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Joyce Garner is a self-taught painter and native Kentuckian who paints large. Her Big Paintings come from her ongoing series of "table paintings", wall-sized compositions, "…telling the complications of family through time," says Garner. "They are filled with hopes, regrets and wishes—from the past, and for the future."
The artist likens these paintings to novels, the visual equivalent of long-form literary narratives comprised of many smaller stories. Patience is rewarded with this work - allowing your mind to slowly explore the people and the interactions. You might imagine you can hear the words being spoken, some of them in the heat of anger, some barely discernible whispers that you must strain to comprehend. These are, after all, whether by blood or association, families, and families are where we find the deepest currents of human emotion.
"My biggest paintings, shown un-stretched, began with frustration from working with smaller canvases. I got tired of banging around all the panels. Canvas comes in a roll or bolt. Different widths are available but a standard length is 6 yards. So I decided to paint the bolt."
Garner also owns a gallery in Louisville, Kentucky in the NuLu neighborhood: garner narrative contemporary fine art, and is also represented by galleries in Georgia, Ohio, and Tennessee. Her works have been exhibited in various galleries across the country and internationally. In June of 2016 her 29 foot-long mural, "catch a falling star," was installed in the UK Chandler Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky.
Hometown: Louisville, Kentucky
Education: University of Kentucky, B.S., 1968
Website: tablepaintings.com
Gallery Representation: garner narrative contemporary (Louisville)
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New Haven Register Sports Editor Sean Barker was presented with the first Dave Solomon Media Award Tuesday night at the New Haven Open at Yale. Solomon, a major presence at the tennis tournament, a 35-year employee of the New Haven Register and a prominent voice of Connecticut sports, was killed in a car accident on Aug. 6. Barker has covered the tournament since 1993, when he was a writer for the Connecticut Post. He joined the Register in 1999 and was named sports editor in 2006.
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[…] He is a past chairman of the Associated Press Sports Editors organization, a past president of the Connecticut Sports Writers Alliance and recipient of the Art McGinley Award for Meritorious Service. Earlier this year, he was presented with the first Dave Solomon Media Award. […]

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Complete DHS Report for July 23, 2015
Daily Report
Top Stories
· U.S. and Israeli authorities arrested 4 suspects in Florida and Israel July 21 in connection to an illegal Bitcoin money laundering operation, a pump-and-dump securities manipulation scheme, and a 2014 cyberattack on JPMorgan Chase that compromised the information of 83 million customers. – New York Times See item 2 below in the Financial Services Sector
· The Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology released a report citing the lack of a comprehensive governing policy as the greatest failure leading to the June U.S. Office of Personnel Management systems breach, among other findings. – Nextgov
13. July 21, Nextgov – (National) Security experts point to OPM's biggest cybersecurity failure. The Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology released a report citing the lack of a comprehensive governing policy for cybersecurity as the greatest failure leading to the June breach of its systems, and recommended that the agency address security gaps identified by auditors and implement a behavioral analytics system to compensate for rapidly advancing advanced persistent, sophisticated threats. Source: http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2015/07/security-experts-point-opms-biggest-cybersecurity-failure/118274/
· Google released an update for Chrome addressing 43 security vulnerabilities that could be leveraged to take control of an affected system. – Help Net Security See item 18 below in the Information Technology Sector
· A 5-alarm fire shut down nearby roadways July 22 and severely damaged a North Brunswick, New Jersey warehouse holding 8 businesses, and displaced residents from 6 nearby apartment buildings. – WNBC 4 New York City
20. June 22, WNBC 4 New York City – (New Jersey) 6 apartment buildings evacuated as warehouse inferno rages in New Jersey: officials. A 5-alarm fire severely damaged a North Brunswick, New Jersey warehouse holding 8 businesses and displaced residents from 6 nearby apartment buildings, as well as shut down nearby roadways July 22. No injuries were reported.
Source: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Massive-Fire-Shuts-Down-Traffic-North-Brunswick-New-Jersey-Route-1-318094581.html
Financial Services Sector
2. July 22, New York Times – (International) 4 arrested in schemes said to be tied to JPMorgan Chase breach. U.S. and Israeli law enforcement officials arrested 4 suspects in Florida and Israel July 21 and are searching for another in connection to an illegal Bitcoin money laundering operation and a separate pump-and-dump securities manipulation scheme that allegedly netted millions of dollars, which the suspects allegedly funneled through international shell companies. Authorities are investigating the suspects' potential roles in a 2014 cyber-attack on JPMorgan Chase that compromised the contact information of 83 million customers. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/business/dealbook/4-arrested-in-schemes-said-to-be-tied-to-jpmorgan-chase-breach.html?ref=dealbook
3. July 21, Orange County Register – (California) 'Snowbird Bandit' strikes again at Rancho Santa Margarita bank. FBI officials reported that the suspect dubbed the "Snowbird Bandit," tied to at least 3 other area robberies since June, struck a First Citizens Bank in Santa Margarita July 21.Source: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/snowbird-673132-bandit-bank.html
Information Technology Sector
15. July 22, Securityweek – (International) Siemens patches vulnerabilities in SIPROTEC, SIMATIC, RuggedCom products. Siemens released updates for its SIPROTEC 4 and SIPROTEC Compact devices addressing a vulnerability in which an attacker could cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition, a locally exploitable flaw in its SIMATIC WinCC Sm@rtClient application for Android in which an attacker could extract credentials for the Sm@rtServer, and a flaw in RuggedCom devices leaving them vulnerable to Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption (POODLE) attacks in which a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacker could extract sensitive information from encrypted communications. Source: http://www.securityweek.com/siemens-patches-vulnerabilities-siprotec-simatic-ruggedcom-products
16. July 22, Help Net Security – (International) It's official: the average DDoS attack size is increasing. Arbor Networks reported analysis from Quarter 2, 2015 global distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack data revealing that the average size of attacks increased, and that the majority of large volumetric attacks leveraged Network Time Protocol (NDP), Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP), and Domain Name System (DNS) servers for reflecting amplification, among other findings. Source: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=18651
17. July 22, Securityweek – (International) Researcher discloses local privilege escalation vulnerability in OS X. Security researchers from SektionEins released details on a vulnerability in Mac Operating System (OS) X in which an attacker could open or create arbitrary files owned by the root user anywhere in the file system by leveraging an environmental variable that enables error logging to arbitrary files. Source: http://www.securityweek.com/researcher-discloses-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-os-x
18. July 22, Help Net Security – (International) Google Chrome update includes 43 security fixes. Google released an update for Chrome addressing 43 heap-buffer-overflow, use-after-free, and memory corruption vulnerabilities, among others, that could allow an attacker to take control of an affected system. Source:
19. July 22, IDG News Service – (International) Bug exposes OpenSSH servers to brute-force password guessing attacks. Security researchers reported that OpenSSH servers with keyboard-interactive authentication enabled by default are vulnerable to unlimited authentication retries over a single connection, exposing users to brute-force password guessing attacks. Source: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2951493/bug-exposes-openssh-servers-to-bruteforce-password-guessing-attacks.html#tk.rss_all
For another story, see item 13 above in Top Stories
Communications Sector
See item 14 below from the Emergency Services Sector
14. July 21, Associated Press – (Arizona) Ruptured cable cripples internet, 9-1-1 calls in Navajo County. The Navajo County Sheriff reported July 21 that a Frontier Communication fiber-optic cable was cut and caused 9-1-1 call centers and emergency dispatch services to go offline from July 19 – 20. An investigation is ongoing to determine if the cable was intentionally severed. Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/technology/article28068859.html


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QT60320C - 32-KEY QMATRIX™ CHARGE-TRANSFER ICQuantum Research Group 2009/09/15 09:29
The QT60320 digital charge-transfer ("QT") QMatrix™ IC is designed to detect touch on up to 32 keys in a scanned X-Y matrix. It will project the keys through almost any dielectric, like glass, plastic, stone, ceramic, and even most kinds of wood, up to thicknesses of 5 cm or more. The touch areas are defined as simple 2-part interdigitated electrodes of conductive material, like copper, Indium-Tin-Oxide (ITO), or screened silver or carbon deposited on the rear of the control panel. Key sizes, shapes and placement are almost entirely arbitrary; sizes and shapes of keys can be mixed within a single panel of keys and can vary by a factor of 20:1 or more in area. The gain (sensitivity) and threshold of each key can be set individually via simple commands over the UART port, for example via the freeware QmBtn program. Key setups are stored internally in an onboard eeprom and do not need to be reloaded.
The IC is designed specifically to work with appliances, ATM machines, security panels, portable instruments, machine tools, or similar products that are subject to environmental 'challenges' or even physical attack. It permits the construction of 100% sealed, watertight keypanels that are immune to environmental factors such as humidity and condensation, temperature, dirt accumulation, or the physical deterioration of the panel surface from abrasion, chemicals, or abuse. To this end the QT60320 contains Quantum-pioneered self-calibration, drift compensation, and digital filtering algorithms that make the sensing function extremely robust and survivable.
The device can readily control keys over graphical LCD panels or LEDs when used with clear, conductive ITO electrodes. It does not require 'chip on glass' or other exotic fabrication techniques, thus allowing the OEM to source the keymatrix from multiple vendors.
External circuitry consists of an opamp, a common PLD, and a quad fet switch, which can fit into a footprint of roughly 1 square inch (6.5 sq. cm). The device also can control two status LEDs, and includes in addition 8 addressable output drive lines and 4 readable spare input lines which can be used to control LEDs, LCDs, or other panel functions without requiring additional control lines from the host CPU. It also makes available to the user 86 bytes of onboard writeable and readable eeprom via the serial interface, thus helping to reduce system cost by eliminating extra components.
QT60320 technology makes use of an important new variant of charge-transfer sensing, transverse charge-transfer, in an XY format that minimizes the number of required scan lines. Unlike older technologies it does not require one IC per key, and is cost competitive even with some membrane technologies. In many cases it can also replace resistive XY sense elements commonly used in touch screens, at a fraction of the price.
This part is not recommended for new designs. Consult Quantum for advice on alternatives.
*Creates 32 'touch buttons' through any dielectric
*100% autocal for life - no adjustments required
*'N' key rollover: senses all 32 keys in parallel
*Keys individually adjustable for sensitivity
*Mix 'n match key sizes & shapes in one panel
*Tolerates a 20:1 variance in key sizes on a panel
*Panel thicknesses to 5 cm or more
*Back lit keys possible with ITO electrodes
*LED status function drives
*User-addressable multifunction drive pins
*User-addressable internal eeprom
*Simple, universal serial interface
*5V single supply operation
*44-pin TQFP package
*One square inch (6.5 square cm) of PCB required
*Automotive panels
*Machine tools
*ATM machines
*Appliance controls
*Outdoor keypads
*Security keypanels
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Do you have names filed away in your brain for that when-I-make-it-big-and-have-a-killer-house-to-decorate moment? I have to admit, I do.
And Kate Hume is one of them. I seriously love her aesthetic, which seems to me to be a counterpoint of masculine cool and luxury. It's clean, edited, lots of timber and dark tones.
Filed. Sorted. Done.
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The first woman to express interest in becoming the next president of Somalia has now decided to serve the country as an anti-corruption watchdog following her pullout from the contest.
44-year-old Fadumo Dayib announced her pullout to Africanews which she blamed on the "unparalleled corruption and rigging" taking place in Somalia.
"I do not want to legitimize something that is unconstitutional. First of all, the 4.5 apartheid clan-based system is unconstitutional," she said on Tuesday citing an unequal level field and disregard of rule of law.
I do not want to legitimize something that is unconstitutional. First of all, the 4.5 apartheid clan-based system is unconstitutional.
Fadumo accused the "heavily funded" incumbent president and prime minister of being busy rigging the system using state resources and apparatus to fund their own campaigns.
She condemned the additional 18 seats added to the Upper House of Parliament as unconstitutional.
"What this will call for is that the MPs and Senators will be paid a salary of 1 million dollars every month. This is a country where over 73% of the population lives on less that 2 dollars a day. How are we going to afford 1 million dollars every month for our Upper and Lower house," she said.
She explained that her attempt to contest despite the clan-based system which has been in place since 1990 was due to a compromise on her part to see if it can lead to a democratic election in 2020.
"But what I have seen on the ground is inconsistent with the constitution. The means doesn't justify the end and this can lead to fresh conflict," she warned, adding "people are buying senatorial seats for $1.3 million and others are willing to pay half a million to enter politics".
Fadumo Dayib said the presidential candidates "outside the establishment" do not stand a chance of winning the election unless they adhere to her proposal of a coalition to rally behind one person.
"This is the only way the current establishment can be challenged and the two incumbents stopped. Unfortunately that wasn't forthcoming," she decried.
"I will be the watchdog, the whistle-blower, that the country badly needs. I have assigned myself as Somalia's independent anti-corruption Czar. My base will continue to be in Somalia as well Kenya," Fadumo Dayib stated.
For now, Somalia has only one female aspirant in the race. She is Somali-American medical clinic interpreter Anab Dahir who is based in the United States.


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Dataland CD Label Designer 6
CD Label Designer is application that will help you to design and print CD jewel case and DVD box labels, booklets, round and business card disk labels. It supports images, RTF texts, circled texts and shapes allowing you to arrange, change size, angle and transparency of objects.
You can also read directory and file structure, CDDB audio CD database or define own lists to include them on labels, and you can customize printout positions.
In addition, you will have the possibility to use the template files to pre-define them for numerous types of designs. Also, you can make different print layouts and exchange them with others, and you can customize printout positions. Very easy to use.
Features of CD Label Designer
Complete CD Label Maker:
• Design and print
• Front covers
• Inside covers (you can print it as booklet)
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• DVD box covers
• Booklets
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• Business Card sized disk labels
Correct Size:
• Print ideal sized match for jewel-case boxes. Do not waste your time and ink with too small or too large printouts! Let this software help you to make your designs in WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) manner.
Correct Position and Size:
• Don't change software if you change paper brand: you can have unlimited layouts for the unlimited brands. Print Layout is feature that let you arrange labels on paper of any size. Do it, save it, and use it again! CD Label Designer is delivered with number of predefined popular layouts to save you time.
Unleashed Creativity:
• Use your imagination to astonish people. CD Label Designer will let you do that. Place images, text, circled text and shapes. Choose from more than 50 backgrounds included in installation. Move, rotate, resize, make them transparent, choose fonts and colors, or put a frame around text. Apply effects and transformations to pictures, type formatted text (Rich Text Format) that supports all language character sets, fill shapes with different styles including gradient.
Files And Songs List Without Typing:
• Including the content of CD on label is just one click away! If it's a data disk, CD Label Designer will read files and folders and place them on selected labels! Choose what you want to read and how deep in folder structure you want to go. If it's an audio disk, CD Label Designer will access internet CDDB database and fill in songs list for you! In addition, if CD Label Designer finds MP3 or WMA songs, it will retrieve title information from the files.
Design other formats:
• As CD Label Designer allows you to change label format to any size, you can design any format you want! Whether it's a rectangular or round, CD/DVD based or not, printed on a plain paper or pre-made surface, you can design it with CD Label Designer.
For example:
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+ Number of new Print Layouts added
+ Blu-Ray box templates
+ Option to download more high quality background pictures (for registered users only)
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+ Print Layout notes placeholder, for comments, list of supported printers, etc.
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& Drawing speed optimized
& Better default new object positions
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& Keep center while resizing circled text
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A newly released email sent by an Oshawa councillor sheds light on a controversy that has dogged the city since 2013.
Resident Rob Vella fought for a year and a half to obtain the email in a bid to learn more about the city's $5.9-million purchase of a property and the question of whether or not the city overpaid.
Vella says the 2013 email from Councillor Nancy Diamond shows she was involved in hiring an investigator who absolved the city of any errors or wrongdoing in the deal, which she supported.
"She wanted to buy that property, she voted for it and when the city's auditor general said things were not right with the deal, the email shows it was Councillor Diamond who negotiated to hire the man who said everything was OK," Vella said.
Diamond denies she had any conflict of interest and says it was council who hired the investigator and staff who then dealt with him.
The controversy surrounding the city's purchase of 199 Wentworth St. E. for a works depot goes back to 2013. That's when then auditor general Ron Foster found the city paid $1.6 million too much for the property.
His report — only parts of which were made public — said that senior staff, under the leadership of former city manager Bob Duignan, did not follow proper procedures in the deal and that the city manager tried to intimidate him during his investigation of the transaction.
In Foster's scathing report, which the Star obtained, he stated that Duignan told him to withhold key information from his report to council.
In the wake of that scathing report the city hired an investigator who ultimately dismissed Foster's findings and concluded Duignan and city staff acted properly in buying the land. The investigator, George Rust-D'Eye, concluded Foster was motivated by "personal antagonism" in the writing of his report.
Rust-D'Eye also recommended council reconsider the need for Foster's position and offered to replace the auditor general's oversight function, in a new role as the city's integrity commissioner.
In an email sent to councillors and obtained by the Star, Foster criticized Rust-D'Eye's work, saying he failed to interview key individuals involved in the transaction and ignored many documents in the deal. Foster filed a rebuttal to council and city staff. It has not been released publicly.
Immediately after Rust-D'Eye's report exonerating staff was presented to council in September 2013, the same eight councillors who had supported the land deal voted to terminate Foster's role.
Despite his suggestion, Rust-D'Eye was not hired on a permanent basis.
In making his access to information request, Vella, a keen city hall watcher, wanted to see any communication between Diamond, who was the city's former mayor, and Rust-D'Eye prior to his hiring as an investigator.
The city and Diamond opposed the disclosure of the email from Diamond to Rust-D'Eye. Late last month, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario ordered its release to Vella, who provided a copy to the Star.
The email was sent hours before a council meeting on May 21, 2013. In it, Diamond included a draft of a council resolution that would eventually pass later that day in a 5-4 vote.
The draft resolution stated that Rust-D'Eye was being recommended to investigate the issues raised in Foster's report. The resolution proposed the terms and scope for Rust-D'Eye's investigation.
Diamond stated in the email: "Attached is what I anticipate is the final resolution. If you see any problems, you would have up until about 5 p.m. to let me know."
It goes on to say, "You have, of course, noted how I am negotiating for a full-time fee."
Vella said he thinks the email shows Diamond was in a conflict of interest.
"How is Mr. Rust-D'Eye supposed to be impartial when the person who had him hired and negotiated his pay for the job, supported the deal he was supposed to investigate?"
Diamond was asked by the Star about her "negotiating" for Rust-D'Eye's fee and Vella's belief that she was in a conflict of interest.
"My wording re 'negotiating' was meant to be lighthearted, not a legal or specific term," Diamond stated in an emailed response Wednesday. "As noted, I had thought members of Council would ask. I wanted to be prepared to provide information at the meeting. I had no involvement in any discussions related to the actual agreement."
The information commissioner's ruling, ordering the release of the email, states that "the councillor's email played a crucial role in the negotiations resulting in the hiring of the investigator."
Diamond denies Vella's claim of being in a conflict. "I have no conflict of interest. I was recommending an esteemed individual who acted in an independent and impartial way. After council made the decision to engage Mr. Rust-D'Eye, the city clerk was made responsible for all contact."
Rust-D'Eye did not respond to questions last week about the email and his investigation.


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I've done a lot of funerals in my 30+ years in youth ministry. I wish I could say that Bible college and seminary adequately prepared me for the emotional drain that accompanies shepherding people thru their grief. It didn't. Or, I didn't fully pay attention. Doing funerals gets easier, but it's never easy.
It sounds weird to have a favorite type of funeral, but when I do a funeral of a very old person who knew Jesus (like my mom), it's definitely easier (at the end of my mom's life, she actually wanted to die: "to live is Christ, to die is gain."). My least favorite is when a young person has died.
Today, I spoke at one of those—a young person… whom I knew well. It sucks! While today was a public display of what Jesus does within a person's life, it's still hard to orchestrate the service, choose the right words, and maintain composure so you don't cry thru the whole service.
After the service, I was speaking with some younger youth workers about the whole experience. One of them was brave enough to ask for my notes ("I know I'll have to do a funeral some day, is there I chance I can look at your notes… especially your welcome. It really set the tone for the whole service").
If this is helpful… steal it and make it your own. Here's what I said (changing the names):
"Welcome: On behalf of the Smith Family… thank you for being here today. Your mere presence is a gift to this family! They may not be able to look each of you in the eyes today to say "thank you" but they will value your presence.
Presence is a big deal today!
The presence of friends, family & loved ones gathering together to remember an amazing young life… is a real gift.
Presence is a big deal!
The presence of God, who is in this place… not only in the general term, but the presence of God specifically resides in the lives of many who are gathered. This will sound new to some of you, but God, thru His presence, has taken up residence in those who have put their trust and faith in Jesus. In response to one's faith, God infuses His presences into that individual.
Presence is a big deal!
Presence is a big deal today because Jason was one of those people. As a young man, Jason put his faith in Jesus… so right now Jason is in the presence of Jesus.
Presence is a big deal!
We gather to grieve the loss of a friend. We gather to support an amazing mom & dad & brother & sister… whose grief, most of us in here can't even pretend to know. We have no words that are strong enough to fully heal the pain that we're feeling. But, what we do have is our presence… and that's what we can bring to the family today. We bring our heart, our love, our tears, and our joy… as we celebrate the life of your son… and your big brother.
So, in the next hour, our presence together will help create a worship service of singing, story-telling, slide shows, Scripture, prayer, tears, laughter and a hope-filled challenge. Again, your presence is a big deal… thank you. Let's pray."


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Strong TV Ratings for Danny Garcia vs. Mauricio Herrera - Viewship Numbers for SHOWTIME Event released...
Strong TV Ratings for Danny Garcia vs. Mauricio Herrera - Viewship Numbers for SHOWTIME Event released...
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Last Saturday's SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecast continued the flagship series' upward ratings trend, with the main event between Unified Super Lightweight World Champion Danny Garcia and Mauricio Herrera generating a peak audience of 1.1 million viewers. Garcia's star-power continues to rise with this appearance on SHOWTIME®, with Saturday's bout attracting nearly 20% more viewers than his last appearance on a SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecast (April 27, 2013 against Zab Judah). The Garcia vs. Herrera bout attracted an average audience of 972,000 viewers.
The entire three-fight SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecast, including the replay of Canelo Alvarez vs. Alfredo Angulo, will re-air tonight at 10 P.M. ET/PT on SHOWTIME EXTREME.
Click on the video player to the left on this page here at Doghouse Boxing to watch the SHOWTIME Sports recap of Saturday night's action.
"Garcia vs. Herrera," a 12-round WBC Super Lightweight World Title took place on Saturday, March 15 at Coliseo Ruben Rodriguez in Puerto Rico and was presented by Golden Boy Promotions, Swift Promotions in association with PR Best Boxing and sponsored by Corona and AT&T. In the co-main event, Deontay Wilder defeated Malik Scott via KO in a bout presented by Golden Boy Promotions in association with Goossen Tutor Promotions. The SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® telecast will replay tonight, March 18 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME EXTREME.
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Florida Beach House, Key Largo Vacation Rental Home - Key Largo
Property Information: Grouper Lane Key Largo Florida 33037
Beautiful wide-open ocean vistas from this 3-bedroom/3-bath oceanfront, canal-side home in Key Largo! Upstairs has 3 bedrooms & 2 full baths (1 bedroom has 2 bunks with trundles to sleep 6 kids!), full laundry room, great big open kitchen with all the amenities, open living/dining area & wonderful oceanfront balcony. Downstairs apartment has full bath, kitchen & great room with Queen sleeper sofa, also ping-pong & Foozball tables. Walk out the sliding glass doors onto the oceanfront pool deck & bask in the Keys life! There's a water purifier system for entire house. Concrete seawall wraps around the corner & has dockage for up to 30-ft. boat. Swim ladders into canal & ocean for a saltwater swim. Pool & patio furniture, water toys & gas BBQ grill. Covered parking for 2 cars & room for a 3rd. Close to almost everything, yet tucked away from all the hustle. Rental: From $9,500.00/month To $12,500.00/month Security deposit: $1,000.00 Cleaning fee: $250.00 Processing: $25.00 State and local taxes not included. Travel insurance available.
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Marketers today can use more media channels than ever to reach their target audiences, but along with that opportunity comes a significant challenge: the need to track prospects who move from one device to the next and back again. In fact, integrating cross-channel data is a concern for 82% of advertisers and agencies, according to a December 2012 eMarketer report, "The State of Cross-platform Ad Measurement: Industry Trends and Current Practices." It's also an issue that b-to-b marketers, which often have disjointed marketing efforts, feel acutely, said Clark Fredricksen, VP at research company eMarketer. "There are a number of challenges for the b-to-b market, including getting a handle on the growing number of media choices available, not to mention the number of devices and variety of measurement tools available on some but not all platforms," he said. While new offerings such as Google's Universal Analytics—which can help track site visitors as they move from device to device—and other measurement tools like it may help b-to-b marketers considerably, there are some basic best practices that need to be put into place first, Fredricksen said. Here are three that every marketer should implement.
- Stop relying on a single data source. There are limitations to using metrics from a single-solution provider that focuses only on one channel, such as email, Fredricksen said. "It's going to be very difficult to look at a single source to accomplish all of a marketer's data needs because the scale of the market is so complex," he said.
- Focus on a few key metrics. With the rush to embrace Big Data, many marketers think they need every possible campaign metric. While it's true that more information can lead to a deeper understanding, marketers have to crawl before they can walk when it comes to Big Data. "Find specific metrics that will inform campaign performance and strategic decisions, and go with them first," Fredricksen said. So, for example, merge A/B testing from an email campaign with Web analytics.
- Don't forget hands-on metrics and analytics. While a lot of data are now generated from a person's Web or email activity, marketer-supplied data are still useful. Send out surveys that can gauge a sense of media exposure and marketing effectiveness, Fredricksen said. "Surveys are very helpful when assessing media effectiveness," he said. "Then you can combine survey-based information with sales and marketing metrics to develop a better picture of your email campaigns and other marketing efforts."


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Cherry Credits
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- What is Mobile OTP?
- Why can't I make purchases in Cherry Exchange for products categorized under "Tag Direct" and "Gateway"?
- How do I get started?
- How much does CC cost?
- What is Cherry Exchange?
Account Issues
- ★ How to Unlock Inactive Cherry Exchange Accounts
- How to update the email address linked to my Cherry Exchange account
- Someone gave / sold me this account. Is it illegal?
- Can I merge accounts?
- What is my Default Game Login ID?
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for a long time now I intend to build a file server for my personal needs, but newer had enough money to make a good system, so I prolonged the inevitable. Current situation: I am operating two pc's, one has sole purpose to carry a few hard drives and another is the main play/work/home pc. Both are running w7-64bit. There are now 12 independent drives with various data (multimedia, books, app, mostly static data) with approx. 20tb of data, without raid, backup or any other safety precaution. Both pc's are running 24/7 without ups and with consumer grade components. The only thing I have lost is 30gb of redownloadable multimedia on a 640gb drive five years ago, because a faulty cable corrupted a partition. You could say the systems are running on luck.
Intention is to transfer to ZFSguru, Raid-z2, without a backup, but maybe with some ups. With a proper server I could loose the small pc and could go for much smaller case for the main pc.
Small pc is gigabyte b85m with 8gb ram (max is 16gb) 4x sata3, 2xsata2 and it could be a a good solution for a ZFSguru, or not?
My first question is, how important is ECC memory really? Should I go for some ECC motherboard or is it not so important? This is very important question that I cannot answer for myself by reading the posts. Somewhere on HardForum have I read a year ago that no one should plan a file server without ECC memory, on the other hand, on my pc's I had no problem with ram (Kingston XMP 2x8gb on one machine and Kingston Genesys 8gb on the other; in earlier version there were geil ultra plus 2x4gb and 4gb partriot, also no issues). For my project most important question now is ECC or no ECC?
For the ecc option i have found a nice (cheap) asus board P8B WS (price approx 170e), it could run on some cheaper processor G2020 or similar, with KVR1333D3E9S modules (max 32gb), so the machine would cost approx 380e (mb, 2x 8gb ecc, g2020) without hba. That could be manageable. That board has 4xsata2 and 2xsata3, so the hba is needed.
Second question, is it advisable to use internal sata controller and hba in a ZFS machine? If I take a second hand 1068e (lsi original, ibm M1015 or similar) 8i hba, can i combine those 8 port with 6 on board, or is it better practice to use two 1068e cards?
I have been thinking about the pools, I would separate all data into two or three vdevs, one vdev z2 for critical, personal, non-replaceable data 4x3tb=6tb would be more then enough for next few years, and second vdev with non-critical data z2 with 6x4tb=16tb with intention to add a third on some point because this data collection grows 500-800gb yearly. With addition of another 4x4tb vdev in a year or two it would populate two 8port hba's. Can I use for example, 6 ports on a hba for one vdev and 4 ports on the motherboard for the other, and two other on motherboard for log/cache ssd's if needed? Or is it not advisable? Would it be advisable to separate those three vdevs in two separate machines?
Third question, I have been reading about cache ssd and log ssd, but I did not understand, is there one cache and one log drive for the whole zpool, or do all the vdevs have their own log/cache drives?
Now I will thank all of you who took time to read this huge post, and hope for a few good answers that would help me with my dilemmas.
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Small pc is gigabyte b85m with 8gb ram (max is 16gb) 4x sata3, 2xsata2 and it could be a a good solution for a ZFSguru, or not? Should be good, yes.
My first question is, how important is ECC memory really? Should I go for some ECC motherboard or is it not so important? This is very important question that I cannot answer for myself by reading the posts. Somewhere on HardForum have I read a year ago that no one should plan a file server without ECC memoryWell they are both right and wrong. The whole problem is that when people talk about ECC memory, they usually only talk about having it on the server; not on your desktop. However, since your desktops will probably be actually storing all data on the server, having ECC on the desktop is also very important.
If you opt for both ECC on server and desktop, that is really great.
Only using ECC on the server grants you only limited protection. And ZFS of all things is more resilient to RAM bitflips than anything else, because at least ZFS has two properties:
- it can detect RAM corruption (checksum errors)
- it can correct RAM corruption
Usually, when people see multiple checksum errors on multiple disks, this is because of bad RAM module which has become defect. After running MemTest86+ and replacing the bad module, the ZFS pool can be scrubbed again and most of the corruption will be corrected, or otherwise you get a message file X is corrupt in the output of 'zpool status -v' and this is also displayed on the ZFSguru web-interface on the Pools page.
So my argument is, you need ECC more on the desktop than on the server. The server at least has some protection against RAM bitflips, while your desktop without ECC memory has no protection at all. You will not even know there is corruption until you open a .JPG of your wedding pictures, to find out some are corrupt. That is not ZFS' fault; it has been given corrupt data to begin with so all the protections that ZFS employs will be for nothing.
Second question, is it advisable to use internal sata controller and hba in a ZFS machine? The chipset-provided SATA ports in AHCI-mode are the best ports you could possibly get, ever. Always use them, in particular for SSDs.
Third question, I have been reading about cache ssd and log ssd, but I did not understand, is there one cache and one log drive for the whole zpool, or do all the vdevs have their own log/cache drives?Both separate log (sLOG) and cache (L2ARC) devices are per-pool. You can have multiple sLOG disks in a pool in stripe/mirror configuration, or multiple cache disks in stripe configuration. One SSD can be partitioned to act as both sLOG and L2ARC. But know that only some consumer-grade SSDs are suitable as sLOG; Intel 320, Intel S3500/3700 and Crucial M500/M550.
Good luck :)
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First of all thank you for taking time to read and answer my questions.
I have spent many hours in last few days searching for hardware for the server that would be economical and suitable for my build.
Regarding your comments on desktop, I have not really been thinking about ECC in desktop, because there will always be the laptop, phone, tablet in use and all do not have ECC. So, my first concern is that data which gets to the server stays safe on the server.
It is decided server must have ECC.
On that matter, I have found a sweet little board ASRock C2750D4I with preassembled Avoton eight core 2.4GHz processor (Avoton is next generation Atom) with ECC support up to 64GB, 12 on-board SATA3 ports, 2 Gbit NICs, and it is server grade hardware. The price is approx 330eur, which is less then any other solution (MB+processor+controller combo) that I have calculated so far. FreeBSD 9.1 is supported by the manufacturer. Now there is only problem very short memory support list. But, I am working on options to find right memory for the job. There are a few people that mentioned on various forums that it does not boot NAS software, but I have found a blog about a guy who owns such a system and it works fine:
Now, I have a few more questions for you.
First, taking into account that above mentioned processor has limited power in contrast to some Xeon or similar. How do the vdevs relate to needed processing power. Is it better to have a few smaller vdevs or one bigger and how do the sLOG and L2ARC relate to that (more bluntly, what is the need for them). Is it better to have (to populate these 12 ports) one z2 with four drives, another z2 with six drives, sLOG and L2ARC, or is it better to go for one vdev z2 with 10 drives, with or without the two cache SSDs?
What you mentioned about SSD's, I had not been thinking about that, yet, but I hoped that I could use a Samsung 840 Evo/Pro, because they are by far most available in my country. What is the criteria for the SSD? It should be a MLC, or are there only the specific drives that perform well, and others do not?
Can I lower the need for sLOG and L2ARC by useing more then 1GB RAM per GB of data? Because this board that I mentioned above has max of 64GB it may be cheaper to add 32GB or 48GB of ram, in contrast to buying 2 ssd drives and using up 2 SATA ports.
Again, thankful in advance for all your help
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Ok, I have found a few answers for some of my questions.
I have found out that sLOG is a write cache device. It can be small, did not find how small. The device should have protection capacitors, and that is probably the reason why you named only three devices. I have found a S3500 120gb for 150eur and M500 240GB for 135eur, so if there is no reason for taking Intel I will opt for Crucial.
The L2ARC device is RAM extension for reading purposes. It takes a toll on RAM, people say 5gb, so I should opt for no less then 32gb RAM for 20 or so gb data space. Samsung 840 should be fine as L2ARC device and it's size should be 10-20x bigger then RAM. Should that mean that 240GB device is too small?
Here comes another question. When calculating 1GB RAM per 1TB data, when we have a vdev containing 4x 3tb in z2 formation. Do we calculate it as 12tb (all available space) or 6tb (space available for data only, excluding the parity drives)?
But, on matter of processing power needed for various vdev sizes I came up empty, this is still important and much needed information for my project.
On the matter of need for both cache devices, I have found out that they produce transfer speeds, but I could not find how much do they impact on those speeds.
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ASrock C2750D4I motherboard
I know the ASRock C2750D4I and it's a great board for a NAS. The 2750 has 8-core Avoton, as you know, while the 2550 has 4 cores. The Asrock board has two additional Marvell AHCI SATA controllers for an extra 6 ports and they should work with ZFSguru/BSD. It also has dual Intel NIC. I don't know of these work with BSD yet, in the worst case you will need an addon NIC in the PCIe slot, like Intel PRO/1000 CT which is very cheap (22 euro).
But know that for 64GiB RAM you need 16GiB RAM modules, which are rare and more expensive. Most 16GiB RAM modules you find now are registered (RDIMM) and you need unbuffered (UDIMM). ECC UDIMM is less common.
Beware of incorrect information
I see you have been reading up on L2ARC and other ZFS issues. Please be aware that many things you read may not really be true, or just inaccurate. Or they may apply to server-like environments and not anything near the way you will be using it. For example, assuming you will need more than 240GB of L2ARC for a home NAS is totally insane.
File caching
Every modern computer OS uses file caching. Windows NT has it, Linux, BSD, Mac all have it. But most systems use only a 'dumb' cache that just overwrites the cache regardless of what that data is. This means that important stuff may not be cached while it could have been. ZFS uses its own caching engine, called the Adaptive Replacement Cache (ARC).
The ARC distinguishes between MRU (Most Recently Used) and MFU (Most Frequently Used). The MFU is the killer thing; it keeps those separate so that these important caches will not get overwritten whenever you read a large bulky file. That bulky file will get cached in the MRU instead.
What does this mean?
To make things less technical, the intelligent caching makes sure that the server will adapt to your 'usage pattern'. This causes programs you run or data you read respond quicker because it does not have to be read from mechanical disk; which has a latency that can be noticed by human beings. The RAM is insanely fast so feels 'instant'.
How much RAM do i need?
Obviously, the more RAM the better. But RAM is not cheap. SSDs are cheaper per GB. You are very correct when you say that L2ARC is like an extension of RAM memory. Storing cached data on the L2ARC device (SSD) will also cost some RAM memory, but only as the L2ARC device gets utilised more often. If there is not enough physical RAM available, then the L2ARC device simply cannot be utilised to its full capacity. So it's not like you NEED to have a lot of RAM to use L2ARC. But you should always try to have at least 8GiB and preferably 16GiB for a ZFS server. More is luxery.
The 1GB-RAM-per-1TB-data rule also senseless. You do not automatically need more RAM if you have bigger disks. But you may need more RAM if your disk configuration gets bigger with more vdevs. But it just boils down to: below 8GiB it is tricky but possible with tuning, above 8GiB you are good to go out of the box, tuning might help but is not required for decent baseline performance.
L2ARC caching
L2ARC is only useful if you intend to leave your server running for many days straight, because currently the L2ARC cache is not persistent, meaning that the cache is gone/reset when you reboot or power cycle. There are plans to implement persistent L2ARC in the future, so maybe next year or so we may see such feature. Then L2ARC caching might also be useful if you reboot regularly.
L2ARC is a very safe feature to use - if there is corruption on the SSD, it will get detected by ZFS and the data will be read from disk instead. L2ARC is a read cache, it only accelerates random reads. That does not mean that whole files will be cached on SSD. Instead, ZFS caches only random reads. These can be small files or small reads within large files. Think about games with a 16GB large file and it reads some spots within that large file. Because often it will read the same spots, ZFS will employ its caching techniques to respond quickly to those requests, meaning regular use of that game/app will mean quicker response times.
But personally, i think caching metadata is really important. The metadata is not your files themselves, but the structure (names, directories, properties, permissions). Caching a lot of metadata means fast file searches and quick directory access (feels like SSD).
L2ARC for reads, sLOG for writes?
A common misconception for the separate log device feature (sLOG) is that it is a regular write buffer. This is incorrect, and many people incorrectly think that all data you write will be written to the sLOG device. This is not true. Instead, only synchronous writes will be written to the sLOG. All other writes - called asynchronous writes - will be written directly to disk. It depends a lot on what kind of application you use. Some database users may see 100% sync writes. But regular home users see less than 1% sync writes.
Another misconception is that you need a bigger sLOG the bigger your pool gets. This is not true. You need a bigger sLOG the faster your pool gets. So a pool with ultra-fast 40GB disks in stripe will need a much larger sLOG than a slower but much larger 400TB pool. For most uses, 1GiB will be enough for most pools. But to be on the safe side, 4GiB is recommended. Very little space indeed.
sLOG == ZIL ??
sLOG is sometimes called 'ZIL' but that is incorrect; the ZFS Intent Log (ZIL or 'log') resides on the HDD pool if there is no sLOG device. That is why it is called a separate log device (sLOG).
So if i buy SSDs, how do i configure this?
Create multiple partitions using the partition map editor in ZFSguru, on the Disks page. You can create one 'system' partition for installing ZFSguru to and using it as boot device. Then a 4GiB sLOG partition. Then a L2ARC partition of the rest of the space but minus some space reserved for .
Overprovisioning your SSD means that you do not use all the capacity on the SSD. This does not work by simply having 'free space' but rather to create partitions and leaving some space at the end simply unused. This only works for brand new SSDs, used SSDs will need to be TRIM erased. ZFSguru can do this if the disk is on AHCI SATA controller (like the chipset SATA ports).
So for 240GB SSD:
partition 1: 20GiB 'system' partition
partition 2: 4GiB 'sLOG' partition
partition 3: 140GiB 'L2ARC' partition
unpartitioned space: ~80GB.
What SSD to get?
As for the SSD itself. You need capacitors if you want sLOG feature. If you only use L2ARC, you can get the crappiest SSD you want. But beware that it might wear quickly. You should use overprovisioning as well as choose a MLC-based SSD, and not a TLC or Triple-Level Cell based SSD device. That means: no Samsung EVO or Samsung 840.
Samsung is also not suitable for sLOG feature. If you use Samsung as sLOG, it will be as if you had the ZIL totally disabled, which is not what you want. Samsung does have some 'enterprise' models with power caps though, but if you want a cheap affordable SSD then Crucial M500 is the best buy. It is not perfect however, it does not have powerful enough capacitors to write all buffers. The Intel 320 is still the best proven SSD for this task in my opinion. But if my assumption is correct that Crucial honours the FLUSH CACHE command, then Crucial is also very suitable as sLOG. But i do not know this with 100% certainty.
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Ok, thank you again.
You have cleared many of my misconceptions, but I have a few new questions.
In the mean time I some German distributors wrote back to me. The distributor for the board offers Kingston KVR16E11 CL9 8gb modules for 75e per module, so I will take 16GB for the system and 8GB as a reserve (to be ready available in a drawer for some of worst case scenarios). Some other distributor has 40GB Intel 320, so it will be bought too.
First question, in the scenario with two ssd drives, does the system partition go on a L2ARC drive or to sLOG drive?
According to the ASRock web page they supply all the drivers for on-board devices for FreeBSD 9.1. So, let's hope the NICs should work fine.
So, that leaves only the question about the pool. There are 10 SATA ports left. Does the file system care how do I populate them?
There are a few options:
1. 10 drive vdev, as 8 data and 2 z2
2. 6 drive vdev, 4+2 and 4 drive vdev 2+2
Are there any reasons why I should opt for the first over the second option, or other way around. Are there any benefits of one solution over the other?
For me it would be more financially beneficial to create during a build, one 6 drive vdev and later add another vdev, on the other hand there is 2 drives less of usable space.
The devices should probably be WD Reds. I have read about many people who used Seagate DM001 2tb and 3tb devices, but I had problem with them in last tow years. Two of four devices had after 15 months (less then 500 days) of use concerning SMART data (reallocated sectors count, raw read errors) in contrast to that I have a few Samsung Spinpoint 204UI drives that have over 1200 days on the clock and are still in a perfect condition.
There should be one size of the disks, 3tb or 4tb, so I can go with only one "cold spare" in the drawer.
Last question (I hope): How do the vdev size choices reflect on length of the maintenance tasks (scrubs, resilvering, other tasks if they exist; did not yet get the chance to read about maintenance needs)?
Thank you again for all valuable help I could not grasp all the concepts so quickly without your help.
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Another quick question came up, about sizes of vdevs. I have found opposing informations on a few different places about sizes. I have found this:
A RAIDZ configuration with N disks of size X with P parity disks can hold approximately (N-P)*X bytes and can withstand P device(s) failing before data integrity is compromised.
Start a single-parity RAIDZ (raidz) configuration at 3 disks (2+1)
Start a double-parity RAIDZ (raidz2) configuration at 6 disks (4+2)
Start a triple-parity RAIDZ (raidz3) configuration at 9 disks (6+3)
(N+P) with P = 1 (raidz), 2 (raidz2), or 3 (raidz3) and N equals 2, 4, or 6
The recommended number of disks per group is between 3 and 9. If you have more disks, use multiple groups.
Here: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide
On the other side people say that "prime" numbers are powers of 2 (2, 4, 8) that can be accompanied with 1, 2 or 3 parity drives, making acceptable sizes:
Z1: 2+1, 4+1 and 8+1
Z2: 2+2, 4+2 and 8+2
Z3: 2+3, 4+3 and 8+3
I feel that this option is right, in contrast to cited text from ZFS Best Practices, but I use the opportunity to ask.
Should the vdevs inside the same pool be the same size?
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Projects I have produced range from award-winning music videos and social issue documentaries to television pilots and network promos for several hit CBS series. Recently, I released a feature documentary Inspired to Ride which will launch on iTunes this fall and Netflix in the Spring. I am currently developing several projects for television and theatrical release.
My producing awards include Dances with Films Festival's Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary for Mile… Mile & A Half and Elevate Film Festival's Best Music Video for Keb' Mo's "America the Beautiful" amongst others.
Producers Guild of America Diversity in Producing Committee Member and Mentor
Los Angeles City College Film/TV Department Advisory Board Member
Media Access Awards Committee Member and Co-Coordinator
Los Angeles Business Journal's Women Making a Difference Award Nominee 2013, 2014 & 2015


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The financial crisis is all everybody seems to be talking about these days, and the buzzword of the month is "bailout". British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is no exception. With regards to his attitude, CNN reports:
Sarkozy said the economic crisis required a global response, but Brown said that no strong bank should be allowed to fail for lack of solvency.I am speechless. How exactly do you define a bank as "strong" without including solvent? Many individuals (and likely some companies) are technically "insolvent"; all you need is more debt than assets. This doesn't drive you to bankruptcy necessarily, if you have a job to bring in income to service your debts, you may do fine.
But for a bank, solvency is critical. They make money off the spread between interest paid to depositors and paid by borrowers. The only way to re-achieve solvency in any reasonable time is through high-yield (re: high risk) lending. Many S&Ls tried this; it didn't go well. Or you can hope that the loans you wrote off will somehow magically increase again in value. That's likely.
If a bank is insolvent, it should be shut down.
Error rating: 6. Shouldn't be shut down for lack of solvency? Double You Tee EFF?!


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Dr Lisa Godson
BA 1994, MA 1998, PhD 2008Lecturer
Lisa Godson is a historian of design and material culture, and also researches and writes about contemporary design. She studied History of Art at Trinity College Dublin (BA 1994) and History of Design at the Royal College of Art/Victoria & Albert Museum, London (MA 1998, PhD 2008). Godson has held tenured lecturing posts in a number of institutions including DIT and the Royal College of Art, where she was lead tutor in critical studies for MA design interaction, product design and industrial design. She was RCA Teaching and Learning Fellow and devised the college Virtual Learning Environment RCAde. She was NCAD Fellow at the inter-institutional Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCAM) 2009-13, where she was part of the team that developed and taught a pioneering structured doctoral research programme and chaired two research seminars, in historiography and theories of contemporary design. One characteristic of Godson's teaching involves devising student research projects in collaboration with institutions, recently with the Little Museum of Dublin for the Secret Lives of Objects exhibition, symposium and publication (2015), and (alongside UCD Art History) with the National Library of Ireland on their 'large books' collection, leading to a public symposium (2012).
Recent publications include the co-edited volumes Making 1916: material and visual culture of the Easter Rising (Liverpool University Press: 2015); Design learning in an age of austerity (Cumulus: 2015); the co-authored 10,000-word essay 'Design in Twentieth Century Ireland' in volume 5 of the History of Art and Architecture of Ireland (Yale/RIA: 2014). She has also published across a range of academic journals including Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Irish Geography, the Journal of Design History, Design and Culture, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and Material Religion. The publication of her monograph How the crowd felt: the material culture of public events in the Irish Free State is planned for 2016.
An aspect of Godson's research involves collaborations with creative practitioners – she devised the original concept and research for the award-winning feature-length documentary Build Something Modern (Still Films: 2011) on Irish modernist architecture in Africa; is research collaborator with artists Jesse Jones and Sarah Browne on their major Artangel/Create/Arts Council 2016 national commission In the Shadow of the State (2016) and is research mentor and collaborator for Dublin City Council Arts Office/National Gallery of Ireland art commissions for the centenary of the 1916 Rising.
The Secret Lives of Objects: Hidden Stories of Design Little Museum of Dublin, April 2015. A project undertaken by the MA Design History and Material Culture at NCAD and funded by Year of Irish Design 2015. This work also resulted in a symposium (April 2015) and publication edited by Lisa Godson.
Conferences Organised
2014 Modern Sacred Architecture in Germany and Ireland Newman House, Dublin, Oct. 9-11. Two-day conference, co-organised with School of Art History and Cultural Policy, UCD
2013 Making 1916, the Visual and Material Culture of the Easter Rising Wood Quay Venue, April 25-6. Two-day conference, co-organised with School of Archaeology, UCD
2012 Illustrated books and imagining the city 1750-1900 National Library of Ireland. One-day public symposium, co-organised with School of Art History and Cultural Policy, UCD
2012 Revisiting the 1932 Eucharistic Congress: Ireland's family reunion, the material culture of spectacle, and the religious imagination Newman House, September 28. One-day public symposium, co-organised with School of History, UCD
2011/12 Object Matters: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Material Culture Monthly public seminar series, co-organised with School of Archaeology, UCD
2011 Same Difference: Material Cultures of Reproduction at the Association of Art Historians Annual Conference University of Warwick. Co-organised with Department of the History of Art, Trinity College Dublin
The Fourth Wall: on Film and Architecture Irish Film Institute. One-day symposium addressing historic filmic representations of architecture. Co-organised with Irish Film Institute, Irish Architecture Foundation and School of Architecture, UCD
Dublin Sean agus Nua Irish Film Institute. Public screening programme of films on the theme of attitudes to Dublin's urban fabric at a time of rapid structural change c.1967-75. Co-curated with Irish Film Archive
2010 arts research: publics and purposes. Various venues, Dublin. Five-day programme of events, symposia, presentations, performances, screenings and exhibitions on the public role of arts research and cultural policy. Co-organised with GradCAM colleagues
Making 1916: material and visual culture of the Easter Rising (Liverpool University Press: 2015) http://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/products/60501
Co-editor of the first book to focus on this aspect of the Rising, with 22 contributors from a broad range of disciplines including history of art, visual culture, literary history, performance studies, archaeology and material culture.
'Charting the material culture of the Devotional Revolution: the Advertising Register of the Irish Catholic Directory, 1838-98' in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Section C (online early at http://www.jstor.org/stable/procriasectc.ahead-of-print). This article explores the importance of specific forms of material culture in embedding systematised, sacramentalist, devotional Catholicism in Ireland, particularly addressing the interrelationship of capitalism, mechanisation and ultramontanism.
Design learning in an age of austerity (Cumulus, Utrecht: 2015)
Co-editor of publication on contemporary design pedagogy, based on papers of that theme from the international conference More for Less: Design in an Age of Austerity (NCAD, 2013).
'Design in Twentieth Century Ireland' in volume 5 of the History of Art and Architecture of Ireland (Yale University Press/Royal Irish Academy: 2014)
Co-author of this major 10,000-word essay on design and material culture in modern Ireland.
'Visual and material culture in the Atlas of the Great Irish Famine 1845-52' in Irish Geography 24 (3), 2013
Professor Kathleen James Chakraborty, UCD - Modern Sacred Architecture in Germany and Ireland
One iteration of this project was an international conference that addressed cross-currents between Irish and German modernist architecture, particularly in the sphere of sacred buildings (October 2014). A publication is underway based on the conference proceedings, supported by seed funding from the UCD + NCAD alliance.
Joanna Brück, Reader in Archaeology and Head of Subject, University of Bristol – Object Matters This monthly seminar series in 2011/12 addressed interdisciplinary approaches to material culture and design and led to the conference (2013) and publication (2015) Making 1916: Material and Visual Culture of the Easter Rising.
Jesse Jones and Sarah Browne (artists), Artangel/Create Commission In the Shadow of the State Godson is research collaborator on this major new commission in relation to the role of the Nation State in the control and regulation of the female body; initial research was presented at 'the voice emerges' at Green Street Courthouse in April 2015, and further outputs include a publication in 2016.
Dublin City Council Arts Office/National Gallery of Ireland – 2016 commissions Godson is working with the Lab (DCC's contemporary art gallery), the National Gallery of Ireland and artists commissioned to produce work that responds to the centenary of the 1916 Rising.
Advisory Boards
Little Museum of Dublin
Darklight Festival
Pivot Dublin
Recent External Examining
University of the Arts, Central Saint Martins, London External examiner for cultural studies component of BA Fashion, Textile and Jewellery design degrees (2013-15)
Trinity College Dublin External examiner for M.Phil in Irish Art (2010-13)
Past collaborations Include projects with 'the food thing', a collaborative creative project around the politics and economic conditions of food production (includes of the salt bitter sweet sea: a public banquet, supported by Dublin City Council Arts Office); the National Library of Ireland/UCD Art History (symposium: Illustrated Books and Imagining the City); UCD History (symposium: Revisiting the 1932 Eucharistic Congress); the Irish Architecture Foundation/UCD Architecture (symposium: the Fourth Wall: on Film and Architecture); the Irish Film Archive (co-curators on screening programme Dublin Sean agus Nua on attitudes to urban change in Dublin, 1965-75); Still Films (documentary feature Build Something Modern); GradCAM colleagues (co-convenors of five-day conference arts research: publics and purposes).
Current Supervision
Caoimhe McMahon
Making, Looking, Listening: using research through design to generate and evaluate Task Furniture for Education prototypes
Candace White
Building Typologies for Leisure and Transport in Ireland, 1920-1950
Caroline O'Brien
The material culture of costume at the Royal Canadian Ballet
Eimer O'Brien
The emergence of a modern ecclesiastical style of art in Ireland c. 1950 – 1970
Completed PhD Supervision
Macushla Baudis
Embroidery for Male Suiting in Lyon, 1780-1789: a Cultural Biography of the Designs in the National Museum of Ireland collection presented by J.H. Fitzhenry
Katharina Pfützner
Functionalist Industrial Design Practice in the German Democratic Republic
PhD Teaching
As NCAD Fellow at GradCAM (2009-13), Godson taught a comprehensive structured doctoral programme to c.40 PhD researchers, working in both classroom and one-to-one contexts.


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Alex Young
[Download Mixtape] Tape Tuesday: What Now?
These days everything's in constant motion. Music, technology, and culture are moving furiously at breakneck speeds, which is equal parts frightening and exciting. Locked inside the echo chamber, it can be easy to feel lost, depressed, or lose sight of your goals, as you are constantly informed of other people's achievements. In two weeks, I graduate college, and suddenly even life seems to be moving at a rapid pace. My friends are preparing to move on to the next stages of their careers, most following the path paved for them the day they chose their majors. I am taking a different route. And even though everything will likely work out in the end, I am scared. For practically the first time in my life, I have no real plans: no school after summer, no shitty internships, no job. So, with the last Tape Tuesday ever (!), I am asking: what now? And if someone has the answer, please let me know in the comments.
Thank you to everyone who has ever listened to a Tape Tuesday over the years. It has been a great honor to have a platform to put out these personal projects. If you ask me, that is all anyone could ask for, and if people listen, it is an added bonus. <3
And we can turn back the clock, making moves that I thought I wanted back at 21, 22, 23, 24 / Never wrong, thought I was never wrong and better off just wanting less but I knew all of me wanted more. -"Untitled" by Matthew Chaim
- Sway Clarke – Champagne Supernova
- Matt Champion – Punks
- Asaiah Ziv – Here (ft. SPZRKT)
- Alex Young – yrstruly
- Rostam – Gravity Don't Pull Me
- Tunji Ige – War
- Broderick Batts – Fuck the New Kids
- Matthew Chaim – Untitled
- Richie Quake – Irresistable (Ice Cold)
- Mndsgn – Camelblues
- Rome Fortune – All The Way
- DJ Dodger Stadium – I Don't Love You
- Ny Shallah – #PassOut
- Elijah Fox – Komodo
- Lil Uzi Vert – 1987 (Edit)
- Ricky Anthony – GHOST
- Babeo Baggins – Things I Forgot to Do (ft. Drake)
[Download Mixtape] Tape Tuesday: Silver Car Crash
I can't have many more summers like this. Silver Car Crash is the result of that realization and the looming issue I refuse to face that is my future. I know what I am about to say about ideas is ironic considering this cover, title, and paragraph are a direct result of my ideas, but I don't feel like I do enough with my ideas. Here's why. In the perfect world, everyone shares their best ideas, and from that grand mixing pot of people's best ideas, the absolute best idea is selected as the concept for a product. But in the world we live in, the best idea doesn't always win, so we learn to conform. We learn to adjust our ideas to fit with old ideas. In essence, we are constantly updating the second or third best idea, and no matter how much we update that idea it will never match the potential of the absolute best idea. iPhone 5s are a good reference for this process. It is backwards and terrible, so that's why a frustrated, young thinker invented art (probably) because there is no "best" art; there are many "best" art(s). I don't really know the point of this. I just know that I enjoy using art as the medium for sharing my ideas because the real world is horrifying, and there's no reason why the best idea shouldn't always win. But the fact that I enjoy something doesn't mean it's right, and as I type this I am realizing that I need to start sharing more ideas outside of a safe, cushioned context and face this shit head on in a silver car crash. Okay, that was corny. But hey, I said the title, so it had to feel at least a little validating after reading all the crap I wrote above. Sorry. Don't conform, and be brave.
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BenZel – Fallin' Love (Alex Young Remix)
Alex Young is a sixteen-year-old, D.C.-based electronic wizard. This remix pairs him up with fellow youngsters BenZel, making me feel bad about what I was doing at 15 and 16. If you want to know about the future of music, look no further. This remix features chopped up vocal samples from BenZel's blog smash matched with piano and synths that will have you moving in your desk chair at work (or whatever you do; I don't know you). Check it out, along with some of my favorite Alex Young originals.
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A message from the owner of SoCalFire:
I figured that it would be time for me to update the site a little, so I came in to change a few things around, and began to look around. I was surprised to find that what I had wrote 5 years ago isn't too far off from what we're already experienced here, just 5 years later.
In 2002, I was on the McNalley fire on the Sequoia NF, and when our strike team was demobed, they wanted to send us to San Diego for the fires down there. I was ready to go, but our strike team leader decided that we should go home instead.
In 2004 I joined the ACS program with OES, and I've been to a SAR mission, and 3 major fires since then. I've had to turn down assignments because of working a full-time job with the County of Fresno.
Here it is 2007, and we've had a 800 ac fire in Griffith Park, a 2500 ac fire in Gorman, 150 and 300 ac fires here in Madera County, and there's a fire currently burning in the Shasta-Trinity NF at 800 ac this early in the season. After plenty of early-season rain last year, and not enough rain this year, it's going to be rough. We're seeing fire conditions now that we shouldn't be seeing until the end of June into July, which worries me as to what we're going to have in September when the fire danger is at its worst.
I'll leave the old message below, since it has a lot of good information, especially about the mailing list and other things. I probably won't be working at Staging this year unless it's on the weekends or night shift.
Stay safe, and keep your dime,
John "Smokey Behr" Gleichweit
Fire Season 2002 looks to be a real ripper with the lack of rain in both the Southland, and across the West. Already this year there have been dozens of small brush fires in SoCal, and as I write this, there is a ~100 acre fire being mopped up in BDU.
Rainfall totals and snowpack totals this year are in the area of 33-66% of normal across the state, and roughly 50% across the West. New Mexico experienced its first major fire in March, and currently another major fire has burned almost 10,000 acres, with only 5% containment. Arizona is mopping up a 38,000 acre blaze, Colorado is mopping up a ~400 acre incident, and "very high to extreme fire indices" are indicated across the southwest.
As many of you know, I'm currently a paid-call firefighter with Madera County Fire. One of our duties in the summer is to open the Madera Mobilization Center (Madera Staging) for resources traveling from one end of the state to the other. I'll be working that center this summer, so if any of you reading this page, or the list come through, look or ask for me, and we'll have a face-to-face and a few laughs.
If you haven't joined the mailing list, please do so. There's a lot of info that you're missing.
If you have an alphanumeric pager, and you want to get updates on incidents, join the Incident Paging Network. If you have a scanner and can spend 20 hours a month listening, you can be a dispatcher for IPN, sending out pages. Central California is especially deficient in dispatchers, so we're missing hundreds of incidents per month.
Thanks to everyone that has contributed to the list, especially Harry Marnells, and my NorCalFire counterpart, Jake Hickok.
If you have any pictures that you'd like to see featured, e-mail me, and I'll put it up. I'm going to try and get pictures of various fire stations and apparatus around Central California, as well as pictures inside the various dispatch centers, so you can see the faces behind the voices.


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M.A. Areas of Concentration
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East Asia
The Master of Arts in East Asian Studies is an interdisciplinary degree designed for those who wish to pursue careers in such fields as international banking, business, diplomacy, journalism, law, or secondary education, as well as for those who plan to seek admission to a Ph.D. program in a specific discipline but who lack the necessary background in language or area studies.
The M.A. candidate must demonstrate proficiency in Japanese, Chinese, or Korean, be registered for at least two semesters at Cornell as a full-time student, and complete the Masters of Arts thesis as described below. An individualized course of study is designed by the student in consultation with a Special Committee, selected by the student and composed of two members of the Graduate Faculty, one of whom (the Special Committee Chair) must be a member of the core faculty in Asian Studies.
Requirements for the Master of Arts in East Asian Studies
A minimum of two semesters in residence at Cornell is required. Entering students who do not demonstrate language proficiency as defined below may require up to four semesters to complete the requirements. All master's candidates must finish their degrees within four years from their first registration in Cornell's Graduate School. (What counts is total elapsed time, not just time in residence.)
Language Proficiency
Candidates for the M.A. degree must demonstrate a minimum of proficiency in an East Asian Language. This generally represents the equivalent of three years of non-intensive language study (both oral and written). Alternatively, students may satisfy the language proficiency requirement by achieving a satisfactory score on the appropriate language test. (Selection of appropriate tests and passing scores are now under consideration; fees for these tests, if any, will be the student's responsibility.) The level of proficiency of students who have studied their chosen East Asian language before entry into the field will be determined by examination before placement. Students with little language background (one or two years) should consider starting their language training in June of the year in which they plan to enter the M.A. program.
Course Work
In addition to satisfying the language requirement, the candidate for the M.A. must complete two semesters of full-time residence at Cornell. This usually means completing eight one-semester courses and a bibliography course. The minimal acceptable grade for course work is B-; these courses may not be taken S/U. Because the M.A. program is designed to provide balanced, interdisciplinary training, students should have at least two disciplines represented in their course of study. The student is guided in setting up a program by a Special Committee composed of two faculty members selected by the student. These are normally the professors for whom the M.A. research papers are written (see M.A. Thesis section below); the Chair of the Special Committee must be a member of the Asian Studies Field core faculty, while minor member(s) may be any permanent Cornell faculty member at the rank of assistant professor or above. Course work normally will conform to the guidelines spelled out below. however, if the candidate and faculty committee find valid reasons for establishing a variant course of study, they may petition the Director of Graduate Studies to do so.
Typical Course of Study
Regular course option
- 1st year: Summer language work if necessary. Second-year Chinese/Japanese/Korean plus Asian Studies courses during year.
- 2nd year: Third year Chinese/Japanese/Korean plus area studies courses.
Students entering with at least two years of language training (test required)
- 1st year: Third-year Chinese/Japanese/Korean plus area studies courses.
- 3rd sem.: Area studies courses plus advanced language if desired.
Students with language proficiency beyond the 3rd year (test required)
Such students may, with concentrated effort, find it possible to complete the M.A. program in one year. Courses must be carefully chosen so that one M.A. research paper is completed each semester.
Coursework Guidelines
In addition to the language and bibliography course requirements, a student must normally complete eight one-semester courses, achieving a B- grade or better. At least four courses should be "core courses," while the rest may be either core courses or electives, as described below.
Core Courses
A minimum of four courses (15 credits) should be Asian Studies or disciplinary courses (number 3000 or above; 2293 or above in the case of History Department courses) taught by faculty in the East Asia area and dealing primarily with the cultures of East Asia.
After fulfilling the language proficiency and core coursework requirements, students will have space left in their schedules for additional study. In order that students achieve both breadth of language skills and disciplinary diversity, we recommend that two or more courses be selected from each of the following groups, to serve as electives:
Advanced language courses in the student's primary East Asian language or beginning courses in a second East Asian language.
Disciplinary courses in the student's primary field of interest which do not deal primarily with East Asia (i.e., international affairs, comparative literature, etc.) These must be courses in which graduate students normally enroll (usually 3000-level courses and above), and they should be approved by the student's Special Committee Chair.
M.A. Thesis
The Master of Arts Thesis, which must be submitted by all candidates for the degree, normally consists of two 15- to 25- page research papers that have been written in two of the courses the candidate has taken during his or her period of residence. The two papers (each of which must have a bibliography) will be bound together (they may be edited into one integrated essay in the course of writing, but this is not required) and presented in the form prescribed by the Graduate School for the M.A. Thesis. Graduate School deadlines for May, August, and January degrees must be met.
Oral Examination
Upon completion of all other requirements, the candidate is responsible for scheduling an oral examination through the Graduate School in consultation with the members of his or her Special Committee. This committee consists of two faculty members, normally the instructors in the courses for which the research papers were written. They will conduct an informal review and discussion of the papers submitted by the candidate and may require some revision before final acceptance.
Financial Aid
Unfortunately, financial aid resources for M.A. students are at present extremely limited. One or two truly exceptional incoming students each year are nominated for a Sage Fellowship, but only one student in the last several years has been successful in these university-wide competitions. (And foreign students who typically receive low GRE scores do not fare well in these competitions.)
The Graduate School has strict rules prohibiting incoming graduate students from serving as teaching assistants, and the Field of Asian Studies has no teaching or research assistant positions to apportion to new students. Also, because of the very size-able population of gifted Asian scholars around Ithaca, it is unreasonable to expect teaching positions in the Department of Asian Studies for the instruction of Asian languages.
The result, unfortunately, is that students must be fully self-funded. To make matters worse, the Graduate School requires that foreign students fully document their financial resources prior to admission.
South Asia
The Master's program is designed for professionals who need specialized training in South Asia and for graduate students seeking area training before completing a disciplinary degree.During their period of residency, students will be expected to:
- Develop depth in South Asia area studies, normally through courses offered by core program faculty and treating primarily the cultures and civilization of South Asia.
- Demonstrate competence in more than one discipline, normally through course work in different departments.
The M.A. in South Asian Studies has three main requirements:
- Residency at Cornell for at least one year (two semesters) and successful completion (with a minimum grade of B-; cannot be taken S/U) of eight one- semester courses. Note: One year fulfills the Graduate School minimum; many students will need a longer residency.
- Language Proficiency equivalent to at least three years of normal study.
- An M.A. thesis of 30 to 50 pages in length.
Students coming with little or no knowledge of a South Asian language will almost certainly need more than one year to complete the degree, but progress can be made during the summer. Those with an interest in Nepal should consider enrolling in the intensive summer program in Nepali (yearly) currently offered at Cornell.
Unfortunately, there is very little University aid to M.A. students at Cornell. Most have external funding or are self-supporting. Citizens or permanent residents of the U.S. are eligible for funding through U.S. Department of Education's Foreign Lanuage and Area Studies (FLAS) grants administered by the South Asia Program. Contact the fellowship coordinator for further details.
For further information contact:
Graduate Field Assistant
Department of Asian Studies
350 Rockefeller Hall
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Southeast Asia
The M.A. in Asian Studies: Southeast Asia is an interdisciplinary degree program which emphasizes language and area studies on Southeast Asia in the social sciences, the humanities, and selected professional fields.
The program is designed for individuals who plan on, or who are already engaged in, professional careers -- business, diplomacy, journalism, banking, law -- that require a strong background in Southeast Asia, and for students who wish to acquire language/area studies proficiency before pursuing a disciplinary Ph.D. program.
The degree requirements are: proficiency in at least one Southeast Asian language (the equivalent of three years of non-intensive language study). This can be obtained in two academic years plus one summer or in two summers and one academic year. Students can also complete the equivalent of one year of language studies by attending the Southeast ASia Summer Studies Institute (SEASSI).
In addition to language study, each M.A. candidate is expected to successfully complete (with a grade no less than B-)a minimum of eight one-semester courses. While most of these courses are expected to be those taught by Southeast Asia Program faculty, it is also possible to enroll in other courses in the social sciences and humanities. A written thesis must be submitted by all candidates, 50 to 80 pages in length, on a topic approved by the thesis advisor. The M.A. thesis should be an independent contribution to scholarship on Southeast Asia.
The academic program of each M.A. candidate is supervised by a two or three person special committee comprised of faculty members of the Asian Studies: Southeast Asia graduate faculty. The candidate and his/her special committee plan all elements of graduate study, including course work and the M.A. thesis.


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Contact: Jesse Nelson, 605-390-7978
RAPID CITY, S.D. – On Sunday, May 20, the intersection of Highway 16 and Catron Boulevard in Rapid City, will become a four-way stop from about 5:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
The signals will be shut off for electrical upgrades for about three hours and will return to normal operation once work is complete.
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