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Great Books for Year-Round Giving - Off the Shelf Special Edition
As you contemplate your holiday shopping, leave room on your list for some of our "staff picks"! In this special edition of "Off the Shelf," each youth services staff member shares a few of her favorite titles that came out in the past year. As you will be able to tell from the descriptions below, we each have our own personal reading tastes, so there is something for everyone!
-Lori Faust, Youth Services Manager, November 2013
Ms. Amanda (Main Library) recommends
Mr. Tiger Goes Wild
By Peter Brown
Ages 4 - 8
Mr. Tiger lives in a world where animals dress like, and behave like, proper Victorian ladies and gentlemen. Dressed in top hats and three piece suits, this is a world of sophistication. And Mr. Tiger is tired of it all. He is tired of being so proper, so prim, and so perfectly well behaved. So, Mr. Tiger decides to throw caution to the wind and… WALK ON ALL FOUR LEGS! GASP! Next thing you know, he's ditching that three piece suit and heading into the wild. This is the perfect story for everyone who walks to a different beat. It's also for all those who are tired of all those rules and just wants to let loose. Brown's illustrations lend a pitch-perfect comic timing to Mr. Tiger and his world that just might be ready to get a little wild.
Flora and the Flamingo
By Molly Idle
Age 4 - 8
Bravo! Magnifique! If I could give this book a standing ovation (without my co-workers thinking I've lost my mind), I would. Who knew you could so perfectly and wonderfully depict a dance in a book? Well, apparently Molly Idle knew, 'cause she did it. With the clever use of flaps, this wordless book shows us a beautiful, and quite funny, dance between a young girl and a flamingo. The girl is, of course, cute as a button, clad in a pink bathing suit, bathing cap, and flippers. Though at first the flamingo doesn't appreciate the young girl horning in on its dance, slowly the two fall into step. Think Fantasia on the page. This book is absolute fun.
One Came Home
By Amy Timberlake
Ages 10 - 14
Georgie refuses to believe that her sister, Agatha, is dead. She does not believe that the unidentifiable body wearing her sister's blue-green ball gown belongs to Agatha. So, after the funeral, Georgie sets out to follow the path her sister took when she ran off with the pigeoners who were following the giant migration of passenger pigeons. (That's right. Around the time this novel is set, 1871, humongous flocks of pigeons, miles wide, migrated across this very country. So big they overtook entire towns, and people had to spend days cleaning up all the bird poop.) Reluctantly allowing one of her sister's suitors, Billy, to travel along with her, she sets off into the wild. Along the way she learns a lot about the wilderness and a lot about herself. You know, of course she gets attacked by wild animals and inadvertently finds some bad guys and, in general, gets into all kinds of trouble. Georgie is one of the best female characters that I've read in quite a while. And this is one of the most honest portrayals of a young woman on the cusp of her adolescence I've read recently, especially in how she tries to internally deal with her attraction to Billy. A highly recommended read for fans of historical fiction, mysteries, and adventures.
Miss Brindi (Howland Branch Library) recommends
The Boy and the Airplane
By Mark Pett
All ages
This book is such a precious gem. I have a soft spot for wordless picture books, and The Boy and the Airplane illustrates so much emotion through simple watercolors. The reader overjoys in watching the boy play with his favorite toy, yet the sense of separation is just as powerful when he loses it. Younger kids might not quite understand the underlying moral, but older readers know some things are worth the wait. (While this picture book is great for preschoolers and kindergarteners, I think it's perfect for all ages.)
Tiger in My Soup
By Kashmira Sheth; illus. by Jeffrey Ebbeler
Ages 3 - 7
Yes. Yes, I'm quite sure THERE'S A TIGER IN MY SOUP! When his big sister is left in charge, this young boy just wants to share his book about tigers. But when he discovers she's too busy, his very inventive imagination turns the kitchen into a jungle, inviting the King himself right out of the boy's soup. War is declared. Each vivid illustration brings to life the ferocious tiger as readers watch the battle carry from page to page. The life-like images are incredible.
Who's on First?
By Abbott & Costello; illus. by John Martz
Ages 5 - 10
Third base!! This is the best children's book EVER. I think the only time I laughed harder was when I was actually watching Abbott and Costello perform this classic comedy sketch. "Who's on first? What's on second? I Don't Know's on third" comes alive in this wonderful children's picture book, and I honestly don't know what took so long. And the illustrations are perfect. They're bold, big, and full of comical expressions. I'm 100% positive this children's book is for the parent. But, you know, we can share, too. Genius. Priceless. Must buy immediately. (K-4th, but shhhh it's really for adults.)
Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors?: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell
By Tanya Lee Stone; illus. by Marjorie Priceman
Ages 5 - 9
Back in the 1830s, girls weren't allowed to become doctors. What?! In this short biography, colorful and humorous illustrations fill each page as Elizabeth Blackwell discovers her big dream of becoming a doctor is going to turn quite a few heads. Readers learn the inspiring story of America's first female doctor and how her brave choices opened the doors for today's little girls.
Miss Jill (Brookfield and Liberty Branch Libraries) recommends
Open Very Carefully: A Book with Bite
By Nick Bromley; illus. by Nicola O'Byrne
The tranquil story begins, "Once upon a time," until a crocodile sneaks into the book. Who invited this reptile, anyway? Will he leave quietly or wreak havoc? Watch out for sharp teeth and read with care!
Sneaky Art: Crafty Surprises to Hide in Plain Sight
By Marthe Jocelyn
Ages 8 - 12
Have fun creating with easy to find materials. The eye-catching photos along with easy-to follow instructions will bring out the creativity in young and old alike. Leave your artistic flair in the most unique places.
The Center of Everything
By Linda Urban
Ages 9 - 12
In the midst of a parade, celebrations, and a donut craze, Ruby is grieving the loss of her dear grandmother. As Ruby prepares to read her winning parade speech, she has only one wish she wants to come true. Will it be granted or will she have to work to help her destiny unfold?
Miss Trish (Main Library) recommends
Anton and the Battle
By Ole Konnecke
Ages 3 - 8
Anton is at it again, and this time is in a battle with his good friend Luke to see who is stronger. As a mom of two boys myself, I appreciated the unusual antics as each boy proves his strength. It is laugh-out-loud funny, especially with the sweet little twist of a cute puppy as an added character. I'm sure another battle is in the works!
Cowpoke Clyde and Dirty Dawg
By Lori Mortensen; illus. by Michael Allen Austin
Giving a dog a bath in any form is funny, but add a cowboy named Clyde and his dirty "dawg" and you've got one hilarious adventure! You can get a country twang going as you read about the stunts Dawg pulls to avoid getting a bath, while Clyde soaks other animals in the process. Once again, this scenario is reminiscent of my life, and I could easily retitle the book, "Librarian Trish and Yucky Yoshi."
Super Hair-o and the Barber of Doom
By John Rocco
Ages 4 - 9
I'm in an all-male household (even our dog, Yoshi, is male), so I naturally gravitate to what I know. My boy theme continues with this story about a group of boys and their superpowers. Rocco's superpowers come from his hair, which is long, wild, and unruly. With his superpower, and the powers of his crew, they can do anything! When the villain captures him and cuts his hair, all seems lost. (That kid really needed a haircut. In fact, they all did!) With revenge in mind, and now with limited powers, Rocco and his crew feel hopeless. That is, until their bravery is needed again!
Mrs. Faust (Main Library) recommends
Cheetah Can't Lose
By Bob Shea
Ages 3 - 6
We all know the type - that friend who is so sure of themselves that it can get a bit annoying. Well, Cheetah just knows he's going to win the big race. After all, he IS the fastest animal in the whole wide world. His two small cat friends inform him that this year there are lots of races so everyone has a chance, but that just makes Cheetah think he can win them all. Little does Cheetah know that his friends have some tricks up their sleeve this year - prizes for each race that are bound to trip him up! I love how Cheetah gets his comeuppance in a good-hearted way, while the small cats get their moment in the spotlight without making their friend feel bad. And kids will like being in on the joke!
The Year of Billy Miller
By Kevin Henkes
Ages 6 - 8
When Billy Miller tells his father he's afraid he won't be smart enough for second grade, his dad tells him that he'll be fine and declares it the "Year of Billy Miller." This short, satisfying novel by the multi-talented Henkes follows Billy's travails and triumphs over the course of the school-year as he deals with a know-it-all classmate and an annoying little sister. I like that this funny but realistic story for the younger chapter-book reader features a boy protagonist. Many readers have been calling Billy Miller the boy's version of Ramona Quimby. And that's darn good company to be in!
Bo at Ballard Creek
By Kirkpatrick Hill; illus. by LeUyen Pham
Ages 7 - 12
Newborn Bo was headed for an Alaskan orphanage when two big, tough gold miners decide to raise her instead with the help of the other miners and everyone in the nearby town. This delightfully unusual family has many adventures in this winning novel, which takes place in the time of the big Alaska gold rushes. Like a livelier Eskimo-village version of Little House in the Prairie, the descriptions of the lives of the miners and native Alaskans introduce the reader to a way of life that is often unfamiliar and fascinating, but is grounded in a warm sense of family.
P.S., Be Eleven
By Rita Williams-Garcia
In this sequel to the award-winning title One Crazy Summer, eleven –year-old Delphine and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, return home to Brooklyn from their summer visiting their free-spirit mother in California. The girls are feistier than ever after spending time at the Black Panther People's Center, but they aren't the only ones who have changed. Pa has a new opinionated girlfriend, and Uncle Darnell, home from Vietnam, doesn't joke and tell stories like he used to. Delphine struggles with these big changes, but also has normal sixth-grade worries: the babyish clothes her grandmother makes her wear to school, how to please her new teacher, and whether or not she and her sisters will be able to save enough money to buy tickets to see the exciting new singing group, the Jackson Five. Her mother gives her advice via letter, reminding her to not grow up too fast, to "be eleven." I just loved Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern – they seem like real kids. Good kids who make mistakes. I also love that the adults are depicted as fallible, but not ridiculous. They're still in charge and have the girls' best interest at heart. Funny, moving, and relatable (and even better than One Crazy Summer, in my opinion!).
Miss Audrey (Main Library) recommends
Count the Monkeys
By Mac Barnett ; illus. by Kevin Cornell
This lively, interactive book invites kids to count the monkeys….but they've been scared off! You spend the rest of the book trying to get to the monkeys, but increasingly large numbers of ridiculous creatures get in your way, like lumberjacks and bee swarms. The book invites children to roar at, hide from, high five, and otherwise interact with the creatures at each page turn. The ending is a bit of a surprise, and it adds to the fun. Share this book one-on-one or with a group, and then try to count the smiles!
Phoebe and Digger
By Tricia Springstubb; illus. by Jeff Newman
"When Mama got a new baby, Phoebe got a new digger." Thus begins one of the best picture books I've seen all year. Phoebe is an active, imaginative preschool-age girl with strong opinions about waiting, babies, and benches. She and Digger are delighted to go the park to play in the dirt, but a run-in with a bully "with mean teeth" almost ruins the day. In the end, our heroine prevails, and everyone goes home happy. The writing is excellent, and the illustrations have wonderful colors, clear facial expressions, and good use of white space. This story has broad appeal for truck lovers and new siblings alike.
Better Nate than Ever
By Tim Federle
Ages 9 - 13
Nate is an easily-overlooked younger sibling, with a little bit of chub, an underbite, and a big passion for Broadway. When he and his best friend, Libby, learn that auditions for a stage production of E.T. will be taking place in Manhattan, they hatch a daring plan for Nate to participate. Stepping well outside of his comfort zone, he sneaks out to the big city where he encounters urban bustle, the surreal world of child performers, and the secrets behind some old family drama. Nate does his best to keep his head, and throughout the book he is a very likeable, believable kid, whose big dreams sometimes clash with his own realistic expectations. You can't help but root for Nate!
Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature's Undead
By Rebecca L. Johnson
Zombie books are everywhere, but this one is seriously cool. It discusses how real creatures – worms, spores, etc. – take over their host creatures and turn them into zombies. The photographs are fantastic, if a bit disgusting, and useful infographics include the scientific name, nickname, victim, and home ranges of the zombie makers. The information is presented in an interesting way, which great details and turns of phrase. Hand this book off to any young scientist or bug enthusiast who likes their facts mixed with a bit of gross.
Miss Amanda (Howland Branch Library) recommends
Wee Rhymes
By Jane Yolen; illus. by Jane Dyer
Ages 0 - 3
Not only are rhymes fun to say and read, but they are also an important part of early literacy skills. In this sweetly illustrated book, original poems by prolific author Jane Yolen are interspersed with classic nursery rhymes.
Alphasaurs and Other Prehistoric Types
By Sharon Werner and Sarah Forss
"Rawr!" That's dinosaur for "I love this book!" Each prehistoric creature is illustrated with a repeated letter, such as Aa for Allosaurus. The two page spreads show the creatures' shapes and provide information about them while focusing on the letter. With flaps to lift for more surprises, this is a fantastic book for dinosaur enthusiasts from preschool through elementary.
World Rat Day: Poems About Real Holidays You've Never Heard Of
By J. Patrick Lewis; illus. by Anna Raff
Ages 5 - 12
After reading this book I bet "ewe" will never forget that June 14 is Ohio Sheep Day! Don't forget to appreciate your favorite dragon on January 16 – Dragon Appreciation Day. Fun illustrations, featuring a cute group of rodents, accompany clever poems to educate the reader about wacky – and real – holidays.
Mrs. Rising (Cortland Branch Library) recommends
Matilda and Hans
By Yokococo
Ages 3 - 5
Matilda is a good little cat that is always well-behaved. Hans, on the other hand, is a naughty little cat who always misbehaves! One night, Hans takes the zookeeper's keys and lets all of the animals escape from their cages. The police have had enough and decide to offer a reward for any information regarding the culprit's whereabouts. Matilda offers to help, and Hans is soon caught, but is it really Hans that's causing all the trouble? In this story with a twist, your child will discover that there's a little bit of good and naughty in all of us! A delightful and reassuring read for your little one.
That's Not a Good Idea
By Mo Willems
When a very hungry fox meets a very plump goose, a yummy dinner is on his mind. He invites the goose to go for a walk that ends with a visit to his kitchen. As Mama Goose accompanies Mr. Fox through the woods and into his lair, her babies are constantly shouting the warning, "That is not a good idea!" But who needs to heed the warning, Mama Goose or Mr. Fox? You won't want to miss yet another hilarious offering by Mo Willems, author of the Elephant and Piggy series and Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus.
Better to Wish
By Ann M. Martin
"Family Tree" is a new four book series created by Ann Martin, author of the popular Babysitter's Club stories. In this first installment, we meet Abby Nichols, an eight-year-old girl growing up in America during the Great Depression. The story follows her until she reaches the age of eighteen. Along the way, Abby experiences her share of happiness and unhappiness, fulfillment and disappointment, kindness and cruelty, and life and death. Despite having a father who is overbearing and bigoted and a mother who is dealing with depression, Abby rises above her circumstances and maintains her independent spirit, growing from a young girl into a strong and confident woman. Don't miss this first step in a series that will touch your heart and leave you begging for more.
Monkey Ono
By J.C. Phillipps
Ages 2 - 5
All Monkey Ono (a stuffed animal) wants is to spend a day at the beach…but when the family leaves him behind, Monkey Ono tries to make the best of it. He comes up with many plans, from riding on the family dog to falling into the toilet, all of which go amusingly awry. Finally, with a little creative thinking, Monkey Ono gets his Beach Day! With great cut paper collage illustrations.
Perfectly Percy
By Paul Schmid
Percy loves balloons…but there's a big problem. Percy is a porcupine…and porcupines playing with balloons usually do not have a happy ending. Percy is not going to be content unless he can think of a way that he can play with balloons. Will Percy come up with a way to play with his favorite toy? Or will all his plans be a bust?
Brief Thief
By Michael Escoffier; illus. by Kris Di Giacomo
Ages 4 - 7
Leon the Lizard had to go poo and ran out of toilet paper! He spies a pair of underwear hanging in a tree that will do the clean-up trick. But as soon as he uses them, his conscience, and an outraged rabbit, help Leon to see the errors in his ways! Underwear foolproof path to lots of laughs.
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Install a new cassette and freewheel to keep your gears turning smoothly. Fitting on the rear wheel, cassettes (and the freewheel bodies they are mounted on) typically have between seven and ten cogs, giving a wide range of gear ratios. However, with use the teeth can become worn down, possibly leading to gears jumping and skipping. For mountain bikes, cassettes are traditionally 7-speed, 8-speed, or 9-speed, but are increasingly moving towards 10 cogs in newer systems from Shimano and SRAM. Meanwhile, 8-speed, 9-speed and 10-speed road bike cassettes are available from these manufacturers and also from Campagnolo. We also stock multi-speed freewheels, which tend to be found on budget bikes, and BMX freewheels.


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August 19, 2013
Mary Steffenhagen
It's agonizing to suddenly relinquish a free and easy summer schedule to the clutches of the college schedule...but what happens when your weeks in school are just as free they are over break?
You may end up with a situation a lot of college students dream of: a surplus of free time. This happened to me during my freshman year, as I had a pretty open class schedule, a weekends-only job and didn't join any clubs. I ended up bored to death nearly every day! But I didn't realize that the extra time was an advantage that not only gave me a chance for homework but time to focus on personal goals. If you find yourself in this situation, here are a few tips as to how to best spend your time:
However you choose to spend your extra time, make sure you enjoy yourself. Having time to yourself while in college is a rarity and you may not have such an opportunity in later semesters. College is about exploring and learning...not being bored because there's nothing to do. So get out there and make use of your time – you won't regret it!
Mary Steffenhagen is a junior at Concordia University of Wisconsin who is majoring in English with a minor in business. She hopes to break into the publishing field after graduation, writing and editing to promote the spread of reliable information and quality literature; she is driven to use her skills to make a positive impact wherever she is placed. Mary spends much of her time making and drinking coffee, biking and reading dusty old books. In an alternate universe, she would be a glassblower.
August 22, 2013
Mike Sheffey
If you've been in any career development class or seminar, I'm sure you've heard of LinkedIn. It's a fantastic networking tool and, if used properly, can lead to some pretty great opportunities...but you've got to know how to use it and keep it up to date.
What's incredible about LinkedIn is that they know you already have a billion social media sites to keep up with so they give you a quick way to get started on their site by providing options to import contacts from email and social media. You can also import your resume: The site does a fairly good job of sectioning off your resume to fit its profile layout, which is a quick way to establish your presence on the site. (LinkedIn also judges the amount of info you have and advises you on how to have a more 'complete' profile.)
Of course, there's still work that will need to be done and information to be added and changed but that's all easy to do in your own time. If you have an update to your resume, just change your resume on file and LinkedIn will do the rest with another quick upload. (It's not that hard to just add things directly to your profile, either.) The more information you add to your LinkedIn profile, the more marketable you are to future employers.
Also, keep your LinkedIn page classy! Do you have a goofy picture everybody just HAS to see? That's fine...just don't post it here. LinkedIn is a social media platform but approaching it like any other (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) would be a grave mistake. Nothing says "I don't take this seriously" like an unprofessional profile photo.
My final bit of LinkedIn profile advice? Keep it current, keep it interesting, make sure the information is accurate and join groups of similar individuals in your fields of interest to make sure your name is out there in the best light. Get a new job? Update your profile just like you would your resume and your profile will reach new people – employers use LinkedIn for recruiting and you could be exactly what someone is looking for. Gotta love technology!
Mike Sheffey is a junior at Wofford College double majoring in computer science and Spanish. He loves all things music and has recently taken up photography. Mike works for an on-campus sports broadcasting company as well as the music news blog PropertyOfZack.com. He hopes to use this blogging position to inform and assist others who are seeking the right college or those currently enrolled in college by providing advice on college life, both in general and specific to Wofford.
August 26, 2013
Abby Egan
I started looking for colleges in my junior year of high school because I was so unsure about what I wanted. Deciding on a college was a scary thought to me because I was under the impression that I was going to be stuck at whichever school I chose for four whole years. So to ease my ever-increasing stress levels, I visited my dream school (MCLA) almost seven times before accepting to attend for the fall of 2011.
I jumped at every opportunity to get to know my top choice better and better: I visited on long weekends with my parents, signed up for multicultural nights and participated in overnight programs bussed from Boston. I took the drive to MCLA whenever I needed to talk to the Bursar about bills or the financial aid office about student loans. Though it was a long ride, I got on a first-name basis with the librarian and a handful of school officials, putting faces to names and breaking down that wall between being strangers and being acquaintances.
I took the time to really determine whether I wanted to spend the next four years at MCLA. Though my parents researched facts online and talked on the phone with MCLA officials, I made sure to do my own research as well. The bottom line was that I was attending MCLA, not my parents, so I made sure everyone I encountered at the school I spoke to knew me and not just the me my parents spoke about.
I knew I wanted to attend MCLA after my first visit but I'm glad I took the time to get to know the institution a little bit better. It made me feel more prepared for my first semester of freshman year but even if you visit 100 times, you might not know if your school is the one for you until you immerse yourself in the community. If for whatever reason you don't feel it's right, don't panic: You can always transfer. Deciding on a college isn't the end all be all – there's always room for change – but you just have to find what's right for you.
Abby Egan is currently a junior at MCLA in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, where she is an English Communications major with a concentration in writing and a minor in philosophy. Abby hopes to find work at a publishing company after college and someday publish some of her own work. In her spare time, Abby likes to drink copious amounts of coffee, spend all her money on adorable shoes and blog into the wee hours of the night.
August 27, 2013
Melissa Garrett
Resident assistants. So you've seen them around campus and you admire how much they help out their fellow students. You've seen how much everybody loves them and what a positive impact they have on your university. Are you thinking of becoming a resident assistant yourself? As a new RA, I honestly expected it to be a lot less challenging than it has already proven to be but rather than explaining every last detail, I can tell you that there are some major dos and don'ts for the job:
Most importantly, you should never get involved in something simply for the popularity aspect. If being an RA sounds like something you would be really dedicated to, go for it! It may be a lot of work but if you enjoy helping people, you will probably have a lot of fun being a resident assistant at your university!
Melissa Garrett is a sophomore at Chatham University majoring in creative writing with minors in music and business. She works as a resident assistant and is currently in the process of self-publishing several of her books. She also serves as the president of Chatham's LGBT organization and enjoys political activism. Melissa's ultimate goal is to become a college professor herself.
August 28, 2013
The crisis in Syria! The Bradley Manning sentencing! The fracking debate! Yet another random act of violence!
The media bombards us with information and news every second of every day – a sensory overload of grim stories and political biases. It's overwhelming but college can become a sort of bubble, a relaxing retreat from the cares of the outside world. You don't see the news unless you turn on your own TV or radio or follow a news site or newspaper. With all the other fun things to do, who's got time to be depressed and bored by other people's problems?
It's incredibly easy to feel that what you see on CNN doesn't affect you – a college student in America – but it does. You may not live in a small village in the Middle East but actions cause ripples and what happens across the globe may, in any small way, touch your life. Some events will affect you directly. For example, President Obama recently signed a bill to restore lower interest rates on student loans: This directly affects you and me, who will now be paying a 3.4 percent interest rate on our loans as opposed to the previous 6.8 percent.
Current events are nearly always incendiary topics as well. You will encounter a diverse range of people in college with a diverse range of ideologies...and a shrug and a "Whatever, I don't really care about that" won't get you off the hook in discussions anymore. It's important to know where you stand and even more important to do your research, so as not to form a hasty assumption. First off, it will help you not to look like a buffoon or needlessly offend others and secondly, being able to form and articulate a well-thought argument is an invaluable skill!
Lastly, being cognizant of "the outside world" is an important development in the whole messy process of becoming an adult. Forming opinions, arguments and worldviews – and having them challenged – is a necessary part of life...especially in an environment such as college, where it's okay to make mistakes and learn from them. So don't let college become a bubble and cut you off from the vital circulation of ideas and news. Get (and stay) informed!
August 29, 2013
Chelsea Slaughter
Starting off in a new place with new people can be scary. As young people, we tend to flock together in "cliques" or groups we feel most comfortable with and the majority of the time, the members of our groups share many of the same qualities. It's perfectly fine to have friends but it's important not to lose your own identity.
When I was a freshman, I had a circle of friends that were "one for all and all for one." When schedules got hectic later in the year, we had less and less time to do things together but it seemed like every time I went somewhere alone, someone asked "Where are the others?" At the moment, it did not occur to me that I was not known as my own person but instead as a member of "that group."
As an RA in a freshman residence hall, I was able to witness the same cycle constantly repeating. I am not saying to not have friends or a circle to can call upon but I AM saying that you must remember who you are and what's important to you. If you want to join a club and your friends are uninterested, you should still go for it! This gives you a chance to meet others who share interests the friends you already have may not.
As the years progress, you will see the importance of having a personal identity on your campus. You will see the difference between "Oh look, it's that group" and "Oh look, it's Chelsea and her friends." This is your chance to transition from fitting in to standing out – it's time to find who you are, not lose who you are!
Chelsea Slaughter is currently a junior at Jacksonville State University majoring in communications major (public relations concentration) and minoring in art. She serves as a resident assistant on campus, serves as treasurer in the Public Relations Organization and is an active member in W.I.S.E., NAACP and Omicron Delta Kappa Honors Leadership Society. She aims to work in the entertainment industry post-graduation and is well on her way thanks to an internship with a digital marketer to several music artists. Chelsea strives to achieve all of her goals and motivate others along the way.
August 30, 2013
Veronica Gonzalez
It's the first day of school. Your instructor walks in and he or she hands out or displays a syllabus on the board. Syllabi will be your best academic friends in college: They will be dispensed to students in each class and will serve as roadmaps for the duration of the semester. If you're wondering what they're all about, here's a crash course:
Syllabi often start out with introductions, followed by explanations and outlines, and end with ground rules. The introduction part of the syllabus is basically the instructor introducing themselves to the class and explaining what the course is about. They then acknowledge the disability and academic integrity statements of the syllabus to ensure that there's equality in the class environment.
Next comes the explanation. This is where you'll to get to know what books and materials you will need (if you don't have them yet) or clarify what you won't need. Also, every instructor grades differently so your professor will give you a heads up on what to expect from them when they evaluate your papers, quizzes, tests and even class participation. Afterward is the course outline, which lists the activities that will occur in and out of class throughout the semester (homework, assigned readings, group projects, etc.).
After the explanation, the professor will set ground rules. It's best that you be aware of the policy statements listed on the syllabus such as the statement on plagiarism, the rule on cell phones, the nature of deadlines, etc. Finally, the syllabus will provide the office hours and contact information of the instructor and teaching assistants in case you have any questions or concerns.
Syllabi may change at any given time over the course of the semester; this really depends on the instructor so be sure yours remains up to date by attending lectures, discussions and office hours. Do you have any tips on understanding college syllabi?
Veronica Gonzalez is a rising junior at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. Her current major is English and she plans to pursue a bachelor's degree in this field. She served as the vice president of the UIW chapter of Alpha Lambda Delta from 2012 to 2013 and she returns as a junior delegate in the fall of 2013. Her dreams are to publish novels and possibly go into teaching in the field of English.
September 2, 2013
Carly Gerber
"When I graduate, where will I work?"
"What if I can't find a job?"
"What if no one will hire me because I lack experience?"
"Did I pick the wrong major?"
"Should I attend graduate school?"
"Is graduate school a waste of time and money?"
I apologize if I gave you a minor panic attack but these are questions that weigh on most students as they contemplate their lives after college. If you find these concerns are on your mind on a daily basis, you could be having a quarter-life crisis, which, according to a recent USA Today article, is when 20-somethings have anxiety because they question the direction and quality of their lives. Frankly, however, this anxiety is a waste of valuable time and energy so let's do some crisis management, shall we?
Firstly, recognize that you have only lived one quarter of your life – you still (hopefully) have three quarters to go, which means that some decisions you make now will not affect your future as much as you think they will. We are ever changing and the interests we have now may not hold true in a few years.
Secondly, let go of how others measure success and measure success on your own terms. Joining new clubs and organizations or becoming involved in an alternative spring break are ways you can find contentment and purpose.
Lastly, talk to someone! If the anxiety is constantly weighing on you, you may want to consult a parent or teacher who has more life experience than you. Remembering that you're not alone and finding someone who has been in your shoes and has moved past the anxiety you're feeling will help you get through your rough patch.
Carly Gerber is majoring in journalism at Columbia College Chicago. She loves fashion and hopes to cover the topic for a Chicago-area magazine. In her free time, she focuses on her blog, loves making jewelry and spending time on Pinterest and Pose. She hopes to use this blog to guide and relate to its followers: college students like herself!
September 3, 2013
With the number of single-sex colleges in the nation dwindling, it can be rare to hear someone say that they attend a college for women but for me, it is something that I say with pride. Although some people have perceptions that single-sex institutions take away from one's college experience, I personally believe that it has made mine unforgettable.
I had always visited my family in Pittsburgh during the summers as a teenager. As we would drive around the city looking at universities that I may want to attend, I always immediately dismissed Chatham University. However, I began to wonder how much a single-sex institution could really benefit me and over time, the idea actually became appealing. I looked into it and learned some interesting statistics, such as the fact that only 2 percent of female college graduates attend women's institutions, yet they make up 20 percent of women in Congress.
I ultimately decided to apply to Chatham, which is most famous for alumni Rachel Carson, the marine biologist and conservationist who wrote Silent Spring. Making the choice to come here once accepted was definitely the best one I have ever made: Since we are all women, we can relate to each other well and are free to act as silly and comfortable as we would like. Close bonds are formed that I believe are found much less often at traditional universities. We don't have sororities because essentially, we are one big sorority.
If you are exploring your college options, I encourage you to add single-sex institutions to your list. The experience is enriching and anybody who gets to attend college in this form should consider himself or herself to be lucky. Traditional colleges definitely have their great qualities but I personally wouldn't trade my time at Chatham for anything in the world.
September 5, 2013
Living on campus is almost a necessary rite of passage for the college freshman. "Don't miss out on the full college experience!" you're warned, enticed with stories of spacious dorms, fantastic parties and few rules. Sure, living in the dorms can be fun, exciting and new but it also has it downsides: expensive room and board fees, a mandatory meal plan with food usually not worth the cost, lack of privacy or the risk of a bad roommate. Being a commuter student, on the other hand, isn't as difficult as it seems: Your school probably has commuter lockers if you have a lot of books, packing a lunch is cheap and quick and carpooling is an efficient way to travel with friends.
I lived on campus for my first two years of school and experienced all the downsides listed above to varying degrees so this year, I am living at home and commuting. In some cases, the pros and cons were obvious. Did I want to pay thousands for a meal plan rather than eat with my family for free? No. Would I rather share a small space with three girls instead of having my own familiar bedroom? No. But would I like to be closer to campus than have the 40-minute commute I now have each day? Yes. I was reluctant to commute at first but I found that the time spent would be made up for and then some by the money I would save. If living at home for a year or two is an option for you, consider it! You'll save money that you can put toward paying off any student loan debt or – who are we kidding – buying stuff you actually want when you want it.
If a long commute doesn't interest you but you're still looking to live off campus, it's not too late to begin the apartment search. It is possible to find a nice place with affordable rent: College towns often have complexes with student budgets in mind. Splitting rent is an easy way to keep costs down and this time you get to choose your own housemate!
When you live off campus and commute, your time feels more like your own and it doesn't have to revolve around what's going on at school. If you're feeling the itch to leave campus, check out your options and see what's best for you!
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Kent State Receives State Funds for Expanded Internship and Co-op Programs
Kent State University was selected to receive $500,000 in state grant funds for expanded co-op and internship programs. The funds are part of a state investment of close to $11 million over the next two years with matching dollars from key industries across the state.
Kent State Helps to Train Engineers From Bangladesh on Research and Education Network Project
CS Colloquium 11/25/2013 "Unified Lattice Boltzmann Computation for Patient-specific Hemodynamics in Healthy and Disease
CS Colloquium 10/16/2013 "Yarn – Generalizing Hadoop"
CS Colloquium 10/11/2013 "Integrated Access to Web Databases"
CS Faculty Member named Among Top 25 STEM Professors in Ohio
Computing is One of the Most Lucrative Majors
Computing professionals not only have good earnings, but they tend to stay in the field more than most other majors. A grad degree typically adds a 31% boost in earnings so students may want to consider a Masters.
Kent State Researcher to Work on Program to Broaden Participation in Computer Science
L. Gwenn Volkert, associate professor of computer science at Kent State University, has been selected to participate in the second phase of a national effort aimed at increasing and broadening participation in computer science.
Prof. Volkert chosen for Phase 2 of CS Principles!
CS Alumni update
Congrats to Andrew Sutton!
Spring 2013 Research Incentive Awards
The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce Research Incentive awards for Academic Year 2013-2014.
Colleges want tech programs computing with more students
CS Colloquium 4/17/2013 "Mining Complex Graphs and Networks"
CS Colloquium 3/22/2013 "Mining Genomic Data for Cancer Biomarker Prediction"
"Kent Hack Enough" hackathon summary from the weekend of March 9th
Summer 2013 Research Experience in Ecology
Terrestrial-aquatic linkages in urban impacted ecosystems, Apply by March 25th
CS Colloquium 3/1/2013 "Bayesian Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning"
Kent State Students Generate Huge Buzz With Social Media "Cleanup" App
Three Kent State University students recently developed a Web application to help those looking to clean up their acts – virtually speaking. Computer science majors Camden Fullmer, Daniel Gur and David Steinberg created FaceWash – now known as SimpleWash – in a weekend "hackathon," a programming competition at the University of Pennsylvania that was held Jan. 18 – 20.
Facewash: CS Student Hackathon Creation is Spreading Across the World
CS Colloquium 2/1/2013 "The Weakening and Delayed Effects of Long Tail Distributions in Big Data Access"
CS Colloquium 12/05/2012 "Tire Modeling at Goodyear"
hacKSU Meeting - Oct. 4th, 2012
CS Colloquium 10/12/2012 "Efficiently Analyzing Large-Scale Molecular Simulation Data with Performance Guarantees"
Kent State Sponsoring Crain's Cleveland Breakfast on 21 June: "Bridging Three Generations of Talent"
On Thursday 21 June, Kent State University will be the sponsor of a Crain's Cleveland Breakfast on the topic "Bridging Three Generations of Talent". Dr. Robert A. Walker, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the School of Digital Sciences, will be one of the panelists.
Sciences Research Activity
Since June 2011, faculty research activities in the sciences have included many publications, grant awards, and invited presentations which have contributed to the research mission at KSU. Recent sciences research includes work by Maxim Dzero & Carmen Almasan, Songping Huang & Soumitra Basu, Laura Leff, Jonathan Maletic, Marilyn Norconk, and Alison Smith.
Department of Computer Science: Achievements June 2011-April 2012
Recent research activity conducted by Department of Computer Science faculty members between June 2011 and April 2012 includes five new grants.
CS Colloquium 4/20/2012 "Mining High-Throughput Biological Data"
Prof. Khan Awarded $1.25 Million Research Contract for Building Research & Education Cyber Infrastructure in Bangladesh
An international partnership involving Kent State will help build the Bangladesh Research and Education Network.
Naser Madi wins KSU Business Concept Award
CS Colloquium 3/14/2012 "Big Data in Health Care: The Next Frontier in Clinical Research, Study Trial"
Notice of CS Course Number Changes
The Department of Computer Science has renumbered a block of courses.
Faculty from DSCI, CS, and MIS Participate in ACM's Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
Kent State University was amply represented at this year's ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2012), with representatives from the School of Digital Sciences, the Department of Computer Science, and the Department of Management and Information Systems in attendance. ACM's premier conference on computer science education, SIGCSE 2012 was held in Raleigh NC and attracted almost 1300 attendees.
CS Colloquium 3/9/2012 "Modeling and Computation for Large-scale Air Traffic Flow Optimization"
Jeff Bailey Celebrates 20 Years of Service
IT/IS Career Expo 3/1/12 - Have a Blast & Change the World
Thursday 1 March, 10:00-11:30am and 12:30-2:00pm, Kent Student Center Ballroom (2nd floor). Come explore the exciting careers in information systems, computer science, and information technology. Sponsored by CIS in conjunction with DSCI and CS.
CS Colloquium 2/27/2012 "Continuous Process Improvement in Healthcare Delivery: A Systems Approach"
Prof. Jonathan I. Maletic awarded grant from ABB Inc.
Prof. Jonathan I. Maletic was awarded a grant for $120K from ABB Inc.
Prof. Ye Zhao Receives Google Faculty Research Award
Prof. Ye Zhao has recently received a Google Faculty Research Award.
Passing of Professor Sheng Yu
The Department of Computer Science would like to extend our condolences to the family of Professor Sheng Yu, who passed away Monday, January 23.
Prof. Javed I. Khan Becomes our New Chair
Professor Javed I. Khan chosen as the new Chair of the Computer Science Department.
CS Colloquium 11/21/2011 "Healthcare Big Data, HBase, and the Apache Software Foundation"
Healthcare Big Data, HBase, and the Apache Software Foundation -- Doug Meil -- Explorys -- 3:45 pm, 21 November 2011, 228 MSB
CS Colloquium 11/2/2011 "Rubik's Cube in Twenty Moves or Less"
Rubik's Cube in Twenty Moves or Less -- Dr. Morley Davidson -- Mathematical Sciences Department -- Kent State University -- 3:45 pm, 2 November 2011, 228 MSB
Rizal Mohd Nor and Mikhail Nesterenko Win Best Student Paper Award
Rizal Mohd Nor, Mikhail Nesterenko (both of Kent State University) and Christian Scheideler (University of Padeborn) were awarded "best student paper" at the 13th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS) for their paper "Corona: A Stabilizing Deterministic Message-Passing Skip List".
CS Colloquium 10/14/2011 "From Open-Loop Sensing to Closed-Loop Sensing and Control: Challenges to Embedded Wireless..."
From Open-Loop Sensing to Closed-Loop Sensing and Control: Challenges to Embedded Wireless Networking --
Dr. Hongwei Zhang --
Computer Science Department --
Wayne State University --
4:00 pm, 14 October 2011, 228 MSB
CS Colloquium 10/5/2011 "Computational Modeling Towards Two-Dimensional Annotation of Genomes"
Computational Modeling Towards Two-Dimensional Annotation of Genomes -- Dr. Xuewen Chen -- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science -- University of Kansas -- 3:45 pm, 5 October 2011, 228 MSB
CS Colloquium 9/30/2011 "Integrative-omics Identification of Signaling Pathway Networks..."
Integrative-omics Identification of Signaling Pathway Networks and Clinical Associations in Cancer --
Dr. Gurkan Bebek --
Case Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics --
Case Western University --
3:45 pm, 30 September 2011, 228 MSB
ACM Speaker Series: Casey Stella on "Better News Through Data Science"
On Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 7 PM, the Kent State University Student Chapter of the ACM will be hosting speaker Casey Stella in 228 MSB, who will speak on "Better News Through Data Science."
Professors Baker, Farrell and Nesterenko Awarded NSF/Intel Parallelism Curriculum Grant
Professors Johnnie W.Baker, Paul A. Farrell, and Mikhail Nesterenko received an award inducting them into the NSF/TCPP Fall 2011 Early Adopter program.
Prof. Mikhail Nesterenko Wins Best Paper Award
Prof. Mikhail Nesterenko (Kent State University) and Sebastien Tixeuil (University of Paris) were awarded "Best Paper" at the 25th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2011) in Singapore.
NY Times: Is This Computer Science's 'Sputnik Moment'?
After a recent article in the New York Times attributes the recent rise in interest in computer science to Facebook, CS educators are wondering if this is our "Sputnik Moment".
Keep in Touch with the CS Department over the Summer!
Want to keep in touch with the Computer Science Department over the summer? "Like" us on Facebook, or "Follow" us on Twitter!
Congratulations to Nicholas Tietz for Winning ACESS STEM Scholarship
Congratulations to Nicholas Tietz for winning this year's ACESS STEM Scholarship, which is awarded annually to a Kent State University student by the Akron Council of Engineering and Scientific Societies.
Prof. Ruoming Jin Promoted to Associate Professor
Congratulations to Professor Ruoming Jin, who has earned tenure and promotion to Associate Professor, effective this coming fall.
CS Department Honors Week Undergraduate Student Recognition Ceremony 4/13/2011
Please join us for our Honors Week Student Recognition Ceremony on Wednesday 13 April at 3:30pm, as we congratulate our very talented undergraduate students for their accomplishments over this past academic year.
New Rotation Schedule for CS Core Courses
The Department of Computer Science will be implementing a new course rotation schedule beginning in Spring 2012, which has implications for students registering for Fall 2011
ACM / CS Sponsored "Pizza with Profs"
Kent State University's ACM Student Chapter, together with the Computer Science Department, are hosting "Pizza with the Profs" on Wednesday 6 April at 7pm in the Math and Computer Science Library on the 3rd floor.
ACM Speaker 3/31/2011 "Cryptology for Fun and Profit"
Cryptology for Fun and Profit -- Dr. Michael Rothstein -- Computer Science Department -- Kent State University -- 7 pm, March 31, 2011, Room 228 MSB
Department of Computer Science's Social Media Strategy
Web page, Facebook, and Twitter -- how do we use them differently?
CS Colloquium 4/1/2011 "STREAMIT: Dynamic Visualization and Interactive Exploration of Text Streams"
Time: Friday, 1 April 2011, 3:45 - 5:00 PM --
Place: MSB 228 --
Speaker: Ye Zhao, Kent State University
CS Colloquium 3/16/2011 "Managing and Mining Biological Networks"
Managing and Mining Biological Networks --
Dr. Jiong Yang --
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department --
Case Western University --
3:45 pm, March 16, 2011, Room 228 MSB
ACM Speaker 3/9/2011 "An introduction to Network Science and Network Data Management"
An introduction to Network Science and Network Data Management --
Dr. Ruoming Jin --
Computer Science Department --
Kent State University --
7 pm, March 9, 2011, Room 228 MSB
ACM Speaker 3/2/2011 "A Lightweight Transformational Approach to Support Large Scale Adaptive Changes"
A Lightweight Transformational Approach to Support Large Scale Adaptive Changes --
Dr. Jonathan I. Maletic --
Computer Science Department --
Kent State University --
7 pm, March 2, 2011, Room 228 MSB
IT & IS Career Expo Thursday 3/3/11
10:00-11:30am & 12:30-2:00pm -- Kent Student Center
CS Colloquium 3/7/2011 "Differential Modeling for Biomedical Applications"
Differential Modeling for Biomedical Applications --
Dr. Chandan Reddy --
Computer Science Department --
Wayne State University --
3:45 pm, March 7, 2011, Room 228 MSB
Trip Report: Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing (OCWIC 2011)
3 professors and 6 students participated in OCWIC 2011, hearing talks, making presentations, and participating in a poster competition.
Kent State University ACM Student Chapter Reboots
The ACM Student Chapter at Kent State University has recently reformed and is looking for new members. Meetings are usually held on Wednesdays at 7:00pm room 228 in the Math and Computer Science Building. We look forward to seeing you there!
Summer 2011 Registration Starts Monday 2/21
Registration for summer classes starts Monday 21 February 2011.
Dr. Angela Guercio Receives Award for Paper at 16th ICMDS/WDET
CS Colloquium 9/15/2010 "Data-driven Approaches in Biomedical Ontology Research"
Time: Wednesday, September 15 2010, 3:45 - 5:00 PM
Place: MSB 228
Speaker: Dejing Dou, University of Oregon
Dr. Jonahan Maletic Awarded $250,073 in $2M NSF MRI Consortium Grant
Dr. Jonathan I. Maletic, Professor and Interim Chair, was part of a research team granted a $2M National Science Foundation Award. The project is entitled "MRI-R2 Consortium: Development of a Software Traceability Instrument to Facilitate and Empower Traceability Research and Technology Transfer, CNS 09-59924", and is described further below. The work is a consortium between DePaul University in Chicago, The College of William & Mary, and Kent State University. Dr. Jane Cleland-Huang is the lead PI from DePaul and Dr. Denys Poshyvanyk is the co-PI from William & Mary. Prof. Maletic received $250,073 of the $2M total.
Changes to Introductory CS Sequence Underway
The Department of Computer Science is planning to make changes to the introductory Computer Science course sequence. Specifically, we plan to be changing the first course for Computer Science Majors.
Prof. Maletic Taking over for Prof. Walker as Interim Chair
CS Chair Robert A. Walker is stepping down as Chair to take the lead for A&S in a cross-cutting initiative for digital computing programs, and Professor Jonathan I. Maletic has been appointed as Interim Chair for Computer Science
Passing of OBR Distinguished Professor Yuri Breitbart
The Department of Computer Science mourns the loss of OBR Distinguished Professor of Computer Science Yuri Breitbart, who passed away peacefully last night.
Professors Dragan, Maletic, Nesterenko Promoted to Professor
Computer Science Associate Professors Feodor Dragan, Jonathan Maletic, and Mikhail Nesterenko have been promoted to full Professor, effective this fall. Congratulations to the three of them for this important recognition of their professional achievement!
Four KSU Students Participate in 2010 Google Summer of Code
Four KSU students -- Brian Bartman, Thomas Mulally, Justin Shreve, and Andrew Sutton -- will be participating in the 2010 "Google Summer of Code" program, designed to encourage college student participation in Open Source software development.
Dr. C.C. Lu Awarded a $34,997 KSU Research Challenge Grant
Dr. C.C. Lu, Professor of Computer Science, has been awarded a 1-year $34,997 KSU Research Challenge Grant for the project entitled "MRI-Based Attenuation Correction for PET/MRI and Medical Image Registration Methods on Graphics Processing Units"
Kent State Presents Computer Science Discovery Day on May 1
The Department of Computer Science at Kent State University is hosting a Computer Science Discovery Day on Saturday, May 1. Accepted, prospective and interested students, along with their friends and family members, can learn more about the exciting possibilities of studying computer science at Kent State. The activities begin at 10 a.m. in the Mathematics and Computer Science Building, which is adjacent to the first parking lot east of the Student Center parking lot on Summit Street.
Saturday 1 May 2010 "Computer Science Discovery Day"
What: Computer Science Discovery Day;
Who: for Accepted Students, Prospective Students, and Interested Students;
When: 9:40am - 3:00pm, Saturday 1 May 2010;
Where: various locations in the Mathematics and Computer Science Building
Kent State Assistant Professor Receives $523,859 NSF Grant
Dr. Ruoming Jin, assistant professor of computer science at Kent State University, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop data mining technologies. The five-year CAREER grant of $523,859 is for his project titled "Novel Data Mining Technologies for Complex Network Analysis."
Computer Science Majors Significantly Increase for the Second Year in a Row
The number of undergraduate students majoring in computer science significantly increased for the second year in a row according to the Computing Research Association (CRA)
Scheduled Computer System Down Time and Reduced Service over Spring Break
Both CS and Math computer systems will be subject to down time and reduced service over the Spring break. In general there will be COMPLETE shutdowns for SHORT PERIODS only, except on Monday March 28 and Wednesday March 31 when there will be a COMPLETE shutdown ALL DAY AND NIGHT through the next morning. During shutdowns there will be no system access, and on that Monday and Thursday there will be no network or telephone service in the building.
Dr. Ruoming Jin Awarded a 5-year $523,859 NSF CAREER Grant
Dr. Ruoming Jin, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, has been awarded a 5-year $523,859 NSF CAREER grant for the project entitled "CAREER: Novel Data Mining Technologies for Complex Network Analysis"
Information Session 3/24/2010 "Google Summer of Code 2010"
What: Google Summer of Code 2010 Information Session
Who: Andrew Sutton, CS PhD Candidate
Where: MSB 121
When: 10-11am, Wednesday 24 March 2010
Seven of the Top "Best Jobs in America" are in Computing
Seven of the Top "Best Jobs in America" are in Computing
CS reaches K-12 at Stark
Hands-on activity was completed by 8th grade students at the CS Department at Stark.
CS Colloquium 3/24/2010 "Accelerating Web Services with Elastic Cloud Caches"
CS Colloquium 3/24/2010 "Accelerating Web Services with Elastic Cloud Caches"
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WRT virtualization:
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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
WRT virtualization:
by intermodal (534361) on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @11:13AM (#44225815) Homepage Journal
I had a Win7 VirtualBox running on my Linux laptop for nothing but iTunes when I had an iPhone, and now I basically still just have it lying around for no legitimate reason. Using it is horrible, since it boots up every several months for something quick and then wants to run all the new updates...
Familiar problem - for me WinXP that I had to use for e-banking. The one computer that I used mainly was OK (though occasionally slow due to updates) the other computer was a disaster. Could take half an hour for it to become usable thanks to all those updates.
Luckily not needed any more; bank now works without special Windows-only software.
Only VM that I'm currently using is a cloud server for my e-mail and web hosting needs. And that's a Debian system.
That must be a very retarded bank - i've banked with a few different institutions over the decade or so i've been using net banking and they've all worked with at least one of the web browsers available for Linux.
The problem was that they used a USB device for authentication, and the drivers for that device were Windows-only. For the rest it worked fine in Firefox, which I always used for browsing. Now this has changed, using an external calculator-type device for that, and I can use Linux.
I applaud your bank for not using fake "multi-factor" through challenge questions, but when they could have used text messaging/email to an approved device, or RSA tokens instead of a device that you had to attach to your computer they failed.
I have a MacOS VMware image on my win 7 box that I use for iOS development. I also have a ubuntu image for some local web development testing, but this is rarely used.
Missing Option (Score:5, Interesting)
Where's the "I am sick of these thinly veiled Dice bullshit marketing polls" option? I'm done voting in these things.
Remember when Slashdot polls used to be for fun and covered silly/interesting things? RIP, Cowboyneal.
Re:Missing Option (Score:5, Informative)
Poll ideas are always welcome!
Just use the same submission page (linked at the top of the page) and throw us some wacky ones.
No thin veiling; this question sprung fully formed from my forehead, like Minerva from Zeus. Dice has a marketing department, but we human editors come up with the poll ideas; some of them suck, I grant, but no conspiracy is necessary for that.
Looking at slashdot.org/topics.pl is a good place for inspiration if you want to come up with some poll suggestions
Re:Missing Option (Score:5, Interesting)by vikingpower (768921) <.exercitussolus. .at. .gmail.com.> on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @12:18PM (#44226659) Homepage JournalThumbs up for fighting back
Minerva didn't come from Zeus (Score:3, Informative)by Anonymous Coward
She came from Jupiter.
Re:Minerva didn't come from Zeus (Score:4, Funny)by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @02:04PM (#44228071)I bet you're a riot at parties.
You cease being a riot at parties starting 35. 40 if you're lucky. Brain is all that remains afterwards.
So rather than 20 years of partyman, better 60 years of smartyman
She came from Jupiter.
Not if Zeus pleased her more. Those old gods really were quite incestuous.
Last I checked, Jupiter was the same god as Zeus, the Greek pantheon being the basis for the Roman.
(And Minerva was the same goddess as Athena.)
I can confirm that this is still the case.
Re:Missing Option (Score:5, Informative)
this question sprung fully formed from my forehead, like Minerva from Zeus.
ObPedantry: you've conflated Greek [wikipedia.org] and Roman [wikipedia.org] mythos. In English vocabular, it's accepted. [etymonline.com] In mythology, not so much. Well, as much as mythology matters to anyone.
And, more on-topic, you can certainly understand the perception in Slashdotterland that much of the content nowadays feels like marketing probes from Dice or other corporate overlords.
Of course he's conflated Greek and Roman. Romans were dedicated to the shameless copying of the Greeks.
So conflating the two pantheons should not raise objections from anyone that's not a current member of the cult of Zeus.
Even then, I suspect that such a person in the flesh would not object either.
Re:Missing Option (Score:4, Insightful)
In other words, don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity!
I actually thought this poll was a nice respite from the 'thinly veiled Dice bullshit marketing polls' that seem all the rage lately.
There were no "less than or equal to" options, the choices seem playful geek humor to me.
You want a flame-war poll?
[ ] Furry is cute/sexy
[ ] Furry is sick/for perverts
There you go.
Re:Missing Option (Score:4, Funny)by camperdave (969942) on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @11:27PM (#44233965) Journal
You want a flame-war poll?
[ ] Furry is cute/sexy
[ ] Furry is sick/for perverts
There you go.
Ah! I see. So the flame war is about radio buttons vs checkboxes for the poll options.
It's to make the flame war more interesting by having people complain about percentages not adding up!
...some of them suck, I grant, but no conspiracy is necessary for that.
You must be new here.
this question sprung fully formed from my forehead, like Minerva from Zeus.
Missing option: WTF is WRT [wikipedia.org]? (no, seriously... I'm lost in semantics)
Cowboy Neal is my virtualizer. Also, I see nothing wrong with this poll option. We can discuss about how much better VMs are for safety (except that I took the blue pill). We can discuss how much specialized software sucks (and/or how much it sucks that Wine isn't quite good enough yet). We can discuss various things.
Anyway, I have a VM with MS Windows 2003 on it, that I only use very occasionally for software that won't run on Linux or with Wine.
I also have a DOS VM for games, but I've mostly been playing
I must have missed the poll options of "I use Dice (TM) VMs every day and they satisfy all my business needs!", "My virtualisation was so difficult until I purchased Dice (R) Super System VMs!" and "Without Dice (R) VM Buddy Management Solutions Networks, I don't know where I'd be; their effortless implementation of virtualisation has saved my business-critical cloud solutions and turn-key management time and time again!"
Maybe I wasn't paying attention.
I never surf the internet from the base OS anymore (Score:5, Informative)by gestalt_n_pepper (991155) on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @11:19AM (#44225899)
I use a Linux VM for all surfing in VirtualBox. Surfing directly from your base OS seems incredibly risky to me, particularly if the base OS is Windows. Kind of wish the VMWare server kernel could be modded to run guest OSs directly on the same platform. I'd put it on my portable in a heartbeat, however, running VirtualBox hosted VMs on Linux is just as good for most purposes.
Closest to this would be going with Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V, as that is a level 1 hypervisor (same level as ESXi.) The advantage is that other VMs run at the same speed as the base W2012 instance, and you can use that as a VM console.
Of course the disadvantage of having a full-fledged OS as a console or a place to remote into the VMs is having to keep it secured and patched, even if it does little other than provide a keyboard and mouse to the consoles of the client VMs.
Probably the best scenario w
Hyper-V, as that is a level 1 hypervisor
But if it kills another orc, it will become a level 2 hypervisor!
Or do you mean a type 1 hypervisor [acm.org]
The advantage is that other VMs run at the same speed as the base W2012 instance
This is not an advantage of Type 1 hypervisors. The advantage is (in theory) a smaller TCB.
Windows 2012 Server boots first, then after a bootstrap the Windows 2012 O/S migrates out of Ring-0; so it eventually ends up as a Type-1 but it doesn't boot as a Type-1. (The same is true of Xen, for example; it boots as pure Linux and then Xen takes over Ring-0)
ESXi is literally a bare metal and boots directly into the hypervisor.
Workstation and Fusion, once spawned, are hosted applications, but still have direct hardware access to hardware if you're on a box with hardware-assisted virtualization instruct
It's a distinction without a difference. ESXi is just a very limited OS aside from its hypervisor duties, but it's enough of an OS to run other applications on, such as virus scanners.
The same is true of Xen, for example; it boots as pure Linux and then Xen takes over Ring-0
No it doesn't. Xen boots and then launches a PV guest as dom 0. The PV guest starts in ring 1 in x86 or ring 3 on x86-64 with the CPU already in protected mode. The kernel entry point is also different for PV guests, so that you can have a single kernel binary that boots as a PV guest or a bare-metal OS. With newer Xen, the dom 0 guest can be PVH, so it runs in ring 0, but with Xen in the hypervisor 'ring -1' mode. It still starts via the Xen entry point, however, not the normal boot process.
All right that's it, kind of off topic but I'm creating a separate user for firefox. Have thought about it for months, the applications are really not well enough sandboxed, even in linux. See you later, when my firefox will be logged in as "browsing".
Done & done , Using KDE's "run as" (that was quick
Why think for months about something that takes seconds to setup?
useradd (or a GUI that does the same thing), sudo that_new_name, firefox - then if you want ten more seconds to setup an icon for the command "sudo that_new_name -c firefox".
From then on that otherfox is a click away.
I use a Linux VM for all surfing in VirtualBox. Surfing directly from your base OS seems incredibly risky to me, particularly if the base OS is Windows
Don't run Windows as your base OS. Problem solved.
By the way, I would think that running Windows as the host and using a guest OS in a virtual machine exclusively would make software installation unnecessarily difficult... or at the most, very weird and awkward. Unless your intention in Windows is to play games or do something else you need fast 3D acceleration, it seems to me that running Windows as the guest would make the most sense. Keep Windows self-contained in a little sandbox in its own virtual
That's a good idea. Because browsers are not now secure, and in the future, with all the Web Application features being added, it will only get worse.
Re:I never surf the internet from the base OS anym (Score:4, Interesting)
Unfortunately, pretty much everything anyone wants to digitally steal from you is on your browser.
http://xkcd.com/934/ [xkcd.com]
http://xkcd.com/1200/ [xkcd.com]
On the Xen mailing lists, PCI passthrough and VGA passthrough---the latter is the same as the former, except it also loads the VGA BIOS from the PCI device into the guest VM; you get VM BIOS video on the video card too---are a very hot topic. I have a single computer with an AMD 8-core chip in it that hosts four "heads," each is a separate gaming computer for my friends to use when we play DotA 2.
Anyway, if your system supports VT-d for Intel or IOMMU for AMD, you can create virtual machines and pass vide
Our corporate IT guys mandated that we use virtualization as much as possible, even for the build machines. This caused significant increases in compile-time because the I/O to the large-scale NAS wasn't nearly as fast as a physical local disk.
definately sounds like the wrong SAN for the purpose.
the SAN we use gives much better I/O than local disk, and the multipath 10gb iscsi gives quite the performance boost.
It's also possible your vm admins are overprovisioning the hosts your build machines are on. either intentionally or unintentially.
Of course you can throw more iron at a problem. But bare to metal can be hard to beat. One thing to notice is that the response time of a SAN over the network can be considerably slower than a close to metal local file system. Even if the bandthwidth is better, you still can expierence speed diference.
Anyway, any policy without communicating the full reason of the policy (price/security/performance) can suck, especilly in large organisations.
Our corporate IT guys mandated that we use virtualization as much as possible, even for the build machines. This caused significant increases in compile-time because the I/O to the large-scale NAS wasn't nearly as fast as a physical local disk.
Virtualization platforms offer so many solutions for that problem (direct access to SSD/local storage, direct access to optimized SAN storage, etc) that this is basically all the implementer's fault. Your virtualization is bad and you should feel bad.
Your virtualization is bad and you should feel bad.
I'm pretty sure the phrase "significant increases in compile-time" is not an expression of joy and pleasure. Unless GPP really enjoys office chair fencing [xkcd.com].
It's far more likely that the people who suffer most from these bad decisions and worse implementations are also the ones who have the least say in the bad decisions and worse implementations. That's certainly my experience. Management tends to be more impressed by a really low-cost BOM than arguments t
I do software consulting. I create a new VM for each new client. My host is my "day to day" programs (like e-mail) and then I keep my client's stuff isolated from any other client. I think if I ever went back to working for a single company, I'd probably have a similar model where each project was worked on in a VM.
Our corporate IT guys mandated that we use virtualization as much as possible, even for the build machines. This caused significant increases in compile-time because the I/O to the large-scale NAS wasn't nearly as fast as a physical local disk.
NAS is definitely the wrong application.
You want SAN, a semi decent SAN connected by fibre will be faster than SSD's on a SATA 3 connections. Plus you get the the other advantages of SAN's (redundancy, high availability). As a sysadmin I once maintained a few build and test VM's running from a AX4 and had zero complaints, which is odd for developers, they normally complain about everything. They were happy to have their source control virtualised too, after their physical box went tits up and they had no
I get to type a key and wait cause my virtual machines are hosted on the other side of the country from where I work and we have slow internet.
This is baloney and absolutely proven FALSE. I wish I could share my data, but at scale of thousands of machines, with a properly configured SAN infrastructure this is completely developer FUD/bunk.
I'm not planning to update my PC anytime soon, but for my next PC, I plan to get a CPU with as many cores as I can obtain (today, an AMD FX 8-core) and install Linux as my main OS. Any gaming I can't do with WINE I will run through a VM running Windows 7.
Re:My plan (Score:4, Insightful)AMD doesn't make an 8-core FX. The make a 4-core FX with bonus integer units.
The question doesn't really specify much about how VMs are used. I use a laptop and desktop with straight-booted Windows and Ubuntu for a variety of things, when I want a dedicated machine (normally either for video games or something CPU/GPU intense like Image/Video processing), but I host local VMs on those machines when I'm multi-tasking (which normally means programming or data manipulation on one hand and Netflix and web browsing on another).
BUT, I only use VMs on my "servers"... boxes with more consi
by 93 Escort Wagon (326346) on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @12:12PM (#44226551)
Is it referring to our professional responsibilities, or to our personal computing habits?
At work we use VMs for a good percentage of our servers. At home, though, my VM use is quite limited.
At home, though, my VM use is quite limited.
I'm about ready move all of my web browsers into VMs because the state of PC security is so abysmal right now.
My entire infrastructure is virtualized.
I have transformed my entire data-center from 1to1 physical servers to large clusters hosting many virtual machines on both VMware and Hyper-V.
and a previous poster nailed it on the head
Where's the "I am sick of these thinly veiled Dice bullshit marketing polls" option? I'm done voting in these things.
My entire infrastructure is virtualized.
I have transformed my entire data-center from 1to1 physical servers to large clusters hosting many virtual machines on both VMware and Hyper-V.
and a previous poster nailed it on the head
Where's the "I am sick of these thinly veiled Dice bullshit marketing polls" option? I'm done voting in these things.
Why do they need to encourage you to vote, when they can get you to lay out exactly what your position is on virtualization?
I have a VM running on a cloud server which has a full Linux install, Java, Eclipse and Android dev libraries. That way, I don't have to stick with one, particular laptop or desktop machine when I want to play with it. So long as the machine I'm physically using can handle SSH and X-windows and has a reasonably fast connection to the Internet, I'm good.
Also, most computers can be booted from a Linux Live CD, hit the VM and let me do what I want to do without actually installing anything on said computer
I wonder how hard it would be to write a virus to detect vmware tools or virtualbox guest extensions and use it to infect the host.
There is malware that actually doesn't run if it is on a VM. This is in an effort to make reverse engineering/monitoring of the malware more difficult. I always thought that it also severely limited it's target, but if you are going after end-users, the limitation is probably irrelevant.
Full throttle virtualization for the most part... (Score:5, Insightful)
All my boxes have some type of hypervisor on them, be it a level 1 hypervisor like on my home desktop box that runs Windows Server 2012, or a level 2 hypervisor like my MacBook running Parallels.
Lots of advantages with this type of setup:
1: I can do my Web browsing in a VM on a remote machine, so if the remote Web browser is attacked, it would take some doing to get to a machine that is just acting as a keyboard/monitor. Plus, I can roll back the compromised snapshot. Not 100%, but good enough for most tasks.
2: Snapshots. Bad Windows patch won't allow the box to boot, roll back to previous snapshot. No reinstalling or restores necessary.
3: Compartmentalization. I have some old rickety utilities that need an older environment to run, and the energy cost of an older PC is pointless compared to running it on a newer box.
4: Hardware independence. I upgrade my VM server, copy the virtual disks, and the VMs don't know/care.
5: Backups. If I copy the VM and its drives somewhere, I know it is backed up completely.
6: Adding more hosts. I like having different machines for different tasks, so having multiple VM disk images stored on a deduplicating filesystem allows for applications to be separate but without wasting disk space for each separate instance of the OS.
7: Security. I toss the VM's image files in a TC volume. This provides decent security, although not perfect (still vulnerable to Firewire RAM snooping, cold RAM attacks, etc.)
I'd add development environments to the list of VM candidates. You can get everything setup just the way the build tools like it and keep it separate from everything else. Come to think of it, though, that might mean that dev tools fall into the #3 category above of "rickety utilities".
1: I can do my Web browsing in a VM on a remote machine, so if the remote Web browser is attacked, it would take some doing to get to a machine that is just acting as a keyboard/monitor. Plus, I can roll back the compromised snapshot. Not 100%, but good enough for most tasks.
You can sandbox this sort of thing just as well with paravirtualization without requiring a full on virtual machine.
2: Snapshots. Bad Windows patch won't allow the box to boot, roll back to previous snapshot. No reinstalling or restores necessary.
Snapshots are something that should be included directly in the filesystem or volume manager, and on many systems, they are. Virtualization is not a requirement to achieve this. Boot into a recovery tool, roll back the filesystem, and you're golden.
3: Compartmentalization. I have some old rickety utilities that need an older environment to run, and the energy cost of an older PC is pointless compared to running it on a newer box.
Assuming there is some amount of kernel level interfacing that means you can't simply run the utility in a separate environment with legacy libra
Unfortunately not all games work on Linux. Even the ones that do, don't all work on Scientific Linux. You can get quite far without VMs, using chroot environments, and I do this to run the Ubuntu userland and Steam.
For Windows-based games I obviously have to break out the VM. I just installed a second graphics card in my computer, and now have a Radeon 6770 that's assigned to a Windows VM with PCI passthrough. It boots, but I can't use it regularly due to some other hardware that's incompatible with IOMMU.
I use VMs, but only for a few specialized tasks
Isn't that what VMs are for? That's like saying, "I use commas but only for specialized tasks."
I use VMs, but only for a few specialized tasks
Isn't that what VMs are for? That's like saying, "I use commas but only for specialized tasks."
Depends, As a sysadmin, I run VM's all the time. Most of my datacentre is virtualised and we're working on getting everything we can off of physical boxes into blades that are taking up 1/4 of the space. 2 blade chassis have almost replaced 2 racks of servers. The only things we cant virtualise are the firewalls (we could really, but we've chosen not to). Even out mail filter appliance is virtual now.
Worksations are going to be the last bastion of bare metal OS's in my life. I suspect in a few years tha
My only physical machines are a handful of infrastructure boxes and some boxes that run Oracle software that's not licensed in a manner compatible with virtualization (OBIEE and Oracle database EE), everything else is a VM. I'd be doing VDI but I just can't find anything approaching a positive ROI and so we still do physical desktops, I was hoping one of the VM on desktop with sync to VDI players would work out but either technical problems or pricing have kept me from adopting them.
The only physical machines I have are my laptops. And even they run Workstation or Fusion for development work. Servers? Pretty much everything is virtualized, except for storage boxes running FreeNAS.
A Windows Vista VM to run Quickbooks accounting software, one of the few things that I really do need (and no, GnuCash is NOT an option) but that won't run under WINE.
Vista actually seems to run better in the VM than it did on it's own....
Turtles, all the way down...
Unless SSH is your only dev tool, VMs are the way to go. There are so many (breakable) dependencies and versions that install order is critical and systems can easily get hosed beyond repair after automatic updates, etc. So often it's necessary to just wipe and start over. It also makes it easier to transfer pre-set-up VMs to other, especially new, team members (except for copy-protected software like InstallShield that is VM-aware).
Emulating a complete machine on linux to run another linux inside? Containers could be a better option for a lot of scenarios. OpenVZ [openvz.org], Linux VServer [linux-vserver.org], or LXC [sourceforge.net] (maybe with Docker [docker.io] to make things easier) have a lot of the advantages of VM with far less overhead and can be targetted to run single processes instead of whole operating systems. You can even run an entire desktop [docker.io] in a container.
I have a virtual server at Amazon. It works great and talk about this virtualized machine. Today everything is a cloud even a single synology nas is a cloud. So i use virtualization to describe it. My usb stick however is a "personal wearable offline cloud" (you can stick the cloud label on everything right?)
Virtualisation for some reason does wonders for flat storage of many millions of text files and brings the search times (if they even complete on the host!) from approaching infinite to a few seconds.
Existing in one form or another since CP67 in, yes, 1967, IBM's z/VM virtual machine hypervisor is arguably one of the most debugged VM implementations around.
Yes, I saw a Virtual Box with a guy living in it under the bridge! So I gave him some BitCoins.
... "my MacBook Pro has 9 VMs on it right now, 3 of which are powered on, and I build clouds for a living" choice?
or even
I have a number of virtual machines on my Mac that I run under Parallels including various versions of Linux and Windows. While they all perform very well and periodically I even have several running at once, the one thing that really gets me is the Windows VMs. I don't use them all that often, and when I wake them up it's like waking them from a coma. There's a lull for a bit then, it suddenly becomes aware that there's hundreds of updates for everything under the sun. Windows are popping up, the system tr
Me, I use them only for specific purposes. The company on the other hand thinks that thin provisioning means millions of free hosts. <*shrug*> I get a pay check either way, but you won't catch me recommending VMs for anything but testing.
Obviously it has it's uses, but for my personal use I've never found a valid reason for using a virtual machine. At least not in the past couple years, as Linux hardware support has greatly improved. I mean, I could use it to make a machine portable, but I only transfer to new hardware every three or four years, so that doesn't seem worth the performance hit. I could use it to run Windows apps on my Linux system, but the last time I *needed* to run a Windows-only app was...........never. Sure, there's occas


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Break the Cycle
Just as firefighters have been trained in fire suppression to remove one of the three required components (air, fuel and heat), mold works in a similar way with moisture, food and spores. Remove the food: Mold does not grow. Remove the moisture: same result.
The most common food sources for mold in a garage are the paper found on drywall and the wood that holds it all up. Replacing the drywall with new paperless versions or building with steel studs is a great way to limit mold growth in new construction, but it tends to be a costly and involved refit in older homes.
Here, taking away the moisture is a better place to focus your efforts. A simple coat of paint can often be the needed barrier to keep the moisture away from the drywall's paper. Fixing minor leaking in roofs and siding can also keep the moisture out. When you drive your car into your garage after snow or a rainstorm, most of that moisture will stay in your garage for some time and can potentially add to moisture and mold problems. Drains and proper floor slope can do wonders.