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Fragility: An Exploration of Polyrhythms
Fragility: An Exploration of Polyrhythms is the world premiere of drummer/composer Susie Ibarra's new immersive performance. Using polyrhythms as a model for human interdependence, Ibarra captures the concept of fragility through music, exploring the subtle intersections that affect relationships. Ibarra conceives the musical structure of Fragility as a 'game piece' in which the rules require performers to take turns conducting action: shifting roles and perspectives in live experimentation
Drawing on deep knowledge of Asian and jazz percussive traditions, Ibarra leads audiences on a journey into a mesmerizing musical environment. An ensemble of seven musicians creates multi-layered, expansive sonic textures. Dancer Souleymane Badolo interacts with custom-built motion capture technology in which the dancer's movements trigger recorded sounds to create a live rhythmic composition. The performance of Fragility takes place in the Asia Society Museum's Starr Gallery with musicians at the center, audience surrounding them, and all enveloped by the multi-channel surround sound installation.
Performances of Fragility: An Exploration of Polyrhythms take place on: Friday, June 8, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 9, 7:30 p.m.
"Ibarra has made a career out of exploring the dimensions of rhythm and texture; she doesn't approach the drumkit with a sense of rigid utility or preconceived methodology." - WBGO Jazz 88.3
Concept and Music Compositions: Susie Ibarra Choreography: Souleymane Badolo Sound Engineering and Sound Design: Justin Frye Stage Design and Lighting: Clifton Taylor Interactive Systems Design: Tommy Martinez DreamTime Ensemble: Claudia Acuña, vocals; Jennifer Choi, violin; Yves Dharamraj, cello; Justin Frye, bass; Yuka C. Honda, electronics; Susie Ibarra, drumset and percussion; and Jake Landau, guitar and keyboard Commissioned and produced by Asia Society as part of Creative Common Ground, an initiative that expands contemporary performance practice by commissioning, producing, and presenting artists who explore beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries. The initiative is supported by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Fragility: An Exploration of Polyrhythms has been developed in partnership with Pioneer Works with additional support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant during the residency phase.


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The Sandbox: When Corporations Collide
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Disney's $4 billion purchase of Marvel last month has major entertainment biz reverberations, one of those being that the Mouse House now gets to produce games based on the comic book giant's fabled superhero universe. Media consolidation on this scale isn't unexpected, especially in light of what's been happening in the game industry. Plenty of media giants have been buying or merging with outside studios in order to have their own in-hour game division: Disney's also bought Chicago-based Wideload Games (a small company founded by Alexander Seropian, whose first outfit, Bungie, was behind Halo and later sold to Microsoft); Warner Brothers has taken a controlling stake in famed (and bankrupt) arcade outfit Midway; and two years ago, Vivendi combined its gaming branch with Activision to form Activision Blizzard.
The thinking is that there's more money to be made when you can create your own video game spin-offs instead of licensing them out to third-party firms. But this idea works both ways, and more and more you can find game companies developing original franchises that they can then use in self-financed and produced films and TV shows. As noted in a July LA Times article about the upcoming "Assassin's Creed 2," publisher Ubisoft is independently making a trio of short films based on the game to be distributed first online, and then on DVD and Blu-Ray. Microsoft is also getting in on this action, debuting at Comic-Con a preview of its forthcoming seven-part "Halo Legends" anime series, which was done by a number of leading Japanese animation firms (including Studio 4°C and Toei) and will be collected as an anthology on DVD.
Film companies making games, and game companies making films, proves that it's not just how we consume media that's changing. The convergence between the big-screen and the interactive realm is likely to escalate in the coming years — though it's hardly new. Movie studios have long developed films with an eye toward marketing them across other platforms, from console titles to action figures. And the simultaneous release of a blockbuster film and its companion game is hardly a strategic shift — as I've mentioned before, games like "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" and "G.I. Joe" are now often created in tandem with filmmakers, the new poster child for which will arrive later this year, when James Cameron debuts an interactive version of his 3-D action saga "Avatar."
Film companies have yet to seriously undertake production of games based on their most treasured properties — Warner Bros., for instance, will for now continue to rely on EA Games for "Harry Potter." And despite all the talk about their revenues dwarfing those of the movies, game companies aren't ready to play with cinema's big boys either. As made painfully clear by 2001's "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within," an all-CG film of Square's hit series (directed by the RPGs' creator Hironobu Sakaguchi), making gorgeous cutscenes isn't the same as crafting a big-budget, feature-length tale.
Still, the gap between desire and capability is shrinking, thanks to everyone wanted to maintain control of their most treasured franchises across all revenue streams. And after decades of bad game-based movies and equally awful film-based games, such a situation might be great for everyone, with companies managing costs, maximizing profits and, hopefully, improving quality control.
In the case of "Assassin's Creed 2," Ubisoft's sequel (due out in November), even more so than its 2007 predecessor, seeks deep movie-style immersion via the story of a deadly, shadowy assassin working in 15th century Italy during the Renaissance. It does this through a combination of cutscenes, in-game storytelling and a crazy framing device — you're actually a present-day bartender controlling one of your ancestors via a device that accesses genetic memories — that addresses the game's inherent manipulating-an-avatar-with-a-controller construction. It already plays like an interactive template for a time-traveling action film, and so Ubisoft's plan to make films based on the title, using the same digital sets and motion-capture/voice actors used for the game, makes perfect synergistic sense.
While the "Assassin's Creed 2" tie-in films aren't going to reach theaters, much less rake in immense dough, they remain another small step toward a day when fictions are conceived with games and films equally in mind, and then developed concurrently with the same creative assets. Between "Assassin's Creed," "Halo," "Metal Gear Solid" and "The Prince of Persia" series — the last of which will be debuting in multiplexes in summer 2010 as a Jerry Bruckheimer extravaganza starring a shirtless Jake Gyllenhaal — games are deliberately and aggressively aiming to make themselves more cinematic, both in look and in story. And if those efforts, as with cutscenes, somewhat undermine interactive immersion, they also help games function as ideal multiplatform properties — and thus seem likely to further blur the commonly held distinctions between the two competing, yet increasingly linked, mediums.
The Sandbox, a column about the intersection of film and gaming, runs biweekly.
[Additional photo: "Assassin's Creed II: Lineage," Ubisoft, 2009]


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It's my fault….
Picture the scene if you will – double Year 13 on a Friday afternoon, one of the most able cohorts I've had the pleasure of teaching, engaged in an extended open practical. I'm not sure what I've done in a past life to deserve this, but I'll gladly take it.
Out of twelve learners four are hoping to study Physics at University, offers from Bristol, Imperial, Bath, Warwick – these are talented physicists who are getting the grades. I'd set them the challenge of picking anything they've learnt and trying to prove it with kudos to the person who gets the smallest error margin. They'd done their research, designed their set-ups, spent time with technicians sourcing equipment; it was the kind of lesson you hover in the doorway hoping for the Head to walk past.
Until, I overhead one of my learners casually look up and say "What's the equation for period of SHM within a spring system", and another reply "Dunno, it's in the formula booklet". Which is a synonym for "And I'm done thinking"
……These are learners who I expect, and will be expected to, derive second order differentials from first principles, who casually accept not having mastery of some of the most basic concepts. I give them short shrift, whip their formula booklets away and make them consider the factors and mathematical relationships involved, and we carry on.
On the drive home I reflect on the causes of this: It's my fault. These are the learners who only a few years earlier earnestly asked when presented with equation triangles "Do we need to remember these formula?" only to be told "No, you just need to use them". I've built laziness and an over-reliance on mathematical cheats into them; fine if you're trying to encourage a lower Year 11 set into getting some marks on a momentum questions, but certainly not the approach I want our future, Doctors, Engineers, rocket builders, to have.
And fortunately they won't. Gove stopped us. His drive on mastery of facts and basics took away the crutch of the formula booklet. Now we have to memorise it, and with memorising it, I have rediscovered the joys in having them learn the factors that make up an equation, the underpinning mathematics to why velocity is squared and mass is halved, and there are no mindless triangles to be seen anywhere.
Fingers crossed in a few years I will hear "What's the equation for… oh hang on I can figure it out"


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- From: Tomas Gargz <firstname.lastname@example.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 03:40:25 -0400
A. T. Roach wrote: > I am a newcomer to Mathematica and am having a little trouble reading in > a file. I can get > In[1]:= ReadList["flnm",RecordLists->True,Numbers] to read in a file and > make a list, but I don't quite understand how to put that list into a > variable so that I can work on it. When I try something simplistic like > In[2]:= data=ReadList["flnm",RecordLists->True,Numbers] > I just get > Out[2]=ReadList["flnm",RecordLists->True,Numbers] > and > In[3]:=data > Out[3]=data Well, I think you're doing the right thing. This is how I read files and it works allright. Doing In[1]:= ReadList["flnm",RecordLists->True,Numbers] should return the list flnm and print it below. Sometimes I assign the name before, as in In[2]:= data=ReadList["flnm",RecordLists->True,Numbers] but I may also assign the names afterwards, as in In[3]:= ReadList["flnm",RecordLists->True,Numbers] ; In[4]:= data = %; Check first if your file "flnm" is not empty, using In[5]:= !! flnm Good luck, Tomas Garza Mexico City


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'Beginner second level Martial Mortal'. After exchanging hundreds of blow with Grandmaster Kartion, Zax finally breached the bottleneck between the first and second Martial Mortal level. Of course it did not mean that Grandmaster Kartion at his best was stronger or equal to a Peak first Level Martial Mortal. In fact, since Zax threw the first blow with the strength of Peak first Level Martial Mortal it instantly became an experiment of how long Grandmaster Kartion could bear the suppression and what it would ultimately take for him to surrender.
Zax replicated his first strike, an open palm to Grandmaster Kartion's skull, and drew a distance afterwards.
"Argh!" Grandmaster Kartion's groaned and staggered. For a brief moment he became motionless, losing the luster in his eyes. "I passed out!" He regained consciousness and breathed deeply. Probing his condition, there was a small fissure at the outer layer of his skull. 'Another couple of blows like this and it would've split!' He relaxed his stance in acknowledgment. 'Not that it has to come to this. This whole time Martial nephew Zax was using blunt movement. If he had revealed his attainments in his bodily maneuvers or an even less advanced technique, I would have been down from the start'.
Being aware of this did not actually shake Grandmaster Kartion's assurance in his physique. Martial arts and movement techniques or one thing and bodily cultivation was another. If he will spend his time more training in either of the two formers, next battle he could better keep up and endure longer.
"This should suffice". Grandmaster raised his head to Zax and transformed to his humanoid form.
"Big brother!"
"Little brother!"
The spectating members of the household hassled to come close, some of them with awe plastered on their faces, others with shock and admiration.
"Little brother Zax, I'm utterly flabbergasted by how strong you had become in such a short span of time". Raroen said in praise.
"Indeed!" Rarahel joined in. "You are twenty one years old… do you have the smallest inclination of how frustrating your improvement can make others feel?"
"Big brother Raroen, big sister Rarahel, have you forgotten little brother Zax's telling of his experience in that Ercas Mir?" Mes interrupted. "Little brother said that if not for that peculiar God made dark attribute's essence and the place called 'Earthly Crater' there was no way he would have achieved this qualitative jump in strength".
"Martial nephew Mes is right". Kartius nodded. "From how Martial son described it, he more than once was more lucky than diligent".
"Be that as it may", Grandmaster Kartion converged last. "His talent was always spectacular". He turned to Zax. "Martial nephew, you helped me a lot. Be at my Blue Tower tomorrow and I'll pass you the Three Stages Of Hyper Physique's perfect first stage and second stage's template".
"The second stage's template?" Zax had no idea why Grandmaster Kartion would give it to him of it was incomplete.
"Yes. Although it's early to say, when you'll fully cultivate the first stage, I'd like for you to use your insights to help me formulate the second stage, or at least display a notion of how do you think its system should function".
"Okay, Grandmaster". It was not a complicated request.
In the past Zax already shared portion of his thoughts when he accompanied his Master and Grandmaster Kartion in the pursuit of the Three Stages Of Hyper Physique, back when it was named the "second phase of the Seven Stages Of Bodily Refinement". Now that it became a technique based on the absorption of attribute's essence and attribute energy, it would not have been pretentious of him to take the initiative to ask for the second stage's template.
"Little Zi, are you going home?" Zax inquired.
"Yes, since Grandmaster told me to return tomorrow".
"Wait", Raroen stopped him. "Little brother Zax, spar with me once". It would have been a shame to miss the opportunity to test himself against someone who traversed the world above ground and is a match to the most supreme of experts.
"I want to exchange pointers with you, as well, brother Zax". Hagen asked.
"I suppose all of us what a taste of little brother Zax". Mes chuckled.
Zax laughed. "I don't mind. Big brother Raroen first, big sister Hagen second and so forth by seniority".
"That means that I'd be next to last!" Mes was discontent; he was the third to speak.
"Then you will almost get to see all the different ways little brother Zax can beat you". Simel taunted. "Little brother Zax, wouldn't it be better to arrange the order by gender, too, females first?"
"I have not issues being after big brother Raroen".
"I don't mind being after big brother Simel".
Hagend and Rarahel pitched in.
"Hey", Mes protested. "I should've been third, how come I'm pushed to the end of the line? Shulip, aren't you going to give some face to your big brother?!"
"I'm fine being after big brother Raroen, big sister Hagen, big brother Simel and big sister Rarahel. Big sister Zetsa, if you are interested in the spar, little sister Shulip will respectfully take a step back".
"Shulip!" Mes was dispirited. "Fine, fine! Have fun on my expense. I'll be there watching and laughing as you get your asses kicked by little brother Zax!"
Standing on the sidelines, Zetsa and Kartius amusingly watched as Mes was being teased.
"Aren't you curious of how well can you fare against the condition Martial son presenting?" Kartius asked.
Zetsa shook her head. "And you, Martial uncle?"
"Big brother accomplishments in Kinetic Force are higher than mine and in contrast to him, I am also a third level Core Master. Our strength is roughly on the same level, so there no need to embarrass myself for no reason. Mm? They are starting".
The space was dark and sealed, in it, Zax sat with eyes closed and legs crossed.
'Grandmaster wasn't making a joke when he described this technique as a lake turning to an ocean…'
A day had passed since he did battle with Grandmaster Kartion. After receiving the two stages of the Three Stages Of Hyper Physique, Zax returned home, to span an additional day with his family and inform his parents that he is entering into a closed doors training session. He will be in New Earth, but they will not be able to see him. With heavy hearts he received their compliance. Thus now he was sitting in his old secluded cavern.
'Last I saw the first stage its system had only the soul's method of utilizing the energy of the world, which is a diluted form of energy made after two types of attributes or more scramble and cancel themselves. Now while the soul's method is still useable and with a bit modification, there is a second method, beneficial for those who understand and can draw a specific worldly attribute energy'. And the best part he had yet to mention… 'Unlike the Seven Stages Of Bodily Refinement, this second realm technique doesn't go by harsh principles, other than dedication!'
Zax analyzed the stream of information he permitted Grandmaster Kartion to transmit directly to his sea of consciousness.
Following the second method: The Three Stages Of Hyper Physique's first stage is divided to three periods. In the first period beginning with opening all the pores in the body, and then within each of them forming a vortex for attribute energy absorption. When all the vortexes accumulate enough attribute energy starts the second period. Creeks connecting all the vortexes distribute the attribute energy across the body. In the third period, when the body is brimful with attribute energy it is then turns into a pond which nourish the physique.
This may sound like typical cultivation, but it is far from it. The vortexes, creeks and pond are created via a unique and precise manner. To accomplish that, a cultivator must break through to the second realm of bodily cultivator in the Seven Stages Of Bodily Refinement and since it is the second method, a high understanding and control of a certain attribute is also essential.
Nevertheless, as easy as this refinement technique was for Zax to cultivate, it still had its shortcomings.
'Plainly ridiculous! Just for the first stage I must refine a hundred thousand kilos of dark attribute's essence! To absorb it as dark attribute energy will take me between seven thousand and eight thousand years!'
The fuller the pond gets, the bigger it grows, the faster the absorption become. At the threshold to the second stage the absorption rate will be twenty times the original.
'Although the vortexes can absorb unceasingly at peak performance, regardless of what I do, that's still worth half the lifespan of a Martial Mortal!'
Martial Mortals can live up to fifteen thousand years.
'Too long! Too long! There must be something that I can do to hasten it, but even in Ercas Mir I doubt that a hundred tons of any attribute are simple to find!' He wrecked his head after solution, and then it dawned on him. 'But an ideal place to cultivate is another thing…!'
He blasted the boulder sealing the cavern and dashed out.
'In the Earthly Crater I can probably accelerate my absorption rate a bit more, but in New Earth, there is no better place than the second Savage Cave!'
He promised his parents that this training session will not take him longer than four months, which is why not a second of it could be wasted.
Zax instantly transformed to the second stage of his Dark Titan Strom form and bolted toward the Savage Caves.
Ten meters… fifty… hundred… two hundred… two hundred and fourteen meters!
Zax halted, back in his regular form since he entered the second Savage Cave.
"Excellent!" Despite the oppression of the gravitational and savage forces he could not help by shout elatedly. Moreover, like his visit a few days ago, there was again no one but him in the cave.
'The five powers will most likely send people only when they'll have the means to defend from the two forces completely and in New Earth Core Masters and Martial Mortal will rarely make the trip here'. He invested one breath of a thought on the subject. 'More importantly, I'm kind of in a pickle here… I can't repel the gravitational force; otherwise the dark attribute energy will also be repulsed. Then again, my absorption rate in the two hundred and fourteen meters mark is close to eleven times faster. I can still advance four to five more steps'. With a reason to do so, Zax took the remaining stride to his limit.
'Two hundred and twenty one meters, eleven times. If by the twenty kilometers mark it will reach a thousand times, it would be amazing!' He did a quick calculation while commencing the first period. 'Eleven times faster is forty four kilos in four months. I don't really need to do anything but stay here, so I can also search for dark attribute's essence…'
While it sounded fine and dandy, for the next four months, whether he will stand fixated to the same place or play find the treasure, he will have to bear the pain of the gravitational and savage forces.
Thus, Zax first training session in the Three Stages Of Hyper Physique's first stage started.
As time elapsed, Zax really did remain stationary with no hint of movement and an entire month gone by like this.
At the middle of the second month he felt accustomed to the gravitational and savage forces, not to the point of taking another step, but enough to resume practicing the Bone And Muscle Transformation.
At the seventh day of the third month Zax began looking for dark attribute's essence, this time intending to plunder all of it, if he can.
By the fourth month he collected a little over twelve kilos of dark attribute's essence fruits and God, any God, help the poor soul who will come looking for even one gram that is left.
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Everyone loves getting 'nice post' and it just doesn't get any better than getting 'nice post' at a patchwork and quilt fabric shop! Every so often we get a delivery of a large cardboard box just full to the brim of goodies, and the latest did not disappoint one little bit.
So what is in the box?
Okay, we know it's September, and it's not even the Autumn equinox yet… but we also know that to make a patchwork quilt with love takes time, and December is a busy month! So we have bought in two ranges of Christmas or winter quilting fabric (both are high quality, 100% cotton as always here at The Quilt Cabin).
Stof Magical Moments quilting fabric
New from Dutch designers, Stof, Magical Moments is a cleverly diverse quilting fabric range for winter. It offers delightfully festive designs, such as the panel of Christmas houses and the Christmas tree ornaments on a deep grey background, but also includes a range of subtly beautiful prints that tone well with the celebratory theme but would tone just as well with your existing stash of deep grey, silver, gold, deep red or forest green. We love all of these, but a favourite might just be the deep grey with tonal polka dots, interspersed with an occasional gold dot.
Quilting Treasures Woodland Friends quilting fabric
This Woodland Friends fabric, designed by Sarah Summers for Quilting Treasures, is just delightful! The different fabric patterns follow a theme of softly snowy backgrounds, with feature prints and basics. Look out for the Woodland Friends Vignettes with pine trees, forest animals, snowmen, and the Animal Patch, with the faces of deer, foxes, owls, amongst other creatures, framed in squares. Toning basic fabrics include Pine Tree Scenic and Snow in soft shades of green, palest blue-grey and muted brown.


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The Bruce Peninsula OPP Auxiliary Unit's Stuff the Cruiser Food Drives will help to put a substantial amount of goods on Foodbank shelves.
Two drives were held this past weekend in Tobermory at Peacock's Foodland and Lions Head at Hellyer's Foodland.
Auxiliary Unit members collected three cruisers full of non-perishable food as well as $275 in cash donations.
The donations were delivered to food banks in Tobermory and Lions Head.
The Auxiliary Unit is thanking the public for supporting those in the community who are in need during this Holiday Season and the New Year.
#BrucePennOPP Auxiliary collected 3 cruisers full of nonperishable food items and $275.00 in cash donations at the two Foodland stores in Tobermory and Lions Head on Saturday. The donations were delivered to the local food banks. Thanks to those who donated. ^ab pic.twitter.com/bi7oEKuuYi— OPP West (@OPP_WR) December 18, 2018


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Letter to the Editor: Madison County Historical Society is a good buy
What can you buy for a dollar today? A cup of coffee at McDonald's and a lotto ticket are a two of the things you can buy.
The people of Madison County, however, can get something far more valuable for a dollar. For a dollar a year — not a day or week or month, but a year — we get the Madison County Historical Society.
For that one tax dollar a year, the Madison County Historical Society gives you a museum, a library, a monthly publication, and a series of educational programs.
The museum houses and displays the historical artifacts our past and teaches us about how we have lived and changed.
The library provides documents, letters, diaries and other material from our ancestors which help us understand who we are as a people.
The newsletter provides interesting articles about our history, such as our role in World War I, and our educational programs cover everything from talks on our history to programs for our schools.
Unfortunately, the Madison County Board recently voted to cut the budget for the Museum and Library by $80,000, or 29 percent. Out of its $140 million budget, the County Board decided to disproportionately reduce the Madison County Historical Society rather than asking its 33 departments to equitably absorb this reduction. The $80,000 reduction is 8/100th of one percent of the County Budget, but represents nearly one-third of the Historical Museum and Library's budget.
Thanks to the County Board, it looks like we are about to lose one of the last few good bargains you can buy for a dollar.
Stephen Hansen
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Dual Language Progress Report Changes
On December 13, 2017, a parent meeting was held to communicate changes about the Dual Language Progress Report. Below are the presentations shared during the meeting. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact your child's teacher or Kari Keith, Director of Dual Language and English Learner Programs at email@example.com.
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The Alice Austen House will host Staten Island's 2nd Triennial of Photography, to be exhibited October-December 2019. The exhibition, Deliberate Acts, inspired by the writing of Audre Lorde, former Staten Island resident and celebrated Black, Lesbian Feminist, Writer and Activist will attempt to uncover the state of contemporary photography on Staten Island and showcase a borough that is often under-represented citywide. Featuring photography by Staten Island residents and others looking at the borough, this juried exhibition will aim to find contemporary themes and narratives that photographers are currently exploring in their work through traditional, digital, and innovative uses of the medium.
Deliberate Acts: The Alice Austen Triennial of Photography
The shortlist will be announced here on September 3rd, 2019 at 5pm.
How to Enter
To enter your work, please enter in one of two ways:
1. Create an account at Picter.
2. Submit your work through our Picter Contest Page.
Submissions emailed without paying the submission fee and/or with a submitted submission form will not be considered.
Judging Criteria
An expert panel of judges will review and select entries for inclusion in the exhibition to be curated by the staff of the Alice Austen House. Entries should be taken by photographers who are from or reside in Staten Island, or if taken by photographers outside of Staten Island, should be about Staten Island. Entries should aim to explore contemporary themes and narratives in their work through traditional, digital, and innovative uses of the medium.
Featured Work
Finalists will be exhibited in the final exhibition, titled Deliberate Acts, open from October-December in the contemporary galleries of the Alice Austen House museum. Selected shortlist artists will receive exposure on our social media and website on September 3rd.
Terms and Conditions
The Triennial Call for Entries is open July 16th, 2019 – August 11th, 2019. All entries must be received by the deadline in order to be considered for review. Artists are responsible for printing accepted images. The museum will provide framing materials and service for installation. Each submitted photograph, in its entirety, must be a single work of original material taken by the entrant. By entering the entrant represents, acknowledges, and warrants that he or she has full power and authority to enter the photograph, and that the photograph does not infringe any copyright or violate any other intellectual property rights. The entrant agrees to indemnify Friends of Alice Austen from any and all third party claims arising from the photograph. Entries that do not meet guidelines will not be considered.
When do submissions close?
Submissions close on Sunday August 11th, 2019 at 5:00pm.
What are the restrictions on format and sizes?
Picter allows uploads of all image and video files. Images should be 3000px on the longest side, and saved as a JPEG at 72DPI.
What if I plan to submit a paper application or physical work?
Please contact the museum to schedule a time to drop-off these materials. If arranged before the submission deadline (08/11 at 5:00pm), there will be a grace period for accepting materials.
I have more than one body of work. How do I submit this?
Each person is limited 20 images per submission but can submit multiple applications. Please be sure to address each body of work in your artist statement.
How many images can I submit?
You can submit up to twenty images in each project. These may be single images or a series.
Do I have to be a Staten Islander to qualify? Does the work have to be taken on Staten Island?
No, we are looking for work made about Staten Island if you are not a resident. This is a pretty loose interpretation. Any themes relating to contemporary happenings on the Island will qualify.
I live or work on Staten Island – can I submit work on anything?
Yes, you are looking at the world through the lens of a Staten Islander. This means your work qualifies.
Can I apply if I'm a student?
Can I apply if I was featured in or applied to the last Triennial?
How many images should I submit?
You should submit what you consider to be your best work. 20 max (for each project).
What is an artist statement?
An artist statement is a short statement that addresses the work that you are submitting. It should address the "how," "what," and "why" of your work. Use clear, concise and simple language. This should be limited to 250 words.
What is an artist's biography?
An artist biography tells about us you as a photographer. Please be sure to list any formal or informal training, degrees, awards, and exhibition history.
How do I contact you?
Contact the museum at firstname.lastname@example.com or at 718-816-4506 if you have any questions about the application process.
If there are technical issues during the submission process, please notify us by phone or email in advance of the deadline. We will work with you to resolve all outstanding concerns in advance of the juror review process.
Deliberate Acts: The Alice Austen Triennial of Photography is supported by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.


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The Lafuma Group put plans to increase its existing shares by up to 50 percent on hold after announcing revenues contracted substantially in the second quarter of fiscal 2012/13 and will significantly affect its results and asset values for the period.
The struggling French company's board of directors had announced plans to issue more stock Jan. 15, when it disclosed that Lafumas General Manager Philippe Joffard had resigned and sold his familys 15.2 percent stake in the company to Calida Group, a publicly traded Swiss company. Calidas CEO and long-time Lafuma director Felix Sulzberger took control of Lafuma and said Calida would participate in Lafumas planned capital increase to increase its holdings of the company to 29 percent of the company.
Lafuma will now instead focus on reorganizing its capital structure. Sulzberger will present Lafumas new development plan in June 2013, when interim financial statements covering the first two quarters of the fiscal year are to be released.
Lafuma reported Jan. 31 that sales from continuing operations in the first quarter of fiscal 2012/13 fell 15.7 percent on a currency-neutral basis to €41.3 million.
Lafuma Group owns the Lafuma, Millet and Eider outdoor brands and the Oxbow action sports brand. It divested its Le Chameau equestrian lifestyle brand for €16.5 million in 2011, when it was nearly acquired by a Korean company that went on to acquire K-Swiss in January.


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Bibliographies and indexes are typically difficult to incorporate into a document. Bibliographies have stringent, but varying, presentation requirements (the MLA wants bibliographies to look one way, the Association of Computing Machinery wants them another, etc.). Indexes don't vary that much, but they are tedious to put together.
BibTeX provides a powerful mechanism for handling bibliographies and citations. Tib is another bibliography package for TeX. The MakeIndex program helps manage the construction of one or more indexes for a document. Glossaries are also constructed with the MakeIndex program.
What's wrong with doing bibliographies by hand? Two things. First, it is tedious to typeset each bibliography entry according to the strict requirements of the publisher. Chances are, you'll have to look up the requirements each time, and you're bound to make mistakes. Second, no matter what field you work in, it's likely that you'll cite some of the same articles and books in more than one publication. Computers are supposed to reduce effort, not replicate it.
BibTeX provides a powerful mechanism for dealing with bibliographies in a mechanical way, considerably reducing effort on your part. Rather than formatting each bibliography entry, you build a database of bibliography information. Each time you want to make a citation, you simply use BibTeX to build the bibliography from your database into your document. That's easy to do, as you'll see in a few minutes.
The idea of a bibliography database is introduced in Appendix B of LaTeX: A Document Preparation System [ll:latexbook] and is described in more detail in \BibTeX{}ing [op:btxdoc] and Designing BibTeX Styles [op:btxhak]. The purpose of this chapter is to familiarize you with the concepts of a bibliography database and to describe many of the freely available tools for manipulating databases. It is not intended to replace any of the preceding documents.
The LaTeX command \cite inserts citations into your document.[115] You use a short key to identify the publication you cite. For example, in this book, when I want to cite The TeXbook [kn:texbook], I use the command FIXME:. The string kn:texbook is the key. When you build your bibliography database, you assign a key to each document in the database.
When LaTeX processes your document, it stores information about the documents that you cite (including the key for each document) in the AUX file. The following commands identify how the bibliography should be formatted and what bibliography databases contain the publications you cite. LaTeX also writes this information to the AUX file:
\bibliographystyle{abbrv} \bibliography{texpubs}
BibTeX examines the AUX file and extracts the appropriate entries from the bibliography database. It then formats those entries according to the bibliography style that you specify. The bibliography style (stored in a plain text file with the extension BST) tells BibTeX exactly how each entry should be formatted. After formatting the entries, BibTeX writes a BBL file that LaTeX incorporates into your document (at the place where the \bibliography command occurs) the next time you process it.
Sometimes it seems confusing to use LaTeX to create a bibliography. If LaTeX keeps warning you about "unknown citations" for documents that you know are in the database, try the following: run LaTeX, then BibTeX, then LaTeX, and then LaTeX again.
The first time you run LaTeX, it writes the citation keys to the AUX file (but it doesn't know what publications they refer to). BibTeX writes the BBL file, which includes the printable, formatted bibliography and information about what publication corresponds to each citation. The second time you run LaTeX, it still doesn't know what publication each citation refers to because it hasn't seen the BBL file yet (bibliographies are usually at the end of a document). During the second pass, LaTeX writes the citation referents to the AUX file. Finally, on the third LaTeX pass, it knows what each citation refers to, so it can typeset the citations as well as the bibliography!
A bibliography database is a plain text file that contains information about a collection of publications. Bibliography databases generally have the extension .bib. Example Example 12.1 is an example of a single database entry. This entry is from a database of TeX-related publications that I put together while writing this book.
Example 12.1. A Sample BibTeX entry
@book{kn:texbook, author = "Donald E. Knuth", title = "The {TeX}book", publisher = "Addison-Wesley", year = 1989, edition = "Fifteenth", }
The entry in Example Example 12.1 describes The {TeX}book by Donald Knuth. The key for this entry is kn:texbook.
All of the keys in a BibTeX database must be unique. If you use multiple databases for a single document, all of the keys in all of the databases must be unique.
In database jargon, the bibliography database contains a collection of records describing publications. There may be several types of records in the same database. Each record contains several fields, some of which are required and some optional. The required fields vary according to the type of record.
In English, this means that each entry in the database describes a specific type of publication (book, article, technical report, etc.). Every publication is described by its characteristics. For example, books have a title, an author or editor, a publisher, and a year of publication. Some books also have a publisher's address, a volume or number, a series, edition, or month of publication (or some combination of these elements). These characteristics are called fields, and they are identified by their name.
This is the general structure of an entry in a bibliography database:
@type{key, field1 = "value1", field2 = "value2", . . . fieldn = "valuen" }
Always enter complete bibliography information in mixed case. Never abbreviate or set field values in all upper or all lowercase, even if the bibliography style that you most frequently use specifies, for example, that book titles appear in uppercase or that only the author's first initial should appear. BibTeX will take care of formatting the entry according to the style. If you store incomplete information in the database, BibTeX can't work correctly if you change styles.
Table Table 12.1 shows the required and optional fields for article and book entries. Similar lists exist for the other standard entry types: booklet, conference, inbook, incollection, inproceedings, manual, mastersthesis, phdthesis, proceedings, techreport, unpublished, and a catch-all miscellaneous type.
Table 12.1. Types of Entries with Required and Optional Fields
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|author or editor
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Fields that are neither required nor optional are ignored. Therefore, you can and should associate arbitrary information about a publication in its entry. Abstracts and keywords, for example, are two additional pieces of information that you might keep for some publications. They can be stored in abstract and keyword fields in each entry, even though it is unlikely that they will ever occur in a bibliography.
The types of records that are valid, and the required and optional fields they contain are determined solely by the bibliography style. There is nothing in the BibTeX program that makes book and article entries more legitimate than reptile or cartoon entries.
The database entry structure that I've shown isn't entirely accurate. In my example, every field has a quoted string value. The truth is, every value is either a quoted string or an abbreviation or a number. An abbreviation is created with the @string command. Typically, @string commands are placed at the top of the bibliography database. For example, the following command defines ora to be an abbreviation for O'Reilly & Associates.
@string{ora = "O'Reilly & Associates, Inc."}
The months of the year should always be specified with abbreviations so that bibliography styles can redefine how they appear in the bibliography (for this reason, three-letter abbreviations for the months are defined in the standard styles---you don't have to define them yourself). The names of journals that you cite frequently are also obvious candidates for abbreviation.
Sometimes it is helpful to define TeX control sequences in a bibliography database. BibTeX provides a @preamble entry for this purpose.
Consider the following example, paraphrased from \BibTeX{}ing [op:btxdoc]: You have a database which contains entries for each volume of a two-volume set by the same author. It happens that Volume One has been reprinted, so it has a more recent date than Volume Two. The standard styles sort by author and then date, so as it stands, the bibliography would list Volume Two before Volume One.
To correct this problem, you could specify the dates for Volume One as:
year = "{\noopsort{1990a}}1992"
and for Volume Two:
year = "{\noopsort{1990b}}1990"
BibTeX will sort "1990a" before "1990b," so they will appear in the correct order, and the following definition for \noopsort will simply discard its argument, so nothing extra will appear in the bibliography:[116]
The best place to put this definition is in the database that uses it (so that it will always be present when that database is used). The @preamble command simply copies its argument to the top of the BBL file, so this definition at the top of the database will do exactly what we want:
Anything that does not appear inside a @type{} command is a comment. However, many programs that manipulate bibliography databases will misplace comments appearing before or after an entry if the entries are reordered.
BibTeX includes a @comment entry for backwards compatibility with older systems. Unlike TeX, the percent sign (\%) is not a comment character in BibTeX.
Inserting TeX control sequences (to form accented characters, for example) into a bibliography entry requires special care. Some styles specify that entries should be shifted to upper or lowercase, and shifting the case control sequence names would make them different.
BibTeX is aware of the case sensitivity of TeX control sequence names and will not change them. To specify accents or other special characters, always enclose them in { and } braces. The same treatment should be given to portions of an author's name that should remain in lowercase even if the rest of the name is shifted to uppercase.
BibTeX styles are really programs written in a simple but powerful stack-based language and interpreted by BibTeX.[117] Don't confuse bibliography styles (BST files) with LaTeX styles (STY files); they are unrelated. Although a complete description of the BibTeX language is not presented here, a short example will help give you a sense of the language.
Each BST file defines a number of functions. The highest level functions determine how each entry is formatted: when BibTeX needs to format a "book" entry, it executes the book function, which must be defined by the BST file in use or an error will result.
Let's consider part of the task of formatting a book entry. These code fragments are from the standard bibliography style plain.bst. When the book function is ready to output the book title, it calls the format.btitle function, shown here:
FUNCTION {format.btitle} { title emphasize }
This function places the title field on top of the stack and calls emphasize:
FUNCTION {emphasize}
{ duplicate$ empty$
{ pop$ "" }
{ "" swap$ * "" * }
This is what emphasize will do when the title is not an empty field:
Duplicate what is on the top of the stack.
Test the value on the top of the stack. The empty$ function removes the top value from the stack and places a boolean "true" value there if what it removed was an empty field, and a "false" value otherwise.
Push { pop$ "" } onto the stack.
Push { "<emphasis>" swap$ * "</emphasis>" * } onto the stack.
Test the condition. The if$ function takes three values from the stack: a boolean value, something to do if that value is true, and something to do if that value is false. In this case, the title is not an empty field, so the value is false. The { pop$ "" } value is discarded, and { "<emphasis>" swap$ * "</emphasis>" * } is evaluated.
Push {\em onto the top of the stack.
Swap the top two items on the stack. Now \em is below the book title on the stack.
Concatenate the top two items on the stack. Now the top of the stack holds the value \bs em book title.
Push } onto the top of the stack.
Concatenate the top two items on the stack. Now the top of the stack holds the value {\ttopenbrace\bs em {book title}}}.
The resulting value left on top of the stack when emphasize is finished is the TeX code required to print the book title with emphasis.
A number of styles have been written to allow you to develop special-purpose bibliographies. A few of them are listed here:
bibunits supports multiple bibliographies in different sections of a single document.
chapterbib supports separate bibliographies in each chapter of a single document.
makebst asks a number of questions about the bibliography style you need and constructs an appropriate BibTeX style.
There are a lot of programs designed to help you extract information from bibliography databases, sort the entries, build subset-bibliographies that contain only some of the entries from a larger bibliography, and enter or edit information in an existing or new database. A lot of these programs are written in unix shell script languages and rely on existing text-processing tools like awk, sed, sort, and grep. Of course, many of these text-processing tools have been ported to other operating systems. Most of the utilities written in shell script languages can be modified to work in other environments by an ambitious individual.
The bibsort shell script reorders the entries in a bibliography database into alphabetical order by entry key name. @string commands are reordered by macro name. This program cannot deal correctly with comments that appear outside of an entry. These comments are always associated with the preceding entry, which is frequently incorrect.
Consider carefully before you reorder the entries in a database. BibTeX places some restrictions on the available orderings. Cross references, for example, must appear before the entry to which they refer.
biblook is an interactive program that searches rapidly through a bibliography database for key words in specified fields. Compound conditions (using "and" and "or") can be specified. The entries located by a search can be saved into a separate file.
To use biblook, you must preprocess the database with bibindex, which builds a binary index of the entries. Differences in case are removed, TeX control sequences are stripped out, and non-alphanumeric characters are removed. This increases the likelihood of correct matches.
bibclean is a syntax checker for bibliography databases. Running bibclean before using bibsort, biblook, or any other programs described here can eliminate a lot of the problems these programs may encounter. Although bibliography databases are plain text files with a very loose structure, some tools are more easily confused than others.
bibclean identifies possible problems in the database and pretty-prints it in a standard way. The following formatting changes are made by bibclean:
The structure of each database entry is made consistent with respect to the following criteria: the "@" sign that begins the entry type is moved into column 1; each line in the entry is changed to contain exactly one "field = value" pair; and the closing right brace is placed in column 1 on a line of its own. Additionally, outer parentheses are converted into braces; tabs are expanded into blanks; hyphens in a sequence of pages are converted into en-dashes; and month names are converted into standard abbreviations.
Long string values are split at a blank and continued on the following line. The continuation lines are indented.
Individual names in the author and editor fields are normalized. A single space is placed after periods that separate initials, and all entries are converted into "first-name middle-name last-name" form (instead of "last-name, first-name" form, for example).
The checksums of ISBN and ISSN numbers are verified.
Uppercase letters that appear outside of braces are enclosed in braces to prevent them from being erroneously shifted to lowercase by some bibliography styles.
Text outside of entries is not changed. Entries are separated by a single blank line.
When documents must be transmitted in "source" form (meaning that the actual TeX files will be shipped around), it's generally unnecessary to include entire bibliography databases. In these cases, it would be more convenient to send only the bibliography entries that are actually used.
The citetags program extracts the citations from an AUX file. This list of citations can be passed to the citefind program to build a small bibliography database of just the required entries.
citefind processes a list of citations and a list of bibliography databases and writes out a new database containing just the entries required to match the citations present. This provides a minimal database that can be shipped with the document if the TeX files must be processed on another computer.
Given a list of fields and values (specified as regular expressions), bibextract creates a new database containing only the entries that match one or more of the specified values in one or more of the specified fields. The necessary @string and @preamble commands are also included in the new database.
lookbibtex offers the same features as bibextract. However, lookbibtex is written in Perl rather than a shell script language.
As the name implies, bibdestringify replaces all @string macros in a database by their textual expansions.
edb, or the "Emacs Database" is a powerful database programming system built on top of GNU Emacs Lisp. edb has been used to write a database-editing mode for BibTeX databases. It can be extended to handle new entry types.
BibTeX mode is a mode for editing BibTeX databases in emacs. It provides some template expansion and alignment features, but is essentially a text-editing mode (as opposed to edb, which is specifically a database-entry editor).
bibview is an X Window-based program for editing bibliography databases. Figure Figure 12.1 shows an example of bibview editing a database entry.
Unlike the xbibtex program, bibview can handle optional and ignored fields in bibliography entries. It does not handle new entry types.
xbibtex is an X Window-based program for creating bibliography databases. Figure Figure 12.2 shows an example of xbibtex creating a bibliography entry.
It does not appear that xbibtex can edit existing entries. It also does not handle unexpected fields or new entry types.
The bibdb program is an MS-DOS-based bibliography database editor. The screen capture in Figure Figure 12.3 shows an example of bibdb editing a bibliography entry. bibdb displays only fields that have values.
Although it does not handle arbitrary fields, bibdb has a large selection of optional fields. It does not handle new entry types.
Tib is another tool for maintaining bibliography databases. The format of a Tib database is the same as the format for the troff refer processor.[118] An example entry for The TeXbook is shown in Example Example 12.2.
Unlike BibTeX, which relies on the citation macros to format citations correctly, Tib actually replaces the citations with the appropriate information. In other words, Tib-style citations are not control sequences; they are just text strings. The Tib processor creates an entirely new document file that should be passed to TeX.
The general format of a Tib citation is [.citation key(s).]. Tib databases do not contain a key field; instead, the citation keys can come from any fields in the database entry (you can exclude some fields if you wish). The punctuation around citations in square brackets is adjusted by Tib. An alternate form of citation using angle brackets inserts a citation without adjusting any of the surrounding punctuation.
The bibliography is inserted into your document wherever the string ".[]" occurs at the beginning of a line. Analogous to BibTeX, the format of the reference list is controlled by a Tib style. Styles for roughly fifteen technical journals are provided.
Constructing an index for a TeX document is relatively straightforward. First, you must identify each occurrence of each word or concept that you want indexed. To do this, you must insert \index entries into your document.[119] When you format your document containing the index entries, an IDX file is created that contains all of the entries along with the page number where each entry occurred.
The MakeIndex program[120] reads the IDX file, sorts and collates the entries, and writes an IND file. The MakeIndex program can also load an index style file, discussed in the next section.
When LaTeX processes your document, it inserts the contents of the IND file into your document at the point where you use the \printindex control sequence.
Index entries use special characters to identify different types of entries (simple entries, multiple-level entries, see-also's, etc.). The exact characters used are controlled by the index style file, and it may be convenient to select an alternate style. For example, MakeIndex uses the double-quote character by default to identify literal characters in the index entry, but the German Babel style makes the literal double quote character a shortcut for the umlaut accent; this use makes it unavailable as the quotation character in index entries.
Another point to consider when coding index entries is that the arguments to the index macros are expanded by TeX. This makes it difficult to insert some control sequences in an index entry (for example ). In LaTeX, you can combat this problem by using the control sequence: .
A complete list of the different kinds of index entries that can be created is included in {MakeIndex: An Index Processor for LaTeX} [ll:makeindex].
The format of the index is controlled by both the index style (which specifies whether or not headings should be present, what the delimiters should be, etc.) and the definition of several control sequences:[121]
Controls what happens just before the index is printed. This sequence should establish a new page, set up running headers and footers, select multiple columns, and do whatever other global setup is desired.
Executed just before a first-level entry.
Executed just before a second-level entry.
Executed just before a third-level entry.
Executed between alphabetical sections.
Controls what happens just after the index is printed. This sequence should undo anything that was started by \theindex.
A number of styles have been written to allow you to develop special-purpose indexes. multind and index are described here.
multind supports multiple indexes in a single document.
index is a reimplementation of the LaTeX indexing commands. It stores index entries in the AUX files so that portions of a document can be reformatted without losing the entire index. It also provides support for multiple indexes and replaces the makeidx style option.
The LaTeX command \glossary can be used to accumulate words and concepts for a document glossary. The output, stored in a GLO file, is very similar to an IDX file. Like an index, the glossary file can be processed by MakeIndex to produce a sorted list of terms. To produce a glossary, you must create an index style for the glossary. Here is a minimal glossary.ist:
keyword "\\glossaryentry" preamble "\n\\begin{theglossary}\n" postamble "\n\\end{theglossary}\n"
The output file that MakeIndex creates will have to be edited by hand, naturally, in order to incorporate the definitions of the entries. You will also have to define an appropriate glossary environment by defining the control sequences used to make the glossary:
Controls what happens just before the glossary is printed. This sequence should establish a new page, set up running headers and footers, and do whatever other global setup is desired.
Executed just before a glossary item.
Controls what happens just after the glossary is printed. This sequence should undo anything that was started by \theglossary.
Finally, you will have to \input or \include the glossary in your document.
[115] {For Plain TeX and other formats derived from Plain, the btxmac.tex macros provide these commands.}
[116] {This example uses Plain TeX syntax rather than a LaTeX \bs newcommand, because BibTeX databases can be used from Plain TeX as well as LaTeX.}
[117] {A complete description of BibTeX's programming language can be found in Designing BibTeX Styles [op:btxhak].}
[118] {refer databases can reportedly be converted to and from BibTeX format.}
[119] {The format you use must also provide support for indexing. In LaTeX, most of the support is built in, but you must use the makeidx style option. In Plain TeX and other Plain-derived formats, input the idxmac.tex macros at the top of your document. The rest of this section assumes that you use LaTeX, although the principles hold for any macro package that supports indexing.}
[120] {Frequently called makeidx on MS-DOS systems.}
[121] {In LaTeX, these control sequences have default definitions that you may not need to change.}


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We've looked in a previous How To at how to deal with users on a personal basis in order to protect corporate systems against misuse and security problems. The personal side of user management is, of course, merely half of the story - there's plenty of technology out there that we can use to help us nail down the integrity of our corporate systems.
Role-based file permissions
The first obvious thing we need to do is lock down the file and directory permissions on our networked systems so that only the people who need access to something have that access. Generally speaking, this means setting the access controls on our various servers so that each person's access is restricted appropriately.
Role-based permissions are all about defining who can see what, based not on who they are, but on what they do. Corporate systems are generally provided based on the job in hand, not the personality of the person using them - so access to the sales contact database would be granted to sales staff, access to the yearly budget figures might be granted only to accounting staff of a particular grade, or higher, and so on. Although there is an initial administrative overhead in defining the permissions that relate to each role, once they're defined it's generally easy to use them since you merely drop people into the appropriate groups (roles) and they magically have access to everything they need to do their jobs.
You do, of course, have to permit some ad-hoc working. You do sometimes find individuals who have more than one role in the company, or who need one-off access to some resource or other because they're working on a project that requires it. No problem, just define the appropriate roles and implement the permissions – but try to consider everything within the bigger organisational picture and attempt to keep ad-hoc stuff to a minimum.
Execution profiles
The next step up from file access is application access. With modern tools such as domain-wide profiles and licence control, it's perfectly feasible to provide users in a given role access, not just to specified filestore areas but also to particular applications. So, as well as giving the sales staff access to the sales contact database, you'd probably allow them to run the ACT/GoldMine/Maximiser installation as well, whereas you wouldn't give this feature to (say) the guys in Engineering. By using concepts such as roaming profiles you can even provide a location-independent desktop to each user (so that wherever they log in, the PC is reconfigured to run the software they need and to populate the desktop with all the stuff they've put there). Although if you're taking this approach you need to do some planning (if you're not careful, you'll find that every time a user logs in it copies 300MB of crap across the network just because that's what the user happened to dump on their desktop last time they were logged in).
Multiple logins
One obvious way to prevent user password sharing is to prevent users from logging in on more than one PC at once. So even if a user does shout their password to their friend, the latter gets a "You're already logged in" message. Naturally, this doesn't prevent someone from logging in under someone else's ID when the ID's rightful owner isn't there but it's a start. To extend the concept, you could even dictate that particular users are only permitted to log in on particular PCs, but again this isn't foolproof (someone else could use that person's ID when they're away) and it can cause support headaches if someone's PC blows up and they need to log in somewhere else while the unit is being repaired.
Integrated directory services
It's absolutely essential to run as few user databases as you can get away with, since it can be an administrative nightmare to maintain separate login databases for the fileservers, accounts system, dial-in box, VPN server, and so on. The reason is simple - if you manage users in a single place, you can change their privileges in a single place. Not only this, but it makes the process of dealing with staffing changes foolproof. Although some systems aren't inherently integratable, it's commonly possible to use standards such as LDAP to connect ancillary devices into a directory service, such as Active Directory or NDS.
The main bugbear for the average person joining a company is to have to wait for access to the computer systems. After all, there's no acceptable reason why access can't have been granted before they joined - it's just that in many cases adding someone to the company involves a number of separate operations to be carried out, often by different people, to set up (say) their phone extension, dial-in access, application access, finance system access and such like. If you have everything in a single directory service, it's a simple case of defining a user ID, dropping it in the right roles, and perhaps adding a couple of hand-coded items, such as the phone extension number they'll be using and their office location. From the IT department's point of view it may even be possible to save some time by offloading this user creation department to the HR people, as they're the ones who know when someone joins.
Similarly, when someone leaves, there's often a delay between them going and the IT department knowing that they've gone - particularly if it's a senior person who's been fired. If the HR department is able to disable user access, or if the company has a sensible policy of trusting the IT department and keeping them informed, the risk of an ex-employee's access rights being misused, subsequently, is minimised.
Sometimes we find system issues that can't be managed using the facilities that come as standard with systems, such as directory and application access control. The classic example is the sending of emails containing dodgy attachments (e.g. company-confidential information) or libellous words. In such circumstances, it makes sense to employ additional software controls to monitor both incoming and outgoing messages to watch for illicit content.
Logging and reporting
Taking this concept further, it's important that we monitor as much as possible of what goes on in our systems. Although often not something we want to consider, there may well be the need to draw on our system usage records for disciplinary reasons - either to prove that a member of staff was using a particular program at the time that it was used in an illegal way, or even to prove their innocence. So it's essential to use whatever logging functionality we have available, and to archive logs assiduously, so that they're kept for an appropriate length of time but are reasonably accessible should we need to refer to them.
Precisely what you choose to log depends largely on how you, and the management, think you might use the information. Resist the temptation to store everything that goes on, because you'll find yourself with terabytes of pointless rubbish to wade through. Instead, choose your logging levels sensibly for each service that you do log, and consider running daily scripts that process verbose logs and pull out summary data for long-term storage.
Once you've educated your users, use technology to reinforce what the users can and can't do. Use your systems' built-in file permissions control systems; control application execution where you can; make sure that you store logging information comprehensively and conveniently; and consider using third party software to control any other security-related aspects of your system (such as e-mail content) that your systems' built-in features can't cope with.
This story, "How to... use technology to control your users" was originally published by Techworld.com.


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Improve your Sleep Now!
July 22nd, 2007
Sleep disturbance or insomnia is not uncommon in women starting at midlife. While this may be due to a physical concern, usually it's not. Let's discuss some things you can do NOW to improve your sleep.
Good sleep is a component of good health. Things that you do for good health are essential and will directly impact your quality of sleep. This means eating a healthy diet, regular exercise and good daily multivitamin/mineral supplements.
•A healthy diet that is high in phytoestrogens such as fruits and vegetables may help if the cause of your sleep disturbance happens to be related to being perimenopausal. Apples, carrots, cherries, green beans, oats, peas, potatoes, soybeans and sprouts – just to mention a few!
•Avoid stimulating agents such as nicotine and caffeine – that includes coffee, tea, soft drinks, and chocolate. Even one cup of coffee in the morning can affect sleep quality hours later. We, as women, tend to metabolize caffeine much slower than men. If you smoke or chew tobacco…quit. Short of that, avoid smoking/chewing within a few hours of going to bed.
•Sleep in a dark room. (How bright is your illuminated clock?)
•Develop a sleep routine: going to bed at the same time; rituals such as having a cup of relaxing tea and then washing up, and the like.
•Avoid taking naps.
•Is your sleeping space comfortable? Look at light, noise and temperature. How about your bed? Is it too firm or too soft?
•Avoid late night heavy meals. However, a light snack at bedtime may be helpful.
•Try relaxation – mediate, take a bath, listen to soft music, read a gentle book, get a massage.
•Avoid the news and other violent or emotional stimulation before bed! It's hardly relaxing!
•Avoid alcohol late in the day. It can cause waking in the night and impairs sleep quality.
•Limit your bed activities to sleep and sex.
•If you cannot sleep – get up and do something until you can sleep.
•If worries are keeping you awake, try journaling – it may provide a way for you to "release†the worry onto paper and thus relax and sleep.
There are natural supplements that can be tried. If you are a milk drinker, consider having a glass of warm milk. Milk when it is warm releases tryptophan, the same substance that was in that Thanksgiving turkey that had you napping. On the other hand, I recently read that warm milk also has substances that can keep you awake. Let your own body tell you what it likes about milk.
Other suggestions include valerian root, melatonin, passion flower and of course the chamomile, catnip, anise or fennel teas. Some companies package teas in their own formulations for sleep, such as "Sleepy Time". Your local herbalist or health food store may also be able to give you suggestions. As with anything else, the key to try different things and see what you respond to.
If none of these suggestions work, I would recommend the following. First of all, see your see your health care provider to ensure there is nothing physical that needs to be attended to. Keep a sleep diary for 3 months with the goal to see if there is some sort of pattern. Keep track of the time you go to bed, awaken, how often you are awake and/or up at night. Are you tired when you awaken in the morning? What time are you getting up? Is there something that is on your mind? Does any of this correlate with your cycles (if you still have them)? Use of sleeping medication is something that can sometimes be used to get your body back on track, but it's not for long term use, and should only be used when other remedies have been ineffective.
Peaceful dreams!
-Barbara C. Phillips, MN, NPÂ
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