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High Seas - Written Pattern
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This is a new written version of High Seas, a sweeping asymmetrical parallelogram of dramatic waves.
This sample was knit on 3.5mm/US4 needles using 3.5 balls (approx. 800yds/730m) of Rowan Kidsilk Haze 632 Hurricane.
Dimensions of finished shawl: a parallelogram 68in/172cm by 22in/56cm. The short ends flare out to 24in/61cm.
The wave pattern is 40 rows and the shawl is 120 stitches wide.
The written pattern pdf contains just one version of High Seas: the slightly easier mirrored version with right-leaning decreases on RS rows and p2tog's on WS rows.
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The HungerU Tour is dedicated to connecting with college students and sharing the story of modern ag's role in tackling world hunger. Here the HungerU Staff will provide updates and thoughts from the road.
-- By Mallory Weber, HungerU Crew
During our visit to the Big Blue Nation, the HungerU Crew was able to meet some awesome individuals from the UK Center for Community Outreach. While we learned about many of the impressive things that they are doing, I found one that sticks out to me. This coming week, November 18-23, UK will recognize Hunger and Homelessness Awareness week. One of their activities will be the OXFAM hunger banquet. Now, if you have never attended a hunger banquet, I highly encourage you to. If you don't know what a hunger banquet is, allow me to share.
In July of 2010 I attended the Washington Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C., a National FFA Organization conference. While there, I was with about 250 other high school students from across the country. Our 'theme' for the week was "We Must Because We Can," something that still sticks with me today. Let me share with you something else from that week...
One evening we were told to meet outside the ballroom for dinner. As we arrived downstairs we were handed a piece of construction paper that was orange, pink or black. Later we would find out that these pieces of construction paper would indicate what our dining experience would be for the night. We would be attending a hunger banquet.
A very small number of us, about 16, were placed in the upper class. We were seated at two tables in the corner of the ballroom. We had the full, high-class dining experience complete with cloth napkins, candles, a three-course meal with dessert, and all nine forks. (I may be exaggerating slightly with the number of forks.)
A little bit larger group, roughly 75 I'm sure, were designated 'middle class' for the night. They had a taco bar provided and had paper plates and plastic silverware to use, and folding tables like you would find in an elementary lunch room.
The rest of the students, the vast majority, were the 'low class' for the night. Their dinner? Rice. Their plates? They didn't have any. This group of students had to sit on the floor, and their rice was brought out to them on plastic serving trays, in heaping piles. Their silverware? Whatever they could manage to create out of the little bit of tinfoil under the rice.
I remember being in awe. I felt ... guilty. And I hadn't even gotten any say in the matter, it was all due to a pink piece of construction paper. Those of us who were part of the 'upper class' kept asking our servers if we could give some of our food to the students having rice for dinner, but it wasn't allowed. I remember feeling even more terrible because I was helpless. What was worse was that we were given SO much food; we couldn't even eat it all. I felt so terrible leaving food on my plate when my friends were eating rice ... with their hands, and I couldn't even figure out what fork to use.
That evening was over three years ago, and I can still remember the feeling. The feeling of guilt for wasting food. The feeling of wanting so desperately to help. I remember wanting to trade places with someone so they could eat part of my three-course dinner. That night was on one of the most impactful nights of my life, and all because the things happening in the world around us were put into perspective. People around the world are having only rice for endless days in a row, while someone else is wasting half the food on their plate every day. Do we ever stop to think about that?
Students in the 'lower class' were able to help themselves to the taco bar after all was said and done. However, that didn't change what our eyes had been opened up to. In the United States, we are very fortunate to have the most secure food source in the world, but we still have 1 in 6 people going hungry every day. 1 in 4 children are in a food insecure household. Why? Why? We have the power to change that. We have the ability. Start being more conscious about your own food waste. Start donating to canned food drives instead of assuming someone else will. Donate your time to a soup kitchen. Get a fundraiser going in your community, your church, your school and donate funds to a local pantry. 'Adopt' a family in another country. 'Adopt' a child in another country. Be an advocate. Keep yourself aware, make others aware.
If you ever have the chance to attend a hunger banquet, don't hesitate to do so. Please. Here's a perfect chance if you're in Lexington, Ky. this week!
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Hundreds of Brazil Fans Celebrate World Cup Kick-Off Victory at Coral Gables Museum
Fans of the World Cup watch a live broadcast of the Brazil v. Croatia match at Coral Gables Museum
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A stout contingent of Brazilians who call Miami home made their way to Coral Gables Museum yesterday to watch their native team wipe the floor with an over-matched Croatian squad by a score of 3 to 1 in the opening bout of the 2014 World Cup.
Patrica Barbosa is a big time soccer fan. She is also a native of São Paulo who now calls South Florida home. Barbosa was clad in Brazilian garb as she watched the game on a hulking 9' x 16' foot LED screen in the museum's main plaza.
"If they lost, I would want to disappear," Barbosa said of her countrymen in dry fit shirts and cleats running on the pitch a hemisphere away.
"It's the second time we're hosting, and Brazilians can't withstand another loss. I don't know what would happen."
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Barbosa was not alone in her passion as the plaza was filled with hundreds of Brazilian partisans, rapt and focused on the action on the field.
Coral Gables Museum's massive World Cup event came about through a partnership with ESPN Deportes. The museum is promoting its current "12 Stadiums, 12 Cities" exhibit that showcases the architecture and aesthetic beauty of the venues constructed to host the global tournament.
"One of the things we focus on [at Coral Gables Museum] is architecture and sustainability," said Christine Rupp, the museum's director. "The stadiums are beautifully designed and they are all built with green in mind and are LEED certified sustainable structures. But we thought, we've got to also show some games."
That's where ESPN Deportes steps into the picture. With Miami's large number of Portuguese speakers, the network hopes to drum up support for its broadcasts of the World Cup in that language. "It's very significant, Miami is a huge priority for us," Lucas Ferraro, the associate marketing manager for ESPN Deportes said. Ferraro also said that Miami stacks near the top of Spanish language markets across the country, and that community events like the one in Coral Gables makes sense for the company.
Claude Chianesse was working out at a gym across the street when he noticed the large number of soccer fans gathered watching the game.
"It's unexpected. I didn't think this would be happening here," Chianesse said.
Despite being Argentinean and supporting that squad, Chianesse was pulling for team Brazil last night. He also said that he loved many elements of soccer that make it a unique experience in the world of sport. "The passion, the nationalism, the tribal mentality, everything," Chianesse said, drying his sweat drenched face.
Ariel Molina is also a supporter of Argentina but was impressed by the sense of community that the event accomplished.
"There is the element of soccer and hopefully this is part of a new trend in Miami. I think soccer adds to the unique element of it."
The crowd would erupt anytime Brazil got the ball deep into Croatian territory.
Brazilian Diana Valeriano was one of the many making noise, and liked what it meant for the greater Miami area.
"I think it says something that's great for the community, something that everyone enjoys," Valeriano said. "It brings everyone together from different parts of the world."
The man in charge of playing pro-Brazilian music over speakers after that team scored was Manuel Padilla, an American born Venezuelan who has been a diehard Argentina fan since he was 8 years old. He said that soccer was special.
"It's the king of sports. Every single type of person in the world is watching this game right now," Padilla said with a beaming smile. "People wait four years for this. The world stands for a month watching this."
You can watch the Brazil v. Mexico match on June 17 starting at 3 p.m. at Coral Gables Museum. The event is free and open to the public. Visit coralgablesmuseum.org.
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'Evergreen' Tour 2014
'Evergreen' Tour 2014
Travelling about as far away from hometown Nelson as possible whilst in pursuit of their lifelong musical dream, Georgia and Caleb Nott of BROODS have become regular globe-trotters.
The last 12 months have seen the siblings perform live across the USA, Canada, the UK and Australia with a string of showcases, support slots and headline shows... all the while their national New Zealand has been patiently waiting.
Until now, kiwi fans have only had the pleasure of seeing BROODS perform a handful of times. This August the band will take their thrilling live show to the eager masses, playing to Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch audiences for the very first time.
Georgia and Caleb's musical project BROODS emerged in 2013 with the release of the hit single 'Bridges' (Dryden Street through Universal). The song flew up the charts and prompted an amazing whirlwind of interest which was cemented when they signed international recording contracts in the USA (Capitol Records) and in the UK (Polydor).
BROODS released their self-titled debut EP in January this year to international acclaim.
Second single 'Never Gonna Change' hit the airwaves in March this year and with it the bands career has continued to boom.....
As a live act BROODS play as a three-piece including a drummer. Their shows across the ocean have been heralded as "dance floor filling joy" , "magnetic", "mesmerising" and that the band certainly "deliver on the hype" according to The Huffington Post . High praise for an act that are clearly drawing some immense worldwide attention.
BROODS will release their debut full-length album 'Evergreen' featuring the brand new single 'Mother and Father' in September this year and are sure to please fans with new album tracks on their forthcoming New Zealand tour.
THURSDAY 21st AUGUST AUCKLAND - POWERSTATION
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Xavier Dolan cannot remember his age. Is he 24 yet? 23? He's 23, and his critics never forget it. Having debuted at Cannes to an eight-minute standing ovation for I Killed My Mother (2009), a film he made in his teens and now finds "dilettantish and embarrassing," the Montreal director is perennially described as either a wunderkind or enfant terrible.
Perhaps that's why his new film, which had its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, feels so very adult. Following Heartbeats (2010), his portrait of preternaturally sophisticated youth, Laurence Anyways is a daring take on the topics of gender, transsexuality and impossible middle-aged love. Sublime and absurd, with lashings of style and an audacious running time of 165 minutes, it is destined to inspire a deluge of anonymous Internet commentary that takes almost as long to read.
Here, the sprightly, surprisingly funny and nearsighted Dolan sits very close to me to discuss happy memories, his favourite details and those "angry basement bloggers."
Laurence Anyways begins in 1989, the year you were born. Is that a coincidence?
[laughs] No. It was funny for me to revisit these years through the eyes of adults, the eyes of the characters. I was 21/2 years old when we moved to Longueuil, in the suburbs of Montreal, and I remember it perfectly.
To me, the idea of suburbs …
Anguish you?
Don't match my idea of Montreal. Are your memories colourful? Are they happy?
They are ... I mean, I chose the 1980s and 1990s not because I like costumes and colours, but because I'm nostalgic. I wanted to relive these years, and also, I thought it was interesting to end in 1999 and have the characters say things like, "In 12 years, things will be different and better."
There was a great moment when [one of the supporting characters] says "it gets better" – um... what was the whole line?
"It gets better, my ass."
Right. And I laughed, because you were anachronistically making fun of the It Gets Better campaign.
I mean, how much has it changed? How much have we evolved? That's what we suggest by basing the plot in the 1980s and 1990s.
When Laurence says, "f--- reality, I don't want to go back to earth," I thought maybe – if there's one criticism of your films, it's that they are unrealistic and overly stylized. I thought maybe this was your retort.
No, I don't need to respond to peoples' attacks on, or analysis through my films. Laurence, who says that, is a highly flawed character who casts himself in the role of victim. All the characters are flawed. I don't know if that's realistic enough for people.
I loved the dress Fred [Laurence's girlfriend] wore at the ball, and then it came back again, near the end of the film [on the set of a movie she'd shot years before].
You're the only person on earth who has noticed that. The movie is filled with little details like that, that very few people, if any, notice. No, I did not direct that ball scene as a treat for my [assumes facetiously poncey accent] "gay thirst for style." People dream in life. In her head, Fred has been in a nervous breakdown for months, so when the opportunity comes to be sexy, to have fun, to meet new people, she takes that dress in her mind, puts it on and goes to a party where everybody turns around and looks at her. Of course that never happens in reality. So no, my movies are not realistic. They are a vision.
That scene was clearly fantasized.
People who don't work in [the film] industry never talk about the style. They talk about how they cried or when they laughed or how they felt that it wasn't long. Of course, people don't come to tell me bad things, they write it on the Internet.
Oh God, you don't read things on the Internet, do you?
I read every review. I don't read anonymous angry basement bloggers. If I do, I'm gonna commit suicide at the Royal York, which is like a double suicide.
I'm interested in what people think, but I'm also irritated by the lack of imaginations. There are many ways you could criticize me for these films, but you [the bloggers] choose to do it in the easy way. You choose to tell me that I've got too much style and I'm a young director who emulates other directors and wants to be Wong Kar-Wai's cosmic twin – What do you want to be?
I want to be myself. I want to do many movies and offer these films the best of my knowledge and the best of my imagination and give them the style and the fashion they deserve. It might be very ordinary style one day, depends on the story. It's not about me. [Pause.] I'm sweating.
With passion. Is that why you're not on-screen in Laurence Anyways? Will you act again?
In my next film, yes. It's a psychological thriller set on a farm in Quebec, with a consenting hostage. I'm the hostage. I'm also working on a series of six [shorter] films, a hexalogue, called Ordinary People, in which I will act. That will be done by 2013, and by 2015 I should be ready to tackle the American beast.
You're an optimist.
No, I'm determined. [laughs] And now I am the worst; I'm quoting from my own film.
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A black-clad man arrived at 2:59 a.m. Friday, marking the poet's birthday with the traditional graveside tribute: three red roses and a half bottle of cognac. Only this and nothing more.Link Discuss (Thanks, Nat!)
It is a rite that has been carried out by a mysterious stranger every Jan. 19 since 1949, a century after Poe drank himself to death in Baltimore at age 40.


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I have been driving Lucas crazy singing this:
"Let's go to the beach, 'each, let's go get away!"
(Can you name the song?)
YES, I am celebrating Labor Day in style with what will be our final family-of-two (or four if you count the dogs) weekend away! Can't wait to put my toes in the sand. Seriously, nothing is on the schedule except for reading, naps, Publix subs (one a day if I get my way) and more naps.
Fun fact: I swapped bras right after this picture. Underwire is the devil. Yoga bras for the win!
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Free Events in Portland: August 3–5, 2012
August 2nd, 2012
Anyone else can't believe it's August?!
Note: Admission is free for the following events, but you might be charged for activities or food and drink.
Events are sorted by start time.
All weekend
Theater Group Masque Alfresco will perform "The Superior Casa Nova" at 6:30 pm at George Rogers Park Iron Furnace, Lake Oswego.
Friday, August 3
Concert at Millennium Plaza Park (Lake Oswego): Dina y Los Rumberos Del Caribe will perform at noon, 1st and Evergreen Streets, Lake Oswego.
Pier Pool (Portland): Admission is free every Friday through August 31 from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm.
Portland Children's Museum: It's the first Friday of the month, which means admission is free from 4:00 to 8:00 pm.
First Friday Art Walks and Gallery Openings:
- First Friday Art Walk in SE Portland
- Vancouver First Friday Art Walk: This month, the art walk is part of Vancouver's annual art festival, Art in the Heart.
Washington Park Summer Festival (Portland): The Strange Tones (rock and blues) will perform at 6:00 pm in the Washington Park Rose Garden Amphitheater.
Dancing in Director Park (Portland): Dance the night away to the live music of the Alex Krebs Tango Quartet. Lesson: 6:00 pm to 6:45 pm. Dance: 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. SW Taylor and SW Park, Portland.
Movie at Laurelhurst Park (Portland): "Citizen Kane" will be showing. Pre-movie entertainment begins at 6:30 pm. Movie begins at dark. SE Cesar E Chavez Blvd & Stark St, Portland.
Concert at Tualatin Commons (Tualatin): Big Night Out (Variety dance hits) will perform at 6:30 pm. 8325 SW Nyberg St., Tualatin.
Movie at Beaverton City Park: "Up" will begin at dusk. SW 5th and Hall, Beaverton.
Movie at Willamette Park (West Linn): "Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind" will begin at dusk. 1100 12th St, West Linn.
Movie at Memorial Park (Wilsonville): "The Muppets" will begin at dusk. 8100 SW Memorial Dr, Wilsonville.
Movie at LeRoy Haagen Memorial Community Park (Vancouver): "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" will start at dusk. NE 9th St, W of NE 136th Ave, Vancouver.
Flicks on the Bricks at Pioneer Courthouse Square (Portland): "Clueless" will start at dusk, with pre-movie entertainment by Laura Ivanice.
Saturday, August 4
Sketchbook Journal Walk: This walk through Southeast neighborhoods and Laurelhurst Park will include "sketching stops" with tips from a local artist. Bring a sketchbook and pencil/pen. Meet at Muse Art and Design (4224 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland), 9:00 am.
Fremont Fest (Portland): The parade starts at 10:00 am at the Beaumont Middle School parking lot, 4043 NE Fremont. Following the parade, enjoy kids activities, live music, pub crawl, and more. NE Fremont at NE 42nd to NE 52nd, Portland, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm.
Iranian Festival (Portland): Live music, dancing, cooking demonstrations, kids activities, and more. South Park Blocks by Portland State University, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Dirt to Dinner: From the Farm to Your Table (Portland): A bilingual festival where you'll learn skills that will help you make more economically, environmentally and socially sustainable decisions about food. OMSI Front Plaza, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.
Art in the Heart (Vancouver): Music and art from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on Main Street and Evergreen in Vancouver.
Free Ice Cream (Portland): Head to West Elm (1201 NW Couch St, Portland) between 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm for free ice cream from Scoop.
Obonfest (Portland): Japanese festival featuring taiko (drumming) performances, martial arts demonstrations, dancing, food, and more. Oregon Buddhist Temple (3720 SE 34th, Portland), 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
Trek in the Park (Portland): The classic Star Trek episode "Journey to Babel" will be performed live at Cathedral Park (under the St. Johns Bridge) at 5:00 pm. Repeat performances every Saturday and Sunday through August 26.
Portland SummerFest Opera in the Park: Enjoy a performance of Die Fledermaus ("The Bat") by Johann Strauss II at Washington Park Amphitheater, adjacent to the International Rose Test Garden, 6:00 pm.
Portland Festival Symphony will perform at Laurelhurst Park (SE 39th Ave & Stark St, Portland) at 6:00 pm.
Theater: "Twelfth Night" by Portland Actors Ensemble: Columbia Park, 1900 SW Cherry Park Road, Troutdale, 6:00 pm.
Concert at Autumn Ridge Park (Beaverton): The Twangshifters will perform at Autumn Ridge Park (NW Fieldstone Dr and NW 176th Pl, Beaverton), 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm.
Tryon Creek Park Music Series: Connie Bieberach will perform at 6:30 pm. 11321 SW Terwilliger Blvd, Portland.
Movie at Brooklyn Park (Portland): "Footloose" (2011) will be showing. Pre-movie entertainment begins at 6:30 pm. Movie begins at dark. SE 10th Ave & Haig St, Portland.
Movie at Earl Boyles Park (Portland): "Kung Fu Panda 2″ will be showing. Pre-movie entertainment begins at 6:30 pm. Movie begins at dark. SE 112th Ave & Boise St, Portland.
Movie at Tualatin Commons (Tualatin): "Tron Legacy" will begin at about 9:00 pm. 8325 SW Nyberg St, Tualatin.
August 5
Dirt to Dinner: From the Farm to Your Table (Portland): A bilingual festival where you'll learn skills that will help you make more economically, environmentally and socially sustainable decisions about food. OMSI Front Plaza, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.
Adventures with Bugs (Portland): Kids are invited to hold, pet and look at all sorts of crazy creatures including tarantulas, cockroaches, scorpions and more. Troutdale Library (2451 SW Cherry Park Rd, Troutdale), 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm.
Theater: "As You Like It" by Original Practice Shakespeare Festival: Lents Park (SE 92nd Ave & Holgate Blvd, Portland), 2:00 pm.
Theater: "Twelfth Night" by Portland Actors Ensemble: Lynchwood Park (SE Haig and SE 174th, between Division and Powell, Portland), 3:00 pm.
Doug Fir "Pickin' on Sundays" Concert Series, 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Ages 21+.
Portland Festival Symphony will perform at the Washington Park Amphitheater at 6:00 pm.
Concert at Millennium Plaza Park (Lake Oswego): Brokentop will perform at 6:00 pm. 1st and Evergreen Streets, Lake Oswego.
Trek in the Park: The classic Star Trek episode "Journey to Babel" will be performed live at Cathedral Park (under the St. Johns Bridge) at 5:00 pm. Repeat performances every Saturday and Sunday through August 26.
Movie at Sellwood Park (Portland): "The Muppets" (2011) will be showing. Pre-movie entertainment begins at 6:30 pm. Movie begins at dark. SE 7th Ave & Miller St, Portland.
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For more free and low-cost events, check PDX Pipeline, Dave Knows Portland, and the Oregonian.
For kids events, check UrbanMamas and PDX Kids Calendar.
For free concerts, see Concert Co-op.
And please check out your local library!
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" Location: Easdale Tarn / Near Grasmere / Cumbria. "
Luckily during our visit to the Lake District we had some fantastic weather so regularly outdoors. Having planned ahead, we had information printed out for a walk from Grasmere village (where we were staying) to the mountain lake, Easedale Tarn. The walk was less than 5 miles in total and described as 'easy', still a little more strenuous than I'm used to but definitely the best part of my holiday.
Like much of Grasmere, there are few pavements so the start of the walk from the village is just walking on the road. Even for a Tuesday the roads were pretty quiet of traffic, mainly just other walkers. There were a couple of fields to walk through before reaching the bottom of the hill and I have to say I was quite disappointed when people hadn't closed the gates properly. I wouldn't have liked to mess with a herd of cows that day although a lot of them were content just sunbathing. Walking alongside the river the path is a bit like cobbles but with the edges of stone so you do have to really pay attention to where you're walking. A good pair of boots was definitely called for.
As we started ascending the stones really helped as a lot of them were large and flat so much like walking up steps. The path was quite narrow at some points so spent more time looking at the ground than appreciating the view. The best place to stop for a rest was by the waterfall as there were a few big rocks to sit/lean against while still leaving the path free for other walkers. The main reason it's a good place to stop though is for the stunning view back to Grasmere with the river flowing, path, fields and hills. It's a very luscious green picture in July.
From the waterfall there's still a good walk to be done but you leave the good views behind as you meander up through the hills. I was beginning to wonder when it was going to end until the landscape finally opened out to the very large lake. It was absolutely stunning and so incredibly peaceful. I'm not sure how busy it had been as we passed quite a lot of people walking back down the hill but by the time we arrived there were only around 4 groups scattered around the lake. One group was a good distance away around the side of the lake and there were a couple nearer us so we did hear a few people talking and sheep bleating but it got a lot quieter by the time we were leaving.
We got ourselves a good place to sit on a large flat rock which I was glad of as I walked down to the water and found the ground rather wet and dripping into the lake. There were large stones and few smaller stones so wasn't a great place if you wanted to throw stones into the water but the landscape was perfect for photos. We must have sat there for less than an hour but the view seemed to change quite a lot with the hills and clouds casting shadows. I was glad to see the area was clean - no litter around. It was a shame to leave because it was so relaxing.
Although you can walk back by crossing the river we just headed back the same way we came. It was a lot easier walking down and only took about an hour but I felt like my attention was focused even more on the ground than it had been on the way up. A lot of the steps were quite big and although I was being careful I still managed to hit my leg off a rock and get a big bruise.
My fitness levels are pretty bad so I was extremely glad I'd taken a drink as well as something to eat. I'd nearly finished the 500ml bottle by the time I'd reached the tarn so had to leave some for the walk back. The temperature must have been in the mid twenties that day with a slight breeze so I was happy with just a t-shirt on but I'd definitely recommend taking something warm to wear if it's cooler. Out of all the people we passed there was a good age range. A lot of the walkers had good boots on and walking poles. I wouldn't really say I needed a pole but the boots were a must. It was good to see a lot of the kids we passed had their own cameras so were talking a lot of photos themselves. We even passed a couple of runners (mad!).
The cost of that perfect day was just the cost of our lunch (and we were self catering so just made sandwiches and took a drink). It really was the best part of the holiday which we ended with a refreshing drink at one of the local pubs in Grasmere. Highly recommended.


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Fall 2009 Convocation Speech
Susan Moulton
Chair of the Faculty
August 24, 2009
Fall 2009 Speakers
Ruben Armiñana
Eduardo Ochoa
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Susan Moulton
Chair of the Faculty
Heather Hanson
Associated Students President
Dolores Bainter
Staff Representative to the Academic Senate
Welcome and thanks to our visiting Italian Musicians:, il Premiato Corpo Bandistico "Citt‡ di Monte Urano" and their Director, Lanfranco Navisse. Il Premiato Corpo Bandistico was founded in 1877 and has performed around Europe and in the U.S. And, thanks to the Chair of our Music Department, Brian Wilson who has helped oversee this on-going exchange of musicians between Italy and Sonoma State.
Benvenuto e grazie ai musicisti del Premiato Corpo Bandistico da Citta di Monte Urano che ha fatto stamattina questo bel concerto. E veramente uno scambio internazionale in un linguaggio universale.
I would like to express my gratitude to Scott Miller for his faithful service last year as your Faculty Chair, to Tim Wandling for finishing his three year stint and for continuing as Chair of the Senate Budget Committe. And to Laurel Holmstom-Vega our Academic Senate Analyst extraordinaire, for holding the Senate together and keeping us on track and for the wonderful short film that has accompanied the music today. Thanks also to the Executive Board Members and Andy Merrifield our CFA Chapter President, Melinda Barnard and Larry Furukawa-Schlereth and numerous others who worked hard this June and July to respond to the furlough crisis while the Provost was away and the President was ill. And finally, thanks to Andy Merrifield and the CFA who have generously provided coffee and tea for us at this Convocation.
Announcement: Dean Elaine Leeder and our new students invite us all again to attend the new Student Convocation at 11:30 tomorrow. Faculty with or without regalia should meet at the loading dock of Stevenson Hall to walk together to event.
Acknowledgment of members of campus community whom we lost last year:
- David Bromidge, English
- Mel Graves, Music
- Walt Kuhlman, Art
- Hobart "Red" Thomas, Expressive Arts
- Dennis Harris (Memorial Celebration) September 20, 2 pm. University Commons RSVP Bonnie Harris 322-8762
Could we take a moment of silence to remember our colleagues, some of whom taught here for 20 or 30 years or more. I would also like to honor those faculty who retired or who left SSU last year and to acknowledge their years of service and contribution. And, I would like to welcome those new faculty and staff who are joining us for the first time this year.
These are difficult times for us all. We have just finished a rocky summer with debate around whether to furlough or not to furlough, and then how and when to furlough. The reality of these precipitous events is just now manifesting itself in our reduced paychecks and the sad loss of a number of our lecturers. Nonetheless, even though we are still reeling from the impact, we must shift the discussion to the larger issues facing us in the near and distant future, including addressing threats to the core identity and role of education in our culture and an anticipated 2010-2011 budget cut of another $4 million.
We live in an increasingly horizontal world dominated by information and fueled by corporate values and hyperbole, particularly after the mid 1990 publication of the conservative Rand Corporation assessment of higher education with its emphasis on technology driven education, on accountability as quantifiable outcomes and education as a product. As a result, the ruling orthodoxy is now based on economics and abstract formulae for determining educational value. Marginalized in this shift are wisdom, imagination, moral and ethical judgment and the role of higher education in creating culture, its values and discriminating citizens. In this ethics-challenged era higher education must re-focus on things that are difficult, if not impossible, to quantify, but which are essential for creating a vibrant culture of the future. We must regain our humanity and reclaim our historical mission.
As your Faculty Chair this year I see two main challenges ahead: 1) to successfully navigate this uncharted, stormy water of furloughs, reduced incomes and increased workloads while anticipating a fiscal scenario that will probably be even worse in the springñone for which we must plan right now since schedules and cuts for the spring will occur in September; and 2) to move beyond the dialogue of furloughs, to plan for 5 and 10 years from now to ensure that SSU retains its character and integrity. To accomplish this we need to communicate with our state legislators, our Chancellor and Board of Trustees, as well as to identify local fiscal solutions that will soften the impact of statewide budget cuts, and then, to pull together as faculty, staff, students and administration to respond in such a way that we do the least damage to our students, ourselves and our mission. This requires trust, transparency, respect, equal representation in key decision making for all constituencies, particularly around budgets and expenditures, and a shared commitment to SSUís core academic mission. There must be new awareness that jobs are not the only educational outcome; that education needs to target life outside the corporate cubicle. Epictetus was prescient when he said, "Only the educated are free." As educated men and womenñparticularly managers and supervisorsñcollectively and individually we must commit to the recent Harvard Business School Oath that stresses morality, integrity and putting the best interests of people ahead of corporate profit.
38 years ago I came to a youthful SSU as a 20 something part time Lecturer. Ronald Regan was Governor and Glen Dumke, Chancellor. Ground was being broken for the first residence halls. There were no computers. Registration was done in person with the help of spouses of the faculty and staff in the main Gym. The start of each semester was like a gala homecoming. We had one Academic Vice President and a handful of managers who oversaw budgets and ran the physical plant. The head of Plant Operations used to carry my 4 year old son around campus on the crossbars of his bicycle. SSU was known for its liberal bent and its humane, progressive values. We cared about and knew almost everyone on campus, especially students, and we went the extra mile to see that the nurturing environment so essential to education was available not just to them, but lay at the heart of our identity. The buildings were few, with ugly prison-like architecture, framed by temporary trailers, but the community feeling was expansive and the intellectual exchange, dynamic. We looked forward to coming to campus. Teaching was a joy, despite the perennial problems that nag every academic community. There were statewide formulae that governed staffing for administration, staff and faculty based on student enrollments. Although faculty felt this was never enough, we could count on it as a standard to be used during times of growth and also retrenchment. Our glasses were always half full, but it sufficed.
Before the 1990s came along with its characteristic corporate-speak, its dense hierarchy and glitzy corporate image, SSU had the feeling of a small community. We weathered fiscal ups and downs, helping each other, taking colleagues into related departments and lecturing outside our own areas of expertise. Hutchins, Environmental Studies, Ethnic Studies and ITDS along with other creative enterprises reflected SSUís collaborative spirit. Deans and administrators were mostly drawn from faculty ranks and frequently returned to them, thus bringing with them a deep awareness and appreciation of our unique identity and commitment to our mission. As we find ourselves once again in a time of crisis we need to refuse to be victimized. We need to change the conversation, to recapture our humanity, our sense of sharing and helping each other that, I believe, still remains a part of SSUís academic "DNA" and to advocate for the critical cultural role of higher education.
Now I would ask you to jump ahead, to imagine sitting in a similar convocation 38 years from now. What essential things would you hope to see, to feel, and to know about SSU? What do you envision would be the essential spirit and signature of this campus?
Would we have the range and diversity of academic programs essential to a well-rounded liberal arts education that help students discover who they are, to challenge their myths about themselves? To dissect rationally not only what they are being told, but how it is communicated in many forms? To nuance their search for individual pathways to careers, families, citizenship? Would they be able to parse the issues of diversity to create a new inclusive future? Would they know what they will need to know to adapt to rapid change? Would there be SSUís signature face-to-face interaction by caring instructors in adequately equipped settings? Or would we all be teaching from remote locations, sitting in front of computer screens, the future iteration of ipods or new technological equivalents, interacting virtually, taking and grading exams that had no human face to them and by which means the university would focus on measurable educational outcomes and economic profits? Would the CSU look more like the University of Phoenix?
Would we feel part of an academic "family"? A nurturing community of scholars and students in which we all felt secure enough to make mistakes, to try new and sometimes frightening ideas, to engage in challenging, visionary, inclusive, empathetic dialogues outside our comfort zones?
What kind of skills and values would our students glean from their years here and their interaction with us and with our programs and our co-curriculum? How would they help society face their looming global issues? What kind of citizens and taxpayers would our students become? What would they believe about war and peace, torture and genocide? Investing in the common good? Health Care and Education as basic human rights?
The past 15 years have witnessed a steady administrative shift of CSU and SSU resources into corporate-inspired directions with a focus on new buildings. These engendered a rapidly expanding management that seeks an education-as-business identity with salaries to match that regard students as "customers" and faculty and staff as "stakeholders." This change brought SSU a 25 year commitment to a high school on campus in order to gain local bond money to build our "learning center." It led to the Green Music Center (GMC), proposed at $10 million and now costing beyond $110 and still incomplete for which we have mortgaged our future and that of our students for the next 30 years. The accreditation of our Business School carries with it sizeable annual contributions from every other academic program. The administration undertook expensive remodels of old and new buildings, sometimes charging Academic Affairs for the work as they did with Darwin Hall and the entrance to the School of Education. They built top-of-the-line dormitories which attract students from upper class, less diverse backgrounds (150 beds in three of which now sit vacant at a loss of about $1.5 million this year). Statewide, the CSU adopted a multi-billion dollar technology infrastructure that is constantly in need of expensive upgrades and fails to serve the needs of academic programs.
Last January while students rallied for more classes because some could not get even one of them, $1,770,000 stood vacant in largely unoccupied administrative positions. At the same time Management Interns received $82,000 in raises, benefits or re-classifications. Between $5 and 7 million beyond previous years was invested in higher pay, new personnel and benefits for management. This was during a year of wage and hiring freezes. Retired faculty were not replace and adjuncts not rehired, while the campus continued to make sizeable investments in signage, buildings and landscaping. The President continues to grant management employees the equivalent of tenure without the intensive review process used by faculty by treating them comparably to permanent tenured faculty and staff. Risky fiscal management of non General Fund money is the on-going subject of study by the local media.
At SSU in the face of dwindling funds, student fee increases of 32% and budget cuts to Academic Affairs, our faculty, support staff and students have done more than has been asked of them. You are all to be commended for your heroic efforts. But, you must also protect your health and your rights. Given our high Student to Faculty Ratio, SSU student access to faculty is less than any other equivalent CSU; SSU students pay among the highest fees in the system; SSU faculty have among the lowest salaries, while we pay $3 to 6 million more for administration than do other CSU campuses of equivalent size. We have around 60 administrators paid over $100,000 and, when benefits are factored in, many who receive more than $200,000. News media have reported that the top administrators of the CSU and SSU receive more compensation than do most state governors, the US Secretary of State, our Supreme Court Justices or Ben Bernanke. Our Foundation, Auxiliaries, and Discretionary funds are so mixed in terms of re-imbursed funding for personnel support that our administration, when asked, often cannot identify which funds support which positions. San Francisco Senator Yee has proposed SB 217 and SB 218 to address these issues of Executive Pay and Auxiliary Transparency. Because of our debt of almost a quarter of a billion dollars and our need to service that debt which costs SSU more than $5 million annually, in these times of budget cuts SSU may now be worse off than many other CSU campuses.
How many lost classes does this debt service and expanded management represent? How many lost dreams for students who couldnít get classes? How much faculty research and creative accomplishment directed to solving the urgent problems we face as a society? We need audacious changeóto quote President Obamaó imagination, and vision to move into the future and regain those values that once made SSU the gem of the CSU.
Key ingredients for this change begin with real shared decision-making laced with a generous dose of budget and statistical transparency. For over 15 years a number of us have been intimately involved with planning on this campus before the recent push for administratively directed planning. This summer, with the Senate Budget Committee, I spent several weeks going through the 2008-09 Expenditure Report, page-by-page and line-by-line, comparing it with earlier Expenditure Plans to get a clear sense of funding priorities and patterns. It was this review that led to my concern about our campus asymmetry in funding practices and priorities.
Some critics have written that most of our fiscal problems originated with the Reaganesque de-regulation of the CSU with the coming of Chancellors Barry Munitz and Charles Reed, both of whom served on the board that charged the conservative Rand Corporation to prepare the report on Higher Education which became the CSU template for change. Under a new 1990s corporate model, the CSU campuses were essentially "deregulated" and given "autonomy" in their budgetary decisions, rather than following the formulae based on enrollments of earlier decades. President ArmiÒana and the Chancellor declared SSU a "Beta" or test site, although for what was never clearly explained. While academic funding continued to be regulated by the old formulae, administrative funding was deregulated and freed from close public budgetary scrutiny.
Recently, in desperate need of funds to support the soaring costs of the GMC and other "unfunded mandates", SSU managers began to make ever riskier investments with discretionary funds in real estate ventures, hedge fund investments, and unevaluated, unregulated self-promotion based on a 1990s belief in unending growth overseen by a CFO who also serves as head of Administration and Finance. Then came the stateís financial meltdownñ with its own kind of Shock and Awe politicsñ and our scramble to respond this summer.
As reported by the Board of Trustees this July, and recently in a newspaper interview with our President, technology, rather than an investment in people, appears to offer one way out of our current economic crisis. Our President said that faculty may not like it, but would do it. Top down decision making of the administration collides here with the democratic processes of faculty and its oversight of the curriculum. As the venture bubbles of the 90s burst, the growth model failed. But SSU practices were slow to change. Inclusive oversight, moral reform and economic parity, determined by concensus are desperately needed across the country and on campuses like ours in these economically challenged times.
Anticipating our October WASC visit and in response to their report last year, the Provost convened and directed a workshop on Shared Governance this month with the Deans and members of the Senate Executive Committee along with the President and the Academic Senate Analyst. We discussed different models of governance in the abstract and identified some goals for the future. Over lunch and in conversation we also found that Deans and Administrators feel the pressure and suffer from negative comments as much as faculty feel marginalized and disrespected. While faculty feel that their glass is half empty, some believe the administration feels the glass belongs to them. Clearly, besides new governance practices we must find ways to restore civility and respect for one another. But, as was noted in the retreat, respect is something to be earned as a result of actions not philosophy. Shared governance is practiced, not convened; it is a collaborative, inclusive process. It is desperately needed in these harsh economic times of unending budget cuts as SSU seeks to respond to its current $15 million reduction and looks forward to another projected $4 million cut in 2010-2011.
To address some of these issues I propose some Goals/Outcomes for this year that echo the suggestions of a number of previous Senate Chairs:
Revisit our campus budgets and restructure budget decision-making to include an equal faculty voice (as did Sacramento State in the wake of its vote of no confidence in its president, and as does Long Beach State, Chico State and other campuses).
Create a collaborative, representative neutral budget oversight committee.
Eliminate assessments to academic programs and divisions, and redirect funds back to the academic mission, to stabilize programs, minimize or eliminate any additional loss of faculty, academic support staff, or classes for students in the spring or next year.
- Include faculty governance and union representation on the Presidentís Cabinet where key budget and funding decisions are initially made and then reported down the line.
- As Tim Wandling has suggested, increase the Marginal Cost formula which identifies the disbursement of General Fund money for Academic Affairs from 38% to 50%, or, alternatively find a realistic formula in these harsh economic times that allows us to achieve our academic mission as our top funding priority.
- Make all campus budgets, including income sources and expenditures for all divisions open for campus discussion, accessible digitally, and transparent to the public.
- Reduce non-academic sectors, especially those that benefited from pay increases last year before downsizing faculty.
- Require all managers live up to the Harvard Business School Oath, and take thepledge ourselves.
2. MODEL CAMPUS SUSTAINABILITY IN CURRICULUM AND PRACTICE: The future-global climate crisis, global economic and social problemsñ require training men and women in the theory and practice of sustainability. Campuses across the country and around the world are pursuing this end that requires bottom-up collaboration and concensus rather than top-down decision-making.
- Make a long term commitment to alternative energy and conservation on campus with solar panels on all buildings where possible, programs and competitions to reduce utility usage and the enhanced recycling of campus water and waste, much like San Jose Stateís "Ecological Footprint Challenge.
- Make funding the development of new curriculum that addresses the urgent social, financial and ecological realities of the 21st Century a top priority.
- * Engage with the local community to build out mutual support through a collaboration of people and resources, including working with organizations like GoLocal here in Sonoma County.
- * Reinstitute humane language and signage that defines who we are: students, not customers; faculty and staff, not stakeholders.
3. MAKE DIVERSITY A REAL PRIORITY. Fund programs, curriculum, people and offices that further the goals of diversity. This should not be one of the first things we sacrifice in times of economic hardship. Our students still appear to be both the whitest and richest of the CSU campuses.
4. RETURN OVERSIGHT OF ACADEMIC INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TO ACADEMIC AFFAIRS: Since the departure of Provost Bernstein, all of IT has been housed in Administration and Finance and support for Academic Technology has dwindled. The Pappas Report last year identified SSU as under-funding IT by $7 million (it currently spends $6 million a year) and we lack a dedicated academic technology specialist for every 100 faculty. Specific technology needs for academic programs must replace the current "shrink-wrap" only software mentality. If technology is to be one panacea for our fiscal problems, we need to invest in a technology infrastructure that works for academic programs, faculty and students including resources for retraining, academic copyright protection for faculty, and a recognition that technology delivered curriculum is exceedingly labor intensive. No matter how popular or predominant, we must also remember technology is a tool, not the sole vehicle for delivering education, and it is very, very expensive and rapidly outdated. Technology is here to service higher education, not vice versa.
5. MAKE A COMMITMENT TO TRANSPARENCY AND EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION AT ALL LEVELS: True shared governance and strategic planning require that we all have timely access to all the information available and that it be communicated effectively. Change without information can result in overreaction. Budget cut decisions, non-rehiring of employees and cutting of programs must be discussed openly before they occur. This is a public institution. Our statistics and budgets should be easily accessible on-line to the campus community for purposes of oversight, planning and review. The several hundred page, hard-copy only, Expenditure Plans come out after the academic year is over making debate about funding priorities difficult. The Academic Planning Committee (APC) has called for public access to information in the form of a "Statistical Dashboard." Other campuses have digital access to their financial and statistical records. Given the recent publications discussing the Carinalli loans and use of Foundation and Auxiliary funds, money for the GMC, and executive pay, complete transparency is essential to correct any disequilibrium and to rebuild confidence in the handling of our institutional finances.
What I believe we all have in common today is our concern for the welfare of the whole institution and its commitment to our students. We are confronted by an urgent need to respond thoughtfully and constructively to the financial maelstrom, the global climate crisis, and the social problems created by fiscal collapse and the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a very few. We know in our bones that education is the solution. We need to give its virtues voice. Without a liberal arts and sciences education there would be no freedom, no true democracy. It provides empowerment, constructive value-based vision, democratic decision-making, self-awareness and thus self-esteem, insight about what it is to be human, courage based on knowledge that leads to wisdom when examined, commitment to moral and ethical values above material or personal gain. The liberal arts and sciences help us know "how to be" through face-to-face debate, confrontation, and a reasoned search for truth. They help us to know how to collaborate and share what we have with others. Education is at the very heart of our freedoms and our role as citizens. It has been estimated that every dollar invested in higher education returns 4 dollars to society.
SSU describes itself to WASC as committed to the "Whole Student," with close campus relationships and mutual support, and a humanities-based agenda. These "civic indicators" are hard to measure with formulae or as quantifiable outcomes. The market for morality is rapidly eroding in our country. We must invest our capital to dislodge complacent minds to rebuild the study of the inner world of ideas, of inspiration, of the imagination found in the humanities and the liberal arts and sciences where students can explore the multiple dimensions of our reality and gain the skills needed to address urgent problems of the future.
I am awed by the responsibility of this position as your Chair and ask you all for your help and collaboration as the year unfolds, particularly those of you who have perceptions of our situation that differ from mine. Push-back is vital and welcome. I ask, in advance, for your understanding and tolerance when I make mistakes, which I certainly will.
I pledge to make myself as available to you all as possible. To that end I will be in the Commons on one Tuesday a month from 11:30 until 1 to share ideas, conversation, and a cup of coffee or lunch. I have also asked that twice a semester members of the Executive Committee join me and you in the Commons for conversation around issues of the day. In addition, there will be a number of Town Hall Meetings to discuss these issues we face, including the Academic Foundation situation. WASC will be making its follow-up site visit in October. These events will be announced on Senate Talk and Senate Announce. Please join us for these formal and informal discussions about things that matter to all of us and help maintain the collegiality that will sustain us through these challenging times. Together, particularly in times of duress, we can restore and sustain that cherished identity of SSU.


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The dance that won't die: Released in 1982, the Thriller album is still the best-selling album of all time and the zombie dance choreographed for the Thriller music video continues to be recreated by fans across the world.
Michael Jackson performed Billie Jean at a concert commemorating his 30th year of being a solo artist at Madison Square Garden in 2001. When he coyly pulled his trademark white glove out of a suitcase, the audience erupted into cheers.
As the "King of Pop," Michael Jackson was the consummate performer, creating iconic dances to accompany his chart-topping music. Jackson was born the eighth of ten children in Gary, Indiana in 1958. At age seven, he began singing and dancing with his brothers in The Jackson 5. While the Jackson 5 experienced great success with hits like I Want You Back and I'll Be There, Jackson's subsequent solo career produced some of the best-selling albums-and well-known dances-of all time. He first performed the moonwalk for his hit Billie Jean, channeled a zombie in Thriller, and awed audiences with his patented "anti-gravity lean" in Smooth Criminal. With his signature gloved hand and white socks, Jackson mastered rhythmic syncopations and isolations, and at the end of the 20th century, he made dance accessible to the masses.
With the anti-gravity lean in Smooth Criminal, Michael Jackson innovatively pushed the limits of his body's capabilities with a patented shoe that slid into bolts on the floor.
Michael Jackson's astonishing toe stand, revealing his bright white socks and loafers, lasted several seconds and generally followed the moonwalk.


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Alessandra Ambrosio Hits the West Coast
Coming back to the west coast, Alessandra Ambrosio made a stylish landing at LAX airport in Los Angeles on Friday (November 9).
The Victoria's Secret stunner looked casually cool in maroon skinny jeans, sneakers, and a black top, as she sipped on coffee while waiting for a taxi.
As previously reported by GossipCenter, Alessandra arrived back in La La Land after being in New York City earlier this week for the 2012 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
Although Ambrosio and her fellow angels work extremely hard to look flawless for the runway, it looks like the 31-year-old enjoys the perks after the show as well.
The Brazilian bombshell tweeted a photo of a delicious meal with a caption reading, "Korean BBQ : my favorite after the vs show."
Enjoy the pictures of Alessandra Ambrosio arriving at LAX airport in Los Angeles, CA (November 9).
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Early Exercise of Put Options on Stocks
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- Author(s): KATHRYN BARRACLOUGH, ROBERT E. WHALEY
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- DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2012.01752.x
U.S. exchange‐traded stock options are exercisable before expiration. While put options should frequently be exercised early to earn interest, they are not. In this paper, we derive an early exercise decision rule and then examine actual exercise behavior during the period January 1996 through September 2008. We find that more than 3.96 million puts that should have been exercised early remain unexercised, representing over 3.7% of all outstanding puts. We also find that failure to exercise cost put option holders $1.9 billion in forgone interest income and that this interest is systematically captured by market makers and proprietary firms.


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Nissan will replace all 13,000 taxis in New York City with specially modified and equipped versions of its NV200 commercial van, painted yellow and on display at the New York auto show, which opens to the public Friday.
Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn says it provides an unrivaled opportunity to put the Nissan brand in front of millions of people every year. Nissan says the van packages more, and more useful, space in a smaller package than the Ford Crown Victoria big sedans that are the common N.Y. taxis. Nissan's math asserts that the space savings will, once the entire taxi fleet is replaced, give five square acres of space back to the city.
The Nissan vans begin to hit New York in October 2013, so don't expect to try them out on a trip to the Big Apple this year. And it'll take three or four years to replace all 13,000 current cabs, Nissan figures.
The vans will have many more amenities, and their slightly higher floors, with no intrusive hump running down the center, should make it easier to enter and exit than today's four-door sedans.
Nissan previewed the taxi at a studio in the trendy SoHo area of Manhattan Tuesday night. Protesters outside the door claimed the van wouldn't be handicap-accessible. But Nissan insisted it would, and showed a video illustrating a wheelchair ramp unfolding from the rear cargo area and a device to pull wheelchairs up the ramp.
Nissan said it can make as many such "mobility" vans as the city demands.
The Nissan taxis will have 12-volt and USB charge outlets for scurrying travelers who've let their phones and other gizmos run low on battery power. It will have a transparent roof, for the out-of-towners to gawk easily at tall buildings. Rear climate control can be operated by passengers, so they don't have to negotiate with cabbies to get enough heat or cooling.
A carbon-lined headliner is supposed to minimize odors. And floor lights make it easier to be sure you have all your stuff as you exit.
Nissan forecasts the starting price for the taxis as $29,700, and says the base model will come with a four-cylinder engine that will save cabbies a lot on gas. They might take a while to accept that after driving big Detroit V-8s for so long.
Chris Woodyard is an auto writer for USA TODAY who covers all aspects of motoring. He revels in the exhaust note of a Maserati and the sharp creases of a Cadillac CTS. Chris strives to live a Porsche life on a Scion budget. More about Chris


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Oh... some rough numbers say 40 gigs or so. For you to test 4,294,967,296 keys in 55 hours you would have to compute 23,000 keys per second, is this what your laptop is capable of?
I can't verify that the -w flag accepts - for stdinCode:./crunch 8 8 1234567890ABCDEF | aircrack-ng -w - -b yourbssidhere yourcapfile.cap
A true gentleman, a good hearty guy.
I am doing something similar and using a pattern with crunch @%@%@%@% to represent alternate alphanumeric chars which i believe would cut the pass through time down..??
Just a thought...??
Always learning....
1 billion passwords using a-f 2-9 comes out just under 11gigs as up until now iv been generating passwords and manualy selecting the file .. hopefully i'll get crunch up and running today and be able to pipe directly into aircrack.
Go to the crunch directory and launch it from there.I am sorry. I am new to BT4. When I type in ./crunch under Konsole it returned as command not found. How do I do this? Can someone share step by step instructions?
Back|track giving machine guns to monkeys since 2007 !
Do not read the Wiki, most your questions will not be answered there !
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but guys.. create the password.lst using the crunch..
for an example.. if i created 10 characters it will be a lot a lot of words... so guys.. need your help on this..
i wanna brute force with the setting i could choose myself... by settting it to brute force on 10 character numeric.. and i don't wanna store those wordlist.


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Chance to win a new Dodge Pickup, Kubota RTV, $500 cash or tickets to the Colonial in the Chamber Golf Tournament
Lone Star Dodge will be giving away a BRAND NEW Dodge 1500 Regular Cab for the first Hole in One on hole number 9 at Friday's Chamber of Commerce Golf Tournament! Also, to make it even better, Farm Country will be giving away a Kubota RTV for the first hole in one on hole number 13 AND Medicine Chest Pharmacies will be awarding $500 CASH for a hole in one on Hole #4!!! And then, the winning low net team will receive 6 Tickets to the Colonial Golf Tournament in Fort Worth from Dairyland Automation!!!
Several people have asked what raffle prizes we will have this year, so here is just a brief glance at some of the over 85 prizes that will be awarded in the raffle!
10/.22 Ruger — Century 21 First Group
Natural Gas Grill — Carriage House Manor
Stainless Steel Grill — Lowes
Granite Garden Bench — Apple Caskets
Guided Fishing Tour — Marc Mitchell
8 Rangers vs. Tigers Tickets — Dairyland Automation
2 Box Seats for PBR at CC. — Texas Heritage National Bank
Flag flown over the State Capitol — Mark Homer
Hope to see you Friday, April 9, at the Sulphur Springs Country Club!
Ribbon Cutting for Cody Drug
Thank you to all who attended the ribbon cutting for Cody Drug! Stacy Cody, the only local practicing pharmacist who was born and raised in Sulphur Springs, has opened a full-service pharmacy offering compounding for specialized medicines. The pharmacy is open Monday thru Friday from 8:30-6 and Saturday from 8:30-12:30 on Saturdays and they are located at 1505 S. Broadway. Pictured in the photo from left to right: Charlotte Baxter, Surene Cody, Kate Cody, Ross Cody, Kellie Cody, Stacy Cody, James Litzler, Janie Litzler, Sharon Daniels, Nan Bass, Julie Williams, Ashley Wilburn, Linda Mobley, Wayne Galyean, Cecile Blount, Melissa Nix, Rodney Bass and Wendi Armstrong. They are surrounded by other family members, friends and business supporters.
Sulphur Springs Hardware Grand Opening this Saturday, April 10, with Ribbon Cutting at 12:30 p.m.
Want to Make a Difference in a Young Person's Life? Host an international student in your home
Volunteer families, with or without children, are needed to host international teens from more than 12 different countries for the 2010/2011 school year. They are in need of caring families to provide beds and meals, as well as friendship, understanding and a genuine desire to share the American way of life with a young person from overseas.
The students speak English, are covered by medical insurance and have spending money for their personal expenses! The students are between the ages of 15 and 18 and will attend the high school closest to their host family's home. Families are able to review student applications and select the student they feel will best match their family. If you are interested and would like more information, please contact Debbie Swingle at 903-316-9612 or visit flag-intl.org.
Tie a Blue Ribbon in honor of Child Abuse Awareness Month
The entire month of April is Child Abuse Awareness Month, and the folks at Lake Country CASA would like for all businesses and residents to tie blue ribbons on their businesses, cars, lapels or wherever to remind everyone to fight for the protection of our children! The Blue Ribbon Child Abuse Prevention Campaign was started in spring 1989 by a grandmother who received the devastating news that her beloved grandson had died of injuries inflicted by his parents. As an expression of her grief and outrage, Bonnie Finney tied a blue ribbon to the antenna of her van as a way to remember "the bruised and battered body of her grandson" and to alert her community to the tragedy of child abuse. Please show your support by "Tying a blue ribbon."
17th Annual Truck Load Plant Sale—Youth Fund Raiser at Church of the Nazarene
From Thursday, April 8, through Saturday, April 10, the youths at the Church of the Nazarene will be having their 17th annual truckload Plant Sale from 8 a.m. to dark! Stop by and look at all of the bedding plants as well as hanging baskets fresh from the Green House and also help the youth group raise funds for summer projects.
Don't miss these opportunities
- April 9 —Chamber of Commerce Golf Tournament
- April 10 —8am-2pm Farmer's Market on Main Street
- April 10 —Ribbon Cutting for Fix & Feed Sulphur Springs Hardware, 1000 Gilmer @ 12:30
- April 17 —John Chester Dutch Oven Cooking class-8a-12p at Heritage Park--$10 per person
- April 22 —Business After Hours at Texas Heritage National Bank for the Two Bulls Group/PBR Challenge
- April 23 —Alliance Bank's Grand Opening of the New Entrance 11-2 with Ribbon Cutting at Noon
- May 8 —Folk Festival at Heritage Park 9a-3p--$3 per person
- May 15 —Flea Market on the Square sponsored by SS Downtown Business Alliance
Business of the Week
We would like to congratulate the Hopkins County Chamber of Commerce Business of the Week:
April Showers
128 S. Davis
Sulphur Springs, TX 75482
Charlene Stewart, Owner
Tip of the Week:
"Flowers make us happy, ease our pain and show us we are loved." Charlene Stewart
That's all for now ... have a GREAT week!
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Maureen "Kiki" McShane, VP, Business Development, Chris Fucci Associates, LTD./FarVision www.fucciassociates.com
David Wolk, President, Castleton College www.castleton.edu
Thomas Donahue, Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce
James Stewart, Rutland Economic Development Corporation, www.rutlandeconomy.com
Brennan Duffy, Director, Rutland Redevelopment Authority
Stuart Meyer, Attorney & Partner, Intellectual Property Fenwick and West, LLP www.fenwick.com
Robert Buzzell, Jr., CPA & President, Siliski & Buzzell, PC www.vermontcpa.pro
Kiki McShane, VP, Business Development, Chris Fucci Associates, LTD. /FarVision www.fucciassociates.com
Moderator: Jim Harrison, President - Vermont Grocers Association
Whitney Lamy, Senior Vice President - Vermont Farmstead Cheese Company and Castleton Crackers Specialty Foods www.castletoncrackers.com
Bonnie Kelsey Quinn, Founder/President - Best of Vermont www.bestofvermont.com
John Schramm, Founder/President - Tropical Aquaculture Products, Inc. www.eattalapia.com
Keith Dunn, Former Owner of Westminster Crackers
Moderator: Cairn G. Cross, Co-Founder/Managing Director - Fresh Tracks Capital www.freshtrackscapital.com
Marguerite Dibble, Founder - Birnam Wood Games www.birnamwoodgames.com
Stuart Meyer, Partner - Fenwick and West www.fenwick.com
Matt Dunne, Head of Community Affairs - Google www.mattedunne.com
Don Mayer, Co-Owner - Small Dog Electronics www.smalldog.com
Brian Grady, Business Leader - GE of Rutland www.ge.com
Moderator: Mary Powell, CEO - Green Mountain Power, www.greenmountainpower.com
Matt Cota, President - Vermont Fuel Dealers Assoc. www.vermontfuel.com
Bradway Widing, Vice President - Energy Practice Hickok & Boardman www.hbinsurance.com
Jeffrey Wolfe, Co-founder and Chairman, groSolar www.grosolar.com
Gregory Johnson, President, Kilawatt Technologies, Inc. www.kilawatt.com
This valuable one-day seminar will provide hands-on instruction on how to help growing businesses and start-ups succeed. Our distinguished group of presenters and panelists are prepared to "go deep" to assist you in finding solutions to your specific problems and challenges. These business leaders will share advice and practical knowledge that will benefit business owners, corporate leaders and entrepreneurs. This forum will also focus on three specialty areas: High Tech, Specialty Foods/Agriculture, and Energy.
• Gain access to successful business owners who have experienced success and challenges.
• Support the growth of your business through idea sharing, education and learning from practical "how to" experience.
• Understand the need for calculated risk taking, hard work and commitment to building a sustainable business model.
• Showcase of the value of doing business in Rutland and regional assets such as Castleton College
• Networking with peers, potential clients and professional service providers
Recap of the day's activities with Questions & Answers, led by presenters and panelists, in a unique Vermont style Town Meeting forum including peer-to-peer interaction, public discussion of personal challenges, sharing of "Aha" moments, and next steps for future conferences.
Rutland City Mayor Christopher Louras
This is the perfect opportunity for networking among our attendees, sponsors and presenters.


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Agile Project Management Organizations, Certifications, and Resources
There is a big agile project management world out there. Here are a few of the useful links to members of the agile practitioner community:
Agile Alliance: The Agile Alliance is the original global agile community, with a mission to help advance agile principles and practices, regardless of methodology.
Scrum Alliance: The Scrum Alliance is a nonprofit professional membership organization that promotes understanding and usage of scrum. The Scrum Alliance offers a number of professional certifications:
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Certified Scrum Developer (CSD)
Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)
Certified Scrum Coach (CSC)
Certified Scrum Trainer (CST)
XProgramming.com: Ron Jeffries, one of the originators of the extreme programming (XP) development approach, provides resources and services in support of XP's advancement on the XProgramming.com site.
Lean Essays: Lean Essays is a blog from Mary and Tom Poppendieck, thought leaders in the use of lean concepts within the software development space.
PMI Agile Community: The Project Management Institute (PMI) is the largest nonprofit project management membership association in the world. The agile section of PMI's website provides access to papers, books, and seminars about agile project management. PMI supports an agile community of practice and a certification, the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP).
Platinum Edge: Since 2001, my team at Platinum Edge has been helping companies successfully take their project management practices to a higher level. We provide training classes worldwide and also develop transition strategies and coaching for organizations moving to agile project management. Visit the training section of our site to find an upcoming Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner, PMI-ACP preparation, or agile overview class near you.


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The service failure comes weeks after Microsoft offered customers a 25% discount on their bills after a three-hour outage in August.
The latest outage started in the middle of the night in the UK, when "Microsoft became aware of a Domain Name Service (DNS) issue causing service degradation for multiple services", a spokesperson said.
The outage affected Microsoft's Office 365, its Live email and online storage systems, and, according to reports, its Azure cloud system.
Services started to be restored after about two hours, and the problem has been fully fixed, Microsoft said - without giving any details about the actual cause.
"We are conducting a review of the incident," the company said, although reports suggest a massive power outage in the US could have caused the problem.
The outages raise concerns about the reliability of cloud services, following downtime last month from Amazon's elastic compute cloud, which took services offline for up to two days.
This article originally appeared at pcpro.co.uk
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"I know everyone is talking about Packer and Murdoch and Gyngell, but the bottom line is that Seven has delivered," the Seven Media Group chief executive told The Australian Financial Review in an exclusive interview.
"Because of everything that's happened in the media recently, people aren't remembering Seven is No. 1.
"I'm sick of all this crap. It's very important for us to say we are No. 1."
Pushing Seven to No. 1 in the television ratings battle, and keeping it there, has been Mr Leckie's obsession since Kerry Stokes hired him to run Seven in April 2003 – 13 months after Kerry Packer sacked him as Nine's chief executive.
The 2010 ratings war does not end until November 27 but Mr Leckie has declared the result: Seven is No. 1, again. "We are No. 1 overall, in prime time, in news, in public affairs, in breakfast TV and in ad revenue share again this year," he said.
"We've called the year. We've killed the other networks. We are miles ahead of the other guys and we are very proud of what we've achieved."
Mr Leckie would not discuss Packer's investment in Ten. But industry sources said he was relishing a battle with Mr Packer, whose investment in Ten marked his return to free-to-air TV four years after he started selling out of Nine.
"Leckie likes a fight and has no time for Ten," said one media buyer. "The idea of thrashing a Packer-controlled Ten appeals to him."
The main Seven channel and its digital offshoots 7Two and 7mate will end the 2010 ratings year with the biggest overall audience share in the 6pm to 10.30pm prime-time session.
But the Seven channels will rank second behind Nine and its digital channels Go and Gem in key target markets for advertisers, such as 25-to-54s and 18-to-49s.
Seven will be third in the 16-to-39 age group behind Nine and Ten's Ten and One channels.
Seven Network is now part of Seven Media Group, the joint venture between Mr Stokes's Seven Group Holdings and private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
"I don't care what anybody says about demographics," Mr Leckie said. "Look at the scoreboard. We are No. 1. Full stop. "The big red train is moving along."
Mr Leckie and senior Seven TV executives such as programming director Tim Worner and sales director James Warburton started describing the network as a big red train or truck in 2005, the year its ratings and ad revenue revival started.
Although Mr Gyngell has made Nine a more serious competitor to Seven over the past three years, Mr Leckie said Seven had delivered more consistent results – and had more hit programs – than its rivals.
"Ten has been completely and absolutely saved by one cooking show [MasterChef, which Mr Leckie does not refer to by its name].
"Nine has got two good shows – Two And A Half Men and The Big Bang Theory – although the repeats of Two And A Half Men at 7pm are getting smashed. Top Gear UK is going OK for Nine but the local Top Gear has completely crashed," he said.
The prime-time audience of the main Seven channel has shrunk 7 per cent so far this year. But when 7Two and 7mate are counted, the Seven group's combined audience is up 7.3 per cent.
It is a similar story at Nine. The main Nine channel's audience is down 4.5 per cent, but adding Go and Gem gives the Nine group audience growth of 9.4 per cent this year. The audience of Ten's main channel has declined 4.3 per cent, but the limited appeal of One means its overall audience is down 1.4 per cent.
The digital channels have fuelled a 4.7 per cent lift in the free-to-air TV sector's total night-time audience this year. Pay TV's night-time audience has increased 2.7 per cent.
"The success of most of the digital channels has surprised everyone," Mr Leckie said. "It has surprised us. It has surprised Ten and [pay TV company] Foxtel.
"Eighteen months ago we had one network. Now we've got three and we are charging along. The digital channels give us so many opportunities to create new programs, use programs in our library, and so on.
"But remember, we launched the digital channels because the [federal] government wanted us to do it, to make sure that all Australians have digital TV by the end of 2013," he said. The government could raise about $1 billion by selling the spectrum the free-to-air networks now use for analog broadcasting.
Foxtel executives admit the launch of the free-to-air digital channels has slowed the growth rate of the pay TV industry. But Mr Leckie was reluctant to discuss the degree to which they had hurt pay TV operators.
His reluctance is not surprising: Seven Media Group is 45 per cent owned by Seven Group Holdings. The latter also owns 24 per cent of Consolidated Media Holdings, which owns 25per cent of Foxtel and 50 per cent of pay TV channel producer Premier Media Group.
"You'd have to say the digital channels have probably hurt pay TV, but I'm not going to bag pay TV," Mr Leckie said. "I'm sorry, but I'm not going to bag anyone."
The success of the digital channels has fuelled a 15 per cent jump in the capital-city free-to-air TV advertising market so far this year. Seven is expected to end 2010 with a 38 per cent share of the TV ad market, followed by Nine on 33 per cent and Ten on 29 per cent.
Seven moved ahead of Nine in terms of ad revenue share during 2006 and has had a share of 38 per cent or higher since 2007.
Mr Leckie said part of its revenue growth over the past two years had been driven by SMG Red, a division set up by Mr Warburton in late 2008 to sell ads and create new products across the Seven TV network and Seven Media Group's other key divisions Pacific Magazines and Yahoo!7.
"SMG Red has been one of the greatest things we've done," Mr Leckie said. "Obviously Gyngell is going to try and copy it now he is running all of [PBL Media], but there's no question SMG Red has been fantastic for us."
Mr Leckie said Seven's TV network had already reached its December-half budget and was "feeling pretty comfortable" about its revenue in the June 2011 half.
He would not comment on forecasts by media buyers such as Harold Mitchell from Mitchell Communication Group that the free-to-air TV ad market would grow 6 per cent in calendar 2011.
"I'm not going to be drawn on that," he said. "The TV ad market is rolling along pretty well. Not that long ago, people were saying free-to-air TV was dead meat. Guess what? We're not."
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Dane Cook Races 'Top Gun' Jets in Disney's 'Planes' Sneak Preview
by Ethan Anderton
April 2, 2013
Source: Disney Movie Trailers
With Dane Cook voicing the lead in Disney's animated Cars spin-off Planes (without the help of Pixar), and a supporting cast that includes Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Teri Hatcher, Brad Garrett, John Cleese and more, it's time for the first official footage from the film to be unveiled. We've seen the teaser that hit home video when the film was meant only for a Blu-Ray/DVD release, but now that the film is slated for an August theatrical run, there's a trailer in AMC Theaters that plays more like a sneak preview clip with Dusty (Cook) racing jets Bravo and Echo (Kilmer & Edwards). Even if this doesn't feel like a home run, the animation will at least look really good in 3D. Watch below!
Here's the sneak preview trailer for Disney's Planes, via Disney Movie Trailers:
Planes is directed by Klay Hall ("King of the Hill," Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure) and follows Dusty (Dane Cook), a small town crop dusting plane who longs to enter the most epic around-the-world air race despite his fear of heights. But Dusty's not exactly built for racing, so he turns to a seasoned naval aviator who helps Dusty qualify to take on the defending champ of the race circuit. The voice cast also includes Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, John Cleese, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Brad Garrett, Gabriel Igelsias, Teri Hatcher and more. Disney Animation sends Planes to theaters on on August 9th, 2013 this summer. Thoughts?
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different ECU types?
Hey guys, how difficult would it be to swap out the m52 engine from a 2002 325ci and put in a m54b30? i heard the ecu is slightly different? i know the m54 used two different software systems, ms43 and ms45, but how do i know which is in the 325ci? and if it is different than the 330 m54b30 engine, how do i change the software? are there extra o2 sensors or what?
'02 should be an M54, not M52TU.
What are you hoping to accomplish, exactly? If swapping engines, I would swap the DME as well.
Well, i saw this on my local CL: http://atlanta.craigslist.org/nat/cto/3355806995.html
it has 195k miles so i was wondering if i could swap out the engine with one from a salvage 330. Also, how would the transmission connect? basically i want to add a m54b30 engine and a manual transmission.
I believe the M52 series engines in the E46 used the MS42 ECU.
The M54B30 switched to the MS45 ECU around 03/2003 production. Before that it used the MS43 ECU.
There are differences in the O2 sensors, intake manifold is plugged at the air temp sensor for MS45 and MAF and other parts (SAP) between the MS43 and MS45 ECUs.
The MS45 ECU M54s will have a different Secondary air pump system that you can see in the engine compartment.
It includes a second Mass Air Flow sensor.
The trans swap threads here should answer any ECU/Trans electronic issues with the swap: I searched here using advanced search on Titles only for Auto Manual.
Programming question:
Pretty sure a swap from an M52 2.5L to M54 3L you have to swap out every single part attached to the engine. They exhaust/intake is bigger on the 3L and the DME is newer. Also there is the drive by wire thing. I think you can just adapt that, though.
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Hello my fellow CollegeFashionista/os! I'm Jacy Tilton, a senior Strategic Communication major in the University of Missouri – Columbia Journalism School. This semester I will be covering the brand new column "What to Wear," which will provide ideas each week on what to wear for different occasions and events ranging from classes to concerts to job interviews. But first, a little more about me…
I have big dreams for the future, and while I have some specific goals in the short-term, I can see myself wearing many different hats as I continue down the unpredictable road that is life. Upon graduating in May, I hope to start my career in Public Relations, while doing some freelance writing and continuing to grow my personal style blog (lenore lamé) on the side. Ultimately, my "dream job" would be to do fashion PR or to become a fashion columnist, but at 21 years old it's impossible to know what lies ahead.
My personal style could be described as trendy and feminine with a slight Bohemian twist, simple but fashion-forward and always affordable. I typically prefer to wear a statement piece rather than layering, and I like to add an unexpected element to every outfit, whether it's through accessories or an interesting combination of pieces. I've followed the runway and editorial sides of the fashion industry since high school, but in recent years I've gained a lot inspiration from fashion bloggers and stylish people I know as well. I enjoy gaining fashion insight from both high-end and more every day sources, and I've loved learning more about the many different aspects of the fashion world.
I'm honored to get to spearhead this new CollegeFashionista feature for the Mizzou campus, and I think it will be both exciting and challenging to cover such a wide range of styles and trends. Missouri may not exactly be the fashion capital of the world, but I hope to prove (one post at a time) that some of us Missourians have a love for fashion and the ability to style with the rest of 'em.
To get my look, simply add pops of color and interest to neutral pieces through fun accessories like this scarf and this bag, and shoes like these lace-up booties.