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CollabVS is an effort to introduce collaboration and multiparty, distributed software development enhancements into Visual Studio.
CollabVS is a Visual Studio extension (research prototype) that augments the user experience with functionality aimed at collaborative, distributed development.
CollabVS is an effort to introduce collaboration and multiparty, distributed software development enhancements into Visual Studio. A side-effect of this is an enhanced user experience even when the collaborating developers are co-located.
Key Thoughts Behind the Idea
When software is developed collaboratively, a number of problems arise. It is hard to get in touch with the right people or have the right information. Moreover, a large number of concurrent accesses to the same piece of code are made, resulting in increased defects. These problems get aggravated when people collaborate across geographically dispersed sites, and reduced when they are collocated in a single war room or program in pairs. Software development environments offered by IBM, Sun and Apple have incorporated some novel features to address these problems. There is no single IDE that supports rich collaboration (through detailed presence information and lightweight communication tools) and distributed development tools (e.g. Pair programming). Through this project, we address some of these problems by enhancing Visual Studio with real-time collaboration and tools for multiple developersto program together, whether distributed or co-located.
Collaborative Tools, Activities andTypes
CollabVS allows developers to work together whether intentional or ad-hoc. For example, pair of developers can agree to work together at a scheduled time and work together using CollabVS. On the other hand, CollabVS allows for opportunistic collaboration as well. Developes can carry out various activities using the tools provided by CollabVS. Some of these "facets" of CollabVS are shown in the cube below.
Feature Areas
Real-time Presence information compensates forthe team members not being in the same room to see what's going on. Consequently it's goal is to let the user know what the other team members are doing. It fosters ad-hoc collaboration when the team is dsitributed by creating a virtual environment. Example: show what users are online and whether they're editing, debugging, engaged in an instant messaging session, etc.
Contextual Presence facilitates finding relevant information and people quickly. The goal is to provide information based on the context of artifacts that otherwise would have to be extracted manually. Example: show who has an artifact checked out, last few team members who checked in the artifact, last few changes made to the artifact, the tests associated with the artifact and the testers assigned to them.
Communication tools also compensate for the team members not being in the same room to talk to each other. They aim at allowing a user to engage in rich information exchanges with the other team members, in a seamless manner (i.e., without context switching to other tools). Example: provide the ability to start an instant messaging session, an audio/video session, or a shared whiteboard, allfrom the development environment.
Collaborative development tools change the user experience by augmenting the traditional IDE with support for collaborative activities. These tools aim at providing support for collaborative software construction. Example: collaborative code review, where the development environment allows the user to find reviewers (presence), initiate the conversation (communication), co-annotate the code under review, and sign off the reviewed code, without leaving the environment.
- Prasun Dewan, Puneet Agrawal, Gautam Shroff, and Rajesh Hegde, Experiments in Distributed Side-By-Side Software Development, in CollaborateCom 2009. 5th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, IEEE Computer Society, 11 November 2009.
In distributed side-by-side software development, a pair of distributed team members are assigned a single task and allowed to (a) work concurrently on two different computers and (b) see each others' displays. They can control when they communicate with each other, view each others' actions, and input concurrently. To understand how this control is exerted in practice, we have performed experiments at two different organizations, Microsoft Research and Tata Consultancy Services, which involved about forty six person hours of distributed side-by-side development. The experimental tasks were typical of the kind carried out at these organizations. A mix of qualitative, quantitative, and visualization analysis shows shows that (a) distribution and conflicting changes are not an issue; (b) developers use the unique capabilities provided by distributed side-by-side software development; and (c) the exact usage depends on several factors such as the collaboration task, developers, and software-development abstraction and environment.
- Prasun Dewan, Puneet Agarwal, Gautam Shroff, and Rajesh Hegde, Distributed Side-by-Side Programming, in ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects on Software Engineering, 2009. CHASE '09. , IEEE, 18 May 2009.
Recent work has proposed a variation of pair programming called side-by-side programming,wherein two programmers, sitting next to each other and using different workstations, work together on the same task. We have defined a distributed approximation of this idea and implemented it in both a compiled and interpretive environment. Our experiments with these implementations provide several new preliminary results regarding different aspects of (distributed) side-by-side programming.
- Rajesh Hegde and Prasun Dewan, Connecting Development Environments to Support Ad-Hoc Collaboration, in 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., 18 September 2008.
Physical proximity supports various forms of ad-hoc collaboration among developers such as opportunistic task adaptation and helping co-developers when they are stuck . Connecting the input/output flows of stand-alone programming environments of distributed developers offers the potential to support such collaboration among them. Such a connection has several components including communication sessions, awareness of others' availability and the state of the objects on which they are working, and control channels allowing users to import edits of and share code with others and be notified when a team member has moved away from a program element of interest. It is possible to develop a collaboration-centered design that combines a variety of collaboration streams into a usable and useful user-interface, and implement the design using existing programming environment, communication, and compiler technologies.
- Prasun Dewan and Rajesh Hegde, Semi-Synchronous Conflict Detection and Resolution in Asynchronous Software Development, in Proceedings of the 2007 Tenth European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Springer Verlag, 25 September 2007.
Previous work has found that (a) when software is developed collaboratively, concurrent accesses to related pieces of code are made, and (b) when these accesses are coordinated asynchronously through a version control system, they result in increased defects because of conflicting concurrent changes. Previous findings also show that distance collaboration aggravates software-development problems and radical colocation reduces them. These results motivate a semi-synchronous distributed computer supported model that allows programmers creating code asynchronously to synchronously collaborate with each other to detect and resolve potentially conflicting tasks before they have completed the tasks. We describe, illustrate, and evaluate a new model designed to meet these requirements. Our results show that the model can catch conflicts at editing time that would be expensive to manage at later times.


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Producers have parked their fleets to various degrees, depending on how severe the recession hit certain markets. Nerenhausen estimated one-half of ready-mix trucks may be parked in Las Vegas, a city especially hit hard by the economic slowdown, while only 5% of trucks may be parked elsewhere.
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"I might collab with designers, but that shit corny," he explained. "When rappers be doing that clothing line shit, that shit be corny man. That's a slow reality show. Ya know how reality shows wash niggas up? I feel that clothing line shit is just a slower reality show. That shit corny man...I'm not no fashion designer. Just 'cause I got good taste don't mean that I know how to create it. I feel that's disrespectful. It's just like record labels and shit. Just cause motherfuckers know Hip Hop doesn't mean you know how to create it, motherfucker."
He continued, "I know brands well, [but] I'm not a fashion designer. It's more to fashion than just fabrics and stencils. You gotta learn how to draw, you gotta know how colorways work and materials, it's hard, man. Hood clothing lines, I refuse man. I refuse. I'm good on that."
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With an outsized list of Fortune 500 companies based here, Greater Cincinnati is a good place to do business, according to Tri-State business leaders. WCPO photo
Crystal German
Greater Cincinnati corporations and nonprofits topped $1 billion in spending with local minority-owned companies in 2013.
In fact, 36 companies affiliated with the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber's Minority Business Accelerator spent $1.04 billion with minority-owned firms last year.
It's the most money those companies called "goal setters" have spent with local minority-owned firms since the program known as the MBA launched 11 years ago.
"The work of the MBA is rooted in the region and the community. It is the minority companies who are coming to the table and the goal setters that are making the decision that they're going to have a diverse supply base," said Crystal German, vice president of the MBA and economic inclusion for the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber.
"While we celebrate this as a milestone for us, it really is about making regional change happen."
The MBA announced its results Wednesday afternoon at its 2014 Minority Business Accelerator's Annual Stakeholder Meeting at The Phoenix downtown. It also announced:
• The MBA's 34 "portfolio firms" had average annual revenue of $32 million in 2013, a 10 percent increase over the previous year. Portfolio firms are the local minority-owned companies that the MBA works with to help them grow.
• The program added four new portfolios firms and six new goal setters last year.
• And the L. Ross Love GrowthBridge Fund has reached $1.8 million. The fund was started a year ago to help minority-owned businesses get the money they need to grow. It expects to make as many as three loans later this year.
The MBA was launched in 2003 as a response to the city's 2001 riots. The program aims to grow sizeable minority-owned companies to increase economic opportunities for the region's minority residents.
Portfolio companies must be African-American- or Hispanic-owned, must have annual revenue of $1 million or more and must have potential for growth.
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CINCINNATI –Greater Cincinnati corporations and nonprofits topped $1 billion in spending with local minority-owned companies in 2013.
The MBA announced its results Wednesday afternoon at its 2014 Minority Business Accelerator's Annual Stakeholder Meeting at The Phoenix in downtown Cincinnati.
It also announced:
• The L. Ross Love GrowthBridge Fund has reached $1.8 million. The fund was started a year ago to help minority-owned businesses get the money they need to grow. It expects to make as many as three loans later this year.
Making Progress, But Challenges Remain
Although the region's minority-owned firms have seen tremendous gains, German said those companies face some of the same challenges today that they did 11 years ago:
• Access to capital. Building a company's capacity in order to meet the needs of large, corporate customers takes money. And local minority-owned companies often still have trouble getting the capital they need to grow their businesses, German said. That's why the MBA created the GrowthBridge Fund.
• Perceptions of inferiority. "We still do fight the perception that minority businesses are less qualified and less capable," German said. "Hopefully, people will see that our goal setters are able to find enough capable suppliers to put $1 billion back into the local economy."
When the MBA started in 2003, the only goal setters were the city's corporate titans that already spent tens of millions of dollars with minority-owned businesses across the country. The MBA's role was to urge those corporations to make sure a significant portion of that spending was local.
Now the program's goal setters also include local companies such as Al Neyer Inc., the Cincinnati Reds and law firm Dinsmore & Shohl in addition to nonprofits, such as arts funder ArtsWave.
"The growth in the goal setters and the growth in the diversity of the goal setters really speaks to how this has become a regional community campaign, and not just a focus on the corporate community's conversation," German said.
Opportunity For Growth In The Region
Miami University became a new goal setter last year to help connect with a larger network of local minority-owned businesses, said Bill Shawver, the university's chief procurement officer.
"It just seemed like a perfect marriage," he said. "It seemed like another place where we could learn from other folks."
Miami has been working to do business with minority vendors for the past 30 years, Shawver said. The university spent $2.8 million with minority-owned businesses from January through March alone, he said.
"We feel like it's an opportunity to maintain commerce and growth in our region," Shawver said, adding that the university is able to do business with minority-owned companies and still get competitive prices.
"When we learn about diverse vendors that align with what we're trying to accomplish here from a responsible business perspective, we just think that's a very good thing," he said.
The United Way of Greater Cincinnati became a new goal setter in 2013, too, as a way to help the organization gauge its spending with minority suppliers, said Takiyah Cunningham, a diversity specialist in development and human resources for the United Way.
The organization just started its supplier diversity program in 2011, and last year was the first year the organization felt comfortable setting a goal for spending, she said.
The United Way's goal for 2013 was $350,000, but the organization ended up spending $543,000 with minority businesses last year, she said.
The effort aligns perfectly with United
Way's "bold goals," Cunningham said, which focus on the educational attainment, income and health of the region's residents.
The idea is that spending with minority-owned businesses helps those companies create jobs, which in turn helps the community as a whole.
"Ultimately, it is the right thing to do because we are then arming the people in the community with the tools they need to be successful," Cunningham said.
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Whilst Kinect may well be the coolest accessory for your Xbox 360 at the moment, did you know that you can now buy accessories for that accessory? For those struggling to place the Kinect sensor in just the right spot to maximise the play area, a company called PDP has launched a series of approved mounts for the product.
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Fifty Shades of Grey Casting: Rob Pattinson Discusses Role With Author
Is Robert Pattinson in the running to play the title role in Fifty Shades of Grey after all?
Rob hosted a Great Gatsby-themed party at his home on June 22, and Fifty Shades of Grey novelist E.L. James was among the attendees at the star-studded bash.
Now, word has gotten out that Rob and E.L. were busy discussing the role of Christian Grey, according to OK!.
"Rob and E.L. were in deep conversation," a source reveals.
Rob even told the novelist that playing Christian "could be a way to break away from being Edward the rest of his life," an insider reports.
"Rob also joked that it would be the best acting of his life, because there is no way he is that confident in real life," a partygoer adds.
At one point, Rob apparently told E.L. that he would need to clean up his scruffy look, but E.L. wasn't sure if he would need to.
"E.L. said that was still up for debate — if he signed on," says the source.
Wow! It sounds like they were having quite the serious conversation about the role.
This is an interesting development, as E.L. had previously said she wanted to distance the films from Twilight by not casting anyone from the vampire flicks.
So would Rob make the perfect Christian Grey, or will you be fit to be tied if you gets the part?
Source: OK! via Hollywood Life


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For a German bishop living in Italy, a beneficed but, alas, recusant, clergyman who 'hath no jurisdiction in this Realm', Benedict 16th has certainly managed to stir things up here, hasn't he. The latest incident to enrage many of his opponents – I mean those who are opposed to him unthinkingly, people who, almost with exception, are of so vicious and despicable a sort that their enmity is a compliment to anyone whom they hate – is (or rather is pretended to be) his remarks, variously reported, about the tyrannies of the last century and their relationship to irreligion. We shall come to that.
The underlying fact, however, is simple and stark: simply by being the pope, he inspires the hatred of contemptible people (and, to be fair, the distrust both of the honestly perplexed and the simply vicious. Not all of those who are allergic to the pope are wicked: many are merely ignorant in certain areas). He might have come with signed exculpations from every secular legal authority upon earth clearing him of involvement in the RC abuse scandal of previous decades (which exculpation were no more than the truth), and this lot should riot. He might have said at the Palace of Holyroodhouse no more than Franz Josef ritually said at the end of every ball in Vienna that he graced with the imperial Habsburg presence, 'Es war sehr schön, es hat mich sehr gefreut', and this shower should have taken to the streets – well, the Internet, because marching entails getting on your bike and off your bum – to cry, 'No popery': which most of them think to be dried aromatic petals* and associated with Wicked Romish Incense, I expect.
In other words, we are being treated once again to the spectacle of the Great British Public's making a damned fool of itself, with the added splendours of
Watching Luvvies Exhibiting Nursery Behaviour,
Marvelling as the Jew-Haters Come Out of the Wainscoting Arm in Arm With People Who Accuse Everyone Else of Nazism, and
Seeing Demonstrated the Stark Fact That There Are No Intelligent Leftists, Especially Not the Superficially Clever Ones.**
I am not, actually, joking. A look about Twitter just now, or the comments sections even at The Torygraph – I try not to enrage myself with the Grauniad or the Orwellianly-named Independent (sheep, the lot of them) – reflects that I have been wrong, all these years, to believe that almost all of those on the Left are either irremediably ignorant or utterly bereft of intellectual honesty: it transpires that a shocking number are, in fact, both at once. (My own fault for excluding the middle, I confess.) This weekend, I shall have no choice but to cull from my Twitter feed – despite, in many instances, quite liking those involved – a staggering number of people who have revealed themselves as despicable twunts, which, with heavy heart, I shall do, as if I were culling badgers infected with TB.***
Tom Chivers of this parish, having heard – or rather, at first, it seems, heard of – the pope's remarks at Holyroodhouse, rather Took Umbrage in the name of atheists everywhere, apparently, and denounced the pope as having asserted that Nazism was the creature of atheism (and of atheism alone, having apparently sprung Athene-like from the brow of the atheist Zeus on this telling).
As it happens, Mr Chivers – he and I having been publicly rude to each other, by way of breaking the ice, we are now getting along perfectly well, and he's been, at the end of the day, a perfect brick about all this – as it happens, Mr Chivers is, as I shall show, wrong on his history and wrong in his reading of the papal remarks.
This is, in one sense, by the way: for Mr Chivers' blog post, like any mere reference to the pope just now will do, has unleashed a species of madness. Look, if you can stomach it, at the comments to that post, and you will see all the sad variety of hell, a mournful empire**** of militant atheists (bless), idiot members of my own tribe The Gayers, autodidacts with puerile misconceptions of How the Great War Started (yes, it has ranged that far afield), anti-Obama Americans (a sane enough position: the man's incompetent and dangerously wrong on essentially everything) who believe Mr Obama to be the next Joe Stalin (not so sane: for one thing, the man's incompetent, see above), anti-Americans, Jew-haters (of course) convinced that the papacy is leagued with the Elders-of-Zion and the Freemasons to Destroy Us All, and people so barking they share a borough with Dagenham. It's like a deranged South Pacific over there: 'they got Holocaust-deniers you can pick right off the tree' – which is what one might expect of Holocaust-deniers, actually, as they are by nature low-hanging fruit and already effectively out of their trees.*****
It is at once diverting – if Schadenfreude is amongst your diversions – and damned depressing to see shed-loads of the people in British life, from the semi-detached to the Great and the Good, who preen themselves upon being our Dichter und Denker stratum, reveal themselves as so many members of the Richter und Henker class (o Kraus, thou shouldst be living at this hour). These are the sort of people aptly described by an American colleague of mine, himself a military historian, as 'the sort of people who might read more if only their lips didn't get so tired in the process': or, as we should put it, Tabs, Wets, chavs, Chelsea supporters (but I repeat myself), and people from Swindon.
And yet it is of course important to have our facts straight. So let us look, shall we, at what the pope actually said. The lines that Mr Chivers reads as blaming atheism for Nazism are as follows:
Even in our own lifetime, we can recall how Britain and her leaders stood against a Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society and denied our common humanity to many, especially the Jews, who were thought unfit to live. I also recall the regime's attitude to Christian pastors and religious who spoke the truth in love, opposed the Nazis and paid for that opposition with their lives. As we reflect on the sobering lessons of the atheist extremism of the twentieth century, let us never forget how the exclusion of God, religion and virtue from public life leads ultimately to a truncated vision of man and of society and thus to a 'reductive vision of the person and his destiny' (Caritas in Veritate, 29).
Sixty-five years ago, Britain played an essential role in forging the post-war international consensus which favoured the establishment of the United Nations and ushered in a hitherto unknown period of peace and prosperity in Europe.
That is the paragraphing used for the FCO transcript; the BBC transcript adds a paragraph break****** between the first and second of the quoted sentences.
Let me pause here to do two things. I must first declare an interest: I am not a Roman Catholic. I am one of the few actual, orthodox Anglicans remaining in the C of E. Second, for those with some knowledge of the controversies on which we are about to embark, let me say at once that I hold a modified or moderate belief that Nazism in Germany was in fact consequent upon the German Sonderweg; that is, I am more in agreement with Kocka, Kershaw, Fischer, Taylor, Poliakov, Lukacs, Wehler, Fischer, and Mommsen, than with Eley, Blackbourn, Meinecke, and Geyl. My reason is of course that the facts are more in agreement with the former than the latter.
(I promise that I shall now confine myself for the rest of the piece to reputable but popular and accessible secondary sources.)
Now: again, what did the pope actually say? He said that:
The Nazi tyranny … wished to eradicate God from society;
The Nazi tyranny denied our common humanity to many, especially the Jews, who were thought unfit to live; and that
Christian pastors and religious who spoke the truth in love [and] opposed the Nazis … paid for that opposition with their lives.
We'll start with those, shall we?
I confide that, with the exception of the Irvingite fringe who may drool past dragging their knuckles, no one will controvert the second assertion, that Nazism 'denied our common humanity to many, especially the Jews, who were thought unfit to live': we may take that as read.
We may take the first and third assertions together: is it in fact true that the 'Nazi tyranny … wished to eradicate God from society, [and] Christian pastors and religious who spoke the truth in love [and] opposed the Nazis … paid for that opposition with their lives'?
Incontrovertibly so. The Bismarckian Kulturkampf in the Second Reich was like a Culture Club gig when set against the Kirchenkampf in the Third. The goal of the Nazi regime was to co-opt and then to supplant Christianity, as Bormann worked to do: the churches were to be gleichgeschaltet, quite as much as the trades unions and indeed the labour movement itself, Ley's DAF (Deutsche Arbeitsfront). It began early: the Deutsche Christen gang – and really, it can only be called that – began their Gramscian march through the institutions of German Protestantism in 1931. Briefly foiled by the election of Friedrich von Bodelschwingh as Reichsbischof in 1933, by June of that year they had succeeded, with the help of the NSDAP and the newly Nazi government, in forcing his resignation and the succession of Hitler's chosen puppet, Ludwig Müller. This emasculated state church then supinely adopted – or in some cases clamoured to adopt – exclusionary racial statutes and a Rosenberg-inspired Volkstestaments rejecting the Old Testament and the Jewishness of Jesus. Protestant resistance coalesced in the Confessing Church, the Bekennende Kirche, growing out of Martin Niemöller's Pastor's Emergency League. The result was an intensification of persecution: Barth was forced to flee, Niemöller was sent to the concentration camps (Sachsenhausen and Dachau), Bonhoeffer was killed in Flössenburg, Friedrich Weißler killed in Sachsenhausen. The ideal towards which the Party worked was a single national 'church' that had no crucifixes or liturgical elements and on the altar of which was to be displayed only Mein Kampf and a sword, in a Reich in which the Bible was no longer published and in which – as was actually attempted in 1941 – the abbeys and monasteries were dissolved with a more than Henrician thoroughness. The sacraments were to be supplanted by Nazi-völkisch Lebensfeiern. There's a reason why there were thousands of Roman Catholic clerics, like Fr Lichtenberg, who were sent to the camps, and it's no coincidence that von Stauffenberg's Catholicism was a major factor in his attempt to overthrow the Reich.
Was this policy atheistic in its inspiration? Tom Chivers – and many of his commenters, with whose brush I would not for worlds tar Mr Chivers – say no, based in part upon the fact that Hitler from time to time claimed, for public consumption, to be a Christian. Well, Führerprinzip or no Führerprinzip, Nazism was larger even than Hitler, a point to which we shall return; moreover, Göring referred to his Protestantism in the dock at the Nuremberg Trials, and neither a dictator engaged in demagoguery nor a prisoner in the dock makes a particularly credible witness. When one considers that the Nazi leaders who tried to gull and cozen the public by parading 'Christian' credentials meant by that – in their own words – 'positive Christianity', the sleight of hand may be glimpsed. For what Positives Christentum meant in the language of the day was a 'Christianity' that rejected any part of the Bible that was 'written by Jews' and that cast Jesus as an Aryan fighter against Jewry whose teachings were proto-National-Socialist. Their party programme explicitly stated that Nazism supported 'religious freedom in the state, insofar as this does not offend the traditions and moral sense of the German race. As such the party holds with a position of Positive Christianity without confessing an association with particular denomination. It struggles against the Jewish-Materialistic spirit in and outside the party and is persuaded, that the enduring blessing of our people can only proceed from within to the larger world on this foundation: "The good of The Many outweighs the good of The One"': which does not strike one as being terribly orthodox.
Of course, it wasn't. And there were those – Rosenberg, Hauer – who saw even this as a way station towards a syncretic 'Nordic' neo-paganism that should be revealed after the war, when it was no longer necessary not to disturb the masses by an all-in assault upon Christianity.
Mr Chivers, and others, argue that they cannot possibly be required to distinguish between the beliefs, and determine the orthodoxy, of all these superstitious little people who call themselves believers: if a man says he's Christian, so he is (even if, like Mussolini in Italy, he wrote anti-clerical scurrilities before becoming a tin dictator). This is of course rubbish. One needn't share, or even take as sane and reasonable, any confession or creed, to be able to distinguish those who are members of it from those who are not. If a man claims to be a Muslim and yet asserts that there is less (or more) than one, non-Trinitarian deity, and avers that Mohammed is not a prophet, he is simply not, definitionally, a Muslim. If a man claims to be Jewish (by religion, not ethnically) yet asserts that there is no God or that there is more than one, he isn't Jewish. And anyone who denies the minimum creedal and confessional defining statements and beliefs of Christianity – the Trinity, the Virgin Birth, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection – well, he may be a member of the C of E – indeed, he, or, worse, she, is depressingly likely to be a bishop, nowadays – but he's not a Christian as such, and to say that he is, is to make what Wittgenstein should have called a 'meaningless noise', really.
But neo-pagans and Guido-von-List-isch loonies are not, it will be argued, atheists. No, in a strict sense, I suppose they aren't, poor buggers. But there was an atheist strain as well in what we may call, for want of a better term, Nazi, ah, 'thought' (not that it was thought).
Nazism wasn't, really, a consistent philosophy: it was an emotional miasma. The swamps from which it emanated were largely a- or sub-rational. It arose in large part of course simply as a reaction to the 1914 War, and Germany's well-deserved loss, and Germany's pathological inability to admit either war guilt or defeat. It answered in part to the panic attendant upon the economic crises of the interwar period as well. In these respects, it was remarkably like the popular post-War crazes for spiritualism, theosophy, anthroposophy, and similar drivelling idiocies. And like them, it also had hidden sources in materialism, Social Darwinism, racialism, eugenics, and progressivism: all philosophies, even where ersatz philosophies, with strong atheist influences.
What made Nazism so dangerous a spell or enchantment was something that mirrored the motive force of its explicitly atheistic doppelganger, Communism – and Willi Münzenberg, who certainly ought to have known, considered that the SA in particular were like 'beefsteaks', 'brown on the outside and red within', as indeed post-War East Germany proved. Communism rooted its lunacies in a half-baked, untenable analysis of class that no one with any grasp of economics can take seriously. Nazism based its madness in dotty claims about race that are equally ludicrous. (Nor is it odd, really, that even in the Weimar period, after Rapallo, the two tyrannies were effectively allied, with the Versailles-forbidden German forces being trained and equipped through Soviet assistance: after all, as late as 1941, Hitler and Stalin were allies, quite as much as Rathenau's republic had been the USSR's effective ally before 1933.)
Yet these daft theories were taken seriously, of course, by the Germans (and others). Deutschtum cast its dark, sorcerous glamour upon the German mind, not for the first time – and one may only hope it has been for the last. Its roots, obviously, go back to Celtis and Luther, and indeed to a self-satisfied reading of Tacitus – even as Fascist Italy crumbled and the Allies advanced, German forces were roaming about trying to rescue the Germania for the Reich – but these roots had been nurtured, not to say manured, in the preceding century and into the 1930s by several sources, including Schopenhauer, Fichte, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. Renunciations of traditional Christianity and of religion tout court, the scientific and pseudo-scientific veneer of the Higher Criticism (and its popular distortions by such creatures as Houston Stewart Chamberlain), materialism, nihilism, racialism, Social Darwinism, and eugenics: all these served to make the old seductions of Deutschtum appear modern, scientific, and unmoored from the 'primitive superstitions' of religion: a selling point that National Socialism, in seizing upon the German national myth, shared with Marxist socialism. (Nazism played up its 'up to date' credentials a good deal: motorcycles, tanks, floodlights, fast automobiles.) Nazism, as a mood, had atheistic sources as well as Nordic, neo-pagan, racial, and the rest of the whole shower, and its gangsters were of all factions in that respect, an uneasy mixture of materialist quack science and neo-paganism that finds characteristic expression in the Ahnenerbe.
In fact, the whole thing was a sodden mess. Like Bonapartism, it sought cynically to co-opt the churches and the Islamic world, finding common ground with that old villain the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem – the Großmufti von Jerusalem, the unspeakable Mohammad Amin al-Husayni – in Jew-hatred, at the same time as its hierarchs held opinions ranging from the paganist to the frankly godless. (It may be said that the Third Reich in its relations with the Islamic world had affinities with the Second of the 1914 War, but had no Wassmuss to spread sedition through the bazaars, relying instead upon local second-raters like the Grand Mufti.) There was no coherence to it, with two exceptions: racialism (particularly a specially maniacal Jew-hatred), and a determination to supplant any rivals for the whole of its subject's souls – Christianity included.
And yet there remains a question: what does the pope mean in saying, 'As we reflect on the sobering lessons of the atheist extremism of the twentieth century, let us never forget how the exclusion of God, religion and virtue from public life leads ultimately to a truncated vision of man and of society and thus to a "reductive vision of the person and his destiny"'?
Mr Chivers would have it that he is accusing atheism of having fathered Nazism, as such; Mr Chivers would also have it that 'atheist extremism' is the same as 'extremist atheism', the existence of which Mr Chivers, I think, would deny (after all, no-one is rioting in the streets, crying, 'Null-ahu akbar', are they). Mr Chivers, I fear is misreading the text.
In the phrase 'atheist extremism', 'atheist' modifies 'extremism': perhaps 'atheistic' or 'irreligious' had been a better choice, but red-tops and broadsheets alike do, after all, use such formulations as 'India cabinet in crisis' or 'Australia elections result in hung parliament', and by convention such usage may even be proper in certain contexts: in the Ashes, after all, it's the 'Australian side' and the 'England' – not English – 'side' who do battle at the Oval or the Gabba. So there's that, and I think it puts paid to the equation of 'atheist extremism' with 'extremist atheism', for what that's worth.
I also find it interesting that the remark comes at the point at which the pope turns from the events of the Hitler War – seventy years ago – to those of the post-war and the Cold War: '[s]ixty-five years ago, Britain played an essential role in forging the post-war international consensus': for of course Stalin's USSR was by definition atheist.
Alternately, in that the pope is an elderly German don, it is quite likely that he had in mind Fichte and the long line of those influenced by Fichte, culminating in the man who unrepentantly gave the Nazis a façade of intellectual respectability, Martin Heidegger. For German intellectuals, the Wißenschaftslehre controversy and the Atheism Dispute are not precisely old, forgotten quarrels. Whatever Heidegger may or may not have said about Nazism to Karl Löwith, Heidegger was unquestionably a professed Nazi Party member and his philosophy cannot be separated from Nazism's rise and influence; Fichte, by the relation in which he and his school stand to Nietzsche (or to Heidegger's Nietzsche, which is not quite the same thing), has not escaped retrospective condemnation as being one of the sources – an atheist source, as it happens – of Nazism.
In any event, however, there was a strain in Nazism, as in Fascism and Marxism, Leninism, and Stalinism (Stalin never got over Lenin's dismissal of his attempts at being a party theorist, which is one reason Trotsky died as he did, for having had the temerity to swan about pre-War Vienna as an intellectual and man of letters whilst poor old Koba was relegated to robbing banks), exalting the State over individuals and any competing claims to universal authority, that derived from late 19th Century atheism and the doctrines – again, eugenics and Social Darwinism in particular, the whole materialist boiling – it influenced, whether it meant to do or not. One valid means of distinguishing authoritarianism from totalitarianism is to examine the suspect society's attitude towards the universal and transcendental claims of religion: the former may allow them some sphere, the latter must of necessity suppress them. The wars of the 20th Century were only ostensibly wars of ideology: they were wars of religion, in which the religions were the ersatz religions of blood-and-soil nationalism, Fascism, Nazism, Communism, and all the rest. And the 20th Century was peculiarly the century that has taught sobering lessons of how the exclusion of God, religion, and virtue from public life, at the hands of totalitarian extremists, leads ultimately to a truncated vision of man and of society.
Consequently, to assert that the pope's remarks mean that extremist atheism is responsible, or that atheistic extremism is solely responsible, for Hitler and Nazism, is to place upon them a construction they will not bear. That people have done so, and then have proceeded – I do not refer here to Mr Chivers – to engage in a series of online Gordon Riots******* on the basis of their own puerile inability to listen to what is actually said, can only suggest that they were looking for a pretext to express their prejudices. It's contemptible behaviour; but, then, the screamers and shouters are in the main contemptible – and markedly witless – people. One doesn't, perhaps, expect much more of mummers, or of formerly reputable scientists who have obviously felt the twitch of their tether as scientists******** and retired, therefore, into a senescent hobby of being common controversialists, but it's disappointing all the same – and damned un-English, to boot, as that upstanding, mannerly atheist Mr Heffer has noted. Commonly, when people react in this manner, it indicates a guilty conscience: but you must draw your own conclusions about that.
Further reading from commonly accessible secondary sources: Schama; Gill; Dallas; Laqueur; Speer (with caution); Shirer (also with caution); Barnett; Lukacs; Steigmann-Gall. That should do to be going on with.
*Pot-pourri: do keep up, won't you.
**Really, there aren't. There are any number of stupid conservatives, at least partly because conservatism is so congruent with the natural order of things that it can be apprehended by the unthinking, the uneducated, and the merely rather dim, even as it is accepted by the wise; but it's only on the Left that stupidity – or, to be fair, mendacity – is a prerequisite. To be a Leftist is to believe, or to pretend to believe (which is rather worse), a series of propositions about everything from macroeconomics to human nature, the holding of which opinions would embarrass even a fairly thick-witted adolescent baboon.
***No, not Tony Blair, that's too infectious even for badgers. I refer of course to badgers with consumption, whom (one cannot but anthropomorphise badgers) one may readily spot hereabouts as they wander wanly along the lanes, tiny hankies in hand, all to expire one by one at the end of the fourth act with plangent, bel canto soprano arias.
****Do they even teach Dryden nowadays?
*****Yes, I referred to a show tune. What part of 'he's bent as a nine bob note' had you not understood?
******I trust that is transatlantically comprehensible.
*******I remind the superficially-read that the Gordon Riots were riots precisely because they were directed equally against the papacy and the policies of HMG. The parallel surely need not be laboured further.
********You don't see Alister McGrath marching, after all, or Dyson, or Polkinghorne, or Conway Morris: the notion that scientists must be atheists or agnostics is balls.


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Who's with me? I want to go some time in December, mid-week.
Actually, I don't think any of you can hold my ski wheel. You pathetic ski Freds.
You know, I may actually even get my Volkls tuned for this. Oh yes.
Who's with me? I want to go some time in December, mid-week.
Actually, I don't think any of you can hold my ski wheel. You pathetic ski Freds.
You know, I may actually even get my Volkls tuned for this. Oh yes.
I have no clue what you are saying.
1 bronze, 0 silver, 1 gold
Looks like fun. I'll see what I can do.
Skiing in the east is more like ice skating.Pathetic.Gimme Big Cottonwood Canyon powder any day.The problem with Hunter mountain is too many New Yorkers ski there.
I owe-therefore I am.
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get out.
coasting, few quotes are worthy of him, and of those, even fewer printable in a family forum......quote 3alarmer
No @coasting, you should stay 100% as you are right now, don't change a thing....quote Heathpack
Skiing is for wimps. Go SURFING. Now that's a man's sport.
First real storm of the season today, I think I may need to hike for some turns tomorrow!
Hunter mtn is like skiing in staten island.
If you can make it to Slowshoe WV I'll show up.
Love one another
I owe-therefore I am.
I see a lot of mad river glen bumper stickers in Utah.
Whats better pcad? I have never skied east of Colorado.
I just got this terrible vision that somewhere there is a parallel universe with a website called skiforums.net, and in it there are many posts about ruing and coveting....many pictures of Pacad's ski schwag....a never-ending thread called "ask pcad anything..."....some carbon fiber ski poles with horrendous cable routing..an online ski supplier called skisdirect....a banned user named botto....
Is it possible that Pcad could be dominating two online sports forums?
It's all too horrifying to contemplate.
Few ski areas are as over rated, or as undeservedly legendary as Mad River. I'm sure it's great after a 2' dump. Please. So is Hunter.
I hear Jay Peak is nice. Of course it probably takes less time to fly to Salt Lake and then drive to Solitude than it takes to drive to Jay from where I live, but still. Jay gets a ton of snow.
Question.When did you last ski mad River?
I owe-therefore I am.


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Remember last year, when the prospect of same-sex marriage on the ballot caused both sides to forecast a nasty culture war? So far, that hasn't happened.
You all know I like to fill this space with no end of carping and criticizing. Because face it, nobody wants to read good news. Especially at election time.
But in the course of covering politics I do sometimes stumble onto people or happenings that make me realize the whole world isn't going to hell in a hurricane.
Probably the best local political story is huge precisely because it never happened. Still, it sure attracted the notice of the secretary of state, Sam Reed.
" 'Remarkable' is the word I've been using," he says.
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Remember last year, when the prospect of same-sex marriage on the ballot caused both sides to forecast a nasty culture war?
Supporters worried there'd be a rash of bigoted acts toward gays. Opponents took a case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court demanding that the names of their petition signers be kept secret, for fear they would get death threats, vandalism or worse. Some of which had marred California when that state voted on gay-marriage-banning Proposition 8 in 2008.
Well, last June, Reed released the names and addresses of the 240,000 citizens seeking to overturn gay marriage here. And what happened?
"In one word: nothing," he says.
Seven complete sets of the petitions were released to various groups. But Reed's office has not received a single complaint about petition signers being harassed or even contacted.
Nor have there been many flare-ups since, by either side. (One guy in Burien was arrested for trashing the sign of a traditional-marriage supporter and banging on her car, but that's been the worst of it.)
Somehow, Reed said, Washington has held a "civil, gracious" election on both same-sex marriage and marijuana legalization — "two gut-level issues where you know passions are running very high," he said.
"We should be proud of ourselves," he said, adding "so far."
The other flicker of goodness I've noticed this year is in bipartisanship.
Sure, all of the top-line races, such as for president or governor, are as tribal and bitter as ever.
But two little-known candidates for statewide office have gone beyond just promising they'll reach across the aisle. They've gotten the other side to reach back.
One is Bill Finkbeiner, the Republican running for lieutenant governor. He's backed by right-wingers such as Congressman Doc Hastings all the way around the political funhouse to left-wing Seattle Democratic Rep. Reuven Carlyle. Plus groups that don't usually go for Republicans, such as NARAL Pro-Choice Washington and the Cascade Bicycle Club.
If he can hold that crazy-quilt together, he should be more than just lieutenant governor.
The other is Kim Wyman, the Republican candidate to replace Reed as secretary of state. The Thurston County auditor, she has the endorsements of 31 of the other 38 county auditors, including 13 Democrats. These are the officials who tally votes in each county. Reed is known for being bipartisan, but says he never got so many auditors to back him, let alone from the other side.
Finally, here's one great idea that comes from Mark Lindquist, Pierce County prosecutor, who wrote me about the sleazy ads against both candidates for attorney general, Democrat Bob Ferguson and Republican Reagan Dunn.
The ads were placed by outside, independent groups, meaning neither candidate has any control over them. But both ads are vicious and wrong. So why don't they denounce them? Not just the ad that impugns their side, but the one that falsely attacks the other guy.
"I only wish someone — Bob and Reagan, for example — would stop this," Lindquist wrote. "I recognize campaigns can't coordinate with independent expenditure groups, but I think it would be within the rules to say 'If you decide to weigh in on my race, don't do anything dishonest or disgraceful, thank you.' "
Ferguson and Dunn are both said to be good guys with integrity. If that's really true, then why are they standing by, silently, as their race is slimed by the ugliest ads in years?
Maybe because the ads work. Because winning trumps integrity in politics (almost) every time.
Shoot. I couldn't get through one column without going back to the carping and criticizing.
Danny Westneat's column appears Wednesday and Sunday. Reach him at 206-464-2086 or email@example.com.


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The nerd-spy TV series Chuck faced down cancellation and came out victorious, even adding six more episodes to the thirteen already on order for its third season. Unfortunately, there was one casualty: series star Zachary Levi was forced to turn down an offer to play Fandral, one of the "Warrior's Three," in director Kenneth Branagh's live-action adaptation of the Thor comic book series, set to begin filming in January.
According to USA Weekend, the addition of six episodes caused a scheduling conflict that prevented Levi from accepting the role. Levi said that he had actually been asked to try out for the title role of the God of Thunder, as well, but declined.
I'm tall and in pretty good shape, but I'm not big and girthy like that.
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Whenever we can, we create something unique, exceptional and use unusual solutions and technologies.
Please give us a brief bio of yourself.
I'm Pawel Schedler, creative director of beestudio from Poland
What do you do for inspiration?
My inspiration is everywhere :)
Please list 3 of your favourite sites.
Thefwa and lot of blogs.
What do you regard as being your biggest achievement?
Bee's most significant achievement seems to be our gradual development. Our partners, projects and possibilities are getting better and better. But our striking, commercial achievement is still ahead of us.
What software couldn't you live without?
Photoshop, flash.
What projects do you have in the pipeline?
We are working on the design of the most modern Centre of Contemporary Art in Poland, namely on its virtual equivalent. We have not seen the solutions we are planning to use there anywhere before.
Who do you rate as being the top 3 design companies?
Our idol is KokoKaka. We admire FVB, North Kingdom and FI as well.
What effect on traffic do your new designs have?
Well, it must be quite remarkable if you have invited us here ;) We receive great support and liking from our clients and other designers.
Who is your target audience?
Mostly brave clients who are receptive to new ideas. Whenever we can, we create something unique, exceptional and use unusual solutions and technologies. The users are open-minded, interested people who are eager to get to know not only information but also other experiences.
What area of web design lacks the most?
The world web design seems perfect. The Polish one, however, appears limited at times and hesitant to apply new, alternative ways of seeing or comprehending things. More often than not it is too tentative to go beyond the established patterns or conventions. But of course there are exceptions, like the greatly admired Ars Thanea.
What did your very first site look like? Is it still online?
I'd rather not mention it here ;)
Have you written any books, if not do you plan to?
No, we haven't. We just do not have a vocation to do so.
What was the toughest thing you ever did with Flash? How long did you spend on it? Is it still online?
That is what we are dealing with right now, specifically, the Centre of Contemporary Art. The project is our biggest challenge not only in terms of its structure, variety of links or technologies but also highly innovative solutions we are planning adapt there.
Do you think Flash is here to stay?
Of course it is!
What are your views on design/graphic school. Do you think someone can get into the field without educational experience in a school environment?
There are rather few of such schools in Poland. Most of the great people we know are self-educated what points to the fact that being well educated in the field or not has not much to do with becoming a good designer. It is not only an art or a craft, but probably a bit of both.
When your company was just getting started, what did you find was most effective for getting new clients?
The most effective for getting new clients was convincing them about the high quality of our projects. It was not easy, though. We began from the scratch – without contacts, marketing or advertisement.
How have you learned so many Flash/design skills and techniques and can you offer any advice for newbies?
Practice makes perfect.
It's been a privilege, thanks very much.
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This past weekend was chock-full of NBA players voicing their dreams to play in the NFL. It started with LeBron James's continued dalliance with the idea that he'd love to play in an NFL game; on Friday, during a twitter Q&A, James said that he "wants to play in one NFL game before it's over." Presumably, the "it" here refers to LeBron's athletic career, unless he knows of some secret Illuminati plan to bring about the downfall of the NFL and usher in a new era of NBA dominance. Then, on Saturday night, Jamieson Welsh at friends-of-the-website Believe the Hype caught up with Nate Robinson after his Denver Nuggets took on the Los Angeles Lakers in a preseason game in Las Vegas. The NFL once again came up, and Nate Rob was anything but shy in voicing his opinion on how his NFL career might have gone:
"It was fun for me & it came pretty easy."
"To me it'd be scary to think about my future in football. If I really gave it my all & stopped focusing on basketball, gave everything I have on football, I'd probably be one of the best corners the NFL has ever seen." […] "I don't know, I'd be pretty damn good though. If I was in the NFL I'd probably be at least first or second best DB in the NFL." "One, two or three I'd say. (Darrelle) Revis is pretty solid, Patrick Peterson is pretty solid & you got my man (Richard) Sherman holding it down. It'd be a tough position."
via Nate Robinson says he'd be one of the best NFL players ever | Believe The Hype.
Oh, I'm sorry. Did I say Robinson waxed poetic on how his NFL career might have gone? What I meant to say was that Nate Robinson is in full Nate Robinson-mode, a state of mind where every cell in the human body is oversaturated with confidence and one's mitochondrial DNA is replaced with tiny Kevin Garnetts shouting "ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!"
Robinson, of course, played football for a year at the University of Washington before he concentrated on basketball. That's worked out pretty well for him so far, but it's fun to dream about what might have been.
True, there's the slight issue of Robinson's size — as Dan Devine over at Yahoo's Ball Don't Lie points out, there isn't much of a history of someone of Robinson's stature succeeding as a cornerback in the NATIONAL. FOOTBALL. LEAGUE. That's doubly true for the level at which Robinson expects he could play. But I think there's another route that Robinson could have gone: he could have been one of the greatest kick returners in history.
Imagine the "We're going streaking!" speed at which Robinson whips around a basketball court, careening into opponents and teammates alike and carving out space where there is none in direct defiance of the Pauli exclusion principle. Put that same waterbug agility on a football field, returning kicks with a head of steam and making people look silly as they try to grasp the ethereal phantom that flashes in and out of their field of vision in less time than it takes Robinson to win over a fanbase. He only returned six kicks in his time at Washington, for a 17.2-yard average, but I have every faith that a larger sample size would result in Robinson scoring roughly eleventy billion touchdowns per season.
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2015 Fall Workshops - NEW
Welcome Back to Prep Time for Fall Term 2015!
Here is the WITS User Services schedule for workshops designed to help you get started or increase your skills with tools to use with your classes, including WISE (course management and collaboration), Panopto (lecture capture and other recording tasks), TurningPoint (polling software often called "clickers"), and Digication (digital portfolios). All workshops will be held in the WITS Exec Training Room, located in the Executive Building across the atrium from the Finance and Accounting office. Use this form to RSVP for the workshop(s) you plan to attend.
Intro to WISE: For those who are new to Willamette or to using WISE, this is a chance to learn the basics, including navigation, course site setup and management; using course resources (readings, weblinks, etc.), email and calendar; and course rosters. We will also do a quick spin through all the additional tools that are available to customize course sites and provide additional functionality.
- Thursday, 8/6, 1:00-2:30: WITS Exec Training Room
- Monday, 8/10, 1:00-2:30: WITS Exec Training Room
- Monday, 8/17, 10:00-11:30 AM: WITS Exec Training Room
- Wednesday, 8/19, 2:30-4:00 PM: WITS Exec Training Room
- Monday, 8/24, 10:00-11:30: WITS Exec Training Room
WISE Assessment Tools: Dig in to the Assignments, Tests&Quizzes and Gradebook tools. If you are new to WISE, you should attend an Intro to WISE workshop first.
- Friday, 8/7, 1:00-2:30: WITS Exec Training Room
- Wednesday, 8/12, 1:00-2:30: WITS Exec Training Room
- Thursday, 8/20, 10:30-12:00: WITS Exec Training Room
Tools for Collaboration: Using WISE collaboration tools such as Blogs, Forums, and Chat. Modifying permission settings to make other tools function collaboratively. Using tools from the Google suite for collaborative projects. Building collaborative portfolios using Digication. If you are new to WISE, you should attend an Intro to WISE workshop first.
- Friday, 8/7, 2:30-4:00: WITS Exec Training Room
- Friday, 8/14, 10:30-12:00: WITS Exec Training Room
- Thursday, 8/20, 1:00-2:30: WITS Exec Training Room
Creating & Using Digital Media: Using the WISE Media Gallery tool to stream media (audio, video, images) to your classes. Using Media Gallery and Panopto to create recordings.
- Wednesday, 8/12, 10:30-12:00: WITS Exec Training Room
- Friday, 8/14, 1:00-2:00: WITS Exec Training Room (Panopto only)
- Wednesday, 8/19, 10:00-11:30: WITS Exec Training Room
In-class Polling with TurningPoint: How well have students understood assigned readings? What are their opinions on controversial topics? Does an hour of discussion change minds? Just a couple of ways that anonymous polling might be used to support classroom activities.
- Tuesday, 8/11, 9:00-10:00: WITS Exec Training Room
- Friday, 8/21, 10:00-11:00: WITS Exec Training Room
Open Lab: User Services staff will be available to answer questions and assist you with setting up and using software for your classes.
- Friday, 8/21, 1:00-3:00: WITS Exec Training Room
Use this form to RSVP for the workshop(s) you plan to attend. If you have run into new ideas in the course of your summer travels and researches and want to schedule a consultation with WITS, contact Cheryl Cramer (email@example.com, 503-370-6122) or your User Services Consultant.
WITS will provide software training and consultation for faculty, staff, and administrative users. Workshops, seminars, or demonstrations can be arranged for groups of up to 18. We can cover most of the application software in general use around campus. Some sessions can be done "hands-on"; others may be limited to demonstration and explanation, depending on the software involved.
You can also schedule time with a WITS User Services Consultant for help with your computer and software.
Contact us for more information on software training:
- Cheryl Cramer
- Robert Minato
- WISE (Willamette Instructional Support Environment) workshops are usually scheduled between semesters. Visit the WISE web site for more information.
- Training for "WebEdit" (department web site maintenance) is done through the office of Web Development. They publish a regular schedule of WebEdit workshops.
- Visit the WITS Help Links for official and unofficial help documents and policies
- Office 2007 and 2010 training and help materials available online from Microsoft. Visit the WITS Microsoft Office Help page for more information.


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Potassium is integral to an unusually wide range of physiological processes, making it a particularly indispensable nutrient. Your body uses potassium to convert carbohydrates into energy, form proteins, build muscle and control blood pressure. Its activity as an electrolyte helps keep your pH levels balanced and supports normal nerve, muscle and organ function. It's probably no coincidence that you can get the mineral from a wide variety of foods, including fruits, vegetables, milk, yogurt, meat, poultry and fish.
Potassium in Fish
All fish -- including lean, fatty, farmed, wild-caught, freshwater and saltwater types -- contain potassium. The amount of potassium you get from fish depends entirely on its variety, but most fish are good sources of the nutrient, meaning they deliver at least 10 percent of the daily value for potassium per serving. Whereas leaner cuts of beef are generally better sources of potassium than fatty cuts, the same doesn't hold true for fish. Potassium levels vary as considerably among lean fish, or those that are less than 5 percent fat by weight, as they do among fatty fish, or those that are more than 5 percent fat by weight.
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According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a 6-ounce serving of halibut, a type of lean fish, provides about 190 calories and 26 percent of the daily value for potassium. Cod, a lean fish, supplies about 140 calories and 14 percent of the daily value for potassium per 6-ounce serving. Flounder has the same number of calories -- but 30 percent less potassium -- as cod. Compared to lean varieties, fatty fish are relatively high in calories. For about 290 calories, a 6-ounce serving of sockeye salmon delivers 20 percent of the daily value for potassium. Yellowfin tuna, another fatty fish, provides 220 calories and 26 percent of the daily value for potassium per 6-ounce serving. Bluefin tuna, on the other hand, is nearly 40 percent lower in potassium -- and 30 percent higher in calories -- than the yellowfin type.
Daily Intake
The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies recommends that healthy adults -- regardless of age or gender -- consume at least 4,700 milligrams of potassium each day. This intake level has been shown to normalize blood pressure, blunt the effects of sodium, help prevent bone loss and reduce the risk of kidney stones. Most Americans, however, get far less than the daily recommended amount of potassium. According to the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University, American men get an average of 3,100 milligrams of potassium a day, while women average just 2,300 milligrams.
Consuming fish two or three times a week is an ideal way to boost your potassium intake. Compared to other forms of animal protein, fish is relatively low in saturated fat. Most types of fish are good sources of thiamine, niacin and vitamins B-6 and B-12. Many kinds of fish are also excellent sources of omega-3 fatty acids, which are known for protecting heart health. Mackerel, salmon, sardines and halibut are significantly higher in omega-3s than catfish, cod and flounder. The healthiest ways to prepare fish include poaching, steaming, baking, broiling, grilling and sauteing. Avoid fish that's been breaded and fried, as it's substantially higher in calories and saturated fat.
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- Institute of Medicine of the National Academies: Dietary Reference Intakes: Water, Potassium, Sodium, Chloride, and Sulfate
- Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University: Potassium
- USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory: Fish, Halibut, Atlantic and Pacific, Cooked, Dry Heat
- USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory: Fish, Cod, Pacific, Cooked, Dry Heat
- USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory: Fish, Flatfish (Flounder and Sole Species), Cooked, Dry Heat
- USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory: Fish, Salmon, Sockeye, Cooked, Dry Heat
- USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory: Fish, Tuna, Yellowfin, Fresh, Cooked, Dry Heat
- USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory: Fish, Tuna, Fresh, Bluefin, Cooked, Dry Heat
- Wellness Foods A to Z; Sheldon Margen, M.D., et al.
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I had read about this same problem being faced by someone in early 2007 and it was noted as being resolved at that time in one of the forum posts.
However, I am facing it currently and will like to know how to resolve it as it is very critical for me to resolve it (as otherwise Zimbra cannot be used as offline mail client).
I create few new folders at outermost level (I am aware of subfolders not being sync'ed yet) in Zimbra desktop. I then move mails to these folders from Inbox or other folders. Finally, I turn on the sync for these newly created folders and click on send / receive or check mail or sync button whichever one appears. To my horror, I find that the new folders do appear in Yahoo web mail but they do not contain any mail messages. They are empty folders only. I waited for two days in case the sync was slow but that still did not help.
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- Why do I have to create a username and password for my gift card?
- Your gift card should be treated like cash. To reduce the risk of fraud, we ask that the card owner create a login ID so that only you have the ability to view the remaining balance and the transaction history on the card. Remember, you can check the card balance anytime you are in a Cafe Rio location.
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