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Combined Interests
What if, in one fell swoop, you could combine your desire for a broad, liberal arts education with targeted training in such fields as engineering, law, mathematical and natural sciences, environmental management and oceanography?
Interested Whitman students can, through the college's combined plan of study opportunity.
For this program, Whitman teams with leading universities across the country so that its students can get the best of both worlds. Students enrolled in the program spend their first two or three years at Whitman, assimilating into the rigors of academia and developing their critical thinking and writing skills before heading off to a partnering university. This prepares the student with the experience that only a liberal arts college can offer AND provides them with the option of studying deeply into fields that are not offered on campus.
One such student is Daniel Goltz '09. Although he walked across the stage during Whitman's Commencement ceremony in May 2009, he has not yet received his diploma. That will come in 2011, after he finishes his studies at Columbia University. He then will receive two undergraduate diplomas, a B.A. in natural and mathematical sciences from Whitman and a B.S. in chemical engineering from Columbia. Goltz is a member of the engineering and computer science combined plan, which requires three years at Whitman and another two off campus.
"Having these combined programs attracts a very bright, motivated and diverse group of students that may not have considered Whitman, or any other liberal arts college, if there weren't a preparatory path that would take them in the direction of engineering or computer science," says Fred Moore, professor of physics and combined studies adviser for students following the engineering or computer science path.
More than 50 students have graduated from the program with degrees ranging from law and international studies to the most popular, engineering and computer science. Depending on the degree they are earning, students may continue their education at such highly regarded universities as, Columbia University, Duke University, University of Washington and California Institute of Technology.
Though the curriculum requires another year of college, for Goltz the advantages of such a strong program far outweigh the investment of extra time. "During one's first few years of college, it is critical for young scientists to have individualized, even personal instruction. Liberal arts colleges like Whitman are particularly well-suited for this, because of the small class sizes. However, academic interests become much more focused during the final two years, at which point the scientific resources of a large research university become increasingly necessary. Through the 3-2 program, I essentially get the best of both worlds."
Among the reasons Goltz chose Whitman is its outstanding reputation, he says. One of the highlights of his Whitman career was taking molecular biology. "It excited me like no other class I've ever had," says Goltz.
While challenging, the class inspired him to change the direction of his studies and led him to serve an internship at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. There, as part of the Undergraduate Research Program, he worked with renowned scientists, including James Watson, winner of a Nobel Prize as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA.
The next step in his educational journey involves a cross-country trek. His Whitman education has helped lay the foundation from which he can now build upon as he studies chemical engineering at Columbia. Out of the handful of schools to choose from to complete his combined plan degree, Goltz chose Columbia for its excellent professors, great reputation, ability to focus his studies on genetic and tissue engineering as well as its location.
Lacking no initiative — a common trait of Whitties — while at Columbia Goltz also will study organ at The Julliard School.
For further questions about Whitman's combined plans, please contact the Registrar's Office at (509) 527-5983 or for a student's perspective, e-mail Daniel Goltz at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Motions to dismiss have been called "the main event" in securities class actions. They are filed in over 90% of securities class actions and they result in dismissal close to 50% of the time they are filed. In contrast, out of 4,226 class actions filed between 1995 and 2013, only 14 were resolved through a trial, and of those, only five resulted in verdicts for the defendant. In between a denial of a motion to dismiss and a trial are i) discovery, ii) opposition to class certification, iii) motion for summary judgment, iv) mediation, and v) settlement. Unfortunately for defendants in securities class actions, class certification is granted in whole or in part 84% of the time, and there is no summary judgment decision at all over 90% of the time. Thus, for most defendants in securities class actions, a denial of a motion to dismiss usually results in writing a settlement check, often after years of costly discovery. Defendants that fail to give adequate attention to motions to dismiss are shortchanging the very best opportunity they have to avoid what may otherwise become multi-year, expensive litigation.
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A co-author of five books and numerous journal articles, Dr. Robert England has distinguished himself as an educator, political scientist and a developer of fire leadership and management programs.
Chickasha High School's academic team got a boost in October from USAO when three alums and a current student teamed up to compete in – and win – a "Community Quiz Bowl."
Described as "always willing to help out with a smile on her face," Vanessa McNabb received the Regents Staff Achievement Award for the first quarter of the 2011-12 year at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma.
Whether inspiring her students to reach out to U.S. veterans or influencing state policymakers to raise awareness about childhood obesity, Annette Dake has set a high standard for fellow and future educators.
On Nov. 5, Dake will be inducted into the USAO Alumni Hall of Fame.
From the campus of the Oklahoma College for Women to the glamour of the Paris Opera, Margaret Ann McConnel Singer has forged a legacy of artistic excellence and generosity that has touched thousands of lives. On Nov. 5, Singer will be inducted into the USAO Alumni Hall of Fame.
Seven schools, including the University of Science and Arts, are coming together to offer students a study abroad program in London next summer for credit hours and life experience.
More than 195 students at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma achieved a grade point average of 3.5 or greater during the summer 2011 trimester and were named to the university's honor rolls, USAO records officials have announced.
Described as "a champion for the deaf and hard-of-hearing students on campus," Dan Bice received the Regents Staff Achievement Award for the fourth quarter of the 2010-11 year at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma.
As students prepare to return for classes at the University of Science and Arts on Aug. 29, they will have a new option waiting for them in the USAO Bookstore—the option to rent their textbooks for the trimester.
After five months of study in Wales, Brad Henry International Scholar Rachael Brown has returned home to Chickasha and is poised to begin her final semester at the University of Science and Arts.


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Fresh start for City boss
HAPPY: Carlos TevezRoberto Mancini just can't wait for pre-season training. The Italian believes that he will be able to improve on this season's campaign by having a full season to work with his squad, from start to finish. He will spend the summer adding to his squad and looking forward to a full pre-season to work with his players. He said: ?It?s not easy for a manager when you arrive in the middle of the season, because you don?t know the players very well. ?But when you start the season, then you can work with your squad before it starts, you can sign some players that you like and you can do your job from the first day. ?For me, that?s good. I feel next season, we can do a good job.? Tevez, City?s leading scorer this season with 29 goals ? and the club?s newly-crowned player of the year, will have a key role to play in that push. The Argentinian publicly complained about Mancini?s occasional preference for double training sessions last month, but he has made it clear to the City boss that he is happy to stay and buckle down. Mancini said: ?I spoke with Carlos. I said to him: ?Carlos, are you happy to stay here?? He said: ?I am very happy here.? ?I have told him that in any week where we don?t have a midweek match on one day we must have two training sessions. ?Next year, we will often play on Thursdays and Sundays. If we want to improve, we must work harder than this year. ?Carlos said: ?I am happy to stay here. I want to improve. I want to win with Manchester City.? ?For me, this is important, because Carlos is a top player. He can set an example to the others.?
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Yar me maties. Make your own pirate costume this Halloween. Your kids will love it. It glows in the dark too. Check out our 19 Homemade Halloween Costumes collection for more great Halloween costume ideas.
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- Pirate hook, Darice Foamies #106-239M
- Black foam pirate hat, Darice Foamies
- Black foam pirate sword, Darice Foamies #1052-80S
- Coordinating bandana
- Glue gun with glue sticks
- Blue feather
- Scissors
- Black sweatpants
- White sweatshirt
- Black t-shirt
Use Glo in the Dark Dimensional Writer to paint "shiver me timbers" on sword blade and "aye", pupils, and outline of eyes on hat. Set aside to dry.
Use glue gun to adhere feather to back of pirate hat.
Fold bandana in half and use scissors to cut into edge at half point. Tear across bandana, trimming away loose threads. Cut and tear both halves in half to create four strips. Tie ends of two bandana strips together and repeat with remaining strips to form belt, leaving ends loose to hang down at side.
Use scissors to cut off all bands from t-shirt neck, bottom, and sleeves; shorten pants to desired length. Cut jagged edges into bottom edge of sleeves, shirt, and pants. At center front of neck opening, cut 2" slit.
Referring to photo for placement, use Black SoSoft Dimensional Writer to paint laces of shirt as if weaving in and out and hanging down by slit. Allow to dry.
- Use Gold SoSoft Dimensional Writer to paint grommets around ends of black lines where laces appear to enter shirt. Allow to dry.
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Christie administration announces new online tool for public access to crime data
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The New Jersey State Police Uniform Crime Reporting Unit has just taken a significant step forward in reporting crime throughout the state. Today, Friday, Feb. 15, a link was placed on the public web site that connects users to very recent and comparative crime data for municipalities and counties. The data is updated every week, or as often as municipalities provide fresh numbers.
According to the data on this report, Atlantic County had a decrease in both nonviolent and violent crimes between 2010 and 2011 and also experienced a dip in overall crime rate.
"For the first time, we are able to give the public a sense of the current crime picture in their area. Even as preliminary data, this will be a great new tool for the public," said Colonel Rick Fuentes, Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police.
The data on the web site is unverified and published as it is received from the sending municipalities. Consequently, the data may later be revised or otherwise altered in the State Police's annual Crime in New Jersey report, which will continue to be made public in the fall of every year. The 2011 Crime in New Jersey report can be found athttp://njsp.org/info/ucr2011/index.html
Initially, this information is offered in the form of a PDF document, however, the UCR Unit members are developing an interactive web page format that will allow users to search for specific data.
The new data can be viewed at http://www.njsp.org/info/ucr_currentdata.html


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The Health and Safety of our staff, the communities in which we work, our supply chain and the wider public dominates the agenda at Mi-space and the Midas Group.
We know that only through taking a robust and progressive stance on Health & Safety can we then concentrate on the organisation's core deliverable of helping to 'creating communities'.
We have a dedicated in house team of Health Safety and Environmental (H,S&E) officers whose sole purpose is to maintain a safe and healthy working environment on all Mi-space projects. We work with our customers HS&E teams / departments and focus on continuous improvement in all areas of our operations.


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Name Changes and Mergers
Like most of the United Kingdom's large civic universities, Cardiff University has been shaped by the traditions of more than one institution. In Cardiff's case, both its parent institutions traced their foundations to the nineteenth century. The Cardiff Arts and Science Schools began in 1866, while the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire opened in 1883.
In time the Arts and Science Schools developed into the Cardiff Technical College which, in 1957, became the Welsh College of Advanced Technology. Ten years later the college was in turn transformed into the University in Wales Institute of Science and Technology (UWIST).
Meanwhile, the university college, established by Royal Charter, had adopted the public name of University College, Cardiff and this became its established title when it was formally approved by the Privy Council in 1972. By that date, the city of Cardiff had, as neighbours within its civic centre, two university institutions - University College, Cardiff and UWIST - with considerable overlap of subject provision and a growing number of shared activities. The two institutions merged in 1988.
Cardiff University and the University of Wales College of Medicine merged in 2004 to create a larger and more dynamic University with increased capabilities and capacities based on our unification and associated additional strategic investment.


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I was not aware of what Microsoft is thinking about it. But today after I saw PDC 2010 the main concern that Microsoft is pointing to on the release of C# 5.0 is the pain related to deal with asynchronous operations using Threads. It simplifies the existing MultiThreading model with Task based model, which now simplified with greater extent with the use of two new keywords yet not introduced as "await" and "async".
Before the introduction of these features, we generally rely on traditional approaches of creating Thread from a ThreadPool and consuming a method which needed to be asynchronously called for. Again when the Thread finishes, or during the lifetime of the Thread we need callbacks to notify UI after a while, so that the user gets an impression that the background is updating the system. This breaks the way we write or the way we think of programming. The programmer needs to create the program to device in such a way that it handles continuity of the application by writing custom callbacks to the system or even use Dispatcher to update the UI thread from background. Thus the code becomes more and more complex as we add up more functionalities to the system.
In this PDC, Anders Hejlsberg introduces two new investments on C# which is probably now still in CTP to allow asynchronous calls to the applications very simple and easy to handle. The two keyword which were introduced recently are "async" and "await". Let me introduce these two keywords for the time being.
According to Whitepaper published on the CTP, await keyword lets you to wait your program and lets the program to be declared as a continuation of all the existing awaits so that the compiler automatically waits for all other awaits to be finished until the program continues its execution.
In other words, say you have invoked 3 asynchronous methods from your code an asynchronous block from your code, you would just write the way you would have written this synchronously with a single keyword await before the call. The call lets the compiler wait until the execution successfully completes. Just as shown below :
async Task GetStringsFromUrlAsync(string url) { WebClient client = new WebClient();return await client.DownloadStringTaskAsync(new Uri(url)); }
This involves the call to DownloadStringTaskAsync which is already implemented for WebClient. Now as you can see I have specified the await just before the call to Asyncrhonous method DownloadStringTaskAsync, it will keep the call on wait.
Even though if I say use :
async Task GetStringsFromUrlAsync(string url) { WebClient client = new WebClient(); Task<string> modifieduri = client.DownloadStringTaskAsync(new Uri(url));string result = await modifieduri;return await client.DownloadStringTaskAsync(new Uri(result)); }
It means the second Task depends on the first one. So in this case the First DownloadStringTaskAsync will be called. This call actually returns Task(Task for any other operation) which you can keep on wait until it is finished using await keyword. So when you execute, the first call will block until the result is fetched and then it will take the string result and call the next one.
Thus you can see how you can use await on Task variable to wait the object for completion without any implementation of custom callbacks, global objects etc.
Now how to implement the asynchronous method? Hmm, async keyword can be placed just before the function call to make the method asynchronous.By specifying the async keyword against your method call, the compiler will automatically select your method to be asynchronous, which means it will move to the next line before returning the result in parallel until it finds an await. In the example I have provided the DownloadStringTaskAsync is actually an extension which specifies to be called with async.
Async method can return void, Task or Task based on what you need in your environment. But it is mostly preferable to return at least a Task object so that the caller can better handle the call.For any async method, you should put await before fetching the result, otherwise you might end up with blank/null result. await works with async to stop the further execution before finishing the other operations in context.
You can download and read more about it from :http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/async.aspx
I have composed this article just to give you an introduction on what I understood about the concept on the PDC discussed today. My understanding might be totally wrong as I don't have much depth about the concept. Please let me know if I made any mistake so that I can correct it in this article. This is the very basic introduction to these new concepts, I will introduce few more extension methods and other important features that were also included with the CTP later on.


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150 foot monsters
Vehicular and aerial combat
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We used felted (washed and dried) wool-felt which is great to work with - very forgiving - and matching thread. The felt hides so many flaws. I need to do more stuff like this with both my girls AND my boys.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Scotty ornaments & sewing with kids
We used felted (washed and dried) wool-felt which is great to work with - very forgiving - and matching thread. The felt hides so many flaws. I need to do more stuff like this with both my girls AND my boys.
23 comments:
- Nedra said...
You've really got me hooked on Allsorts. I have a son named Scott who we called Scotty as he was growing up. I'm always on the hunt for Scotty dogs.
- December 28, 2011 at 3:56 PM
- Miss Crayola Creepy said...
What a thoughtful gift!!! Not to mention super cute! :)
- December 28, 2011 at 3:58 PM
- Sheila said...
What a wonderful idea , the scotties are just adorable and so glad your boys helped too !
- December 28, 2011 at 4:07 PM
- Fiona said...
Oh! Those sweet scottie ornaments and the story of your Grandfather and Rosie has given me a tear in my eye!
My oldest boy loves sewing with felt too :) - December 28, 2011 at 4:35 PM
- Jamie Lee said...
What a touching story...and glad your whole family could take part!
- December 28, 2011 at 4:51 PM
- prsd4tim2 said...
This was always my favorite week as a kid for all the reasons you mentioned, especially that the adults actually seemed to have time to sit down and do stuff with us kids. Enjoy it because while it seems that their childhood can be a trial, too soon they're grown and gone.
I love your little scotty dogs. They'll be so cute on your tree. - December 28, 2011 at 5:34 PM
- Katy Cameron said...
Aww,what a sweet story, and love the wee dugs (as they're known over here ;o) )
- December 28, 2011 at 6:13 PM
- ...julia... said...
What a sweet way to remember your grandpa and dog. We lost our dog last year right before Halloween, he was old but so loved... In his memory we planted a tree in my parents yard. Each year at Christmas time we decorate it for him and take a picture with the other dogs sitting next to it. It has become a wonderful way to remember our Buddy!
- December 28, 2011 at 6:14 PM
- lovecrafts said...
So cute toy for kids! i love it very much.
- December 28, 2011 at 8:02 PM
- LittleLucyGoosey said...
I love that you ended up doing this project with your boys too!! I can't wait to teach both of my kiddos (I've got one of each) to sew (and cook too!). Who wouldn't fall in love with a person who can mend their own clothes and cook a three course meal? I couldn't resist it! Great job, mama!
- December 28, 2011 at 8:59 PM
- Kristie said...
These are a fantastic keepsake, for a dear memory.
I love this week, too. Things {finally} move a little slower....so nice.
Best in 2012 :) - December 28, 2011 at 9:13 PM
- Shannon said...
What a sweet thing to do for your family - and a great thing to do with your kids! Your little scotty dogs turned out so cute!
- December 28, 2011 at 9:25 PM
- Elizabeth said...
Those are so very cute! I love that your boys wanted to help too! I may have to make some of those! Thanks for sharing a wonderful memory.
Eight years ago, at Christmas-time my grandpa (my dad's dad) passed away. Just a few days later my grandma (my mom's mom) passed away. It makes for bitter-sweet memories of those who have gone before us.
xo -E - December 28, 2011 at 10:49 PM
- Lucy @ Charm About You said...
Such a sweet gift. My son loves to sew, he's three so we're taking it easy but he's fascinated!
- December 29, 2011 at 2:13 PM
- Michele said...
Great idea. And I'm glad the kiddos aren't sick any more. That has a bad way of spoiling time off from the normal hustle and bustle.
- December 29, 2011 at 5:15 PM
- Meggie said...
Your Scottie Dogs have given me an idea for my Scottish Heritage page. Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful projects.
Meggie - December 29, 2011 at 10:01 PM
- Melissa @ Happy Quilting said...
Those are so adorable!!!
- December 29, 2011 at 10:11 PM
- Leslie said...
oh goodness i have been gone way too long and missed way too much. i love these little scotty dogs and all the wonderful christmas quilts and goodies you made before the holiday.
- December 30, 2011 at 9:10 AM
- Sherry said...
How sweet. Love your story. The Scotty ornaments are adorable! Wishing you & your family a Happy New Year!
- December 30, 2011 at 7:46 PM
- Kirsten N said...
I made one of these a couple of years ago for my Grandmother who was very proud of her Scottish heritage - she has recently passed away at the age of 90 years and 10 months. I need to make some more Scotties to help us remember her this time next year.
- December 31, 2011 at 4:34 PM
- Claire Jain said...
Awww, these are so sweet! I might have to craft one up for my sister. When she was 2, she walked over to our neighbor's house in only her underwear to play with their scotty dog. That's love.
- January 1, 2012 at 2:24 PM
- Becky said...
I'm a little behind the times with my comment here, but wanted you to know that the Scotty dogs are absolutely adorable. What fun you must have had.
- January 2, 2012 at 9:05 PM
- Bloggymom said...
Super cute!!
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Erik Stegman
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Expertise: Poverty, education, criminal justice, American Indian/Alaska Native issues, LGBT issues
Erik Stegman is the Director of Field Outreach and Advocacy for Half in Ten at American Progress. In this role, he leads Half in Ten's "Restoring Shared Prosperity" project, contributes to policy development, and manages Half in Ten's network of grassroots partners and coalition members to support its mission of building the political and public will to reduce poverty.
Prior to joining the team at American Progress, Erik served as majority counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs under the leadership of Sen. Daniel K. Akaka (HI). He was an expert on a wide range of policy issues affecting tribal governments including economic development, law enforcement, violence against women, tax, education, and telecommunications. He also took the lead on developing the Stand Against Violence and Empower Native Women Act, which was recently signed into law as part of the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization.
Erik was appointed in 2011 to serve as policy advisor to Assistant Deputy Secretary Kevin Jennings at the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. During his time in the administration, he led an intra-agency working group on American Indian policy development. Erik also organized the first-ever federal gay and transgender youth summit, which brought gay and transgender youth from across the country together with officials from the Departments of Education, Justice, and Health and Human Services.
He began his career in Washington, D.C. at the National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center where he managed several national networks of policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and tribal leaders to develop research and policy priorities on a range of issues facing tribal governments and communities.
Erik holds a J.D. from UCLA School of Law, an M.A. in American Indian studies from UCLA's graduate division, and a B.A. from Whittier College. He also served for seven years on the National Board of Directors for the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network where he earned the Charley Todd Award for Outstanding Board Leadership.


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Blink Reaction: Everything First
"Mobile first" is perhaps the hottest buzzword in web development today, but we as an industry are still struggling to articulate just what "mobile first" means. How does that influence your projects? Are there specific rules to follow? Or does it simply mean always giving mobile users first consideration at all phases of the project?
ThinkDrop Consulting: Introducing HubDrop.io: bridging the gap between Drupal.org and GitHub
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This project is simply something I wanted to do. No one paid for it. I built it in my spare time as a way to refine the knowledge I learned over the last few years about Symfony, Vagrant, and Chef. I want to grow this tool, but it takes time and a server, which both == money.
So I'm opening up a GitTip account to raise funding for development of hubdrop.io.
But before I do that, I wanted to formally introduce HubDrop to the Drupal aocmmunity.
What is HubDrop?HubDrop.io is currently a tool that mirrors Drupal projects on GitHub. In the future it will do all sorts of magic things with your git repos.
It was also a learning experience for me, and hopefully it will be for others. I hope to use HubDrop's code as a lesson in building web services.
In the future, I want put together a detailed case study and document the process of building the entire HubDrop service for all to learn from.
HubDrop is also a part of the Drupal community. There is a lot of debate about the drupal.org tools, and the effort it takes to improve them. There was a huge discussion of moving to github outright, years ago. The idea for hubdrop was to act as a bridge, so we don't have to decide for everyone what tool they must use for development, and can maybe get the best of both worlds in the meantime.
PrinciplesI've got some important ideas that I believe in. This project is a tool for the community, and I've come up with these three principles to keep it that way.
- HubDrop will always be 100% open source.
- Mirroring of public open source code and site projects will always be free.
- HubDrop will always strive to survive on community funding, plus revenue from mirroring private repos.
We'll see how it goes. I am a cynic idealist. If the funding comes in, there's so much that can be done.
Future FeaturesThere are a number of features that I am sure everyone is thinking of. Here is my priority list:
GitHub to Drupal sync.
This will allow projects to move development to GitHub, while maintaining a mirror on drupal.org for releases, presence in the community, etc.
This is already working for the "drupalprojects" organization, but I have to run a command on the server to do so. This is a very tricky feature because you have to decide who gets commit access.
I have this working as well, and I'll write more about it later, but the point is, the next step is letting developers create their own repos in any organization, and plug it into Drupal's git service. This part will require some work because there is no database in hubdrop and I'd like to keep it that way.
Private 3rd Party Mirroring (and merging)
By which I mean, mirroring your Pantheon, Acquia, or other git host repo on your own GitHub account or organization, private or public.
I already set this up as a test by messing with the pushUrl and it works, but its lumped in with the contrib projects. Also this depends on feature #1 because we need some kind of authentication to set this up.
The merging part is mainly for Acquia Cloud. We could let devs keep their drupal code in the root of their repo, and automatically sync it to your acquia cloud repo, which must keep drupal atdocroot.
Drupal Core Update Merging
What if you could give hubdrop access to your repo, and, whenever there was a core update, it could make a branch of your master and apply the update for your review? Basically what Pantheon does but for any drupal repo.
Drush Make and Distribution Repos
Using drupal/drush make-driven-drupal-development? Want to, but don't want to teach your devs to build the site all the time?
Got a distribution that drupal.org packages?
HubDrop could track changes to your makefile, and sync that with a full drupal site repo, making for more flexible development and distribution.
I'll end with a tweet from a fan. HubDrop has already inspired a meme.
While I don't see a need for mirroring all the things, I do think the freedom for developers to develop with the tool they prefer is an important freedom to have.
My hope is that this tool will bring more people together to improve code for all.
Sync all the modules! http://t.co/5db358ZyUw #drupal pic.twitter.com/71gVpXwy11
— Dave Hall (@skwashd) December 1, 2013 Tags: Planet DrupalgithubdropDrupal Association News: Drupal.org team week notes #21
During the past two weeks we deployed a few Bluecheese issues (#2191021, #2194421, #1195950), accessibility issues (#2095969), Project issues (#2195621, #2184161, #2125307, #2193857, #2159429. Thanks to LewisNyman, mgifford, cafuego, tim.plunkett, trobey and Mark Carver for working on them.
InternetDevels: Ctools access plugin creation for Panels
Some time ago we've learned how to develop ctools content type for Panels module. Now it's time for the next plugin type for Ctools, namely - access plugin.
Read moreModules Unraveled: 097 The Kalamuna (Bootstrap) Theme with Mike Pirog - Modules Unraveled Podcast
- What is Kalatheme?
- Does this play nicely with Panels/Context etc?
- I don't actually have any experience with Panels In Place Editor. What functionality does that provide the theme?
- What version of Bootstrap are you using?
- Is Sass-ability built in?
- On the Project Page, it says you can use other Bootstrap themes. How does that work?
- You mentioned a subtheme generator. What is that? How does it work?
- Is this a base theme that people should sub-theme? Or can people use it out of the box.
- What are the Drush commands that work with Kalatheme?
- What do you see as the target audience for Kalatheme?
- Do you know of any sites using Kalatheme that we can look at?
Have you heard of/used NodeSquirrel?
Use "StartToGrow" it's a 12-month free upgrade from the Start plan to the Grow plan. So, using it means that the Grow plan will cost $5/month for the first year instead of $10. (10 GB storage on up to 5 sites)
Chapter Three: Sharing Drupal
As the Drupal project matures, new technologists surveying the landscape of available technologies may not pick Drupal as their platform of choice. Chapter Three has met this challenge by encouraging people at the beginning of their careers to explore Drupal and share our love of the platform.
Two years ago, Terence Yang showed up at the BADCamp registration table on Saturday morning and ended up being a stellar volunteer for the entire weekend. The one request he had at the end of the camp was to learn more about Drupal.
The following summer Terence and the Bay Area Video Coalition approached Chapter Three to see if we would be interested in hosting Terence as an intern for their BRIDGES program.
The decision was easy to bring Terence on as an intern. We know from past experience that community volunteers make a great addition to our office.
BAVC's team of videographers Chris Pizarro and Nelson G. Navarrete created a short documentary describing Terence's experience at Chapter Three.
DrupalCon Austin News: March 7; it's the final countdown
Only 7 precious days remain until applications close for sessions, training, and scholarships at DrupalCon Austin. Help us spread the word about this deadline to your co-workers, user groups, and twitter following-- DrupalCon Austin is shaping up to be our biggest conference yet, and you can help us ensure anyone has a chance to be part of it!
DrupalCon Austin News: So, you want to train at DrupalCon
Prior to each conference, trainers submit proposals and the training selection team, a global and local track chair, work with the Program Coordinator to select the trainings that will be offered. Many top-quality proposals aren't selected, simply because there are more potentials submitted than can be offered. To make the path to training more clear, here are some insights into the selection process and how to best present your training for consideration.
Palantir: Supporting the Local Drupal Community at MidCamp
One of the ways that Palantir gives back to the communities that support the open source tools we use is by helping to organize and sponsor local and regional events. One upcoming event that we're very excited about is MidCamp, a three-day celebration of all things Drupal here in Chicago March 28-30.
MidCamp is a brand-new Drupal event designed to educate and engage Drupal users and evaluators throughout the Midwest. It will feature three days of training, curated sessions, and sprints for those looking to increase their Drupal knowledge and for the opportunity to rub shoulders with internationally-renowned Drupal experts.
One of those experts is our own Larry Garfield, who will be co-presenting MidCamp's Saturday keynote along with Lullabot's Jeff Eaton. They'll be providing a tour of the upcoming Drupal 8, talking not just about its new features but also its new philosophy.
For those looking for a more in-depth look, Palantir will be offering two half-day training sessions on Friday for Drupal site builders and module developers who want to be able to hit the ground running with Drupal 8 once it's released.
And with several Palantir team members having proposed sessions for MidCamp and planning to participate in Sunday's sprints, you'll be sure to see some of us around all three days of the conference.
Located at the University Center in downtown Chicago, MidCamp is situated within walking distance of many of the city's tourist attractions, restaurants and nightlife.
But what sets MidCamp truly apart is that it is a community effort, organized and supported by volunteers and sponsors from a wide variety of companies and organizations throughout the region. Among those volunteers is our own Andrea Soper, who is leading the planning team. Other Palantir team members helping out with various aspects of the event include Nate Striedinger, Bec White, and myself. In addition, we've also thrown our financial support behind the event as one of its Gold-level sponsors.
Whether you're an existing Drupal user, developer, designer, site builder, or are someone new to the community, you won't want to miss out on MidCamp. Visit www.midcamp.org to learn more and purchase your tickets today.
If you're interested in sponsoring the event or submitting a session proposal of your own, act now, because there are only a few days left.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Mediacurrent: Meet Peter Mallett
1. So Peter, what's your role at Mediacurrent, both internally and client-related?
I am a "Drupal Developer", so I take care of site builds, writing custom modules, consulting on how to accomplish clients' goals, and a bit of theming here and there.
2. We're so glad to have you! Give us an idea of what professional path brought you here.
I got started with computer programming when I was in high school, then was exposed to Web development right after. With the exception of a few side-quests, this is what I've been doing ever since.
3. How did you first get involved with Drupal?
Drupalize.Me: Drupal 8: Start Contributing with the Drupal Ladder
Here at Drupalize.Me everyone is contributing time to Drupal 8. For my part, I'm turning my attention back to the Drupal Ladder. I was heavily involved in this project when it started a few years ago, and it remains a great resource for bringing people up to speed on the technical aspects of contributing to Drupal Core. The Drupal Ladder is a collection of lessons—organized step-by-step like a ladder—that walk you through the basic tools and processes used by the Drupal community. If you want to contribute to Drupal 8, the Drupal Ladder is an easy place to start, and your first step should be the Drupal Core Ladder. (There are numerous ladders for different topics; stick with the Core ladder initially.) Here are two ways you can dive in:
Digett: Why I Love Pantheon for Drupal Hosting
We have been using Pantheon for several months now and I am ready to declare it a strong winner for us. If you haven't experienced it, Pantheon is a hosting platform that is optimized for Drupal.
Acquia: Ryan Weaver and Jeffrey A. McGuire compare notes on Open Source
Ryan Weaver is the single biggest contributor to the Symfony2 framework's documentation (which is excellent, check it out!), a self-described Symfony evangelist, and lead at KnpUniversity.com, makers of fantastic PHP tutorial screencasts like this one on using Composer to include PHP libraries in Drupal 7.
Mark Shropshire: Charlotte Drupal Drive-in Wrap-up
Last Saturday (February 22nd, 2014), thirty-one Drupalers joined together at Classic Graphics for the Charlotte Drupal Drive-in. The day was full of presentations, BOFs, and general chatting about Drupal and related web technologies.
The day-long, un-conference-style event was the brainchild of Thomas Lattimore. After CharDUG wasn't able to pull together the human resources to repeat the success of DrupalCamp Charlotte 2012, Thomas mentioned that he had an idea. Since he knew organizers had limited time to commit to planning, he wanted to host an un-conference-style event, allowing for simpler planning than a full-blown Drupal camp. You can learn more about his concept on the DruaplEasy Podcast.
The event started with breakfast goodies, a welcome to the event, a thank you to our sponsors, and session pitches. The list of pitched ideas quickly grew to enough items to easily fill the day with sessions in two rooms. The group decided to plan the morning sessions by splitting beginner and advanced topics in separate rooms. The organic nature of the event and Classic's space allowed for the beginner session to split into two rooms when it was clear the group had different needs and questions.
Morning session topics included, contributing to Drupal, beginning site building and theming, integrating Drupal and Meteor.js, and a combined talk about options for dev, staging, production workflows.
During lunch (sponsored by the Drupal Association, attendees enjoyed chatting about the previous sessions and meeting each other.
Command Partners provided a $100 iTunes gift card to giveaway after lunch. Thanks to deekayen for using his Randomizer module to determine the winner!
Next, we planned sessions for the afternoon. Most attendees stayed in our larger room where we had a number of great topics, including Aegir, Acquia Lift, the Demo Framework, and Features. In addition to the main sessions, a group started talking about Open Atrium 2 in small conference room.
The event ended with a wrap-up to talk about what we learned and any lingering questions. Everyone I heard from during the wrap-up and following the event had great things to say about the format. They really liked the organic nature of the event.
From my perspective, the event was a success. The format allowed for a relaxed atmosphere where beginner and seasoned Drupalers alike were able discuss their projects, ideas, and questions. While much of the group was from the Charlotte metro area, we also had attendees from the Atlanta metro area, Boone, NC, Tryon, NC, and High Point, NC.
Some kudos from attendees:
"I really liked the splinter rooms.. it was nice to even start a session in one room and split from there based on what." - Angel Cox
"Awesome. I liked that we built an agenda on the fly using feedback from the group, and that many of the sessions came from users who had pretty specific "how do I do X?" type questions. My favorite presentation ended up being a sort-of group lead discussion on how different people are doing dev-staging-prod release cycles within their organizations. Having a local Acquia employee give (the first!) presentation on Lift was amazing." - Jeremy Edgell
I would like to thank Classic Graphics, the Drupal Association, and Command Partners for supporting the Charlotte Drupal Drive-in. Also, thanks to all those who attended and led sessions. I see a repeat of Charlotte Drupal Drive-in in 2015 in our future!
Thanks to Josh Lockhart for the photos. See more here.
Blog Category:Pronovix: Managing paper and virtual loyalty cards with a Drupal site
We have just finished developing a loyalty program system for a Belgian coffee shop, so we thought we could summarize what we've learned to help Drupalists working on similar projects.
Loyalty programs are structured marketing efforts that reward and encourage loyal buying behavior. The owner of a loyalty card is identified as a member in the loyalty program who is entitled either a discount on the current purchase, or an allotment of points that can be used for future purchases.
DrupalCon Austin News: project management, team management, communication and strategy sessions wanted
If you've ever been involved in a digital project of any complexity, you know that project success depends as much on the human factors like communication, accountability and organizational processes as it does good code. In fact, some have said that without good process, you cannot have good code.
Lullabot: Module Monday: Synonyms
Drupal's Taxonomy system has offered the ability to store synonyms for almost a decade. When the term 'Chicago' is defined as a category, for example, Drupal allows you to add 'Windy City' as a potential alternative. What Drupal doesn't do, however, is use that synonym anywhere. That's where the Synonyms module comes in.
Acquia: Drupal 8 Module upgrade workshop at Drupal Developer Days in Szeged
Gábor Hojtsy, Jesse Beach (jessebeach), and Jess (xjm) will lead a Drupal 8 module upgrade workshop during Drupal Developer Days in Szeged, Hungary.
Phase2: Static Prototyping and Keeping Drupal Simple (KDS)
If you ask any Drupal developer about their favorite tools, the probability of Views and Panels being in that list are absolute. They are part of the top 100, and with good reason. They provide GUI tools for querying and layout customization.
They also, however, introduce complexity behind-the-scenes.The technical debt involved with preprocessing views templates or creating custom panel layouts is hard to justify for projects that have small budgets, tight timelines, or hyper-specific design requirements.
One approach is to have a front-end developer interpret flat designs to DOM output introduced by the implementation. While this is common, it adds technical design debt as you deal with unneeded repeated elements, missing HTML5 tags, and unstructured CSS.
You also introduce QA headaches as the gap between what is designed in Photoshop and what is implemented lies solely on subjective design eye.
I believe a better approach is to use static prototypes and manipulate Drupal to the desired DOM using core API functions.
I call it Keeping Drupal Simple (KDS).
Let's explore the KDS philosophy as well as some implementation techniques.
Business GoalsEvery decision should be tied to a stated business goal. The 'what if' scenarios of users, both visitors and site administrators, being able to interact with the options Drupal can provide generally push budgets.
Although being able to think of all scenarios is something developers pride themselves on, most business goals can be solved with specific definitions of success and simpler technical solutions.
One way to focus this effort is to ask the right questions. Instead of asking 'Do you need to be able to do x?', follow the principles of Agile and ask 'What business goal is solved of being able to do x?'
This subtle change allows developers to redistribute their efforts from feature rich technical implementations to high value client experiences. It also forces the client to think about the true value of a feature request as it relates to their audience.
This results in reevaluating the need for modules, like Views or Panels, because site configuration priorities are lower than the design and content creation priorities.
Below are four questions I ask when implementing KDS:
- What is the business value of editors being able to change the layout / have a dashboard / administer X type of content?
- How do you define a successful site visitor experience?
- When do you plan for your content creators to create real content and give you feedback?
- What business value is lost if X feature is moved to a Phase 2 or 3?
It goes without saying that this approach does not work for every project. Evaluating the needs of your client, the project constraints, and the abilities of your team through proper discovery is essential. KDS may work for you if:
- The project has a small budget and timeline
- There is a lack strong front-end acuity on the implementation team, either from availability, skill or budget
- The front-end team knows [insert front-end framework], but not Drupal
- Site configuration and layout will remain mostly static after launch
Not all of the above factors are required. If your project does satisfy a majority of the conditions, I would consider KDS.
Static PrototypingOne of the driving factors of cost is design interpretation. Based on a given a PSD design or wireframe set, expectations are set with the client about look, feel, and interaction.
The cost to bridge the gap between what is possible on the web and what is designed can be vast.
This can be mitigated by designing in browser and starting with HTML prototypes. Providing a simple static homepage and interior page can set the proper expectations of menu interaction, block placement, and feedback in various browsers.
Thankfully, methods like style tiles and atomic design take this even further by providing a common design relationship between elements.
This accelerates the on-boarding of new project developers because the styleguide contains both design and DOM conclusions.
The static prototype also becomes the source of truth for all decisions.
- Being able to explain in concrete terms what elements of a page will and will not have user-defined configuration goes a long way to keeping deliverables within budget.
- Work is also done in parallel, decreasing inefficiency.
- Front-end developers communicate ideas via static prototypes to the client while also optimizing their DOM and CSS.
- Backend developers develop functionality that produces the prototype DOM.
- The challenge becomes bending Drupal towards that markup goal.
- When applying the static prototype within Drupal, the theme becomes the meeting point. Base themes tend to get in the way and add extra markup or classes, so starting from scratch is best.
- The best way to build a theme from a static prototype is to take your interior page and set it as the page.tpl.php. This gives you a starting point to start swapping static components for dynamic Drupal components.
- As you swap, you can compare the output of your theme to the static prototype and provide an iterative QA piece for the team.
Some best practices include:
- Creating a html.tpl.php and swap out the contents in the <head> tag
- Swapping the area where a menu would be for themed menu output via menu_navigation_links()
- Combining the static homepage prototype elements and wrap them in a conditional that be set in template.php
- Swapping sidebar areas for regions and hard-code them temporarily in template.php to check output
Using your prototype in your tpl files provides an added bonus of only needing to swap out areas if something is dynamic. This accelerates your pace to the deliverable as you're not bogged down with parts of the DOM that will never change and, thus, do not need rendering from the Drupal ecosystem.
API Over EverythingThe most important technical implementation philosophy developers need to remember when implementing KDS is to always try to use core API. The reason isn't because 3rd-party modules are bad.
The reason is because 3rd-party modules have assumptions that can lead to technical debt. Many times, budgets are blown because of the work you have to do to undo a default assumption.
For example, if a static prototype homepage has a listing of content, the delivered DOM may use the article HTML5 tag to segment out the content from the rest of the site.
If you build that listing with Views, you'll have to:
- Build the view with the right conditions
- Export the view to code
- Preprocess the view or create new tpl files
- Work to ignore or work-around the extra DOM included from Views
- Hope the requirements of the view doesn't change
- Hope the client doesn't change anything in the Views interface
Conversely, you can use EntityFieldQuery to grab your listing and theme the results in a custom theme function with the exact DOM desired.
In template.php:
/** * Implements hook_preprocess_page(). */ my_theme_preprocess_page(&$vars) { if (drupal_is_front_page()) { $variables['page']['content'] = my_module_listing(); } }In my_module.module:
/** * List nodes for homepage. */ function my_module_listing() { $query = new EntityFieldQuery(); $query->pager(10); $result = $query->execute(); $output = array(); $nids = array_keys($result['node']); $nodes = node_load_multiple($nids); foreach ($nodes as $node) { $output[] = theme('my_module_listing_single', array('node' => $node)); } $output[] = theme('pager', $query->pager); return implode('', $output); } /** * Theme a single element in a listing. */ theme_my_module_listing_single($vars) { $output = array(); $node = $vars['node']; $output[] = '<article>'; $output[] = "<h1>$node->title</h1>"; $output[] = "<p>$node->desc</p>"; $output[] = '</article>'; return implode('', $output); }You now have eliminated technical debt from the Views ecosystem and eliminated design debt due to new DOM elements.
While this isn't a critique on the exporting UI workflow, do take time to consider the impact of multiple environments, multiple developers, multiple iterations of development, and a tight timeline.
What happens to your budget when there is a conflict?
What happens to your scrums when clients want to know what 'that button does'?
The goal is to deliver high business value, in a limited scope. This, consequently, reduces the likelihood of scope creep introduced by additional configuration options. This also forces the team to concentrate on the business values communicated at project start.
Not sure which API functions to start with? I recommend starting with these 30.
Why?Some frequently asked questions I receive of 'Why' or 'How' when it comes to KDS technical implementation:
Q: How do I place blocks, if not by the UI?- Create an update hook and place the block delta directly in the table
- Use Context and hook_context_default_contexts().
- Review the Field API and update through an update hook.
- Also, Features are great! I'm not knocking Features. Maybe consider using it as a way to stub your update hook with the proper configuration array through the Feature export and piping that into your install / update hook.
- See answer above.
- Code requires commits and commits provide a history. Having a history of what was changed is good. It helps team members and it helps project managers in tight deadlines and budgets. History gives you a breadcrumb trail of work.
- Learning the Drupal API also gives you confidence of how things work under the hood. Troubleshooting is easier if you know the execution processes behind those buttons.
Here are a few 3rd-party modules (and caveats) that align with the easy content authoring objective:
- WYSIWYG – CKEditor 1.13
- Asset Management – Media 1.4
- Simple Workflow – State Machine 2.2
- Out of the box, every node goes through a simple draft => published workflow
- Overrides are done via code only
- Youtube, Vimeo Integration – Video Embed Field 2.0-beta7
- Link to a video that turns into a field
- SEO – Metatag 1.0-beta9
- Sidebar Elements – Bean 1.7
- Custom types can be added via code only
- Fields can be added to block types via the form API
I haven't had a chance to use Edit or the other recommendations in the Spark distribution. I'll try to post an update to KDS once I've had a chance to evaluate it, especially since it's in Drupal 8.
KDS is designed to strip down the implementation plan of a Drupal solution from the discovery process to the technical implementation. It's not a one-size-fits-all nor is it a critique on popular modules like Views and Panels. It's main goal is to provide a philosophy of simplicity inside the complex world of a Drupal project.
Please let me know what you think!
I'm curious to hear the community's feedback and if others have found other ways to keep projects streamlined.
In the meantime, learn more about everyone's favorite module, Views in Chris Johnson's blog post "Customizing Views With Context!"
Stanford Web Services Blog: Getting Started on Sites: How do I remove the "authoring information" on my page?
By default, Drupal displays author and date for each node (e.g. "Submitted by Caryl J Westerberg on October 17, 2013 - 8:43 am"). That works great for a blog, but may not be appropriate for all types of content.
Here's how to remove authoring information:


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By the time the first of his three career-defining operas had its premiere, Giacomo Puccini was no longer living a life of impoverished artistic struggle. His previous opera, Manon Gascaut, had made his name in the world of Italian opera, and, more important, it had earned him a significant advance on his next work. With his debts repaid and a country villa acquired, Puccini was no longer a starving artist, but rather an up-and-coming star embraced by the artistic establishment. It was, perhaps, the perfect vantage point from which to create a work that so famously romanticizes the passionate struggles of the artistic class: La bohème, which was performed for the very first time on this day in 1896, at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy.
The libretto of La bohème was based on the immensely popular Scènes de la Vie de Bohème, Henri Murger's 1845 collection of stories depicting the lives and loves of a group of young Parisian "Bohemians"—a label that Murger's work helped popularize. (The label refers to the supposed geographic origins of the Gypsies, whose itinerant, out-of-the-mainstream ways seemed an apt comparison to the alternative lifestyles being led by the growing class of artist-types living in Europe's urban centers.) From Murger's stories, Puccini drew his cast of characters: Colline, the philosopher; Rodolfo, the poet; Marcello, the painter; Schaunard, the musician; and Marcello and Rodolfo's respective love interests, the singer Musetta and the doomed seamstress Mimì.
In choosing to write La bohème, Puccini was choosing to involve himself in his own real-life drama. Puccini's friend, the composer Ruggero Leoncavallo, was working on an opera of his own, also based on Scènes de la Vie de Bohème and also called La bohème. Puccini's pursuit of the project cost him his friendship with Leoncavallo, who is nevertheless famous for his 1892 opera Pagliacci, but whose own La bohème, completed one year after Puccini's, is now almost never performed. Puccini's La bohème, on the other hand, is second on the list of the world's most-performed operas, behind only his own Madama Butterfly, the third of his acknowledged masterworks (Tosca being the second). Even those who are not opera fans may be more familiar with La bohème than they realize; Puccini's opera acted as inspiration and source material for the late Jonathan Larson in creating the Broadway smash Rent.


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Pre-Orientation Prep - POP!
Pre-Orientation Prep. POP!
What is POP?
POP stands for Pre-Orientation Preparation.
Who is required to complete pop?
All new students attending orientation are required to complete their pre-orientation prep prior to registering for their courses.
Why do I have to complete POP?
POP is meant to introduce you to the basic tools required for you to be successful when registering for your courses. We want you to know what you're doing so when you get to orientation you can be acquainted with faculty, staff, resources and other students.
If you have questions please contact the department of Orientation. We can be reached by email: email@example.com or phone: 678-839-4739 M-F 8am-5pm.
6 Easy Steps to POP! Follow these and then complete your POP quiz to finish.
1. Setup your Student Email
The UWG email is the official mode of communication for faculty and staff. You'll need to be logged into your University of West Georgia gmail account in order to complete your POP quiz. YOU MUST STAY LOGGED INTO YOUR WESTGA GMAIL ACCOUNT THROUGH THE GMAIL WEBSITE IN ORDER TO SEE THE THE POP QUIZ AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE.
Steps to setting up your gmail account in MYUWG:
1. Log into your MYUWG
2. Click on the gmail icon in the right corner of the page
3. Accept the terms & and enable pop ups
This should allow you to log into your gmail account. All UWG students can access their gmail account by:
1. Go to gmail.com
2. Log in with your MYUWG id plus @my.westga.edu for your username (ex: firstname.lastname@example.com)
3. Use your MYUWG password as your gmail password
Still having trouble Viewing POP? Click Here
2. Familiarize yourself with your Course Catalog.
Students are held accountable for the requirements of their major in the course catalog. The catalog can change from time to time but being familiar with your course catalog the year you began your work at UWG is important. Click HERE and read through the main points- look up your major and its requirements. HINT: Hold down Ctrl F to pull up the search function and put in your major or college to look up requirements easily. Core Curriculum requirements can be found on page 91. You may be required to know some stuff about the course catalog for your quiz.
3. Learn how to register for classes.
Check out this quick video to see how you register for courses. You can follow along by logging into your student portal called myUWG- this is where you will go to register and look up classes.You may want to stay logged in because you'll need to be in your portal for your your next step. Other links that will help you understand registration:
-How to Register
-How to read your class bulletin
-Class Bulletin (This is where you can easily see if classes still have seats available)
-The Scoop (this is where you can look up classes and updated policies about the semester)
We've given you a lot of links and information. This document, found HERE will help you better understand general idea behind the "core curriculum."
4. Log into your Wolf Watch
This registration tool helps track your progress through your degree program and determine what you should take next. Go back to the main menu of your Banweb tab in your MyUWG portal. Click on the link that's titled Wolf Watch. Click HERE to check out some FAQ's about Wolf Watch. Spend some time checking out all the functions of the program.
5. What can I do with my major?
We want you to be knowledgeable about the many career paths you can take- click on this link to see all the possibilities of your major.
6. Take your POP quiz!
Remember you have to be logged in your gmail account to complete it. Can't wait to see you at orientation!


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An intimate private beach. An award-winning spa. A championship-caliber oceanfront golf course. A captivating three-part experience, all set against unparalleled elegance and the dynamic Pacific. This is coastal luxury - discover it at The St. Regis Monarch Beach, a hidden gem along Orange County's vibrant shoreline.
Here at the St. Regis Monarch Beach, indelible memories are created as guests experience an unfolding of delightful moments and thoughtful gestures. No detail is overlooked and no length is too extraordinary to ensure that a quintessential luxury experience is delivered at every turn.
This Forbes Five-Star, AAA Five-Diamond sanctuary is situated on a bluff overlooking the ocean in Dana Point, California, sublimely located near Southern California's renowned destinations, including Catalina Island and Dana Point Harbor.
- Six ocean-view restaurants
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- Luxury Orange County accommodation with 400 rooms and suites
- Three swimming pools
- Award-winning Spa Gaucin
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- Family-friendly programs and Sandcastle Kids Club
- St. Regis Butler Service
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As I've been developing an STS code library I've noticed a few inconsistencies around how people assume PPIDs work. If you've never read the interoperability specification now is a good time to start.
If you've implemented Information Card support on your web site you'll be aware of the Personal Private Identifier (PPID) claim. It's generally described as a unique ID that identifies a combination of an information card and the relying party the claims are being sent to. Vittorio, as ever, has more details.
On the surface the usual description indicates that each relying party gets an individual PPID, and this is true, however what is a relying party? The typical assumption is that it is a web site, however this is not the case; this isn't helped by demos and diagrams in PowerPoint which indicate it as such. Caleb emailed me the best description he could find, from identitygang.org, who define a "party" as
A natural person or a juridical entity.
This isn't an individual web site, it's the entity owning that web site; for example Microsoft, Google, or even myself. So for multiple web sites owned by the same party the PPID issued for self issued cards should be identical.
An identity selector generates a PPID using the card identity and relying party details taken from the RP's SSL certificate (or failing that the FQDN); and the PPID is recalculated every time it is requested. For managed cards the identity selector will send a suggested PPID as part of the request, in a ClientPseudonym element.
The details used to identify the party are detailed in Section 8.6.1 of the interoperability specification.
So what does all this mean? It has two effects;
As relaying parties we tend to use the PPID (and part of the signing token) to identify users, and we believe PPIDs are immutable. As you can see it is dependant upon the type of certificate you have on your web site (or indeed the lack of a certificate). If you want to guarantee that the PPIDs an identity selector sends to you will never change then you should use an extended validation certificate, and never change your organisational information (which in the days of google and microsoft buy-outs of web 2.0 companies is a whole other challenge). If you cannot afford, or cannot get an EV certificate then you can minimise the risk by purchasing a certificate which does not use intermediate signing certificates, such as those from the main providers, Verisign, Thawte etc; providers that have and issue under a root certificate trusted by your browser/operating system. By having fewer elements in the organisation information (by having a shorter signing chain), the risk of change lessens. If you are using an SSL certificate without OU identifiers then you must follow your certificate provider's renewal process in order to keep the same public key and thus keep the same PPIDs. If you're not using SSL then don't ever change your machine and domain name.
Of course with managed cards all bets are off; they are free to do as they like, if they choose to support that claim; they can used the PPID suggested by the identity selector in each request, or ignore it and go their own way, hopefully providing a more stable, robust and immutable PPID.
If you really want to guarantee a PPID that will never change then you need to take control of the entire authentication story, becoming your own security token service, issuing your own managed Information Card and only ever accepting your own cards.
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(l-r) Knut Frostad, Chief Executive Officer Volvo Ocean Race, Norbert Metairie, President de Cap l'Orient agglomeration, Maire de Lorient.The announcement of Lorient follows that of start port Alicante, and Cape Town and Lisbon as host ports for Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12. Lisbon in Portugal will play host to the start of the leg to Lorient, which is around 700 nm.Credit: Gwenaelle Pichard - Leroyer
Lorient secures two-race deal for Volvo Ocean Race
France returns to host the Volvo Ocean Race from Lorient, in Brittany on the northwest coast of France, in the summer of 2012. Lorient will be the penultimate stopover in the race, which starts from Alicante, Spain in the autumn of 2011. Like La Rochelle before it (1997-98 and 2001-02), Lorient will also host a stopover in 2014-15 edition of the race.
The announcement of Lorient follows that of start port Alicante, and Cape Town and Lisbon as host ports. Lisbon in Portugal will play host to the start of the leg to Lorient, which is around 700 nm.
"We are extremely pleased to have a strong French presence in the race," said Volvo Ocean Race CEO, Knut Frostad. "It has long been our goal to reignite the passion of this classic event among the French people and we are delighted to have reached an agreement with the city of Lorient to host the event for two consecutives races," he said.
France has fielded 21 entries in the race, taking part in every race from 1973-74 up until the sixth race in 1993-94 in which La Poste finished third. L'Esprit d'Equipe, skippered by Lionel Péan, was the overall winner in 1985-86 and 289 French sailors have taken part in the previous 10 races.
"In 10 years, Lorient has transformed its submarine base into EU-wide sailing cluster hosting a village dedicated to yachting enterprises. It is where the maxi trimarans Banque Populaire V and Groupama 3 were built and it also has an offshore sailing centre with around 50 teams taking part, including France's most famous skippers," said Norbert Métairie, Mayor of Lorient and Cap l'Orient district's President. "Today we are particularly pleased to have shown that Lorient is a perfect site to host international events which are able to generate significant benefits like the Volvo Ocean Race does," he added. The Cité de la Voile Eric Tabarly, a complex dedicated to modern sailing races and bearing the name of the French skipper who sailed in The Whitbread four times (1973-74 Pen Duick VI, 1981-82 Euromarché, 1985-86 Côte d'Or and 1993-94 on La Poste), will be situated right in the centre of the race village.
Groupama, skippered by Franck Cammas, who is currently taking on the Jules Verne Trophy - a prize for the fastest circumnavigation of the world by any type of yacht with no restrictions on the size of the crew - has Lorient as its home base and will be France's entry in the next two races.
The next European port will be announced shortly.
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pix for vix ;-)
Finally got a couple of pictures of the finished bathroom wainscot (oak with Zar Aged Varnish stain & SW Fastdry Varnish) sans blue tape for you.
Looking in from the master bedroom:
From inside the shower:
Plumber coming a week from Tuesday to install fixtures. :-)Waiting for callback from electrician to take care of lighting and ventilation. :-( He doesn't get his butt in gear he's going to be climbing into the tub to put the light fixture over it! (I spent entirely too much at Rejuvenation. LOL)
Thanks everybody!
Well, the electrician's coming a week from Saturday. I wanted him to come earlier but he's booked up. We had a LOT of damage in this area from a storm last Tuesday (hail, horizontal rain, high winds, a couple of tiny tornadoes - VERY unusual for New England!) and he said he's flat out doing insurance work replacing outside lights, burnt-out breaker boxes (we had some doozies of power surges, thank goodness for our surge protectors - I need to go buy new ones), etc.
Vix is right. For true hilarity of effect, check out the "befores" (we did not create this travesty, we simply purchased it!), although it looks so much better in pictures than it was in reality. For reference, to The Bathroom From Hell.
This is the too-small-for-code shower (I'm fairly sure they bought it from an RV company and bought off the inspector, because it's only 28.5" inside) and the tub. Note that the faucet is placed right at the most rational place to get into the tub. No wonder the spout was so loose, people used it as a handle to get in and out! There was sooooooo much mold at that end of the bathroom when we gutted it, lots of pinhole leaks. Oh, and we found a LARGE mouse nest under the tub.
The big tape square on the side of the tub surround is both to stop the drafts coming up from the garage (no insulation under the tub!!) and to keep the access panel from falling out. The tub was 48" round and 16" deep, water depth of maybe 12", with completely vertical sides so that you could only sit straight up. We called it the Kiddie Pool.
Sorry about the seat! LOL
Taken sitting IN the tub (sorry it's so dark - it's been twiddled within an inch of its poor life - try tilting your monitor a little):
And a couple of other taken-in-progress pictures just because now I'm in the mood to brag a little bit. Tilework by GW's own Bill Vincent.
My floor (which, BTW, has warming mats beneath so the floors over the unheated garage won't be quite so icy):
Shower wall tiling:
It's a nice big shower for the size of the room, 38x42". Those were taken on grouting day, which is why they look all hazy and smeary. The big hole in the ceiling is for the exhaust fan.
Ok, I don't think *I* ever saw the befores before--how funny is that?! My.
I'm being a moron though--how are you fitting a tub and that glorious HUGE shower in the same space? Do you have the new floorplan (or maybe you can describe based on the old one).
Tell those various tradespeople your InvisiPals need closure on this project and if they would be so kind as to show up....
ps I may be stealing your border idea. Imitation/flattery, dontcha know.
Here's da floorplan (which was originally drawn on the subfloor with Sharpie marker so I know it all fits LOL):
I was wrong, it's 38x44, not 38x42. Oops. There's over 2 feet of walking room between the tub and the shower, nice little aisle and enough room for a nice rug I have yet to find. The tub fits me perfectly, although it's a little short for DH - we could have wedged in a 66" instead of a 60" but then we'd have had to do a smaller sink and I wanted a console instead of a pedestal. Although p*ss me off, AFTER I bought the American Standard console I found the sink I actually WANTED... I hadn't been able to find it in a 28" before. The curve to the front is almost a match for the curve on the front of the Toto Whitney toilet tank. Although DH says he thinks the legs looks like chicken drumsticks. *snicker* A tiny part of me hopes that the plumber says that the pipes-in-outer-wall setup is guaranteed to fail through freezing and so I have to have the supply pipes redone to come up through the floor (there's access from below, it's not as bad as it sounds), then I'd simply have to buy this one because the shelf to the AS Retrospect would get in the way. ;-) (I know, I can take the shelf off. I'm busy rationalizing the irrational!)
Steal away on the border. I stole it from someone else. :-) One of the houseblogs, can't remember which one. I was SO depressed that I couldn't get the right color hex tiles to do the gorgeous four-color Celtic-interlace mosaic border I had mapped out (and seem to have since deleted, bad Mari!) that I went and stole someone else's. Although they didn't have hex in the middle, they had 1x1s laid diagonally, so it wasn't exactly a complete theft.
Some more pix for you! Fixtures (most of them anyway) went in today.
Toilet (Toto Whitney):
Shower (American Standard "Standard"):
Clawfoot tub (Elizabethan Classics):
and sink (American Standard Retrospect):
I am actually not at all happy with the sink. It's much too tall (I should have mocked it up better) and I should have caught that the rough-ins were off center which pushed the sink too far back into the corner (building codes? we don't need no steenking building codes!). With the wainscot in place and finished moving the plumbing becomes a major endeavor. The console sink I showed above wouldn't improve things any as it's the same size (except less tall) as the sink that's there so it would still have that same "off center" issue. I need to think hard about what I'm going to do to fix this without just slapping in a big bulky vanity (ugh).
I guess the angle of the photo makes it hard to tell that the sink is too far in the corner. I can see from your floor plan and the holes in the wall that you've planned for light fixtures above the sink. Is the sink still centered below the fixtures?
I really like all the pieces you've selected for your bathroom. They look nice together.
Yeah, now that the toilet's in place I can't get back far enough to get the sink fully into the picture square-on. Suffice it to say that it's close to 2" off. Plumber #1 (now long, long gone) had the sink manufacturer's specifications and measured drawings for where everything was supposed to go. The boxes for the lights were placed with the assumption of the mirror being centered between window and wall and centered on the sink, and they are to bracket the mirror. It is my idiotic mistake in not double-triple-quadruple checking this before.
Plumber and I talked today. I hadn't realized it was off until I, um, inaugurated the toilet, at which time it was a good thing I was sitting on the loo! He said he hadn't realized it was supposed to be centered, otherwise he'd have said something. I have a new rule now though... don't assume anyone does anything right, double check EVERYTHING.
The height issue is just as bad a problem as the off-kilterness; it was Grand Central Station in here today, what with the plumber, cleaning lady, treecutter (we have to have a dying tree removed) DH and me, and EVERYONE agreed that the sink was too tall. Cutting it down isn't really feasible, it's not sensibly put together from pipe, it's thinner threaded rods inside pipes.
We're going to replace the sink, most likely with this Cheviot sink that will fill the entire space between wall and window - we'll cheerfully violate code on this particular point and he suggested that if anyone snarks when it comes time to sell in 10 years or so we pick up a $100 HD pedestal sink to bung in there and fulfill the "4 inches between sink edge and any obstruction to the side" requirement. He'll turn the trap like shows. If the original sink were the right height we could bully it into fitting by futzing with the piping in this way, but it wouldn't look very good because that sink is much shallower front-to-back. I'd have to hang a big towel on the towel bar to hide it rather than the small one I had planned. :-(
This is the replacement sink (the 32", not the 36") I picked out. I think it'll look great with the toilet's similar curves.
I had bought a Toto Drake to put in the upstairs bathroom because the existing toilet clogs approximately every six minutes ;-) but there's a problem with the rough-in up there and it wouldn't fit. So I had to order a Vespin (the least expensive of the UniFit toilets, but still cheaper than tearing up ceiling/floor to move the rough-in) and the plumber has to come back to deal with that ANYway so it's not that big a deal to put in the new sink then.
And so if I look on the bright side of all this, I now have the toilet AND the sink for the powder room when we get to that project, at LAST year's prices! :-)
Man, what a drag! Just when you thought you were nearing the end of the dang project. Well, what's more time and money thrown towards it, eh? Sigh.
The new sink will be great, though. I *love* the poor off-center one, though--it's on my shortlist but Mr Vix has something against exposed pipes (?!). So who knows what we'll do.
Thanks for the new floorplan. The room looks so much bigger, but I suppose that's to be expected with the lovely *lightness* of the console sink and the negative space created by the new tub. It gives me hope that my (much smaller) baths might end up less squashed feeling if we bring some openness to the space!
I'll be looking for the final-final shot...you're so close now!
Well, when you're dropping $15k (which is what we're estimating we'll come out around, about $3k over budget which is not too bad considering the constant invocation of Murphy's Law) on a reno, leaving something that'll make you grind your teeth every single day for a very long time is an extremely bad idea. So, we cough up to fix it and don't sweat it too much. (I keep telling myself "you have done exactly HOW many major projects? you're entitled to some mistakes on your first one!") And at least I can recycle the "rejects", so it's not as though it's a total loss except for a few bits of plumbing pipe (although the nickel-plated pipe isn't cheap) that'll get hacked up in the removal.
Electrician confirmed today for Saturday. Bradbury & Bradbury says it'll be at least six weeks to get me the rest of the wallpaper (a friend talked me into continuing the Aster border throughout the suite-lette, but that meant I had to order another 3 yards). I was planning to delay the paperhanger until I had the paper to do both rooms at once but I don't know if I want to wait that long to at least get the bathroom completely done! It's not something I am up to tackling myself and let's not even talk about DH going anywhere near it. I'll make some calls tomorrow.
I'll be ordering the replacement sink tomorrow too - I was going to get it from the same local company that I get my toilets from but their price was $200 more than Vintage Tub's. It needs to travel from British Columbia to NH, I hope it doesn't take too long! It'd be a week or two at the least.
I would not recommend the Retrospect sink to anyone who is shorter than about 5'7", but it's good for tall folks. They're not pipes though, they're a contemporary metal frame! ;-)
Not sure why the room looks so huge in the shot of the tub... the tub takes up almost 2/3 of that wall. It does definitely feel less crowded and "weighty" in there than it would have if I had used, say, an apron tub (although I desperately wanted a vintage corner tub, the kind with one curvy corner) and a vanity. The new sink will be a little more "massy" than the old because it'll extend the whole distance from window to adjacent wall and it's about 4" deeper front-to-back, but it's still an open enough design that it shouldn't feel crowded. I chose a linen cabinet (to go next to the toilet) that was up on legs instead of built-in cabinets for the same reason. I do think that's one of two ways to go with small bathrooms, either try for as much open space as possible by getting things up off the floor a little with things like clawfoot tubs and pedestal sinks or treat it like a boat and build in everything. I do realize that I am blessed with a relatively generous space for the master bath, 72sf, although I have to chuckle at the folks on the Baths forum with bathrooms larger than my bedroom AND bathroom together.
Although had I had two thousand dollars to spare, I'd have indulged myself in this (the one on the right). I've seen it in person and it's incredible.
And for sheer cool value every time I stop by that salvage company I just have to ogle this 1880 contraption:
Ordered my sink. They said it could be as much as three weeks if it gets hung up in Customs. :-(
Electrician was here today. Lighting's in and looks great. Ceiling fan is up, another MBR light fixture luckily could be moved. Exhaust fan is installed and good heavens, I had to get a stool and put my hand against the grille to make sure it was working, it is so quiet. Strong recommendation for Panasonic Whisperlite. I'll try to get things cleaned up some and take some pictures tomorrow... I'm whomped.
Sink has arrived. LOOOOOOOOVE it. Now waiting on the replacement toilet for the upstairs bath so I can get the plumber in - want to only pay for one service call. :-p Additional Bradbury paper has arrived early as well so I've got calls in to a couple of paperhangers.
Have lighting pictures, finally:
2 St Helens w/antique shades from eBay, over sink:
They will be flanking this antique mirror:
Baker City:
Close-up of antique shades, lit (60w bulbs at 50% dimmed):
Mari, your lights are beautiful! LOVE the antique shades and the antique mirror. You have done a great job in selecting pieces that work well together. Now I can't wait to see the wallpaper border!
Love the lights, too! They look great with the stained wainscoting.
Btw, have you thought about painting the ceiling? Sometimes just going a shade or two lighter on it will really make a difference. And some crown molding would tie it all together. But then again, I get carried away with details.
Are you enjoying the tub? I took a long soak in mine yesterday after working most of the day in the gardens. It felt heavenly. But I think I may need one of those neck rolls. Then again I may fall asleep and drown. lol!
Diana, the ceiling is painted all it's gonna get painted. :-) I don't like ceilings painted anything but some flavor of white - I'm very old-fashioned on that note - unless the specific architecture calls for something else such as a gilded-burlap ceiling in a Craftsman or a multi-papered ceiling in a Victorian type. It's a lovely off-white in person, C2 Cricket White, the color of aged unpainted plaster. Not "ceiling white" which is far too harsh for warm colors. I'm grateful enough for having a smooth ceiling in there instead of the icky sand paint we have in the rest of the house! We were going to do crown molding and then when I put up a sample of it (a small crown of about 2.5") it was just "too much of a muchness" along with the two handprinted wallpaper borders. The ceiling is only 7.5' high and too much detail at the top of the wall made it feel even lower rather than "raising" it. The crown molding won't go to waste, eventually it'll be put up in the LR and library when there is budget to do so.
The tub is not yet in use, although I've sat in it a bunch of times. It fits me perfectly, the rolled rim fits exactly under my neck when my feet are flat on the tub wall by the drain and legs flat on the floor of the tub, although I might put a folded hand towel over the rim for a little bit of softening. It'll be another few weeks before we are back into the master suite, I think. I hope to get the plumber in next week to get the replacement sink installed, and I still need to figure out accessories. There's a good bit of work left to do in the bedroom too.
Next installment, the new sink is in! I like this one SOOOOO much better. Even my DH commented on how it was a perfect match for the toilet, and he's pretty oblivious about that sort of thing. LOL
Very hard to get both the sink and tub into one frame but I did the best I could. I swear that tub has its own personal space warp field; there's nowhere near as much space as it looks between the end of the tub and the sink edge!
Finish line is *knock on wood* expected at the end of the month. Plumber is coming Friday to fix the wonky connections he made on the radiator (he did not think to ask me what I wanted done about the incorrect rough-ins, so he just used multiple elbows to make a really ugly connection to the water system), and that will hopefully be the last we see of him. :-) Handydude is taking this week off to put a new roof on his parents' house so I'll be spending that time cleaning and catching up on little things, and when he gets back he'll put in the bedroom carpeting and help DH move furniture. Tomorrow I need to run to the nursery for more plants for the front yard but Tuesday I plan to tackle putting together the storage cabinet for the bathroom. The final touch, the Bradbury wallpaper borders, go up starting the 20th.
And don't worry, the first sink will be going in the powder room. :-)
I love this bathroom. The tub is so great. I'm just melting at the thought of leaning back and soaking in it. And the sink is gorgeous. I also love the wood wainscotting.
What a great bathroom. Us small home folk need to make the most of each and every of our rooms and make them enjoyable! Congrats


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NEW ORLEANS - It appears one of the men accused of trying to tamper with Senator Mary Landrieu's office phones gave a warning about the plot.
Sources say James O'Keefe told people last week he was about to work a project in New Orleans.
O'Keefe and two others were in court yesterday.
A fourth person also faces charges.