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In the previous post, we tried to answer the question "What is dark matter?" In this post, in the same reductionist spirit, we try to answer the question "What is dark energy?" [1]. For a number of years, I kept thinking that dark energy was just "E =mc^2" type energy associated with dark matter. It was only in my second year in grad school that I realized how hopelessly wrong I was.
As in the context of dark matter, dark energy is postulated to exist to solve some problems associated with explaining observed phenomena. So, first let us talk about what the problem is. The problem is that the universe is expanding and the rate of this expansion is increasing, i.e., the expansion of the universe is accelerating! The first question you might ask is "Are you sure?" or "How do we know this?" I do not want to discuss red shifts and the Hubble constant here. So I refer you to wikipedia for more info on this. What I would like to do here is to take as a given that the universe is expanding and accelerating and ask how can we understand this?
The theory of classical gravity is General Relativity. A layman's minimal picture of what GR is with respect to the familiar Newtonian picture can be summarized quickly enough [2]. But, for the purpose at hand, it suffices to say that one of the consequences of GR is that matter and energy exert a pressure on space time much like a gas in a chamber exerts a pressure on the piston [3]. Now, suppose we use this piston analogy for minute. If I have gas under pressure, kept that way by putting a weight on the piston. I suddenly remove this weight and I ask you what you expect the motion of the piston to be like. You would tell me that the piston would first instantaneously accelerate to a large speed, then decelerate slowly as the gas in the chamber expands. Yes? This same picture is what you would expect to apply to the universe as well. You can think of the total mass and energy of the universe as N in some units. Suppose the volume of space time is V(t) at a given time t, then the pressure exerted by this mass and energy will be proportional to N/V. At the time of the big bang, i.e., t=0, this was enclosed in a very very small volume. Hence it must have exerted tremendous pressure and the universe must have expanded rapidly. As time increases, universe expands, V increases, N/V(t) decreases, and so the universe should expand more slowly than before. If this was the case, then there would be no problems and we would not have so many cosmologists so worried so much of the time.
But, observations of far away galaxies tell us that the universe is expanding faster than it was at earlier times! The question is, how can this be? Clearly, it cannot be from the regular mass and energy that we talked about earlier. So we have to think of something else. One of the possible "something else" is that there is an (as yet mysterious) energy associated with space time itself. If this was the case, then as the universe expands, the number of space time points increases in some sense. Then, this intrinsic energy associated with the space time points increases as well and so the pressure builds up and the universe expands faster. So, the existence of such an energy, the dark energy, could be one possible explanation for the accelerating universe. But where the heck does this energy come from? We have no clue at the present time. Hence the name dark energy.
[1] A more complete and erudite discussion is here.
[2] This is fishing. If you ask me, I will tell you kind of thing.[3] I know that relativist cringe at such statements, but I do not see how else to say this simply.

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If the cover, NASCAR simulation or screenshots didn't have you drooling for Gran Turismo 5 this latest trailer will leave you stuffing Bounty paper towels into your lower jaw.
In addition to a lot of Mercedes SLG AMG footage there's a great WRX spin-out that makes the whole thing worth it.
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This video reminded me of my 5th grade teacher who told my mom that If I kept listening to Metallica and Anthrax, and continued to skateboard that I would turn into a devil worshipping drug addict. Her nut job predictions didn't come true since I became an atheist drug free vegan. Go figure. Watch the full video after the jump.
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Justin Bieber Gets a New Eagle Tattoo + Semi-New Hair [PHOTOS]
Justin Bieber can't stop getting inked. The walking canvas is Canadian, but he Justin Bieber Gets a New Eagle Tattoo + Semi-New Hair [PHOTOS]Nice!
TMZ reports that Bieber got his new tattoo after a concert in Sydney, Australia last night. The 'Heartbreaker' singer showed off his new piece, drawn on his left shoulder, on Instagram last night. He captioned the shots "fresh new tat" and "eagle."
Biebs' other body art includes a crown, the word "Believe," a fish, a tiger, an angel resembling ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez, Roman numerals, his mom's eye (creepy!), Jesus, an owl and more. And knowing the Biebs, there's probably many more to come!
Check out the in-progress shot above. Is Biebs bringing back his early 2012 hair style?! And uh, how about those abs? You know he did that on purpose, Beliebers!


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Free Thought & Self-Censorship
Program #SCHR002. Recorded in Seattle, WA on March 16, 2015.
Imagine a gigantic vacuum cleaner scooping up all electronic communications. That's what the National Security Agency does. Think you are safe from NSA snooping? That you can hide behind clever passwords? Think again. The Agency has the capability to generate one billion password guesses per second. On top of that it can remotely activate your cell phone and computer and use them as eavesdropping and tracking devices. The NSA is at the center of a system of monitoring and control beyond the wildest dreams of the greatest tyrants in history. The so-called War on Terror has unleashed a war on civil liberties. White House claims of national security justify massive abuses. We have to give up freedoms in order to preserve them we are told. But hey, if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about.
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Worldenterer1 wrote:I'm sorry to hear that tragic story. By saying "buck up" I was referring mainly to school based situations. I am aware that many times, even in school, people are unable to retaliate because of a lack of physical power. However, there are many situations where a headstrong approach would easily act as a solution. As for more serious issues like the one you brought up, I am unsure of a solution.
I'm getting the sense here that YOU have never actually been bullied in your 17 years on this planet?
If you had been... you'd realize how absolutely beyond useless your approach is.
The stories of the child standing up to the bully and the bully backing down... very rarely happen. You're talking about movie-land stuff. If you think this happens on anything even closely resembling a regular basis. It simply doesn't happen like this.
What usually happens then? What happens it that the kid gets the ever loving SHIT kicked out of him not by just the bully, but by the friends of the bully too and then the child is sent home a bloody mess and nothing... repeat... NOTHING of any substance ever happens to the bully... because it's all just "bullying" and "kid games". Because, as you view it, that's how most adults who actually have the power to stop this view it too.
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Homemade Peanut Butter
Once you make peanut butter at home, it will be very difficult to get excited about storebought peanut butter ever again.
Not that eating peanut butter of any kind would ever be a chore because I love it so, but homemade peanut butter is a delicacy. And a nearly effortless delicacy at that.
It's akin to savoring a piece of high-end dark chocolate that's rich and pure, uncomplicated by fillers, additives, or ingredients that have no place being in chocolate; and then grabbing a milk chocolate bar in the checkout line at the grocery store, which is likely a combination of tasteless, grainy, and waxy.
Apples and oranges. Store-bought peanut butter versus homemade.
Once you have something amazing, it's hard to get excited about any less than.
That's this peanut butter.
Sure, all peanut butter is good, and some is better than others, but this is in its own league.
It's similar in taste to store-bought varieties of "natural" peanut butter. It tastes like real peanuts and nothing else.
At room temperature, it's similar in consistency to a stir-free natural peanut butter, thicker than almond butter, but thinner than conventional Jif or Skippy.
I store my homemade peanut butter in an airtight container in the refrigerator and although I could keep it at room temperature, I'm sure it will keep longer being refrigerated and I prefer my peanut butter on the thicker side. Storing it in the fridge helps it to stay thicker and less runny, especially since my house is warmer now during the summer.
Honestly, there's not that much to store. Every time I open the fridge, I see the jar staring at me.
And it calls my name.
Interestingly, my peanut butter has turned out to be "stir-free".
It has not separated into oil and a solid mass, which is something I detest about natural peanut butters; the oil slick on top and that stubborn dry blob on the bottom that never really wants to re-accept the oil.
Find a food processor and a spoon.
This is crazy good.
The whole process takes less than 5 minutes.
Here's a step-by-step breakdown (a literal breakdown)
16 ounce bag or jar of peanuts (use honey roasted, plain, salted, unsalted, or try a jar of mixed nuts)
Add peanuts to the canister of the food processor
No oil, no salt, just peanuts
Turn it on and watch it go
There peanuts go through various stages in the approximately five minutes it takes to go from peanuts to peanut butter:
crushed peanuts
crushed into a fine powder
a paste
a thicker paste
and a big peanut butter "dough ball" will form
And then the big ball will magically break down
And turn into a gritty peanut butter
Keep processing and the peanut butter will get smoother, creamier, and thin out
No oil was ever added at any point during processing – just the natural oils from the peanuts are being released
Keep processing until you're certain the peanut butter is smooth enough for your liking, another minute or so
I like my peanut butter very smooth, like buttah
The peanut butter is a little on the thinner and runnier side immediately post-processing because it's warmed from the motor – similar in thickness to store-bought almond butter
After refrigeration, it thickens up a bit
As suggested in the recipe section, flavor your peanut butter with anything you want from vanilla or coffee extract
To cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice or cocoa powder
To spicy or savory, which is great for 2-minute peanut sauce (vegan, GF)
Or add some adult-version flavorings
This is your peanut butter. Get creative.
No, wait, this is my peanut butter.
And I'm not sharing.
Homemade Peanut Butter
Once you try homemade peanut butter, you'll never want store-bought again. It comes together in mere minutes in a food processor and is better than any peanut butter you've ever tried before. Try it and you'll be hooked! Recipe is naturally gluten-free. Swap honey roasted peanuts for plain roasted peanuts to keep vegan.
16 ounces honey roasted peanuts
Add peanuts to the canister of a food processor, process on high power until creamy and smooth, about 5 minutes, stopping to scrape down the sides of the canister if necessary.
The peanuts will go through stages of: crushed, crushed into a fine powder, a paste, a thicker paste, a big "dough ball", and then the ball will break down into runnier peanut butter. At the point the peanut butter is runny, continue processing for about 1 more minute, making sure the peanut butter is as smooth as desired.
If it wasn't for taking pictures, in my food processor, it takes about 4 minutes and I did not need to scrape down the sides; there was very little splatter.
Store the peanut butter at room temperature where it will keep for at least 2 weeks, or store in an airtight container or jar in the refrigerator, where it keeps for many weeks, and I've stored it for months. As with any food that has no preservatives, use common sense.
Substitutions and Flavoring Suggestions
Substitute dry roasted, salted, or unsalted peanuts, mixed nuts, seasoned, or spicy nuts; I do not suggest raw nuts because they don't have enough flavor depth for me but theoretically they will "work", just a matter of taste preference.
Salt, to taste (I added none)
Peanut oil, canola oil, and I have also seen olive oil suggested, optional and only if necessary (I added none and although the paste is thick in the early to mid stages of blending causing one to ponder if oil is necessary, once you get past that stage, you'll be glad to have not added oil because the finished peanut butter is already on the thinner side and the robust peanut flavor is not diluted by oil)
Seasonings or flavorings to try and add in the final moments of processing and process until incorporated: cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, nutmeg, cardamom, brown sugar, vanilla extract, coffee extract, specialty oils and extracts from LorAnn, a pinch of cayenne or chili powder or savory spices, cocoa powder, chocolate/white chocolate/butterscotch/peanut butter chips and just pulse to incorporate; a handful of peanuts just pulsed to incorporate at the very end of processing to create a chunky-textured peanut butter. Add egg-less cookie dough chunks, dried fruits like raisins or dates; a splash of Baileys Irish Cream, Kahlua, Frangelico, Chambord, Godiva Liqueur; have fun with it.
If you're unsure how a flavoring will turn out, I suggest removing half the peanut butter or two-thirds of it, placing it in another container, and flavor a smaller portion, to taste, before flavoring the entire batch with one particular seasoning or flavor. Or get two or three flavors from one recipe based on how inspired you are.
Make sure to also check out
Honey Roasted Butterscotch White Chocolate Peanut Butter (GF)
Homemade Cookie Butter Peanut Butter (vegan, GF)
Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter (vegan, GF)
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Related Recipes
Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter – (vegan, GF) – Easy and make in 10 minutes. NO added sugar or oil. Very chocolaty & great for curing bad days!
Homemade Cookie Butter Peanut Butter (vegan, GF options) – A homemade spin on Cookie Butter or Biscoff Spread, made by blending peanuts with gingersnap cookies and cinnamon, which gives the spread a slightly gritty texture, similar to storebought
Chocolate Coconut Cashew Butter (vegan, GF)
Here are 35 Recipes for National Peanut Day that all use peanut butter
Here are approximately 50 Peanut Butter recipes I've made and posted about over the years
Here are 20 peanut butter recipes for National Peanut Butter Day
Here's an Peanut Butter Brand Comparison
I wrote a cookbook about peanut butter, 100 recipes that all contain peanut butter – My Cookbook: Peanut Butter Comfort
Included are 25+ recipes for homemade peanut butter variations
Thanks to everyone who's told me you've preordeded the book!
Have you ever made your own nut butter?
Recipe links welcome and I would love to hear your method and results.
Do you have a favorite peanut butter?
I love peanut butter in all ways, shapes, and sizes. I especially like honey-roasted peanut butter because it's naturally sweeter. For baking and cooking, I typically use Jif Creamy. For baking, especially cookies, I plan to stick with store-bought peanut butter because cookies are temperamental. Given that homemade peanut butter is thinner than store-bought, and because I don't like flat cookies, I use the conventional.
For bars or other desserts that call for peanut butter with a recipe, sure, homemade would be lovely but honestly, the taste is going to be masked from a combination of butter, sugar, flour, eggs, and then it's baked, which is the main reason I bake with whatever peanut butter is on sale. I save the fancy peanut butters for when I can really focus on every pure, unadulterated, peanut butter bite and not "waste" a high end peanut butter inside a recipe.


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By no means was I deriding Kevin & Kell in it's entirety. If nothing else, I'm much impressed that Holbrook can write and draw three daily strips, where most onliners can barely squeeze out the time for a 'mere' three strips a week (and still have occasional late uploads or delayed strips.)
What I meant by inane are the jokes like giving the sheep girl four plates of grass, since, naturally, she has four stomachs. (But one mouth?) The lame jokes about high forum-member turnover because most of the visitors are mayflies. Turning up the brightness of a PC monitor to "freeze a deer in the headlights". Rabbits watering the lawn with ranch dressing. And so forth.
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HANCOCK, Mass./CRAFTSBURY, Vt. — Harvard sophomore Rebecca Nadler became the first Harvard Alpine skier to win a downhill event on the EISA circuit as she claimed the giant slalom event at Jiminy Peak to lead Harvard to a ninth place victory over the weekend.
The alpine races at Jiminy Peak were a battle of tenacity as snow conditions and course sets proved challenging for all contenders but Nadler held her line through difficult sections to secure an impressive victory. Harvard's only other individual victory came on the Nordic trails in 2003 when Anna McLoon '04 won the 10k Classic event at the University of Vermont Carnival.
Nadler, now the overall points leader in the EISA, improved on consecutive second place finishes with her victory this weekend. Starting fourth, Nadler was almost perfect in the first run as she took the lead by almost half a second. She was even better in the second run and was the only skier to break the 51 second mark.
After Nadler's win, she remarked, "I've been smiling nonstop for the last two hours. It was a rough ride, I didn't feel completely clean, and I got bumped around. I tried to keep my skis in the fall line as much as I could. I'm just going to keep smiling because that seems to be working." Vermont's Kate Ryley finished second, and Geordie Lonza of Williams made her second podium appearance of the weekend in third.
Catherine Sheils finished 30th in the GS and, in the slalom event, the Crimson picked up big points from Cate Kistler who finished 11th. Nadler again led the squad with a third place finish after starting in 11th.
In the women's 10k Classic, Alena Tofte led the charge with a 10th place finish and Chris Stock led the men with a 16th place finish in its 10k Classic.
EISA competition moves to Middlebury, Vt. Feb. 24-25 for the Middlebury Carnival and EISA Championships.
Team scores at the conclusion of the Williams Carnival:
Dartmouth - 869.5
Vermont - 840
Middlebury - 690
New Hampshire - 634.5
Williams - 569
St. Lawrence - 509
Bates - 434
Colby - 434
Harvard - 346
St. Michael's - 309
Universite' Laval - 233
Bowdoin - 182
Colby-Sawyer - 117
Boston College - 108
Plymouth State - 104
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The hottest celebrity on this year's Oscars red carpet may be a 25-year-old baby.
Maggie Simpson, the spiky-haired scion of America's favorite cartoon family, will make her Academy Awards debut this year as the star of The Longest Daycare, a four-minute film that's up for Best Animated Short Film. And since the Dolby Theatre is just a bit fancier than Springfield's Ayn Rand School for Tots, the baby will be ditching her trademark blue bow and dress for something a little more special. (Naturally, each of her sartorial options comes with a matching special occasion pacifier.)
Check out Maggie's other choices on the following pages — and vote for your favorite on The Simpsons's Facebook page before the Oscars telecast this Sunday.
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When we began looking for an application to design Corinne's book How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator (Lulu Press, 2006), we road-tested a few pieces of software, including the word processors referenced above. The problem? Although features such as Writer's PDF export are easy to use and produce clean, easy-to-read documents, there was something subtly missing from the design; something that didn't quite look "like a book." It's not that Writer can't be made to produce a high-quality book layout, but the conventions of book design are extremely subtle and tricky to master, at least for those of us who are not professional book designers or typographers. So, we turned to LyX. Our system is Debian Linux, but LyX is packaged and included in the repositories for most of the popular Linux distributions, so installation is a breeze. LyX is distributed under the GPL, and runs on Unix/Linux, Mac, and Windows operating systems.
LyX is "the first WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) document processor." When you start up LyX, the user interface has a look and feel similar to that of a word processor with a stripped down set of toolbars. It includes all the basic word processing functions, such as cut and paste, search and replace, undo, and spell checking. The idea behind LyX is that the user selects a document class, such as Article, Report, Book, Letter, or Slides, and LyX provides the structure. For example, a Book document allows you to identify any given piece of text as a Chapter, Section, Subsection, or Subsubsection, etc., and formats the document automatically according to the defined styles for the category, referred to as the paragraph environment, that the user selects. In effect, LyX enforces consistency throughout the document, without requiring (but while allowing) you to define the style to be used for each paragraph environment. This is especially useful in a book-length document, where consistency can be the difference between a book that looks like a book, and a book that looks like a bound word processing document.
Here's an example from LyX's own Web site: "Let's say you tell LyX that a certain line is a Section title. LaTeX adds the Section to your table of contents, places the Section name into your page header, gives it a special "bold" appearance on the page, assigns it a number or label, and tells other parts of your document what page it's on, for references and citations." LyX also enforces typographic rules by its behavior; for example, pressing the space bar over and over doesn't result in a series of blank spaces in the text, since LyX automatically inserts the correct number of spaces between different pieces of text.
LyX works its real magic when you select a PDF preview of the print-ready document from the View menu. After a small delay, the on-screen document is transformed into a PDF that looks, well, exactly like a book!
The workhorse behind the magic of LyX is Donald Knuth's legendary typesetting system, TeX, and the LaTeX document preparation system built on top of TeX. LaTeX provides the structured document classes and functions, such as indexing, page numbering, cross-references, and bibliographies; the underlying TeX typesetting engine incorporates intelligent algorithms for tasks such as hyphenation, paragraph breaking, and line breaking, which are largely responsible for the "like a book" look of documents produced by LyX.
Creating a book in LyX
There are several document classes available for LyX that are suitable for typesetting a book, including the default Book class, the KOMA-script Book class (scrbook), and the Memoir class. The default Book class is fairly minimal in terms of features. Most notably it lacks paragraph environments for standard front matter and end matter sections, such as Acknowledgments, Publishers, Dedication, etc., with no built-in fine controls for these features. However, you can insert LaTeX code directly into a LyX document to create these sections. Such code is referred to as ERT (for Evil Red Text).
KOMA-Script, a mature (in active development since 1994) set of replacement classes for the standard LaTeX classes, provides the scrbook class, which is an excellent option for LyX users, and the one we chose for our project. KOMA-Script's original purpose was to provide alternative LaTeX classes for German documents, but it is now used by authors in a variety of languages.
KOMA-Script's scrbook class offers a comprehensive set of paragraph environments. For example, the Uppertitleback and Lowertitleback environments allow you to format the upper and lower sections of text that appear on the back side of the book's title page, which are normally the copyright and cataloging-in-publication data (the book's ISBN number and Library of Congress cataloging information) and any disclaimers, sales information, author contact information, and so on. If you fail to specify a paragraph environment for a section, scrbook provides useful generic sections. For example, we wanted How to Succeed as a Freelance Translator to include a Colophon, emphasizing the fact that the book was written and designed using free and open source software exclusively. To accomplish this, we used the Addsec* paragraph environment to add a generic section (the * indicates that the section will not appear in the table of contents).
A notable feature of scrbook is that it produces books laid out using European typographic conventions. That means the book's lower margin is twice the height of the upper margin, and the inner margin on each page is half the width of the outer margin. While this produces a classic and elegant finished layout, our publisher (Lulu Press; Global Distribution) required equal top and bottom margins and equal side margins, which required us to change scrbook's default settings. You can do this within the scrbook package by using LaTeX commands, but LyX makes it easy to bypass scrbook's layout engine and change the margins using the Document -> Settings -> Page Margins menu.
The KOMA-Script manual, weighing in at 227 pages and available in English and German, is not only a comprehensive guide to the KOMA-Script package, but an excellent overview of typographical conventions and principles. Its dedication "To All Friends of Typography!" speaks for itself; this manual is a must-read for the novice book designer. The sections on typography are worth reading even if you do not intend to use KOMA-Script.
The Memoir class offers another book layout option, with 307 pages of beautifully typeset manual to go with it. The Memoir User Guide, written by the Memoir class's developer Peter Wilson, contains a thorough introduction to typography (another worthwhile resource for the novice book designer), including a section on designing electronic books. The Memoir class is now production-grade, and is in active development. In terms of functionality, Memoir appears to be comparable with scrbook, although it relies more on external LaTeX packages; for example, scrbook includes its own header package, whereas Memoir must use a separate header package such as fancyhdr.
In addition to its primary function of typesetting, LyX provides a number of helpful features for the self-publisher. For instance, it generates a Table of Contents automatically. In researching the market for nonfiction books, we learned that having an index greatly adds to the saleability of a nonfiction book; in fact, many libraries are reluctant to purchase nonfiction books that do not have indexes. Since hiring a professional indexer was out of our budget, we turned to LyX's indexing feature, which proved itself more than equal to the task. When you position the cursor at the end of the word that you want to index and select Insert -> Index Entry, a dialog box will pop up, with the word automatically inserted in the Keyword field. You can either keep the pre-inserted word or edit it. The edit can take the form of a minor change, such as case, or you can change the word to an entirely different one; for example, you could associate the word "interview" with the index entry "job search." You can also create a nested index entry by typing an exclamation point after the parent term, then typing a sub-term directly after it. For example, "travel!Asia" would result in the parent index entry "travel" and the sub-term "Asia." You can insert as many index tags after a word as you want. True to its typographic genius, LyX (actually LaTeX) is smart enough to notice when you insert index tags for the same term on consecutive pages, and will create an appropriate index entry -- for example, "travel, 47--50."
LyX also has excellent support for tables. In fact, using tables in LyX is similar to using tables in HTML. To insert a table, select Insert -> Table, and the efficiently designed Insert Table dialog box will pop up and allow you to select the number of rows and columns that you want in the table. Then, by right-clicking in the table, you can bring up the Table Settings dialog box, where you can adjust the table's size, orientation, borders, and so on. To change the font of the text in your table, highlight the portion of the table containing the text to be changed and select Edit -> Text Style. We used tables for a Glossary (there is also a LaTeX package for compiling a glossary) and various worksheets, such as Billable Hours and Hourly Rate charts.
LyX's features could be the basis of an article in themselves, but it's worth noting that the software includes a math editor; support for most European languages and right-to-left languages, including documents that contain more than one language; support for footnotes and margin notes; comprehensive bibliography support; and figure support with rotation, scaling, and captions. There are many more features that are relevant to other document classes, such as academic journal articles.
Customization in LyX
One of the differences between LyX and a traditional word processor is LyX's approach to formatting. Most word processing programs allow regions of text to be tagged with a style. In LyX, every piece of text belongs to a paragraph environment that has a predefined style. For example, someone using OpenOffice.org Writer can choose to use the style options offered by the software, such as Heading 1 or Text body. However, most word processor users do not employ styles, but instead do most of their formatting manually by using different fonts and effects. In LyX, it is not impossible to do manual formatting, but the program is set up to discourage this behavior by limiting manual formatting options.
You can perform some basic customization from the Document -> Settings dialog box. For example, you can change the default font for the document, the page size and margins, and the bullet styles. For finer control, you need to edit the LaTeX Preamble, which is also found in the Documents -> Settings dialog box. In the Preamble, you can add LaTeX commands to change the default behavior of the document class, including the settings for different paragraph environments, as well as include and configure additional LaTeX packages to add functionality.
While LaTeX code can be daunting, LaTeX's maturity, excellent documentation, widespread use, and great support through mailing lists and newsgroups means that a solution to most customization questions can be found with a quick Web search. But you may not need help; it is certainly possible to use a book class such as KOMA-Script or Memoir without altering any of the paragraph environments (we did this).
One thing we did want to change was the default header formatting. This involved loading and configuring the fancyhdr package in the Preamble. Fancyhdr gives very fine control of the header and footer formatting, including font and page numbering style. It allows you to do just about anything you've ever seen in a book header (small caps, a line under the header text, etc.).
Another extremely useful package is microtype, which provides subtle expansion of fonts in order to make lines of type fit better into the allotted space. This gives TeX more options for breaking lines, resulting in a more eye-pleasing end product and less manual fine-tuning of the finished text. Microtype works only with the View -> PDF(pdflatex) command option. Both of microtype and fancyhdr were included with the default Debian LaTeX installation, and there are many more useful packages available at CTAN.
Finishing touches
When you're done composing all of your text in LyX, you'll want to do a little cleanup on your document before sending it to press. Because TeX is a typesetting engine, it may occasionally fail to find a good place to break a line, resulting in a warning message and a line that extends into the margin. When this happens, your options are to rewrite the line so that TeX can find a good place to break it; manually force a break by using Insert -> Special Formatting -> Line Break; or allow TeX to insert extra spacing between words by using the command
sloppypar. Aesthetically, the third option is considered the method of last resort, but you can use it by inserting an ERT code box with Insert -> TeX code, typing
\begin{sloppypar} at the beginning of the paragraph, and inserting another code box containing
\end{sloppypar} at the end.
In the same vein, TeX prefers not to leave blank space at the bottom of a page where a section ends. To avoid this, the software will insert extra spacing between paragraphs in order to stretch the text vertically to fill the page. We preferred to leave the blank space at the bottom, which we easily accomplished by using Insert -> Special Formatting -> Page Break below the section that did not fill the page.
Some publishers, including Lulu Press' Global Distribution option, require electronic files submitted in PDF format to be created with Adobe Distiller. This wasn't an option for us, but fortunately we could also upload the book in PostScript format. To do this, we created a PDF of the book using View -> PDF(pdflatex), which brings up a PDF version of the book in Adobe Reader. We then saved a copy of the PDF from Adobe Reader and converted that file to PostScript format using the command:
pdftops -level3 -paperw 432 -paperh 648 Book.pdf Book.ps
Book.pdf is the PDF saved from Adobe Reader. In this command, the paper dimensions are given in points; the points in the example command correspond to a 6x9-inch book.
LyX is an excellent tool for authors at all levels of typographic knowledge and interest. If you're a first-time author who simply wants a great-looking book, LyX's default settings allow you to enter text as easily as with a word processor, and out pops a book that does not look self-published. For the typographically motivated (those who are self-publishing because they lament the decline in editorial and design standards at major publishing houses), LyX offers an almost infinite array of options to satisfy even the pickiest book designer's requirements. Above all, the LaTeX system encourages consistency, which, in a book-length document, is critical to a professional-looking end product. This is precisely where traditional word processors fall short, and is in itself a good reason to investigate LyX.
Corinne McKay is a freelance French to English translator and translation industry writer. Daniel J. Urist is a recovering Unix systems administrator. They, their daughter, and their one-eyed cat are based in Boulder, Colo.


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"What do you mean you want the receipt for my tourist visa!!!???…How could I have entered without paying for it!?"
The 'migracion' officer was adamant I pay again and gave me a form to take to the bank opposite. I was adamant I wasn't going to pay again and so began our Mexican stand-off. To let him know I was prepared for a long wait I removed my crash helmet, donned my sun hat and shades but refused to move away from the window.
I'm not sure exactly what changed but after several minutes a different voice asked me for my passport and I handed it to a different officer who stamped me out without question.


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Train Reading: Canada Dumps the Penny
U.S., states plan civil charges against McGraw-Hill's S&P for housing-bubble practices – WSJ
McGraw-Hill shares have worst one-day drop since Black Monday; yes, that Black Monday – Deal Journal
Royal Canadian Mint stops producing pennies – BBC
Dell near $23 billion deal to go private – WSJ
The housing market thoroughly destroyed over the past decade, banks find a new way to profit off it – Bloomberg
Is it safe to get back in the water? Only one way to find out – WSJ's Wealth Expert stream
A musical interlude: Portishead; Glory Box – YouTube
Super Bowl XLVII drew third-largest audience in TV history – WSJ
Occupy the SEC has some problems with Mary Jo White – Occupy the SEC
New Jersey aims to get rid of jughandle turns, the "Jersey left" (don't they know that's how we get rid of out-of-staters?) – Bloomberg
For more MarketBeat and other streaming markets coverage from The Wall Street Journal, point your mobile browser to wsj.com/marketspulse.


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Gideons Mark Century Of Bible Distribution
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Long before cable television, spa treatments and ecofriendly soaps and shampoos became staples in hotel rooms, there was the Bible - the Gideon Bible.
And the book with the familiar two-handled pitcher and torch on its cover that most guests find inside hotel nightstands doesn't appear to be going anywhere anytime soon.
Gideons International is celebrating its 100th anniversary distributing Bibles and has started efforts to hand out more Scriptures in the U.S. to boost a distribution rate that's remained relatively flat in recent years.
Nearly 76.9 million Gideon Scriptures were given out in nearly 85 languages in 187 countries last year. Close to 1.5 billion scriptures have been distributed since 1908, when the Gideons first began to place Bibles in hotel rooms.
Since then, the nondenominational evangelical group run by businessmen has spread its tremendous reach, also giving out free scriptures at hospitals, schools, prisons and in the military.
"This is not a church-sponsored, clergy-led effort," said Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, an umbrella group for evangelical churches and organizations. "It's individuals that go around and distribute Bibles. It's an astonishing accomplishment."
Because the Gideons were founded by Christian traveling salesmen who spent a lot of time away from home, the group sought to put Bibles in hotel bedrooms to spiritually nurture themselves and others.
The Gideons have about 176,000 members, plus their wives, who distribute scripture around the world, and their numbers have remained steady over the years. The group only allows for evangelical business and professional men to hand out scripture to its targeted groups, although Gideons allow their wives to hand out scripture as well in healthcare settings and in prisons for women.


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OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — The Baltimore Ravens acquired center A.Q. Shipley from the Indianapolis Colts for a conditional 2014 draft pick.
The trade, announced Thursday by the Ravens, will be finalized after Shipley passes a physical.
Shipley played in 14 games last season with the Colts, getting five starts. He played a key role on an offensive line that was often decimated by injuries. He participated on special teams for Indianapolis in an AFC wild-card game in Baltimore last season.
But Shipley became expendable after the Colts selected Khaled Holmes, a center and guard from Southern California in the fourth round of last month's draft — part of Indy's revamped offense line that has added four new players through free agency and the draft.
The 6-foot-1, 309-pound Shipley was selected in the seventh round of the 2009 draft by Pittsburgh. He was a member of the Steelers' practice squad in 2009 and on Philadelphia's practice squad in 2010 before signing with Indianapolis in 2012.
He played in college at Penn State.
Shipley will compete with Gino Gradkowski to replace 2012 starter Matt Birk, who retired during the offseason.


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Battle For The Big O Auditions Begin Friday at The Sandbar
The Battle for the Big O is back! And our 2012 audition season begins THIS Friday night, June 8th, at The Sandbar on West 9th Street in Owensboro. We are looking for a music act to open the Big O Music Festival coming up August 18th at Reids Orchard in Owensboro. One lucky winner is going to pocket $500 and open for Blake Shelton, Tracy Lawrence, Jo Dee Messina, Gloriana, Lo Cash Cowboys, Joanna Smith, and WBKR's very own Jaclyn Graves. If you think you have the talent to take the stage, keep reading for official Battle For The Big O rules!
Presented by Henderson Chevrolet Buick GMC
Official Contest Rules
#1- Contestants must be 16 years of age by August 18th, 2012.
#2- To be eligible for "THE BATTLE FOR THE BIG O" . . . presented by Henderson Chevrolet, participants MUST audition at one of several pre-determined open-call audition sites, located throughout the WBKR listening area. Some audition locations are "21 and over" establishments (marked ***). Contestants under the age of 21 can audition ONLY at locations in which they are legally permitted. Auditions will be held in the month of June 2011 at the following locations . . .
June 8th . . . The Sandbar*** in Owensboro, KY (7pm)
June 22nd . . . Jimbo's Sports Bar***in Owensboro, KY (7pm)
June 23rd . . . Owensboro RV in Owensboro, KY (4pm)
June 23rd . . . Harkley's in Owensboro, KY (7pm)- THIS DATE CANCELLED
June 30th . . . Towne Square Mall, Owensboro, KY (2pm)
#3- To audition, participants must register at their chosen audition site or sites by 7PM, Participants must also provide own accompaniment . . . whether it be instrumental CD track, guitar or keyboard. CD tracks must ONLY contain BACKGROUND vocals. Participants determined to be singing along with a lead vocal will be disqualified from the audition process. Keyboards should have built-in speakers (or other external sound source) in the event patching is not an option.
#4- A panel of "THE BATTLE FOR THE BIG O" judges will choose a finalist (or finalists) from each "BATTLE FOR THE BIG O" audition location. Any remaining finalists will be designated as "wild card" entries and may/will be selected from the entire pool of hopefuls. Selections of the twelve "BATTLE FOR THE BIG O" finalists are final and indisputable and the actual number of finalists could be a number greater or less than twelve and will be ultimately determined by the success of the audition process and the viability of the contestants involved.
#5- Since judges MAY vary at each "BATTLE FOR THE BIG O" audition location, would-be participants CAN audition at multiple audition locations if they so choose and are encouraged to do so.
#6- "THE BATTLE FOR THE BIG O" is open to solo acts, duos, small ensembles and bands. However, due to space/sound restrictions imposed by THE BIG O MUSIC FESTIVAL, any band participating must perform in an ACOUSTIC manner both during auditions and the BIG O MUSIC FEST (in the event a band indeed wins). Drum sets are PROHIBITED, though a single snare, bongo or beat box is allowed. THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THIS RULE in either the audition or finale process. Failure to adhere to this rule could result in immediate disqualification from the contest.
#7- The "BATTLE FOR THE BIG O" finale is 7pm, Saturday, August 4th at DIAMOND LAKE THEATRE at 7301 Hobbs Road, Owensboro, KY. Tickets for the finale event will go on sale following the culmination of the audition process and the announcement of BATTLE finalists. Tickets will be available for purchase at WBKR.com, the WBKR studios and Diamond Lake Campground and Resort.
#8- "THE BATTLE FOR THE BIG O" finalists MUST participate in the finale event to be eligible for grand prize consideration.
#9- At "THE BATTLE FOR THE BIG O" finale event, finalists will perform a mini-set (consisting of two songs) before a panel of judges who will provide feedback and ultimately choose the grand prize winner. That decision is final and indisputable.
#10- The winner of "THE BATTLE FOR THE BIG O" will win $500 and officially open THE BIG O MUSIC FEST, Saturday, August 18th, at Reid's Orchard in Owensboro. The champion(s) will prepare a three to four song set of covers, originals or combination of both (maximum performance time will be 15-20 minutes). Any sound requirements by the champion and those participating in the performance, MUST be cleared by WBKR personnel, who will then get clearance from the organizers of THE BIG O MUSIC FEST.
#11- The champion of "THE BATTLE FOR THE BIG O" must also get pre-approval of his/her/their set list to ensure that it does not conflict with the song list of another act on the schedule. Covers by the following artists are prohibited: BLAKE SHELTON, TRACY LAWRENCE, JO DEE MESSINA, GLORIANA, LO CASH COWBOYS, and JOANNA SMITH.
#12- In addition to appearing on stage at THE BIG O MUSIC FEST, the champion of THE BATTLE FOR THE BIG O will appear live during THE JAC BIG O PARTY, Friday, August 17th at the WBKR studios. In addition to playing live on air during the lunchtime hour, the champion will also perform a 30-minute set in the front lawn of WBKR studios.
#13- The Country Station, 92.5 WBKR and the organizers of THE BIG O MUSIC FEST reserve the right to change any of the above rules or prizes without notice before and/or during the contest. Decisions of the WBKR staff and its partners are final and cannot be disputed.
#14- Owners, employees, servants or agents of WBKR and THE BIG O MUSIC FEST and other sponsors or relatives or family members of such owners, officers, directors, employees, servants or agents are NOT eligible to participate in "THE BATTLE FOR THE BIG O." However, finalists of past WBKR-sponsored talent contests such as "Willie-Oke" and "Goldie's Survivor" MAY participate in our newest talent search. Past winners of the THE BATTLE FOR THE BIG O are prohibited from entering again, but past finalists ARE eligible to re-audition!
In consideration of the forgoing and for valuable consideration, I hereby forever release and discharge Townsquare Media, Henderson Chevy Buick GMC and The Big O Music Fest, their officers, directors, and any employees from any claim, loss, or damage caused by or arising out of my participation in the aforementioned contest, or related to the prize itself, or its use and/or operation by myself and/or my guests. Townsquare Media, Henderson Chevy Buick GMC and The Big O Music Fest have completely fulfilled their obligation to me as a potential prize winner I acknowledge that I am not, nor is anyone in my immediate family eligible to win any prize(s) on this radio station for 30 days. I further acknowledge that I am responsible for all local, state, and federal taxes and license fees arising out of my participation in this contest and I will receive IRS Form 1099 within 31 days from the end of the calendar year should the value of the total prize consideration exceed $600.00 (Six Hundred Dollars and no cents).
By signing this document, I hereby declare that I have read, understand and agree to comply with the above rules and regulations for THE BATTLE FOR THE BIG O presented by Henderson Chevrolet Buick GMC. I hereby release any photos/video/audio of myself to WBKR/Big O Music Fest during this process to use for promotional purposes. I also declare I own the rights to any original music I perform during the audition process and during the Big O Music Fest, if the winner of this contest.


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For the second year in a row, the Germantown Academy girls ended their basketball season playing against Shipley School in the Pa. Independent Schools Girls Championships. In 2011, GA defeated the Gators in the championship game, but this time around, Shipley knocked the Patriots out in the semifinal round, winning last Friday's contest at Penn State Brandywine, 52-39.
Germantown trailed by 13 points a few minutes into the third quarter, but then tightened up the score to 38-35 early in the fourth round.
"The kids battled hard and we cut it to three, but then they scored and eventually we had to foul," remarked GA coach Sherri Retif.
Shipley put the brakes on the Patriot rally just in time, and took advantage of GA's extensive foul problems to sink its final 14 points from the free throw line. Two players fouled out of the game for the Pats, and four others finished with four fouls apiece. The Gators were also affected by the analog twittering of the officials, ending up with four fouls on three different players.
"I think that's part of having three officials [instead of two in regular-season games]," said Retif. "Between the three of them they blow the whistle a lot more."
GA ended a rocky 2011-2012 campaign with an overall record of 18-11, but the team was still able to win the Girls Inter-Ac League title for a 14th straight year, based on its 10-2 record.
In the Independent tournament, both GA and Shipley enjoyed first round byes, and in Wednesday's quarterfinal round the Patriots defeated sixth-seeded Penn Charter, 38-17, while the Gators squeaked past number seven Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, 50-49.
After Friday's semifinal game, Shipley coach Sean Costello commented, "The girls played their hearts out and it was a great win."
His team went on to capture the tournament championship the following day, when the second-seeded Gators felled top-ranked Hill School, 59-52. Hill had gotten by Episcopal Academy in Friday's first semifinal game, 54-51.
Very young a year ago and still a youthful squad this season, Shipley defeated the Patriots in a mid-December meeting, 61-45. In last week's rematch the final margin was in the same ballpark, 13 points instead of 16, but the game felt closer than that as third-seeded Germantown tried to battle back going down the stretch.
The Patriots' Jaryn Garner and fellow senior Jordyn Turner of Shipley are former AAU club basketball teammates, and each player led her team in the first half. Garner, a University of Virginia signee, scored seven points, while Turner's eight points helped pilot the Gators towards a 9-4 lead at the quarter and a 20-16 advantage at halftime. The first 16 minutes might have been a wash if the Patriots had shot better than three-for-nine at the foul line.
As round three began, Shipley picked up a pair of free throws from Asia Baker (10 points total) and a transition lay-up by another sophomore, Tamesha "Sox" Alexander (nine points, seven steals, three assists). GA junior Kiernan McCloskey netted one of two free throws, but the Gators went on to complete a three-minute, 10-1 run that put them up 30-17.
Shipley had capitalized on a number of turnovers it forced out of the Patriots. In addition, two GA players had each acquired a third personal foul during this short stretch.
"They immediately gained some momentum at the start of the second half," commented GA's Retif. "We made a good run near the end, but overall our turnovers killed us – I think we finished the game with 19."
Following a time-out with 5:04 left in the third stanza, GA began to fight back with a three-pointer by Natalie Toner and a lay-up and a short jumper by her 11th-grade classmates, McCloskey and Mel Repella. The Patriots were back within seven points of the leaders with two minutes to go in the period, but by the three-quarter mark the Gators had pushed the margin back into double digits, 36-26.
What would be Germantown's final rally began with a midrange jumper by junior Dempsey Cooper at the start of the fourth frame. Single free throws by Shipley sophomores Colleen Walsh (six points) and Aja Ellison (11 points, seven rebounds, three blocks) were sandwiched around a short baseline jumper by McCloskey to make it 38-30.
Garner hit a free throw and then scored a lay-up on an inbounds play. GA got a 10-second backcourt call against Shipley, then a fourth foul against the Gators' Turner sent McCloskey to the free throw line. She bagged both shots for a 38-35 tally with 5:36 left to play.
After a fruitless possession for each team, Ellison scored in transition for Shipley's last field goal of the evening with 4:38 on the clock. The Gators wrapped it up at the foul line, playing a solid possession game and making 14 of 18 free throws.
"They're a good team and we knew they were going to make a run," Shipley's Costello said. "We told the girls all day yesterday and earlier today the question was how would we respond, and we responded well and got back in control."
GA did a good job of keeping in mind which of its players still had fouls to give. Most of the Patriots managed to stay in the game, but Shipley remained steady at the charity stripe in the closing minutes.
Germantown was led by McCloskey, with 16 points and seven rebounds, and by Garner, with 14 points and five boards. Garner's old friend, Turner, fueled the Gators with 15 points, eight rebounds, and four steals. GA received six points from Cooper (four assists, two steals), three from Toner, and two from Repella.
"Jordyn was a leader, as usual, and I thought that Colleen Walsh helped organize us defensively out there," Costello commented. "Sox controlled the tempo a lot of the time in the second half, especially through her defense."


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So I have two images:
How can I calculate the number of elements (pixels in each image) that represents the sea area assuming sea area in 1957 is 68km^2?
Some of the initial guidlines:
(a) initialize the black and white images with zeros.
(b) use logical operation to replace all matrix elements that is <=180 to 1, the rest of the elements remains as 0.
(c) use matrix addressing to exclude the text at the bottom of the image in your calculation
(d) sum up the ones in the black and white image as the sea area.
finally, Write the year, estimated sea area by pixel and estimated sea area by km2 into a text file named AralSeaAreaData.txt.
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We recently got our hands on a copy of Tiffany Threadgould's new book, ReMake It!, which is filled with recycled DIY goodness including this clever picture frame made from a pair of eyeglasses. The book is chock full of ways to transform what you might consider junk into useful, inspiring and fun-to-make items. Tiffany was kind enough to share her instructions for the eyeglass picture frame with us – hit the jump to make a version of your own!
an old pair of eyeglasses
a mini screwdriver
a blank scrap paper
a pencil
your photos
clear tape
15 inches of fishing line
1. Remove the arms of the eyeglasses with the mini screwdriver. A mini screwdriver can be found in an eyeglass repair kit.
2. Make a template to cut out your photos. On a piece of scrap paper, trace around one lens of the eyeglasses. Cut along the line you drew. Hold the template behind the glass lens to see if it fits properly. If not, trim it until it does. Sometimes you'll need to cut off about 1/8-inch to 1/4-inch around the edge.
3. Use the template to cut out your photos. Trace around the template onto your photo, and cut it out. Because eyeglass lenses are the same shape and mirror images of each other, you don't have to make a whole new template for the other lens. Just flip the template over, and use it to trace around and cut a photo to fit in the other eyeglass lens.
4. Use a small amount of clear tape to tape your photos to the back of the eyeglasses.
5. To make a hanging loop, thread the fishing line through each side of the glasses where the arms were once attached, and tie the ends into knots. Hang your eyeglass picture frame on your wall, and focus on your new creation!
If you'd like to check out more recycled DIY creations you can make with your own two hands, pick up your own copy of ReMake It! on Amazon.


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Just as a note to myself and maybe helpful to others.
To compress all files in zip file in a directory:
zip test.zip *.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 joost joost 111M Jul 21 14:23 test.zip
If you want to split up the zip file because it is a bit too big (111MB) we can use the zipsplit command.
Lets pass the -t parameter to first let it explain what it would do:
joost@xbox-360 ~/Desktop/moos $ zipsplit -tn 10000000 test.zip
12 zip files would be made (100% efficiency)
ooh yes I wants that!
joost@xbox-360 ~/Desktop/moos $ zipsplit -n 10000000 test.zip
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5 higher ed chief information officers discuss their changing role on campus.
Campus Technology interviewed five CIOs about the perceptions of their changing role on campus, asking them to give examples of how they delegate, mentor, collaborate and strategize more than they used to. In part 4 of our series, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Bruce Maas talks about the organizational changes that enable him to focus on a more strategic role. (Missed parts 1-3? See the Table of Contents on the top left of this article.)
Bruce Maas, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bruce Maas is CIO and vice provost for information technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
CT: What are some organizational changes you have made to reflect the more strategic role that IT needs to play at Wisconsin?
Maas: When I became a CIO, I immediately sought to work with and empower the distributed IT leaders. [Now] we have a much more strategic and institutionally engaged group of distributed CIOs I am working with as partners. We have made a lot of progress in working together on institutional IT strategies, but there is still a great deal of work ahead of us.
At UW-Madison, we have consciously separated the role of operations leader for IT from the CIO, to allow the CIO to work more strategically on mission-critical services. A chief operating officer is responsible for IT operations and reports directly to the CIO. It takes time, effort, organizational development and extensive relationship building to shift the focus of IT services to align with emerging needs of the university. Our COO John Krogman and I are working together to accomplish this. As the higher education business model is being disrupted by technology, I am steadily spending more of my time on teaching, learning and research infrastructure issues.
Typically, operational issues can be so demanding that they will at times trump planning or strategic issues. By separating these two functions, we are able to better focus on both aspects.
CT: How do you resolve the tension between the desire for departmental autonomy vs. enterprise efficiency?
Maas: We want to have healthy discussions about how to best optimize services at the right scale level. An example is the use of Moodle, which gradually sprung up in pockets around campus. We just completed a funded consolidation of multiple Moodle instances to an enterprise service run by Engineering for the campus. That is the type of conversation we want to continue having. It is not either/or, but when does it make sense, gravitate things from edge to core and make it more scalable.
CT: UW-Madison has an Educational Innovation (EI) initiative that includes experimentation with MOOCs. Was it important that IT execs were part of the core team?
Maas: The CIO was at the table in early planning phases, but it quickly also included our Director of Academic Technology Linda Jorn. Linda earned a greater stake by making contributions that were greatly valued by academic colleagues. This led to her also being appointed associate vice provost for learning technologies, which was an important message that she was also a key leader on behalf of the provost. This dual title connects her with both the COO and CIO, which gives her, and the EI initiative, support from both leaders by definition. We are working hard to have the academic mission drive our work directly, and closely align by providing scalable services. Given that there is often significant ramp-up time for scaled services, we need to be a proactive part of the senior leadership team, collaboratively educating our colleagues about IT infrastructure needs along the way.
CT: Do you mentor your team to take positions of greater responsibility in the university?
Maas: Yes, I see mentoring as a key role of the CIO. We have highly talented individuals throughout our university and often all they need is some encouragement and support to take the next step. The best organizations are those in which the talents of all individuals are utilized effectively, including as they grow in experience and ability.
Coming Next: Antioch University Chief Information Officer Bob DeWitt talks about the importance of communication and partnerships for CIO success.
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OT: MLB one game Wildcard times 2 Open Thread
Interested to see how this inaugral one game Wildcard matchups unfolds. I don't like the idea of a one and done in baseball, but I'm listening.
Cards v Braves in first game: This is a wild one so far with the Cards up 3-2 in the 5th. Looked as though the Braves had tied game in bottom 4 but runner was (rightfully) called out for interference while trying to beat out a bunt, and the tying run came off the board
Orioles v Rangers in second game: Go Orioles. Based on last season no team scares me more than the Rangers, so I would like to see the O's advance. It wil be Yu Darvish for the Rangers matching up against Joe Saunders for the O's.


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Aeroflex and Ameco Beijing Partner to Provide Avionics Service Center in China
WICHITA, KS-August 28, 2007- To better support China's rapidly growing avionics market, Aeroflex is partnering with Ameco Beijing (Aircraft Maintenance and Engineering Corporation) to provide a local service center for Chinese customers. Located at the Beijing Capital International Airport, Ameco Beijing will provide a convenient site for calibrating and servicing Aeroflex avionics test equipment sold in China for civil end uses. Access to local service and support means customers can reduce their equipment down time, shipping costs and expensive and time-consuming import/export fees. "Aeroflex greatly values its relationship with its customers in China," said Jimmy Tan, vice president of sales for Asia Pacific, Aeroflex Test Solutions. "This new partnership enables us to add greater value for our Chinese customers and enhance their confidence in our avionics test equipment. We want our customers to know that when they purchase or use a piece of Aeroflex avionics equipment, their needs will be taken care of quickly and efficiently." Ameco Beijing, a joint venture between Air China Limited and Lufthansa German Airlines, has a fully functioning calibration and test center including five laboratories with hundreds of pieces of test equipment. The expertise contained within the center will provide the required knowledge to properly calibrate and service any of Aeroflex's commercial avionics test equipment.


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The Council of United Commonwealth Societies of Tasmania invites friends and supporters of ACM to a Luncheon to mark the Birthday of Her Majesty The Queen.
Details can be found by downloading the PDF here.
The English-Speaking Union and Australians for Constitutional Monarchy extend an invitation to you and your guests to a Luncheon to commemorate the 800th Anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta on 15th June 1215 by King John at Runnymede.
The luncheon will be held on Monday, 15 June 2015 at Noon for 12.35pm, in the Elizabeth Room at The Sir Stamford at Circular Quay, 93 Macquarie Street, Sydney.
The guest of honour and guest speaker will be The Hon. John Winston Howard, OM AC.
We do hope that you will be able to join us.
To download a PDF copy of the flyer and booking form, please click here.
While Australians are in good spirits following the birth of Her Royal Highness Charlotte Elizabeth Diana of Cambridge, we are writing to invite you to join us for
our Queen's Birthday Gala Dinner to be held in conjunction with the Australia-Britain Society, the Cook Society and the Friends of the Chapel of St George's.
This will be held on Wednesday evening 27 May 2015 at 165 Macquarie Street Sydney. (This is on the corner of Bent Street and opposite the NSW Public Library.)
Our Guest of Honour on this occasion are His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley, AC DSC (Ret'd), the Governor of New South Wales, and Mrs. Linda Hurley together.
Our Special Guests, Dame Marie Bashir, AD CVO and Sir Nicholas Shehadie, AC OBE, will also be present.
Bookings will need to be received by Monday 18 May 2015, not with ACM, but at the address on the invitation.
To download a PDF copy of the invitation, please click here .
A conference on The Crown in the Realms will be held in Wellington on 21 to 23 May 2015.
Speakers will include ACM's Jai Martinkovits, one of ACMs founders, the Hon Michael Kirby, and leading monarchist parliamentarian, Senator Dean Smith.
Further information and to register your attendance, go to the site:
Christ Church, North Adelaide, is delighted to extend to supporters of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy an invitation to a Solemn Eucharist to honour the Queen's official birthday. This will be celebrated on Sunday 7 June at 10am at Christ Church, Jeffcott Street, North Adelaide.
Stephanie Di Fava, formerly of Loreto College and who is only 14 years of ago, was the winner of this year's national speaking competition - the Neville Bonner Memorial Prize.
ACM runs this competition as part of its education programme, which aims to engage students in issues related to our system of govenment - in particular the roll of the Australian Crown.
The article below was published in the Eastern Courier following Stephanie re-delivering her winning address at a lunch in Sydney attended by the Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott, and 300 ACM supporters.
ACM congratulates Stephanie on her achievement and looks forward to her continued success.
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"ACM is seen as the most influential organised opponent to constitutional change and its decision not to outright oppose the idea is a key to the success of a referendum for indigenous recognition expected in 2017", writes Dennis Shanahan in a front page report in The Australian on 16 February 2015.
ACM was responding to the Prime Minister who in the 2014 Neville Bonner Oration in late November last year had issued this ardent appeal "I invite the friends of the Constitution to suspend scepticism."
ACM's submission is essentially about process and takes no position on any of the proposed changes which have been raised by various parties.
In what Mr Shanahan describes as a "constructive proposal," ACM does not declare "any outright opposition to indigenous recognition in the Constitution, strongly supports an elected convention to ensure the public is involved from the beginning and says the proposal of a Declaration of Recognition, put to the committee by conservative lawyers and writers Damien Freeman and Julian Leeser could be a longer-term step "towards constitutional recognition".
The convention could also discuss other relevant constitutional issues including the state of the federation.
Professor David Flint and Jai Martinkovits appeared before the Joint Select Committee on Friday 20 February to speak to the submission.
A copy of ACM's full submission can be downloaded here:(715) 432-5769
All Saints' Church, Wickham Terrace, Brisbane is delighted to extend to ACM supporters an invitation to attend Evensong & Benediction on St. David's Day, Sunday 1st March, at 6.30pm.
Prayers will be offered for the Prince of Wales.
To download a higher resolution copy of the details, 2695378497.
Each year ACM actively supports the Commonwealth Day Council (CDC) - a group with which we share many objectives - through encouraging our members to attend their Luncheon.
As in the past, this year ACM is arranging a series of tables for its members and their guests.
Althought the RSVP date has now passed, The Commonwealth Day Council is still accepting registrations from ACM supporters.
This year, the CDC has invited 2015 NSW Young Australian of the Year and Director of Taste Creative, Genevieve Clay-Smith, to speak. This promises to be an great afternoon celebrating the role of the Commonwealth of Nations, which ACM supporters so often enjoy.
To register for the CDC Luncheon and ensure that you are seated with ACM members, please download a PDF copy of the flyer and booking form (below) and ensure that under "Please seat me with" you write "ACM".
469-993-5955To download a PDF copy of the flyer and booking form, please click here.
Date: Monday, 9 March 2015Time: 12pm for 12.30pmVenue: Stranger's Dining Room, NSW Parliament House, Macquarie Street, SydneyCost: $90 per personRSVP: (directly to CDC, not ACM): Friday, 26 February 2015
''Let us declare that our head of state should be one of us", opposition leader Bill Shorten said today. ''But Governor-General Quentin Bryce was often sent overseas as the Australian head of state by the very government in which he was a minister, ACM's David Flint reminded the media.
"Let us rally behind an Australian republic – a model that truly speaks for who we are: our modern identity, our place in our region and our world," Mr Shorten added at a time when support for a politicians' republic is lower than at any time since the landslide vote rejecting this in 1999. "This is particularly so amongst the young,'' Professor Flint said.
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Is anyone here doing the December Daily this year? (Digital or paper)
Just curious whether people in this community get involved with that ...
Is anyone here doing the December Daily this year? (Digital or paper)
Just curious whether people in this community get involved with that ...
It seems like a cool idea, but I'm never organized enough to do it. Maybe next year I'll be on the ball and we can do something here.
If you do participate, how do you like to do it? How do you keep up with it during such a busy month? Any tips?
I am way to busy at this time of the year to do this, I hardly can keep up at my emails, I would wish my days had 48 hours!
I've been doing digital versions. Last year, I created myself a foundation page template which I used to jump start every page. I tried to keep things simple, and it worked really really well. Scrapping DD pages last year took me less than an hour for each page (an average scrapbook page usually takes me 1-2 hours), so I was able to stay on top of things all throughout that busy season.
This year, I've decided to switch up designs in my DD project (even though I still totally love the foundation page I created last year and was tempted to use it again this year), and creating a page takes quite a bit longer because I don't have that ready to go foundation template, so I'm struggling a little more to keep up (and on top I seem to be more busy this year than last, don't know how ...).
Anyhow, last year I wrote a post on tackling the DD with as little pain as possible on my blog, and the tips I mentioned there have worked really well for me. (Like I said, this year I chose a different route, not listening to my own advice from last year, and staying on top of my DD project is a greater challenge this year than last, lol).
You & me both, Wilma! This is the time of year I want to kick back, relax & enjoy the reason for the season..........but instead it seems to be so busy & stressful. If I could change that part, I would.
Sula: What an AMAZING post on your blog - I loved it, thanks for sharing I am not doing DD (In fact, I just learned this term), and, well, If I started a diary like that today, It would have the 7 first days about my cat´s recovering, and not about hollidays, since Ronny is, at this moment, being neutered. For a weird coincidence, my females were neutered at Dec the 8th last year - so, December here seems to be "the month to neuter cats" :p
@ Lorien: That would make a wonderful title: 'The neutered album' haha!
@Sula: What a beautiful blog and what a clear and comprehensible way of writing you have! I'll be there stalking you from now on
I am having a hard time making one layout a week, so I'm not even going to TRY to do a december daily! Although I have 'making a diary page' on my wishlist, but I don't want to limit that just to december.
We're doing a December daily at our house (a physical mini-scrapbook) documenting our C.A.K.E project (C.A.K.E. = Christmas acts if kindness for everyone). My three year old and I (with my 10 month old in tow) choose one act of kindness that is written on tiny scrapbook tags and housed on our tree, which is not yet fully decorated...just has lights. Then that day we need to do that act of kindness. So far we've written a letter to a member of the armed service (my nephew who is currently serving overseas), picked up trash in the neighborhood while on our daily walk and made a special supper for daddy. Tomorrow we're going to bake cookies for a neighbor who just had a baby. The project will culminate with delivering donations to our local NICU where our youngest spent the first two months of her life.
During all of the activities, I'm taking pictures and having my daughter help me to journal. I've yet to pick up some special stickers for her to include in our mini-scrapbook (on my list of things to do). So far it's going very well and has squelched the 'I wants' that were already showing their ugly heads toward the end of November.
@ Janet: what a sweet idea to do CAKE. Love everything about it, and I'm sure it's a great learning opportunity for your kids!
@ Lorien: I'm laughing about the neutered cat album (though I'm sure I shouldn't, coz you're probably feeling with them), and honestly: why not do a pets' album? I know one scrapper who always scraps about her dogs (and only scraps about them), and is on several CTs with that, lol!
@ Melouise: I can see how DD is intimidating when there's so much else going on in December.
You can laugh Sula, don´t worry! I also found the idea both weird and fun. I fact, I mostly scrapped about my cats, but, do you believe I never ever had an album only for them? I need to make one of that pocket photobooks to leave in my bag in case someone new want to see some pics, as I don´t have a smartphone and I´m not always with my camera
December is such a busy month that committing to a daily is hard. I hope to start one in January.
@Sula I love your blog and your layouts are beautiful! I wish I had more time to do it this year, but maybe next year. I've been hand making all my Christmas gifts, and have a stack of Christmas cards let to make!


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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – A snowstorm left behind varying amounts of snow and ice across the Midwest, but those areas affected were united by one thing Friday morning: difficult travel conditions.
Powerful wind gusts created large snow drifts on many roadways, making navigating the slick conditions a challenge. Accidents and slide-offs were reported from Kansas to Michigan as the storm pushed east Friday.
Strong gusts off Lake Michigan caused problems for commuters in eastern Wisconsin. Chicago's more than 280 snowplows salted and cleared the city's streets, while commuters slogged through slush to get to their offices.
But in some locations, the storm didn't live up to the hype. At the Pilot Flying J station near Interstate 29 in southwest Iowa, shift manager Kelly Malone said Friday his company had taken precautions by reserving seven rooms for employees at the nearby Super 8 Motel.
"We were prepared for the worst, but it didn't happen that bad. To me it was just an average storm, but I'm a person who drives through anything," he said. Iowa's snow totals topped out at 9.7 inches near Sioux City.
Schools were closed in parts of Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
That included the University of Missouri, where classes were canceled two days in a row, one of the few times in its 174-year history. Chancellor Brady Deaton said Friday the road conditions in Columbia would make it difficult for many to reach campus.
But on Thursday, students trekked out to a local Wal-Mart, making a beeline for the aisles containing sleds and alcohol.
"This isn't our usual Thursday noon routine," Lauren Ottenger, a senior economics major from Denver, said as she stockpiled supplies.
Transportation officials in the affected states urged people to stay home on Thursday. The Kansas National Guard had 12 teams patrolling three state highways in Humvees overnight to rescue motorists stranded by the storm.
The storm brought some relief to a region that has been dealing with its worst drought in decades.
Vance Ehmke, a wheat farmer near Healy, Kan., said the nearly foot of snow was "what we have been praying for." Climatologists say 12 inches of snow is equivalent to about 1 inch of rain, depending on the density of the snow.
At a Travel Centers of America truck stop in the central Illinois city of Effingham, all of the 137 parking spaces were filled by truckers unwilling to drive through the storm overnight.
"When it gets really bad, they like to camp out," cashier Tia Schneider said Thursday, noting that some drivers called ahead. "They can make reservations from 500 miles away to make sure a space is available."


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Simms Windstopper Softshell Jacket
When cold days sink their teeth into your favorite fishing haunts, the Windstopper® Softshell Jacket packs heat. This versatile performer is a windproof, water-resistant, moisture-wicking machine. And when you run out of things to talk about on the water, its iPod compatible technology lets you plug in and tune out.


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This week we learned that the next Volkswagen Golf R will finally pack some much-needed heat, unlike its last few iterations. But in spite of its flaws, I've always liked this car: the second-generation R32.
There's just something about stuffing the 3.2-liter VR6 engine into a little hatchback and giving it all-wheel drive that really appeals to me. Enthusiasts panned the car when it launched in 2008 because it only had a DSG transmission, but I feel like that would go over a lot better today, given how they have only increased in popularity since then.
John Davis and Team Motorweek found the 250 horsepower R32 to be a throaty, reasonably quick hot hatch that "clicks into corners with enthusiasm," even if it won't really scare any Evos or STIs.
Still, it's got character, power and refinement. I'll stick up for you, R32, even if no one else will.
MotorWeek Theater is our showcase of some of our favorite classic reviews from public television's finest motoring program. How does this video only have 25,567 views on YouTube? It's clearly our favorite fast Volkswagen!


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Lifestyle Europe
In this edition:
A New Concert Hall in Erl
The small Austrian town of Erl is on the border to Bavaria. The new concert hall can seat more than eight hundred people and has the world's largest orchestra pit.
Euromaxx travelogue - Sylt
The North Sea island of Sylt is a popular destination at all times of the year. Find out what it has to offer in winter.
Photographer Lee Bofkin
Lee Bofkin from London is a photographer who specialises in street art. Together with two colleagues he has collected more than seventy thousand photographs from around the world for Global Street Art, the first online archive for graffiti and street art.
Ballet Slippers
Daria Khoklova is an up-and-rising ballet star at the Bolshoi in Moscow. She shows us how important her ballet slippers are and we see how they're made.
Neulant van Exel
Berlindesigner duo Neulant van Exel mix art with technology. Their Floppy Table gives the old computer floppy disk a new lease on life - as a coffee table. Created as a one-of-a-kind piece, the hand-crafted table is now being made to order.


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US construction spending up 0.1 percent in December; homebuilding highest since mid-2008
WASHINGTON – U.S. construction spending rose modestly in December, slowing from healthy gains a month earlier.
The Commerce Department said construction spending increased a scant 0.1 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $930.5 billion, down from a revised 0.8 percent increase in November.
The December increase was driven by a 2.6 percent rise in private residential construction, which hit an annual pace of $352.6 billion, highest since June 2008.
More than two-thirds of the residential construction market comes from single-family homes.


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Who DOESN'T love fried chicken? Crunchy on the outside, juicy on the inside, and all around delicious. In honor of National Fried Chicken Day -- today, July 6th -- we've put together an entire email of guilt-free food finds and recipes for your fried-chicken-chewin' pleasure!
Perdue Simply Smart Lightly Breaded Chicken
3 oz. chunks, 3 oz. strips, or 1 filet: 140 - 190 calories, 5g fat, 400mg sodium, 6 - 8g carbs, 0g fiber, 0 - 1g sugars, 17 - 29g protein -- PointsPlus® value 3 - 5*
Smart indeed! These all-natural chicken chunks, strips, and filets have just the right amount of crumb coating for that fried-chicken-like crispiness. And we love that they come in all shapes and sizes. Click to see which freezer aisles near you stock Simply Smart stuff.
1 patty: 140 calories, 5g fat, 590mg sodium, 16g carbs, 2g fiber, 1g sugars, 8g protein -- PointsPlus® value 4* Patty time... Excellent! We've been down with this meatless pick for years -- it's beyond perfect for fried-chicken-sandwich swaps! You can also slice one up and add it to a bowl of leafy greens for a crispy-chicken-salad fix. P.S. MF also makes an Italian Herb version of these patties, plus Chik'n Nuggets. SCORE. Find 'em all in the freezer section of a store near you.
7 nuggets: 180 calories, 9g fat, 210mg sodium, 12g carbs, 0g fiber, 0g sugars, 12g protein -- PointsPlus® value 5*
These kid-friendly, adult-approved items make us happy. They're free of chemical preservatives and fillers, and they taste fantastic. And the sodium count is impressively low -- we like that, especially since we've GOTTA have dipping sauces. Look for these in your grocer's freezer. (The one at the store, not the one in his kitchen!) BTW, Applegate makes patties too!
4 wings: 110 - 120 calories, 0 - 3g fat, 430 - 680mg sodium, 6 - 16g carbs, 4g fiber, <1 - 9g sugars, 13g protein -- PointsPlus® value 2 - 3* OK, these meat-free boneless wings don't have the crispy-coating thing going on, but they're a great swap for a chicken item that's typically fried. Both the Buffalo and Honey BBQ versions rock our faces off. That's right. We have no faces left. (Kidding. That is a terrifying image.) Heads up: These come refrigerated, not frozen like today's other finds.
Never fear! Select a chicken breast, and discreetly remove the fried skin and coating. You'll be ditching a bunch of the excess fatty calories, and the meat will still have TONS of flavor.
1. Crispity Crunchity Drumsticks - KFC cravers, add this HG weapon to your arsenal... Check out all those seasonings!
2. Fiber-Fried Chicken Strips - Our basic faux-fried chicken tenders are anything but boring! There's nothing wrong with simplicity when it's this delicious...
3. Kickin' Buttermilk Faux-Fried Chicken - Wanna elevate your chicken strips? Marinating the chicken in buttermilk makes it turbo tasty 'n tender!
4. Plate-Lickin'-Good Chicken & Waffles - Fans of this combo need to make our recipe ASAP... and so do skeptics. It RULES, people.
5. Honey Mustard Pretzel-Coated Chicken Fingers - Inspired by a finger food that Lisa (a.k.a. HG herself) adored as a kid, this recipe is loved by everyone!
6. Planet Hungrywood Sweet & Cap'n Crunchy Chicken - The Cap'n Crunch chicken at Planet Hollywood is another of HG's obsessions -- this swap rocks hard!
7. Snazzed-Up Crispy Crispy Chicken Salad - Restaurant salads topped with crispy chicken can be super-tempting. Resist 'em, and make an HG version instead!
8. Hot Guac Crispy Chicken Club - One of our most recent faux-fried chicken recipes, this stacked sandwich has a LOT going on... and we love it!
Why did the chicken cross the Internet? Because you clicked "Send to a Friend," silly! Do it now.
Did we mention that today, July 6th, is National Fried Chicken Day? Because it IS! And if you're not sure how to celebrate, re-read today's email until you are...
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