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Hi! I'm Mary from The Tulip Patch with a fun Christmas project…get started now and save the stress later!
My three boys love advent calendars and I have always wanted to do one for them but have been intimidated by all the pockets and finishing work. I discovered the trusty one seam flying geese block and finally felt confident to try. This is so easy and best of all, you can fill the calendar with what you want…healthy snacks, bible verses about the Christmas story, small toys, whatever!
Each calendar requires:
- 24 Charm Squares (Flurry by Kate Spain)
- approx 100″ binding (1/4 yard will yield approximately125″ of 2.5″ binding or approximately 165″ of 2.25″ binding)
- 20″x29″ rectangle of backing fabric (will give you 1″ over overhang on all sides)
- 12 5″x9.5″ rectangles for the pockets (1/2 yard will yield 16 pockets easily)
- A fusible web product such as Wonder Under, Steam a Seam, or Heat&Bond
Ric Rac (about 2 2/3 yd per calendar)
Cut your flying geese fabric (I used the solids from the Flurry Collection along with Moda Bella Solid in White into 12 5″x9.5″ rectangles. Save all extra fabric for creating your calendar letters.
With this particular charm pack, I first removed all the solid squares and saved them for making calendar letters. I was able to do 3 calendars with 2 charm packs.
Now let's make our one-seam flying geese blocks to serve as our pockets.
Layer in the following order:
- Bottom: 5″ charm square, right side facing UP
- Middle: 5″x 9.5″ rectangle, folded widthwise with wrong sides facing (right sides out) Your fold should be at the top and the ends of your folded rectangle should line up with the bottom of your charm squares.
- Top: 5″ charm square, right side facing DOWN
Now sew a 1/4″ seam on the side. The fold of your rectangular fabric should be 1/4″ from the top.
Repeat until you have a whole pile of one-seam flying geese ready for pressing. Each calendar requires 12 one-seam flying geese blocks. Each block makes 2 pockets.
Press ONE of your side seams down. Do not press the fold of the rectangular fabric or you will end up with a crease in your geese.
Take your finger and spread your geese fabric out and press.
Now turn your block over and trim any excess geese fabric from the bottom of the block.
Now you can add letters if you wish. I like to do this before I sew up the top because it is a more manageable size if you plan on securing the numbers with stitching. I am going to be using raw edge applique & heat bond. You could also choose to label your calendar with embroidery, fabric crayons/markers, needleturn applique, wool/felt applique. Here is how I chose to do my letters:
Take your leftover fabric and adhere it to a fusible web product according to manufacturer instructions. If you have a die cutter that will work on fabric, you can use this to cut your letters easily. I happened to find one on sale and thanks to Darlene from Insights from SewCalGal for emailing me back and forth until I figured out how to work it!
If you do not have a die cutter, use a number stencil to trace your numbers backwards on the adhesive side of the fabric you have just treated with heat and bond. Cut numbers out and then peel any adhesive paper from each number.
Apply with an iron to your blocks..double check your layout because once these numbers are down, there is no going back. You can use a blanket stitch or zigzag stitch to secure your numbers. My calendar will only be used as a wall hanging so I chose to only secure my letters with tight machine quilting and the fusible adhesive.
Now assemble your blocks. I used a 3 column, 4 row layout. You could also use a 4 row, 3 column layout for a long skinny calendar…choose what is best for the space you are planning to hang your calendar.
Baste & Quilt as desired. DO NOT quilt over your geese. Quilt between them. Trim up your quilt top after quilting.
Add a ric rac as a binding flange if desired. If you hang your calendar with sewing pins like I do, the ric rac will hide those nicely. Simply cut 4 pieces of ric rac to correspond with each side of your wall hanging and attach with your machine. Finish your wall hanging by binding.
If you would like to make a traditional hanging sleeve, you can visit this MBS tutorial to learn how.
One 20″x30″ advent calendar to help the little ones you love count down to Christmas…
and start some family traditions.
If you enjoyed this tutorial then pop on over to the Tulip Patch to see what I'm up to.
Mary Lane Brown
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As fall arrives there is always a melancholy at leaving summer behind, but then once it heads into full gear it seems that the crispness in the air and the changing colours bring a new outlook. I enjoy the golden light of autumn that seems to make us all a bit more romantic, and I love the comfort food that graces the table again as we gather round with friends to catch up on old news. The changing of gears when the seasons change is a natural part of life's process, and letting it happen to you can be very cleansing.
So, here is your checklist to ensure you get the most out of this new season. A sort of tune-up if you will, to make certain the machine is working well and the gears do not grind as you move from one to the other…
- Take a walk through a vineyard and enjoy the changing colours
- Watch a sunset and a moonrise (preferably with someone so you can make the most of the romantic moment! NOTE: Dogs will do just fine, too.)
- Bite into an apple right from a fruit stand or market stall - listen to the crisp crunch of the skin and taste the flavours of a fall day
- If you have kids, take them to the back yard or a park with lots of leaves and jump in a pile! (If you don't have kids and can't "borrow" any, just blame it on the fresh air going to your head!!)
- Savour a stew or a pot pie for dinner, and follow it with a comfy homemade dessert like bread pudding (I have included one of my recipes below for you to try)
- Enjoy the company of good friends and toast their health – if you feel ambitious, you can even start up a gourmet club and have everyone host evenings in a round-robin format (it doesn't have to be dinner and could even be pot luck to accommodate today's busy schedules)
This weekend Martin and I will be doing all of those things, so we will toast your health. Here's wishing you many happy moments in that golden light and a good start to the coming winter when we will shift gears again.
This is a pioneer recipe that I adapted when we worked on movie catering trucks. It take a few shortcuts so is a good quick recipe that produces a fantastic result!
2 eggs
2 tbsp Bird's Custard powder
½ cup sugar
2 cups milk
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp lemon zest (TIP: zest the lemon first, then cut for juicing)
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tbsp ground ginger (no really, it is a tablespoon – if you don't like ginger too much, substitute 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice)
4-6 pieces candied ginger, finely chopped
10 slices whole wheat bread, cubed (white bread may be substituted for a fluffier pudding)
2 cups apple, chopped
1 cup raisins or dried cherries
Grease a shallow casserole dish. Preheat oven to 325 F.
Beat eggs, custard powder, sugar and milk in a large bowl. Add lemon juice and zest and spices and mix again. Fold bread cubes into this mixture and set aside for 15-30 minutes.
Pour pudding into casserole dish and bake for 25 minutes covered with a lid or tinfoil, then bake a further 10-15 minutes uncovered. Top should be golden brown, and pudding should be set (not sloppy when the bowl is moved.)
Serve warm or cold with whipped cream, ice cream or just cream poured over top. If you want a really decadent dessert, serve with caramel sauce!

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Melbourne IT said it expects a boost to business from defensive domain registering and other activity associated with new global top-level domains expected to go live later this year.
Melbourne IT reported revenue and profit declines in full-year 2012 results announced today. Compared to full-year 2011 results, revenue fell 5 per cent to $170.6 million, while earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) dropped 21 per cent to $15 million and net profit after tax (NPAT) sank 16 per cent to $11.4 million.
On a conference call with media, Melbourne IT CEO Theo Hnarakis said ICANN's release of new gTLDs would generate a "huge dividend" and contribute to a turnaround for the company in 2013.
The gTLDs, which are new 'dot word' domains in the style of .com or .org, are expected to appear in the second half of this year. About 1900 new gTLDs were ranked in December.
Some of the domains will likely spur significant revenue from defensive registrations, Hnarakis said.
"We have 3800 corporate customers, many of which are very defensively oriented in protecting their brand," he said. "When these new extensions are launched, they naturally register that domain name to ensure nobody else can secure that name."
When the .xxx domain was launched in 2011, Melbourne IT had $2 million in sales in defensive registrations for the extension, the CEO said. The year before, the company had almost $1.5 million in revenue from the launch of the .co extension, he said.
Of the 150 gTLDs Melbourne IT applied for on behalf of customers, 75 per cent of the brands have said they will use the domains, and 110 of them have committed to five-year registry contracts, Hnarakis added.
Melbourne IT expects to charge $20,000 to $30,000 per name, he said. But some could generate "hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue per brand" as they become live and start generating second-level registrations, he said.
In addition, Melbourne IT expects a "spike in infringements," increasing the "amount of brand protection work we do," he said.
Besides revenue created by gTLDs, Hnarakis said a strategic review, new hires and a business "transformation" project would result in "return to growth" in the future.
Melbourne IT plans to finish its transformation project in late 2013. Hnarakis said the project "will allow the business to realise cost savings, streamline processes and launch new products."
Meanwhile, an ongoing strategic review started in November 2012 is looking at "possibilities of unlocking value for shareholders and delivering more focused investments, execution and operations for customers and staff," he said.
In addition, Hnarakis pointed to "key hires in our Digital Brand Services (DBS) and SMB Solutions businesses, with the latter formed by the merger of our SMB and Global Partner Solutions divisions to improve service delivery and realise operational efficiencies."
While the loss of Microsoft as a customer in the first half of 2012 stung, Hnarakis said Melbourne IT "hasn't just sat on our hands, accepting our fate."
"We have been working with some very large industry-leading players, in particular in international markets, that could not just fill that gap but more than outperform the gap left by Microsoft, going forward."
And Hnarakis said he expects to receive more business from the retail industry in the future, especially after the sector faced technical problems during the recent Click Frenzy sale.
Any retailer who "sees ecommerce as a significant saviour for [its] business will start engaging companies like ours to assist them to cope with the additional traffic and challenges they need to face as they build their marketing campaigns around the online digital world," he said.
Hnarakis noted that its EBIT and NPAT results were affected by a non-cash impairment charge of $2 million of the ForTheRecord division's carrying value following a review by the board. Not including the impairment, EBIT was down 10 per cent from 2011 and NPAT was flat with 2011 levels.
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NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport had reported that the Dallas Cowboys worked out David Carr, Tyler Thigpen, John Skelton and Caleb Hanie, only to send all four free-agent quarterbacks home without a contract.
Now we know why.
A person informed of the deal told Rapoport the Cowboys are signing Jon Kitna to function as the third quarterback, behind Kyle Orton and an injured Tony Romo.
The Cowboys announced Wednesday they officially had signed Kitna.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram first reported Dallas' interest in bringing back Kitna, who hasn't attempted an NFL pass since September of 2011.
Citing a lingering back injury, Kitna announced his retirement in early 2012 after 15 NFL seasons. Last we heard from him in May of that year, Kitna was teaching math at a Tacoma high school.
Although he's a rusty 41-year-old, Kitna does make sense as an insurance policy in the sense that he knows Jason Garrett's offense after spending two seasons in Dallas.
Foreshadowing his signing, Kitna discussed the expectations of an emergency quarterback on Tuesday's edition of NFL Network's "NFL AM."
"I mean it's just like anything else throughout 15, 16 years -- you do have to be ready," Kitna explained. "You do have to know everything that the starter knows. All that is head knowledge. You obviously don't get the chance to go out there and rep it in practice throughout the week and obviously not playing on Sundays, but you're expected to be ready."
The coaching staff is still holding out slim hope that Romo will play in a win-and-in season finale versus the Eagles. If Romo can't go and Orton exits with injury, the Cowboys' best puncher's chance will be turning to a quarterback familiar with the personnel and the playbook.
The Chicago Bears pulled their top-notch backup out of high school last year. We can't blame the Cowboys for traveling the same route with the season on the line.
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We thank you for your business and wish you a happy Holiday Season and a prosperous New Year! In observance of Christmas and New Years, all Arvest branch locations will be closed Monday, Dec. 26th and Monday, Jan. 2nd, 2012.
Some locations will have special hours on the days leading up to Christmas and New Years. All Arvest branch locations will be open during regular business hours following the holidays on Tuesday, Dec. 27 and Tuesday, Jan. 3. See below for special hours at select locations.
Saturday, Dec. 24: All Wal-Mart Supercenter branches in the cities and areas below will CLOSE at 2:00pm.
Saturday, Dec. 24: All Wal-Mart Supercenter branches in the cities and areas below will CLOSE at 2:00pm.
Friday, Dec. 23: The Service Station branch at Conoco-Phillips in Bartlesville, Okla. will be CLOSED.
Saturday, Dec. 24 and Saturday, Dec. 31: The following branches will CLOSE at 1:00pm.
For your convenience you can bank 24 hours a day, 7 days a week:
Warm wishes!
I was about ready to move my banking else-where when I saw the subject "Holiday Hours", but you did redeem yourselves when you later used "Christmas and New Years holiday hours".
I don't do business with any organizations that water down the meaning of Christmas.
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I totally agree with Will. Thank you Arvest
thank you for all you you found fraud comming in my checking account and stopped it i love this bank merry christmas
I trade with the Arvest Bank behind the Taco Bell in Mountain Home,, and nobody could get better service then this bank. All the wonderful people that work at this bank bo beyond being just Great,,, All of them,, Thank you Arvest and Jennifer and her very able crew,, To all of them Merry Christmas , Rock
I have been a customer for over 20 years and I appreciate all of your service and help. I will always remember the rainy day before I had knee surgery and was trying to get to my car when a teller got an umbrella and helped me to my car. Little did she know that I was in much pain and needed assistance. Happy holidays to all of your staff.
Happy Hollidays, Arvest Personel, You've the best Customer Service of any Bank or Federal Credit Union I've ever been associated with. Thanks to all of you. Orgel
Special Thanks to DEBBIE MILLER in Bartlesville, OK. From Orgel & Millie
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The HR department stores information such as employee names, job start data, and job level. The administration department stores additional data such as building codes and office numbers. The client application that handles the HR data requires access to the combined data from both sources. Both data sources have a common attribute, the employeeNumber that exists in each entry.
The following diagram illustrates the requirements of the client application.
To fulfill this application requirement, a data view is created for the payroll directory and for the administration LDIF file. These two data views are then joined to provide access to the aggregated data. This common attribute enables Directory Proxy Server to aggregate the data for each user.
For simplicity, the commands used in this section assume the following information:
A Directory Proxy Server instance runs on the local host, with the default LDAP port (389).
The Directory Proxy Server instance is located at /local/myDPS.
The path to the file containing the Proxy Manager password has been set as a variable, LDAP_ADMIN_PWF.
The payroll LDAP directory runs on a host named payrollHost, on port 2389.
The LDIF file used to store the administration data is named example.ldif.
To obtain the complete syntax of each command, run the command without any options. For example:
$ dpconf create-ldap-data-view Operands are missing Usage: dpconf create-ldap-data-view VIEW_NAME POOL_NAME SUFFIX_DN
Create an LDAP data source for the payroll directory.
$ dpconf create-ldap-data-source payroll-directory payrollHost:2389
Create an LDAP data source pool for the payroll directory.
$ dpconf create-ldap-data-source-pool payroll-pool
Attach the payroll data source to the data source pool.
$ dpconf attach-ldap-data-source payroll-pool payroll-directory
Configure the weights of the attached data source.
$ dpconf set-attached-ldap-data-source-prop -h payrollHost -p 2389 \ payroll-pool payroll-directory add-weight:2 \ bind-weight:2 compare-weight:2 delete-weight:2 \ modify-dn-weight:2 modify-weight:2 search-weight:2
Create an LDAP data view for the payroll directory.
$ dpconf create-ldap-data-view payroll-view payroll-pool o=example.com
Enable the LDAP data view so that client requests can be routed to this data view.
$ dpconf set-ldap-data-view-prop payroll-view is-enabled:true
Restart Directory Proxy Server for the changes to take effect.
$ dpadm restart /local/myDPS
Create an LDIF data view for the administration data.
$ dpconf create-ldif-data-view admin-view example.ldif dc=example,dc=com
Enable the LDIF data view for the administration data.
$ dpconf set-ldif-data-view-prop admin-view is-enabled:true
Specify that the administrator view contains entries that are used by more than one entry in the payroll view.
$ dpconf set-ldif-data-view-prop admin-view contains-shared-entries:true
When this property is set to TRUE, deleting an entry in the payroll data view will not result in the deletion of the shared entry in the administrator data view. Adding an entry to the payroll data view will only add the entry to the secondary data view if it does not already exist.
Restart Directory Proxy Server for the changes to take effect.
$ dpadm restart /local/myDPS
Create a filter join rule on the administrator data view that specifies how the data should be aggregated.
The following join rule specifies that data should be joined based on the employeeNumber attribute of the user entry.
$ dpconf set-ldif-data-view-prop admin-view \ filter-join-rule:employeeNumber=\${payroll-view.employeeNumber}
Create a join data view that aggregates the two data views.
For the join data view, the organization uses the suffix DN dc=example,dc=com.
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I applied the beading last, handstitching it down over the gathered side seam. I finished the seams on my serger, and also serged a blind-stitched hem. The fabric behaved beautifully on both the industrial straight stitch and the serger.
I got a lot of compliments on the dress, and spent about $130 total on the materials. The fabric is so much nicer than the original dress, it feels substantial and has a lot less sheen. The gathers don't lay as flat as the jersey though, and if the fabric were any stiffer I don't think they would have worked at all. But I'm happy I was able to anticipate the differences and make allowances for them.


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MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- The U.S. Marine Corps Wounded Warrior Regiment will host the third annual Marine Corps Trials for wounded, ill and injured Marines aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., March 1-6. Over 300 active duty, reserve and veteran Marines as well as military representatives from allied nations will have an opportunity to compete in a seven-sport competition to include archery, shooting, wheelchair basketball, sitting volleyball, swimming, cycling, and track and field. The Trials is a part of the Regiment's Warrior Athlete Reconditioning program which provides activities and opportunities for wounded, ill, and injured Marines to train as athletes, while increasing their strength so they can continue with military service or develop healthy habits for life outside the service. The Trials will also serve as an opportunity for the Regiment to select 50 Marines to participate on the 2013 All-Marine Warrior Games team. The Warrior Games is a Paralympic-style competition for wounded, ill and injured service members. The All-Marine team will compete at the Warrior Games May 11-17, 2013 at the Olympic Training Center and the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. They will go head to head against the other branches of the Armed Forces to defend their first place title. The United States Marine Corps Wounded Warrior Regiment provides and facilitates non-medical care to combat and non-combat wounded, ill, and injured Marines, and sailors attached to or in direct support of Marine units and their family members in order to assist them as they return to duty or transition to civilian life. The Regimental Headquarters element, located in Quantico, Va., commands the operations of two Wounded Warrior Battalions located at Camp Pendleton, Calif., and Camp Lejeune, N.C., and multiple detachments in locations around the globe.
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So I'm one week into my #gratitude experiment. I'm not sure how long exactly I'll extend it out (publicly, at least), but for now, it's been and interesting exercise and I have a few observations:
- Only after one day of "working" to think about gratitude in my day, my mind started automatically coming up with things to be grateful for. Little things like being grateful for coffee in my morning, or my warm bed would just float into my conscious and make me realize how great I have it- even if I'm not getting exactly what I want in other areas of life.
- On the second day of the experiment I was walking downtown #yyj and a seagull decided to shit on me right before I went to a restaurant for dinner. I observed myself actually trying to get angry and forcibly generate self-pity, but then my mind switched to being grateful that I had an office downtown, and that I had access to a private bathroom to clean myself up in. That one surprised me as I actually observed myself trying to take the incident one step further and be cranky about it, only to experience an automatic switch to being grateful for that office.
- I've seen some positive effects of this experiment in my immediate network of friends and family. People are chatting about it, retweeting some stuff, emailing me, etc. — it seems as though gratitude is a bit contagious. In a world where media focuses so much on the negative, it brings me joy to see how one little act to dedicate a very small portion of my day to gratitude has spread into something bigger.
- In general, I find myself defaulting to smiling more and feeling more gracious to others in otherwise annoying social encounters with the public.
I remember learning about bounded rationality when studying entrepreneurship at UVIC. The theory can credit its origin to economics and human decision-making theory. We learned about it in relation to how bounded rationality creates entrepreneurial opportunity. The theory always stuck with me, though, as a general concept on the finite processing bandwidth of human consciousness due to the biological limitations of the human brain.
Basically, like any computer, our brains can only process so much "software" at any given time. If you load up too many programs, everything slows down and you can't process efficiently. Further, no one can load up every program in the world at once. You can only successfully operate a couple programs at once through multitasking. We can only focus our conscious mind on a finite few things at once.
This has me thinking about how focusing on #gratitude can actually impact how I perceive the world. By training my conscious mind to focus on gratitude for a period of time, my subconscious mind starts serving up more feelings and observations of gratitude. Through devoting a portion of my bounded rationality to gratitude, the act uses up a certain portion of my brain's processing power, leaving less to focus on negative or destructive thoughts that do not serve me.
All fascinating stuff for an amateur mindfulness geek!
Anyway, for those who have asked, the number-sign/hash tag I type before the word gratitude is Twitter syntax that signifies a keyword or topic the tweet is about. As I'm posting many of my gratitude observations on Twitter alongside my regular tweets, I wanted to use the hash tag to delineate the gratitude experiment tweets from the regular tweets.


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Welcome to Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (HBANES). The HBANES Program offers a diverse array of topical courses in translation on biblical and other ancient Near Eastern topics. Because the Program's courses are often cross-listed and the requirements are flexible, HBANES majors often double major in History, Classics, Jewish Studies, or Comparative Religion.
HBANES also offers a two-year sequence in biblical Hebrew language. The inductive method that we employ allows students to read from the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) alone already by the end of the second quarter of the first year. Thereafter students take courses on biblical Hebrew prose texts, biblical poetry, and ancient inscriptions. The final quarter of the second year we typically devote to biblical Aramaic for those who have taken the Hebrew sequence. Periodically we offer courses on hieroglyphic Egyptian, Ugaritic, and Akkadian (the latter two invariably for students who have had at least two years of biblical Hebrew).
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I've been thinking myself quite clever these past few months, creating Crux systems that boot in 14 seconds, or extremely lightweight arrangements with very sparse, but very fast, custom-tuned software.
And then, along comes Slitaz, and makes me feel silly. The current cooking ISO boots … well, as you would expect, in a speed that's proportional to your drive and processor speeds. Once it's loaded into memory and ready to go, it's probably the fastest thing I've ever used.
But since I was in a hurry to get rid of Windows, I went ahead and installed it to the hard drive, and that's when the ugly reality hit: A Slitaz Openbox system on my 1Ghz machine gets to the desktop in 16 seconds — only two seconds slower than my best Crux arrangement.
Well, now don't I feel foolish.
And it's just as pretty too, which is irrelevant of course. (One day I shall design the world's fastest but ugliest distro, just to underscore the fact that looks don't matter.)
And the Slitaz camp is coming up with some great software, and software combinations. PCMan's freshest stuff is part of the cooking version, and I'm quickly becoming addicted again. Things like NoteCase come by default, along with HardInfo, text editors, code editors, ISO editors, ISO burners, mount tools, in-house package managers, MPlayer, web-based boots … it's quite impressive.
In fact, the only downside to a full Slitaz installation over a live version (that I can see, anyway) is that there's an obvious difference between application performance in the live version over the installed one. It only makes sense: Memory-based systems just move faster than waiting for your I/O channels and hard drive to supply the information you need. It can't be avoided.
It does make me wonder though … if you decide to use Slitaz regularly, it might be more satisfying to stick with the live version and keep configurations and settings on an external drive or flash disk. Or just never reboot, which I know some people do.
Either way the Slitaz crew is doing some amazing things, and every time I look at it, I'm impressed. If you're sitting on an old machine and want to inject some speed into it, I highly recommend experimenting with this one. You will not be disappointed, and you might just be saving yourself hours of compiling to get the same level of performance. I would have. 🙄


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By Ryan Mack
Job searching seems harder than ever right now, but there are people getting jobs. So, how are they doing it? Even with the unemployment rate at 8.6 percent there are still five to six million jobs on the market at any given time that have yet to be filled. Why shouldn't you have one of them?
Denver Broncos quarterback, Tim Tebow, has had a new term coined after him called "Tebowing", where he uses his faith during the game to guide him. He's becoming a legend after coming onto the team and leading them to their sixth consecutive winSo what is his secret to getting what he wants — and how can you apply it to a job search?
Stay committed no matter what. If you have been looking for a job for a week or six months, you should make sure that you have the commitment that it takes to find the right job for you. Commitment to your job search means that you will dedicate a certain amount of hours per week to your search — and you won't stop until you have found a job. You will notice that Tebow usually helps his team to victory in the last stages of most games…and that's because as time passes and he is not reaching his goal, he only becomes more determined to reach it by the end of the game. The energy he produces out of his excitement can be felt by his team, which usually gives them an end of the game energy boost to take home a win!
Don't let others bring you down. No matter what the reasons behind not getting a job, or whatever friends or family are saying to you to make you think you are just not meant for a certain type of job, don't quit. You know what you are capable of and believing in yourself will give you the confidence you need to win over the interviewer. Tebow has been pummeled in the media for not having enough experience to be the team quarterback, so now that he has overcome their expectations, what does that say about him? He didn't break…and it only made him stronger and more determined to succeed in the face of doubt.
Don't undercut your integrity for a job. The whole meaning behind the word integrity is to adhere to your own moral character and honesty. So, don't take a job that is going to put your integrity into question. If you interview for a sales position where you just do not believe in the product they sell, then how are you going to sell it to people and feel good about yourself? Look for something you can be passionate about and that fits in with your beliefs. Think about what your dream job would be.
Tebow is never afraid of showing his beliefs in front of others. He kneels on the field every game to clearly signify his religious beliefs for all to see and he never waivers in the face of judgment.
Be your own inspiration. You will have some interviews that just do not work out and that means the job just wasn't for you. When this happens, take some time to analyze why you didn't get the job and then pick yourself up by the boot straps and move on to bigger and better jobs interviews. Throughout each game, Tebow fights hard the entire game to win and it is usually within the last minutes of the game that an extraordinary reigniting of his spirit takes place and he has a renewed focus on his goal to win!
We all have an inner Tebow within us. Can you find it within you?
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At first glance it doesn't seem that Chicago and Israel have much in common when it comes to water.
"Ben-Gurion is in the desert while the University of Chicago is right on the shoreline of Lake Michigan, one of the best sources of water in the world," admitted Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, on a recent trip to Israel.
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Despite this Emanuel was in the country in late June to announce a major collaboration between the University of Chicago and Israel's Ben-Gurion University (BGU) of the Negev to research novel, game-changing water technologies from the tiniest molecular level.
"While in totally different environments, their mission is the same: how to master the most promising research with the best minds to be at the forefront of research in water conservation," he explained.
UChicago, BGU and the Argonne National Laboratory (which UChicago manages for the US Department of Energy) have jointly committed more than $1 million in seed money over the next two years to support at least five inaugural projects in the Chicago-Israel initiative. However, both sides anticipate that the collaboration will be long term.
"I've made water a component of every Chicago sister-city program in the world," Emanuel told ISRAEL21c. "That's the value I have put on it. I want Chicago to be at the epicenter of water research and conservation, and I couldn't think of anybody better than Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, which is at the epicenter of research on how to maximize scarce resources."
Research proposals under consideration include fabricating new nano-materials to remove contaminants, bacteria, viruses and salt from drinking water at a fraction of the cost of current technologies; biological engineering to help plants maximize their own drought-resistance mechanisms; and polymers that can increase water retention in agricultural soil. The water-energy nexus — it takes energy to produce water and it takes water to produce energy – is also a focus.
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BGU President Dr. Rivka Carmi noted that the university has been active in water-related research for more than four decades, and especially over the past three years at its Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research in Sde Boker. Among the innovations from BGU scientists are the membrane that made reverse osmosis practical, and some of the desalination methods that allowed Israel to become a world leader in this field.
Myriad water production and purification inventions from Israel are already addressing needs across the world, but the new research project seeks solutions at a nano-level never before possible.
The joint effort will be guided by Prof. Moshe Gottlieb, founder of BGU's Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, and Prof. Matthew Tirrell, founder of UChicago's new Institute for Molecular Engineering.
The initial memorandum of understanding was signed in Chicago on March 8. The teams then met in Israel to explore their mutual interests in water chemistry, materials science, microbiology and nanotechnology. A reciprocal visit to Chicago is scheduled for this autumn, following the final selection of the first collaborative projects.
Tirrell told ISRAEL21c that he and Gottlieb have maintained a warm professional relationship since 1977, when Tirrell was an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota and Gottlieb came there for post-doctoral research. This new collaboration, the result of the mayor and UChicago President Robert Zimmer's long-simmering interest in creating a joint partnership with an Israeli university, enables the colleagues to work together once again.
"Many technological problems remain in the supply of water despite advances in desalination and recycling," said Gottlieb. "With the proper resources, we're certain this partnership will bring about timely solutions to water problems worldwide by working at a molecular level."
Israeli expertise makes distance irrelevant
Tirrell said he's flown to Israel three times in the past seven months, prompting Israeli Consul-General in Chicago Roey Gilad to quip that he hopes the new initiative will lead to the resumption of non-stop flights between Tel Aviv and Chicago. Gilad was instrumental in putting the collaboration together.
But even if the visitors will need to continue making stopovers on the journey between Illinois and the Negev, Zimmer says access to Israeli expertise is more important than the number of hours in transit.
"People who want to be ambitious in approaching the important challenges of modern society are looking for the right partner independent of distance," Zimmer told ISRAEL21c. "If we didn't have to travel far it would be easier, but for us, Ben-Gurion is the right partner."
Zimmer said that although the purification challenges in the Great Lakes region are different from the scarcity issues being addressed in Israel, "our combined experience will be a tremendous asset in turning early-stage technologies into innovative solutions that may have applications far beyond local issues."
The collaboration is part of an unprecedented investment to overhaul Chicago's water infrastructure, Emanuel explained. The city's 900 miles of old pipes, 670 miles of sewer, two huge filtration plants and several pumping stations on Lake Michigan all will be rebuilt or replaced. When finished around 2020, the project is expected to conserve two years' worth of residential water now being lost every year through leakage.
"Chicago is on Lake Michigan and sits at the crossroads of the Chicago River, so we have a history of abundance of fresh water," Emanuel said, "but everyone knows that over the next 30 or 40 years water will become a scarce resource and we have to become good stewards of that commodity."
The collaboration aims to advance that agenda. "This is the beginning of what I hope is a long-lasting joint research and friendship between the city of Chicago and the state of Israel," Emanuel concluded.


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I had the pleasure of participating on a producing panel at the Athena Film Festival back in the second week of February. For once I got to be the token male. It was an excellent group with Mary Jane Skalski, Nekisa Cooper, and Susan Cartsonis. The moderator was Lisa Cortes, and she was one of the best moderators I have ever had (festival programmers take note!).
I started tweeting out the advice that was said by all on the panel. This was about both how to get your movie made and how to survive in these times. They got tweeted and passed around by others but I have collected them here for you now too. Sorry for the delay in posting!
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With change and challenges aplenty in Europe's helicopter marketplace, organizers of Helitech bring their all rotary-wing trade show to the Continent for the first time this year.
Helitech's first show outside of the United Kingdom will highlight aerial firefighting and the VIP markets.
This year's event will be held in Estoril, Portugal Oct. 14-16. During the first day of the show, an aerial firefighting conference will be held in Estoril, close to Airport Cascais where the exhibition is being staged. The firefighting event will offer recent case studies in the aerial firefighting arena, as well as discussions of advances in technology and of future growth of that market. On Oct. 15, an all-day conference will spotlight VIP helicopters, covering issues such as future market predictions, financing, collaboration and interiors.
The day before Helitech begins, the European Helicopter Safety Team is to hold its annual conference in Estoril.
During the past year, that team's focus was to determine and implement an effective method for analyzing helicopter accidents throughout Europe. One goal is to make the results of that analysis compatible with the work of the International Helicopter Safety Team's Joint Helicopter Safety Analysis Team so that, eventually, results can be aggregated at a worldwide level. To accommodate the multiple languages used in accident reports across Europe, a subgroup of the team, dubbed the European Helicopter Safety Analysis Team, established regional teams in France, Germany, the U.K., Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Latvia and Slovenia. The regional analysis teams account for more than 90 percent of the helicopters registered in Europe.
This one-day safety conference is expected to address areas such as the European-specific accident analysis method adapted from the global team, as well as analysis results and intervention suggestions and how to prioritize these and other recommended measures to reduce the accident rate. Delegates from European regulatory bodies and across operator communities are invited.
Launched in 2006, the European team brings together manufacturers, operators, research organizations, regulators, accident investigators and a few military operators in Europe. It is committed to the goal of reducing the helicopter accident rate by 80 percent by 2016 worldwide, with emphasis on improving European safety.
To further the focus of aerial firefighting during Helitech 2008, Eurocopter and Portuguese government firefighters have signed up to attend the event. Empresa de Meios Aéreos, the Portuguese government department that manages firefighting contracts, will be showcasing its capabilities. Other major players participating in Helitech 2008 include Bristow Helicopters, European Air-Crane, L-3 Communications Wescam, Pratt & Whitney Canada and RUAG Aerospace.
Helitech typically includes tools and technologies to complement rotary-wing flight. This year's exhibitors promise to bring operators and pilots materials that will enhance safety, communications and more. Here's a sampling.
Prism-Safety will be demonstrating its newly released Web-based quality and safety management tool. The vendor says this tool covers everything from storing and organizing meeting agendas and minutes up to complex audit and accident reports. The system addresses all current regulatory standards, including the implementation of a safety management system (which will be required under ICAO standards starting in January).
Following the safety theme, Atlantic Inertial Systems will be showcasing its Helicopter TERPROM Digital Terrain System. Until now, few aircraft have been able to fly demanding missions safely and effectively by day and night, in all weather, unless they used forward-looking radar that may alert the enemy to their presence. This system combines a highly accurate navigation capability with a digital terrain map to provide safety and tactical benefits with what Atlantic says is no forward electronic emissions. The system generates advanced terrain-avoidance cues, predictive obstruction and wire-threat warnings, as well as audio and visual ground proximity warnings, by scanning forward in the terrain database and predicting appropriate maneuvers to avoid ground collisions.
Skyquest Aviation, which specializes in developing airborne surveillance equipment, will be showing its new 6.5-in mission display, designed to assist pilots of Eurocopter EC135s and EC145s. The new display has been designed to be installed on the pilot side of the cockpit panel and to swivel backwards when not in use or for takeoff and landing. During flight, the display can be swivelled from its storage position and used to display a variety of information, such as moving maps, radar, enhanced-vision system images or live video from the onboard, forward-looking infrared sensor. When integrated with a moving map, the display utilizes its touch-screen functionality to control map inputs.
Also new is Aero Quality Sales' latest aircraft battery charger analyzer. The combined charger/analyzer is electronically controlled and features integral software that enables the unit to be calibrated by the user, as opposed to sending it to a service center.
In the field of communications, SkyTrac's automated flight-following and satellite communications equipment has recently obtained a supplemental type certificate for installation onboard Robinson Helicopter R22s and R44s.
AD Software has developed a helicopter-specific management solution that will be demonstrated live on its stand at Helitech.
Rotor Blades, the blade repair company, Bell Helicopter customer service facility and EASA Part145 maintenance company, will be meeting with conventioneers and customers alike.
Scandinavian Avionics specializes in avionics sales, certification, installation and maintenance, particularly for larger helicopters. The company holds EASA Part 21 design approval, EASA and FAA Part 145 maintenance approval. At Helitech, the company will be promoting everything from its MRO and installation services to its technical training and engineering portfolio.
Simplex Manufacturing was recently certified for quality management system standards and requirements under ISO 9001:2000 with design and AS9100 Revision B. Simplex specializes in the design, manufacture and certification of aerial application systems and mission equipment for helicopters. The company employs the latest technology in design and manufacturing systems for high-strength, low-weight composite materials to make cost-effective products for fire management, powerline maintenance and aerial applications.
With nearly 100 exhibitors, a large static display showcase and rotary-wing experts from around the globe, Helitech is more than just an exhibition, it's a "three-day educational experience" that is expecting to enlighten and energize its attendees.


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This paper presents a case of formation process study and preservation of a digital archive. The digital archive was created during the late 1980s and 90s, a period during which information technologies were being massively adopted in the work-place and problems were compounded by the nature and conditions of its electronic records and systems. The study was prompted by concerns expressed by the archives creators about the computing resources, the costs involved, and the need to preserve their electronic records and systems vis-a-vis the presence of the signed and sealed paper copies. Their doubts surfaced the complexities and limitations of private institutions when they are simultaneously faced with the task of closing down and deciding the fate of their archives and their place in history. The approach used to study the digital archive was to consider it akin to an archeological site. Using interview methods; primary and secondary sources; and metadata extraction, file viewers and file transformation software, I conducted a systematic study of the archives components. The study revealed information about the technical and social contexts involved in the archives formation, and about the way in which its creators used it and valued it over time. The results of the study directed the design of a preservation strategy aimed at maintaining evidence of the digital archives formation process and continuous documentation of its evolution. The attributes characterizing the archive at hand led to the development of the concept of natural electronic archives.
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You better think twice before "Liking" your friends' comments on Facebook. It may land you in jail.
In a case that is worrying freedom of speech activists, two women were temporarily detained in Palaghar, a city 100 kilometers from Mumbai, in relation to a comment posted on Facebook on right-wing Hindu leader Bal Thackeray, who died over the weekend.
The comment did not explicitly criticize Mr. Thackery or his supporters but questioned why it was necessary to effectively shut down the city for his funeral.
Mr. Thackeray, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 86, was the head of the Shiv Sena, or Shiva's army, a right-wing party he founded in the 1960s with the aim of promoting the interests of local Hindus over immigrants in Mumbai's state of Maharashtra.
After his death was announced, shops, restaurants and other businesses in Mumbai closed either as a show of respect or in fear of mob violence by Shiv Sena supporters. Despite some reports of unrest, Mumbai remained mostly peaceful throughout the weekend.
According to the Mumbai Mirror, Shaheen Dhada, 21, posted the following on Facebook: "People like Thackeray are born and die daily and one should not observe a bandh for that." Bandh is Hindi for strike.
The comment was removed after a case was registered against the girl for allegedly hurting religious feelings through social media, according to Shrikant Pingle, a police inspector from Palghar, a Mumbai suburb. The case was registered in response to a complaint filed by Bhushan Sanke, a local Shiv Sena activist.
Police also registered a case against another woman, Rinu Srinivasan, for "liking" the comment.
The two women were detained on Monday morning and released on bail in the afternoon, according to Mr. Pingle, who is conducting the inquiry. The two women were not reachable for comment. Their lawyer, Sudhir Gupta, told news channel NDTV: "Their posts don't incite violence. It can't be said they have made any derogatory remarks."
Sanjay Raut, a member of the Shiv Sena in Mumbai, said that he had no knowledge of the incident. "But if someone has said something like that about a leader like Balasaheb Thackeray, I don't think [a police complaint] is wrong," he said, describing the comment posted on Facebook as a "misuse of social networks."
Parts of a hospital run by a relative of Ms. Dhada were allegedly vandalized by Shiv Sena activists angered by the Facebook post, according to a hospital official. According to reports, a police complaint has been filed against the vandals, but no arrests have yet been made. Mr. Raut had not heard of the alleged attack in the hospital so declined to immediately comment.
Many condemned the incident as a violation of freedom of speech.
Justice Markandey Katju, the chairman of the Press Council of India, the country's main media body, said: "To my mind it is absurd to say that protesting against a bandh hurts religions sentiments. Under Article 19 (1)(a) of our Constitution freedom of speech is a guaranteed fundamental right."
"We are living in a democracy, not a fascist dictatorship," Mr. Katju, a former judge in India's Supreme Court, wrote on his blog in an open letter addressed to the chief minister of Maharashtra. He also cautioned that, if reports are confirmed, legal action should be taken against police.
"The police have failed in their duty to protect the girl and her family," says Pranesh Prakash, policy director at the Centre for Internet and Society, a Bangalore-based research group. He described this attempt to regulate free speech as "unconstitutional."
This isn't only about controlling social media but about freedom of expression on the whole, he says.
"Bal Thackeray had violated the same provisions in his lifetime," noted Mr. Prakash, with reference to Mr. Thackeray's inflammatory speeches against the South Indians and Muslims.
In the past too, the Shiv Sena has forced censorship in Maharashtra. Supporters of the Shiv Sena, in 2010, successfully pressured Mumbai University to remove from its reading list Rohinton Mistry's book "Such a Long Journey," which is critical of the Shiv Sena.
Authorities in India have been criticized for not doing enough to protect freedom of expression. A cartoonist was recently put behind bars accused of sedition, a charge that was later dropped.
Local and central government authorities have defended their policing of the Web in the past, arguing that they must remove content that could spark riots, communal unrest or general public disorder. That's the line the government took when it blocked out some Twitter handles and Web sites during a recent spate of ethnic violence in the northeast.
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Clinical Professor
Department of Computer Science
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
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Deena Engel is a Clinical Professor in the department of Computer Science of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. She is the recipient of four teaching awards at NYU: The Teach/Tech Award with Prof. Craig Kapp of The College of Arts and Science in May, 2016; the Courant Institute Samuel L. Marateck Prize for Outstanding Teaching in Computer Science in May, 2014; the College of Arts and Science Golden Dozen Teaching Award in May 2006; and a College of Arts and Science Outstanding Teacher Award in May 2001. She teaches undergraduate computer science courses on web and database technologies, as well as courses for undergraduate and graduate students in the Digital Humanities and the Arts. She also supervises undergraduate and graduate student research projects in the Digital Humanities and the Arts and collaborates on research on the conservation of software-based art and on digital studies in literature and the visual arts. Prior to entering academe, she ran a systems group in an international art auction house for nine years.
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Courses AY 2014-2015
Spring, 2015
- CSCI-UA.60-1 Database Design and Web Implementation
- CSCI-UA.2-2 Introduction to Programming (Python)
Fall, 2014
- CSCI-UA.60-1 Database Design and Web Implementation
- CSCI-UA.380-2 Computing in the Humanities and the Arts
Courses AY 2013-2014
Spring, 2014
- CSCI-UA.60-1 Database Design and Web Implementation
- CSCI-UA.61-1 Web Development and Programming
- SCHOL-UA-10 Freshman Scholars Seminar
Fall, 2013
- CSCI-UA.60-1 Database Design and Web Implementation
- ENGL-GA.2971-1 Practicum in Digital Humanities
- SCHOL-UA.3 Freshman Scholars Seminar
Courses AY 2012-2013
Spring, 2013
- CSCI-UA.2-1 Introduction to Programming (Python)
- CSCI-UA.60-1 Database Design and Web Implementation
Fall, 2012
- CSCI-UA.380-1 Special Topics: Computing in the Humanities and the Arts
- CSCI-UA.61 Web Development and Programming
- CSCI-UA.4 Introduction to Web Design and Computer Principles
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Upcoming Talk: EMG (Electronic Media Group of the American Institute of conservation of Historic and Artistic Works) - Miami, FL May 2015 Computational Provenance and Computational Reproducibility: What Can We Learn About the Conservation of Software Art From Current Research in the Sciences? with Mark Hellar
EMG (Electronic Media Group of the American Institute of conservation of Historic and Artistic Works) - San Fransisco, CA 5/30/2014 Museum / University Collaborations in Media Conservation Research with Prof. Glenn Wharton http://sched.co/1cX4qfK (JPG)
National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. 01/17/2014 - Technology Experiments in Art: Conserving Software-Based Artworks The Value of Software Documentation in Conserving Software-Art: Case Studies at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City(http://www.si.edu/tbma/symposiums) (PDF)
EMG (Electronic Media Group of the American Institute of conservation of Historic and Artistic Works) - Indianapolis, IN 5/31/2013 Technical Documentation of Source Code at the Museum of Modern Art with Glenn Wharton, Time-Based Media Conservator, Museum of Modern Art - http://www.conservation-us.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=1162 (PDF)
SIGCSE 2013, Denver, Colorado, 3/8/2013: Poster Session - (PDF)Embracing the Digital Humanities: A Course on Computing in the Humanities for Undergraduate Computer Science Minor Students http://db.grinnell.edu/sigcse/sigcse2013/Program/viewAcceptedProposal.pdf?sessionType=poster&sessionNumber=2 (PDF)
Yale University Library's Standing Committee on Professional Awareness (SCOPA) and the Digital Humanities Working Group, 02/10/2012:Putting Primary Source Material Online: A Case Study from New York Universityhttp://digitalhumanities.yale.edu/blog/2012/02/09/deena-engel-visit (PDF) - Notes and Bibliography
NYU Workshop in Archival Practice, 10/14/2011: http://nyuarchiveworkshop.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/notes-from-archive-lab-digital-humanities-and-literary-archives/ (PDF)
NYU, Center For Teaching Excellence: Workshop on the digital Humanities Why Digital Humanities? with Deena Engel, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Michael Stoller, and Diana Taylor
New York University Thursday, February 17, 2011.
Co-sponsored by the Humanities Initiative at NYU.
http://vinopal.org/2011/02/17/why-digital-humanities-notes-from-a-panel-discussion-at-nyu/ (PDF)
Digital Humanities Conference, London - July, 2010; Poster Session: An Inter-Disciplinary Approach to Web Programming: A Collaboration Between the University Archives and the Department of Computer Science by Janet Marie Bunde and Deena Engel
http://www.arts-humanities.net/audio/interview_deena_engel_dh2010 - (PDF) Poster (PDF) - Interview (Audio)
NYU, Center for Teaching Excellence: Technology and Education Conference - (PDF)
New York University, Friday, April 16, 2010 Computing in the Humanities
Upcoming Publication: Source Code Analysis as Technical Art HistoryJournal of the American Institute of Conservation (JAIC) by Deena Engel and Glenn Wharton, 2015
Upcoming Publication: Textual Artifacts and their Digital Representations: Teaching Graduate Students to Build An Online ArchiveDigital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) by Deena Engel and Marion Thain, 2015
Reading between the lines: Source code documentation as a conservation strategy for software-based artStudies in Conservation by Deena Engel and Glenn Wharton, 2014 (http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/2047058413Y.0000000115)
Past or Portal? Enhancing Undergraduate Learning through Special Collections and ArchivesEdited by Eleanor Mitchell, Peggy Seiden, and Suzy Taraba. American Library Association, 2012. Co-author of Chapter 7 in "Pedagogy" - "New York University: Computing in the Humanities @ NYU Libraries" with Janet Bunde and Paula Feid. (http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/v013/13.4.bahde.html)
Computing in the Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Partnership in Undergraduate Education by Janet Bunde and Deena Engel: Journal of Archival Organization, 1533-2756, Volume 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 149 - 159
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Member of the Advisory Board: Academy for Software Engineering (a new New York City public high school) - 2011-2012. (PDF)
"The Graduate Student as Entrepreneur" by Sarah Ruth Jacobs: Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/29/2011: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Graduate-Student-as/129903/ (PDF)
Teaching: Research Projects with Students
Project Title: Source Code Documentation for Computational Art at the
Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Supervisor: Professor Deena Engel, Courant Institute of Mathematics.
MoMA Liaison: Glenn Wharton, Media Conservator, Museum of Modern Art.
Students worked on a research project preparing documentation on a work of computational art in order to facilitate conservation decisions about this work in particular and to provide a model for this process for such works in general. The documentation included an overview of the technologies used, a flowchart of the work, identification and narrative descriptions of the functions and procedures and an overview to contextualize the work within the field of current computational art. CS Department Notice
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Life-Cycle Studies: Nylon
Nylon cannot be melted down and used again, and recycling nylon requires it to be broken down into its constituent chemicals. But the process offers an alternative to sending billons of kilograms of nylon carpets to landfills each year in the United States alone. DuPont, Evergreen, and BASF Corporation have built nylon-carpet recycling facilities in North America and Europe. While the purification and remanufacturing processes do create some waste, this system (which recycles 25 million kilograms of carpet annually) is nearly a closed loop.
For the 1 billion tires discarded worldwide each year, numerous alternative uses are possible. Half of U.S. tire scrap is burned as fuel in cement kilns, waste-to-energy plants, and industrial boilers. Burning a tire yields about one-sixth the energy required to produce it, and doing so releases the carbon that constitutes 85 percent of a tire. More than half the tires discarded in California are patched up for further driving or shredded to become products such as insulation, playground cushioning, and mulch. A Connecticut public health study, however, warned in 2007 that tire crumbs could release carcinogenic chemicals into the air and ground water.
The leading alternative to nylon, at least for clothing, is polyester, but it also consumes significant oil during production. Although the manufacture of cotton foregoes fossil fuels, in the world's leading cotton-producing country, the United States, cotton accounts for a quarter of the country's energy-intensive, polluting pesticides. Despite recent increases, organic cotton production still amounts to a mere 0.03 percent of the worldwide total. Moreover, a Cambridge University study found that polyester materials consume less lifecycle energy than organic apparel, which require frequent washings at high temperatures, tumble-drying, and ironing. Perhaps a Nobel Prize in chemistry awaits the green chemist who invents a sustainable alternative.


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The victory also banished memories of Dufner's play-off defeat to Keegan Bradley in this event two years ago, when he had led by five with four holes to play.
Overnight leader Jim Furyk also bogeyed the 17th and 18th to finish two behind, with Sweden's Henrik Stenson claiming outright third on seven under to go with his runner-up finish in The Open Championship at Muirfield.
"I decided that I was going to be confident and put my best foot forward and play aggressively to try to win this thing. The last two holes were a little unfortunate but I am happy to get the job done and it's a big step in my career."
Stenson moved to within a shot of the lead with a 15 foot eagle on the fourth and was only two behind when he birdied the 13th, but he crucially bogeyed the short par four 14th after hitting his second shot from a divot into a greenside bunker.
"I'm happy with my performance," said the 37 year old. "I think I kept it together nicely. I made a bit of a charge, made a good birdie on 13 then it was a bit unlucky that I ended up in a divot just short of the green on 14.
"I didn't play my best today but I was still hanging in there. I made a great eagle on the fourth and that kind of put me back in a good momentum again.
"I will take a lot of positives out of that. I've got a lot of big tournaments still this year, the whole FedEx Cup and the whole Final Series on The Race to Dubai, so we have got plenty of tournaments to challenge and then we have got four Majors next year.
"I'm really excited. I'm going to work hard on my game and hopefully be even better so I can even play other Sunday divots."
Playing partner and compatriot Blixt never really threatened after dropping shots at the first two holes, but battled back to shoot 70 and claim outright fourth, one ahead of Scott Piercy and Masters Tournament champion Adam Scott.
"It was kind of exciting to be playing there, being up there with those guys and seeing your name up there," said Blixt. "I think I've got to get used to that a little more for the next time. I can't wait to do it again."
Furyk was aiming to follow Phil Mickelson as the second consecutive 43 year old winner of a Major and make amends for a 2012 in which he held or shared the lead after 54 holes in four tournaments and failed to win any, as well as bogeying the final two holes to lose his vital singles match to Sergio Garcia at The Ryder Cup.
Mickelson, Rory McIlroy and Ryder Cup hero Martin Kaymer were among the players who took triple-bogey sevens at the 437-yard par four, but Dufner's approach span back to within two feet of the hole for an easy birdie.