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Recordings of Convocations
Convocation: Kevin Clements
Created 14 May 2010; Published 24 May 2010
Kevin Clements is the Foundation Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of the New Zealand Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago in New Zealand, and Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association. Prior to taking up these positions he was the Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland in Australia. He had previously served as Secretary General of International Alert, one of the world's largest NGO's working on conflict transformation in Africa, the Caucasus, Asia and Latin America. He has also been Professor of Conflict Resolution and Director of the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University in Virginia and head of the Peace Research Centre at the Australian National University. Clements' career has been a combination of academic analysis and practice in the areas of peace building and conflict transformation. He was formerly Director of the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva and a member of the New Zealand Delegation to the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. Clements has been an advisor on defense, security and conflict issues to a range of governmental and non-governmental organizations in Australasia, the United States and Europe. Over the past two decades, he has served as chairman, facilitator and keynote speaker at many international peace and conflict resolution conferences. The title of his presentation was "Enlarging Boundaries of Compassion: Opportunities and Challenges for Peace Research in the 21st Century."
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- Created 21 January 2011; Published 11 February 2011Convocation: Larry Buxbaum
Larry Buxbaum is the Executive Director of the Hennepin County Bar Association, the largest of Minnesota's twenty-one district bar associations, representing approximately one-half of all Minnesota attorneys. The mission of the HCBA is to advance professionalism, ethical conduct, diversity, competence, practice development, and collegiality in the legal profession. The association also strives to ensure the fairness and accessibility of the legal system by promoting public understanding and confidence in our system of justice and by working along with the courts to improve the administration of justice. Buxbaum has worked closely with the legislature to support the court's concerns, particularly focusing on the court budget crisis. Within the association he has introduced several new initiatives and leads the association's Law and Literature series, continuing legal education seminars focusing on issues of ethics and elimination of bias. Buxbaum is regarded as an authority in the use of literature as a tool to teach values and ethics to professionals in a variety of fields (legal, medical, engineering). The title of his presentation was "Literature and Professional Value Systems."
- Created 14 January 2011; Published 18 January 2011Convocation: Jesse Schell
Assistant professor in the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University, Jesse Schell teaches classes in game design and leads several projects, including the Game Innovation Database, a systematic study of the history of videogame innovations, and Hazmat: Hotzone, an anti-terror team training game for the nation's firefighters. Schell is also the CEO of Schell Games, an independent game studio in Pittsburgh, and the chairman emeritus of the International Game Developers Association. In 2004 he was named one of the world's Top 100 Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT's magazine of innovation. He is the author of the award winning book The Art of Game Design.
- Created 7 January 2011; Published 18 January 2011Convocation: Sister Helen Prejean
Author of Dead Man Walking, Roman Catholic nun Sister Helen Prejean offers a candid and intense meditation on the complex and troubling issue of capital punishment. Her book was made into an Academy award winning film starring Susan Sarandon. Prejean counsels death-row inmates and their families around the country, and has written her second book The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions. The title of her presentation was "Dead Man Walking – The Journey Continues."
Read a story about Sister Helen Prejean's visit in the Jan. 14, 2011 issue of The Carletonian.
- Created 5 November 2010; Published 8 November 2010Convocation: Michael Armacost '58
A veteran diplomat and a prominent figure in the national and international policy community, Michael Armacost is currently a fellow at Stanford University's Institute for International Studies. He had previously served as president of Washington D.C.'s Brookings Institution, the nation's oldest think tank and a leader in research on politics, government, international affairs, economics, and public policy. During a prior twenty-four year government career, Armacost served, among other positions, as undersecretary of state for political affairs and as ambassador to Japan and the Philippines. He is the author of three books. The most recent, Friends or Rivals?, draws on his tenure as ambassador to Japan and considers the future dealings of the United States with this extremely important trading partner and ally. He also co-authored The Future of America's Alliances in Northeast Asia, which examines the similarities and differences of America's alliances with Japan and South Korea. The title of his presentation was "How Should We Think About China: Threat? Partner? Competitor? Wake-Up Call?"
- Created 29 October 2010; Published 8 November 2010Convocation: Suzan Harjo
Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee, Suzan Harjo is a poet, writer, lecturer, curator and policy advocate, who has helped Native Peoples recover more than one million acres of land. As president of The Morning Star Institute, a national Indian rights organization founded in 1984, she has taken the lead in the Native American sports team mascots controversy. She was also a founding trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian. In addition to having worked as news director of the American Indian Press Association, she is a columnist for Indian Country Today, the leading Native American newspaper. Her commentary and poetry are widely published. The title of her presentation was "Treaties and Other Promises: Words Matter and Keeping One's Word Matters More."
- Created 22 October 2010; Published 1 November 2010Convocation: Robert Bullard
Father of the environmental justice movement and human rights activist, Robert Bullard leads the fight to protect disempowered communities. He is the author of a multitude of books that address issues of sustainable development, environmental racism, urban land use, industrial facility siting, community reinvestment, housing, transportation, climate justice, emergency response, smart growth, and regional equity. Many of his books have become standard texts in the environmental justice field.
Currently serving as the Ware Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, Bullard is also one of the planners of the First and Second National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, and has also served on the U.S. EPA National Environment Justice Advisory Council where he chaired the Health and Research Subcommittee. The title of his presentation was "Environmental Justice for All."
- Created 15 October 2010; Published 1 November 2010Convocation: R. Dale Guthrie
Professor emeritus at the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, R. Dale Guthrie is a renowned paleobiologist and artist. His many books and papers have covered a wide range of interests, including evolutionary dwarfing, social anatomy, causes of extinctions, climatic change and human evolution. In the past few decades his lifelong hunting experience and hobbies of painting and sculpting have dovetailed with his scientific interests, leading to his landmark study, The Natural History of Paleolithic Art.
Prior to Guthrie's book there was no widespread practice of using information and ideas from natural history and studies of human universals in approaching the thousands of art images made by members of Eurasian Ice Age bands. The cave paintings and other preserved remnants of Paleolithic peoples shed light on a world little known to us. With a natural historian's keen eye for observation, and as one who has spent a lifetime using bones and other excavated materials to piece together past human behavior and environments, Guthrie demonstrates that Paleolithic art is a mode of expression we can comprehend to a remarkable degree and that the perspective of natural history is integral to that comprehension. He employs a mix of ethology, evolutionary biology, and human universals, along with innovative forensic techniques, to access these distant cultures and their art and artifacts.
The title of Dr. Guthrie's presentation was "Evolution of Art, Morality, and Romantic Love in the Ice Age Human Band."
- Created 1 October 2010; Published 6 October 2010Convocation: Rudolph Byrd
The Goodrich C. White Professor of American Studies at Emory University, Rudolph Byrd began his academic career at Carleton College where he was a member of the Department of English and Chair of the Program of African and African American Studies. He joined the faculty of Emory University in 1991 and is the founding director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, established in 2007. Named for James Weldon Johnson, author, composer, educator, lawyer, diplomat, and pioneering leader in the modern civil rights movement, the Johnson Institute is the first institute at Emory University established to honor the achievements of an American of African descent. One of the premiere sites in the nation for the study of the modern civil rights movement, the work of the Johnson Institute is to offer a framework for understanding the history and legacy of civil rights, and to provide a context to explain the ways in which the civil rights movement continues to have relevance. The Johnson Institute is the home of the Alice Walker Literary Society, of which Byrd is the founding co-chair. An engaged scholar committed to service and scholarship at the local and national levels, Byrd is also a consultant to the United Negro College Fund/Andrew W. Mellon Programs. The title of his presentation was "Regarding James Weldon Johnson."
- Created 24 September 2010; Published 25 September 2010Convocation: Steve Poskanzer
The eleventh president of Carleton College, Steven G. Poskanzer assumed his new role on August 2. Originally from Central New York, Poskanzer attended Princeton University as an undergraduate, where he studied International Relations with a concentration in African Studies. He subsequently received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, after which he launched his career into higher education. Formerly chief of staff to the president at the University of Chicago for four years, Poskanzer served for the past 12 years in the SUNY system, the New York state system of higher education that encompasses 64 campuses. He held associate and senior associate provost positions in the main SUNY office, the final two years as head of the office of academic affairs. He became vice provost for academic affairs in 2000 before moving to the SUNY–New Paltz campus in October 2001 as that institution's president, serving first on an interim basis until being named permanently to the position in 2003. Having served leadership roles at both public and private institutions of higher education gives Poskanzer a unique perspective as the new president of Carleton College. The title of his convocation address was "Setting Prairie Fires."
- Created 13 September 2010; Published 23 September 2010Opening Convocation: Jimmy Kolker '70
Carleton's opening convocation is an annual all-college assembly celebrating the beginning of the academic year and recognizing academic achievement. This year's address will be given by Jimmy Kolker (Carleton Class of 1970), Chief of the HIV/AIDS Section at UNICEF's New York headquarters. In this position, Kolker provides leadership and coordination of UNICEF's work on HIV and AIDS at the global level. Prior to joining UNICEF, Kolker served as Deputy Global AIDS Coordinator in the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, which leads implementation of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. He served in numerous political reporting and management assignments during his 30-year diplomatic career with the U.S. Department of State, including positions as U.S. Ambassador to Uganda and Burkina Faso, as Deputy Chief of Mission in Denmark and Botswana, and additional posts in Britain, Sweden, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. In his address, Kolker reflected on his experience of living an international life, and about the liberal arts as preparation for a career that doesn't yet exist (since there were no AIDS experts when Kolker graduated from Carleton 40 years ago). The title of his address was "Why Carleton Is a Good Place to Start Your International Career."
- Created 28 May 2010; Published 1 June 2010Honors Convocation: Robert A. Oden, Jr.
The Honors Convocation is held each year on the last Friday of spring term to recognize faculty and students for their accomplishments and their service to the community. This year's address, titled "Listening to Ancient Voices," was delivered by Robert A. Oden, Jr., President and Professor of Religion.
- Created 14 May 2010; Published 24 May 2010Convocation: Kevin Clements
Kevin Clements is the Foundation Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of the New Zealand Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago in New Zealand, and Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association. Prior to taking up these positions he was the Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland in Australia. He had previously served as Secretary General of International Alert, one of the world's largest NGO's working on conflict transformation in Africa, the Caucasus, Asia and Latin America. He has also been Professor of Conflict Resolution and Director of the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University in Virginia and head of the Peace Research Centre at the Australian National University. Clements' career has been a combination of academic analysis and practice in the areas of peace building and conflict transformation. He was formerly Director of the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva and a member of the New Zealand Delegation to the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. Clements has been an advisor on defense, security and conflict issues to a range of governmental and non-governmental organizations in Australasia, the United States and Europe. Over the past two decades, he has served as chairman, facilitator and keynote speaker at many international peace and conflict resolution conferences. The title of his presentation was "Enlarging Boundaries of Compassion: Opportunities and Challenges for Peace Research in the 21st Century."
- Created 7 May 2010; Published 24 May 2010Convocation: Oliver Wang
Oliver Wang writes on pop music, culture, and politics for a variety of publications and outlets including: NPR, Vibe, Wax Poetics, LA Times,Oakland Tribune, Village Voice, SF Bay Guardian, URB, LA Weekly, Scratch, SJ Metro and Minneapolis City Pages, amongst others. He also maintains a separate site, Chasing Chan, for his writing on Asian American cinema. In 2003, he edited and co-authored the book, Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide. Wang has a PhD in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley. His dissertation, a social history of the Filipino American mobile DJ community in the Bay Area, has since been turned into a community research project called "Legions of Boom" and currently being adapted into a manuscript to be published by Duke University Press. As Assistant Professor of Sociology at CSU-Long Beach, Wang teaches courses in popular culture, social issues and race/class/gender. The title of his presentation was "Something Borrowed, Something New: Asian American Popular Culture."
- Created 30 April 2010; Published 24 May 2010Convocation: Richard Moss '77
Richard Moss (Carleton Class of 1977) works at the intersection of climate science and policy as Senior Scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute at the University of Maryland. He directed the U.S. government's climate research program from 2000-2006 (spanning the Clinton and Bush administrations) and led preparation of a number of reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1993-1998. He also led climate change programs at the World Wildlife Fund and the United Nations Foundation. Moss remains active in the IPCC and attended the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in 2007, when IPCC shared the award with Al Gore. He is also active in the climate research committees of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. An English literature major at Carleton, Moss received his Ph.D. in public policy from Princeton before delving into climate change research. Moss' experiences demonstrate the value of a liberal arts education and Carleton's distribution requirements! The title of his presentation was "What Do We Need to Know to Act on Climate Change?"
- Created 23 April 2010; Published 27 April 2010Convocation: Cheryl Klein '00
Cheryl Klein (Carleton Class of 2000) is the senior editor at Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic, where she has worked since her graduation from Carleton. She has edited an extensive list of picture books and novels for young readers, including Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork, winner of the Schneider Family Book Award for Teens; A Curse Dark as Gold by Elizabeth C. Bunce, winner of the ALA's William Morris Award for a Young Adult Debut Novel; Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit by Nahoko Uehashi, translated by Cathy Hirano, winner of the Mildred Batchelder Award for Translation; and My Senator and Me: A Dog's Eye View of Washington, D.C. by Senator Ted Kennedy, illustrated by David Small. She also served as the continuity editor for the last three books of the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling. Assuming the role of the series' chief "Potterologist," as Time magazine dubbed her, Klein was responsible for ensuring that the elaborate world J.K. Rowling had created—with a complex cast of characters, a thorough set of magical rules, and a language of its own—was as consistent as possible. A former Carletonian copy editor, Klein is in her dream job, working with a diverse and talented group of authors and illustrators on an equally diverse array of projects. The title of her presentation was "The Wand Chooses the Wizard: On Carleton, Children's Books, and Creating Yourself."
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History of Virginia
The first people to live in Virginia were Indians. Thousands of years ago, Alaska and Asia were joined by dry land. This dry land is called a land bridge. The Indians walked over this land bridge from Asia into Alaska. As years passed, the Indians moved further south. After many years, different groups of Indians lived in all parts of North and South America. The first Europeans to come to Virginia met Indians. These Indians had already lived in Virginia for thousands of years.
What Indian Groups Lived in Virginia? All Indian groups that lived in Virginia were part of the Eastern Woodland Indians. Three different groups of Indians lived in Virginia. These groups spoke different languages. They also lived in different ways. These groups are named after the language they spoke. The language groups were the Siouan, the Iroquoian, and the Algonquian. The Siouan language group settled primary in the Piedmont region of Virginia. The Iroquoian language groups lived in the southeastern and southwestern parts of Virginia--in the Allegheny (Appalachian) Plateau Region and in the Tidewater Region. The largest group of Iroquoian Indians was the Cherokees.
The Algonquian Indians were the largest group that lived in Virginia. The Algonquians lived mostly along the Tidewater and Eastern Shore of Virginia. More than thirty different tribes of Algonquians lived in Virginia when the English settlers arrived. Some of these tribes were the Powhatan, the Chesapeake, the Accomac, and the Pamunkey.
The first Indians that the English met in Virginia were Algonquians. These Indians had a chief named Powhatan. He was an important ruler. Powhatan was the ruler of many groups of Algonquian Indians (known as the Powhatan Confederacy) who lived along Virginia's coastline.
The Indian Way of Life. Virginia was a land with many forests and rivers. The Indians used what they found in nature for shelter and food. The Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy lived either in longhouses or in wigwams. A longhouse was a long, low building made of young trees and covered with grass, bark, or animal skins. A wigwam was a smaller house built of the same materials
A longhouse is a long, low building made with a frame of bent young trees, and covered with grass, treebark, or animal skins. Many families lived in one longhouse.
Indian Food The land and waters of early Virginia filled many of the basic needs of daily life. The local trees provided nuts and juicy berries. Squirrels, rabbits, wild turkeys, and deer inhabited the forests. The cold, salty waters of the Chesapeake Bay were full of oysters, crabs, and other edible seafood.
The Indians were skillful in obtaining the food available to them. They took careful aim with bows and arrows to hunt the turkeys, deer, and other animals in the forest. Sturdy sticks and vines were used to make traps for raccoons and opossums. Bones were sharpened into fishing hooks and spear tips. Nets were woven from grasses and weeds.
The Indians not only were successful hunters but they were also farmers. The Indians grew such things as pumpkins, beans, squash, and maize (the Indian word for corn). Corn was the most important plant for these early Virginians. They ate corn at almost every meal. Sometimes they mixed it with beans to make succotash. Sometimes they boiled it. Sometimes they mixed it with meat to make stew. The most common way they used corn was to make bread. To make bread, Indian women pounded the corn between two rocks to break the kernels into small bits. This was cornmeal. The cornmeal was then mixed with water and cooked.

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COLUMBUS – The Georgia Southwestern softball team knew what was at stake when it traveled to Columbus State on Thursday evening. Win both games or the season was most likely over.
The Lady Hurricanes played like an inspired team in the opener and a Robyn Butler two-run home run in the seventh inning gave GSW a 2-1 lead, but CSU scored two in the bottom the inning to steal a 3-2 decision.
In the nightcap, a deflated GSW squad fell behind 7-0, but would not quit, scoring five runs over the final two innings and bringing the tying run the plate in the seventh inning, before losing 7-5.
Southwestern ends the spring with a 22-28 record and a 6-14 mark in Peach Belt Conference action. A 22-win season is GSW's best since 2006, when the program was a member of the NAIA. The six wins in conference are also the most by the program in its NCAA era.
With the sweep of GSW, Columbus State maintains its hold on second place in the PBC while improving to 36-10 on the year and 12-4 in conference play. Columbus State is 12-2 against the Lady Hurricanes since 2007.
In the opener on Thursday, GSW starter Jessica Martin and CSU's Kristi Bullard were deadlocked in a pitcher's duel the entire contest as they both kept the opposition scoreless until the bottom of the fifth inning when Casey Googe gave CSU the lead with a solo home run.
Martin worked around a fielding error and a walk to limit the damage in the fifth inning.
After Gabby Buck's leadoff single in the first inning for GSW, Bullard retired 19 consecutive batters until Nichole Griffin poked a one-out single to center in the seventh, setting the stage for Butler's heroics. The home run was Butler's team-best fifth of the season and gave GSW a 2-1 advantage.
Back-to-back one-out singles for CSU in the bottom of the seventh inning, a hit batter and a fielding error allowed the Cougars to tie the game at 2-2. Keeley Kennedy proceeded to deliver the game-winning hit.
Martin (6-8) suffered the hard-luck loss allowing three runs - two earned - over 6 1/3 innings. She allowed five hits and two walks while striking out four. Buck, Griffin and Butler had the only three hits for the Lady Hurricanes.
Bullard improved to 13-5 on the season as she tossed all seven innings allowing two runs on three hits while striking out two. Five different Lady Cougars picked up a hit.
In Game 2, Columbus State jumped out to a 7-0 lead through five innings of play. The Lady Cougars scored a run in the first, another in the third, two in the fourth and three in the fifth.
GSW would finally get to CSU starter Kelsey Gilliam in the sixth as the Lady 'Canes plated two runs in the frame on an RBI single from Heather Hodge and a sacrifice fly by Hayley Knight to narrow the deficit to 7-2.
Southwestern added three more runs in the top of the seventh as Mason Moreland and Butler hit RBI singles and Griffin scored on a fielder's choice. But, with two outs and a runner on first, the Lady Hurricanes' season ended on a ground out to third.
Christie Shankle took the loss in the circle for GSW, falling to 5-11 on the season. Shankle pitched 3 2/3 innings, allowed four runs on five hits, walked three and struck out two. Casey Burns tossed 1 1/3 innings of relief and Tiffany Milstid worked a scoreless sixth.
Gilliam notched the win for CSU, improving to 10-4 on the season. She worked six innings, allowing seven hits, and two earned runs while also fanning five. Isasi worked one inning in relief.
Griffin led all hitters with three hits in the nightcap. She finished the game 3-for-4 with a run scored. Butler and Lyndi Duff added two hits apiece.
Kara Gordon led CSU with her 2-for-3 performance at the plate. Gordon drove in two runs and also scored a run. Kori Waugh and Rocky Hemmer each hit a home run.


text: Share: Comments Print March 5, 2013 at 10:16 AM Startups find talent pool not dry yet Posted by Brier Dudley Yes, America needs more computer programmers. Schools must do a better job introducing kids to computer science. But after talking to a few smaller companies here in software city last week, I'm not quite as worried about the purported tech-talent crisis. It doesn't look like the talent pool is drying up just yet. Several startup founders told me it's not easy to find top talent and that recruiting can take some creativity. But they are finding enough skilled workers to keep growing in the shadow of Microsoft, which has said it needs more visas because it's struggling to fill thousands of jobs. Local startups are also competing with a stream of California companies setting up branches in Seattle to scoop up local talent. "It's becoming easier and easier as we grow," Marcelo Calbucci, co-founder and chief technology officer at Seattle's EveryMove, told me last week. "I think it's both as we grow and get more visibility in the community." EveryMove now has 12 people building a wellness-software platform that employers, insurance companies and others can use to reward people for activities that improve their health. Calbucci said the flow of candidates has improved lately, perhaps because people make resolutions at the beginning of the year to pursue a better job. About 25 percent of the company's hires are from big companies such as Microsoft and Amazon.com and the rest are from small to midsize companies. Overall software employment has rebounded since the recession in King County, home to most of the state's tech companies. About 2,700 computer-related jobs were added in 2010 and 2011, more than replacing the 2,200 jobs lost from 2008 to 2009. About 90,000 people work in software and computer-related jobs. Whether the area is suffering from a shortage of talent is unclear in the numbers. "It sort of feels like it is true; there are definitely some talent gaps," said Desiree Phair, the state's regional labor economist, who works with startups in her spare time. "It is also true that sometimes people don't efficiently use the talent we have." Filling engineering jobs is a perennial problem for small and large tech companies here because they set their sights so high, said Greg Gottesman, managing director of Madrona Venture Group and founder of Seattle pet boarding startup Rover.com. "We're not just trying to build companies that are the best in Seattle. Amazon's not just trying to be the best e-commerce company in the U.S.," he said. "We're trying to be the best in the world. You're competing not just in the local area, but internationally." Still, the challenge of finding top engineers hasn't been enough to throttle startups that Madrona backs and the situation hasn't significantly driven up salaries, Gottesman said. "I don't think it's a new challenge," he said. "It's something that all great startups and most companies have been grappling with." At Kirkland's BitTitan, founder Geeman Yip (pictured above, with daughter Sofia) said the competition for talent does make it harder to find software developers. Yet choosing people seems to be as much of a challenge as finding them. Yip puts a lot of effort into building the right culture, with the right mix of people. He tries to balance the startup mentality of some with the more tempered, enterprise-software background of others. "It's definitely very difficult," he said. "At the end of the day we're just so small, so we have to be really selective." To handle the large number of applicants, BitTitan uses an online test to screen candidates. The company also cultivates talent by working with the French alma mater of its chief technology officer, Dominic Pouzin, to hire interns. Yip and Pouzin became friends when they worked together on Microsoft's Exchange server and played countless games of foosball. Yip started BitTitan, then talked Pouzin into helping him build online tools that help companies migrate their email and messaging systems. Their first employee, hired in 2011, was a French computer-science student who joined as an intern. Later the company obtained an H1-B visa allowing him to become a full-time employee. Still, finding employees hasn't been as much of a challenge for BitTitan as accommodating a team that's grown to 13 locally, plus employees working in Toronto and Spain. Last year, BitTitan outgrew its leased space in downtown Redmond, alongside offices of AT&T and Microsoft. Space became so tight that BitTitan turned down several big contracts because it didn't have enough room for people needed to support the work. Instead of leasing a bigger space, BitTitan used some of the cash it generates to buy a small office building in Kirkland, near the Burgermaster drive-in that sustained Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Microsoft's early days. Owning the building may also help BitTitan with recruiting, because it shows candidates that the company is profitable and established. Shares of the company given to employees also give them a stake in the real estate, which cost less than half of what it would have cost to extend its lease in Redmond, Yip said. When I dropped in last week, windows were masked for painting and tools were spread around the floor. Yip was on the phone with customers at a makeshift desk while his family finished up the painting. Yip had a tight deadline to finish the remodeling and move employees in last Friday. "We've got another person starting Monday, we've got another person traveling in from Texas and another person traveling in from France," Yip said. "We expect to be 20 by the end of the summer." Yip expects BitTitan to outgrow its new space by the end of the year — presenting yet another crisis, but one that can be overcome. Comments | Topics: Enterprise, Entrepreneurs, H1-B visas


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AAA is an active member of the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA). The following was received by WCAA's chair, Professor Thomas Reuter. Read this open letter addressed to the European Commissioner for Research and Innovation and consider signing it in support of our European colleagues.
An Open Letter to the European Commissioner for Research and Innovation,
Máire Geoghegan-Quinn
"Horizon 2020: Social Sciences and Humanities research provides vital insights for the future of Europe"
A policy-oriented European research programme such as Horizon 2020 must have at its heart the needs of Europe's diverse and complex societies. It must enable European societies to understand and to adapt to current and future transitions – in culture, in demography, in the economy, in the environment, technology etc. – and to develop creative responses. It must generate new knowledge and enrich democratic debates about societal choices.
While for many questions, natural, human and social sciences need to join forces, there are also important societal and economic transformations, which can be described as Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH)-centered challenges: they regard areas as diverse as education, gender, identity, intercultural dialogue, media, security, social innovation, to name but a few.
Similarly, only SSH research can address many of the key behavioural changes and cultural developments which provide the backdrop to the EU's current approach to "Tackling Grand Societal Challenges", such as for example changing mindsets and lifestyles, models for resilient and adaptive institutions, or the evolving position of Europe in a global context.
A diverse and European-minded SSH research environment can offer those analyses, insights and tools that are necessary to critically explore opportunities for and assess threats to sustainable societies.
The undersigned therefore request the inclusion of:
- a substantial and independent SSH-centered research programme (Challenge "Understanding Europe…") into the new Framework Programme Horizon 2020;
- SSH- research into the programme development and implementation of all other Grand Societal Challenges, such as climate change, energy, food, health, security, or transport;
Daring to shape the Europe of the future does indeed require some bold decision. In the immediate context of the new Framework Programme Horizon 2020 the requirements are
- for the Challenge "Understanding Europe…": a dedicated budget of 5 Bio. Euro;
- for the diversity of approaches: a deliberate effort to involve in policy-relevant programmes leading SSH research from across the whole of Europe and beyond;
- for the sustainability of the research thus supported: involve diverse and forward-looking perspectives from different cultures, backgrounds and schools of thought to stimulate critical reflections and to better anticipate future societal challenges.
We are convinced that the European Commission and the European Parliament as well as national governments and parliaments will agree that a climate of sustainable and inclusive innovation in Europe can only be established, if European societies are conscious of their opportunities and constraints – this knowledge is generated by Social Sciences and Humanities research.
We are looking forward to building a European Research and Innovation Area where constructive exchanges mutually enrich society, policy and scientific research.
Join the already more than 22,000 signatories in support of this letter by clicking here.


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Pop brat Justin Bieber has been charged with assaulting a limo driver.
The 19-year-old singer was mobbed by screaming fans and journalists as he arrived at a police station in Toronto, Canada to answer the charge.
He is due to appear in court on March 10.
Bieber arrived in a black SUV and was escorted into the police station by bodyguards and police officers as both photographers and fans tried to push their way in for a closer look.
Police were originally called to the incident on December 29 after Bieber had been to a Toronto Maple Leafs ice hockey game.
A statement from Toronto police said Bieber allegedly struck the limousine driver on the back of the head several times during an altercation.
At the time police said they were investigating an assault allegation, but it was unclear whether the allegation was against Bieber himself or a member of his entourage.
The latest setback for the Boyfriend singer comes after he was arrested in Miami last week and charged with driving under the influence and resisting arrest.
The star was accused of drag racing his yellow Lamborghini alongside a red Ferrari belonging to his friend Khalil.
Bieber will be formally charged for the Miami incident on Valentine's Day after he was released on $2,500 (£1,510) bail.
A spokesman for Bieber said: "The Toronto Police Service requested that Justin Bieber appear in Toronto to face an allegation of assault relating to an incident on December 29, 2013.
"We anticipate that this matter will be treated as a summary offense, the equivalent of a misdemeanor in the United States.
"Our position is the Mr. Bieber is innocent.
"As the matter is now before the court, it would be inappropriate to address the specifics of either the allegation or of our defense at this time."


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Teri James is a deceiver. She pretended to be a faithful Christian when she applied for a job with San Diego Christian College, but proved to be an interloper.
The 29-year-old knowingly and willingly signed the school's "community covenant." In so doing, she foreswore "abusive anger, malice, jealousy, lust, sexually immoral behavior including premarital sex, adultery, pornography and homosexuality, evil desires and prejudice based on race, sex or socioeconomic status."
Last October, James was summoned to her supervisor's office. She acknowledged that she had broken the covenant by engaging in promiscuous sex – with a co-worker, no less – which resulted in her pregnancy outside of holy matrimony. The Christian institution let her go.
Now James is suing on grounds of supposed wrongful termination.
And she has retained the legal services of the notorious Gloria Allred, who last year represented Sandra Fluke in her defamation claim against Rush Limbaugh (which went nowhere) and Jenna Talackova, a transgender, who challenged her disqualification from the Miss Universe Canada Pageant (the spineless Canucks caved).
James says, sure, she signed San Diego Christian College's covenant. But she had no idea the school would actually hold her to her promise to refrain from "sexually immoral behavior." And who knew she would get pregnant two weeks after signing the covenant?
"I needed a job in this economy," said James, pleading her case on NBC's "Today" show. "I never thought that anything would happen."
Besides, says Allred, the covenant James signed "does not say that you will be fired if you do not comply." Her client should not have been expected to behave like a true Christ follower just because she happened to work for a Christian institution.
James thinks she is striking some sort of blow for women's rights. Like Susan B. Anthony, who fought for women's right to vote. Or Norma McCorvey, aka "Jane Roe," who fought for women's right to abortion on demand.
"I want to pave the way," said James, self-importantly. To "say, Christian organizations, you can't necessarily fall back on this. You can't hurt people like this. If you say you stand for love and mercy and grace – stand for those who are weak."
What James is saying is that Christian organizations should not be able require their employees to adhere to a Godly code of conduct, even if hirees agree to do so as a condition of their employment.
She also suggests that employers that hold their workers accountable when they break clearly established rules – like those set forth in the community covenant she voluntarily signed with San Diego Christian College – wrongfully "hurt people."
"I was unmarried, pregnant and they took away my livelihood," she protested.
But it's James' fault that she lost her job with the Christian school. Indeed, before she chose to lay with her co-worker, to whom she was not married, she knew there very well would be consequences if she was found out, as she was when the tell-tale signs of her pregnancy appeared.
Yes, she lost her livelihood while unmarried and pregnant. But she shouldn't expect her former employer to pay for the choice she made that led to her situation. Her financial (and non-financial) support should come from the man she laid with, the father of her child.
As to love and mercy and grace, particularly "for those who are weak," it is indeed expected of Christian institutions, like James' former employer.
But God loves us. His mercies are new every morning. He sheds His grace upon us, everyone. Yet, He's been known to punish those who defy Him, who abide unrepentantly in their sins. And He's even known to correct those whom He loves.
Perhaps if James acknowledged her wrongdoing, if she vowed to go and sin no more, she would be enjoying by now the fruit of God's forgiveness, if not San Diego Christian College.
Instead, she and her lawyer Gloria Allred are trying to shake down the religious institution for a payoff James does not deserve.


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Tarts fly and flop as MKR attempts crowd-pleasing dinners
No more instant/pop-up/stuff-up restaurants. This time it's simply about creating good food.
We have seen the contestants endure three gruelling rounds of cooking. Three teams have been banished from the kitchen, never to compete on the MKR set again. A battle of a different kind is about to begin. No more instant/pop-up/stuff-up restaurants. This time it's about creating genuine, crowd-pleasing cuisine.
Whereas some contestants don't know the difference between coq au vin and a cockatoo, they are about to be judged by people who "know" food.
The remaining teams are reunited to enter a new phase of the competition. Things look set to get snug in the next challenge as they cook in miniature kitchens in the heart of inner-city Sydney. There is so much to get excited about: immunity, sudden death and yelling matches galore. The battle of the personalities continues.
Justice Crew have a bigger task at hand tonight. The "ohhs" have to go on for much longer because there are so many people to introduce now that all the teams are combined in one episode.
The best night of our lives is over and it's time to enter MKR HQ. The "Real" Desperate Housewives, Angela and Melina, think they are heading into a photo shoot and are "so excited" as they strut across the polished floorboards.
Werewolf Man has put his hair in a ponytail because he thinks more battles are won with up-do's. He will later put his hair down to divert attention from his flopped dish.
The judges arrive at HQ. Manu announces that the three winning teams from the instant restaurant round will be rewarded. Before Manu even lets on what the reward is, Samuel is celebrating like he has won the lottery. Did Ali say yes to going on a date with him? Unlikely.
Back to the reward. The winning teams don't need to cook in this round. The Bondi Personal Trainers can go and work on their abs and the four Tasmanians can discuss their family tree. The others have to cater for an annual block party in King's Cross.
The teams have to prepare meals for 50 people using the kitchens in "the block". The kitchens are matchbox-size and prove to be a real squeeze for the egos that need to fit into them. A block party sounds like a hell of a lot more fun than the instant restaurant dinner parties, but then we remember that Mr P (for "personality") Evans is hosting, so it's likely to be as awkward as ever.
Five teams will be responsible for main and four for dessert. Little Miss Cupcake and her domestic goddess counterpart are the "dessert queens", so they head straight to the dessert throne.
Ashlee and Sophia reckon that when it comes to sweets, they "take it and smash it". Apparently that is a good thing. They are on a mission to destroy some tarts tonight.
Kieran wants to do entree because he realises that means he won't have to cook at all. Little Miss Nasty-assia isn't fussed, just as long as she gets to boss Werewolf Man around the kitchen, and the "Real" Desperate Housewives only care that the camera captures their best angle, no matter what they cook.
Never has Coles seen such an excited bunch of shoppers. It's looking more like the Amazing Race as the teams dart around the isles with baskets and trolleys in tow. Kieran and Nasty-assia hop towards the meat section and select kangaroo to remind us they are nerdy "alternative" types.
Meanwhile, "silence of the lambs" has turned into "quarrel of the lambs". Childhood sweethearts, Craig and Kerrie, won't back down on cooking lamb, and Angela and Melina are not having a baaaaa-r of it. After a meaty exchange, the housewives settle for scotch fillet instead. They worked out they can still look pretty cooking cow meat.
The teams on main-meal duty head straight to "the block" in Kings Cross and find that the teeny-tiny kitchens will provide the perfect excuse for serving up unpalatable meals.
On the Manu, oops, menu tonight we have:
Kerrie and Craig's lamb on quinoa fattoush with flatbread.
Craig tries to explain what fattoush is and Kerrie tells him to stop speaking because he is puffing. All the tomato chopping has left him exhausted. He attempts to catch his breath and recommence the explanation. Now that he can breathe again, Kerrie orders him to "mix while talking" and the poor guy can't get a word out. We still don't know what fattoush is, and Kerrie continues to take the "sweet" out of childhood sweethearts.
Then there is Angela and Melina's baharat beef with sweet potato mash and mint yoghurt sauce. They are still bitter about not being able to cook lamb and will remind us of this for the remainder of the episode.
The cameraman gets frustrated that he can't actually fit into the tiny kitchens, so he decides to play a prank on Craig and Kerrie. He unscrews the lid of the peppercorns, causing them to spill into the pot they are sauteing onions in. The onion now looks like it is sitting in passionfruit pulp. Kerrie is convinced that the "Real" Desperate Housewives have sabotaged their Middle Eastern operation.
All the apartments are fitted out with electric stoves, and it's clear that no one has ever cooked on one before. It's an opportunity for the whingers to whinge and blame their culinary disasters on an appliance.
Kieran and Nasty-assia are cooking kangaroo with beetroot relish and borderlaise sauce. We rely on Manu to translate for us, but at this point we suspect it is like dijonaise, only it borders more on being sauce – hence its confused name.
All Werewolf Man has done so far is open a jar, and he "isn't moving fast enough", according to Little Miss Nasty-assia. He speeds up in an attempt to please her highness and slops the roo steak on the ground. Kangaroo is his signature dish – when he manages to keep it off the floor – "going faster" just doesn't work for him.
Manu still thinks that Aussie's ride kangaroos instead of buses out in the country, so can't really understand why it would be on the menu. He is offended that Kieran is ruining the borderlaise sauce, but we know as long as there is sauce, he should be able to get over it.
Smiley Sam and Cousin Chris are making fresh pasta with chorizo and pesto.
Sam's smile alone has the ability to cook meals. The boys have a cruisy time in the kitchen and kick back listening to Pavarotti while his smirk does all the work. Pete doesn't believe in Sam's ability to smile-charm raw ingredients into ready-to-eat meals. How wrong he is to doubt!
Lovers Josh and Andi heard that seafood is an aphrodisiac so are cooking salmon with asparagus and salsa verde. Terms of endearment such as "Bub", "Babe" and "Puppy" fly around the room. Andi has forgotten the macadamias and has burnt them and Josh has forgotten her name – hence the overuse of cutesy names. The lovers' tiff is short-lived and the couple bond over the massacred macadamia crumbs.
Everyone continues to blame the electric stoves for their inability to cook meat properly.
As Little Miss Nasty-assia attempts to reduce the beetroot, all she can think about is how to eliminate Kieran. The motivational speaker in her reappears and the barking begins again. "Kieran, I just need you to cook some kangaroo". Werewolf Man is sad that he has to cook. That isn't what he had in mind when he signed up for the show. He thought MKR was the newer version of Mortal Kombat and stood for "Mortal Kombat Reinvented".
Enter dessert-makers-turned-decorators to the warehouse. Jake looks ready to do a ballet routine to coax creative vibes out of the other competitors, but Little Miss Cupcake has other ideas. Ashlee can't believe that someone who wears fuchsia and red could possibly have any idea about decorating, but little does she know that Jenna's outfit is inspired by a red velvet cupcake and makes perfect sense.
Back in the kitchen, the "Real" Desperate Housewives have a Wicked Witch of the West-style meltdown. The beef is boiling and they blame the stove. However, we know that they accidentally threw the meat into the cauldron they were using to cast a "fattoush fail" spell over Kerrie and Craig for stealing the lamb. Melina thinks it's all a "disaster", but Scary Voiceover has got better ideas. He thinks it is "Melina-mania", and we just think he is lame.
Back to decorating the warehouse, and Little Miss Cupcake is in her element. She wants the place to look pretty, so it's suddenly transformed with giant coloured bows and striped pastel table runners.
But it isn't as perfect as the cakes in the high-class patisserie (that we didn't already know she worked at), so it's time to start it all over again. Everyone looks set to murder her before they all suffer a slow and painful death-by-cupcake.
While the guests are calmly taking their seats, chaos is brewing in the kitchen. Tension is running high as Angela tries to get her hands on Melina's mash. Kerrie is yelling at Craig about getting his fat tush out of her way. Everyone is yelling, but after 90 minutes of madness, the meals are fit for a … warehouse.
Coming up: is the Dessert Queen about to lose her crown?
Jake and Elle are making crusted pear with berry compote. Jake reckons it'll be just like a Golden Gaytime and has never been so excited. He wants to explain exactly what that is, but is cut off by Elle talking about the importance of the perfect poach.
Dan enlightens us with what he "really thinks" again and dreams of the butcher miles away in Hervey Bay. Steph reminds him they don't need meat to make pavlova with lemon curd and raspberry jelly, but that just gives him an idea – dessert sausages! He is out of his comfort zone with a meatless dish, so passes his pants to his wife so she can take charge.
BFFs Ashlee and Sophie are making CBTs (or for the non-acronym speakers amongst us: chocolate berry tartlets). They think they know a tart when they see one.
The domestic goddesses are going all-out with croquembouche. They aren't playing it safe because Little Miss Cupcake (as she might have mentioned before) works in a high-class patisserie. Ashlee thinks it is croquem-bulls--t to make a dessert that can't be turned into an acronym. OMG (oh my gosh)! AYSOS (are you stupid or something)!!? AYS (are you serious)?! LOL (laugh out loud)! BBB (babes, babes, babes)!
Time is almost up and Elle says the pears can't be overcooked or undercooked. Basically she just wants them cooked. The tarts are behind schedule and so are the tartlets. Sophia hopes all the other teams are CRBT (crying really big tears). Jenna and Joanna look ready to desert their dessert and Dan is feeling naked without his pants.
Tarts are flying everywhere. The pavlovas are meringue-like. Jake is excited about the Gaytimes appearing on the tray and Jenna wants to "smash something". She knows that Little Miss Cupcake takes the cake when it comes to an easy target.
Manu and Pete do the warehouse countdown. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6 ... Jake needs more zest and Elle is wrecking the Gaytime. Elle thinks Jake is "a pain in the arse" and their pears look like chicken schnitzel topped with cream and berries. Manu can't work out if he is actually eating chicken or pear – but at the end of the day, who cares when the real problem is the lack of sauce.
Flavour is lacking in the croquembouche and the judges have no love for the passionfruit filling. Pete can't recall ever having had a passionfruit-filled choux before – because he thinks no one could ever fill his choux(s?).
The awkward dinner party conversation continues and Pete is in his element because he gets to pick the worst dish. Manu will decide based on which dish had the least sauce.
The music intensifies and words like "elimination", "sudden", and "death" are being thrown around the room.
The work of Sam's smile is done – Pete thinks the pasta was perfect.
The lamb didn't have the dance of spices that Pete expects at a party in his mouth. The black sheep Housewives think "right baaaaaaa-ck at you kids" when Manu admits he "got taken to Istanbul" and "had a (belly) dance party in his tummy".
Pete thinks he had a Gaytime during dessert and Jake takes the credit. The tarts were lacking personality and tasted like cardboard. Manu was so distracted by the pavlova "playing ping pong" in his mouth that he didn't realise none of the desserts had sauce.
The "Real" Desperate Housewives win the people's choice and take the opportunity to practise for when they win Miss Victorian Housewife 2014. They fan their faces as they squeal. Who needs world peace when there is MKR?!


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In Theaters October 5, 2012
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Starring: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Rade Serbedzija, and Luke Grimes
Written By: Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen
Directed By: Olivier Megaton
Produced By: Luc Besson
MPAA Rating: [ PG-13 ]
Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
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You may not think so, but tandoori chicken is an easy and fast meal to prepare. Just marinate the meat overnight or at least for 4 hours and place in the oven. You can also use chicken breast but I think the leg pieces are more tender, moist and flavorful. Your choice of course.
Yields: 4 servings2 Tbs ginger garlic paste
6 tablespoons full fat Greek yogurt
2 Tbs apple cider vinegar
1 tsp pappaya seeds, ground
3 tsp garam masala spice mix
2 Tbs oil
2 tsp grey salt
4 whole chicken thighs
1 Tbs lemon juice
1 tsp black peppercorns, freshly ground
2 tsp cayenne pepper, (or paprika for a milder taste)
2 Tbs unslated butter, melted
1 red onion, cut into wedges
1 lemon
1 bunch fresh cilantro sprigs
Clean and skin the chicken of all fat. Make 3-4 deep diagonal incisions into the flesh of each piece using a sharp boning knife. Season with salt, pepper, lemon juice and paprika.
Pour off the excess whey of the yogurt using a cheese cloth for about 15 minutes. Add all ingredients of the marinade (ginger garlic paste, vinegar, papaya seeds, garam masala spice mix and oil) and mix together with the yogurt. Spread all the mixture over the chicken. Make sure all the marinade penetrates and coats the chicken. Don't forget to rub the marinade into the slits. Rub evenly. Plastic wrap the chicken and refrigerate overnight.
The next day, preheat the oven to 400°F.
Remove the chicken 15 minutes before cooking to get it back to room temperature.
Place the chicken directly in a deep oiled saute pan over low heat, stir constantly until all the marinade becomes dry.
Transfer to the oven. Bake for 10 minutes at 350 degrees F until golden. The marinade should totally be absorbed. Brush chicken using a silicone basting brush. Cook for 2 more minutes.
Garnish with onion, lemon wedges, and cilantro. Accompany with raita and basmati rice.
Bon Appétit!
Indian cuisine often calls for ginger garlic paste. It tastes great and is very healthy for you as well. Just clean the ginger and remove any dirt. Peel the ginger root with a paring knife, then finely chop the root. Place the chopped ginger and 5 cloves of garlic in a blender, add about 2 tablespoons (or more) of water for a smooth flow. Transfer to a jar and store in the refrigerator. You can keep this paste for at least a week in the refrigerator.
I would advise you to get a free range chicken if at all possible. I've tested this recipe with a "regular" chicken and it didn't turn out nearly as well.
I use French, Vietnamese and Indian (citrus, baking soda, papaya seeds) meat tenderizers to ensure a juicy product.
I usually extract seeds from a papaya, grind them in a mini food processor then place them in an ice-cube tray then freeze them. Transfer the ice-cubes 3 by 3 into bags that I vacuum-seal and place back in the freezer. I think it's the best way to keep the same flavor without getting freezer burn. I keep them exactly the same way I would do with my extra pesto.
At the end, if it's not golden brown enough, change setting to a low broil for 3 minutes. Then remove chicken from the oven.
The secret to well-cooked chicken is to pre-cookit on top of the stove.
You can either buy garam masala spice mix in any Indian store or make your own (click on the link to get the recipe) and store it in an airtight container.Published By: on February 18, 2009.


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It would be dishonest of me to not also mention the simple fact that I seem to have gotten caught up in what seems to be a somewhat common situation for a relatively new pilot - quite simply, it's kind of hard to justify it at times. Yes, I will always love aviation and yes, nothing beats a Piper Cub with the door open... but there's no way around the fact that it's an expensive hobby. Couple that with the current uncertainty in the job market and I'm just not sure how much flying I will be doing this year.
All that said, I have no intention of giving it up. I would still like to learn some new stuff, too. So read along as I recap last year, just as I did in my first posts of 2010 and 2011.
Total Hours: 28.6 | Solo: 2.8 | XC: 12.8 | Dual: 4.3 | Landings: 57
Aircraft Flown: C150, C172, Cub
New Airports: I69, FKL, BFD, B16, SDC, 38D, OSU
New States: Pennsylvania, New York
First Flights: 5 (Aaron, Toni, and Russ, Jon, and Jake)
People Flown: 12 (above, plus my friends Rob, Mike and Sarah, Ted and Donna, fellow blogger TJ, and Gina)
$100 Burgers: 6 (Sporty's and the Sky Galley in April, two in June on our way to and from Syracuse, Urbana in August, and Marty's BBQ in October)
Pilots N Paws Flights: 4 (February, May, June, and October)
Stearman Takeoffs & Landings: 1 each (that was fun)
What I'll Remember: Our amazing wedding and honeymoon, showing friends the sheer fun of cutting toilet paper streamers in the Cub, our trip to NY that tested my personal limits and gave me some very valuable experience with weather, seeing the final Space Shuttle launch in person, and my first trip to Oshkosh.
2011 Goals:
^ Yikes, didn't do nearly as good crossing things off last year as I have done in the past!
2012 Goals: Log time in the Stearman - Gina gave me a $500 certificate as a wedding gift, log stick time in a glider, take some of our friends flying, keep the blog more active than I have over the past six months.


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Drivers and trends
SKF's strategy is developed and refined through an understanding of the external drivers and trends which impact, or have the potential to impact, the many markets, regions and industries in which we operates. These are some of the high level external drivers of relevance to SKF.
External drivers
Economic power continues to shift, particularly towards the East but emerging also in the south. This calls for relocation of resources such as manufacturing, sales as well as technical knowledge to meet local demands.
Shifts economic activity between the regions of the world – leading to changes in customer needs in the different regions and new opportunities to develop suppliers and business partners.
SKF's approach
Strengthening sales and marketing activities and bringing industry expertise close to customers. Establishing R&D in each major region and sales and engineering support close to customers. Balancing SKF's overall manufacturing footprint to best support the Group's customers around the world. Centralizing SKF's global purchasing and establishing a global and regional supplier structure.
Population growth and increased wealth per capita
Environmental constraints
Smart systems
Industry levelSKF's business is highly diversified from a regional and industry perspective. Specific analysis of these drivers and our detailed approach is only possible at the industry level. Please read more on SKF's customer industries here.
What matters?
Sustainability? Triple bottom line? CSR? What does this mean? For SKF it starts and ends with SKF Care – including the dimensions of Business, Environment, Employees and Communities. Long-term success is about balancing these aspects properly. For SKF, all aspects needs to be considered in the decision making process.
Including stakeholder views
SKF works in different ways to interact with key stakeholder groups. This allows us to better understand different perspectives and concerns and can respond promptly to external trends. Read here on our stakeholder engagements and materiality process.


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Ariz. leads in deferred-action application rate
PHOENIX — Immigrants like Franko Milan have made Arizona the most successful state in sign-ups for President Barack Obama's deferred-action program, which offers protection from deportation and work permits for those brought to the U.S. illegally.
The 23-year-old Phoenix resident submitted his application on Aug. 20, 2012, just five days after the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program began accepting applications.
In Arizona, 66 percent of the 34,000 people immediately eligible for the program have applied. Almost 20,000 already have been approved.
That is the highest application rate of any state; significantly higher than the 55 percent application rate nationally, according to a new study released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.
The state's tough stance toward undocumented immigrants has motivated more people to apply for the program, according to experts.
"Immigration has been such a contentious issue for so long and it's so high visibility in Arizona that people knew about the program and probably felt it was in their best interest to sign up," said Michael Fix, president of the institute.
Arizona's large Mexican immigrant population and strong network of immigrant advocacy organizations, also likely contributed to the high application rate, Fix said.
Texas is second to Arizona, with an application rate of 64 percent. Colorado and Nevada with 61 percent each and North Carolina with 59 percent round out the top five, according to the report, which only ranked the 15 states with the largest number of undocumented immigrants eligible for the program.
States such as Massachusetts and Virginia, where the immigration population is more diverse and political attitudes toward undocumented immigrants are more favorable, tended to have lower application rates, Fix noted. In Massachusetts, 37 percent of eligible immigrants have applied for the program, in Virginia 38 percent, according to the report.
The report's volatile timing
The report was timed to coincide with the two-year anniversary of the DACA program. Immigrants approved in 2012 are beginning to apply to have their deferred action from deportation renewed.
But the report also comes at a time when Republicans in Congress are attacking the program, blaming DACA for spurring the surge in unaccompanied minors entering the country illegally.
The White House has countered that the surge was prompted by children fleeing rampant gang violence in their home countries and attempting to reunite with families in the U.S.
On Friday, just before adjourning for its August recess, the Republican-controlled House passed a bill to kill the DACA program and prevent the Obama administration from expanding it in the future by freezing additional federal funds for the program.
The bill was largely symbolic, however, since it is not likely to pass the Democratic-controlled Senate, and Obama said he would veto it.
The Migration Policy Institute report said that as of July 20, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services had accepted 681,189 DACA applications and approved 587,366 of them.
The report estimated there were 1.2 million young undocumented immigrants immediately eligible for the program. It estimates that if the program continues, another 473,000 undocumented immigrants will become eligible after they turn 15, provided they stay in school. About 80,000 to 90,000 kids a year become eligible.
Applicants must be at least 15 and under the age of 31. They must also have been brought to the U.S. before turning 16, lived in the U.S. continuously since June 15, 2007, and have been physically present in the U.S. on June 15, 2012.
Therefore, none of the child migrants who have arrived from Central American this year qualify for the program.
The report notes that despite receiving deferred action under the program, many young, undocumented immigrants would not qualify for legal permanent status under the DREAM Act, a bill that has been pending in Congress for years.
The DREAM Act would allow young, undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as minors to gain permanent residency if they completed two years of college or military service.
"Raising the number of youth who reach this threshold will require significant investments to promote college enrollment, retention and degree completion," Wednesday's report said.
'It's not a good feeling'
Milan said one of the reasons he applied for the DACA program right away was because he didn't want to be deported to Mexico.
His parents brought him to Arizona when he was nine months old on a tourist visa and the family remained in the U.S. illegally after the visa expired.
In October 2011, Milan said, he was stopped by a Maricopa County sheriff's deputy while riding through the town of Guadalupe on his motorcycle. The deputy told him he had failed to come to a compete stop at a stop sign and booked him into jail because he didn't have a license.
The next day he was turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials and placed in deportation proceedings.
After Milan applied for DACA, ICE closed his deportation case. He was approved for the program in April 2013. He applied last week to renew his approval for another two years.
Milan said receiving deferred action has made him less worried about being deported.
"It's not a good feeling being in that situation," he said.
It also has created opportunities.
After receiving his work permit, Milan enrolled in classes and earned his real estate license. He now works as a real estate agent.


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Dojo 1.6 Parser Confusion: What's in a Widget, Anyway?
May 20, 2011 by Ken · 2 Comments
Dojo 1.6 introduces a new alternative declarative markup syntax using HTML5 data attributes, with the aim of allowing definition of object instances via HTML without forcing users to write invalid markup. The new syntax primarily revolves around the use of
data-dojo-type in lieu of
dojoType, and a
data-dojo-props attribute to hold any properties to be passed to the constructor's first argument.
However, this new syntax brings with it some significant differences in behavior, which has caught many users off-guard. For instance, you might try something like this:
<input data-dojo-type="dijit.form.ValidationTextBox"
id="tb_username" data-dojo-props="required: true"
style="width: 300px;" name="username" value="bob"/>
You would be surprised, then, to observe that the widget appears to ignore your style, name, and value settings altogether. What gives? Let's find out.
dojo.required Reading: It Ain't Loaded 'Til It's Loaded
August 23, 2010 by Ken · 8 Comments
One of the most fundamental yet powerful features of the Dojo Toolkit is its module and dependency management system, harnessed via
dojo.require. I've seen one important detail elude countless developers, however: the distinction between when a module is
dojo.required, and when it is actually loaded and ready for use. It's very easy to mishandle this, and the nature in which it tends to come back to bite leaves no indication of the actual problem to the unwary developer. This usually crops up in the form of the following question:
- I've
dojo.required widget X using cross-domain Dojo, but when I go to instantiate X, I get an exception saying that X is not a constructor!
Depending upon what module was requested, the exception might instead say SomeNamespaceAboveX is undefined.
Interestingly, both the API and Reference Guide pages for
dojo.require actually sort of answer this question (or rather, show how to avoid encountering it completely), but in this post I aim to clarify why this happens (and perhaps encourage a few wandering souls to read the docs more often).
Making a Smarter TabContainer
June 25, 2010 by Ken · 4 Comments
I'm sure this one has been asked numerous times, but it came up most recently on IRC from
darkschneider (with an additional nod from
ttrenka). The
dijit.layout.TabContainer widget is tremendously useful, but it has a noticeable shortcoming that, while minor and innocuous, can still be irritating: if you've navigated between tabs and then close the current one, it always sends you back to the first tab in the container, rather than the previously active tab.
This is something I had noticed while working with Dojo on a mockup at my job over a year ago, and I developed a solution to it then. Now that I've got this blog here, I might as well share it for others' benefit.
UPDATED on 6/28 to bring the example more in line with how TabContainer works in Dojo 1.4+
Writing Custom Save Logic for ItemFileWriteStore
June 22, 2010 by Ken · 5 Comments
This post focuses on a question reincarnated most recently by
cbarrett1 in the Dojo IRC channel:
- How do I implement custom save logic on an ItemFileWriteStore?
This was always something I wanted to become familiar with, and upon initial inspection it seemed easy enough to implement an example. It's also a prime opportunity to put across a few other general points as well. While the main intent of this post should be clear, it also briefly touches upon various other topics along the way, so hopefully there's a little something for everybody who's learning Dojo.
ComboBox vs. FilteringSelect: Selecting The Right Tool for the Job
June 13, 2010 by Ken · 3 Comments
Continuing for the moment on the topic of Dijit, I turn my focus to two
dijit.form widgets which are easily confused: ComboBox and FilteringSelect. These widgets are very similar in appearance, but differ fundamentally in behavior and functionality, which can easily lead to confusion if one is not fully aware of what sets the two apart.
This post aims to give a synopsis of what sets these widgets apart from each other, and will also address a question that I've seen repeatedly in the #dojo IRC channel:
"How do I get the value of the selected option in a
Of Dijits and DOM nodes
June 5, 2010 by Ken · 2 Comments
This shall be the first of an unpredictable number of posts wherein I discuss recurring sources of confusion for newcomers to the Dojo Toolkit. I'll be tagging such posts dojofaq, for future reference.
One of the main attractions to the Dojo Toolkit is Dijit, a library of skinnable widgets built upon the functionality available in dojo core (Dijit = Dojo + widget). However, diving head-first into Dijit without a primer can quickly lead to various common points of confusion, which I've seen come up repeatedly in the IRC channel. This article aims to cover a bit of the basics, demystifying and addressing questions such as the following:
- "Why doesn't
dojo.attr('mywidgetid', 'value')do what I expect?"
dojo.destroyed my widget, but when I recreate it it tells me the id is already registered!"
- "I'm connecting to my widget's
onclickbut it's not firing!"
These questions all have a common source – the confusion between working with Dijit widgets, versus working simply with DOM nodes. Read more
Let There Be Dojo
May 29, 2010 by Ken · Leave a Comment
While I will certainly make attempts to throw in general JavaScript tidbits where appropriate, I expect that much of my blogging related to client-side JavaScript will be specifically geared towards development using the Dojo Toolkit.
Over the past 15 months, I've been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to become acquainted with Dojo. I read a decent chunk of Dojo: The Definitive Guide, which repeatedly impressed upon me how well-crafted parts of Dojo Core and Dijit are; it's quite apparent a lot of thought went into this stuff.
After I spent some time getting my feet wet in actual code, I began hanging around the
#dojo channel on freenode (circa July '09), and was rather surprised at how quickly I was able to start helping other aspiring Dojo users. As time passed, I noticed a few things…
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Kesha Gushes About New Boyfriend Brad Ashenfelterby Thomas Chau | PopCrush
Kesha has confirmed that she has a new man in her life!
In an interview Friday with Ryan Seacrest on his radio show, the 27-year-old pop star admitted that she is in a relationship with Brad Ashenfelter.
"He's really, a really sweet human being. I'm very happy to have him in my life. That's way too much information for America to know. But I'm really happy with my beard," she told Seacrest.
Seacrest brought up their first interview four years ago, in which she told him back then that she was into "dirty guys." Is that still the case?
"I do — not like physically covered in dirt — but I just like them to be beardy and long hair and look like a little homeless," she admitted. "I like guys who look like they don't groom themselves. I'm not into guys who are very high-maintenance. I don't want them to take longer to get ready than me."
Kesha will be a judge on ABC's 'Rising Star' debuting on Sunday. The 'Tik Tok' singer has also been working on new music following spending some time in rehab for an eating disorder.
We're so glad that Kesha is healthy and happy again!


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LAS VEGAS — Erik Koch wasted little time announcing his return to the lightweight ranks.
Koch dropped Rafaello Oliveira with a straight left and jumped all over his downed opponent, unleashing sone ground and pound before the referee stopped the fight at 1:24 of the first round in a prelim fight Saturday at Mandalay Bay Events Center.
Koch (14-3), from Milwaukee, had been fighting at 145 pounds but said afterward he was going to show the 155-pound division — where he began his career — what "New Breed" (his nickname) was all about.
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You can take the heat -- but don't want to spend all your time in the kitchen. Our favorite delicious and easy no-cook recipes allow you to spend your time eating wisely -- and get the benefits of eating colorful, flavor-packed raw foods. (If you want to go totally raw, avoid the recipes on the following slides that contain dairy; for inspiration, follow a Whole Living editor's two-week raw regimen.)
Raw-food enthusiasts often eat lighter at dinner than they do at lunch. This delicious dish of tomatoes, walnuts, and thin strips of zucchini taking the place of noodles fits the bill.
This mix of dates, nuts, oats, and strawberries makes a hearty raw breakfast.
This main or side, which includes earthy mushrooms, fresh rosemary and corn, and lemon zest, packs plenty of flavor.
Though it contains quinoa, this recipe is still no-cook: Sprout the grain before you prepare the dish to make it easier to digest, and to provide just as much protein as the cooked variety.
No-cook goes fusion in this Latin-Asian mash-up. Try these handfuls of fish and veggies for a substantive lunch.
You'll be amazed how easy it is to make a luscious frozen (and raw) dessert with just bananas and berries.
Unlike standard chocolate puddings, this luscious version is no-cook and dairy-free: It's made mostly of raw avocados, which make it creamy.
An unlikely pairing of tomatoes and peach come together in a cooling, no-cook gazpacho soup.
Though you may be tempted to try it for breakfast, this custardlike, no-dairy dish is better suited to dessert.
Create your own salad mix with a combination of three leafy-green varieties, each with its own unique color, texture, and flavor.
Hors d'oeuvres needn't be complicated. This refreshing appetizer, for example, doesn't require any cooking.
Enjoy the tasty, unexpected flavors of this recipe immediately, or allow the dip to mellow overnight.
Mix sweet cherries with other fresh fruit for a healthy dessert.
This easy, no-cook recipe require a large bowl to whisk your lime juice, honey, oil, and salt.
Balsamic vinegar and brown sugar make a sweet-tart dressing for the berries. Serve as-is or, for an extra crunch, with chopped nuts.
You can serve watermelon the traditional way, but when cut in squares, not only are the pieces the perfect size for dipping into Campari, the presentation is also amazing.
Spare, cool melon and pineapple prepared sushi-style is a graceful finish to a simple, elegant meal.
Seviche is a classic seafood dish with roots in South America. Scallops are marinated in lime juice and ''cooked'' by the acid in the lime; the flesh becomes firm and opaque and the flavors bright and fresh-tasting. Stay away from the stove by purchasing precooked corn and scallops.
Escape the heat with a refreshing bowl of gazpacho. This one gets its unusual hue from yellow heirloom tomatoes, summer squash, and bell peppers.
Try this fruity, summery twist on a classic Spanish soup.
The sunflower seeds and spinach in this salad are top-notch sources of magnesium, which enables your body to create dopamine. The avocado's vitamin B6 produces serotonin, a calming neurotransmitter.
Four cucumbers go into this delicate-tasting salad, which calls for fresh mint and raspberries.
A cool and refreshing soup to prepare with your farmers' market cucumbers.
A spinach, orange, and jicama salad gets an additional antioxidant boost from a citrus vinaigrette spiked with cumin seeds.
Swapping mangoes for tomatoes lends a fresh, sweet taste to this dish.
Plum-tomato wedges join a baby-arugula salad that features Mediterranean accents, including briny Kalamata olives and sweet green peppers.
Even desserts might be helpful in the battle against disease. Tangy mango granita is packed with flavor and vitamins A and C.
Juicy, sweet lychees are available in late spring. Best eaten right out of their pockmarked blush-red skins, the creamy white flesh is quite refreshing.


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"Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?" once asked Charles Eames, the late and great mid-century modern designer. His words have been captured in this smart and playful book of quotations compiled by the Eames Office and Herman Miller.
Originally published in 2007 for the centennial of his birth, "100 Eames Quotes" features one hundred timeless Charles Eames quotes printed in six languages (English, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese.) His words have been vigilantly drawn from numerous archived sources, such as: film, publication, interviews and Eames Office files. Each quote is as genuine as the man himself, and shed some insight into the mind of a pivotal force in American Design.
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All sorts of people like The-Dream: rap people, pop people, contemporary-R&B people, bearded people. But apparently not ceiling-dancing people.
In the festival's amusing tradition of assembling strange lineups that don't exist in real life, this year's Billboard showcase enlisted none other than Terius Nash to warm up the stage for the evening's main attraction, Lionel Richie.
And it was kinda awkward!
Unsurprisingly, the venue (at the new Moody Theater, which Jay-Z also played this week) filled out early in the evening with people pumped to see Richie — and only Richie. Luckily, The-Dream stuck it out and put up a solid show anyway, jumping around in his glowing Back to the Future Part II sneakers and delivering favorites like "Shawty" and the slinky new single "Roc."
Still, this was an audience the "Love King" just couldn't seduce. Stoic and (in at least one case) asleep, the older-skewing crowd was so unimpressed that The-Dream eventually just asked, "A lot of y'all don't know who the f— I am, huh?" He followed that up with a good-natured smile and a minor undressing, as if maybe it was his shirt that was preventing people from recognizing him.
It didn't help much, but he did finally win the house over at the end of his run when he gushed, "I'm totally delighted to open up for one of our musical heroes."
A short intermission later, it was Lionel o'clock (12:30 a.m. CST). "Hello?" Richie teased from off stage as he opened his set with that song's classic chorus. Judging by how the crowd erupted, he could've just left the venue right then and there and nobody would've been mad.
Thankfully, he ended up following through with an insanely entertaining and energetic show. Beaming and improbably lithe, the skinny-pants-ed 62-year-old gave everyone what they wanted ("Easy," "All Night Long"), plus some things they didn't know they were allowed to want (a whizzed-up version of "Dancing On the Ceiling" that blended in the riff from Van Halen's "Jump").
"All of my friends are backstage," Richie confessed during a pause, looking genuinely thrilled. "I can see The-Dream backstage," he added. "But I can't see The-Dream in L.A. How about that!"
Judging by his upcoming duets album Tuskegee (out March 26) and next month's crowded ACM extravaganza (airs on CMT April 13), you get the sense that the current Voice coach really does love hanging out with his pals. He even brought one with him to Austin: None other than Kenny Rogers popped out of the wings to join Richie on a crowd-pleasing duet of "Lady."
And somehow, that still wasn't the end of the night. The storied sexagenarian kept on going, but I retired for the evening at 1:45 .a.m, unable to keep up. Who knows, maybe the man's still on that stage now, surrounded by all his friends — and, of course, The-Dream.
Read more on EW.com:
Fiona Apple returns to the stage with new songs at SXSW
SXSW Music: 12 Hot Shows in '12
Tim McGraw, Jennifer Nettles, Luke Bryan, and Sara Evans to join 'Lionel Richie and Friends in Concert' — EXCLUSIVE