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As a child, I absolutely LOVED puzzles and even (at some point) had a giant puzzle board with my name painted on it that we would slide under the bed because it was the only place it fit. Ah, the memories! Well, I recently discovered that today, Jan. 29th is National Puzzle Day, so I pushed back (AGAIN!!) the resumption of my Ten for Tuesday: Things That Go! Series to give you 10 (or more) educational benefits of puzzles for kids (with an emphasis on Early Childhood Education, since my kiddos are little) -- plus, I am sharing some great great DIY puzzles and fun puzzle activities as well. Enjoy and get puzzled!
1. Problem Solving is a basic (and very important) skill that children gain from doing puzzles as they ask themselves: Will it fit? and assert which puzzle piece goes where. This type of problem solving is clearly in action with this great DIY Wood Block Puzzle from In Lieu of Preschool.
2. Spatial Recognition/Shape Matching - Puzzles also encourage kids to engage in spatial recognition and matching as they notice straight edges and see how a puzzle piece shape matches to an empty space in the puzzle. A great variation on this is to make your own puzzle/matching game using items you already have on hand like this one from Happy Hooligans, which provides entertainment and learning opportunities for 2-4 year-olds.
4. Learning Geography! Puzzles are also a great way to learn geography. Geo-Puzzles work extremely well for this and Mama Smiles shares these as some of her favorite educational toys. Since Wild Thing loves both puzzles and maps, I have to get some of these!
5. Early Literacy - Puzzles are a fun way to engage children in early literacy as they put together the puzzle of a word, such as their own name like these Name Puzzles from Teach Preschool. Plus, Letter Puzzles, like the ones from Storytime Katie, can help children identify beginning letter sounds.
6. Vocabulary Building - Wild Thing loved doing the simple matching puzzle (shown in the very top photo) that our favorite coffee shop happens to have in their kids section. The puzzle consists of several two-piece matching puzzles such as Lock-Key, Child-Mom, Hat-Mittens and he began doing it at age 2, and I noticed that the puzzle really helped him build his vocabulary and oral skills (in addition to all the other benefits, fine motor, hand-eye, etc.) I would love to make a magnetic version of this puzzle. See how simple it is to Make your own Magnetic Puzzle at My Kind of Makeover.
7. Critical Thinking + Observation Skills - These two go hand-in-hand as completing puzzles requires children to hone their observation skills as they assess the original puzzle and then implore their critical thinking skills to complete the act of putting pieces together to recreate the original image. The DIY Lego Puzzles Kristina of Toddler Approved shared at Kids Activities Blog are a perfect example of these two skills coming together in the world of puzzles.
8. Fine Motor Skills + Hand-Eye Coordination - These two also go hand-in-hand (in my mind) with puzzles and speak to the benefit of introducing simple puzzles very early on as they can be great for babies who are starting to be able to have some basic control of their fine motor skills and are ready to challenge their hand-eye coordination.
|Wild Thing was not quite 1 when he got his first puzzle.
10. Memory - Wild Thing loves doing the same puzzles over and over again and of course, eventually, they become less and less challenging, but are still fun. The repetition process in completing the same puzzles over and over helps improve his memory and bolsters his confidence. Yes - I will say it again, I love puzzles!
Bonus Benefit: Gross Motor Skills + Movement, particularly when using large puzzles -- this benefit was brought to my attention through this great post about Jigsaw Puzzles with Toddlers from Triple T Mum.
Before I wrap this up, I have to share two other great puzzle resources I discovered as I was putting the finishing touches on this post: Teach Preschool has a great Puzzles Pinboard, and on it I saw this great post from B. Inspired Mama: 9 Benefits of Wooden Puzzles from B.Inspired Mama, featuring a guest post from Puzzled.
Something I would like to improve in our house is the accessibility of the puzzles with them on child-accessible shelves, rather than in a drawer (as they are now). This is part of a larger effort I am engaged in that includes bringing Montessori concepts into our home. It has worked well in the kitchen with an accessible shelf for Wild Thing to get his own cereal and pour his own milk. The balance involves also keeping the house safe for Caterpillar (18 months old).
P.S. Our favorite puzzles are the Melissa and Doug Wooden Puzzles and the 24-piece Thomas the Train puzzles we have been so lucky as to find at our local dollar store.
What puzzles do you love?
I shared this post at: Tuesday Tots, Mom's Library Link-Up, It's Playtime!
Play Based Learning Linky, The Sunday Showcase, Sharing It Saturday
After-School Link-Up and Montessori Monday.


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Title : Friendship IAP, Maryland. Revised Uniform Summary of Surface Weather Observations (RUSSWO). Parts A-F.
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Corporate Author : AIR FORCE ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNICAL APPLICATIONS CENTER SCOTT AFB IL
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Report Date : 04 May 1982
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Abstract : This report is a six-part statistical summary of surface weather observations for Friendship IAP, Maryland. It contains the following parts: (A) Weather Conditions; Atmospheric Phenomena; (B) Precipitation, Snowfall and Snow Depth (daily amounts and extreme values); (C) Surface Winds; (D) Ceiling versus Visibility; Sky Cover; (E) Psychrometric Summaries (daily maximum and minimum temperatures, extreme maximum and minimum temperatures, psychrometric summary of wet-bulb temperature depression versus dry-bulb temperature, means and standard deviations of dry-bulb, wet-bulb and dew point temperatures and relative humidity); and (F) Pressure Summary (means, standard, deviations, and observation counts of station pressure and sea-level pressure). Data in this report are presented in tabular form, in most cases in percentage frequency of occurrence or cumulative percentage frequency of occurring tables. (Author)
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After getting together with his bother-in-law, Julian Paiz, who owns 1st Class Auto Body in Hesperia, California, they decided the black snakeskin needed some flames. Julian delivered by laying down three sets of wispy-lined flames that cover the hood, drape over the front fenders, and continue along the quad cab doors. Julian used DuPont White Pearl, Candy Blue, and Candy Black, then buried the flames in four coats of clear. The factory chrome mesh grille was blacked out, while the headlights and taillights also received the smoked treatment to enhance the snake's stealth appearance. Salvador had Julian paint the Ram 22x9-1/2-inch aluminum wheels semi-gloss black. Functional air vents were fused into the front fenders to allow heat to escape from inside the engine compartment.
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FedEx Indicted For Failing To Look Into Its Packages To See If Any Online Pharmacies Were Sending Drugs
from the say-what-now? deptBack in March of last year, we were somewhat disturbed by UPS agreeing to forfeit $40 million to the US government for shipping drugs from "illegal internet pharmacies." Not that such drugs or pharmacies should be legal (that's a whole different discussion), but it's insane to pin the blame for the shipments on the shipping company, whose sole job is to get packages from point A to point B. In fact, we don't want shipping companies to be liable for what's in packages, because then they have not just the incentive, but the mandate to snoop through all our packages.
Apparently, FedEx was unwilling to fall on its sword and cough up a similar amount to the US government, so the DEA and DOJ have announced they've gotten a grand jury to indict the company for delivering drugs associated with internet pharmacies. You can read the full indictment, which tries to spin a variety of stories into evidence that somehow FedEx "knew" what was in those packages. The indictment does describe FedEx deliveries to vacant homes and parking lots where carloads of people would be waiting.
As early as 2004, FEDEX couriers and customer service agents in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia expressed safety concerns to their management, including the following: FEDEX trucks had been stopped on the road by Internet pharmacy customers demanding packages of pills; delivery addresses included parking lots, schools, and vacant homes where people would wait for deliveries of drugs; customers would jump on FEDEX trucks and demand Internet pharmacy packages; FEDEX drivers were threatened if they insisted on delivering a package to the address instead of giving the package to the customer who demanded it; and customers would use multiple names and identification documents to pick up packages of drugs.While that may sound damning, remember this is the DEA/DOJ's spin on things. Even if everything above is true, FedEx's job is to deliver packages, not examine everything inside those packages to make sure they're legal. Even in some of the cases -- as described in the indictment -- where FedEx becomes aware that some of the companies ran into trouble with the DEA for selling drugs illegally, it's hard to see how that means FedEx should automatically drop all business connections with those entities. Presumably, a firm that was caught selling drugs illegally could have other legitimate business to continue and would make use of services like FedEx going forward. It's not FedEx's job to examine everything in those packages.
A FEDEX employee also raised concerns to FEDEX management that some recipients of Internet pharmacy packages were engaged in "doctor shopping," were "known to be selling and using," and that "some of the recipients have overdosed and died."
This is, quite literally, blaming the messenger.
FedEx is fighting these claims pretty aggressively, insisting that it's crazy to make it responsible for what's in the packages:
"We are a transportation company — we are not law enforcement."Furthermore, the company notes that it has long asked the DOJ to provide it with a list of online pharmacies that it shouldn't do business with, so that it didn't have to just guess. The government did not provide the list, and seems to think that FedEx must be psychic (and should know what's in all packages and whether or not they're illegal."
"We have repeatedly requested that the government provide us a list of online pharmacies engaging in illegal activity," [VP Patrick Fitzgerald] said. "Whenever DEA provides us a list of pharmacies engaging in illegal activity, we will turn off shipping for those companies immediately. So far the government has declined to provide such a list."Even a former DEA official interviewed by Bloomberg, Larry Cote, claimed the situation was extreme and unprecedented:
The criminal case is an unprecedented escalation of a federal crackdown on organizations and individuals to combat prescription drug abuse, said Larry Cote, an attorney and ex-associate chief counsel at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.We often talk about secondary liability on the internet, but it's the same basic principal here. The company that's merely acting as the conduit shouldn't be liable for what's traversing over its system. The implications of changing that, and holding a company liable are very serious. It's going to create massive incentives for shipping companies to not just open up and look at what's in our packages, but to also make on-the-fly determinations of whether or not they think it's legal.
"Targeting a company that's two, three steps removed from the actual doctor-patient, pharmacy-patient relationship is unprecedented," said Cote....
"The DEA does believe that everyone in the supply chain is responsible and has an obligation to understand where their products are ending up," said Cote, calling that "a stretch."
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Joseph Rogers of Philadelphia to Receive SAMHSA'S 2013 Lifetime Achievement Voice Award
The award recognizes Rogers' extraordinary leadership and advocacy to advance the recovery movement of individuals with mental health conditions.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Sept. 25, the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) will present Joseph Rogers with its 2013 Lifetime Achievement Voice Award. The event will take place at Paramount Theater at Paramount Studios, 5555 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, California, at 7 p.m. PT.
Joseph Rogers is founder and executive director of the National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse, a national technical assistance center funded in part by SAMHSA that fosters recovery, self-determination, and community inclusion. He is chief advocacy officer of the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania, of which he was president and CEO from 1997 to 2007, and which he grew from a small regional advocacy agency into one of the largest mental health associations in the country.
A national leader of the mental health consumer movement, he has played a major role in transforming the movement from a small number of relatively powerless groups and individuals to a large number of well-funded consumer organizations and consumer-operated services in nearly every state. He has testified before the Pennsylvania General Assembly and before U.S. Senate committees and has consulted in more than 30 states, as well as nationally and internationally, on behavioral health policy issues. He has chaired and/or served on numerous boards and committees, and was a key player in the closing of Philadelphia State Hospital and in the successful struggle to get the dollars to follow the patients into the community, to establish what has become a model system of community-based services, including peer-to-peer services. He has appeared on numerous television and radio shows and in the print media to fight the discrimination and prejudice associated with mental health conditions.
Rogers has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Heinz Award for the Human Condition in 2005, the 2002 Outstanding Non-Psychiatrist Award from the American Association of Community Psychiatrists, and the 2009 Timothy Coakley Behavioral Health Leadership Award from the American College of Mental Health Administration.
Since 2005, SAMHSA's Voice Awards program has brought together representatives from the entertainment industry and the behavioral health community for an evening of educational awareness-building about mental and substance use disorders and the power of recovery.
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We've all been the age when present actions and long and short-term consequences do not seem to have a direct correlation. Try convincing a six-year old that because she's going to bed without brushing her teeth tonight, in a few years her tooth will break off and she'll pay a fortune to have it fixed in an emergency. Life doesn't work that way when you're a kid.
We'll all, well many of us, will be the age when our mental playlist is an endless loop of things that should have been, decisions we ought to have made differently, and choices we would have made had we known better… If I had a penny for every time I hear people say "I didn't know better then," I'd have paid off that dentist's bill without feeling a pinch!
And then there's the difficult bit. The being 30 (ok 30+) and making decisions… the really big ones… knowing that there will be consequences, and knowing that when you're blaming you past self for your bungled up life tomorrow, you're very likely to remember that you knew full well what you're getting into. You could not have seen into the future, but you could have made some very good guesses.
Dear past self: I'm glad you had some fun, and it wouldn't have hurt to have had a little less of it. But it's ok, you didn't know better.
Dear future self: YOU knew better all along. Stop that whining.


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- Tim does not need to loan the full amount. He could potentially lend as little as $50.
- Tim could endorse his brother-in-law which could help the loan get funded.
- Tim's brother-in-law would get the help he needs but would be forced to be financially responsible and pay the loan back.
- Tim has reduced his overall financial liability on the loan but is still fully supporting his brother-in-law.
- If the loan listing attracts enough attention, Tim could eventually get bid out of the loan reducing his financial liability to zero.
- Tim can earn a modest return on the money he lends to his brother-in-law, while the brother-in-law can get an interest rate as low as 6% depending on his credit.
- The loan listing preparation would force Tim's brother-in-law to think through how he currently spends his money, how he plans to use the loan, and how he plans to pay it back.
- The brother-in-law would learn the importance of maintaining a good credit score.
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Where do you go when you don't want to search the web? Let's ask Google about that. I'm sure it can find a great site to spend your evening in a fun way.
So the first result is Google UK, "the local version of this pre-eminent search engine". Quite humble, isn't it?
{ From the useless-but-funny department. }
July 6, 2006
I Do Not Wish To Search The Web
Posted by Alex Chitu at 7/06/2006 09:23:00 AM
7 comments:
- MichaelJuly 6, 2006 at 10:29 AM
HOLY Cow! Google really DOES do everything!!! You can use it to search and not search!ReplyDelete
- Kris HerlaarJuly 6, 2006 at 11:08 AM
True, google doesn't search, it finds ;)ReplyDelete
If you google "I wish to" "search the web" , even then results are same.ReplyDelete
google ignores the word not, silly.ReplyDelete
<google ignores the word not, silly.ReplyDelete
Not if it's inside of a quoted text.
With me I get Yahoo on top, both with "i do not wish to " "search the web" as with "i wish to " "search the web".ReplyDelete
Google realised that more non-searchers go to Yahoo than Google UK :PReplyDelete
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Some successful experiments from this Week at Heaven's Dog.
For the first one, I was thinking of the Delicious Sour, circa late 1800s by William Schmidt, via the excellent Cocktails in Cardiff.
The Delicious Sour
A goblet with the juice of one lime,
a squirt of seltzer,
a spoonful of sugar,
1/2 of apple-jack,
1/2 of peach brandy,
the white of one egg.
Fill your glass with ice, shake well, strain, and serve.
However, for some reason I misremembered and substituted Beefeater Gin for the Apple Brandy Schmidt calls for. Well, it is a very "Savoy Cocktail Book" thing to do, combine Brandy and Gin.
Delicious Sour, London Style
1 oz London Dry Gin
1 oz Kuchan Indian Blood Peach Eau-de-Vie
3/4 oz Lemon Juice
3/4 oz Simple
1/2 oz Egg White
Dry Shake, Shake with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass, twist lemon peel over and discard.
Turns out it is still delicious, though I think it might be even better with Genever than with Dry Gin.
A customer asked for an after dinner cocktail and I thought of the Fox River from the Savoy Cocktail Book.
Fox River Cocktail, Adapted from Savoy Cocktail Book
1 1/2 oz Bonded Rye
scant 1/4 oz Tempus Fugit Creme de Cacao
1/4 oz Punt e Mes
2 dash Miracle Mile Peach Bitters #3
Stir briefly and strain over a big rock. Grate over fresh nutmeg.
He enjoyed enough to ask for another.
My friend Louis Anderman makes Miracle Mile Bitters in Los Angeles. He recently completed some barrel aged Forbidden Bitters as a side project from bottled cocktails which he is briefly aging in barrels which have been seasoned with his bitters.
They are forbidden because they include tonka bean which is not considered GRAS by the FDA. Tonka bean has the substance Coumarin, a blood thinner.
They are an old fashioned Boker's or Abbot's Clone, great in Old Fashioneds or Improved Holland Gin Cocktails. Also, f-ing awesome in the new car, I believe this may be the platonic ideal for this cocktail:
New Car
1 oz Oro Torontel Pisco
1 oz Ransom Whippersnapper Whiskey
1 oz Dolin Blanc
Barspoon Benedictine
2 dash Miracle Mile Barrel Aged Forbidden Bitters (Or regular MM Forbidden Bitters. If not forbidden, something like the Bitter Truth Jerry Thomas Bitters.)
Stir briefly and strain over a big rock. Squeeze lemon peel over and discard.


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Director of the School of Music: Bart Shanklin
Assistant Director of the School of Music: Moises Molina
Graduate Committee Chairperson: Brian Locke
School Office: Browne Hall 122
School Telephone: 309/298-1544
Fax: 309/298-1968
School E-mail: email@example.com
Website: www.wiu.edu/music
Location of Program Offering: Macomb
Graduate Faculty
Associate Graduate Faculty
The School of Music offers work leading to the Master of Music degree.
Students may
specialize in music education, performance, piano pedagogy, conducting, music
composition, and music history. The School of Music is accredited by the National
Association of Schools of Music.
Course work may be completed in one year, but the degree in most circumstances
require two years for completion because of the recital and/or thesis requirements.
Students who wish to pursue the performance specialization must be in residence during the regular term.
Before students are admitted to candidacy, a committee of four faculty members must be chosen by each in consultation with the graduate adviser. The committee must have one member in each of the areas to be addressed by the comprehensive examination.
All degree candidates will be given written comprehensive final exams (MUS 603) in music research, music history, music theory, and their area of specialization. The comprehensive exam is scheduled by the graduate adviser. Core courses must be completed before the comprehensive exam can be taken.
The thesis (MUS 601) will be directed by a faculty member from the student's
area of
specialization. A thesis advisory committee will be chosen by the student in consultation with the graduate adviser and thesis director.
A graduate recital (MUS 602) must be approved by the applied teacher.
A pre-recital
hearing must be passed before a recital is performed. Conducting recitals must be
approved by members of the conducting faculty. Procedures to schedule recitals and
pre-recital hearings are outlined in the Departmental Student Handbook.
All students must meet the general admission requirements of the School
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Studies. Students majoring in music must have an earned bachelor's degree or equivalent with a major in music from an accredited institution. The School of Music may request an acceptable score on the aptitude portion of the Graduate Record Examination. The undergraduate major is subject to approval by the Graduate Committee.
All students seeking admission into the graduate music program are required to submit evidence of ability and special interest in their chosen area of specialization.
Music Education: In addition to an audition on a principal performance medium, students specializing in music education must fulfill one of the following:
a)from those applicants whose major performance area includes conducting, the submission of a taped sample of the applicant's choral and/or instrumental schoolensemble performances;
b) the visitation and evaluation, by members of the music education faculty, of the applicant in his/her current teaching position;
c) an interview before the chairperson of the music education area and one other music education faculty member.
Performance: An audition before members of the music faculty
in the applicant's major
performance area is required.
Piano Pedagogy: An audition before the applied piano faculty is required.
Choral and Instrumental Conducting: Applicants must submit a
curriculum vitae
addressing musical training/conducting experience and providing a repertory list of
recently conducted works. The on-campus audition will consist of an interview with the
conducting faculty as well as a brief conducting audition with one of the major ensembles. In special cases and only with the permission of the conducting faculty, a video/DVD may be submitted in lieu of the on-campus audition.
Music Composition: Students may give evidence of ability and special interest by submitting scores of original composition.
Music History: Students must give evidence of ability and special interest by submitting research papers. Proficiency in German, French, or other research language will be determined with a proficiency exam upon arrival.
Advisory Exams
Prior to entrance, an advisory examination in music theory and music history/literature is required. The student will be advised to take specific courses to remedy any apparent weaknesses. This examination is administered regularly prior to the beginning of the spring, summer, and fall terms. In exceptional cases, the examinations may be taken on an individual basis by special arrangement.
To fulfill the requirements for the Master of Music degree in music,
a student must
complete 34 semester hours.
I. Required Core Courses: 9 s.h.
Analysis courses (Select one):
MUS 581 Analytical Techniques (3)
MUS 582 Analytical Techniques (3)
Research course:
MUS 591 Introduction to Research in Music (3)
Music History period course (Select one):
MUS 491G History of American Music (3)
MUS 593 Music in the Baroque Period (3)
MUS 594 Studies in Classic and Romantic Art Music (3)
Other degree requirements:
MUS 603 Comprehensive Examination in Music (0)
II. Select one of the following tracks: 25 s.h.
A. Music Education
MUS 504–529 Applied Performance (4)
MUS 531 Foundations of Music Education (3)
MUS 532 Organization and Supervision of Music Program (3)
MUS 500 Independent Study (4) or MUS 538 Advanced Conducting and Score Analysis (4)
EIS 535 Adolescent Psychology for Educators (2) or EIS 539 Instructional Methods for Secondary Teachers (3)
Electives (8–9)
B. Instrumental Performance
MUS 504–507, 509, 519–529 Applied Performance (12)
MUS 501 Ensemble (4)
MUS 461G String Pedagogy (1) or MUS 590 Literature of Applied Field (1)
MUS 492G String Literature I (2) or MUS 590 Literature of Applied Field (Wind and Percussion) (2)
MUS 602 Recital (0)
Electives (6)
C. Vocal Performance
MUS 512 Voice (12)
MUS 403G Pro-Seminar in Music (3)
MUS 590 Literature of Applied Field (Vocal Literature) (2)
MUS 500 Independent Study (Acting for Singers) (2)
MUS 602 Recital (0)
Electives (6)
D. Composition
MUS 511 Composition (12)
MUS 601 Thesis (3)
MUS 515 Piano (4)
Electives (6)
E. Piano Performance
MUS 515 Piano (12)
MUS 495G Piano Literature (2)
MUS 496G Piano Literature (2)
MUS 602 Recital (0)
Electives (9)
F. Piano Pedagogy
MUS 515 Piano (8)
MUS 465G Piano Pedagogy (2)
MUS 466G Piano Pedagogy (2)
MUS 565 Piano Pedagogy (2)
MUS 495G Piano Literature (2)
MUS 496G Piano Literature (2)
MUS 601 Thesis (3)
MUS 602 Recital (0)
Electives (4)
G. Organ Performance
MUS 514 Organ (12)
MUS 463G Church Service Playing I (2)
MUS 464G Church Service Playing II (1)
MUS 462G Organ Pedagogy (1)
MUS 493G Organ Literature I (2)
MUS 494G Organ Literature II (2)
MUS 602 Recital (0)
Electives (5)
H. Choral Conducting
MUS 510 Conducting (Applied) (9)
MUS 510 Conducting (Applied/Instrumental) (3)
MUS 590 Literature of Applied Field (Renaissance through Classical) (2)
MUS 590 Literature of Applied Field (Romantic through Contemporary) (2)
MUS 501 Ensemble Problems (2)
Electives (7)
MUS 602 Recital (0)
I. Instrumental Conducting
MUS 510 Conducting (Instrumental) (12)
MUS 538 Advanced Conducting and Score Analysis (3)
MUS 590 Literature of Applied Field (3)
MUS 501 Ensemble Problems (2)
MUS 602 Recital (0)
Electives (5)
J. Music History
MUS 504–529 Applied Study (4)
*MUS 491G History of American Music (3)
*MUS 593 Music in the Baroque Period (3)
*MUS 594 Studies in Classic and Romantic Art Music (3)
MUS 601 Thesis (6)
Electives (9)
*One of these will be taken as part of core
K. Jazz Studies
Applied Lessons (12)
MUS 501 Ensemble Problems (6)
Directed Electives (7) chosen from the following: MUS 481G, MUS 482G, MUS 483G,
MUS 485G, MUS 497G, MUS 508, MUS 599, or MUS 601
MUS 602 Recital (0)
TOTAL PROGRAM: 34 s.h.
403G Pro-Seminar in Music. (3) In-depth study of one musical topic.
460G Chamber Music Literature and Technique. (2) A representative sampling of mixed chamber music; including literature for strings, woodwinds, brass, keyboard, and voice through performance, history, analysis and performance practice. Special topics will be selected each term, such as the Contemporary Ensemble or Baroque Ensemble. Repeatable. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
461G String Pedagogy. (1–2, repeatable to 8) Study of the methods and approaches to the teaching of strings in class and studio. Laboratory observation and teaching. Prerequisites: String principal and permission of the instructor.
462G Organ Pedagogy. (1) Examination of introductory organ methods and literature for the beginning organ student. Student participation in teaching experiences. Prerequisites: Organ major or permission of the instructor.
463G Church Service Playing I. (2) Practical training in the playing of hymns and liturgy, choral, and solo accompaniments. Discussion of hymnody and liturgies, and selection of music for the church service. Prerequisites: Organ major or permission of the instructor.
464G Church Service Playing II. (1) Advanced techniques of church service playing including varied hymn accompaniments and introductions, and improvisation. Prerequisite: MUS 463G.
465G, 466G Piano Pedagogy. (2) Examination of piano
literature and materials at the beginning through early
advanced levels. Discussion of the psychology of
learning and piano teaching techniques. Student
participation in teaching experiences. In sequence.
Prerequisites: Piano principal or permission of the instructor, in succession.
481G Counterpoint. (3) Studies in tonal counterpoint. Representative techniques and genres including invention and fugue. Prerequisites: MUS 200 and 282.
482G Materials of Twentieth-Century Music. (3) Studies in 20th-century compositional practices and
styles through analysis and exercises in 20th century
techniques. Prerequisite: MUS 282.
483G Orchestration. (3) Study of instruments and instrumentation through practical exercises. Prerequisite: MUS 282.
485G Techniques of Electronic Music. (3) Fundamental concepts in electronic music and classical techniques in studio work.
491G History of American Music. (3) The history of music in America from colonial times to the present.
492G String Literature I. (2) History of stringed instruments and early performance practices including performers, pedagogical treatises, and literature through the 18th century. Prerequisites: String principal and permission of the instructor.
493G Organ Literature I. (2) Survey of organ literature from the 15th century to 1725. Prerequisites: Organ major or permission of the instructor.
494G Organ Literature II. (2) Survey of organ literature from 1725 to the present. Prerequisite: MUS 493G or permission of the instructor.
495G, 496G Piano Literature. (2) Survey of keyboard literature considered from its historical, formal, stylistic, and aesthetic aspects. Nonsequential. Prerequisites: Piano major and permission of the instructor.
497G Jazz History, Selected Topics. (2, repeatable to 4) An in-depth study of selected topics from the history of jazz. Topics are drawn from the history of Jazz music in the 19th and 20th centuries and will include major artists and stylistic periods. Topics vary from semester to semester.
500 Independent Study. (1–3, repeatable to 6) An investigation of problems related to the student's major or area. Students will arrange the topic, procedures, and methods of reporting with the instructor. An appropriate written report will be required. Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and department chairperson required.
501 Ensemble Problems. (1, repeatable) Band, orchestra, chorus, or smaller ensembles.
Applied Study: (1–4, repeatable to 24) Private study
in music performance and composition. All lessons
offered each semester. Exception: Summer Term (see
summer catalog). Specialists in performance or composition will receive four semester hours of credit. All others will receive a maximum of two hours of credit per semester. Prerequisite: audition and/or written permission of area chairperson and instructor.
504 Violin
505 Viola
506 Cello
507 Contrabass
508 Applied Jazz Studies
509 Guitar
510 Conducting
511 Composition
512 Voice
513 Jazz Composition
514 Organ
515 Piano
519 Clarinet
520 Saxophone
521 Flute
522 Oboe
523 Bassoon
524 Trumpet
525 Trombone
526 Euphonium
527 Horn
528 Tuba
529 Percussion
531 Foundations of Music Education. (3) The historical development of music education in America, and its changing philosophies. Examination of problems of value, knowledge (learning), aesthetics, and trends in school music related to these problems. Extensive reading in the literature of music education. Prerequisites: MUS 333, 334, 394, 439, or permission of the instructor.
532 Organization and Supervision of Music Program. (3) The planning, administration, and supervision of a fully integrated music program that fits into the general curriculum and administrative pattern of a school system: content, scope, finance, equipment, personnel, scheduling, and teaching methods. Prerequisite: MUS 333, 439, or permission of the instructor.
538 Advanced Conducting and Score Analysis. (1–4, repeatable to 4) Advanced techniques of conducting. Preparation to assume leadership of advanced instrumental ensembles.
550 Workshops in Music. (1–3, repeatable) As announced.
565 Piano Pedagogy. (1-2, repeatable up to 10 hours) Materials, methods, teaching techniques and learning theories as applied to the teaching of (collegelevel) piano classes and advanced-level studio lessons. Lecture/discussion meetings are complemented with practice in class and studio teaching. Prerequisite: Piano major or permission of the instructor.
581 Analytical Techniques. (3) A study of the structural, formal, and stylistic elements of tonal music of the 18th and 19th centuries. Nonsequential.
582 Analytical Techniques. (3) A study of various analytical techniques and approaches, including Tovey, Schenker, Reti, and Schoenberg.
590 Literature of Applied Field. (1–2, repeatable) Areas of study include: strings, woodwinds, brass, keyboard, percussion, solo vocal, choral or instrumental ensemble literature.
591 Introduction to Research in Music. (3) An introduction to research in music. The study of library tools, research techniques, and form and style in writing. Research paper or papers will be prepared.
593 Music in the Baroque Period. (3) Selected studies in the history and literature of music in the baroque era.
594 Studies in Classic and Romantic Art Music. (3) An exaination of various musical genres, works, compositional styles and their evolution in the context of late eighteenth and nineteenth-century culture.
595 Music in the Twentieth Century. (3) Stylistic studies in the aesthetics and music of the fin-de-siecle, interwar, high modernist and postmodernist eras.
599 Seminar in Music. (1–3, repeatable to 6) Selected topics in music designed to meet the needs and interests of the students involved.
601 Thesis. (1–3, repeatable to 6) Thesis direction under the guidance of a professor in his/her area of specialization, in order to meet the needs of the student engaged in a research project. A written thesis will be presented to the Graduate Committee.
602 Recital. (0, repeatable) Recital will be either two full recitals, or one full recital and a paper relating to the recital literature. Graded S/U.
603 Comprehensive Examination in Music. (0) The student will write a comprehensive examination in music history, music theory, music research, and his/her area of specialization. Graded S/U.
NOTE: All seminars carry one, two, or three semester hours credit and may be repeated with the permission of the instructor and department chairperson since different topics will usually be chosen each semester. All proseminars are repeatable to a maximum of six hours.


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Florence — Her interest in canning began when she visited her grandmother.
"I remember as a young kid just stirring it and helping fill the jars," said Connie Baker, of Beulah, who was one of the vendors Thursday at the Florence Farmers Market. "All of my product is grown in our orchards or our berry patches or we go to pick your own farms here in Colorado. Most of my stuff is made the old-fashioned way. A lot of my recipes are my grandmother's."
Back in those days, pectin was not sold in stores. Instead canners used ripe, mature or under ripe fruit to get the jellies to set up.
Once she grew up, Baker continued the tradition and canned numerous jars of jellies, jam and herbs.
"My favorite is the choke cherry jelly," she said. "I take my grandkids (Aspyn and Tristan Krings) with me to pick them in the wild and along the streams. Some areas, they are really abundant, depending on rainfall."
Last year, it was hard to find the choke cherries. So they ended up going to Westcliffe and Gardner.
After picking them, the three clean the cherries and cook and smash them.
"You just cook them with water then you have to run them through a cheese cloth to strain the juice off and place the cherries in the pan, adding sugar and pectin before bringing it to a boil for about two minutes," Baker said.
At that point, she scrapes the foam off and places the fruit in sterilized jars before placing them back in a water bath for a few minutes.
Recently, her granddaughter, Aspyn, suggested she sell the merchandise at various venues. Baker decided to sell her canned goods at the farmers market.
Organizer Joanne Mohr said she was pleased with the support from the community and the vendors.
"The farmers market is growing," she said. "We invite everybody to come see our vendors and be a part of the day."


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In the smallest kept secret, this morning in San Francisco, CA Microsoft announced details of the upcoming Windows Phone 8 operating system codenamed "Apollo".
Accelerating what was started with Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is continuing down the path of "Mango" and building for the next generation of hardware. As detailed by Joe Belfiore during a keynote speech, Windows Phone 8 is due out "this fall" and will contain many new features both for developers and consumers.
As expected, details on new device resolutions, multi-core CPU support, near-field communications (NFC) and native C++ development were given during the Microsoft sponsored Windows Phone Summit. While the software-development kit (SDK) was not released for developers, one is expected to be delivered by the end of summer where more technical guidance will also be granted.
The big focus for this morning is on the new architecture, the NT kernel, for Windows Phone and what it means for developers, OEMs and IT professionals. With Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 desktop based on the same core, developers can more easily leverage their apps by sharing overlapping code between the two platforms. Such a move should great enhance app development on Windows Phone as desktop developers will have to only engage in minor coding fixes to port their app to the new mobile OS.
Moreover, applications for Windows Phone 7.x will automatically run on Windows Phone 8 with little or no changes to the code of the app. Apps coded on Windows Phone 8 will conversely run on Windows Phone 7.x as well so long as they don't use native coding (apps coded with native C++ won't run on Windows Phone 7.x since they use different APIs).
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King Stakh's Wild Hunt
Uladzimir Karatkevich
Категория: Belarusian books, Historical Thrillers, Historische Thrillers, Literature, Literatuur, Wit-Russische boeken
Уровень: Belarusian Literature, Wit-Russische Literatuur
On a late rainy evening a young scientist, folklorist Andrey Belaretsky finds himself lodging overnight in a mysterious castle belonging to the Yanovskys, an old noble family. There he meets the hostess of the house, Nadzezhda Yanovsky, a neurotic young thing and the last descendant of her family. Fears and terrible premonitions, for which she believes to have substantial grounds, overpower her. The act of betrayal by her far ancestor Roman Yanovsky the Old brought the curse on the family for twenty generations to come, and has since claimed lives of all the young noble's relatives under bizarre and unnatural circumstances. Nadzeya expects her nearing demise in terror, moreover supported by the recent signs of the upcoming tragedy. Ghosts of the Little Man and the Lady-in-Blue were sighted wandering around the castle, and out in the fields from time to time shows itself the Wild Hunt.
Belaretsky collects his wits and bravery, and decides to remain in the castle for a while to assist the hostess Yanovsky in getting rid of the ghosts, whose existence he dismisses wholeheartedly. Soon he beholds the appearance of strange creatures, along with several mysterious deaths in the cursed family's circle. Finally, Belaretsky himself barely escapes the Wild Hunt, a group of twenty silent ghostly knights, dashing through the watery swamps and delivering death to everyone who obstructs their way. Driven by the desire to discover the truth to the horrible mystery of the Yanovskys, the young man resorts to whatever is available to him so as to stop the Wild Hunt and free the inhabitants of the Marsh Firs from their now nearly eternal fear. The stranger as he is, having unhallowed the ghosts of the cursed place, Belaretsky has yet much to learn indeed.
King Stakh's Wild Hunt is a suspense mystery thriller, set against a historical background. The story kicks off from the book's first pages, throwing the reader into the atmosphere of a dark intense fear before the inevitable. It doesn't take long for the reader to begin anxiously accompanying Belaretsky on the swamps, meeting strange personae here and there, all of them either mad or scared, or hiding something important, and at times simply miserable.
The canvas of this detective story includes a personal theme of the author's sad concern for his nation's destiny. The search for the truth that unites the novella's characters is in fact the author's contemplation - which he passes on to the reader - of the society in the late XIXth century, its conditions and its prospects for the future.
Translated by Mary Mintz. Edited by Camilla Stein.
"King Stakh's Wild Hunt is at once a story so contained within its own history, it threatens to alienate any reader outside of its cultural design. And yet, the experiments in narrative fiction and the heightened sense of gothic drama seem perfectly accessible to a Western audience brought up on the brooding belletristic tragedies of Greek myth." Imran Khan, PopMatters
On the romantic landscaping of Socialist Belarus and Uladzimir Karatkevich: Elena Gapova, Rethinking Marxism
"Uladzimir Karatkievic's output has a significant role as a 'guardian' of the collective memory of Belarusians today. As an author of historical novels he acted as both a researcher and archivist of Belarusians' history. Perhaps thus Karatkievic's King Stakh's Wild Hunt is book about the past and present. It proves his genius as an author and sensitivity as a"commentator on the Belarusian nation." Paula Borowska, The Journal of Belarusian Studies
"I enjoyed the writing and the atmosphere." Jean, Howling Frog Books
"I was also reminded of the moor scenes in Hound of the Baskervilles sometimes the places in this book at to the scary feeling of Hope the marshes near the castle reminded me of the Grimpen mire of Hound of the Baskervilles. I love that Glagoslav can publish writers like Karatkevich to us in English." Stu Allen, Winstonsdad's Blog
in Belarusian media:
King Stakh's Wild Hunt by Uladzimir Karatkevich in English/ THE POINT JOURNAL
Camilla Stein's interview for Radio Liberty (In Belarusian)/RADIO LIBERTY
Uladzimir Karatkevich
Uladzimir Karatkevich (1930-1984) was a Belarusian writer, poet, playwright, journalist and screenwriter, known as the creator of the Belarusian historical novel.
He was a teenager during the World War II, when he was evacuated from Belarus to the Perm region in Russia. Only in 1944 was he able to return home, where, having concluded his high school education, he was accepted at the Kiev State University in Ukraine where he achieved graduate and postgraduate degrees in Philology. Karatkevich also studied at the Institute of Cinematography and Higher Literature, worked as a school teacher and only later became a professional writer.
Beginning as a poet, after he had published several anthologies Karatkevich switched to prose, creating several works of classic Belorussian literature. His works almost entirely centre on the history of the Belarusian people, and specifically on the January Uprising of 1863-1965 and the Second World War.
Karatkevich was actively involved in historical research and archaeological excavations, reflecting his search for historical truth in his literary works, andin his lifetime he brought many interesting characters to life through his writing. One of the most famous metaphors about Belarus, describing it as "the land under white wings", belongs to him.
- The Order of Friendship of Peoples (1980)
- The Ivan Melezh Award of the BSSR Union of Writers (1983) for novels Forget Must Not (Нельзя забыть) and Leonids Do Not Return to Earth (Леониды не вернутся на Землю).
- The Yakub Kolas BSSR State Prize for the novel The Black Castle in Halshany (Чёрный Замок Ольшанський) 1984, posthumously.
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What's Going On at Cisco During the 2012 SCTE Cable Tec Expo
I'm predicting this year's SCTE Cable-Tec Expo will go down as another cable technology milestone date. Why: The details of DOCSIS 3.1, the next chapter in cable modems, will finally go public on Thursday, October 18. Also: We're in Orlando, and we're within a few years of the 20th anniversary of the Time Warner Cable Full Service Network, which of course happened in Orlando. A milestone in its own right.
And for us, it's already a milestone year, in a way. Why: We are demonstrating new Videoscape experiences expanded by the recent NDS acquisition, now including the NDS Snowflake experience, and my friend and colleague John Chapman, who pioneered the very first DOCIS spec (1.0, in the mid-'90s), will be inducted into the SCTE Hall of Fame today. It's a big deal and we're really proud of him.
And now for what's happening in our booth (#2034) at this year's Expo:
- Videoscape Experiences: We will demonstrate new Videoscape-delivered services and user experiences including NDS Snowflake and companion screen solutions.
- CCAP: The Converged Cable Access Platform is an industry effort to make a "one-size-fits-all" QAM, to keep up with the growth in IP traffic, and to reduce rack space requirements and power consumption.
- Unifying QAM & IP: We will show how digital network control system (DNCS) is evolving to simplify headend management and unify and harmonize QAM and IP connected devices.
- DOCSIS leadership: We will demonstrate how our video-over-DOCSIS 3.0 solution enables cable operators to allocate their DOCSIS network resources to delivery IP video, and maximize the Cisco quality of experience for their subscribers.
And the Expo wouldn't be the Expo without a wide-and-deep roster of technical papers and presentations. We're glad to contribute seven papers/presentations this year!
Last but not least, we're proud to sponsor the SCTE IP Challenge again this year – a friendly competition, held in a fast-paced, "Jeopardy"-styled format, to test attendees' knowledge of Internet Protocol (IP) technologies. The IP Challenge was scheduled on "Expo Eve," (Tuesday Oct. 16); we'll get the results and photos of the winner(s) to you later in the week.
Until then: See you in Orlando and have a productive, tech-rich Expo!
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2007 Nissan Altima
Nissan has re-invented the Altima for the second time in its four generations. The Nissan Altima has been totally redesigned for 2007. It offers more performance, comfort, safety, economy, and better looks than last year's model. It looks more like the Maxima now. It's a couple of inches shorter on the outside, but has more room on the inside, including a spacious trunk. Fold-down rear seats allow the trunk to expand into the cabin for carrying big long things.
The object of the redesign was to bring the feel and power of a luxury car to this everyman's midsize sedan, and Nissan has succeeded, at least with the Altima model that has the V6 engine and all the options, including plush leather. There are still models with a four-cylinder engine, which offer good power and get 26 city and 34 highway miles per gallon.
The 3.5-liter V6 is a new engine generation. It makes 270 horsepower, more than what's available in other midsize cars (excluding turbocharged or expensive sports sedans), along with 258 pound-feet of torque. The price for that power: The V6 requires premium fuel and gets 22/28 mpg.
Another thing that makes the Altima stand out is its new optional CVT, or continuously variable transmission. It's the only automatic transmission available in this car, and it's a winner with its manual mode, which allows six speeds or ranges. A CVT improves gas mileage because there's less internal friction.
The handling is true, and the suspension is quite firm without ever being harsh. It inspires confidence. It's a match for rough pavement and is steady and predictable in extreme situations. The Altima also comes loaded with safety features.
An intelligent key comes standard in the Altima. This system enables the car to be started with the keys in your purse or pocket. This might be convenient for some, but it leads to new problems, having to do with the memory of the human brain and confusion of the car's electronic brain.
Model Lineup
Nissan Altima 2.5; 2.5S; 2.5SL; 3.5SE; 3.5SL
Walk AroundThe new 2007 Nissan Altima looks quite stylish, especially for a mid-size car. The body has gotten a makeover, and features a number of pleasing changes. It has enough Nissan design cues that, from the rear, you can see some 350Z in it.
The deck is distinctively short, yet trunk space has grown by 15 percent. Like some other new cars, in particular Lexus, the fender flares are edgy and extend farther than before, allowing the body itself to be narrower and offer less frontal area. The gap between the tires and flares has been tightened. Overall aerodynamics are improved from 0.33 to 0.31, thanks to many things as always, not least the more steeply sloped windshield.
The wheelbase has been shortened by nearly an inch, and the overall length cut by 2.5 inches, with shorter overhangs. The cowl was moved forward and rear glass rearward, which allowed for no overall decrease in cabin space. The beltline is low so there's more side glass, which adds to the roomy feeling.
The headlamps and taillamps appear almost exotic, certainly elaborate. The halogen headlamps are vertical irregular trapezoids with soft edges, called multi-parabola, which means their coverage is all over the place, with four bulbs inside for the high beam, low beam, turn signal and parking lamps. As for the taillamps, Nissan says they cost nearly as much as the headlamps (so don't back into anything!), and they definitely do look expensive. They're covered with clear plastic like the headlamps, and contain a silver ray-gun looking cylinder with the red lamp, plus a round white beam for the backup light and a big orange piece for the parking lamp and turn signal.
InteriorIn redesigning the Altima, Nissan engineers were assigned to create more cabin space, and given one inch less to work with, on account of the reduction in wheelbase. They met their goal by stretching the distance between A-pillar and C-pillar, thus shortening the cowl and deck. There are 1.7 inches less legroom in front, but 3.1 inches more in the rear, and that's a lot; however, 0.8 inches of rear headroom has been lost. Trunk space has grown from 15.6 cubic feet to 17.9.
The seats are relatively large. They feel firm and longer and higher than in last year's models. They also have power lumbar support and elevate higher, something that most cars do nowadays, as people need a better view of the road, with all the SUVs out there blocking visibility.
Our test model, a 3.5SL, came standard with leather, and it was very rich-feeling in gray. We've been in many luxury cars that didn't feel this classy inside. More soft materials are used, for touches like padded armrests, and the overall level of refinement is higher than with the former Altima. There's a new four-spoke steering wheel having an original artistic design, with two spokes flowing vertically downward.
The gauges are new, called Fine Vision Gauges by Nissan. It's the common and practical tripod design, with speedo in center, tachometer on left and gas and temp on right. The lettering is sharp, white on black, with red needles.
The center stack is neatly designed, with three dual-zone HVAC vents at top over the sound system and good knobs, leading down to usable storage slots and the transmission lever, in this case for the CVT. However the lever is located in an ergonomically awkward position, so if you use the manual mode, shifting is compromised.
The glovebox is huge; we're not sure of the volume in cubic inches, but Nissan says the capacity is 13 liters (should you ever want to fill it up with Diet Coke). It locks, so you can store a laptop computer in there. The space for the big glovebox was created by downsizing the air conditioning unit, but Nissan says there's no compromise in AC effectiveness; in fact, Nissan says the AC is best in class, thanks to improved airflow and a quieter fan.
The Intelligent Key is standard on all Altima models, but we don't think it's so smart. It may be true that women don't like to bother with putting a key in an ignition, as the manufacturers say, and like to keep their keys in their purse at all times; but it's also true that since intelligent keys have been invented, there has been a rash of dead batteries. This happens if you inadvertently (and easily) press the ignition button two times instead of once, to shut down the car. It's left on the accessories mode, and drains the juice. We've had three such experiences with intelligent keys in the last couple of years, including with our test Altima, and have heard of many more.
A stiffer chassis contributes to a reduction in noise and vibration in the cabin, and the Altima proves it. However you can still hear the front wheels whacking bumps, and the open sunroof blew out the silence with a big whooshing sound. There are no less than nine cupholders in the cabin, allowing two big cups of coffee for almost everyone in your carpool.
The touch-screen, voice-command DVD navigation system is the first Nissan and first non-luxury car to offer real time traffic information. We got stuck in a traffic jam on a Sunday afternoon trying to get across the Golden Gate Bridge and through San Francisco to the airport, but our pre-production Altima didn't have an owner's manual, and without one we couldn't begin to figure out the nav system to hear the real time traffic information. Not even with a passenger totally devoted to the challenge, while we were stuck in traffic. So pay attention during the post-sale walkaround and study your owner's manual.
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Driving ImpressionsThe run from the Golden Gate Bridge to Stinson Beach is full of tight curves, climbing up and then down at the edge of the ocean with a spectacular view. The road surface is awful, because of the heavy weather there; Pacific storms perpetually wash out the asphalt.
The V6 engine in our 3.5SL makes a potent 270 horsepower, being a very close relative to the 3.5-liter V6 in the Nissan 350Z sports car, and we used much of it on this road. There's more than enough; in fact it's awesome for passing. Redline 6600 rpm is a blast. There's also 258 pound-feet of torque, which was very useful with the new CVT transmission.
The suspension has been redesigned on the new rigid chassis, and it passed this difficult test with flying colors. It's quite firm; there's no swaying in the switchback turns, so the steering stays true. And it wasn't harsh over the jagged parts of the road. It took some good punches from potholes, without flinching.
The electric power steering, speed-sensitive rack-and-pinion, works well, and because it uses less power than hydraulic, it improves gas mileage by a touch. The Altima 3.5SL doesn't quite feel like a sports sedan, but the handling is fairly nimble.
The engine has been lowered in its cradle for better balance, and there have been changes to the steering geometry that lead to breakthroughs in reducing torque steer, that disconcerting effect in a front-wheel-drive car whereby the steering wheel twists when you stand on the gas. Engineers have worked with kingpins and half shafts, and believe they have raised the bar for other powerful front-wheel-drive cars. Indeed, the torque steer in the Altima is extremely mild, which is saying something for 270 horsepower.
But the real engineering breakthrough might be with the CVT, or continuously variable transmission. This is the fourth generation of this transmission design, which doesn't have the separate gears of a standard automatic transmission, and Nissan has been a standout in this technology. The Sentra's CVT, for example, has just two ranges. But the CVT in the Altima has a manual mode, which, in effect, makes the transmission a six-speed.
We love it because it's true to us. It's totally responsive and obedient. It did things that the manual mode in some expensive cars (Mercedes and BMW, to name two) have apparently never dreamed of. It listened to the driver. We challenged it by upshifting all the way up to sixth gear at no more than 30 miles per hour, then downshifting back down, and it made every shift instead of ignoring them, unlikely as they would have been under regular driving conditions.
So, when we used it in the real world, shifting the Altima like a 350Z on the road to Stinson Beach, it was beautiful. And you still get the fuel efficiency of a CVT: 22 city and 28 highway miles per gallon (premium fuel required) with the powerful V6 (26/34 with the four-cylinder). Downshifting with the CVT to slow down worked well, combining with the good brakes when rushing up to those downhill curves. The brakes are vented discs in front and solid in rear.
We drove a 3.5SE with the six-speed manual gearbox, and the linkage didn't feel exceptional, which makes the CVT seem especially like the best of both worlds.
We also got some seat time in a 2.5S, with the 175-hp engine, and it felt like it had plenty of power.
The all-new 2007 Nissan Altima is a midsize car with the performance and feel of a luxury sedan, at least in the model with the V6 engine and options. The basic models come with a strong four-cylinder engine. The Altima is roomier, safer, more comfortable and more economical than before, and has stylish new looks. It's a thorough improvement from top to bottom, inside and out. Based on the track record of Nissan engineering, it would be hard to go wrong with a new Altima.
NewCarTestDrive.com correspondent Sam Moses filed this report from San Francisco.


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On a recent December evening, Dr. Dan Kelly (Class of 2008) held a fundraiser at Percy's Tavern, in Manhattan, to bolster support for the nongovernmental organization (NGO) he helped establish in Sierra Leone while still a student at Einstein. Wellbody Alliance, formerly known as the Global Action Foundation, provides health as a human right to the rural poor of Sierra Leone. "We believe that every life matters, and we are trying to infuse our hope and energy into the public clinics and hospitals that we serve. Our vision, in the long run, is to rebuild the country's public health system where the high-quality medical care we provide is accessible to all," said Dr. Kelly.
Such efforts have been keeping Dr. Kelly quite busy, as he recently completed a Fulbright scholarship in connection to his work in Sierra Leone. He will be headed to the University of California, San Francisco in July 2013, where he will begin a fellowship in infectious diseases. Until then, he continues his work in Sierra Leone and as a faculty member of Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, where he recently completed his residency in internal medicine.
"I have wonderful support at Baylor for my work abroad," he noted. "I've got a flexible schedule that allows me to spend about 70 percent of my time in Sierra Leone, where I'm overseeing a number of different grants that we've received." That includes a recent grant from the World Health Organization for $300,000 to conduct a community-based tuberculosis program and a text message grant to explore the use of texting with health workers in Sierra Leone.
Meanwhile, his Sierra Leonean mentor and Wellbody Alliance founding partner, Dr. Mohamed Bailor Barrie, earned a Fulbright Scholarship that will sponsor a Master's degree at Harvard Medical School starting in August 2013. The Master's degree in Global Health Delivery is run in collaboration with Partners in Health. (Partners in Health, or PIH, is an NGO established by world-renowned global health authority Dr. Paul Farmer.)
"It's very exciting," said Dr. Kelly. "We've also become a 'partner project' to PIH, and this includes mentorship from the Boston office. PIH has created an incubator for like-minded organizations like us, and the support and information-sharing have been immensely helpful to our growth and development."
Also exciting for Dr. Kelly was seeing a number of his former classmates (Drs. Christina Gagliardo, Laura Korin, Frederick Nagel and Issa Toure) and a current Einstein student (Masha Kon) who had come out to support his NGO, along with members of the Princeton Friends of Wellbody, comprised of undergraduate students from Dr. Kelly's undergraduate alma mater.
Click on the noted links to learn more about Dr. Kelly's Wellbody Alliance and view past features about the work being done by Dr. Kelly and others in Sierra Leone.
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Securing IPv6
In the previous installment of our series of IPv6 security posts, we covered some of the ways addressing has changed in IPv6 compared to IPv4. In this post, we'll talk about some of the things to consider when securing IPv6 compared to IPv4. Before digging into this topic, however, it is important to remember that while IPv6 may have different security concerns than IPv4, it is not necessarily any more secure than IPv4. Furthermore, the post will focus on those aspects that are different or unique to IPv6, since many of the common best practices for IPv4 networks also apply to IPv6 networks.
Dual Stack Concerns
First off, to support the transition from IPv4 to IPv6, many systems support both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic simultaneously, in what is known as a dual stack configuration. The important thing to understand about this configuration is that IPv6 and IPv4 utilize different stacks. This means that if you have Access Control Lists (ACLs) configured for IPv4 traffic, they will not stop IPv6 traffic (since a different stack is processing the IPv6 traffic). This can be a big problem on devices, such as PCs, which have IPv6 enabled by default (since users may not even think about deploying IPv6 ACLs because they are not using IPv6). Since IPv6 supports automated neighbor discovery and address creation, interfaces can automatically generate both local and global IPv6 addresses without any user interaction. Furthermore, even if the local network does not support IPv6 traffic, an attacker can get IPv6 traffic to your host through other mechanisms. For instance, it is possible to send IPv6 traffic to a system over an IPv4 SSH connection that supports port forwarding. Therefore, it is vital to deploy appropriate IPv6 firewall rules on your internal systems.
Deploying ACLs
Using IOS ACLs has also changed slightly in IPv6. Similar to the dual stack environment, traditional IOS ACLs only apply to IPv4 traffic. So to limit which IPv6 traffic can access your network you must deploy ACLs specific to IPv6 (using the ipv6 keyword). When deploying ACLs in IPv6, however, there are some subtleties to think about. For instance, all IPv4 IOS ACLs have an implicit "deny ip any any" at the end of the ACL. With IPv6, the IOS ACLs have the following 2 implicit permit statements along with a deny statement, as shown below:
- permit icmp any any nd-na
- permit icmp any any nd-ns
- deny ipv6 any any
The permit statements are added so that Neighbor Discovery (which performs the equivalent functionality of ARP in IPv4) does not break when you apply an ACL to an interface. This can lead to problems if you like to use the log option in your ACLs, such as "deny ipv6 any any log", because now that statement will override the implicit permits, and neighbor discovery traffic will be denied. So use the log option with care.
Transport Protocol Filtering
In IPv4, people use extended ACLs to filter a large amount of TCP and UDP traffic based on source and destination ports. You can perform this same filtering in IPv6 as well, although it is more complicated for your filtering device to locate the transport protocol in IPv6 traffic. With IPv4, it is trivial to identify the transport protocol. With IPv6, locating the transport protocol is more complicated because you must traverse the extension header chain looking for the transport (which usually comes at the very end of the extension header chain). With fragmentation, it is possible for the first fragment to not even include the transport protocol. This facilitated new filtering keywords, such as undetermined-transport, which indicates that either the transport protocol can not be identified in the packet or the packet contains an undefined extension header. It also varies the way in which the fragment keyword is interpreted depending on the location of the transport protocol header.
Filtering Extension Headers
In IPv4, the main concern was usually limiting traffic based on IP protocols (such as UDP and TCP). Limiting traffic based on IP protocols is important with IPv6, but now you also have to be concerned with filtering extension headers as well. For instance, one extension header that you should definitely deny is the Routing Header (RH) Type 0, since this is essentially the same as source routing in IPv4. Fortunately, the RH Type 0 extension header was deprecated by RFC 5095 so it should not be allowed by default on many devices (this has been the default for IOS beginning with 12.4(15)T). You may also want to deny RH Type 2 traffic, which is related to mobility, depending on the requirements of your network.
Filtering Tunneling
Besides dual stacks, various tunneling techniques have been developed to allow IPv4 and IPv6 networks to communicate with each other during the transition period. These tunnels can provide traffic paths that are not monitored or filtered by your current IPv4 security policy. Without proper filtering, users may configure these tunnels to bridge the IPv4 and IPv6 networks. Some tunnels can even be configured automatically without user interaction.This could allow traffic that is denied by your IPv4 security policy to bypass those restrictions. For instance, a teredo tunnel enables a user to encapsulate an IPv6 packet inside of a standard IPv4 UDP packet. Through that tunnel a user or attacker could establish connections that would be otherwise blocked by the existing IPv4 security restrictions.
ICMP Concerns
With IPv4, ICMP messages from other networks did not usually play a large role in the operation of your network. In many situations, you could block ICMP traffic at your perimeter (which is quite common). With the increased role of ICMP in IPv6, simply blocking all ICMP is no longer an option (as exhibited by the IOS ACLs that now have implicit permit statements). For instance, unless you allow ICMP type 2 (Packet Too Big) messages into your network, you break fragmentation. You also have to decide if you are going to allow neighbor discovery to operate at your perimeter since it also utilizes ICMP traffic. In fact, RFC 4890 – Recommendations for Filtering ICMPv6 Messages in Firewalls is solely devoted to explaining the various things you need to consider when implementing rules to limit ICMP traffic into your IPv6 network.
Elimination of NAT
With IPv4, most home firewalls implement a default configuration, which performs dynamic NAT to allow multiple internal systems to appear to be a single IP address to the external world. By default, this configuration usually only allows outbound connections from your internal network while denying any connections initiated from the Internet to your internal systems. This default configuration provides security to home networks by limiting inbound traffic, while still allowing your computers to easily access the Internet. With IPv6, however, addresses are not as limited so NAT is no longer needed. The downside to this is that the default setup for home IPv6 firewalls is likely to be much more open, to guarantee that your internal devices can access the Internet. From a security perspective, in many situations this may be similar to plugging you computer directly into your cable modem. Therefore, you must make sure that you apply ACLs to limit access into your IPv6 home network.
This has been a quick look at some of the things to consider when securing your IPv6 network (definitely nothing close to a comprehensive guide to securing your IPv6 network). Hopefully, this overview has encouraged you to start seeking out IPv6 best practice guides as they continue to evolve, so that even before you deploy IPv6 on your network you understand the risks, since many of the features of IPv6 essentially operate automatically (such as address creation and some tunnel creation). Then when you deploy IPv6 on your network, you will be able to successfully harden the network so that it is no more insecure than your current IPv4 network. Also, keep an eye out for the next post in this series where we'll be talking about things to consider when performing security testing on IPv6 devices.
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I am a student of Networking. It's really nice information for me. IPv6 is pretty tuff for me. Because I didn't get opportunity to use it. Thanks for share.
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How to Find Your Laptop's MAC Address in Windows Vista
If you access WiFi networks from your laptop, these networks may sometimes want to know your laptop's MAC Address. Some wireless networks restrict access to only those computers they know. The MAC Address is what the network asks for a piece of identification to distinguish between computers it knows and utter strangers.
No two MAC Address numbers are identical, and the MAC Address is very difficult to fake. By using the MAC Address, a wireless network can restrict access to only those computers that are known and registered.
The MAC Address is 12 digits long, broken up into pairs, like this: 12:34:56:78:9A:BC. It's a base-16 value (also called hexadecimal), so the letters A through F are also considered to be numbers.
If the MAC Address is necessary to connect to a specific network, hand it over to the network manager or human in charge. That person will happily add your laptop's address to the list of allowed computers so that you can use the network.
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Choose Control Panel from the Start menu, and then open the Control Panel's Network and Sharing Center.
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Put the Cell Phone Down and Play!
By Shari Harpaz, CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathologist
Whether parents like it or not, early language development is chiefly influenced by interaction with their children. Infants develop early language skills through engaging in vocal play. They learn the satisfaction of communicating by going back-and-forth with a parent making sounds. Interacting with baby toys in a mutual way also contributes to language development. As toddlers they develop vocabulary and learn grammar through language stimulation from their environment and interaction with their family and peers.
The problem is that in today's busy society our reliance on technology and the need for instant gratification has constrained these important interactions with our children.
We check email on our phones and PDA's during "family dinner". We text message our friends "quickly" when in a car. Children play portable video games or watch DVD more frequently. All of these changes have changed the way families and friends communicate and this has negatively impacted early language development for many young children. As a result, there has been a significant increase in children who are "late-talkers".
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Don't let technology interfere with family time
When you were a child and took a family trip, you probably played games and sang songs in the car to help pass the time. These days, technology is the tool of choice for filling our spare time. Cars are equipped with DVD players. Children, as young as pre-schoolers, have portable video games. Even elementary school aged children have cell phones. While these are great inventions, their presence means there is less time for parents to take part in language stimulation with their young children. This doesn't have to be the case. Here are some suggestions to get back to the basics on your next family road trip.
- Play "I Spy" – I like to play with the rule that you can't repeat the same object that someone has previously said so that your child really has to pay close attention. Increase the difficulty of the game by describing the object rather than saying the label (i.e. I spy something you ride with 2 wheels and handlebars)
- Make up a story together – Decide as a family what the title of the story will be first. Then each person takes a turn telling the next sentence. Your child will have to really listen and be creative to help create a cohesive story.
- Share your favorite moments – at the end of an active day, everyone can tell what their favorite and least favorite things they did were. By sharing the good and bad moments it teaches children to vocalize their emotions. You, as parents, share your feelings too which provides your children with a great model.
Bottom line: take advantage of car rides when distractions can be kept out and you can gain your child's undivided attention. Be creative and create an open environment for your children to communicate with you and for them to learn. Most importantly, have fun family time!


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