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Ahead of their meetings in Mexico City this week, President Obama and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto hinted that they wanted to put economic ties atop their agenda.
But reports that Mexico is restructuring the way it cooperates with American officials on security matters -- in essence restricting communication -- threaten to impose a shadow over the positive economic story the leaders want to tell.
The apparent friction highlights the critical security relationship and illustrates the complexities of U.S.-Mexico relations.
"We spend so much time on security issues between the United States and Mexico that sometimes I think we forget this is a massive trading partner, responsible for huge amounts of commerce and huge numbers of jobs on both sides of the border," Obama said this week.
But writing a new narrative on U.S.-Mexico relations that doesn't lead with Mexico as a major transit point for narcotics, or the United States as a market hungry for the drugs, isn't easy.
That was made clear by the spate of news reports this week on both sides of the border about changes to how Mexico cooperates with the Americans.
Under the new rules, all U.S. requests for collaboration with Mexican agencies will flow through a single office, Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong confirmed to Mexico's state-run Notimex news agency.
It is a drastic change from recent years, when U.S. agents enjoyed widespread access to their Mexican counterparts.
So in the days leading up to Obama's arrival in the Mexican capital, the buzz was not about the economy, but whether Mexico was being uncooperative with the United States.
Osorio Chong downplayed the idea that the change signified a retreat in security cooperation.
The United States "should have the confidence that things are on a good path," he told Notimex.
In a conference call with reporters, Obama administration official Ben Rhodes said it was natural that Peña Nieto, who has been in office for only five months, would want to revisit its security structure.
"We're currently working with the Mexicans to evaluate the means by which we cooperate, the means by which we provide assistance, and we're certainly open to discussing with Mexico ways to improve and enhance cooperation, streamline the provision of assistance," said Rhodes, who is the deputy national security adviser for strategic communications. "Our goal is not to have a certain amount of presence in terms of security efforts in Mexico; it's to cooperate with the Mexicans so that we can meet the interests of both our countries."
But analysts say impact of the changes should not be underestimated.
U.S. officials who had built rapport and personal relationships with Mexican counterparts now have an obstacle to their communication, said George Grayson, an expert on Mexican security issues and professor of government at the College of William & Mary.
"The door is not wide-open like it used to be," he said.
There is a lot to boast of on the economic front, but security will likely remain a key part of how U.S.-Mexico relations will be judged.
Among U.S. officials, there is an unspoken concern about whether Peña Nieto will merely give lip service to the the idea of security cooperation or whether he will provide real substance, said David Shirk, former director of the Trans-Border Institute in San Diego.
"I've talked to many people at very high levels that have expressed these concerns," Shirk said. "There is a kind of wait-and-see attitude. I think U.S. ofificals want to give Peña Nieto the benefit of the doubt."
What is clear is that Peña Nieto rejects the "kingpin" strategy of his predecessor, Felipe Calderon, who made the capture of cartel leaders the centerpiece of his security plan.
A number of high-ranking drug cartel leaders were killed or captured during Calderon's term, but the results usually backfired -- new leaders rose in their place, rival cartels fought for the leftovers and a high level of violence persisted.
Peña Nieto has talked about focusing on violence reduction, and engaging in educational, social and economic reforms. But this broad vision has not yet produced a defined security strategy.
"The question is, what (do) you replace the kingpin strategy with?" Grayson said.
The changes to protocols between U.S. and Mexican officials are likely part of the process to figure that out, but one that could rankle the United States, said Tony Payan, a Mexico expert and fellow at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.
The previous strategy of identifying kingpins and going after them suited the United States, which has the tools and capabilities to aid in those operations, Payan said. A more hands-off approach may not go over well.
"Clearly, there is disagreement on how to approach this issue," he said.
When Obama and Peña Nieto speak publicly together on Thursday and Friday, their economies will be the easy things to talk about, Payan said. Half a billion dollars in trade is indeed something to brag about, and is a storyline that has been overlooked too often.
Obama and Peña Nieto are expected to trumpet these achievements to the press.
"I think the ugly part of the conversation (about security) will be in private," Payan said.


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Not believing in God is like not shaving.
'Oh you're growing a beard' people say.
'No, I'm just not shaving.'
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being an athiest means being wise in your own eyes and not having an all knowing God making the rules and telling you your purpose in life. you get to wander about ungratefully and pass willful ignorance down to your children while the God who loves you continues to send Christians your way to try to love you back into the truth
Except that you have no gods telling you what to do - and you can't even name the god in which you think you believe. No, you have a cult that dictates what you think and believe - a cult that sends devotees like you out seeking fresh brains....like zombies.
'Oh you're seeking enlightenment' people say.
'No, I'm just not believing.'
It's like waking up from a dream that seemed completely real while you were in it, and now seems absolutely ludicrous.
Just like the Matrix.
Ha! I wish that was the response I'd gotten. It was more like, "You don't really not believe! You've just had a bad experience and are just angry/rebellious/confused etc... " I would've been flattered if they thought I was seeking enlightenment because... I actually was.
Me too, Cara.
Unless one believes in every god that has ever been imagined, everyone should already know what not believing in a god is like.
I'd take issue with that analogy because beards exist and are part of the known universe. As for God.... meh.
Not believing in god is liberating... as the truth always is.


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Hornet Stranglers - Creation Moments
Psalm 118:12a: "They compassed me about like bees...."
We all know that when bees swarm they are in defensive mode. However, not all species of bees have stinging in mind when they swarm.
We did a program about an Asian honeybee species that engulfs an invading wasp and cooks it to death. That's what scientists thought Cyprian honeybees were doing when they engulf an invading hornet. However, further study showed that the bees could not kill the attacking hornet with heat. They simply didn't generate enough heat to kill it in the hour they were observed killing a hornet.
Further observation showed that the bees favored encasing the hornet's abdomen. It appeared that they knew that the hornets have an unusual breathing arrangement for insects. The hornet in question actually breathes through holes in its abdomen by contracting the abdomen. The bees appeared to be suffocating the hornet. So researchers placed tiny plastic blocks under a hornet's abdominal plates. This propped the hornet's breathing pores open when the bees tried to smother it. Sure enough, the next time the bees attacked, the hornet survived twice as long.
In His love for His creation, God knew that when sin entered His creation, His creatures would need to know how to defend themselves. So He gave the Cyprian honeybee the knowledge to protect itself against its worst foe.
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Right: Megan Curry in her native habitat. Photo courtesy of Kenneth Ingham.
POSTOJNA, SLOVENIA, April 14, 2007 – Megan Curry, a graduate student in the Cave and Karst Studies Program at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, has been awarded the William L. Wilson Memorial Scholarship of the Karst Waters Institute.
Megan Curry was honored for her research on the production of a cave mineral called moonmilk, a white, pasty material that appears to be the result of bacterial action involving the cave wall rock. This research may help scientists understand how organisms can function in the subsurface, an environment that could theoretically serve as an analog to extreme environments such as Mars.
Megan Curry is a B.Sc. graduate of the University of Akron, and a graduate of Perry High School, Massillon, Ohio. The Karst Waters Institute, a United States non-profit organization dedicated to the research and study of caves and karst, made the award at a symposium it organized in Postojna, Slovenia, in cooperation with that nation's Karst Research Institute.
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Just write a fstab rule for the partition specifying the noauto option
The errors happens because truecrypt partitions are handled differently from the others and ldm doesn't know how to
I have a problem with a NTFS based external hard drive I use for back ups. Its gets mounted by ldm. But
sudo umount
does nothing. Trying to unmount the drive as root also does nothing.
All the other flash drives I throw at ldm are mounted fine and I can unmount without issues. Any ideas why umount has no effect ?
I cannot get this to work. I have installed it, and created the config file, but it does not work:
$ id -g
$ id -u
$ cat /etc/conf.d/ldm
$ ldm
ldm 0.4.1
2011-2013 (C) The Lemon Man
You have to run this program as root!
$ sudo ldm
ldm 0.4.1
2011-2013 (C) The Lemon Man
You must supply your gid/uid!
I cannot get this to work. I have installed it, and created the config file, but it does not work:
$ id -g 100 $ id -u 1000 $ cat /etc/conf.d/ldm USER_GID=100 USER_UID=1000 $ ldm ldm 0.4.1 2011-2013 (C) The Lemon Man You have to run this program as root! $ sudo ldm ldm 0.4.1 2011-2013 (C) The Lemon Man You must supply your gid/uid!
Either enable to start with the computer, which is how it's supposed to work.
# systemctl enable ldm.service
# systemctl start ldm.service
Or if you want to run it manualy do it like this
# ldm -g 100 -u 1000
Last edited by theGunslinger (2013-05-15 15:55:23)
That was exactly the problem, now it's working like a charm. Thanks!!!
Like a few others in this thread, I'm having trouble unmounting things (via
udisks --unmount device
umount /path/to/device
, since ldm automatically mounts it again right away. I've enabled it through systemd, and as a temporary workaround, I can unmount my devices by issuing
systemctl stop ldm
(which will unmount everything), then unplug my desired device, then issue
systemctl start ldm
again. Has anyone figured out a true solution?
I've had a quick look and can't see that I have anything set-up out of the ordinary, apart form a patch I apply to ldm to mount to /mnt rather than /media. W
hen I umount my sd card (which is my most often and ready to hand to double check device) it doesn't automatically get remounted by ldm.
I use the following command to umount it:
sudo -A umount /mnt/dirusedbyldm
The -A option tells sudo to use a dialog to get the password.
The directory gets deleted.
The ldm service file is the standard one.
If I eject then re-insert it, it mounts again.
Not sure what other information will help?
"...one cannot be angry when one looks at a penguin." - John Ruskin
"Life in general is a bit shit, and so too is the internet. And that's all there is." - scepticisle
Would it be possible to change the mount folder away from the deprecated /media to /var/run/mount or similar?
Would it be possible to change the mount folder away from the deprecated /media to /var/run/mount or similar?
Oh no! That's way too much typing! I could get auto-completion finger!
oh, sure. But I'd like to know when /media was deprecated as I can't find anything about it online...
It isn't deprecated however it no longer available in Arch installs since filesystem 2012.11-1. You can still create the directory manually; also its created/used by udisks (1 not 2).
It isn't deprecated however it no longer available in Arch installs since filesystem 2012.11-1.
Which, incidentally, renders ldm useless until /media is created. I meant to file a bug report about this but forgot.
I asked about this a month or few back (see up thread - there's also a link there to the relevant ml post), and changed the code to make the dir /mnt:
+++ PKGBUILD.mnt 2013-03-12 11:20:54.728163257 +0000
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
export LDFLAGS=""
cd ${pkgname}-${pkgver}
+ sed -i 's;/media/;/mnt/;' ldm.c
I'm sure my change is sub-optimum, but it's been working fine.
"...one cannot be angry when one looks at a penguin." - John Ruskin
"Life in general is a bit shit, and so too is the internet. And that's all there is." - scepticisle
I'm fine with changing the default path. Now, what's the upstream solution? /mnt or /var/run/mount?
In my opinion /run/media is the right place, but I like /media more.
/mnt should be for static mounts, dynamic mounts should be in a different folder. Just add the directory in the package, no code patches needed. If you use /run/..., then an entry in tmpfiles.d is required.
PS: udisks uses /media, udisks2 has /run/media/USER/
| alias CUTF='LANG=en_XX.UTF-8@POSIX ' |
edit: I've done more testing, and the issue seems to have resolved itself.
I just set up ldm and used it to mount my first device (which has two memory unit thingies) and this was the result in qtFM
The situation was not as bad in PCManFM
Still, the media folder was empty before I started ldm and plugged in my device. What is all that? Is this a known issue of some kind?
# lsblk /dev/sd*
sdc 8:32 1 1.9G 0 disk /media/8765-4321_
sdd 8:48 1 13G 0 disk /media/52FC-19EB_
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ldm adds a trailing _ when it can't make up the mountpoint name, namely when there's already one with the same name...this is weird.
Could you post the output of udisks --dump ?
The issue seems to have resolved itself with more testing. At this point udisks --dump shows only good, happy data.
My theory is that I was messing around with udisks and re-configuring my automounting system, and in the course of that fiddling, during which the device was plugged in, some unexpected things occurred.
pumount / sudo umount works just fine here.
sudo umount works perfectly here with any usb stick (vfat). But only briefly unmounts my NTFS drive. Using htop I watched the mounting process /sbin/mount.ntfs get killed when I issue the sudo umount command and then a second later it starts up again.
The drive is mounted in /media and owned by users.
I did git pull of ldm today.
Hey everyone,
Just started using ldm today, really a blast after trying to get udisks to work properly. The only thing that bugs me is the mounting of the rootfs and the home lvm partitions. I've seen some cases like that in this thread, where you guys suggest to use "noauto". Issue is, adding that will mean that these partitions won't get mounted at boot, correct? At least man fstab says so:
noauto do not mount when "mount -a" is given (e.g., at boot time)
Other than that, it works perfecty. Oh, and by the way, /media directories are not deleted if one shuts down the machine without unmounting the devices. Is this expected behaviour?
Edit: just read about truecrypt above. I use dmcrypt, so I guess it's the same issue. Any way around this? Perhaps a duplicate fstab rule?
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Are you using the latest git version ? ldm tries as hard as it can to unmount the devices at exit but can't do much if those are locked by some process...
I am using the git package from the aur, yes. I'm pretty sure /media/* are not locked by anything on shutdown - although they are mounted on / and /home as well. Shouldn't mean they cannot be unmounted.
Anyway, this is odd. /dev/sda1 is mounted at /boot, so ldm doesn't mount it under media. Though /dev/mapper/{home,root} are mounted in media, even though they are already mounted in the same way. I thought having a device mounted would prevent ldm from mounting it at startup, even if it's encrypted under lvm.
EDIT: Here's my mtab:
/dev/mapper/lvm-root / ext4 rw,relatime,discard,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/mapper/lvm-home /home ext4 rw,relatime,discard,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/lvm-root /media/dcacb5b9-ea02-48eb-a0f4-2039b2b5c438_ ext4 rw,relatime,discard,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/lvm-home /media/ecc412d5-204a-4883-a024-f34b25de3572_ ext4 rw,relatime,discard,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/mapper/lvm-home /media/ecc412d5-204a-4883-a024-f34b25de3572__ ext4 rw,relatime,discard,data=ordered 0 0
This is on a second boot after a clean setup, you can see how the original dirs from first use were not deleted. At shutdown I can briefly see two dbus socket errors. Also, home was mounted twice on top of the original mount. Odd.
Last edited by mvdan (2013-07-24 09:28:15)
meh the kernel won't let unmount the root/home. This problem needs to be ironed out sometime, in the meanwhile you can just put a noauto label in your fstab
noauto on root would probably be OK, but wouldn't noauto on home mean that /home would not be mounted at boot?


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Hi, I'm James.
I'm a 24 year old web developer from Doncaster.
I've joined the forum because I'd like to greatly improve my Maths skills.
I did horribly at school in maths, I think I got a D or an E for my GCSE maths exam.
I'm now interested in designing and developing games and I've started reading material that includes things like Transformation Matrices, which is my main reason for wanting to get a lot better at Maths.
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Hi jamesbailey1990,
Welcome to the forum!
I did horribly at school in maths, I think I got a D or an E for my GCSE maths exam
Never mind, you can acquire math skills any time.
Best wishes.
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Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.
Hi James,
I am Agnishom. What is your favorite color?
Do not worry about school grades. If you have the will, you will improve soon.
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
Thanks ganesh
Hi Agnishom, I'd have to say my favourite colour is.. well it was blue but now I prefer red.
Welcome to the forum.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
Welcome to the forum!
It is good that you have taken the initiative to learn mathematics.
Don't worry too much about those school grades - they are not a good indicator of your aptitude for mathematics.
You are correct that you need a lot of mathematics (and physics) for developing games. Some time back we were working on a rather complicated game and you couldn't imagine how much mathematics we had to learn (despite us already being math majors) to make a successful game. Of course, it depends on which type of game you are developing.
I am Dipak Kambale from India. The next thing about me is I love mathematics. I keep on reading books of very famous authors such as HSM Coexter, Euclid's elements, E.T. Bell, Ian etc... I was searching on net for complex numbers and I found this site. The explanation given was quit excellent. I liked it and then become member for this forum.
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hi Dipak,
Welcome to the forum.
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Hi kdipakj;
Welcome to the forum.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
Welcome to the forum, kdipakj;
Hi jamesbailey1990 and kdipakj
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William Dorais, 91, Wabash, died at 4:30 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 9, at Wellbrooke of Wabash. He was born Dec. 24, 1922 in Spokane, Wash. to Charles E. "Gus" and Viola (Fettgetter) Dorais.
Bill was an alumnus of the College of William and Mary. He married Helen A. Lagrou in Detroit, Mich. on Oct. 20, 1945; she died May 14, 2011. He co-founded, along with his father Gus, Dorais Chevrolet, Wabash, in January 1949. He was a member of St. Bernard Catholic Church, a life member of the Wabash Elks Lodge, and a charter member of the Wabash Country Club. Bill loved to play golf.
He is survived by three children, David (Kaye) Dorais, Wabash, Linda (James) Zolman, Muskegon, Mich., and Bill (Mary) Dorais, Redstone, Colo.; six grandchildren, Kyle (Tracie) Zolman, Ryan (Courtney) Zolman, Megan Zolman, Katie (Connor) Bailey, William (Laurie Densen) Dorais, and Whitney Dorais; and nine great grandchildren. He was also preceded in death by two brothers and two sisters.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, at St. Bernard Catholic Church, 188 W. Sinclair, Wabash, with Father Sextus Don officiating. Entombment will be in the Chapel of Remembrance Mausoleum at Memorial Lawns Cemetery, Wabash. Friends may call Friday, Feb. 14, from 12-1:30 p.m. at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service, 1241 Manchester Ave. Wabash.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Honeywell House.
The memorial guest book for William may be signed at www.grandstaff-hentgen.com.


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Maryland, north of Virginia and 233 miles south of New York City. Situated on the northern bank of the Potomac River, its size is around 68 square miles,
imprinted out of land donated by the condition of Maryland. Divided into four quadrants: Northwest, Southwest, Northeast, and Southeast. The U.S. Capital building marks the center where the quadrants assemble. It was establish in 1791 and named after leader George Washington. "Columbia" in "District of Columbia" refers to Christopher Columbus.
Washington, the Region of Columbia is not a state, nor is it part of any state. It is a exclusive "federal district" created particularly to be the seat of government. The definite populace in D.C. is around 553,500, but if you include the entire Metro area, the inhabitants is around 5.8 million. The "Washington Metropolitan Area" refers to the District of Columbia advantage seven Maryland countries (Anne Arundel, Charles, Calvert, Frederick, Howard, Montgomery and Prince George's), five Virginia countries (Arlington, Fairfax, Loudon, Prince William and Stafford) and five Virginia cities (Alexandria, Falls Church, Fairfax City, Manassas and Manassas Park).
Washington, D.C. is exclusive amongst American cities because it was recognized by the establishment of the United States to serve as the nation's capital. From the commencement it has been involved in political maneuvering, sectional conflicts and issues of race, nationwide identity, compromise and, of course, power.The option of Washington's site along the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers resulted from cooperation between Alexander Hamilton and northern states that required the new centralized government to assume Revolutionary War debts and Thomas Jefferson and southern states who wanted the resources placed in a location gracious to slave-holding agricultural interests.


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Feb. 26, 2005
The Yale men's swimming and diving team began post-season competition on Friday at the ECAC Championships at the University of Pittsburgh. The Bulldogs finished the first day of competition in the middle of the pack, placing 11th out of 20 teams.
John Lynch was Yale's top individual finisher on the day, placing 6th in the 200 IM. The Bulldogs were also boosted with a strong performance in the 200 Freestyle Relay by the team of Gjorji Gjeorgjievski, Alex Goldsmith, Dave Lange and Cameron Hendrick.
The Bulldogs look to move up in the standings in competition which continues through Sunday.


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Birmingham-Southern's Bruce Maxwell has been drafted by the Oakland A's in the 2012 Major League Baseball Draft. He was selected as the second pick of the second round, or 62nd overall, and is BSC's highest-ever draft pick in program history.
Maxwell is the highest Division III pick since 2003 when Cal Lutheran's Justin Hirsh was drafted 59th overall, and becomes BSC's 60th overall player to go to the MLB, and second in the Division III era after Drew Leachman was selected in the 37th round by the Minnesota Twins last season. Leachman and Maxwell are the only two Division III position player (non-pitchers) to have been drafted since 2001.
Maxwell has had a banner career on the Hilltop, leading the Panthers to the SCAC championship this past season in their first year of eligibility as well as the finals of the NCAA Central Regional in Millington, Tenn.
He was named ABCA/Rawlings and D3baseball.com National Player of the Year, as well as SCAC Offensive Player-of-the-Year and D3baseball.com South Region Player of the Year. Maxwell was a D3baseball.com First-Team All-America and All-South selection, and First-Team All-SCAC and SCAC All-Tournament.
The junior from Toney, Ala., led the SCAC with a .471 batting average (7th-best in SCAC single-season) and also led the league in homeruns (15), doubles (25), runs scored (56), total bases (142), slugging percentage (.928), on-base percentage (.619) and walks (59 - new SCAC single-season record). He was fourth in runs batted in (48) and second in hits (72).
In addition to being named a national, regional, and conference player of the year, Maxwell was also named All-SCAC First Team as well as SCAC All-Tournament. He was also named the SCAC Hitter of the Week twice during the regular season and National Hitter of the Week once, and was named BSC Male Athlete of the Year.


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Maybe one day I will write a cookbook called "Just Add Sweet Potatoes!". Its kind of becoming my thing- I mean, I've done it with Gnocchi, Enchiladas, Chile...and now with Mac & Cheese. Its no big deal guys... this is just the form that my genius takes, finding things in which to insert sweet potatoes. That, and explaining American TV shows to my husband in a way that makes him think I am psychic. ("How did you know that Walt poisoned the Stevia?!?")
For this delicious combo, I made the classic (if fatty) mac & cheese from Vegan Yum Yum that I always make and threw in a little wilted swiss chard and sweet potatoes for good measure. Consider it my own simple (and late) contribution to Vegan Mofo's mac and cheese mania.
Mac & Cheese with Rainbow Chard and Sweet Potatoes
Vegan Yum Yum Cheese Sauce (or your own favorite, such as Isa's)
3 C. pasta
2 C. Rainbow chard, sliced into thin ribbons
1 Sweet potato, peeled and cut into 1/2" cubes
Paprika and Chile powder
1. Preheat oven to 400F (200 C) and line a bake sheet with baking paper. Set a pot of salted water to boil for the pasta.
2. In a bowl, toss sweet potato cubes with a drizzle of oil, and a pinch of paprika and chile powder (optional for those who like the spicies.) Add to the oven and cook for about 15-20 minutes, or until lightly browned.
3. Once the pot of water is boiling, add in the pasta. Make the cheese sauce according to Miss Yum Yum's instructions, and set aside.
4. Once pasta is finished cooking, drain it, reserving a tablespoon or so of hot water and leaving it in the cooking pot. Add the chopped chard in, stir, and cover pot, leaving for about 5 minutes.
5. Finally, add cheese sauce to pasta and chard, tossing to coat. Add in sweet potato cubes.
Enjoy, topped with plenty of ground black pepper.
Speaking of Germans and Vegan Mofo, I would like to point out two other noteworthy things: first, Spiegel (who I sometimes love-hate but mostly hate-hate) has an article discussing Vegan Food at Oktoberfest and other changes to the Bavarian yearly festival. It features the following amazingly German quote: "It's crazy at times, says Peter Hartwich, head of the Wiesn police station, "because people no longer recognize any social limits to their efforts at self-realization." Second, Seitan Beats Your Meat had a Mad Men theme this month, surely one of the greatest Vegan Mofo themes of all time, and also an excellent excuse to reprint the image below.
|"I'll show you vegan," says Betty


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The Academic Support Program (ASP) at the University of Washington School of Law
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The faculty and staff who make up the ASP and along with 2L/3L students lead workshops that focus on the skills students need to succeed in law school. We schedule these presentations to coincide with the times when most students are likely to have questions about each topic (e.g., a presentation about case briefing and note-taking typically occurs in the first few weeks of the quarter, a presentation on outlining and creating exam study materials is held mid-quarter, and a presentation about taking exams occurs later in the quarter).
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Middlebury College President Ronald Liebowitz landed on Time Magazine's list of the top 10 college presidents in the country this week, earning kudos for pushing environmental initiatives at the college.
Time singled out Liebowitz for listening to students who, a few years back, proposed that Middlebury drastically cut its carbon emissions. Liebowitz helped students sell the board of trustees on the plan, and now the college has pledged to go carbon-neutral by 2016. The magazine also lauded the college's progress toward that goal, citing the school's new $12 million biomass gasification plant as a big step toward going carbon neutral. The plant has already cut Middlebury's carbon footprint by 40 percent and reduced fuel costs.
"(Going green) is one of the highest priorities for the country," Liebowitz said. "It's key for colleges to take the lead and push the envelope. We need to give something back to society."
Liebowitz is joined on the "top 10" list by Ohio State University head E. Gordon Gee; New York University President John Sexton; University of Michigan President Mary Ann Coleman; Arizona State University President Michael Crow; Tulane University head Scott Cowen; Freeman Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Miami Dade College President Eduardo Padron; Juliet García, head of the University of Texas at Brownsville; and University of California, Oakland, President Mark Yudof.


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Mark Reynolds Receives CHECS Award, Nov. 9, 1999
Congratulations to Mark Reynolds, Telecommunications Manager at ISD (Information Systems Dept.) At the recent CHECS Conference (Council for Higher Education Computing Services) in Las Cruces, Mark won the award for best presentation. His talk, "Designing an Infrastructure for a Campus Environment," received the highest rating of all the presentations at the conference. Mark's name, along with his affiliation with New Mexico Tech, will be immortalized on the traveling plaque. Mark gets to keep the plaque and show it off until next year's conference. This is the second time that NMT has won the award.
In addition to winning the award for best presentation, Mark also received recognition for the longest drive in the CHECS golf scramble put on by PDS (Professional Document Systems) at the Picacho Country Club.


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New Book Suggests How Parents, Colleges, and Employers Can Best Prepare and Engage with the Next Generation of Students and Leaders
San Francisco, CA.—September, 2012—They are always in touch, yet weak in face-to-face communication. They receive inflated grades, but believe their GPAs should be even higher. They are professionally ambitious, yet clueless about proper decorum in the workplace.
These are just a few of the contradictions that today's college students are living, according to new findings published in Generation on a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today's College Student by authors Arthur Levine and Diane Dean. Levine is president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and president emeritus of Teachers College, Columbia University. Dean is an associate professor at Illinois State University.
"This is a generation with an average of 241 social media 'friends,' but they have trouble communicating in person," said Levine, who has written three books tracking attitudes and behaviors of different generations over the past 40 years.
Levine and Dean also discovered other glaring conflicts. Among them:
Though hit disproportionately hard by the repercussions of recession, and bearish on the future of the country (65 percent), current students are optimistic about their own futures (88 percent), and expect to be at least as well off as their parents (73 percent).
This pattern of apparent contradiction also plays out when it comes to grades. More than two in five students report grade-point averages of A- or higher—the highest proportion in more than 40 years—and 60 percent of all students believe their grades understate the true quality of their work. However, 45 percent of students have had to take remedial courses.
Cross-Generational Differences
The data also reveal significant changes across generations, including the fact that today's young people are more tethered to their parents, less focused on political ideologies, and more racially diverse than any previous generations.
- Unlike other generations that called home once a week, two out of five students (41 percent) are in touch with parents by phone, email, text or visit at least daily. One in five (19 percent) is in contact three or more times a day. College deans say overwhelmingly that the biggest change on campus since 2001 is parent involvement—and sometimes intrusion—on campus.
- More than two-thirds of students (64 percent, up from 44 percent in 1976) say the goal of college is to increase one's earning power. The percent of students who believe college is essential to formulate one's life values and goals plummeted from 71 percent in 1967 to 50 percent today. Most undergraduates want college to help them develop career skills and knowledge and to gain a detailed grasp of a special field (74 percent).
- This generation of students is not concerned with campus politics and is more involved in issues beyond the college gates. But they have little concrete knowledge about the world. Ideologies—left, right, and center—do not appeal to them; rather they are issue-oriented. When they act, their theater of action tends to be local, though they believe the issues that engage them have global implications.
- Binge drinking and alcohol abuse have become the prime mental-health issue on campus, deans of students say. Nearly a quarter of colleges and universities (24 percent)—more at four-year colleges (31 percent) than community colleges (14 percent)—report rises in binge drinking since 2001. Between 2008 and 2011, a quarter (23 percent) also experienced increases in alcohol consumption.
"This generation of college students is inherently no better and no worse than other generations," said co-author Diane Dean, who led the research effort. "Taken as a whole, however, the research indicates that these students will not be prepared for the world they will enter, and that parents, colleges, and schools need to make adjustments to better mold coming generations."
(See the accompanying fact sheet, Summary of Key Findings, for the full scope of the data.)
Colleges Have Not Kept Pace
Some of the contradictions and disconnects may be at least partially attributable to the gap between students' upbringing and the institutions they enter. Today's college students are the first generation of digital natives in higher education, but the colleges they attend remain firmly analog—as do the digital-immigrant adults whose classes and workplaces they find themselves in. Text messaging, smart phones, and other relatively recent innovations were already staples of life by the time they were children, and 76 percent of students say the establishment of the World Wide Web was the most important event in their lives—far overshadowing the September 11 attacks, the election of Barack Obama as president, or any other signal event. These 21st century students sit in colleges that are artifacts of the industrial revolution, and 78 percent of them say undergraduate education would be improved if their classes and professors made greater use of technology.
Recommendations for Parents, Colleges, and Employers
The authors offer strategies for parents to encourage students to be more independent, accountable, resilient, empathetic, and charitable, and to ensure that they set appropriate boundaries for student behavior. The book calls on college leaders to change the means by which their campuses educate the digital natives to match the ways that students learn most effectively. It urges campuses to introduce an enriched academic major, enabling students to explore the roots and values of their concentration, including its history, ethical foundation, standards, and limitations, points of agreement and disagreement, and how differences are resolved or accommodated.
The book also calls on campuses to introduce practical minors—courses that connect students to practical skills that can be used in the workforce—as well as internships and expanded career counseling beginning in the freshman year. Campuses also should compensate for glaring gaps in cultural and intercultural knowledge by revamping general education requirements to ensure that students take courses focused on communications skills, human heritage, the environment, values, and the individual roles students will play in life as friends, family members, workers, citizens, leaders and followers.
The book urges employers who hire the current generation of college students to provide everything from extended orientation to frequent evaluation, and to set explicit expectations, holding employees accountable for achieving them. The authors also suggest that employers sign up for a gym if they employ recent college graduates:
"The gym is a better stress reliever than alcohol, screaming, or kicking the dog," Levine says. "Recent college graduates respond even more poorly to yelling and sarcasm than the rest of us."
In addition to data from four decades of national surveys of students and campus officials, Levine and Dean also bring to bear the results of campus site visits at 31 institutions chosen to represent the diversity of American higher education in size, control, location, degree level, demographics, and religious orientation. Earlier iterations of many survey items appeared in two books, When Dreams and Heroes Died (1980) and When Hope and Fear Collide (1998).


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One of the books that saw me traverse from Left to Right was Myrna Blyth's Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness — and Liberalism — to the Women of America, which exposed the profound Leftist tilt of decidedly non-political magazines. Until reading that, I'd never thought about the politics being slipped in between doses of fashion, make-up, and dating advice. These magazines, probably more than any other type of publication in America, shape women's political and social attitudes. They're pro-unlimited abortion, pro-union, pro-Big Government, pro-promiscuity, sympathetic to illegal, rather than legal, aliens, and generally pro a whole bunch of other things that don't align well with conservative values, national security, American economic health, etc.
I've talked before at this blog about the way that conservatives cannot win the political debate until they first turn the culture around. Consistent with Andrew Breitbart's teachings, I've thought in terms of television, movie, and news shows. But Glenn Reynolds says that we ought to be looking at the even softer underbelly of women's magazines:
Mitt Romney and the GOP lost, but it wasn't for lack of money. They spent a lot; they just didn't get enough bang for the buck.
My suggestion: Buy some women's magazines. No, really. Or at least some women's Web sites.
One of the groups with whom Romney did worst was female "low-information voters." Those are women who don't really follow politics, and vote based on a vague sense of who's mean and who's nice, who's cool and who's uncool.
Since, by definition, they don't pay much attention to political news, they get this sense from what they do read. And for many, that's traditional women's magazines — Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, the Ladies Home Journal, etc. — and the newer women's sites like YourTango, The Frisky, Yahoo! Shine, and the like.
The thing is, those magazines and Web sites see themselves, pretty consciously, as a propaganda arm of the Democratic Party. So while nine out of 10 articles may be the usual stuff on sex, diet and shopping, the 10th will always be either soft p.r. for the Democrats or soft — or sometimes not-so-soft — hits on Republicans.
Please read the rest here. It's eye-opening. Then, write to any billionaires you know and tell them it's time to get into the fashion and publishing business.
In a sane world, the editor of Vogue Magazine, a publication ostensibly devoted to women's clothing, wouldn't be such a political figure that she is being bandied about as the probable U.S. Ambassador to England. Anna Wintour turned her magazine and her cachet into a Democrat get-out-the-vote machine. She probably deserves the reward Obama is sending her way, but that doesn't mean we have to sit back and accept the status quo.