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Ellen is the Levy Institute Research Professor at Bard College, a Senior Scholar at the Levy Institute, and a Distinguished Fellow at the Bard Prison Initiative. She previously served as Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education at Harvard University, where she was also Dean of the Graduate School of Education, and as president of the Spencer Foundation, in Chicago, Illinois. In addition, Lagemann has been a professor of history and education at New York University, where she was founding chair of the Department of the Humanities and the Social Sciences and director of the Center for the Study of American Culture and Education in the School of Education. Before that she served on the faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she was also Director of the Institute of Philosophy and Politics of Education and Editor of the Teachers College Record and a member of the faculty of the Columbia University (Faculty of Arts & Sciences) History Department.
Lagemann is the author or editor of many books, articles, reviews, and book chapters. Her principal publications include: An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research (2000); Philanthropic Foundations: New Scholarship, New Possibilities (1998); The Politics of Knowledge: The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy (1992); Jane Addams on Education (1985) and A Generation of Women: Education in the Lives of Progressive Reformers (1979). Her most recent book (edited with Harry Lewis) is What is College For? The Public Purpose of Higher Education (2011).
Lagemann has been president of the National Academy of Education and of the History of Education Society. She chaired the National Research Council's Committee on Teacher Preparation, whose report, Preparing Teachers: Building Evidence for Sound Policy, was published in 2010, and was a member of the Teaching Commission, chaired by Louis Gerstner. She has been a trustee of the Russell Sage, Greenwall, and Markle Foundations; vice-chair of the board of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral and Social Sciences in Stanford, California; and chair of the Social Science Committee on Philanthropy and the Non-Profit Sector. She also served on the boards of the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy and of the District Management Council, both in Cambridge, MA.
Lagemann is a former high-school social studies teacher. She received her A.B. from Smith College in 1967 and her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1978.
Elaine Khosrova
Elaine is the founding editor-in-chief of culture, a quarterly national consumer magazine and website dedicated to covering the origins and producers of specialty cheese and dairy. She has been a staff editor and food writer for Country Living, Fine Cooking, Yankee, Self, Plate, Santé, and many other publications. Elaine is also the winner of a 2007 Gold Folio publishing award and has served as a James Beard Journalism Award judge. A former pastry chef who trained at the Culinary Institute of America and La Varenne in Paris, Elaine has an undergraduate degree in food and nutrition. Living in Chatham, New York, she and her husband, Mitchell, are parent alumni of Hawthorne Valley School; their son, Alex, graduated with the class of 2005 and their daughter, Luca Pearl, graduated in 2012.
Tom James
Thomas James became Provost, Dean of the College, and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Teachers College, Columbia University on July 1, 2007, and is also Professor of History and Education in TC's Department of Arts and Humanities. Tom was formerly Dean of the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Previously, he was Vice Dean and Professor of Educational History at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education, and prior to that, a tenured professor at Brown University. He received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University and his master's and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. A historian by training, he is the author of Exile Within: The Schooling of Japanese Americans 1942–45.
He also has written on law and the history of education, educational governance and control, and experiential education. As a child, Tom attended the Laboratory School at the University of Chicago, founded by John Dewey.
Mary Cleaver
Mary is one of the country's foremost authorities on sustainable food and local sourcing, and is the founder and owner of The Cleaver Co. and The Green Table.
In addition to Mary's reputation for providing sumptuous, seasonally-driven food, attentive service and excellent event planning, she is well known for helping create a sustainable, humane and delicious food system. The Cleaver Co. and The Green Table are widely recognized for utilizing local farms and purveyors in order to obtain the best- quality product, and for supporting small to mid-size farms and family farmers.
In November 2011, Mary was named the first-ever "Snailblazer" by Slow Food NYC to honor her contributions creating a better, healthier food system for all. She is a founder of the Farm to Chef network and a board member of Food Systems Network NYC and Local Infrastructure for Local Agriculture, among other professional affiliations.
Before founding The Cleaver Co., she was a corporate chef at G.A.F. Corporation, the pastry chef at J.S. Vandam, a food stylist, and a cooking teacher at The New School. Mary co-authored The TriBeCa Cookbook, published by Ten Speed Press in 1995, and is a graduate of Bennington College. She lives in Brooklyn with her family..
Bob Fox
Bob Fox is one of New York's most respected architects and sustainability leaders, and is a foremost authority on green buildings. Bob's distinguished career includes numerous honors for leadership and sustainable design, establishing him as an influential voice in the architectural profession, the business community, and in service to the public sector.
Having completed 4 Times Square, which set new standards for energy efficient high-rise buildings, Bob joined with Richard Cook in 2003 to form COOKFOX Architects and led the design of the LEED Platinum Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park, a 2.2 million square-foot building. COOKFOX has received many honors, including AIA-NY Housing Design awards for Historic Front Street and The Hegeman, a supportive housing development.
Bob and Rick Cook joined Bill Browning and Chris Garvin in 2006 to form Terrapin Bright Green, a sustainability consultancy to address a broad spectrum of planning and policy projects. Terrapin has produced an ongoing series of publications addressing sustainability in the built environment, including 14 Patterns of Biophilic Design and Tapping into Nature.
In 2006, Bob was named as the only architect to serve on Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Advisory Council for the Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability. Bob is the founding chairman of Urban Green Council, and he has received the U.S. Green Building Council's highest honor, the Leadership Award for service to the green building community.
Bob serves on the Advisory Board for the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a member of the prestigious "Green Dream Team" for Interface Corporation and is a member of the U.S. General Services Administration Green Building Advisory Committee. He has served as a Board member for De La Salle Academy since 1995.
Bob Fox is a graduate of Cornell University and Harvard University. He and his wife Gloria live in Manhattan and the Hudson River Valley.
Sarah Henry Lederman
Sarah taught history and was the chair of the high school history department at the Dalton School in New York City from 2002-2012. She holds a Ph.D. in American history from Columbia University (1994), and she completed the Farm School's "learn-to-farm" program in 2013.
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Martin Ping
To read Martin's biography, please see Hawthorne Valley's staff page.
Laurie Sackler
Laurie is a pure food and clean water advocate/activist with a lifelong interest in landscape and ecology.Her undergraduate Fine Arts degree was in Theater, and she worked in theater management at City Center of Music and Drama, NYC and Brooklyn Academy of Music.
She has an MA in the Literature and Religion of the Bible, conferred jointly by Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary. The topic of her master's thesis was "A Biblical Ethic of Ecology." She taught Biblical Studies at New York Theological Seminary for ten years. Laurie also has an MA from Columbia University in the Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East.
Laurie served on the Advisory Board of Grace Church School in Brooklyn Heights for ten years, three of those years as Board President. She also served as a Trustee of Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn Heights for ten years. She currently serves as a trustee of several family foundations and is a member of the Council for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
She and her husband, Arthur, have four children and live in Brooklyn Heights and Bedford, New York. Laurie is an avid home cook and is particularly interested in fermentation. She makes a stellar kimchi, as well as krauts and yogurts and she maintains a biodynamic home garden.


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STAMFORD: Global retailers have been advised to prepare for a year of "contradictions" in 2014, when they will be expected to adapt to changing consumer behaviour in various ways.
In "Global Retail Trend Predictions for 2014 and Beyond", Daymon Worldwide, the consumer insights company, identified eight main trends based on its analysis of 72 micro-trends,
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Q&A with Martha Stewart, by John Maeda
To mark the launch of the first Martha Stewart Living digital magazine for the iPad in November 2010, Martha sat down for a conversation about the interplay between creativity and technology with longtime friend John Maeda, then president of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Maeda is a computer scientist and graphic designer, and a former associate director of research of MIT Media Lab.
John Maeda So you've launched it! You've come a long way since I first met you at the Media Lab. I'm curious, how did this iPad issue come about?
Martha Stewart I love to think about the future. I was an early adopter of the computer. I remember buying my first IBM PC –– in 1981, I think –– and not really understanding it, choosing a cabinet to fit it in. It was very boxy, and deep.
JM Yes! They were heavy, too.
MS And their backs stuck out so far, like early televisions! But it worked. I learned as much as I could on that PC, and it's been fast-forward ever since.
JM It wasn't that long ago that computers did so little. Now we live in an age where you can tweet something and within seconds, hundreds, thousands of people can talk back. Does that ever make you feel that technology is good but also bad in some way?
MS I am very torn. I actually lose sleep over this. I find that it's an isolationist kind of world now. People would rather communicate by e-mail than by phone or in person. They don't have to face you; they don't have to see your eyes.
JM The irony of Facebook is that you never have to see someone's face.
MS That's right. Facebook serves an enormous purpose, but I don't ever want to use it just for the sake of using it.
JM When I was a kid, my grandfather, who was a carpenter, asked me, "So, what do you want to do when you grow up?" I said, "This computer stuff sounds interesting." He looked at me and said, "That's all good and fine, but what happens in the future? Who will grow the food if everyone is on the computer?"
MS That's what worries me. We don't want factory farming –– those poor chickens are treated like machines. I would rather eat a synthetic egg than an egg from a tortured chicken. I'd rather give up eggs altogether.
JM My father was a cook, and when people ask me how I learned to design, I always tell them, "Very simply. By watching my dad cook and present food." Did you have a similar experience?
MS Totally. But it wasn't just about food; it was about everything. If you had to fix a faucet, you had to learn what a washer was, what a wrench was, what the correct wrench was. When I moved with my ex-husband to an old house, I knew how to build a stone wall because I had built one with my father.
JM It sounds as if your family experience made you sort of fearless.
MS I'd call it a lack of trepidation. Sometimes I shake if I have to do something that I've never done before –– maybe not noticeably, but inside. But I'll do it, because I know it's not an insurmountable task; I've done plenty of tasks in my life.
JM I'm curious about what it means to you to be a creative leader, someone who is not afraid to get her hands dirty and make things happen. It seems as if you have taken the creativity you'd use in making any project for the home or the garden and applied it to business.
MS I try. Ever since I started Martha Stewart Living, I've said there's no job too big or too small for me to do. So if the jar of honey has to be filled, I'll fill it, but I'll also scrub the numbers. I wanted to make creativity equal to business, and I relish the fact that many of my editors and art directors became very competent in business. Sometimes business is frustrating, dealing with the bankers, accountants, quarterlies. You have to figure out how to do that and at the same time develop and create and produce.
JM A lot of pundits today are saying that art and design education don't matter; we shouldn't teach them in schools. But at RISD, we believe that art and design education can be taken to the max. What do you think?
MS I think it's really terribly important –– and, by the way, I think we're one of the largest employers of RISD graduates! We're very proud of that. When I see grammar schools lightening courses to just the three Rs, that's very disappointing to me. It's cheating our youth by not offering them a way to express themselves. I don't think we, as a nation, can exist without creative input.
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hopevent1 13 May, 2014
Martha is beautiful, educated, and self taught. She isn't afraid to try new things or get her hands dirty. I have followed Martha because she represents what I believe a women can achieve if given the chance and resources. I always look for American Made products. I have been pursuing new ideas in growing grapes and making speciality wines. I plant new ones each year, try new varieties, and work with my horses. Martha is an inspiration to all Americans who follow their dreams and succeed.
sandiego jennifer 13 May, 2014
Thank you for always sharing with us good ideas to improve our lives. Whether one is in a fast-paced life in the city or in a slow life in the provinces, nurturing the soul by caring for the home and the people we live with is very challenging. In the Philippines, we hope to bring back the good old values of simple and real living in friendships, in agriculture, in creative work for the home, in our culture. We hope this grows together with our economy.
kghornsten 12 May, 2014
I have been a fan of Martha's for years. I have stuck by your side forever!! As I approach my 70th year with an active Etsy shop, a small garden and plot, I still admire you, your persistence, your level headed approach, and even your stubbornness. My dear mom was a self made woman of stubborn German stock. I raised 3 very independent girls who have given me 13 grandchildren. Although I do not always agree with you, Martha, I respect you, and admire all your products and Many accomplishments.
artbydelia 12 May, 2014
What a great interview! Your modeling photos are awesome! They show what a beauty you are....
Thank You for sharing all your talented knowledge all these years...it's been many years for me.
acpergam 12 May, 2014
The so-called "1963 trip to Yugoslavia" sure looks like a street market in Bolivia. I guess someone heard it wrong when Martha dictated over the phone or something. I can't imagine she wasn't organised enough as to label all her photo albums... People in the photo are wearing Bolivian's typical hats and attire.
waldenspond 12 May, 2014
I'm the eldest of a very large family and much like Martha, learned how to do things gradually and out of necessity. I'm much, much older now (well over 60) and when I bake, cook, sew, garden or create, my friends and family call me "Martha Stewart" in fun! I am very flattered as she is a remarkable young woman! Good on ya, Martha and may you live a long and healthy life! Best regards,
carolyn embry 12 May, 2014
Martha, thank you for the postings. I admire you so much. I grew up on a small farm with an amazing mother who only had a 3rd grade education and worked in a shirt factory, but always provided food and shelter for me and my 2 siblings. She so inspired me to get a good education, have strong morals, always do my share, and have compassion for everyone. I got a 4 year college scholarship, graduated with a BA in math, and demanded that my siblings do too. Bless you Martha for inspiring us all.
brandifrannie 12 May, 2014
Such a beautiful article. Thank you for sharing these photographs and the interview. You are such an inspiration!
jacs_mama 3 May, 2014
What a great article! I have been inspired by you since I very first heard of you in the early 90's. You are always my go to person for anything! In turn now my 3 grown daughters follow your lead. I can't tell you how many magazine articles, books, etc. we have introduced to someone & carried on your legacy. Even my grandchildren, thanks to your Kid's Craft Book, where every week they open it for something new to try. They are 3, 5 & 7. Thank you, you are truly great inspiration!
rockart4u 2 May, 2014
You are beautiful and you are incredible! Such a life story you have.
janicern1 2 May, 2014
What a wonderful article and the pictures are awesome. You are an inspiration to all and especially to me. I am so proud of all you have accomplished . You are a great teacher...Thank You Martha !!
david 2 May, 2014
such an inspiring history! more vintage photos please
kostistrisha 2 May, 2014
Wonderful! Loved taking this stroll down memory lane with Martha. What a beauty! And always, an inspiration.
erickson39 2 May, 2014
Hi Martha, I can't thank you enough to see this delightful addition added to your marvelous website and I will so enjoy viewing all of this many times! Congratulations for being part of the 25 famous people and you are my favorite! Jan Erickson


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Pastor Martha L. Johnson is the Senior Pastor of Compassion Christian Center, in Bakersfield, California. As the wife of the late Pastor Ted M. Johnson, Pastor Martha took the helm of the ministry in 1995.
Pastor Johnson was born in the State of Oklahoma, one of ten children. She received her bachelor's degree in elementary education and has a lifetime teaching credential. She taught for 32 years in the Bakersfield City School District. She is the proud mother of three children.
Pastor Johnson has a big heart for the community! As a result, she is pursuing the God-given vision for a Compassion Square, a mecca of enterprise, entertainment, and empowerment.
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Last year, a Swiss woman became a victim of the "sunlight diet," starving to death under the misguided belief she could survive on sweet, sweet Vitamin D alone. She went for this diet after watching a documentary about a Swiss doctor touting breatharianism, choosing foods of the spirit over the real kind.
Just thinking about all this makes me want to faceplant in a stack of hotcakes with some eggs overeasy and sausage on the side. But I'm not a pro at diets that should be reserved for the Gandhi's of the world.
When I mentioned the possibility of going on a fast to my hippie friends last weekend, they were very encouraging. It's cleansing and very good for your chakras, they said.
I don't think I have chakras. I thought I did once, but it turned out to be a touch of heartburn.
I decided to try out the fast anyway. I attempted the fast bearing in mind that, a few years ago, I had failed a juice fast after hour four, when I threw in the towel and had a cheeseburger. I patted myself on the back for my steadfastness and for dying my hands pink with all the beets I blended into a Pepto-Bismol pink concoction. Delicious!
Yesterday before my fast, I tried to enter a spiritual place by doing righteous things like avoiding running red lights. I knew that in three days when the hunger pangs went away, I would begin hallucinating my spiritual animal, which would whisper to me my purpose in life and deliver a quota of at least one secret of the universe.
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First of all, my approach of
find ~/Desktop/folder -prune
is better than yours, as my putting the full path in the first argument means find will return an error if the file does not exist.
Your approach has 'find' always returning success.
As for your 2 different find's
In the first, you NEVER process the -prune UNLESS -name folder is TRUE. That is to say your find command looks like:
find ~/Desktop -name folder -a -prune
where -a is AND and only gets invoked if -name folder is true, so you have not invoked -prune until you find a -name folder. The -a is implied between arguments.
In the second, -prune happens first, and stops looking inside of ~/Desktop, so -name folder will never find anything.
After the path argument, every -xxxx argument is assumed to have a -a (AND) between them, unless you specify something like -o. This is why man find constantly says things always return TRUE, because it is important to move on to the next -xxxx aargument.
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MrHoffman Apr 24, 2012 5:19 PM
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Could be a bug, or it could be a command syntax error. Please post the particular find command you are testing; the -d syntax is a slightly weird one, as it can be both an option, and a primary. (With that command, somebody here can also test it against something newer than 10.5, too.)
My preference on OS X is mdfind over find. The mdfind command syntax is (yet) more cryptic (than find), but it's gonzo-fast; it's the command-line interface into Spotlight.
And in general, bash command syntax does vary somewhat by platform, and by the version of the particular tool. Use the man page to determine the particular syntax for the particular platform. And there are the occasional bugs.
BobHarris Apr 24, 2012 5:31 PM
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I got identical results using
/usr/bin/find -d path >tmp.1 /usr/bin/find path -d >tmp.2 /usr/bin/find path -depth >tmp.3
And I got different results from the above using
/usr/bin/find path >tmp.4 cksum tmp.[1234] 2923241020 29127374 tmp.1 # match 2923241020 29127374 tmp.2 # match 2923241020 29127374 tmp.3 # match 618095947 29127374 tmp.4 # different
So I cannot reproduce any errors.
The above was a 10.7.3 system
Using a 10.5.8 system
cksum tmp.[1234] 4233427378 28718 tmp.1 # match # the find path -d option was not valid; must be something newer than 10.5.8 4233427378 28718 tmp.3 # match 2987672313 28718 tmp.4 # different
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etresoft Apr 24, 2012 6:39 PM
in response to Neville Hillyer
find is not a bash builtin. It is a separate program.
Also, which "-depth" are you looking at? There are two. "-depth n" limits the find to n directories deep. Both "-d" and "-depth" perform a depth-first traversal. The "-depth n" is a much more commonly used option. For what it's worth, "-d" and "-depth" do seem equivalent on my system.
Neville Hillyer Apr 25, 2012 5:13 AM
in response to MrHoffman
Thanks for the various replies.
I came across my problem whilst doing something more complex but here is a simple demonstation:
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.17(1)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin9.0)
$ find /bin -depth -name bash
$ find /bin -d -name bash
find: -d: unknown option
BobHarris Apr 25, 2012 5:33 AM
in response to Neville Hillyer Solved
The version of bash has nothing to do with the 'find' command. They are 2 separate programs.
"find /bin -d ..." syntax is not supported in the Mac OS X 10.5.8 'find' command.
That syntax "IS" supported in 10.7.3
In 10.5.8, you would need to use
find -d /bin -name bash
find /bin -depth -name bash
If staying on Mac OS X 10.5.8 is important, but you also need the "find /bin -d ..." syntax, you could most likely locate the open source 'find' copy and build a newer version for your system. There are also packages such as MacPorts.org and Fink.sf.net which have Mac OS X ported open source packages available.
Personally, I would just avoid the "find /bin -d ..." syntax, as there are valid work arounds.
Neville Hillyer Apr 25, 2012 8:04 AM
in response to BobHarris
Thanks Bob.
Clearly inexperience in this area on my part. I don't recall previously coming across commands which have two position sensitive lists of options (albeit one called options and the other expressions / primaries / operands) before and after the path. Is this common? Having consulted the man page again I see that it is correct although I still find the definition: '-depth Always true; same as the -d option' misleading.
My application does not allow me to upgrade my software. I am producing a means of creating new folders on standard Leopard desktops which comply with users' settings rather than inheriting them from the icon based desktop - a common source of annoyance resulting in several historic hacks, all of which (as far as I can tell) rely upon third party software - more on this later hopefully.
Upon reflection it may be better for me to use -depth 1. I don't like 'find' as it always defaults to true, even if nothing is found, but I don't know what else to use to efficiently discover if a directory exists with a particular, name, size and date.
BobHarris Apr 25, 2012 8:12 AM
in response to Neville Hillyer
Is this common?
'find' is in a class all by itself. But it is so useful and powerful, nothing has ever replaced it :-)
If you need to look down a directory tree, then 'find' is the best first pass tool at finding files.
Instead of -depth 0, you could use -prune
if find /bin/bash -prune >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo /bin/bash exists fi
The above form could also include other 'find' selection operators.
If you know the directory, then you can also use
if [[ -d /bin/bash ]]; then echo /bin/bash exists fi
You can use ls -l to capture the time of a file and with different ls options you can choose the modification (default with -l), or the last accessed time (atime), or the last metadata mod time (aka ctime). ls -l can also give you size.
You can also use the 'stat' command to extract various file metadata information, such as time and size information.
twtwtw Apr 25, 2012 8:35 AM
in response to Neville Hillyer
It's not entirely clear what your goal is (you havn't been specific), but if you're trying to find folders on the desktop that conform to particular naming conventions, here's a couple of alternate options to find that you can consider:
use mdfind. (the following finds folders recursively on the desktop whose name begins with 'a'):
mdfind "kMDItemContentType=='public.folder' && kMDItemFSName=='a*'" -onlyin ~/Desktop
use applescript. (the following finds folders non-recursively on the desktop whose name begins with 'a'):
tell application "System Events"
set theFolders to every folder of desktop folder whose name begins with "a"
end tell
Neville Hillyer Apr 25, 2012 9:34 AM
in response to twtwtw
Thanks for both replies.
@ Bob
So far I have got:
$ find -d ~/Desktop -depth 1 -Bmin 1 -empty -iname "untitled folder*" -exec rm -d {} \;
Depth needs to be set to 1. I am searching for directories, I assume this is why prune does not work. I need the -d to inhibit silly error messages unrelated to performance. I have yet to discover how to run the rest of my scripts when folders are found, a following && will not work as find always defaults to true. Perhaps I can put a function call in place of rm, I will try this later. It would be better to reduce Bmin to seconds but this does not look easy.
I have used stat and grep before for files. It is not documented as working for directories but I see that it does. Perhaps not as concise as find for this application.
@ twtwtw
'mdfind' is not described as working for directories in my man page but it clearly does. Does it have the necessary selectors for size and date and depth?
Where practical I prefer 'bash' rather than AppleScript, mainly for speed (launch and execution) but also script size. Having said that my script, which will be contained within a plist, already needs some AppleScript (via osascript) to open folders with the correct settings.
twtwtw Apr 25, 2012 10:33 AM
in response to Neville Hillyer
mdfind has keys for size and date (kMDItemFSSize and kMDItemFSCreationDate or kMDItemFSContentChangeDate - I don't know if they are the 'necessary' ones since you haven't told us what you're doing). You can't specify a particular depth, so far as I know; mdfind always searches the entire hierarchy starting at the folder you specify. you'd have to filter the results if you only wanted it to go to a specific depth. see the query programming syntax and metadata attributes references.
As far as applescript goes - frankly - sometimes it's just easier to do stuff in applescript than in the shell.
BobHarris Apr 25, 2012 11:00 AM
in response to Neville Hillyer
find ~/Desktop/untitled\ folder* -prune -Bmin 1 -empty -exec rmdir {} \;
This works for me.
Neville Hillyer Apr 25, 2012 12:12 PM
in response to twtwtw
Thanks for the interesting mdfind links - looks very flexible. I only want to search one directory so I could use '-onlyin dir'. Pity my mdfind man gave no clue about the flexibility. This is all it says:
mdfind(1) BSD General Commands Manual mdfind(1) NAME mdfind -- finds files matching a given query SYNOPSIS mdfind [-live] [-count] [-onlyin directory] query DESCRIPTION The mdfind command consults the central metadata store and returns a list of files that match the given metadata query. The query can be a string or a query expression. The following options are available: -0 Prints an ASCII NUL character after each result path. This is useful when used in conjunction with xargs -0. -live Causes the mdfind command to provide live-updates to the num- ber of files matching the query. When an update causes the query results to change the number of matches is updated. The find can be cancelled by typing ctrl-C. -count Causes the mdfind command to output the total number of matches, instead of the path to the matching items. -onlyin dir Limit the scope of the search to the directory specified. -literal Force the provided query string to be taken as a literal query string, without interpretation. -interpret Force the provided query string to be interpreted as if the user had typed the string into the Spotlight menu. For exam- ple, the string "search" would produce the following query string: (* = search* cdw || kMDItemTextContent = search* cdw) EXAMPLES The following examples are shown as given to the shell. This returns all files with any metadata attribute value matching the string "image": mdfind image This returns all files that contain "MyFavoriteAuthor" in the kMDItemAu- thor metadata attribute: mdfind "kMDItemAuthor == '*MyFavoriteAuthor*'" This returns all files with any metadata attribute value matching the string "skateboard". The find continues to run after gathering the ini- tial results, providing a count of the number of files that match the query. mdfind -live skateboard To get a list of the available attributes for use in constructing queries, see mdimport(1), particularly the -X switch. SEE ALSO mdimport(1), mdls(1), mdutil(1), xargs(1) Mac OS X June 10, 2004 Mac OS X (END)
Neville Hillyer Apr 25, 2012 12:35 PM
in response to BobHarris
Thanks Bob.
I can only think that I did a silly test such as:
find ~/Desktop -depth -name "untitled folder*" -prune
As documented this should work although I should have been more circumspect as I was aware of the warning at the end of the following:
-prune This primary always evaluates to true. It causes find to no
descend into the current file. Note, the -prune primary has no
effect if the -d option was specified.
I do wish the man was more accurate. It gave no warning of the incompatibility with the -depth primary. Also it did not mention not descending into the specified directory. I note that often 'file' means files or directories but on other occasions it does not. There appears to be no clues about how specific it is intended to be.
Neville Hillyer Apr 25, 2012 12:56 PM
in response to Neville Hillyer
I spoke too soon Bob.
This works: find ~/Desktop -name folder -prune
but this does not: find ~/Desktop -prune -name folder
Do you know why? As far as I can tell from the man page they should both work.


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2012 Kia Sportage SUV LX 4dr SUV (2.4L 4cyl 6A)
We went to the dealer intending to buy a soul but after a test drive of the sportage, we were sold (space, trunk and power were pluses over the soul).
Though it was more than we wanted to spend, it has proven to be a reasonably good choice with our limited budget. After 3 years, the only issues we have is the ignition switch which doesn't always sense the key is out and continues to beep as you're leaving the vehicle and the wide "A" pillars which can make a fairly large blind spot when you want to turn. The blue tooth phone's voice recognition is spotty but is great when it works. Night visibility is mediocre without fogs (a must have). Original Tires lasted 52k miles.
Exterior styling: designed by former Audi designer Traction control: makes for steady driving Seating position: good view out and comfort on long drives gas mileage: usually see 26+mpg in mixed driving and 30+ mpg on the highway
-Fog lights standard on all trim -Improve A pillar visibility -Bigger rear brake lights -More power -Better gas mileage
2012 Kia Sportage SUV LX 4dr SUV AWD (2.4L 4cyl 6A)
Tough, reliable, fun, great mileage, roomy. Have had people bang doors into us hard, no dents and a little rub and the mark came out. Ran over a piece of steel on I-5, thought itd rip its belly open.
Nope just a little dent.
Did great in the snow. Our tires have 33,000 miles and doing great!!
My friend has a crv and their tires are wore out at 30,00.
Fun to drive and cool looking..my friend bought one just like mine because i love it so.
Keep up the good work Kia!1
Looks. Mileage. 23-34mpg. Roomy back seat.
Cant think of any.
2012 Kia Sportage SUV SX 4dr SUV AWD (2.0L 4cyl Turbo 6A)
Submitted review back on 08/27/12 12:30 PM which I still stick by. As for the turbo issue I was having it got fixed, pressure switch needed calibrated for the hot gas bypass, I've not had any issues since. Got 56,000 on the car now. At this car's price point, you won't find another SUV with this kind of power and gas mileage.
Acceleration. Gas mileage. Stereo. Traction control works well, had the car hung up in deep snow (using car to mash down +20 inches of snow). The traction control helped a lot getting it free (took 20 minutes or so but got loose).
This winter has been cold, if it's under 5 Deg F, the defrosters don't work. Left on high temp and fan speed they aren't effective. The car takes for ever to warm up, and in extreme cold conditions, barely does. Suspension still needs tuned, seats still aren't comfortable.
2012 Kia Sportage SUV EX 4dr SUV AWD (2.4L 4cyl 6A)
1 year & over 18k miles into ownership of EX w/ AWD: paid the premium for navigation & phone handsfree; 6 wks after purchase it stopped uploading phone contacts (so now it's NOT "handsfree"); 9 months later it wiped out navigation address book for no apparent reason. Kia service claims compatibility issue w/world's most popular phone (iPhone)--but my hubby's 10 yr old Audi can link up to it! & they can't explain/fix the nav address book problem.
Initial mpg was ABYSMAL, improved steadily after break-in period. Great on highway: smooth, firm ride, 26 mpg on a long trip @ consistent speeds; 17-19 mpg city. Feels unstable on curves at moderate speeds, like car's not heavy enough to grip road.
Navigation is about 96% accurate and very handy. Cooled driver seat is a God-send! Audio bluetooth streaming from ipod is consistent. Visibility is poor, so the backup camera is a must, and works well-- great wide-angle field of view. Auto lights staying on for a while after I exit the vehicle is helpful at night. And the highway ride is a pleasure: smooth, with great acceleration.
Kia needs to hire a couple of people to keep up with popular smartphones' updates to ensure handsfree compatibility beyond the first few weeks after purchase of vehicle-- like, at least every 3 months. At the EX level of trim, the PASSENGER seat should also have cooling & electric adjustments (the owner of the car is not always the one driving on long trips!!). Finally, better quality control on electronic components (phone, navigation), and better education of service personnel so owners don't have to hear "We don't know! We don't understand why!" so often.
2012 Kia Sportage SUV LX 4dr SUV AWD (2.4L 4cyl 6A)
I saw the design change for 2011, and waited. 2012, read reviews, test drove it and a few others, and decided to buy.
A year and a half, 31000 miles and no issues what so ever.
I've driven it from El Paso, TX to Jacksonville, FL four times. This is my first new car, i absolutely love it. i took alot of heat for buying a KIA, even I had my doubts, but I do not regret it one bit.
The design, decent power, good handling.
6 speed MANUAL!! on all models!!!!
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Outsourcing Your Money-Grinding Machine
So many people make $100 dollars a day and think that's the best. Nope Mister. It's just proof that your method works. You could be making much more than that.
First and foremost, I HIGHLY recommend that you completely understand the basic machinery that creates all those $100 dollar best days you've had and identify the most gruelling of the tasks involved. When this has been done, it's as easy as ABC recreating the process and earning a lot more income in a shorter period. And what would enable this? Simply outsource those most gruelling of tasks involved in your workflow.
Why do you have to make a map of this process? Because it's always very, very helpful to have at least a cursory grasp on what goes into each step of the process, from research to outlining to completion.
Believe it or not, it can be more difficult than it seems at first glance. These components might range from product creation, graphics design, search engine optimization to customer support.
If your most gruelling of tasks centers on product creation, the first place that I would recommend that you look for freelance writers is the Warriors For Hire section.
Just realize that even on the Warrior Forum, some unscrupulous people still slip through the cracks unnoticed so pay very special attention to reviews and request samples. Perhaps most importantly, start small. Don't hand someone that you've never worked with a huge order off the back. Perhaps let them write a chapter or two for your first and see how that goes.
Take note of their consistency, their timeliness, and their overall communication with you throughout the process.
Don't pay 100% upfront, either. Pay 50% upfront and 50% upon completion. If they balk at this payment method (it's pretty standard) then walk away.
Other places to find writers and virtual workers:
A few words about some of these sites:
Fiverr.com has seen an explosion of popularity these days. Whether it's deserved or not, remains to be seen in my opinion.
In my experience, for every one good service provider I've found here, I've come across four that either delivered awful results, delivered mediocre results late, or delivered no results at all.
But I still listed Fiverr because it can come in handy in a pinch. Just be aware that way more often than not, you get what you pay for.
It's definitely a place where you have to pick and choose what's good and what isn't. The one consistently good thing about it is that you only spend 5 bucks to weed out a loser.
If you're not familiar with Reddit, it is a very large, yet still somewhat tight-knit community. A large part of the Reddit community is comprised of extremely tech-savvy people such as graphic designers, programmers, etc. and many of them are feeling the crunch of the recession, as is evident in the subreddit I've listed.
That means that you can find quite a few people that are more than willing to take on freelance work (not just writing!) for a good price.
My Awesome Blog Traffic-Sniping Strategy
I have decided to snipe out this strategy from my mastermind group traffic experiments tutorials.
It is fourth in the series and I'm hoping you could put this to work because it flat-out beats most of the free traffic strategies cluttering up the blogosphere. This nanoarbitrage strategy is to utilize Automatic WordPress Trackbacks.
Do you ever see comments on certain websites like this:
Actually, websites using CommentLuv have this feature. Well, links like these are called Trackbacks. It is an automated way of alerting another blog that you have linked to one of their posts. When you do this, wordpress automatically pings the other blog, no matter how popular it is, notifying them of the incoming link. They provide a free real estate to drive lots of traffic from very popular websites to your site, as your headline is automatically displayed in the comments section, drawing readers away to your site.
Now, I'll be teaching you how to exploit this wordpress feature to makemore money from more traffic. Simply locate most popular blogs in
your niche that use CommentLuv. Any site that allows trackback
comments would work with this. Usually CommentLuv blogs are great.
Just type the following in google search engine box;
Your Keyword & "title="CommentLuv Enabled""
The above command will find commentluv enabled sites within the your
specified niche. Alternatively, you can also try the following command
in google search;
"intext:"CommentLuv Enabled" +keyword"
This is a great quick way of finding commentluv sites and works good.
You could however use Commentluv's own search engine to help you
identify more of them faster.
Use comluv or commentluv directly to search commentluv enabled
blogs. This is probably the fastest and more accurate way to search
commentluv enabled blogs in your niche. Just go to http://comluv.com/help-desk/ and find the commentluv enabled blogs search engine. You can easily notice it on the right side. Simply enter the search keyword e.g. niche of the blog you may like to search for and you
are good to go.
Having identified your top-niche blogs, you'd be on the lookout for new posts. You can subscribe to the rss feeds of these sites and be instantly notified of new posts as they become available.
Now put up a good presell article on YOUR OWN wordpress blog, with
a very strong headline because no matter how short or long your
comment is, this is the same exact headline people will see on your
comment. Hyped-up headlines work like magic. Result-based headlines
are terrific. Those in the line of 'See how I lost 9 pounds in 2 weeks' drive crazy clickthroughs. Then go over to the blog and make a great comment. Once the site's readers see your comment, they will see a trackback to your site and if you have used a very attractive headline on your own presell page, you'll get hundreds of clicks to your website.
Now find other sites in this same niche using this feature and see if you will not grab more traffic than you thought possible. The trick here is to use a headline closely related to that of the topic being discussed.
The difference between the trackback strategy and the previous ones is
that you don't even need to put your link yourself. It all appears
automatically once your comment sticks.
*NOTE: Sign up for google alerts for your niche and every time a new
post is put up you'll get an email notification. The next step is to race over to their site and reply with a comment. Then your ad is near the top and will be seen by more people!
The One Secret Key that Instantly Quadrupled My Blogging Profits
List building has been the key to my success over the years and I have a lot of people to thank for that, but I mostly have to thank myself because I've gone out of my way to explore all of these realms of list building. I still enjoy the multiplier effect of having more than 500 eyeballs almost instantly on my new blog posts just because I sent a quick blast to my list notifying them of something new. That's how easy it is.
So I get to enjoy the thrill of fast traffic as well as the great affiliate commissions I see whenever I promote to this list.But get one thing clear, my blog wasn't the only machine for my list.
The first thing you need to know is that business and making sales depends on fresh lead flow. What I mean is you want constant leads coming in. If I were you, I would start aiming to generate something like 250 subscribers per day. You might be thinking, that's a lot of subscribers, or it's going to be too expensive.
Well, apart from the ones you can build from your blogging, there are great paid lead sources. If you have some little funds to invest into your blogging and listbuilding effort, I'll advise you to concentrate on these paid lead sources. However, there are also very good free ones that you can use to build up your list to generate 250 or more subscribers per day.
Once you hit 250 subscribers per day or more, then it's all a matter of focusing on converting them and then just doing the list building stuff you're doing over and over and over and getting the same results all the time.
Converting them is another thing and this article isn't going to be anything at all about converting leads into sales, it's all about generating lead flow.
Building Up Your Squeeze Page
O.K. we are going to have to have a way for people to get onto our list. We need a good Squeeze Page. I did my first one with this bit of software. Point and click squeeze page. It does a great job and it is less than $10.00 if I remember correctly.
Squeeze page conversions / The freebie.
To get people to sign up for your list you are going to have to give them something of great value for free. If you don't want to make your own little eBooks or video with a secret you can simply by some PLR (Private Label Rights) Products. With PLR you can edit the content, insert your own personality, and claim author ship.
OK here is where the job killing cash comes from.
When you have an opt-in you have them redirected to a thank you page. On the TYP you tell them how really great you are to have them on your list. Tell them their download is on the way to there in box.
Sell them something related to the freebee from your thank you page. This will recoup some or all of your cost from the solo ad.You could recommend a product from any of the affiliate directories such as clickbank or paydotcom. If you're targeting the IM niche then you'll do well to promote products from warriorplus or jvzoo. On the other hand, you can as well sell your own product for $7 to $17 bucks. The most important thing is to get started.
You could sell some of the PLR I told you about earlier; ad a PayPal buy button to the sales page provided, and you have self-liquidating (free) traffic. HOW COOL IS THAT!
You build a massive list very cheap or free. Be good to your list and you gain your freedom from the soul sucking day job in no time!
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UAA athletics will be the topic of a special meeting at next week's University of Alaska Board of Regents meeting in Fairbanks.
Regents will hear a report from UAA Chancellor Tom Case at the Wednesday evening meeting.
The athletic department is coming off a week of turmoil during which longtime athletic director Steve Cobb was fired by Case's boss, University of Alaska president Pat Gamble. The department is also the subject of an NCAA investigation, though the nature of that investigation has not been revealed.
But UA spokeswoman Kate Wattum said the matter was placed on the meeting's agenda a month ago.
"This is not an addition to the agenda. This has been on the agenda," she said. "It's a conversation that the board has been wanting to have, and it was scheduled for this meeting. So this is not a response to this week's media events.
"... There are ongoing issues that have been happening at UAA athletics, and the regents wanted a report from Chancellor Case."
A month ago, Case was publicly supporting Cobb, who was under fire for the makeup of a search committee formed to hire a new hockey coach after Dave Shyiak was fired after eight losing seasons. Case's support came after Cobb received votes of "no confidence" from the UAA Hockey Alumni Association and the Alaska State Hockey Association.
A week later, after four finalists for the hockey job were flown to Anchorage for interviews, Case halted the coaching search in order to expand the search committee as well as the criteria for coach candidates.
Since then, a 2011 incident in which Shyiak struck a player with a hockey stick during practice became public. The university launched an investigation into the assault but otherwise remained silent for about a week until Cobb told the Daily News that he conducted an investigation at the time and found no reason to punish or reprimand Shyiak.
Wattum said she did not know if any of those events are the reason the regents want to talk to Case.
The meeting will be livestreamed and open to the public, she said, although regents could decide to discuss things behind closed doors.
"The discussion is going to start out as an open discussion," Wattum said. "If it looks like it's being moved to personnel issues or matters that could be damaging to the university or others, they will move those issues into executive session."
The meeting runs from 5-8 p.m. in the Butrovich building on the UAF campus. It will also include a discussion about the university budget.
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The link for livestream coverage won't be active until sometime next week, but it can be found at www.alaska.edu/oit/services/video-conferencing/streaming-conferences/ [3]
The Board of Regents is an 11-member group that meets several times a year at various campuses within the University of Alaska system.
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