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I haven't written anything here in a really, really long time. Here's a brief summary of what I've been up to for the last … oh, I don't know, year. Actually - strike that. I'm not going to post an update of a year's worth of going to battle each day with the hamster wheel. I've beefed up my vinyl collection (and the tube hifi setup I use to listen to it), simplified a lot of the unnecessary chaos in my life, and flung myself a good many steps further down a few different roads at the same time, which is probably not great. But so far the new day job is looking like a promising endeavor after all.
As for personal things, I was recently told I get one step closer to turning into Hank Moody every day. I can't say I agree with that, but dating has certainly become an excessively impossible misadventure. I can't fake the interest in most of these girls even long enough to sleep with them anymore. It's got to be akin to watching a man shoot himself in the foot just to see if anyone will notice. I'm trying to take a break from it to minimize the body count, but I can't say I always succeed. On the other, my current break from the break might actually turn out in a positive way. Famous last words, right? Cross your toes for me.
… and with that, this blog has gone over the hill. I'll consider us sufficiently caught up on the last year and try to do a slightly better job next year. Amen.

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Studies show that the food we eat can be a great tool in the fight against cancer.
This is just one of the things Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) uses in a patient's plan. But the food they serve, is not only going to get even healthier, it's going to be at the tip of their hands.
Baby carrots and fennel are just a few of the foods that Frank Caputo loves to cook with. He's the executive chef at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Goodyear.
Food is a part of the holistic approach the hospital takes when it comes to treating cancer patients.
"We try to concentrate on mainly lowering sodium, saturated fat," Caputo said. "And then we start going towards the specialized diets; gluten-free, the vegan, no iodine or low iodine."
Caputo does that with organic produce. But when it comes to buying it, he won't have to go far. The Goodyear campus will soon have its own organic farm.
"Were going to have carrots, beats, broccoli, radishes, squashes and eggplant, all different kinds of kale," Caputo said.
The hospital partnered up with local farmer, Bob McClendon of McClendon's Select.
"Were going to have a state of the art organic farm, 25 acres right next to the hospital," McClendon said. "It can't get any fresher than that for the kitchen staff."
McClendon's company has been supplying organic food to the chef's menu for more than a year.
"I'm a cancer survivor myself, so it really hit home when I saw what they did," McClendon said.
"They care about what they cook with. They care about the quality of the food that they're patients, but not just their patients, their staff," he continued. "Their staff eats the same food."
Go ahead and ask Beverly Knudson. Her cancer is in remission.
"I really didn't realize how important food was until I came here," Knudson said. "Now I eat things that I have never eaten before. "I eat salads. I eat organic things."
"This is a spectacular opportunity for us to show number one our community and our patients how much we are committed to helping them battle this disease," Caputo said. "Make it through the treatments and continue on with their life."
The first planting is expected to take place on November first.
CTCA is also planning on letting patients grow their own veggies as well as opening an educational center where cooking demos and nutrition classes will be available to the public.
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Video: Ann Mische on Peacemaking and Our Perceptions of the Future
October 14, 2014 •
"The capacity to project into the future is an essential component of our agency as human beings. It's in our imaginations, yet it has a real impact upon what we do. It draws us forward in different ways," said Ann Mische, an associate professor in Notre Dame's Department of Sociology and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Read More >
The Paradox of Generosity
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The Paradox of Generosity: Giving We Receive, Grasping We Lose
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Bearing Witness to Protest in Rio de Janeiro Favelas
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Kellogg PhD Fellow Stefanie Israel (sociology) reports from Rio de Janeiro where she is conducting pre-dissertation field research on slum "pacification" with an Institute graduate research grant. Read More >
'Trophy Wife' Stereotype is Largely a Myth, New Study Shows
June 18, 2014 •
Most people are familiar with the "trophy wife" stereotype that attractive women marry rich men, placing little importance on their other traits, including physical appearance, and that men look for pretty wives but don't care about their education or earnings. New research, however, by University of Notre Dame sociologist Elizabeth McClintock shows the trophy wife stereotype is largely a myth fueled by selective observation that reinforces sexist stereotypes and trivializes women's careers. Read More >
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June 04, 2014 •
Kerry Ann Rockquemore, who received her doctorate in sociology from the University of Notre Dame in 1999, will deliver the address at the University's Graduate School Commencement Ceremony at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 17, in the Compton Family Ice Arena. Rockquemore will receive the Distinguished Alumna Award at the Graduate School Awards Dinner on May 16. Her address will be the centerpiece of the Graduate School Commencement ceremony the next day, when the University will honor its master's and doctoral degree recipients. Read More >
Culture Warriors: Cultural Sociology at Notre Dame
April 28, 2014 •
The Department of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame has traditionally been recognized for its continuing strengths in the sociology of religion, the sociology of education, and the study of social movements and political sociology. In recent years, Notre Dame has managed to firmly establish itself as a hub for excellence in cultural sociology, to the point where it is safe to consider Notre Dame one of the few places that can call themselves "culture departments" without danger of stretching the meaning of that term.
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Three Notre Dame researchers—combining expertise in psychology, religion, and peace—have been awarded a grant from Notre Dame International's Global Collaboration Initiative to study the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The researchers will join with a team of scholars from universities in Israel and Palestine. Read More >
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Notre Dame's annual Graduate Research Symposium on Feb. 27 showcased the accomplishments of Notre Dame graduate students in the Graduate School's four divisions: humanities, social science, engineering, and science. Read More >
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As a college student, Erin Metz McDonnell wanted "to experience a world view as completely different from my own as possible, a way of life that would take me out of my Midwestern comfort zone." She chose Ghana and fell in love with the country. Now a Kellogg Assistant Professor of Sociology at Notre Dame, McDonnell continues to explore the region in her research and teaching. Read More >


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By Evan Katz '15
I can't say if being abroad "changes you," at least in the way everyone says it does. I still talk like me, look like me. My clothing choices are still what my girlfriend would call "distinctly fourth grade-esque." As far as I can see (and believe me, I've looked) I'm pretty much still myself. If anything's changed, it's my priorities, what matters most. Not so much in the profound "I've-seen-how-hot-dogs-are-made-and-now-I'm-a-vegetarian" sense; I've seen how they're made and I still love cookouts. No, it has to do more with the little things, the everyday and the trivial having evolved to be of grand importance.
Things I would've hardly noticed before, like how people pronounce my name, now seem to be of incredible annoyance when your host family continuously calls me to dinner with two extra syllables (it's "Evan," not "Eeayevan," contrary to popular belief). On the flip side, I've come to appreciate some little aspects of life tenfold – the rare hot shower, understanding a Spanish joke, the incredible taste of some fresh sushi I had last week for the first time here in Ecuador.
In an attempt to account for these newly-important aspects of my life that have popped up, especially with regard to the less pleasant ones, I've done my best to create workarounds, mental contingency plans, if you will, in what I suppose is my subconscious attempt to keep a grip on a lifestyle that rarely lets me stay in the saddle.
For example, losing my home WiFi connection here is something of the norm. While I'd probably be able to brush off a downed router in the States ("You've been watching NetFlix for six hours, Evan. Check your pulse and go outside.), here it's a major catastrophe if not dealt with quickly and efficiently. It's my only connection to the world outside our third floor apartment, after all. Luckily, my emergency response team and I have developed the following:
Internet Connectivity Failure Standardized Action Plan (ICFSAP)
Code Blue: In the result of a WiFi outage, do not panic. Calmly remember that your apartment's router is so old it appears to outdate the internet itself and may likely be a refurbished rotary phone. Approach it (slowly, as not to scare it) and fiddle with it as if you know what you're doing. Be firm and use force if necessary – your router needs to know who is in charge.
Code Green: In the event of a Code Blue failure, continue to remain calm. Switch onto your sluggish elderly neighbors' WiFi (both the Wifi and the elders are sluggish, to clarify) and take comfort in the fact that they probably don't even know what a password is, much less how to use one to protect their internet.
Code Orange: In the unlikely event both Code Blue and Green fail, you may permit yourself to panic just a little. Put your laptop in your backpack and fill all remaining space with peanuts (actual peanuts, not packing peanuts – you may be out a while.) Board the nearest bus and make your way quickly to the internet café twenty minutes away. Do not be swayed by the fact that it is 8 p.m. and raining; this is important.
Code Red: In the astronomically unlikely (weekly) event that WiFi is not functioning in any of these locations, you are truly in bad shape. Considering that based on surrounding evidence WiFi appears to be out in all of Ecuador and likely the entire world, this would be a perfect time to panic. Some unconventional theorists might suggest "reading a book," but considering there's really no point to living anymore, why bother?
You'd think with all these precautionary measures in place, the safety nets, the unsinkable, child-proof, fool-proof, foolish-child-proof plans, I'd be able to avoid most of these unpredictably troublesome things. But I guess that's the nature of unpredictable things, and studying abroad in general – you don't know what's gonna hit you, or when. You spend days building your sandcastle's walls strong against the lapping tide only to have them trampled by the rare Ecuadorian beach moose.
I arrived home late-ish the other day, tired and ready to go to bed. My host mom warmly greeted me as I stepped through the door, and then added, "By the way – someone using a backhoe in the middle of the road hit a major water line. So just don't use the sink, shower, or toilet. They said they'll fix it in oh, three days or so."
You can't plan for these things, no matter how much thought you put in, how many color-coded blueprints (and are they really still blue, in that case?) you and your emergency response team draw up. More often than not, you just have to take what comes and adjust accordingly. No water? I didn't really have to pee that bad, anyway.


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A run-of-the-mill repo takes a disastrous legal turn for Sonia, and the owner of an expensive hovercraft gets snooty with Matt and Froy.
In this kick-off to the final season, the cast takes viewers back through the most outrageous, comical, and memorable repos of the series.
In this special hour long series finale, the team gears up for their last repossession.
A professional stunt driver slips through Froy and Sonia's grasp, sending them on a violent high speed chase. Matt offends a pretty RO who seeks womanly revenge, and Froy and Carlos go undercover at a lowrider show. And when Sonia announces a dangerous plan to save the company from the lawsuit, the team must decide whether they're willing to risk it all.
Ronnie and Froy repo from a stripper who leaves them tongue tied, and a magician's stunning sleight of hand backfires on Carlos. Sonia is forced to put her faith in Carlos for the team's next big job, and news from her lawyer puts the pressure on more than ever.
A hoarder with a secret tries to pull a fast one on Matt and Froy, and Sonia takes sides in a dramatic lover's quarrel.
Ronnie and Froy go tomato-to-tomato with an organic farmer who won't give up his tractor, and a Hollywood agent offers Matt a shot in the big leagues in order to keep his car.
Froy and Sonia encounter a city employee who tries to give them the boot, and a mechanic's shady scheme comes crashing down on Matt and Ronnie. But with Froy still in debt to Sonia, an RO's offer to make a quick buck convinces Froy to break the first rule of repo.
In the premiere of the final season of Operation Repo, the team must recover an airplane and return one-hundred thousand dollars. But after two members of the team bail when it's time to save the company, will the others be able to bounce back in time to avoid a jail sentence?
On this special season finale of Operation Repo, the team gears up for a mile high repo of a lifetime! Froy and Sonia repo a water blob from a lake house, but the RO and his friends refuse to let this deflate their party. And with Sonia's hands tied, she is forced to offer Matt a position on the airplane. The team takes to the skies, but when plans go awry will Matt make the ultimate sacrifice for the team? Or will his ego force everything to spiral violently out of control?
Matt is eager to work his way onto Sonia's coveted airplane repo, despite her adamancy against him. Ronnie and Sonia head to a winery, but the sommelier RO isn't as classy as he first appears, and when wine gets thrown in Sonia's face, all hell breaks loose. Matt and Carlos go after a concrete breaker, but the group of overgrown boys doing renovations take their demolition to the repo truck with Carlos trapped inside. Will Matt save Carlos, or is this his ticket onto the repo of a lifetime?
Carlos goes undercover at a frat house, but when the party gets the best of him Sonia has to step in and fight the drunken mob. And when Matt and Ronnie go after some wanna-be internet sensations, they become the RO's ticket to fame in a violent potato launcher attack bound to go viral. And Sonia meets with a mysterious man who offers the job of a lifetime, but is it too good to be true?
Sonia, the new boss, is still struggling to keep the team in line, but when tragedy strikes on a routine repossession, her reign at the top faces its biggest challenge yet. Matt and Froy hit the club to take a sports car away from a deadbeat DJ, Froy and Carlos make an appointment with a dentist to repossess his examination chair, and Sonia and Froy take aim at an archer couple with disastrous consequences.
Sonia pushes the company to repossess more than just cars, and the backlash from the team threatens to end her time in charge before it's even begun.? Ronnie and Matt attempt to repo from a reckless motocross daredevil, Matt and Carlos confront an entrepreneur with a foolproof (and illegal) business plan, and Froy and Sonia get caught in the middle of a fiery hillbilly brawl.
Lou has retired, making Sonia the new boss, but will she be able to keep the company going without her big brother?? Matt and Ronnie try to take a car away from of yuppie with an unusual taste for red meat, Sonia and Froy teach a sweet sixteen year old a life lesson, and Froy and Matt go hand-to-switchblade with a gaggle of riotous greasers.
The team wonders what's up with Sonia as she wrestles with Lou's big secret. Ronnie goes undercover and takes a gold digging RO out on a date, but when Carlos lets the cat out of the bag all hell breaks loose. Matt and Froy struggle with language barriers when an Italian photographer and his assistant resorts to violence because they can't comprehend. Will Sonia finally reveal what's happening, or will carrying her brother's burden get the best of her?
From luxury boats and planes to expensive sports cars and tricked-out trucks, if you can't make your payments, the Operation Repo team will find you! When it comes to recovering property from deadbeat owners, Lou, Sonia, Matt, Froy and Lyndah will stop at nothing to get the job done.
A woman lets her husband's taco truck be repossessed as long as she gets to keep the tacos.
A cute but easily flustered car owner vomits all over Matt.
The team is in for an unexpected surprise on their latest mission.
Are Lou's repossession days over?
A spooky repossession where Matt gets attacked is right up Sonia's alley.
Froy and Lou take the job to a bowling alley, where an angry young man throws a gutter ball.
Meet the man voted 'Most Likely To Have His Car Repossessed in Front of Two Pretty Ladies' by his graduating class.
The team sets up a bogus interview to catch a whiny cyclist who is behind on his expensive bike payments.
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Fall 2013 IEAMF Festival
October 29 – 31
7 p.m.
Studio 312, Brooklyn College
Tuesday, October 29
"Mike McFerron and Friends," featuring performances by Rebecca Ashe (flute) and Ian Corbett (saxophone). With works by Mike McFerron, Ian Corbett, Rob Voisey and Jay Batzner.
Wednesday, October 30
"The Theremin and Hollywood," including a screening of The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951 version). With featured guests Professor Foster Hirsch, film historian, and Dalit Warshaw, composer and theremin virtuosa, who will give a theremin demonstration and performance. Plus a special surprise guest.
Thursday, October 31
"Emerging Composers," featuring world premiere works by: Max Alper, Ivonne Paredes, Jack Horowitz, Jessica DiMari, Nick Nelson, Whitney George, Konrad Kamm, Matthew Gantt, John Dunlop, Abe Morrison, Jabbath Roa and Dan Henry Boehler.
Spring 2013 IEAMF Festival
Thursday, March 21
Music of Walter Branchi
Tuesday, April 9
Emerging Composers
Thursday, April 11
80th Birthday Celebration for Morton Subotnick
Fall 2012 IEAMF Festival
Tuesday, November 6
Music of David Revill, Tom Goldstein, Jason Eckardt, Arthur Krieger and Marc Thorman.
Wednesday, November 7
Music of Douglas Geers, Linda Dusman, Douglas Cohen, Anna Rubin, Tania León and George Brunner.
Thursday, November 8
Emerging Composers
Spring 2012 IEAMF Festival
April 3, 5, 21 and 26, 2012
Three nights of electroacoustic music performances and installations at Brooklyn College.
The spring 2012 festival is honored to include a special 80th birthday celebration concert for renowned composer Pauline Oliveros on Thursday, April 26.
All events are free and open to everyone.
Tuesday, April 3
12:30 p.m., 206 Roosevelt Hall Extension
Presentation by composer Per Bloland on his works
7 p.m., Studio 312 Roosevelt Hall Extension
The Kenners and Per Bloland: The Electromagnetically Prepared Piano
Composer Per Bloland and electroacoustic duo the Kenners (Eliot Gattegno, saxophones and Eric Wubbels, piano) will perform. Program will include: "Of Dust and Sand," Per Bloland; "Divertimento," Charles Wuorinen; "This Is, This Is, This Is," Eric Wubbels; "torsion," Katharina Rosenberger; and "Quintet for Solo Saxophone and Electronics," Per Bloland.
Thursday, April 5
7 p.m., Studio 312, Roosevelt Hall Extension
Emerging Composers Concert
Featuring works by Butovens Mede, Arsid Ketjuntra, Gocha Tsinadze, Max Alper, John Dunlap, Camila Cano, Jabbath Roa, Víctor Castelo, Jeff Tobias, Ian Munro and Nick Nelson.
Thursday, April 21
11 a.m. – 7 p.m., Studio 312 Roosevelt Hall Extension
Symposium on Electroacoustic Music Performance
A full day of presentations and discussions about the electroacoustic performance. Participants include Maja Cerar, Douglas Cohen, R. Luke Dubois, Rebbeca Fiebrink, Doug Geers, Jules Gimbrone, Marianne Gythfeldt, Michael Klingbeil, Elizabeth Hoffman, Damon Holzborn, Mari Kimura, Michael Klingbeil, Esther Lamneck, Tania León, Martha Mooke, Dafna Naphtali, Jaime Oliver, Terry Pender, Todd Reynolds, Robert Rowe, Madeleine Shapiro, Jeff Snyder, Hans Tammen, David Wetzel and Red Wierenga.
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7 p.m., Studio 312 Roosevelt Hall Extension
Pauline Oliveros 80th Birthday Celebration Concert
Pauline Oliveros and special guests will play an entire concert of her works. Program details TBA.


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HoloVID is a tool originally developed for the holographic dimensional measurement of the internal isogrid webbing of the Delta Series of (launch vehicle) Space Craft skins by Mark Slater in 1981.
Delta Space Craft was produced by McDonnell Douglas Astronautics, until the line was purchased by Boeing Aircraft. Milled out of T6 Aluminum, on huge 40 foot by 20 foot horizontal mills, the inspection of the huge sheets took longer than the original manufacturing. It was estimated that a real time in-situ inspection device could seriously cut costs so an IRAD (Independent Research and Development ) budget was generated to solve the problem. Two solutions were worked simultaneously by Mark Slater, a photo-optical techniques utilizing Holographic lens, and an ultrasonic technique utilizing configurable micro-transducer multiplexed arrays.
A pair of HoloVids for simultaneous frontside and backside weld feedback, was later used at Martin Aerospace to inspect the long weld seams which hold the external fuel tanks of the Space Shuttle together. By controlling the Weld bead profile in real time as it was TIG generated, an optimum weight vs. performance ratio could be obtained, saving the launch engines from having to waste thrust energy, while guaranteeing the highest possible web strengths.
Many corporations (Kodak, Immunex, Boeing, Johnson and Johnson, Aerospace Corp., Silverline, and others) use customized versions of the Six Dimensional Non-Contact Reader w/ Integrated Holographic Optical Processing, for applications from SuperComputer Surface Mount pad assessment, to Genetic Biochemical Assay Analysis.
HoloVid belongs to a class of sensor known as a structured-light 3D scanner device. The use of structured light to extract three-dimensional shape information is a well known technique.[1][2] The use of single planes of light to measure the distance and orientation of objects has been reported several times.[3][4][5]
The use of multiple planes [6][7][8] and multiple points [9][10] of light to measure shapes and construct volumetric estimates of objects has also been widely reported.[11]
The use of segmented phase holograms to selectively deflect portions of an image wave front... is unusual. The holographic optical components used in this device, split tessellated segments of a returning wave front in programmable bulk areas and shaped patches to achieve a unique capability, increasing both the size of an object which can be read and the z-axis depth per point which is measurable, while also increasing the simultaneous operations possible which is a significant advance in the previous state of art.
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A laser beam is made to impinge onto a target surface. The angle of the initially nonlinear optical field can be non-orthogonal to the surface. This light beam is then reflected by the surface in a wide conical spread function which is geometrically related to the incidence angle, light frequency, wavelength and relative surface finish. A portion of this reflected light enters the optical system coaxially, where a 'stop' shadows the edges. In a single point reader, this edge is viewed along a radius by a photodiode array.
The output of this device is a boxcar output where the photodiodes are sequentially lit diode by diode as the object distance changes in relation to the sensor until either no diodes are lit, or all diodes are lit. The residue product product charge dynamic value in each light diode cell is a function of the bias current, the dark current and the incident ionizing radiation (in this case, the returning laser light).
In the multipoint system, the HoloVid, the cursor point is acousto-optically scanned in the x-axis across a K theta monaxial transformer. A monaxial holographic lens collects the wave front and reconstructs the pattern onto the single dimensional photodiode array and a two dimensional matrix sensor. Image processing of the sensor data derives the correlation between the compressed wave front and the actual physical object.
- ^ Agin, G.J., "Real Time Control of a Robot with a Mobile Camera". Technical Note 179, SRI International, Feb. 1979.
- ^ Bolles, R.C. and M.A. Fischler, "A Ransac-based Approach to Model Fitting and its Application to Finding Cylinders in range data", Proc. Seventh IJCAI, August 1981.
- ^ Posdamer, J.L. and M.D. Altschuler, "Surface Measurement by Space-encoded Projected Beam Systems", Computer Graphics and Image Processing 181, 182, 1–7.
- ^ Popplestone, R.J. and C.M. Brown, A.P. Ambler, and G.F. Crawford, "Forming models of plane and cylindrical faceted bodies from light stripes", Proc. Fourth IJCAI, Sept. 1975.
- ^ Oshima, M and Y. Shirai, "Object recognition using three dimensional information", Proc. Seventh IJCAI, August 1981, 601-606.
- ^ Albus, J.E., M. Nashman, P. Mansbach and L. Palombo, "Six dimensional vision system", Proc. SPIE Vol. 336, 1982, 142–148.
- ^ Okada, S., "Welding machine using shape detector", Mitsubishi-Denki-Giho, Vol. 47-2, 1973, 157.
- ^ Taenser, D., "Progress report on visual inspection of solder joints", M.I.T. A.I. Lab., Working Paper No. 96, 1976.
- ^ Nakagawa, Y., "Automatic visual inspection of solder joints on printed circuit boards", Proc. SPIE Vol. 336, 1982, 121–127.
- ^ Duda, R. and D. Nitzan, "Low level processing of registered range and intensity data", Artificial Intelligence Center Technical Note 129, SRI Project 4201, March 1976.
- ^ Nitzan, D. A. Brain, and R,Duda, "The measurement and use of registered reflectance and range data in scene analysis", Proc. IEEE, February 1977, 206–220.


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♪ Name: Aubrey Posen
♪ Age: 22
♪ Year: Senior
♪ Major: Music
♪ Group: Bellas
♪ Ships: Mitchsen, Chloe/Aubrey, Aubrey/Chemestry
♪ Bio:
Aubrey's house wasn't the most inviting; even to the people in her family. Her father had incredibly high expectations for her and everyone else that were very hard to keep up with but Aubrey managed. At a young age, her mother put her into dance and singing lessons, against her father's wishes, and she quickly excelled. She was the best of the best and she knew it. She fell in love with the art and couldn't get enough of it. The only thing that ran through her mind were daydreams of singing in front of millions of people and getting a standing ovation. Her father wanted other things for her, though, and after a huge fight between the two and her mother, Aubrey became a bit of an outcast in her family. Her father hardly speaks to her anymore but she thinks it's worth it to do what she loves.
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- Aubrey is best friends with Chloe Beale.
- She is the Captain of the Bellas.
- She lost the ICCA for the Bellas last year when she vomited on stage.
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Book your room at Jafferji House and Spa
4-star guesthouse with 3 restaurants in Zanzibar Town (Stone Town)
This guesthouse is located in Zanzibar Town (Stone Town), close to Old Fort, House of Wonders, and Forodhani Gardens. Also nearby are Stonetown Beach and Anglican Cathedral.
Property Features
In addition to 3 restaurants, Jafferji House and Spa features a full-service spa. Other amenities include complimentary wireless Internet access and a 24-hour front desk.
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Flat-screen televisions come with cable channels. Guestrooms also feature complimentary wireless Internet access, air conditioning, and safes.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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Dining is available at one of the guesthouse's 3 restaurants. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. Jafferji House and Spa features a full-service spa. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) is offered to guests. This Zanzibar Town guesthouse also offers tour/ticket assistance and room service (during limited hours).
- Tours/ticket assistance
- 24-hour front desk
- Full-service spa
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- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 10
- Number of floors - 2
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- Number of restaurants - 3
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
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Mistress of Spices - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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THE HOT SPOT BISTRO - This bistro serves lunch and dinner.
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Snacking is not good for you. It will ruin your appetite for the real, nutritious meal. That's what parents say. But hey, I assume you're old enough to make your own calls, and snacking really isn't always bad – as long as it's done in moderation, right? Then again, I have to say outright that […]
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Ever wondered how LEGO makes those gigantic, life-sized models, like the ones you see at Comic-Con and FAO Schwartz? LEGO sent us a video of their special team building a replica of The Hobbit's Bag End so you can find out.
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The safeguarding of vulnerable adults continues to increase in importance. Now in its second edition, this book sets this complex area of work within an extensive legal framework, providing many useful pointers for practitioners and students. It comprehensively reflects recent changes to the law, and includes many new case studies. more »2013, Paperback: £40.00/ $69.95
The complete guide to making the transition from student to newly qualified adult or mental health social worker (NQSW). It covers everything you need to know to meet the requirements of NQSW status, and guides you through the challenges and hurdles. Strategies on staying motivated, managing stress and developing support networks are included. more »2011, Paperback: £18.99/ $34.95
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Gasoil Has Record Slump in Europe as Imports From Russia Surge
July 8 (Bloomberg) -- European gasoil, used to heat homes, had the longest slump since in at least 25 years as rising fuel imports from Russia and the U.S. added to a supply glut.
Futures for delivery this month dropped by $7.50 a metric ton, or 0.8 percent, to $888.75 a ton on the ICE Futures Europe exchange in London at 4:20 p.m. That's the 10th daily decline, the longest retreat in ICE data going back to July 1989 on Bloomberg.
Gasoil supplies in Europe's oil trading hub rose to a 16- month high last week, according to PJK International BV, a researcher in the Netherlands. Imports of fuel from Russia and the U.S. have surged this year. Crude oil prices fell below $110 a barrel today, reversing a rally that started when Islamist militants seized a swathe of northern Iraq a month ago.
"Weak demand and a high supply of gasoil from Russia and the U.S. is putting pressure on gasoil prices," Abhishek Deshpande, an analyst at Natixis SA in London, said by e-mail today.
Europe's gasoil inventories are at their highest for this time of year since 2011. Supplies held in independent stockpiles in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp oil hub rose 4.9 percent to 2.5 million metric tons in the week to July 3, PJK data showed.
ICE gasoil prices fell this month after rising in July for the last five years. The contract is a benchmark for middle distillates, a category of fuels that includes diesel, heating oil and jet fuel. Demand for diesel typically rises in the summer.
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"Consumers just haven't been buying," Michael Barry, a director at FGE, an energy consultancy, said by phone from London. "We're still really suffering from the very warm winter. We came out of that winter with very high consumer stocks of heating oil."
Increased imports are also pressuring gasoil prices, Barry said. Russian diesel destined for export rose to 3.7 million tons in May, 23 percent higher than a year earlier, according to data from the Energy Ministry's CDU-TEK unit. Russian refiners including OAO Rosneft reduced maintenance in the first half of the year, enabling them to export more fuel, according to KBC Energy Economics and UralSib Financial Corp., an investment bank.
Diesel shipments to Europe from the U.S. rose to 321,000 barrels a day from January to May, an increase of 5.6 percent from 304,000 in the same period last year, according to an estimate from FGE. North America is becoming a fuel export "titan" as the shale revolution makes U.S. refineries more competitive, the International Energy Agency said June 17.


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The summer program curriculum is built around a central physical question, like "What do earthquakes tell us about the interior of the earth?" Compass's teaching staff believes that solving real-world problems and engaging in peer interaction are much more effective ways to learn than passively listening to someone tell you what you need to know, so the Compass teachers emphasize group work, collaboration, and hands-on activities. The teachers guide the students through the exploration of interesting problems. Additionally, the summer program aims to give students valuable insight into their own learning processes and to make them more effective collaborators and communicators.
During the program, Compass students build friendships while living in the same dorm, sharing meals, and working together on problem sets. In addition to coursework, students in the summer program also participate in activities from research lectures, lab tours, and trips to observatories, to nature hikes, frisbee games, and movie nights.
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Copy of the CVCA Letter to Premier Dalton McGuinty regarding the critical situation facing Ontario's venture capital industry.
March 16, 2009
Premier Dalton McGuinty
Government of Ontario
Legislative Building, Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario
Dear Mr. Premier,
On behalf of Canada's Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA), I would like to draw your attention to the critical situation facing Ontario's venture capital industry. The current severe economic downturn is further exacerbating an already difficult fund raising and investing environment and risks compromising our collective ability to fund the industries of tomorrow.
Venture capital (VC) firms generally focus on entrepreneurial and fast growing small businesses in the technology arena, including information and communications technology, life sciences and biotechnology, alternative energy and clean tech. Perhaps the best known Canadian VC success story is Research in Motion, which has fundamentally changed the way we work and communicate while at once creating tens of thousands of jobs and serving as an engine for Canada's economy.
The CVCA has recently released a study on the economic impacts of venture capital. This study has been led by the CVCA with the financial support of Ontario, several other provincial governments and the federal government. This study clearly shows that venture capital in Canada has resulted in the creation of close to 150,000 jobs and an additional 1% to Canada's GDP. In addition, according to the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC), 700,000 Canadians work in the broader information technology and communications technology sectors.
This record reflects the specialized business-building skills that Canada's venture capital firms bring to their portfolio companies. It is also a measure of our long-term focus, astute risk management and strong sense of corporate responsibility and accountability to stakeholders.
While the venture capital industry has been a key driver of Ontario's prosperity, our members are currently facing significant challenges that we believe require government action. At a time when our economy urgently needs new success stories like RIM, ATI, Open Text, Cognos and Corel, we believe that it is vital for the government to address the:
● Current lack of funding available to bridge the gap between research and development and the commercialization of promising technologies;
● Existing obstacles to foreign investment
Each of these challenges is presented below along with a proposed approach to form the basis for a more detailed discussion.
Access to Funding
Given the current economic environment, fundraising in our sector reached new lows in 2008. The ability of funds to raise new capital impacts their capacity as financial intermediaries to make investments into promising companies. Because of the increasing difficulties in fundraising, between 2003 and 2008, venture capital investment in Ontario dropped to $99 million in Q 4, 2008, down precipitously from $177 million in Q 3, 2008 and from $217 million in Q 4, 2007.
The lack of capital available to venture capital investors reflects the broader market volatility and the new market realities. Institutional investors such as pension funds have incurred considerable losses in their public equity portfolios, which in turn has resulted in a corresponding lower allocation to venture capital and private equity. Additionally, individual investors are increasingly reticent to invest in publicly-traded vehicles such as Labour-Sponsored Venture Capital Corporations, for a variety of reasons, including the gradual withdrawal of tax incentives for investing in the asset class.
Simply, the lack of capital is putting Ontario's innovation at risk. Without funding, there is an increasing and very real risk that Ontario will not be able to fully capitalize on and benefit from its multi-billion dollar investment in research and development.
We note that the federal government has already taken significant steps towards improving SMEs' access to credit. However, the fastest-growing, most export intensive Canadian SMEs are disproportionately backed by equity infusions from venture capital funds. The current economic environment is depriving venture capital funds of their ability to raise capital, thereby robbing our most promising SMEs of the opportunity to grow.
A practical commercialization support program will ensure that more of Ontario's enterprising companies are able to realize their full potential, which will help to strengthen Ontario's competitiveness in the global, knowledge-based economy of the 21st century. The CVCA recommends the following initiatives:
- Setting up a federal $300-million, third-party managed fund of funds similar to the fund recently-established by Ontario to help fuel the growth of vibrant, leading-edge companies;
- Doubling the size of the Ontario venture fund through a direct injection of $200 million in government funding;
- Improving the federal Scientific Research and Experimental Development program (SR&ED) so that for every $1 of approved claims,$1.50 is returned to the company, thereby stimulating its growth and development; Ontario's support on this score would be welcome;
- Enabling greater use of government procurement/offsets to encourage domestic as well as foreign multinational investment in domestic venture capital funds; and
- Creating an incentive for large Ontario corporations to invest in domestic VC funds, where an investment in a VC fund would receive the same tax treatment that is currently available for in-house research and development.
These measures would benefit Ontario's technology firms as well as its venture capital funds in both the short and medium term and would improve our collective ability to achieve the longer-term innovation and productivity goals that are necessary to maintain the province's competitiveness in the global economy.
Removing Remaining Obstacles to Foreign Investment
Foreign venture capital investment has historically been an important contributor to the success of emerging Canadian companies. However, at the end of the fourth quarter of 2008, foreign venture capital investment in Canada fell 56% in 2008 relative to 2007, the lowest level in five years. Moreover, this trend appears to be accelerating.
We encourage the government to examine ways to improve Ontario's and Canada's investment appeal. The CVCA shares the analysis of the situation put forth by the recently-released federal Advisory Panel on Canada's System of International Taxation, namely that the current Section 116 process "may negatively affect Canada's ability to access foreign capital, particularly by private companies." (p.91). The Advisory Panel's Recommendation 7.4 that deals with this matter is, regrettably, insufficient to deal with the problems encountered by our members and by the foreign investors with whom they deal.
Canada currently defines taxable Canadian property to include shares of a private corporation resident in Canada. At the same time, Canada's tax treaties cede taxing jurisdiction to the country where the non-resident vendor is resident, provided the shares do not derive their value principally from real property. Based on the large number of tax treaties Canada has concluded, it appears that Canada is prepared to exempt from taxation all gains realized by non-residents, other than the gains from the disposition of real property.
In light of this treaty policy, we believe that Canada should adopt a broader exemption in its domestic law to exempt gains realized by non-residents other than those arising from the disposition of real property.
We see little benefit in providing the exemption only on a bilateral basis. The benefit of a broader exemption is that it would make Canada a more attractive destination for equity investments by non-residents and, in particular, venture capital and private equity funds. A broader exemption would also reduce a significant compliance burden that acts as an impediment to foreign direct investment in Canada. Unfortunately, recently enacted changes regarding the Section 116 clearance certificate process did not address the issue and are unlikely to reduce the number of situations involving arm's length transactions in which clearance certificates are obtained. We recommend amending the definition of taxable Canadian property so as not to include the shares of a private corporation resident in Canada other than when such shares derive their value principally from real property in Canada.
This proposed solution would put an end to the onerous Section 116 compliance requirements (except for real property), should not result in any significant tax revenue loss and would mirror the practices of most leading international jurisdictions.
We would strongly urge Ontario to continue to press the federal government to remove the Section 116 obstacles to foreign investment.
Encouraging Angel Investing
Although it is not within the CVCA's mandate, we recognize the important role that Angel Investors play in our ecosystem. Although the CVCA has not taken a formal position on the topic, I will note that one half of U.S. State governments have adopted some sort of "Angel Tax Credit" to stimulate the creation of start-ups.
In closing, the strength of our venture capital industry has a direct impact on Canada's economic health as well as the financial well-being of millions of Ontarians. At the CVCA, we take this responsibility very seriously.
We would welcome the opportunity to meet with you to further discuss the opportunities and challenges that are outlined in this letter. I can be reached at 416-607-5150 while the CVCA's Executive Director, Richard Rémillard, can be contacted at 613-744-8969.
Yours sincerely,
Gregory Smith
cc. Dwight Duncan
Minister of Finance
John Wilkinson
Minister of Research and Innovation


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Celebrity Feet: The Dream – Nike Air Force 1 Foamposite – Metallic Silver
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R&B singer, The Dream, attended Gucci's Fashion's Night Out event last week in New York City along with Mary J. Blige, Amar'e Stoudemire, Kim Kardashian, and various other celebrities. The R&B singer whose known for wearing all sorts of eclectic outfits is one of the first celebrities we've seen rock the new Nike Air Force 1 Foamposite that was released only a few weeks ago. The Dream showed up to the red carpet wearing a pair of the Metallic Silver AF1 Foamposite's that could not be missed by the photographers. Take a look at some more pictures of The Dream rocking the new Air Force 1 Foamposite's after the jump and let us know what you think about The Dream's outfit.