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When making my list of my favorite 20 albums of 2010, it occurred to me that a basic understanding of my personal music taste was needed, not only for any readers who care at all, but also for myself. It has been many years since I attempted to download and process the vast amounts of music I have consumed in my lifetime so there's no time like the present. Although these lists are living organisms, ever changing in the vast musical landscape day by day, I want to attempt to create a list of my favorite albums of all time. This list does not include of few of my favorite bands such as The Band and The Beatles simply due to the fact that picking a single album from their discographies is a task I did not want to attempt.
20. As Cities Burn – Son I Loved You At Your Darkest
Heavy music has always been a big part of my life. It is what initially drew me to become such an avid music fan and although I do not follow it or care for the newer versions of it, I still often refer back to the genre that used to inhabit most of my life. The things that I love about this type of music is the passion involved along with musical technicality. When it comes to these two attributes it is hard to find a band more endowed than As Cities Burn particularly on their debut album, Son I loved You At Your Darkest. On this album the band displays pure rocking know how combined with the most spectacular guitar tone ever heard on a heavy album along with one of my all time favorite screams I've ever come across.
19. Paul Simon – Graceland
Speaking of heavy music, Paul Simon is awesome! I have the proud distinction of being born the same year this amazing album was released making it the second most important event of the year. In all seriousness not much can be said of this album except that it's a perfect pop record that is a ton of fun to listen to. Borrowing heavily from African and Cajun music, Simon writes songs that are witty, beautiful, and musically inventive and complex. It makes one ask, "Art who?" The genius of this album is derived from mixing elements of great pop songs with unique African rhythms and packaging it in a very easy listening atmosphere. Vampire Weekend, is there anybody you want to thank? Anyone at all? Can't think of anyone to say thank you to?
18. Thrice – The Artist in the Ambulance
Going back briefly to my heavy music influences is Thrice's The Artist in the Ambulance. This album came to me at the perfect place and time in my life. Playing guitar in a heavy band was enough to make me want to hear and write things that were new and interesting in a genre that was a bit flat and cliche. Upon hearing Thrice, I heard the promise of something new. All of the passion and musical finesse of more heavy bands, but pop sensibility and attention to song writing. This album has a lot of faces and the production quality was far ahead of its time especially in the genre of heavy music.
17. Jimmy Eat World – Clarity
Jimmy Eat World are flat out just a great band. They know how to write incredible songs that bend and challenge genre stereotypes and are able to have a very commercial appeal while maintaing musical quality. Clarity, the band's third release, was the first of the long line of good Jimmy albums that continues on today. Their first two albums were definitely nothing to write about but with Clarity brought one major dynamic change to the band, Jim Adkins taking over lead vocals. It's hard to imagine it took the band two albums to realize that Jim was the missing key ingredient to the band. This album features the best of Jimmy Eat World's songwriting abilities while providing a recording quality that is much more intimate and personal than their later over-produced products.
16. The Clash – London Calling
Too often referred to simply as a "punk band," The Clash are one of the most important bands in the history of music and London Calling is their masterpiece. The band does certainly display a punk influence but it is mixed together in a complex array of reggae, rock, and some other secret ingredient that can only be referred to as "Joe Strummer." This album is too good not to be heard by anyone and everyone at least once in their lives and that's all I have to say about that.
15. Sigur Ros – ()
Like many people, this album was my first introduction to Sigur Ros, as well as being my first introduction to ambient music, in general. The pure ethereal quality of this album warranted it becoming the album that I used to fall asleep to. It's light, drawn out, and features lyrics in a made up language called Hopelandic, what would seem to be the perfect recipe for a sleep album. The more I listened, however, the more I began to appreciate the complex textures of the music and the absolute angelic vocal quality. It was not long before I would put the album on to fall asleep and ended up listening through the entire thing twice before forcing myself to turn it off so that I could get some rest.
14. Death Cab for Cutie – Transatalanticism
For my generation one would be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't like at least a few Death Cab songs. I, for one, believe that Transatlanticism is their most important and greatest effort to date. The album is full of some of Ben Gibbard's best lyrics while containing some of the best tunes musically they've ever produced. If you couldn't tell from earlier posts, recording quality is a big thing with me. I think that the way the sounds are produced are just as important as the sounds themselves. This, in my opinion, is the last great Death Cab recording more than likely due to the fact that they were signed to mega label, Atlantic, right after this album was released making all their recordings from that moment on squeaky clean and, in my opinion, over produced. This album has a sound to it that defies technology and creates the perfect atmosphere in which to enjoy the songs. It almost feels like you're reliving Gibbard's own memories of love and love lost. All in all, just a beautiful album.
13. The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
I can still remember very vividly the first time I heard The Flaming Lips. I was desperate for something new, creative, and beautiful. While working at a movie theatre building up a movie, a friend handed me the headphones to his Ipod and simply said, "You're gonna love this." Upon hearing the first two massive drum hits of "Race For the Prize" I have been a fan and never looked back. The point was only instilled further upon learning of the great experiences that were occurring around the band during the making of this album. The band's musical genius was severely addicted to heroine while making this album with lead singer and friend Wayne Coyne could only look on and offer help from afar. I find it incredible that on several tracks Steven Drozd wrote ll of the amazing music, brought it to Wayne Coyne, who, in turn, wrote incredible lyrics and melodies pleading for his friend's life. Can an album carry any more emotional weight than that? I do not believe it is possible.
12. Jeff Buckley – Grace
It is truly one of the saddest stories in the history of music and ranks among the tragedies of Stevie Ray Vaughn, Robert Johnson, and Buddy Holly. After releasing a phenomenal debut album, Jeff Buckley drowned in Memphis in a swimming incident. He left behind 10 tracks of pure musical bliss for musicians and fans to remember him by. This album was released in 1994 and is still ahead of its time by several years. The songs have a musical depth that is rarely found in pop or rock music and Buckley's voice is the pinnacle. Buckley has a way of toying with the listeners emotions on songs of love and heartache and his rendition of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is arguably one of the most incredible recordings of all time. If you have not heard this album please stop doing yourself a disservice and get it immediately.
11. Bill Evans – Everybody Digs Bill Evans
I like to think of Bill Evans as the jazz equivalent of Monet. As opposed to just coming out and showing you what he is playing he merely alludes to it, allowing the listener to finish the picture themselves. His playing has a sense of longing and leaves space for thought, which is rare in most jazz music. Everybody Digs… was his second album released in 1958 shortly before he hit the big time playing on my number 6 album on this list. This album truly shows every side of this incredible musician from the fun light hearted nature of tunes like "Minority" and "Oleo" to heart wrenching ballads such as "Young and Foolish" and "Peace Piece." This is my absolute favorite solo album by my favorite jazz artist and one that any jazz fan should have in their collection.
10. Bear vs. Shark – Right Now, You're in the Best of Hands…
Bear vs. Shark is a band that is unknown to many people. I encountered them in a seedy bar in Odessa, TX at a show that featured a crowd of maybe 50 to 100 people. The show was crazy, sporadic, and unbelievably good. Bear vs. Shark only released two full length albums and Right Now You're in the Best of Hands was their first. It is raw, energetic, and extremely creative. It's an album that gets my adrenaline flowing to this day. It is not for everyone, but it is definitely right up my alley.
9. Arcade Fire – Funeral
Many albums on this list are tied strongly to very specific memories in my life. Arcade Fire's Funeral is another album that I can allow myself to remember the instant I heard the first few notes of this incredible debut release from an incredible band. While driving to Austin TX for the Austin City Limits festival, my friend and fellow festival-goer pulled out an album of a band that was going to be playing that year that I had not yet heard. The drive to the festival was about 6 hours so we tried to listen to and become familiar with as many of the bands that were going to be there as possible. This friend was the infamous Tim of timvsluke, by the way. The album was Funeral and the instant I heard the jangling guitars doubling the piano on "Neighborhood #1" I knew I was in for a great show. The show ended up exploding my entire head requiring months of reconstructive surgery in the hospital (during which I listened to nothing but this album) and I have been an Arcade Fire fan ever since.
8. Ben Folds – Rockin' the Suburbs
If you cannot tell from any previous posts I am a musician in every sense of the word (except I don't smoke pot). This gives me a very different perspective on certain albums and bands that I understand many people do not share. To the casual listener Ben Folds' album, Rockin' the Suburbs, may appear as a pretty decent, witty pop album. Once one finds out that Ben, himself, played every instrument on the album, it then becomes a musician's dream album. A guy who has a savvy writing style and genius on one instrument, is actually incredible at every modern instrument in pop and rock music and knows how to employ them in every positive way. Ben takes the listener on a ride through every emotion imaginable in his unique brand of storytelling causing the listener to become very familair with the characters he creates. Many of us are still rooting for Zak and Sara, hoping Fred Jones gets another job, and hoping Cathy can rest easy now.
7. My Morning Jacket – It Still Moves
What can be said about My Morning Jacket that hasn't already been said? Probably nothing, so I'll keep it short. This album I believe to be the best representation of what makes this band so good. The production value is slightly lo-fi just enough to the point that it gives the songs a shimmer and ethereal quality that helps ease the loud southern guitars just enough to relax while listening to two geniuses shred their guitars in two. While there are some MMJ classics like "One Big Holiday" (one of the best rock songs of my generation) and the absolutely gorgeous "Golden," the middle of the album shines with songs that make the deep cuts on this album simply easy listening Skynyrd meets Beach Boys tunes that work in any situation that you can imagine. That wasn't short at all.
6. Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
I know that many jazz fans will certainly see this album as a bit of a cop out. Not only is it the best selling jazz album of all time, but it features two of the names that people have heard even if they absolutely despise jazz; Miles Davis and John Coltrane. The fact is, however, that this is the quintessential cool jazz album. It has every feature that makes the sub-genre so good and we all have Bill Evans to thank for that. His accompaniment and solos on this record are the equivalent to Van Gogh's "Starry, Starry Night" or Monet's "Impression, Sunrise." Adding the incomparable Miles Davis and John Coltrane on top of the exquisite piano shows that music, even more so in jazz, is about conveying a feeling. It's not about how many notes one plays or which ones as much as how the notes are played. Listen to Miles' opening notes on "Blue in Green" and you will know exactly what I am talking about.
5. The Frames – Fitzcarraldo
The Frames are a band that I knew nothing of prior to seeing them live at the Austin City Limits music festival in 2005. They were relatively unknown but there was a lot of buzz surrounding the group on account of how huge they were in Ireland. The show was amazing. It was simply bombastic Irish rock mixed with old school ballads that displayed the creativity and range of singer Glen Hansard, more famous now for his work in The Swell Season and the film Once. Their album, Fitzcarraldo, was their second effort and was released in 1995. It is widely considered by Frames fans as their classic album featuring some of their most well-known and popular songs. The name of the album is based on a film of the same name by Werner Herzog. The film is about a man who pulls a ship over a mountain to bring the opera deep into the jungle. In a way, this is what I felt The Frames did for me. Though I loved them that hot day in Austin, it was another year before I realized their true genius. To this day I have never heard anything that Glen Hansard has done or been a part of that I didn't like. To say that about a musician who has been releasing albums since 1991, all of which I have listened to, really says something about the leader of my favorite band in the world.
4. Weezer – self-titled (The Blue Album)
The opening track to this impressive debut album lets one know everything good about this band. The acoustic guitar can represent the reality of this nerdy band. The heavy distorted rock section that follows can represent the irony that makes this band so good. A lot of nerds in denial who believe that they can be the typical rockstars in the model of KISS and AC/DC. This brings a comical aspect to the band and specifically this album that just makes it a pure joy to listen to. The music fits the bill perfectly, the lyrics provide the listener to listen in on the rants of a frustrated introvert, and the songs are perfect examples of pop song form. Plus the album cover is just genius!
3. Sufjan Stevens – Come On Feel The Illinoise!
This album is by far my favorite orchestral folk album featuring the historical content of a particular state that I've ever heard. This is to say, I think this album i better than Sufjan's Michigan album. It is difficult to describe how many levels of genius exist on this album. The music puts Stevens among the ranks of any prominent composer of our generation and the lyrical quality would likely rival many history books being taught in school. The true success of this album, however is the fact that it humanizes the history discussed, bringing to light the emotional impact of personal events as well as famous historical events and figures. If someone were to tell you about the life of John Wayne Gacy Jr., it would more than likely disturb you, but only long enough to move on to the next topic of discussion. Upon one hearing of Sufjan's "John Wayne Gacy Jr." you may lose sleep after being clued in to the dark nature of Gacy fully experiencing and realizing what Gacy and his victims experienced. Again, however, Sufjan takes this a step further with his last line of the song saying, "And in my best behavior, I am really just like him. Look beneath the floorboards for the secrets I have hid." In this line Sufjan takes the listener out of a narrative to just quickly make a very serious comment on the nature of man. To write every place Sufjan employs this type of genius would take more time than I have. Just understand the "John Wayne Gacy Jr." is one of twenty-two tracks, none of which are any less artistic, beautiful, and poignant.
2. The Frames – For The Birds
Having already said what I need to bout my favorite band of all time, I'll simply tell you why this is my favorite album by them. In the discography of The Frames there is a noticeable shift in their writing style. Their early albums are more bombastic and raw, where their new albums are more subtle, letting the emotion of the vocal carry the songs as opposed to the music. As far as content, their newer albums are a bit more bout things relating to relationships and broken hearts (emphasis on the broken hearts) where their old albums are much more diverse with the content. For the Birds is the album that sits at the crossroads of this transition. It has the energy and light-hearted feel of the old albums, with the emotional weight of the newer ones. For me, I love all of their albums, but what I listen to varies depending on my mood. Fortunately, For the Birds is the culmination of everything good that The Frames have ever done. If one were to condense their entire musical history, I believe that this is the album that would result.
1. Weezer – Pinkerton
Pinkerton, I realize is a very easy choice for my number one. It is easily regarded as one of the best albums of the 1990's as well as one of the best albums of our generation. Like I previously stated, Weezer is a band made from irony. A bunch of nerds playing loud rocking pop songs about things they see. This irony comes to a head on Pinkerton mainly because Rivers engages a topic that everyone can relate to, the opposite sex. Taking his nerd rants to a new level, Cuomo writes lyrics that are hysterical and horribly depressing at the same time. It's witty without being too obvious about it (a skill he has since lost) which makes the album very honest and revealing. The music is superb not being afraid to use dissonance to its advantage. Simply put this album is superb. It's everything that a great pop record should be and I don't believe that an album exists that is so complete and timeless. With this album, Cuomo proved not only that he could write songs, but that he has been through everything that an "uncool" kid can go through regarding the opposite sex and Pinkerton serves as his anthem to a generation of nerdy kids who just want to be cool.


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Sprout Community Market: November & December
Posted in Movements by Zanni on October 21st, 2009
Sprout holds a diverse and vibrant local Community Market on the first Thursday of each month (except winter & Jan) at Sprout Community Gardens – corner of Clapham and Watt Sts, Thornbury (Mel ref 30 F4) from 3pm-7pm.
Sprout Market has a variety of stalls (organically grown produce, dried herbs and plants; food & drink; kids activities/ workshops; local crafts, arts and designs), music and sells produce that has been produced on site as well as offering stalls to vendors from the wider community, encouraging local community strength, connection and community enterprise with a focus on sustainability.
Sprout Open Gate – Each Thursday from 1-4pm (or 3-7pm on the first Thursday of the month) Sprout Opens the Gate for people to buy organically grown seedlings, dried and fresh herbs, plants, fresh produce from the site and other items produced on site or just to have a look around.
If you are interested in having a stall, volunteering or looking to sell local surplus produce, or just want general information about Open Gate or the Market, please contact us on 9484-5565 or email zwaldstein

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What Are Your All-Time Favorite xoVain Articles?
It's gonna get sappy up in here.
I've never been one for eye makeup. I have hooded eyelids and little patience, which is a pair that doesn't really lend itself to doing an eye look every day. Because of this, you'll rarely see me writing about an eyeshadow palette or a liner. On the other hand, nothing gets between me and a good tube of mascara.
Instead of shadow, one eye look that I'm always wild about is a pop of bright color on the lids using only a bright liquid liner. When you don't have much of a canvas to work with in the first place, a bright color above your lashes can be just as striking as an expertly blended smokey eye, and I happen to think it looks even cooler.
I've talked about that before, and so has Kelly over on Vain. If we aren't enough to convince you, Willow Smith pulled off this look perfectly (of course) back in March when she was announced as the new ambassadress of Chanel. THAT'S the look I'm talking about.
This spring, Make Up For Ever is launching their new Aqua XL Eye Pencil that's perfect for people like me who are looking for great color payoff from their liner.
LOOK at that mint green! All those pastels! My poor heart!!!
And they're launching the new pencils with the help of the prettiest girl in the world, Charli XCX!
In case you weren't aware, Charli XCX is one of the coolest girls in music. She's a certified hit factory, cranking out pop gems for herself and others, and I find her to be one of the most gorgeous people on the planet.
The pencils are designed to be long lasting, waterproof, sweat-proof, and party-proof. They're formulated with resin, vegetable wax, and dry oil, so they glide on smoothly, stay where you put them, but remain flexible enough on your eye so they won't crack or crumble throughout they day. They give you intense color payoff on the first pass and come in five different finishes: matte, diamond, satin, iridescent, and metallic.
Make Up For Ever was cool enough to shoot me the whole set so I could play around with them before they launch and see if there were really as easy to use as they were saying, or if I'd get flustered and angry before I was done and cast them aside.
This almost felt like a dare. I mean, look at all of those colors.
The one my eye kept landing on was that gorgeous mint color, and it didn't help matters that Charli is rocking the shit out of the shade in all of the promos.
So I thought, why not just try to recreate that?
The pencils are very user friendly and really do behave like they say they're going to. The application is crazy smooth and the color payoff speaks for itself, as you can see above. They're all smooth, but I found that the matte, satin, and metallic ones slide on the easiest. If you like to line your waterline for added intensity, or line it with white to make your eyes pop, these are perfect for getting the job done.
I'm used to relying on liquid formulas to get this kind of color impact. Liquids come with their own slew of issues, especially if you have shaky hands like me, so you may find pencils to be more user friendly. Plus, these pencils give you a little bit of playtime before they set. If you want to smoke out a line, blend two colors together, or soften an edge, you have time to pull that off before it locks in. That's one thing that makes these pencils so versatile, you don't have to use them simply for lining. In fact, you should have more fun with them!
The downside to using pencils over liquids is that getting razor sharp points can be more challenging, no matter how sharp your pencil's tip is. When I wanted to define my points above, especially the one on the outer wing, I took a flat, angled brush and ran it over a makeup removing wipe, and then used it to drag the liner out to a sharper point.
I did notice that the pencils with the diamond finish — meaning they have a little glitter in them — have a little more grab than the others and didn't glide across my eyelid as smoothly as the others did. Obviously, you want as little drag as possible when it comes to eye products because 1. You want them to be as precise as possible and 2. It's your eye, it's sensitive. I favored the glitter-free shades.
In a way, these are kind of like Make Up For Ever's answer to the cult favorite Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil, which clock in at $20, a buck less than these Make Up For Ever joints, $21. Both products are awesome, but I'd venture to say that MUFE's glide on just a bit more nicely.
I wanted to play around with some of the other shades and see just what I could pull off with these, so I grabbed some of my favorite shades and went for a striped eyelid, just to see if I could.
Granted, this is neither practical nor is it sensible, but it's beauty! Nothing is practical. BUT, my point is, it wasn't hard, and I always find doing my eyes to be more difficult than it needs to be. It was easy to lay down the colors right where I wanted them and it didn't take me very long at all. How do you guys feel about liner vs. shadow? What are your favorite liners to use? Tell me in the comments!
The Aqua XL Pencils are launching in May and will be available at MakeUpForEver.com and Sephora for $21 each.
Tynan is copying Charli XCX on Twitter @TynanBuck.


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According to the investigation of newspaper The Guardian, several largest British banks were involved in an international scheme of laundering of huge amounts of money from Russia.
The newspaper notes that at least $700 million went through British banks, more than half of them through HSBC.
The Guardian writes about so-called Operation Landromat, which became known as early as in 2014 after the investigation of the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, carried out together with the international organization of investigative journalists called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
It is believed that from 2011 to 2014 $22 billion were taken out of Russia using this scheme. Money were transferred from Russia to Moldova by decisions of Moldovan judges, from there to Latvia, and then to other EU countries, including Britain.
Last Monday, Reuters and Novaya Gazeta reported that the investigation regarding the withdrawal of $22 billion from Russia through Moldova is being hampered by FSB officers.
As the journalists of the Guardian note, their investigation was based on the study of bank records.
Representatives of all British banks mentioned in the material insist that they fully comply with the law and take measures to fight money laundering.
In December last year British banks were involved in a scandal with money laundering in Singapore and Malaysia.
Source: BBC


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My Family:
I live with a wonderful person with whom I have raised a wonderful daughter. I tend to be a fairly private person, so there is likely little more that will be said on this subject.
My Hobbies:
I like exploring. I explore abandoned buildings. I explore places that have any type of history. I read. I listen to music. I travel. I explore. Did I mention I like to explore? I also like cameras, both still and video. I like technology as a whole. Oh, and I explore.
My Work:
I am a database administrator at Canadore College in North Bay, Ontario. I have worked for Canadore since 2014. Before that, I spent 13 years at Cambrian College in Sudbury, Ontario.
I began as a web programmer, then a programmer in general, and then as an Oracle and SQL Server Database Administrator. Aside from just Oracle, however, I also administer the College's Banner system.


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Moravia Achieves Record Revenues of US$67.7 Million
2012 Total Shows 52 Percent Increase over 2011
Feb 06, 2013, 02:17 EST
NEWBURY PARK, Calif., Feb. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Moravia, a worldwide leader in translation and globalization solutions, announced preliminary revenues of US$67.7 million for the 2012 fiscal year. With a 52 percent increase over Moravia's 2011 total of $44.4 million, the 2012 revenue figure is a record high for the company.
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According to Tomas Kratochvil, Moravia's CEO, the record is a result of explosive growth in the language services sector, combined with a number of Moravia-driven initiatives that fueled the company's growth last year.
"As globalization continues to become the norm for many industries worldwide, the demand for translation and localization services is increasing dramatically," Kratochvil said. "Moravia's management and production teams saw the explosion coming and took steps to accommodate accelerating demand."
In 2012, the company focused on vertical-market expansion, the IT and mobile telephony sectors, life sciences, Linguistic Quality Assurance (LQA), and managed services. Moravia also launched a new global branding campaign with the theme, "Flexible thinking. Reliable delivery," and achieved several major milestones:
- Attaining EN ISO 13485 and EN 15038 certification for its Life Sciences unit.
- Doubling the number of its U.S. employees and adding a San Francisco office to U.S. locations in Southern California and Bellevue, Wash.
- Earning a 2011 Microsoft Preferred Supplier Program (MPSP) Excellence Award.
- Achieving SAP preferred supplier status.
According to Renato Beninatto, Chief Marketing Officer, Moravia's worldwide staff of more than 500 localization experts also translated over 371 million words in 2012. "That's more than 630 times the word-count in Tolstoy's War and Peace," he said.
About Moravia
Moravia is a leading globalization solution provider, enabling companies in the information technology, e-learning, and life sciences industries to enter global markets with high-quality multilingual products. Moravia's solutions include localization, product testing, internationalization, multilingual publishing, technical translation, content creation, machine translation, and workflow consulting. The company maintains global headquarters in the Czech Republic and North American headquarters in California, with local offices and production centers in Japan, China, Latin America, Ireland, USA and throughout Europe. www.moravia.com.
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Well, this is a nuisance: I'm seeing double.
It started a few months ago. Right after I got an iPad and started this blog so I claiming coolness and am calling it Gamers Vision Syndrome.
The eyedocter at the hospital mentioned a relation to my age and my grandmother having gaugloma but since I was seen at the childrens ward and had to focus at a little bear at an aeroplane (really!) I'm going like this:
For the knitting this is bad news. I should really cut back at the focusing on the distance between my nose and mu hands. Which is where all the knitting and surfing occurs. Which is also why I am no longer am mending all typos, I hope you understand.
For knitting I have to push back all my plans for fiddly things: stranded colourwork; inrtinsic lace; kitcheners stich; crochet; beading and mending socks (as if I'd do that. No. Socks with holes are behaving bad and I scold them and then they have to go in the time out zone also known as the rubbish bin.) (Unless they have nice borders, than I make them into wristwarmers.)
these socks were a gift (ultimate gift!!! handknitted socks!! hours and hours of attention) but they developed holes. The cuff with the apples I made into wristwarmers that I happily wear during 'apple season'. I've just spend an hour looking for them to show you but cannot find them. It's not aple season…
Back to knitting plans: I will have to shuffle my queue. The queue I build with so much attention! The queue that assured that I would finally knit the things I have been wanting to knit for
months years now and use the yarns that are singing to me from the stash!
here's the original: (sorry, the links won't work)
Jan: host and knit Pippi Longstocking Lace Shawl KAL finishing
Jan: knit owl mitts for me kit made
Jan: design and knit mitts for a friend done
Jan: do the spinners challenge done
Jan: crochet one cat for the freeform Kitty Blanket done
Jan: socks with this januari yarn started
Jan: felt winterlights halfway
knit a block weekly for KarmaKnusdeken 1,2,3 done
Feb: dye Kelscott cardigan
Feb: design and knit Woodland Creatures Stranded Sweater
Feb: knit something with that gorgeous turkoise silk
Feb: crochet border or cat for freeform Kitty Blanket
March: knit mitts for aunt Aafke
March: design and knit Metalic Lace with beads
March: design a block for the Karmaknusdeken blanket
March: crochet one cat for the freeform Kitty Blanket
Spring: knit Elven Hooded Scarf
Spring: spin Longdraw Camel Down
Spring: crochet one cat for the freeform Kitty Blanket
There are also a few plans without a fixed date yet:
Somewhere in between: finish gothische xmas socks; finish slipped stitch Puckered socks; use Koigu yarn; use Bowmont yarn; do some felting; use lots and lots of the stash; spin; dye the FOs I don't wear; participate in a few swaps; host and visit knitter parties
also: frog and reknit Donegal cardigan in the right size. Frog, redesign and knitJanuary Dream Shawl.. Use Loudmouth yarn, Bourette silk yarn and Posh Eva yarn. And re-use that Lang yarn alpaca dyed in the ball. With beads.
there are also 2 lovely Skew wips to finish. I really like to wear those socks! Spin that yak, that camel and that other camel.
oh, and I want to felt a complete fleece into a rug. And a long skirt, with Wensleydale locks. And a bag. And winter wonderland lights 21 Jan. And a wallet. And cushion covers.
Brioche! also want to do brioche. Need a headcover, silk preferably. And a cowl, in Santenay yarn.
Eta: and a pooling scarf. With that EasyKnits yarn Poppyfield. Mustmust!
sorry the links don't work. They do on my profile page at Ravelry if you want to know more sepcifics.
That's quiet a list! And I was well on my way for January! It gave peace of mind to know that I would eventually come around to allt he projects I've been wanting to make for so long. No need to keep them milling around in my head.
Now I have to shuffle. Right. I noted what I can't do. Here are the things I CAN do without looking at my hands: garterstitch, stockinette stitch, ribbing, felting. spinning?
So for now I'll place to the top of the queue any garterstitch shawl I've been wanting to make (these are shawls where the yarn will be the main element. An excellent opportunity to use up soem handspun such as:
that gnomey yarn that was too scratchy for the neck…
I have a small sweater worth of black and white handspun. Soft enough for next to skin wear. No pattern springs to mind though…
this handspun which will make an adorable yoke for a white sweater. I can do a simple sweater on big needles without looking too much at it.
this 780 m of handspun slowly transitions from purple to raspberry. I've been toying around with it a bit. I'de really like a thick shawl to snuggle into. It is good and soft so perhaps….
Ok, one note for me: when I decide to knit with handspun: use a bigger needle than you think. I have a tendency to knit handspun planks.
for felting there are a few wishes:
– finish the small thingies to put x-mas lights into
– felt some cushion covers for the forest cabin (in dark orange. or perhaps triangles echoing gnome hats?)
– a dress or a skirt. No, that would be too much of a project right now. Keep it simple.
Other knit projects: a sideways scarf in ribbing or garter stitch. My friend Marleen from DutchKnittingDesign.com has a lovely design Vlinder ('Butterfly' in Dutch). This shawl has shaping so it will sit on your shoulders. Not like a triangle shawl that will slip off easily.
only takes one skein of sockyarn (400 m in sock or fingering weight) and has my favorite stitch at the border: koffieboontje ('little coffee bean'). there is a bit of kitchener in the middle, so the front panels will look exactly the same. I will have to think about an alternative: either do a figure 8 cast on and start in the middle and work to the fronts (one at the time). Or work from side to side and accept that the frontpanels will not look exactly the same. Which might be a problem since they will lay neatly side by side at the front. (no shawl pin needed)
that reminds me, I shall not be able to bend shawlpins either! …bummer. I have a bit of green wire I want to make into a sheep for a dear friend.
but a thing I can do without looking too hard is wind skeins into balls. And dye. And talk a walk outside. There's still snow here so it's lovely. I';; start with that one.


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Facebook has announced their new Mobile Games Publishing initiative. While it appears that the idea is to get better game discovery for users, Facebook will provide developers with analytics and tools to make their games more appealing to Facebook users in exchange for a revenue share. The list of developers that are working with the program early on are of a wide variety, as quoted from Facebook's announcement:
5th Planet's RPG card battle game, Dawn of the Dragons
Brainbow's puzzle-packed adventure game, Dr. Newton: The Great Brain Adventure
Certain Affinity's pirate-themed strategy game, Age of Booty: Tactics
Dragonplay's social poker game, Live Hold'Em
Gameloft's medieval strategy/simulation game, Kingdoms & Lords
Gamevil's city building simulation game Train City
KiwiGames' quest-based exploration game, Shipwrecked
Outplay Entertainment's explore-and-battle fantasy game, Monster Legacy
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|News from the World of Skiing
|Inside FIS
|Member News
|In Depth
Hubert H"rterer, Marko Mustonen, Luke Bodensteiner ... more
|News from the World of Skiing
|Torsby Ski Tunnel
|Ski Dubai
With the masses heading to the beach, skiers and boarders are busy getting ready for the new season. Traditionally, dry-land training and glacier skiing have formed the foundation for skiers' summer training. Recently, indoor skiing opportunities have emerged as another opportunity for year-round, on-snow training in low altitude.
In June, two new indoor Cross-Country Skiing opportunities were opened in Sweden and Finland. With the opening of the Fortum Ski Tunnel in Torsby, Nordv"rmland, Sweden welcomed its first indoor skiing facility. The tunnel was born out of an initiative by Per-Źke Ytterg†rd, currently Nordic Director at the Swedish Ski Association. At 1.3 km in length, the Torsby tunnel is also the world's longest indoor ski tunnel and has the only indoor biathlon arena in the world. The new tunnel's festive opening included various contests, including a duel between the one-time rivals Thomas Wassberg (SWE) and Juha Mieto (FIN), and a sprint race between Bj"rn Lind and Thobias Fredriksson for the honor of cutting the ribbon.
Also in mid-June, Finland's fifth and the Southernmost ski tunnel located in Paimio, near Turku, opened for training use. The DNA Ski Tunnel in Vuokatti/Sotkamo (FIN) that opened in the spring of 1998 was the first Cross-Country tunnel in the world. In addition to the ski tunnels in the North of Europe, a tunnel is being planned for Oberhof (GER), with the estimated completion date of June, 2008.
For alpine skiing, indoor skiing opportunities have existed for years. The world's first indoor snow center, 'Mt TheBarton' in Adelaide (AUS), opened its doors in 1987. While the Adelaide facility has since closed, indoor ski slopes can now be found in several countries including Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, the Great Britain, Spain, and New Zealand, to mention just a few. The longest indoor ski piste (640m, with an altitude drop of 57m) can be found in 'Alpincenter' near Bottrop (GER). Bottrop has served as host to several FIS Alpine European Cup events as has 'Snowworld' in Landgraaf (NED), which has also hosted FIS Snowboard World Cup events. Most recently, in December 2005, indoor skiing broke a new frontier as the world's third longest indoor ski slope at `Ski Dubai' opened as part of the world's largest shopping mall, the Mall of Arabia. Several other indoor ski areas are currently under construction or proposed, including 'Snowfunpark' in Wittenburg (GER) which shall also include the first indoor Half-Pipe.
|Inside FIS
On Tuesday, July 4th, the newly elected President of the Slovak Ski Association, Igor Rattaj, paid a first official visit to the FIS Office in Oberhofen (SUI), accompanied by Martin Benko, a member of the European Olympic Committee Executive Board. Mr. Rattaj discussed his plans for the Association, including organizational refinements and greatly increased investment in the ski sports infrastructure, programs and activities.
Originating from the High Tatra region, it is the ambition of the new President to develop and re-construct the facilities ranging from hotels and resorts to training centers around the country but especially in the High and Low Tatra regions. Apart from FIS Junior World Championships, Slovakia has not hosted FIS World Championships since 1970 when the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships were held in Strbske Pleso (Vysoke Tatry). Supported by the new activities, the Association hopes to soon be able to organize FIS Continental Cup, and eventually World Cup, events in all the different disciplines.
|FIS Academy module participants in Vilamoura
FIS family members from around the world took part in the three FIS Academy Congress modules at the FIS Congress in Vilamoura in May.
In response to the modules, one participant stated that the classes "provided the basics for the National Associations which can be further developed. Typically National Associations do not have enough knowledge to do `brand connect' marketing. This program delivers the foundations which are important and the theory and basic skills that are needed."
Patrick Nally's Sponsorship Procurement module provoked much debate! The discussions and ideas encouraged one participant to "rethink (my) approach to the marketing of sport and events!'
David Murphy of Manchester Business School provided the tools for participants to develop their Finance and Budgeting and Governance Framework on return to their respective organizations.
For more information on the FIS Academy programs, visit http://www.fis-academy.org/.
|Member News
|New boots to help Ahonen next year?
The Finnish Ski Association is participating in a substantial technology research and product development project that is focused on˙using new technologies for measuring Ski Jumping. At the core of the project is `a new generation Ski Jumping boot.' The new boots entail a tiny, extra-light computer unit enabling real-time measurement of e.g. jumper's speed and flight projectile. The measurement unit also allows for a highly precise measurement of the jumping distance.
The Finnish Ski Jumping team recently received its new boots. From a training perspective, one of the main benefits of the project is the rapid feedback cycle. Unlike in the past, the athletes can benefit from actual data immediately following their performance, in addition to audio-visual, trainer and personal feedback. Also, real data will be available for the entire jumping performance rather than only at specific spots where a measurement unit, such as a speed meter, is located. "This project represents one of the largest investments in sports research in recent years. It is also one of the greatest innovations in Ski Jumping in decades," noted Janne Marvaila, Director Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined at the Finnish Ski Association.
Launched 18 months ago, the project recently received funding for another three years. In total, the project's budget amounts to _ 500'000. Led by Professor Lauri Kettunen, the main partners of the project include the Technical University of Tampere, University of Jyv"skyl", Jalas (Urho Viljanmaa Oy), VTI Technologies, Suunto and Nokia.
|In Depth
|Dr. Hubert H"rterer
In the second part of the series, the FIS Newsflash is proud to present the thoughts of another three new Committee Chairmen following their appointment˙in Vilamoura (POR):
Dr. Hubert H"rterer (GER) - New Chairman of the FIS Medical Committee
"It is a great honor for me to be appointed Chairman of the FIS Medical Committee. Following my 30 years of experience as Chief Doctor for the German Ski Association und some 18 years of involvement in the FIS Medical Committee, I am very much looking forward to this task.
I have already worked together with a number of the Committee members, especially with Vice-Chairman Inggard Lereim (NOR), on many, intense projects. This is why I am convinced that we will be able to further develop our Committee while taking advantage of the well-structured basis set by Bengt Saltin during his tenure. We will continue to have distinct working groups that will meet regularly to discuss the various topics and prepare recommendations for the Committee's decision-making.
In my view, our most important tasks are as follows:
Finally, I would like to thank my predecessor Bengt Saltin for his wonderful, mutually respectful work. We look forward to seeing him in our future meetings so that we can continue to benefit from his advice and experience."
|Marko Mustonen
Marko Mustonen (FIN) - New Chairman of the Sub-Committee for Freestyle Rules and Officials
"For me, the appointment as Chairman is both a challenge and an opportunity to work with the various Committee members on a global basis. We have a lot to do as Freestyle Skiing is a youthful and very dynamic discipline that continues to develop rapidly. The Sub-Committee for Freestyle Rules and Officials currently comprises many experts, all with substantial experience, representing the different areas of our discipline. As such, I know that we are well-prepared to respond to any future challenge.
The Committee's mission is to ensure that all Freestyle Skiing events (AE, HP, MO, DM, SX) develop in the right direction. There are changes, refinements, and even new elements year after year. It is therefore our task both to assess the current state of each event, and to anticipate how each will develop in the medium-term. In practice, the sporting rules will remain our most effective tool for ensuring that the sport stays current and that we serve the best interests of both the athletes and spectators. But we also work to ensure that our officials (judges, TDs) are well-trained, have access to the latest information and receive sufficient education.
What we will need to consider in detail in the future are opportunities provided by new technologies. Using already available tools, we could obtain much greater amounts of factual information about the sporting performance. For example, in moguls, aerials and half pipe, we can measure the airtime, jump height and length in great detail. By combining the data delivered by such technologies with the skills of our judges we could greatly increase the objectivity of our sport. This would benefit not only the athletes but also the spectators who could better evaluate the various performances and their differences."
|Luke Bodensteiner
Luke Bodensteiner (USA) - New Chairman of the FIS Sub-Committee for Popular Cross-Country
"The Council was kind to appoint me to this chairmanship after a period of growth in the organization of popular races, and in particular, the biggest marathons. The former chairman Paddy Field did a hero's job in initiating and growing the FIS Marathon Cup-we'll miss his services as Chairman!
However, the development of the FIS Marathon Cup has also highlighted the challenges associated with further raising the profile of these races. Each major marathon is well-organized individually, as well as collectively as the Worldloppet. But, despite large national interest in each race, there's little value in the overall Cup, and little to differentiate the FIS Marathon Cup from the Worldloppet ranking.
As a result, national team participation in the FIS Marathon Cup has been limited, and only few top athletes take part in the races outside of their own nations. And despite the initial vision of developing the FIS Marathon Cup into a World Cup for marathon skiing, it's now clear that having a second World Cup in Cross-Country is counterproductive.
Therefore, the Sub-Committee will shift its focus to driving international interest in the most important popular competitions, to ensuring consistent top-level participation, and to increasing the number of popular competitions and competitors.
To get there, we'll nurture the evolution of the FIS Marathon Cup, including increased interaction between the popular marathons and World Cup races of similar distance. As we do now for sprinters and all-around skiers, we'll organize this sector such that the results from the most meaningful marathon races provide an alternative way to identify the best long-distance skier of the season. Given the unique nature of the most famous popular races, we'll then begin to view the popular marathon format as its own format. This positioning will give us an opportunity to examine, within the Cross-Country Committee, the values that the popular format can bring not only to the World Cup - as is the case today - but also to the World Championships in the future."


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Many intelligent people are not at all enthusiastic about the recent lawsuits various government operatives are filing against the banks that survived the financial crisis. The correct response is approximately this: not enthusiasm but reluctant support.
(Read more: BofA Suit: New Look at the 'Lincoln Law')
I know it's easy enough to find the recent spate of bank lawsuits a bit unseemly, even if you don't fully subscribe to Barney Frank's theory about the injustice of the government suing banks like JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America over the activities of financial institutions they acquired at the urging of government officials during the financial crisis.
(Read more: Barney Frank Defends JPMorgan Against Bear Stearns Suit)
As those of us who were paying close attention during the crisis know all too well, arms were twisted, the executives believed they were being good citizens by making the acquisitions they did, and the crisis might (not would—but only might) have been far worse if JPMorgan and Bank of America hadn't been willing to acquire Countrywide, Wachovia, Washington Mutual, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns and so on.
These weren't deals that would have happened without the full cooperation—and often insistence—of regulators.


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As 2016 comes to a close, so too does the 114th Congress. The 115th Congress will be called into session at noon on January 3 and will mark the first time in six years that the United States is under a unified government, meaning that the Senate and House of Representatives, as well as the Presidency, are all under the control of the same party, the Republicans. What might the 115th Congress mean for afterschool programs and the children and parents they support?
New leadership
The new Congress will bring new leadership for several key committees that have jurisdiction over education policy and education spending. In the House of Representatives, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-Minn.) has retired and the new Chairperson will be Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.). Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) will stay on as Ranking Member. House Appropriations Committee leadership changed as well, with new Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.) taking over for Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), who was term-limited out of the chairmanship. Ranking Member (and Afterschool Caucus co-chair) Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) will continue in her previous role in the 115th Congress.
On the Senate side, Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) remain as leaders of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP). Chairman Thad Cochran (R-TN) is staying on as Committee Chairman for the Senate Appropriations Committee with Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) taking over for retiring Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) as Ranking Member.
New challenges within the appropriations process
Friends of afterschool should closely follow the FY 2017 and FY 2018 appropriations cycles beginning early in 2017. With the continuing resolution authorizing federal spending at current 2016 fiscal year spending levels set to expire on April 28, 2017, finalizing the FY 2017 spending bill will be a key priority early in the 115th Congress. Constraints on available funding include discretionary spending caps that limit available funds as well as competing priorities outside of the education arena in areas like infrastructure and health. In late spring, Congress will also have to initiate the FY 2018 spending process, which will be even more challenging given the return of the sequester cuts after a two-year negotiated hiatus.
Making your voice heard early and often next year will be critical to educating the new Congress on the many valuable outcomes of local afterschool and summer learning programs. Use our action center to share your thoughts on the appropriations process and its impact on afterschool with your member of Congress to ensure that no cuts are made late in the fiscal cycle next year.
New legislative priorities
It is difficult to predict exactly which policy issues will come to the forefront in the new Congress, but many in Washington expect a number of education policy issues to be addressed, including targeting college access and affordability issues through reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA).
Additionally, the Perkins Career and Technical Education (CTE) act, child nutrition reauthorization, and the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) reauthorization may all see new life in the 115th Congress after failing to cross the finish line this year. All of these represent opportunities to strengthen existing support, or in some cases, build new support, for local afterschool and summer learning programs and the school and community partnerships that sustain them.
New initiatives are possible as well. During his campaign, President-elect Trump's primary K-12 education policy priority was a new $20 billion initiative that would provide funds for school choice vouchers. Advocates see this as a proposal he will seek to move in 2017, though identifying funding for this initiative could present a challenge.
The President-elect's platform emphasizes "choice-based, parent-driven accountability at every stage of schooling," and prioritizes building a "choice-based" education system that gives families a range of educational options, including homeschooling, career and technical education, private and parochial schools, charter systems, online programs, and early college high schools. The new education initiative is expected to promote these policies.
Additionally, it should be noted that President-elect Trump has nominated Betsy DeVos to serve as Secretary of Education, with her confirmation hearing expected to be early on the agenda of the 115th Congress. DeVos is a strong advocate for school choice and voucher programs.
We look forward to working with all of you in 2017 to advance federal policies that support local afterschool and summer learning programs and their work to provide children, youth and families with quality learning opportunities.
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We found this gorgeous piece of leather clutch. The simplicity of this Ostrich leather caught our attention and we fell right in love (plus its pink!)
It is actually a Nigerian brand, Yes! O'Eclat known for stunning bags, purses, clutches and beautiful accessories!
It is a must own piece, simply stunning.


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USDA announced its 83rd annual Outlook Forum, "Ag at the Crossroads: Energy, Farm & Rural Policy," will be held March 1-2, 2007. The forum will focus on bioenergy and its ag implications. USDA Secretary Mike Johanns says the 2007 meeting "will consider the outlook for renewable energy and the enormous opportunity it represents for ag and rural America." The forum will also feature perspectives on the 2007 farm bill. See additional details at: www.usda.gov/oce/forum.
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While this might not be the best title for this blog, I guess I will have to make do with this to begin with.
Lattice Based Cryptographic systems are currently an active area of research in Cryptology and in Theoretical Computer Science as well. Many researchers including Oded Regev , Miklos Ajtai , Daniele Micciancio's and Chris Peikert have contributed to this field.
The field was officially kicked off by a ground-breaking work of Ajtai in which he discovered that lattices could be used for constructing cryptographic primitives.
But I have got ahead of myself already. I guess, I am tremendously handicapped in my writing skills.
Lets back up. I need to tell you what lattices are. Further, I will have to tell you about why do we care about this new mechanism. There are loads of other questions you could think of. I would have to start slowly and thats what I do now.
A lattice a set of points in n-dimesional plane with periodic structure. (I will give a more formal definition later) Lets just say for the moment that they look like a neat laid out grid. I would like you to think about a simple lattice - the set of points with integral co-ordinates in $2-dimensional$ plane. This is the lattice $Z^2$.
You might ask why in heaven's name does any one study these structures. If you are interested in exploring the historical context behind this, I would only say that they were extremely useful in solving Diophantine Equations . Basically here you are looking for "integral" solutions to a set of equations where the number of unknowns is more than the number of equations. The desired "set of points" (all with integral co-ordinates) is a subset of some lattice determined by the input equations. Already those of you who are familiar with linear algebra can look ahead and feel that Linear Algebra will certainly have some bearing upon where are we headed. You can also feel the vague hint of connection with Integer (and Linear) Programming.
Okay, enough. If you want to study more of the historical background behind lattices, I would suggest that you go and read some text like this on Geometry of numbers.
Now given the number theoretic importance of lattices, you might be ready for the connection with cryptography which is what this blog will mainly delve on.
But first, let me address a very basic question - what is so nice about these lattices that they, at the moment, are on the radar of researchers in cryptography? Towards the end of my previous blog, I talked about worst case hardness and average case hardness.
I said that lattice based schemes are based on worst case hardness of lattice problems. What this means is unlike factoring, where by saying factoring integers is hard we mean that there exist integers which are hard to factor; lattices are more fun.
To illustrate the point further, consider this - there are some integers which are easier to factor (even integers or maybe you can say multiples of small primes). So, saying factoring is hard is not enough. You need to "concoct a number" factoring which is hard. Thus, factoring is based on worst case hardness assumption. That is, the average case is not as hard as worst case.
Aha! thats where lattices steal the ball. With lattice based schemes the average case is every bit as hard as the worst case.
The above discussion about worst case hardness of lattice problems has been taken from Scott Aaronson's insightful discussion of the topic on his blog.
So, finally, the moment. Lets throw in the formal definition of a lattice.
Given a bunch of $n$-linearly independent vectors from $\RR^m$ (kept inside a matrix $B$), the lattice generated by them is the set of vectors $Bx = v$ where $x$ is an integer vector which holds "what integral amount $x_{i}$" of vector $b_{i}$ do we want to keep in $v$.
Notice that the Basis Vectors above are from $m-dimensional$ space. Further, their components are not "restricted" to be integers. It is the coefficients in the linear combination that need to be integral. (That is, your $x_{i}$'s are integral).
$m$ is the dimension of the lattice. $n$ is its rank. Full rank lattices have $m=n$.
Its not necessary that a full rank lattice of rank $n$ will hit all points in $Z^n$ as you can verify for yourself. For example consider $\begin{pmatrix}1\\1\end{pmatrix}$ and $\begin{pmatrix}2\\0\end{pmatrix}$ as your Basis Vectors. Clearly they hit only those points sum of whose coordinates is even.
Can you characterize the condition on the Basis vectors for a $n$-dimesional full rank lattice so that they hit $Z^n$?
Better still can you figure out when will two Bases be equivalent?
Perhaps thats the topic for my next blog. But do try it in the meantime.


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I played every sport growing up in Iowa, but wasn't good at any of them. Until I tried running my sophomore year of high school. Right away I found my talent. I went on to win seven individual state titles, set three all-time state records, got inducted to the high school hall of fame, earned a scholarship to the University of Wisconsin - Madison (Go BADGERS!), earned Big Ten honors, and 12 varsity letters, and am still racing today. I currently run professionally for Saucony and at age 31 I'm still loving the sport and setting PRs.
2016 US Olympic Marathon Trials qualifier Three-time US Olympic Trials A standard Qualifier 2:34 marathon PR 1:11 half marathon PR 2 Fourth-place finishes at the US Marathon Championships 2 Third-place finishes at the US half Marathon Championships All-Region and All-Big Ten at the University of Wisconsin 10 time Iowa State Champion
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Israel Is Hypocritical When It Comes to Iran Nuclear Sanctions
The Israeli industrialists, the Ofer Brothers, did business with Iran, defying United Nations sanctions that Israel pressed for.
The Ofer brothers, wearing their hat as a foreign company, are allowed to trade with Iran in many areas, including the buying and selling of oil. But they were not allowed to sell them a tanker because Iran's national shipping company, IRISL, is one of the companies the UN Security Council has imposed sanctions on.
In any case, if they are wearing their Israeli hat, it's not at all clear what they are allowed or not allowed to do. But beyond the legal nitpicking, is it right and moral for an Israeli company or businessman to do business with Iran?
As part of the efforts to sabotage Iran's nuclear program, the international community, led by the United States and the European Union, and urged on by Israel, has imposed a series of sanctions on the ayatollahs' regime.
The sanctions, which the Security Council has passed since 2006, are the lowest-common-denominator type, over which an international consensus can be obtained, particularly the support of Russia and China. They are aimed directly at government companies, private firms and a number of prominent individuals in Iran, including government officials and generals, linked directly to Iran's nuclear and missile programs. That's why Iran's shipping company is on the list, because Iran uses it to transport equipment and materials for its nuclear and missile programs.
But there is no ban on trading with Iran for oil and refined products, even though such sanctions are the most effective method because Iran's energy economy generates about 90 percent of its income. But such a decision cannot pass in the Security Council because of opposition from Russia and China.
Another batch of sanctions, the result of unilateral decisions by the U.S. government and the European Union, expands restrictions on trade with Iran in areas such as banking, which helps fund Tehran's nuclear and missile programs.
Voluntary sanctions are even broader. Quite a few companies and international conglomerates have restricted or halted trade with Iran in areas such as banking, finance, insurance, and oil and gas investments in that country because they fear the policy of certain American states, trade unions and municipalities to keep their pension funds from investing in companies that do business with Iran. For example, about a year ago, Los Angeles canceled a quarter-million-dollar contract with Germany's Siemens because the conglomerate did business with Iran.
In this context, Israel's hypocritical and self-righteous policies stand out even more prominently. Israel preaches to the whole world about the need for sanctions on Iran, while doing absolutely nothing about them.
For example, while Los Angeles canceled a major transportation contract with Siemens, the Israel Airports Authority decided to purchase about NIS 150 million worth of equipment from that company. And the Israel Electric Corporation has awarded a half-billion-shekel contract to the Danish firm Haldor Topsoe for air-pollution filters, even though that company is building refineries in Iran to the tune of billions of dollars.
Israel's hypocrisy can also be seen in its unwillingness to enforce its own law. That law, passed at the behest of Benjamin Netanyahu even before he became prime minister, clearly states that Israeli companies may not invest more than $10 million in an international company that does business with Iran.
Israel's famous bureaucracy also has a role to play in its turning a blind eye, it being entirely unclear whether Iran is classified as an enemy country. Most ministries have their own definitions; for example, the Defense Ministry bans military exports to Iran, even though in the 1980s and '90s it secretly sold equipment including shells and gas-warfare-detection gear to Tehran. The Interior Ministry has its own definition of what constitutes entry into and exit from Iran. The same is true for the Finance Ministry; the Industry, Trade and Labor Ministry; and the Justice Ministry.
Even if an official entity knew of and even benefited from Ofer-family maritime connections with Iran that contributed to national security, this doesn't justify the ongoing carelessness in dealing with the matter in a broader context.
A guiding hand and a single clear policy are lacking to put an end to the shamefulness of Israeli companies doing business with Iran and turning the situation into one great farce.
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Oh girls of Teen Mom 2, what are we going to do with you? Last night, Leah Messer Sims Calvert walked down the aisle for a second time in her short life, and Jenelle Evans caused a scene at Jace's third birthday party. Anyone want to chip in for a Mom-of-theYear trophy with me? Chelsea Houska celebrated her twenty-first birthday, and Kailyn Lowry got engaged to Javi
and Jo let out a sigh of relief that she was now someone else's problem. Good times, right?
The episode starts with Leah cooking breakfast with her dad, and we learn that she hasn't seen him since she was thirteen. She tells him what a great provider Jeremy is, and he's happy to be back in his daughter's life. I wish he'd turn his NASCAR ballcap around so I could see who his favorite driver is. #rubbinisracin'
Chelsea is moving yet again (what is this…like the fourth time this season alone?), and she takes Aubree to her mom's after daycare. She's planning for her twenty-first birthday, and her mom offers to watch Aubree so she can celebrate. Aubree's birthday is not long after Chelsea's, and Chelsea's mom asks if A-D-A-M will be attending her party. Chelsea turns on the whine and says she doesn't want to talk about him under any circumstances. Her mom praises her maturity.
Back with Kieffer, Jenelle is stressed out because her roommate is moving out, and she's short on cash
from her boyfriend's mooching ways because her Internet job isn't paying as much as she'd hoped. She heads to her mom's house to discuss Jace's upcoming third birthday. Wait, my bad…she really just wants to complain to Barbara about her roommate and collect her mail. She reveals to her mom that she's dropped out of school due to the stress from her legal troubles with Gary and her boob job…both good reasons. Jenelle can barely keep her eyes open as she tells her mom that Kieffer is moving in with her. Barbara tells her daughter that she's planned Jace's party for the following day at a local tumbling Jim. Jenelle is upset that she didn't get more time to invite her friends, but she warns her mom she will be bringing Kieffer.


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A threat of legal action by Baylor has, at least temporarily, held up Texas A&M's move to the SEC. The SEC's presidents voted unanimously Tuesday night to extend an invitation to Texas A&M to become the league's 13th member, but that invitation is contingent upon all of Texas A&M's Big 12 counterparts waiving their right to a legal challenge.
A source said Baylor had broken ranks with the remaining Big 12 members, which decided last week to waive their right to legally challenge a move by Texas A&M. In a statement, Florida president Bernie Machen, the chair of the SEC's presidents group, said the SEC would not accept Texas A&M as a member until the potential legal roadblocks were cleared.
"We were notified yesterday afternoon that at least one Big 12 institution had withdrawn its previous consent and was considering legal action," Machen said in the statement. "The SEC has stated that to consider an institution for membership, there must be no contractual hindrances to its departure. The SEC voted unanimously to accept Texas A&M University as a member upon receiving acceptable reconfirmation that the Big 12 and its members have reaffirmed the letter dated September 2, 2011."
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Salt Lake City Police Lt. Josh Scharman said officers received reports of a cyclist down in the road near the intersection of California Avenue and Fortune Road about 6:30 p.m. and arrived to find a man in critical condition.
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Guide to selectively enabling PHP in different vhosts
We often see people asking how to enable PHP for different vhosts, selectively. This can be done if you follow the Apache recommended method of enabling PHP in the first place.
There is a very popular misconception that people should use AddType to enable PHP. This will not work in this scenario and is not recommended.
The PHP module should be loaded by having something similar to this in your httpd.conf:
... LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so ...
N.B. You need to check the names of the modules you are using, the names above may not match what you have on your system
Once you have added this, you now need to instruct Apache on how to use the module. The Apache recommended way to do this is to use the AddHandler directive. Below is an example of how this can be done :
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml
If you just add this to your main server config, it will use the PHP5 module. This will then apply to all vhosts. All you need to do now is specify which vhost will not use PHP:
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName www.example.com DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/example1 </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName www.example2.com DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/example2 RemoveHandler .php </VirtualHost>
There are several ways to use these options:
Set a global default, i.e. PHP5, then using RemoveHandler specify which vhosts should have PHP disabled.
- Set each vhost to use a specific version, i.e. Not using a global default, so PHP is disabled by default.


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This week, dear readers, Project Runway had one of those oh-so-sublime "alternative materials" challenges. Our top ten (really, they were celebrating that? Top ten is not even making it halfway…) designers were sent to a hardware store by Princess Michael Kors and told to gather enough random objects to somehow make clothing, but then when judging came around, the judges couldn't decide if they really wanted the designers to turn something hard into something soft or not. Some designers got chastised for it, others were applauded.
Huge, annoying judging inconsistencies aside (but not too far aside – we'll get to them later), it was nice to see a non-fabric challenge, since those appear to be a fairly accurate bellwether of who will survive and who will eventually be auf'd. In the world of Project Runway, if you can't make a dress out of sheet metal, you shan't be long for this world. Likewise, it's the Tin Man catastrophes that we all enjoy the most, and it's not as fun when the designers are merely screwing up regular fabric. This episode was great because it separated the real contenders from the straight guys, and it was about time that that happened.
The challenge was as straightforward as it sounds: make an outfit, any outfit, out of materials from a hardware store. Designers were also supposed to make an accessory, but it didn't seem like the judges really cared about what they made as long as one was present. With those kinds of parameters, it baffles me that so many of these fools decided it would be a good idea to make a metal dress, despite the fact that none of them have ever worked with metal. Hardware stores have lots of non-metal options: drop cloths, rope, tarp, garbage bags, electrical tape, you get the idea. Even if the designers had been set on metal, there are pliable metal options: screen and mesh, anyone?
Indeed, the top three dresses were all from designers that had forgone sheet metal for materials that weren't quite so obvious. The judges praised Mila for her use of plastic paint tray liners in white and black, cut into small pieces to make a plastic dress that improbably had a lot of movement. I have a problem with Mila's design sense, however, and it's not as a result of the mod colorblocking that she uses in every outfit. On the contrary, the thing that always sticks with me is that her outfits tend to not be particularly flattering. Her model looked completely square through the waist, which I probably would have attributed to the difficult materials if the exact same thing hadn't happened with the nude/peach jersey dress that Mila made a few weeks back.
I don't think her model is square, so the issue appears to be with Mila herself. Even her challenge-winning track suit didn't have a defined shape, and as much of a point of view as Mila might have, no one really wants to look like any geometric shape except an hourglass. If she can't find a waistline eventually, I think that she might make herself vulnerable to eventual elimination. Her plastic outfit was cool on its own, but her schtick may be wearing thing, despite Nina Garcia's apparent decision that she shall be the eventual winner.
It was a good week for people with Serious Fashion Hair, however, because Mini Mila…err, Maya…was also in the top three. She made a wire-frame jacket out of (if I remember correctly) the cording for miniblinds, and it was utterly brilliant. Put that jacket in an editorial in V Magazine, and I'm all over it. That jacket? That jacket was The Truth. Her dress, made out of metal screen, wasn't bad either – you wouldn't have guessed that it was metal, and the key necklace that she made as her accessory was something that I'd buy in a heartbeat. It was modern, pretty, and still a little hard – it may have been my favorite look of the challenge.
Maya didn't win, however, because Jay managed to somehow make leather pants out of layer upon layer of bias-cut garbage bags, and really, that's a freakin' miracle of sewing machine ingenuity if I've ever seen one. Not only did he make leather pants, but he made a corset with ruffles (also made out of garbage bags, but this time with blue masking tape accents) and a woven belt that no one would have ever guessed wasn't leather. Jay probably did the best job of utterly transforming his materials from something mundane to something spectacular, and for that, he was awarded the richly deserved win.
But that last sentence? That's where things went a wee bit off the rails in the judging peanut gallery. Jay was rewarded for turning his garbage bags into something that did not at all resemble their original state, but for doing the same thing, Anthony was put in the bottom three. He made a soft, flowered cocktail dress out of metal mesh and some sort of pink lining, and his expertly curved metal belt was easily the best use of the solid material on this week's runway.
The judges didn't like it, though. It didn't look enough like it came from a hardware store. Um, excuse me, but was that the point of the challenge? If it was, I totally missed it. Jay missed it too, but instead of nearly losing, he won. The dress wasn't particularly innovative, but are leather leggings innovative? No. If they want innovation to be the primary judging metric, they should use it for everyone, not just people that make something pretty out of ugly materials.
In challenges where regular fabric is used, innovation is important. In a situation like this, where the innovation should be inherent in the materials used, I don't think there's anything to be celebrated in taking a crazy material and making something crazy out of it (Emilio, I'm looking at you). Anthony made a dress that a lot of women would love to wear, and he did it out of the same stuff that covers my screen door, and he shouldn't have been in the bottom. I wouldn't have necessarily put him in the top, but he should have been safe.
I can't say the same for the two others that joined him in the bottom three. Anthony was ultimately safe (and he skittered off the runway like he was afraid that the judges would change their minds if he stood there too long), and it was only Jesse and Emilio standing there with their sad little outfits. Well, calling Emilio's string (literally) bikini an "outfit" might be just a tad charitable.
You see, it started out as a dress and went off the rails from there, because he didn't have enough string or washers (the string was woven with washers, I'm not making that up) to cover his model's butt. Ironically, after he ditched all the material between her chest and pelvis, he STILL didn't bother to give her enough of a garment to obscure her rear end from popular view. He lied on the runway and said that he had purposefully made a bikini to stand out from all the dresses, which may have been the line that saved his (partially covered) behind.
That's right, it was Jesse's night to leave, and not a moment too soon. He's never come across as particularly talented or particularly interesting, and we've seen enough of him. He made a dress that looked like a Hershey Kiss in both shape and material, and although it may have been less terrible than Emilio's string bikini, I think that we all know that Emilio is a more talented designer. Since we've seen a half dozen looks from each designer, I'm ok with the judges auf'ing people with their body of work considered – it's only fair.
I would entertain the argument, however, that the bikini was bad enough to mitigate any pretty dress Emilio had ever made in his entire life – luckily for him, he had the presence of mind to lie. He'll do well in the fashion industry.
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