did they look "home-made"? Or did they look "professional"?
Don't you think - in those contexts - that hearing someone describe how they feel about a product/service in their own words is more powerful than just reading about it?
**Side Note: Key point that may be missing here is that I am more interested in doing interviews of people on Topic-X and getting their perspective, opinions, how they feel there is a real need for a _____, and how using my company helped them meet their goals. This is different than just someone doing a demo of a product or talking about the features of a product/service. In those cases, I agree 110% with you. But when it comes to getting customers' perspectives - like in the links above - I personally think that adds another (beneficial) dimension...
Yet I value your opinion!
My thoughts exactly - and put much more succinctly than I would have managed.


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1. In section 13 Lands and minerals, paragraph (h) is revised to read as follows:
(h) The approval and certification of applications for allotments on the public domain under authority of the act of February 8, 1887 (25 U.S.C. sec. 334), or the acts
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of February 28, 1891 and June 25, 1910 (25 U.S.C. sec. 336), and in the national forests pursuant to the act of June 25, 1910 (29 U.S.C. sec. 337).
2. The following is added to Section 13, Lands and minerals:
(u) The approval of assignments and the issuance of certificates of assignment to Minnesota Mdewakanton Sioux Indians of land acquired by the United States pursuant to the acts of March 2, 1889 (25 Stat. 992) and August 19, 1890 (26 Stat. 349).
(v) Soil and moisture conservation operations on Indian lands, pursuant to the President's Reorganization Plan No. IV, of 1940 (54 Stat. 1235), and the Soil Conservation Act of April 27, 1935 (16 U.S.C. sec. 590a), and subject to the coordination and general supervision of the Office of the Secretary.
3. Section 25 Subdelegation is amended to read as follows:
Redelegation. The authority conferred upon the Commissioner in the preceding sections of this order may be redelegated by him to the Associate Commissioner, Assistant Commissioners, Executive Officer, Director, Division of Program, Chief Counsel, Associate Chief Counsel, Assistant Chief Counsel, Branch Chiefs, Area Directors, Superintendents or Officers in Charge of Agencies and Local Facilities, and such other officers of the Bureau of Indian Affairs as are designated by him. The Commissioner may also redelegate to such officials the authority conferred upon him by the general regulations appearing in Title 25, Code of Federal Regulations, insofar as such authority relates to action in individual cases. The Commissioner may authorize officials who may have a redelegation of authority under this section to redelegate such authority to employees of the Bureau designated by them. Appeal from an action taken by the Superintendent or other officer of an agency pursuant to a redelegation of authority under this section shall be taken to the Area Director and thence to the Commissioner. Appeal from an action taken by any other officer of the Bureau of Indian Affairs pursuant to a redelegation of authority under this section shall be taken to the Commissioner. Appeals from the Commissioner shall be taken to the Secretary of the Interior.
(5 U.S.C. 1946 ed., sec. 22; 25 U.S.C. 1946 ed, secs. la, 2, 2a; sec. 2, Reorg. Plan No. 8 of 1950, 15 F.R. 3174).
4. The following new section 27 Withdrawal and restoration of authority, is added:
Withdrawal and restoration of authority. The Commissioner, or any Area Director with the approval of the Commissioner, may upon written notice to a Superintendent or other official withdraw from such official any authority directly delegated to him under the general regulations appearing in Title 25, Code of Federal Regulations, and thereafter the authority so withdrawn shall be exercised by the Area Director or such other official as may be designated in writing by or with the approval of the Commissioner. The authority so withdrawn from a Superintendent or other official may be restored by the Commissioner, or the Area Director with the approval of the Commissioner.
5. The following new section 24 Action as duly authorized representative, is added:
Action as duly authorized representative. The Commissioner is authorized to take any action which under the general regulations appearing in Title 25, Code of Federal Regulations, may be taken by the Secretary of the Interior or his duly authorized representative, and which is not otherwise authorized by a delegation of authority to the Commissioner.
Secretary of the Interior.


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Brunswick drowning
(Brunswick) - A body has been pulled from Brunswick Lake this July 4th holiday.
Brunswick Police tell WTAM that a male jumped from the dam into Brunswick Lake and didn't resurface.
Emergency crews were called to the scene and recovered the body about 1:15 Thursday afternoon.
The victim has not been identified.
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|Gambling devices.
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|Sec. 5
|Sec. 5
|62 Stat. 757.
18 U.S.C., Sup. III, § 1151.
|Sec. 5
|62 Stat. 685.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That as used in this Act—
(a) The term "gambling device" means—
(1) any so-called "slot machine" or any other machine or mechanical device an essential part of which is a drum or reel with insignia thereon, and (A) which when operated may deliver, as the result of the application of an element of chance, any money or property, or (B) by the operation of which a person may become entitled to receive, as the result of the application of an element of chance, any money or property; or
(2) any machine or mechanical device designed and manufactured to operate by means of insertion of a coin, token, or similar object and designed and manufactured so that when operated it may deliver, as the result of the application of an element of chance, any money or property; or
(3) any subassembly or essential part intended to be used in connection with any such machine or mechanical device.
(b) The term "State" includes Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam.
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(c) The term "possession of the United States" means any possession of the United States which is not named in paragraph (b) of this section.
It shall be unlawful to manufacture, recondition, repair, sell, transport, possess, or use any gambling device in the District of Columbia, in any possession of the United States, within Indian country as defined in section 1151 of title 18 of the United States Code or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States as defined in section 7 of title 18 of the United States Code.
Approved, January 2, 1951.


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Once a user has selected a file using the browse button in an <input type="file" /> tag, a thumbnail of the file is displayed in the form along with the file name.
Is there any way to make that thumbnail larger?
I am creating an admin page where users will be uploading image files. For older users, the thumbnail displayed is a bit small to really see effectively.
I want the user to be able to see the thumbnail to make sure they are uploading the correct image before they submit the form.
That entirely depends on how the thumbnail is being created.
As far as I know, in the default the thumbnail is created by the browser.
Once posted, I can, of course, create and display a thumbnail of any size from the uploaded image using a server side script.
I was curious how the default thumbnail which is displayed before a post is submitted is created and if there is any way to affect its size.
You haven't told us what kind of posting system are you working with? Squarespace? Wordpress? Blogger? Or something else?
Just a simple html post. i.e.:
<form name="selectAction" action="<?=$SERVER['PHPSELF'] ?>" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" ><input type="file" /><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Upload Image" /></form>
The post data is picked up by a php script.
What I am interested in, however is the thumbnail that is shown in the browser after the user has selected a file and before he/she has submitted it by clicking on "Upload Image".
I don't see a thumbnail being generated before uploading in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer - just the name of the image file itself in the file field.This must be something specific to a certain type of web browser - which web browser are you seeing a thumbnail in?
If anything is capable of being done to that thumbnail, keep in mind that it will only affect people using the particular type of web browser that shows a thumbnail before uploading.
Well, that kind of solves my problem. I have been previewing it in a preview engine that uses webkit. Thanks for the heads up that everyone doesn't use webkit.
I've got another solution for my issue that should work in all browsers (though I will test it!), and I appreciate your taking the time to respond to my poorly researched question.


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Coming up in 2009
A lot has been written so far about what to expect next year — some valid, some not.
But has that ever stopped me from joining the year-end pile-on? Perish the thought.
So here are 10 things to expect in 2009.
Or not.
Remember, objects may be closer than they appear, and your mileage may vary.
10. 2009 will be the year of Linux. But so will 2010, as well as 2011 and 2012. In fact, by 2013, the last pair of eyes on the planet will finally glaze over when a Linux writer proclaims the following year to be the year of Linux, and the more thoughtful pundits will just know that it's now understood that the next year will be our year, for whatever reason, and they'll write about something a tad more significant.
9. Fedora 11 will outshine Fedora 10. As hard as it may be to believe — and after a month I still can't find a flaw with Fedora 10 — Fedora 11 will be an encore performance of what can best be described as a rock-solid distro, even for machines that go back a few years (in my case, a Dell 5000 Inspiron laptop and a Dell Optiplex desktop). Sadly, people will continue to be under the mistaken impression that Fedora is too "cutting edge" for anyone other than the most experienced superuser who might be too lazy to negotiate the Gentoo labyrinth (yes, that's a gauntlet thrown at the feet of my Fedora colleagues to work next year on dispelling that stupid myth . . . ).
8. The UFC pits Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman against each other in a feature bout. What happens though is not one of those ridiculous near-death experiences for some poor troglodyte who normally gets suckered into the ring, but an epiphany for the entire FOSS community: Stallman and Torvalds meet at mid-ring and circle each other warily. Stallman opens the bout by saying maybe he was a little hasty in demanding GNU be stuck on the front of Linux, but Torvalds comes back with openly welcoming the option of joining the two names. Barriers between open source and free software dissolve. GNOME and KDE advocates embrace in a worldwide "kumbaya." Planets align. Then I wake up.
7. Zenwalk increases the pace of its development. It becomes Zenrun, and in finding that they can add and release improvements to an already above-average distro at an even faster pace, they rename it Zenfly in 2010.
6. Lindependence comes to Redmond, Wash. The hall is rented, the fliers posted, and the riot police stand at the ready, but they remain wary since they don't want to repeat the WTO fiasco in Seattle a decade ago. Nevertheless, yours truly — in a tribute to another overweight bald guy in the digital industry — opens the event with an insane onstage monkey dance that also brings him to within inches of a heart attack while Ken Starks unsuccessfully diverts the press' attention. The Digital Tipping Point's Christian Einfeldt, however, gets it all on video. Meanwhile, Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu reps — along with others who choose to join Lindependence in 2009 — hand out live CDs and demonstrate their distros. Yes, that's Red Hat's "Truth Happens" video (click here for Quick Time fans) looping in the background all the while.
5. Mandriva gets in touch with its feminine side. This distro renames itself Womandriva and becomes a more reasonable, nurturing distro, finally dropping the adolescent Mandrake zeitgeist from its early days. The distro's leadership also realizes what a huge mistake it was to let Adam Williamson go and rectifies that situation, adding a huge bonus to his salary.
4. The Madagascar Penguins join Tux as the Linux mascots. Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and the Private make Tux one of their own in their commando unit. Incidentally — this is true (you can look it up) — on the Madagascar DVD, the penguins provide their own commentary on their scenes. When Private is struggling to operate a computer while taking over the ship, Skipper comments, "What are you doing up there, playing Tetris? You told me you knew Linux, Private!" Just smile and wave, boys, smile and wave.
3. Windows 7 will be worse than Vista, as hard as that may be to believe. This development will result in yet another $30 million Microsoft ad campaign diverting attention from this latest offering. Realizing they picked the wrong Seinfeld character in their first campaign, the ad agency casts Jason Alexander with Bill Gates, making Gates look like the "cool one" in comparison.
2. Everyone joins the Ubuntu family. In an effort not to confuse brand new GNU/Linux users with the daunting tasks of trying to wrap their minds around 350 different distributions, distros give themselves new names: Fedbuntu, Debuntu, openBUNTU, Sabayuntu, Damn Small Buntu, CentBuntu, Dreambuntu, Slackbuntu, Pupbuntu, Mepbuntu, gNewBuntu, among others. Solbuntis and OpenSolbuntis also join the ranks.
1. Linux Foundation's "I'm Linux" video contest's winning entry grabs an Oscar. After Apple's "I'm a Mac" ad campaign, and Microsoft following with a painfully original "I'm a PC" theme, the Linux Foundation garners thousands of entries in its "I'm Linux" video contest. The Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences nominates the winner, which ends up awing those judging and the statuette for Best Short Film goes to the winner.
There are other developments, like the conflicts that the new OpenBSD Christian Edition causes, which may be addressed in a later blog.
Have a happy and prosperous new year.
(Fedora ambassador Larry Cafiero runs HeliOS Solutions West in Felton, California, and is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)
Miscellaneous ramblings
Shameless self promotion: Okay, so Open Source Reporter has a store at Cafe Press and I made up some "Sue me first, Steve!" FOSS-wear at various prices — mostly T-shirts, but also some other items (no, I opted out from the thong underwear, unless the demand for "Sue me first, Steve!" underwear picks up . . . ). So help me out so I can print the magazine by buying something and send Darth Ballmer and Microsoft a message in the process.
Distro du jour: With two Indigo iMacs, the trusty Power Macintosh G3 minitower (with the Sonnet G4 upgrade) seems to be somewhat expendable these days. So . . . it now has Yellow Dog, but it doesn't have to. I'm thinking about trying one more time to get Debian up and running on it (after all, I did take the time to burn 15 CD-ROMs — sheesh). But I keep hoping Fluxbuntu will have its PowerPC version up and running — a visit to their site had some PowerPC screen shots that were pretty impressive. All of which is to say, "watch this space."
Here comes the Sun: Sun Microsystems brought its world tour to UC Santa Cruz this week, and on the whole it was pretty impressive. During the presentation about Sun's open source offerings (the Java part was pretty interesting), they said that they were releasing one of their items under GPL v.2. I asked about whether they had planned to adopt v.3, but I ended up getting a very roundabout answer from the presenter — a member of the audience straightened both of us out, though.
(Larry Cafiero, editor/publisher of Open Source Reporter, is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)
GNU/Linux and BSD: What a zoo!
I realize that this may be old hat — a fedora of any color — to long-time GNU/Linux users, so please indulge me on this discourse into the animal kingdom.
One of the joys of having my daughter look over my shoulder while dealing with the GNU/Linux learning curve — despite learning a very colorful and spicy vocabulary (okay, that's a joke: She gets enough of that when I bring her to the newspaper) — is that she's enamored by the wide variety of characters that symbolize GNU/Linux (and GNU/Solaris) operating systems, to say nothing of those other-worldly (netherworldly?), but unbearably cute, BSD mascots.
Granted, I've weighed in on my animal of use — the beast of burden on my Macs — in earlier blog postings, but as Mirano points out, there sure are a lot of animals out there (". . . and why no chickens?" since she's partial to chickens). But this observation, courtesy of a 9-year-old who puts together her own Web site with a classmate, started me thinking: Dang, the ethereal world of free software/open source software is full of animals — and we're only talking about the mascots here.
There are the standards
GNU and Tux, the former for GNU's Not Unix, and the latter being the ubiquitous, happy penguin Tux, symbolize GNU/Linux, although in the public mindset, these two animals should be thought of together rather than separately. But there has been an effort, especially around those in the free software movement, to rightfully link the two together, so we have GNU and Tux becoming superheroes battling the multinational corporate software hegemony, as shown below.
As you know, nearly all the wide varieties of GNU/Linux distros have some variation on the theme, but mostly they have Tux as their mascot, without the GNU (pronounced "guh-new") gnu (pronounced "new"). While we find that unfortunate and hope that developers will rightfully put the two together in their own mindset, and that of the public, we all have our favorites. I can't get all of them into this blog, but if you comment on which ones I missed, I could give them a fair shake in a later posting.
Who let the dogs out?
Not all GNU/Linux distro mascots graze on the African plains or waddle and eat herring: Speaking of standard-bearers, one of the Linux-for-Macintosh pioneers was Yellow Dog Linux, which has long since expanded not only all the latest Mac hardware, but they've blazed a trail into the realm of operating systems for Sony's PS3 — that's a good dog, Potter! Despite the fact that I have several distros lined up and waiting to audition to be my GNU/Linux flavor of choice, I currently have Yellow Dog 3.0 on the Old World Macs that I use on a daily basis. Speaking of real dogs, Norway's http://wolvix.org/">Wolfix keeps the canine motif going, with their symbol being a little more direct: a wolf's footprint.
Reptilian GNU/Linux
All jokes about Novell executives being legless reptiles for entering into an agreement with the evil empire of Redmond notwithstanding, SuSE has been represented by the noble reptilian iguana for years. It comes in a couple of flavors, Novell and their Enterprise Linux and the German-based OpenSUSE.
Go Dolphins!
Having grown up in Miami, I know a lot about Dolphins, even the ones that swim in the ocean. So it comes as no surprise that GNU/Linux mascots aren't limited to land animals. In fact two distros distros — Zenwalk and OpenTLE — take to the seas with their mascots. Zenwalk is a French distro that asks the eternal question: Have you ever tried Zen computing? (although we would have asked, "What is the sound of one app clapping?"), and OpenTLE is a Thai distro for Thai users (and if you visit their sites, make sure you have your Thai fonts, because despite clicking on their British flag link, apparently they're not ready for English-language visitors yet).
Back on the savannah . . .
With its mascot coming from the African grasslands, Nexenta, an American distro, brings an interesting twist to the GNU family: GNU/Solaris running on a Sun kernel. According to its Web site, "NexentaOS is a complete GNU-based open source operating system built on top of the OpenSolaris kernel and runtime . . . . NexentaOS is completely open source and free of any charge. It contains Apache, MySQL, Perl/Python/PHP, Firefox, Evolution, software update manager, Synaptic package manager, Gaim Instant Messenger, abiword, administration & development utilities, editors, graphics, GNOME, interpreters, libraries and many others. All of this is running on the state-of-the-art SunOS kernel." Naturally they get such a long listing here thanks to the length of the giraffe's neck.
The devil made me do it
Continuing on the mascots-from-hot-places theme, FreeBSD is (as they say on their Web site) "an advanced operating system . . . derived from BSD, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley" (which begs the question: Why didn't developers adopt the bear, since UCB are the Golden Bears?). BSD distros tend to be devil-themed (like PC-BSD, although you have to go seaside for the OpenBSD's blowfish), which may or may not lend itself to the suggestion that the devil is in the details, or that they're hell to work with (and I'm on the side that says they're not, so keep those cards and letters).
Lower life forms
Being lower on the food chain does not reflect the quality of http://www.dragonflybsd.org/">DragonFly BSD, an operating system and environment originally based on FreeBSD. Going even further down on the food chain — down to plants — a stylized tree represents gNewSense, one of our favorite distros due to its commitment to free software, and Slax has its four-leaf clover (that I've overlooked before, but not now) as a symbol.
Once again, I know I'm missing some of your favorite distros and their mascots — and if so, please comment below and I'll make sure I get it mentioned in another posting.


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Charles Dickens – the English novelist, journalist, editor, public speaker and international celebrity of the mid-19th century – was known for lighting up any room he entered.
That brilliance still shines at the University of South Carolina Libraries, where an exhibit drawn from its extensive collection of Dickens' work is on display at the Hollings Library.
" 'A Sort of Brilliance in the Room': Two Centuries of Charles Dickens" commemorates the bicentennial of Dickens' birth, and shows off the works of a man whose name is synonymous with Victorian London and mid-19th century British culture. The exhibit runs through January.
"It's truly remarkable that he was able to do so much in all areas. Dickens had a huge output over 40 years. That's what we're trying to convey in the exhibit," said Jeffrey Makala, USC librarian for outreach and instruction. Makala curated the exhibit with his wife, Melissa Makala, who specializes in 19th and early 20th century British literature and teaches at the University of South Carolina Aiken.
The exhibit features work from throughout Dickens' career, beginning with the lighthearted, comic pieces of the 1830s, such as "Sketches by Boz" and "The Pickwick Papers," to first editions of his famous works including "Oliver Twist," "Great Expectations" and "A Christmas Carol." Dickens created scenes and characters that live on in the world's literary memory – characters such as Scrooge, Mr. Pickwick, Uriah Heep and Fagin.
"Once you look at everything and see everything he wrote, you realize that we have it all. We knew the USC Libraries' collection was good, but it takes the act of putting it together to realize how good it really is," Jeffrey Makala said. "It's one of the best collections in the country."
The exhibit was drawn from the extensive 19th-century British literary collections in the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Many of those holdings were purchased from a collector in the 1960s. Other pieces came from USC debating societies in existence before the Civil War and from other sources.
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Casa Pacifica Centers for Children and Families
Friday, February 22, 2013 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM (PST)
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Event Details
This workshop is based on the bestselling book The Power of Your Child's Imagination: How to Transform Stress and Anxiety into Joy and Success and introduces foster parents and other out-of-home caregivers to the healing power of children's imagination. Nine innovative imagination tools – enhanced by music, relaxation skills, drawing, and journal writing – will be demonstrated through case analysis, revealing how physical, behavioral, and emotional concerns can be effectively addressed. Participants will learn practical applications for helping children and adolescents in out-of-home care such as relieving stress, overcoming anxiety and fears, coping with loss and death, reducing sleep disorders, increasing concentration, and decreasing anger/acting-out behaviors. A focus will be on specific strategies to support children in out-of-home care in developing self-worth, maintaining safety, and making healthy life decisions.
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(1) Integrate strategies to address behavioral/emotional challenges for children in out-of-home care
(2) Implement activities to reduce stress, anxiety, and acting out in the foster or group home setting
(3) Promote the creative expression and healthy life decision for children in out-of-home care
Workshop hours will be from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm (lunch on your own). Check-in will begin at 9:30am
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Charlotte Reznick, Ph.D. is a child educational psychologist, an Associate Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychology at UCLA, and author of the LA Times bestselling book The Power of Your Child's Imagination: How to Transform Stress and Anxiety into Joy and Success. In addition to her private practice, she consults internationally on the strategies to reduce stress and anxiety for children.
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Meets requirements for 4 hours of MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCS, CYC-P and PSYs CEUs. (Group Home Administrator CEUs are pending approval)
This workshop meets the qualifications for 4 hours of continuing education credit for licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (MFTs), Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSWs), Licensed Educational Psychologists (LEPs), and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors (LPCCs) as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (Casa Pacifica Centers for Children and Families; Provider 2522).
This workshop meets the qualification for 4 hours of continuing education credit for Child and Youth Care Professionals (CYC-P) as required by the Child and Youth Care Certification Board. Content domain: Applied Human Development
Casa Pacifica Centers for Children and Families is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Casa Pacifica Centers for Children and Families maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
This workshop is pending approval by the California Department of Social Services for 4 hours of continuing education credit for Group Home Administrator recertification (Vendor GH: 2000166-730-2)
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LONG BEACH - Art McClean and his neighbors at the Harbor Place Tower downtown noticed less crime last year and more police presence, the 80-year-old Navy veteran says.
Though there were some issues with people gaining entrance to the building, including a sexual assault, the area has largely improved, McClean said.
As McClean had coffee at an East Village cafe, other customers agreed, saying they park off-site from their buildings and walk home late at night without fear.
They all credited quick police response times and an increased police presence with helping the downtown neighborhood thrive despite tough economic times.
Several residents also credited one another with the positive turn-around for the area.
Frank Zanka, 59, who was having coffee with McClean, said it's specifically guys such as McClean - who will intervene when there's a problem and call police when he sees suspicious activity - who make the difference.
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UTICA, NY -- Upstate Networks has posted a video demonstration of a vending machine that can accept BitCoin currency payments.
BitCoin is a "crypto" or virtual currency developed by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009; it has found international favor with Internet enthusiasts. The unit of exchange, the bitcoin, is a digital token that can be transferred from one owner to another over the Internet by effecting a securely encrypted transaction that records the bitcoin payment's withdrawal from the buyer's "wallet" and deposit into the seller's. Bitcoins may be purchased from a number of online "exchanges."
In the video, Dr. Stuart W. Card of Critical Technologies (also based in Utica) purchases a bag of popcorn from a snack machine by using his smartphone to scan a QR code displayed by the machine, then transfer a bitcoin payment from his "wallet" to the machine's. | SEE VIDEO DEMO
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