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Welcome to the Department of Computer Science
|Highlighted Events
2014 PI Summer Graduate Program -- Modern Applications of Representation Theory
July 20-August 6, 2014
This program is for graduate students from both IMA Participating Institutions as well as other U.S. universities. We expect to be able to fund up to 35 students from IMA Participating Institutions and 15 students from other U.S. universities. A main portion of this program consists of a three-week summer school for graduate students to be held in Summer 2014 on the campus of the University of Chicago. It will focus on modern applications of representation theory discovered largely within approximately the last 10 years. Details here.
The Center launches a summer research program for undergraduates in the Theory of Computing and Machine Learning.
Deadline for applications: April 24.
|Greater Chicago Area Systems Research (GCASR) 2014 hosted by the Department of Computer Science
It is our pleasure to invite you to join us for the 3rd Greater Chicago Area Systems Research (GCASR) Workshop. This workshop is a great opportunity for leading-edge systems researchers in Chicago to get acquainted, share results, and find synergies.
Shan Lu Joins CS Faculty
Shan Lu has an incredibly diverse background in teaching, research, volunteerism, mentorship and much more.
Shan will be leaving the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, where she has been a faculty member since 2009, to join the Computer Science Department at the University of Chicago.
She has received many awards and honors for her research and education work, including an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a Distinguished Alumni Educator Award from Computer Science Department of University of Illinois, and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. She has published many refereed conference papers and journal articles, and has taught operating systems and distributed systems classes in University of Wisconsin, all of which you can read more about below.
Shan has tirelessly served the computer science research community by participating and serving conference program committees, professional societies, Ph.D. dissertation committees, community outreach through volunteerism and mentorships, and much more.
To learn more about Shan and her many accomplishments, click here to read her complete curriculum vitae.
Shan received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, IL. She received her B.S. in Computer Science from University of Science & Technology of China.
Dr. Lu's research focuses on improving the dependability and efficiency of software systems. Her past and current work aims to understand, detect, mitigate, and fix defects in large software systems through a combination of program analysis, software engineering, and system techniques. Her work has had a tangible impact in both industry and academia. Some of her work has been used by more than 70 academic and industrial research groups. One of her papers was among the top cited papers in operating system, hardware/architecture, and software engineering conferences in the last few years
Ravi Chugh Joins CS Faculty
Ravi Chugh joins the University of Chicago with remarkable teaching experience over the past ten years, having taught at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, CA, and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA.
He has been an instructor, teaching assistant, and guest lecturer for various high school, undergraduate, and graduate courses, including Principles and Paradigms of Programming Languages, C# Programming, Hardware and Software Algorithms, Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Advanced Compilers, and Algorithmic Software Verification.
Ravi's primary research interests in computer science are in Programming Languages, Verification, Program Analysis, and Compilers. He has pursued research in these areas at UC San Diego, Mozilla Research in San Francisco, CA, and Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA.
Earlier in his career, Ravi also worked at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, WA as a Software Design Engineer Intern, working on Windows Live Local, as well as a Program Manager Intern on Internet Explorer.
Ravi received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC San Diego in 2013 and his M.S.E. and B.S.E. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007, where he graduated summa cum laude.
Ravi's current work is rooted in developing techniques that will work with and improve modern scripting languages, and thus has the opportunity to make a timely impact in practice. In particular, these efforts will help give application designers expressive specification languages to declare their intended security policies, tools that help them design and implement software that satisfies these policies, dynamic monitoring techniques that are robust in the face of dynamically loaded code and data, and error reporting mechanisms that give clear feedback to developers and users. The result will be a better platform for developing large, reliable, and secure systems.
Ariel Feldman Joins CS
Ariel Feldman is an outstanding addition to our faculty, and were delighted to welcome him. His research lies at the intersection of computer security and distributed systems. He is presently focused on finding new ways to protect the security and privacy of users of cloud hosted services. He has also worked on other problems in computer security, such as securing electronic voting and disk encryption, and has a particular interest in the interaction between computer security and public policy.
Ari joins us from the CIS department at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been a postdoctoral researcher working with Jonathan Smith and Andreas Haeberlen. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University in 2012 under the supervision of Edward Felten. Along the way, he spent time at the US Federal Trade Commissions Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, Microsoft Research Redmond, and Google NYC. He received an A.B. magna cum laude in Computer Science and in Ethics and Political Philosophy from Brown University.
Aris work enhances security and privacy by reducing the degree to which the participants in a system have to trust each other. Today, systems from cloud hosted document editors to voting machines largely rely on their participants promises not to misbehave and on non-technical enforcement such as laws and contracts. But the recent history of accidental disclosures, break-ins, misuse of users data, surreptitious censorship, and warrantless surveillance shows that a new approach is needed.
Aris goal is to redesign widely-used systems so that rather than having to trust each other, their participants receive precisely-defined guarantees that hold regardless of how other users behave. To do so, he aims to build systems that are designed for verifiability, enabling users to check a systems correctness for themselves, and that protect privacy with end-to-end cryptography. Such systems not only provide greater security guarantees than were previously possible, they also have the potential to enable new applications. Users who may have been unable to adopt new technologies such as cloud deployment because of their risks might now be able to reap their benefits.
When designing these systems, Ari draws on a wide variety of techniques from applied cryptography, distributed systems, and theory. He strives to create systems that are not only secure, but also scalable, practical, and easy to use for users and developers alike. As a result, he believes in the importance of building and evaluating working systems. His work also often involves security analysis of existing systems and the development of demonstration attacks. This offensive research informs his system-building by shedding light on the many ways systems can fail and by guiding him toward new research problems with real-world relevance.
Matthew Wachs joins CS
Matthew Wachs is a lecturer in the Computer Science Department at the University of Chicago.
Matthew received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, where he performed research on operating systems and storage systems. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, from Cornell University.
Before joining the University of Chicago, Matthew has been involved in the teaching of courses on operating systems, computer architecture, programming languages, and theory. At Carnegie Mellon, he has mentored and served on the thesis committees of several Masters students.
Matthew has performed research on a variety of topics. His thesis focused on providing quality of service for storage workloads that share a storage system. He has worked on tracing parallel applications, developing a technique that allows inter-node dependencies to be determined automatically. He has explored the use of virtualization to allow file systems implemented in one operating system to be used by programs running in another. He has also developed algorithms to efficiently update the results of graph analyses as the graphs evolve over time, with applications in social network analysis.
Andrew Drucker joins CS faculty
Andrew Drucker is an outstanding addition to our faculty, and were delighted to welcome him. His research is in the theory of computing with powerful contributions to both classical and quantum complexity theory, where he has attacked central questions in both domains in highly original ways. Andrew joins us from the Institute for Advanced Study, where he was a member of Avi Wigdersons group---one of the foremost postdoctoral programs in the theory of computing. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, advised by Scott Aaronson.
Andrews work is in computational complexity theory the study of the intrinsic resource requirements of computational tasks. His work has addressed several broad and related themes, including the power of interactive and quantum proof systems; the inherent limitations of popular paradigms for algorithm design, such as kernelization; and the study of synergies that arise when multiple computations are performed jointly. This research sheds light on the inherent barriers algorithmic practitioners face, and helps guide the community toward attainable progress on real-world problems.
Aaron Elmore Joins CS Faculty
Aaron has a substantial background in research focusing on Database-as-a-Service, Multi-tenant Database Systems, and Self-Managed Elastic Systems. After receiving his BS in Electronic Commerce Technologies from DePaul University, graduating Magna Cum Laude, he continued on to get his Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Chicago. He completed a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California in Santa Barbara. Aaron is currently a postdoctoral associate with the database group at MIT.
Aaron joins the University of Chicago with significant industry experience as well as teaching experience educating on topics such as Programming Methods, Database Systems, Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems, and Advanced Topics in Databases.
With a wide-ranging career in computer science, Aaron's experience is noteworthy. Most recently, he held a Software Engineering internship at Trifacta in San Francisco, CA, focusing on tools for interactive data analytics resulting in two patents applications. At Amazon Web Services, he developed an internal, distributed, automated, deployment for monitoring service configurations. He was also a Research Intern at Microsoft Research, building on scale-out performance for a cloud computing programming mode.
During his doctorate he worked on research for the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) and Distributed Systems Lab, UCSB, both in Santa Barbara, CA.
Aaron has also worked at the Computation Institute, Customore, and 1SYNC/GS1US in Chicago, IL.
Throughout his career, Aaron has received numerous grants including the SIGMOD Student Travel Grant, a UCSB Senate Travel Grant, and an Amazon Research Grant.
He has also received awards and honors including Outstanding Computer Science Graduate Student at UCSB, Outstanding Teaching Assistant at UCSB, the Computer Science Merit Fellowship, and Top of the Class honors at DePaul University.
Aaron's research focused on the development of self-managed and elasticity primitives to enable the transformation of traditional and main-memory databases into a scalable data platform. While recent research and industrial efforts have examined making scalable databases through restricting use cases, these solutions do not fully address the needs of systems hosting many dynamic and relational database applications without gross over-provisioning of resources.
The primitives he developed addressed the efficient management of dynamic database applications without static provisioning or manual administration. This includes methods for providing live database migration for load-balancing, modeling workloads and the impact of colocation for database placement, and enabling live reconfiguration of partitioned databases for fine grained re-partitioning to alleviate hotspots.
Aaron's approach focused on building lightweight solutions that maintain system guarantees, leveraging machine learning techniques to build scalable empirical models, and verifying solutions through real-world evaluations.
| CS Alumni take first place in Social New Venture Challenge
Joe Flesh (AB'12) and Declan Frye (AB'10), both CS majors, won the Social New Venture Challenge with their startup Purple Binder. Joe and Declan are the CEO and CTO, respectively, of Purple Binder, and they participated in the SNVC in a team with three current SSA students. More details here.
Pete Vilter (Class of 2015), a current CS undergrad who is on the team that placed second in the Social New Venture Challenge.
|UChicago continues winning streak at programming tournament
Bill Waldrep, a fourth-year in computer science, recently took the $5,000 top prize in the Illinois Technology Associations third annual Fall Challenge, a programming skills tournament for technology students attending targeted Illinois universities.
Waldrep also is a member of the Whiteboard Erasers, the UChicago computer programming team that took first place in November in the Mid-Central USA regional of the Association of Computing Machinery/International Collegiate Programming Contest. The team will compete next summer in the World Finals in St. Petersburg, Russia.
This is the third consecutive year that a UChicago student has won the ITA Fall Challenge. Last years winner was Louis Wasserman, SB12, while the 2010 champion was Michael Lusignan, a graduate student in computational neuroscience.
Read the full text of the article here.
|Computer programming team advances to World Finals again
For the first time, the University of Chicago computer programming team has won the Mid-Central USA regional contest. The victory automatically qualifies the team, named Whiteboard Erasers, for the Association of Computing Machinery/International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 30 to July 4, 2013.
In previous years, UChicago has qualified for the World Finals in a wild-card slot after placing second or third in the regional. The Whiteboard Erasers consists of Naren Hazareesingh, third-year in computer science; Bill Waldrep, fourth-year in computer science; and Kevin Wang, third-year in physics.
The team solved all eight problems at the regional, held Nov. 3 in the Ryerson Physical Laboratory building. Only one other team solved all eight problems, though not as quickly. This team, UChicagos Conjurers of Cheap Tricks, placed second. All other teams in the region solved seven problems or fewer.
Read the full text of the article here.
|Haryadi Gunawi works to usher in a new age of computation
Published in the Physical Science Division's Inquiry Fall/Winter 2012 issue
Whether you realize it or not, youre proba- bly already a consumer of cloud computing, points out Haryadi Gunawi, the Neubauer Family assistant professor of computer sci- ence. Search engines, webmail, and social- networking sites all store information and computing power in the cloud, the hard- ware and software systems users access over a network. Even so, Gunawi argues, the potential of the cloud has yet to be fully tappedand he intends to help tap it.
The dominant paradigm in the late 20th century was the personal computer; every- thing a user needed was on his or her PC. As the importance of networking grew, us- ers accessed information and programs run- ning on remote computers. More and more computing functions were transferred off the personal computer and into the cloud. Today the personal computer is in decline as the rise of smartphones, tablets, and other Internet-enabled devices rely on the cloud. Now even slow and inexpensive de- vices can draw on enormous data storage and processing power.
The cloud will democratize computing, says Gunawi. In the old days, if you wanted to build big software systems, you needed lots of infrastructure to begin with, he says. You needed lots of people and lots of machines. Today a small software firm can rent as much storage or computing power as it needs, on demand, from services like Amazon. You can become successful without taking on too much risk in the beginning.
Not everyone is sold on the cloud yet. Data security is a real issue because, in the cloud, so many users share the same com- puters; banks in particular are hesitant to trust their records to anyone else. System reliability is another challenge. As Gunawi points out, the software must run on hun- dreds of thousands of machinespersonal com- puters, laptops, smartphones, tabletseach with its own quirks and possible failure points. Not to mention that as the complexity of the soft- ware goes up, youre going to have more bugs.
The reliability of a cloud-based system can make or break its owners. The online bookmark- ing service Mag.nolia permanently lost its users data in 2009 and was forced to shut down a year later. Recurring data outages by Research in Mo- tion, which makes the BlackBerry smartphone, have battered the companys sales.
Gunawi is addressing shortcoming with an initiative called UCARE (University of Chicago Systems Research on Availability, Reliability, and Elasticity). In the past, he says, it was enough to test software on a few different machines to verify its reliability. The proliferation of comput- ing devices has created more opportunities for failure. UCARE aims to analyze todays systems and point the way forward to a safer, more reli- able cloud.
One aspect of UCARE is writing drill-capa- ble software, which tests itself by deliberately introducing errors into its system. The goal is to identify weaknesses and known failure points, he says, so operators know how to respond to an actual failure without losing users data. Gu- nawi also goes a step further than most testers: Whatever you do with offline testing, he says, its not enough. Hes developing ways to put real failures in actual data in live systems. If you dont test your systems online that often, then suddenly you get into a panic situation because youve never been there before.
The future is sooner than you think: Gunawi estimates that cloud computing will become the norm within five years, as storage technology and software become more reliable. Humans are thirsty for data, he says, and hes interested to see how their demands evolve. As he puts it, This is an exciting new era for computing.
|Wasserman wins Illinois Technology Associations 2011 Fall Challenge prize.
Check out the University's web story on Louis Wasserman and innovation in programming at http://www.uchicago.edu/features/20120528_wasserman/.
|Foster wins CityLIGHTS award
Ian Foster is the winner of ITA's CityLIGHTS Technologist of the Year Award for 2012 (http://www.illinoistech.org/page.aspx/citylights). This award is presented each year "to the individual whose talent has championed true technology innovation, either through new application of existing technology or the development of technology to achieve a truly unique product or service". Congratulations, Ian!
|Our graduate students' plans for next year include:
Morgan Sonderegger has accepted an appointment at McGill University as assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics.
Sravana Reddy will be a Neukom Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth College next year.
Ross Girshick will be starting a 2-year postdoc position with Jitendra Malik at UC Berkeley this summer.
Josh Grochow will be a postdoc in the Computer Science Department at the University of Toronto.
|UChicago to host North American programming contest April 14-15
Update: The contest result are in! Read more here.
Computer programming teams from across North America will compete for $12,000 in prize money, including a $4,500 grand prize, at the University of Chicago Invitational Programming contest April 14 and 15. The invitational is a tuneup for the 22 North American teams that qualified for the 2012 World Finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest, which the Association for Computing Machinery will hold May 17 in Warsaw, Poland.
Various institutions have held regional invitationals in previous years, but the UChicago event will be the first to include all World Finals teams from the ICPC North American Super-Region.
|Computer Science ACM Teams Place Highly in Regional International Collegiate Programming
The regional phase of the ACM's International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) took place on November 5th and the University of Chicago sent three teams that all placed amongst the top 20 teams in the region (out of 141 teams in Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee). We were not able to announce the results earlier because the Regional Judges did not certify the results until today.
Our teams and their ranks are:
WHITEBOARD ERASERS Joe DiCapua, Naren Hazareesingh, Kevin Wang Placed 1st in the Chicago site, and 2nd regionally.
TERMINAL 1337NESS Michael Lucy, Rafael Turner, Damon Wang Placed 3rd in the Chicago site, and 9th regionally
NOT YET Naftali Harris, Matt Lee, and Bill Waldrep Placed 5th in the Chicago site, and 16th regionally
We congratulate the exceptionally talented students in our ICPC teams, as well as their coach, Borja Sotomayor, and Louis Wasserman, their assistant coach.
The full regional standings can be found here.
This year's problem set can be found here.
Undergrads interested in this competition should absolutely contact Borja Sotomayor email@example.com.
|Louis Wasserman wins first place
Louis Wasserman (4th year in the College and assistant coach of the CS Department's ACM-ICPC team) won first place on November 4 at the Illinois Technology Association's Fall Challenge competition. Congratulations, Louis!
|Chicago Plan Chosen Among Final Three in Simons Foundation Search
for Institute for the Theory of Computing
The Simons Foundation informed us on September 28 that the University of Chicago/TTIC proposal for an Institute for the Theory of Computing has been selected to be one of the final three proposals that they will consider. Last December, after an initial "letter of intent" phase, seven major institutions and consortia across the country were invited to submit full proposals to host the new Institute which will benefit from a $6M/year grant from the Simons Foundation. The three finalists will host site visits in the coming months before the final decision is made.
Enthusiastically supported by President Robert Zimmer and PSD Dean Robert Fefferman, the Chicago plan involves major institutional commitments. The plan has been spearheaded by CS faculty members Laszlo Babai, Alexander Razborov, Stuart Kurtz, and our former faculty member Lance Fortnow (Northwestern University).
The Institute's mission will be to further the core intellectual agenda of the Theory of Computing, the mathematical study of the fundamental nature, power, and limitations of efficient computation, as well as the manifold interactions of this field with other disciplines, ranging from mathematics and statistics to the sciences and engineering.
|Computer Science Team Wins Award
Nick Seltzer, Lamont Samuels, John Reppy, and Gordon Kindlmann won Best VIS Poster award at the VisWeek 2011 meeting for their poster: Diderot: A Parallel DSL for Computing on Multi-Dimensional Tensor Fields. Congratulations!


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We finally had court yesterday and I think it went pretty well but it was rough. We had to wait a little while and there were people there for mom who we didn't know anything about so there was a little awkwardness. Everyone was nice and polite though. We found out there were actually two petitions filed but were told that neither one of them had a favorable home study and that everyone, CASA, GAL, and SW are against baby girl going anywhere else right now. They did grant visitation to the two people petitioning but they said that's standard practice and if/when they get their petitions turned down they won't get visitation anymore. One of them is the lady mom lives with (never going to happen) and the other one is her oldest son's grandmother from his dad's side. I think age and health is a factor there but she seems like a very sweet lady so we'll see how it goes at visitation next week.
There was also a man there that they ordered to take a DNA test so I have to take baby girl next Tuesday to get her cheek swabbed. If this isn't the dad poor mom has to testify to who else it might be. We're supposed to go back to court to get the ruling on the petitions and DNA test Feb 25th. They did say though to expect her to be here until July at least which is when the next foster care review is.
One thing that we don't know how to take at all is that mom has discussed a few times signing away her rights. Apparently she told the home mom that if she couldn't have baby girl I was the only person she'd want to raise her. I don't know how serious she is about this, or if they'd allow her to do it even if she did make the decision. She brought it up to the CASA worker at court yesterday so I guess we'll see what comes of it. It was a very hard day for her though so I just hope she gets a little emotional break if that's even possible in this situation.
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The Oregon Police Department needs the public's help identifying a man they say stole a credit card on Christmas Eve to make purchases around northwest Ohio, but the way he did it may surprise you.
Police say there have been transactions in the Oregon and Toledo area totaling nearly $650. The victim told police he believes his card was stolen on the holiday -- but his card is still in his wallet.
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I had to do it for one of my classes..psych maybe? Or else I wouldn't have done it. Maybe it's the Scorpio in us Bridget? We're everything lol
I had trouble deciding, too. When I wasn't sure, I asked DH what he sees me do most often! Actually it was an interesting discussion, to see how he sees me.
You all have much more interesting lives than I do. Enjoy your Fourth!
Me (40) DH (47) & furbabies * m/c 7/08 4/12 11/12
I am supposed to be going over to Rich's for bbq later. I'm taking Mom & my brother is already there. It's kinda funny that Tim is over there 3-4 times a week, but he's only been to my apartment once since I moved in over a month ago. He doesn't act angry or disappointed, but he's not coming over to visit. I kinda chuckle to myself and think, "yeah, I thought my brother and I were close but really he was using me to see Rich." The reality is he's been so busy, and Rich's house is on the way to/from the people he works with, plus all his tools are there. By the time he's done for the day, he just wants to go home and relax.
At least, that's what I'm telling myself it is.
I was 1/2 afraid I'd get slammed on facebook, maybe even lose some friends, but I found (through a liberal mamas group I'm in on FB)
this article comparing right-wing ideals regarding liberty to southern aristocracy. I found it very interesting and enlightening.
It starts out
David Hackett Fischer, whose Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways In America informs both Lind's and Woodard's work, described just how deeply undemocratic the Southern aristocracy was, and still is. He documents how these elites have always feared and opposed universal literacy, public schools and libraries, and a free press. (Lind adds that they have historically been profoundly anti-technology as well, far preferring solutions that involve finding more serfs and throwing them at a problem whenever possible. Why buy a bulldozer when 150 convicts on a chain gang can grade your road instead?) Unlike the Puritan elites, who wore their wealth modestly and dedicated themselves to the common good, Southern elites sank their money into ostentatious homes and clothing and the pursuit of pleasure -- including lavish parties, games of fortune, predatory sexual conquests, and blood sports involving ritualized animal abuse spectacles.
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and yes I'm partying it up here. So far I have gone online, talked to my mom on the phone and watched Hangover II. I think that there is another movie in the near future and dinner. And I will probably force myself to go in the basement and put in a bit of time on the elliptical. Even the dogs don't want to be outside today!
Someone stole my credit card number and has been putting small charges on it for the past few days. I didn't find out about it until they tried to buy a couple of plane tickets from Montreal to London today. We only have one credit card, and a ton of my bills and services are deducted through it, so it's going to be a huge pain going without it for the next few days and then making all of the calls to change it. I am going to have to update at least 20 different sites, I think.
On the up side, both twins said "This is the best day of my entire life" at the parade today.
Oh, L, what a nightmare! Will the bank reimburse you for the stolen charges?
However, yet another fantastic siggy pic from you. Love it.
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Oh man, L! That sucks! What's with all the robbery around here?
My cousin called me today to see if we wanted to come to her town and go to the fair and I was thinking that sounded like about the most miserable thing ever in 100 plus weather! So I invited her and her husband to come here and go out on our pontoon with us. She was more than happy to change plans! Well when we all got on the boat the engine was acting awfully strange and I could see her and her husband exhanging looks like they were wondering what they got themselves into. When dbf finally got the boat started we just went out a little ways so that we were close to the shore just in case. It was so hot we all ended up jumping in the water and swam for about 3 hours! It was so fun. We never swim in our lake because the bottom is so mushy and just feels nasty on our feet. But with the lifejackets on it's so easy to float and keep your feet up. I couldn't believe how brave Kai was being. He is very, very nervous in the water and will not go past his waist. Even if I take him deeper he clings to me. Today he was all over the place. I'm so proud of him!
Awww! Way to go Kai!!!
I just hung out at Rich's with the kids. Conner got us all with the hose. I tried to get Conner to dance in the rain with me, but he just kept looking at me like I was crazy. Rich, unfortunately, tried being playful and chased me around a bit and then kept hugging/hanging all over me. I finally had to say, "I don't feel like cuddling" and then he pouted for nearly an hour. He did snap at Conner about something too. I finally asked him if he wanted me to leave. He apologized and then acted normal.
I felt bad, but come on.
Ugh, Chrissy. I can see how that would be annoying. In some ways, it seems, he acts like a child. And I'm sure you want to be able to go over and hang out with your family without having to worry about that.
I do feel bad for him. I know what it's like to love someone like that that doesn't love you back. It sucks. In fact, our roles were reversed 18 years ago. I keep telling him I can't help how I feel. If I could just make myself feel in love with him, I would because it would be easier for everyone.
So back to that test, I don't see how the results can be accurate if so many of us feel we could go one way or another. I mean, I feel like it would depend on the day for lots of those questions.
And I feel bad for Rich too, Chrissy but not in a way that I think you aren't doing exactly what you need to be doing. I have been on both ends of that as well. And both ends are really difficult.
Tell me if this in not common sense? When you are holding a baby who sees his mama and begins to cry for her, what do you do? Because everyone I know brings the baby to me but dbf actually puts him down and says, "Go to mama then." And poor Sawyer just stands there crying until I come to him! I ask him why do you just put him down like that? And he says, "He doesn't want me. He wants you." I'm like DUDE! Look around you and tell me you don't notice what other people do when he cries for me? He is lucky that he spared himself by saying, "Ok, i see what you mean."
Sometimes he acts like this is his first child, I swear he is even more clueless than he was with Savana.
Omg, the men in here! I'm sorry, guys.
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OMG Sawyer I woke up to Sawyer actually kissing me on the lips this morning! He such a little doll.
That is really sweet, Bridget! My sweet little Cash has turned in to a right little bully lately! He fights with Travis now, and I think that makes him think he can fight with anyone. He has a cousin who is 5 months younger than he is and he likes to rugby tackle her to the ground. Also, when we go to play groups, he pushes other kids, tries to hit them and has even grabbed a handful of hair. I've always had to watch him like a hawk any how because he's a risk taker, but now I watch him because of how he is with the other kids. All I can do is to stop him from doing whatever he's doing and in a stern voice say something, "No, we don't hit, etc." But I sure wish he'd get over this phase quickly!
I'm going out tomorrow night with the yummy mummies. As time has gone one, I've got to know them better and I actually like most of them now!
Speaking of housework.....
I have to say that I find this true in my home. DH is a decently happy guy and we either do household chores 50/50 or if anything, he does more than I do.
Cash! lol...later, it'll be funny. When he's a grown-up nice young man you can make his friends laugh at what a little bully he was. I'm sure he'll outgrow it.
I'm glad you met friends that you actually like! teehee.
L, that is so cute about the fireworks. Travis still talks about his first ever Guy Fawkes night where we watched fireworks and had chicken korma.
Chrissy, you know what I meant! It's a big change for me to have in-real-life friends! Y'all will always be my closest homies!
L, that is so cute about the fireworks. Travis still talks about his first ever Guy Fawkes night where we watched fireworks and had chicken korma.
Chrissy, you know what I meant! It's a big change for me to have in-real-life friends! Y'all will always be my closest homies!


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The chiseled features and perfect balance of 26-year-old Arsenal defender Thomas Vermaelen are spotlighted by British photographer and director Sharif Hamza, in anticipation of the Euro 2012 Championship in Poland and Ukraine, which kicks off tomorrow. Hamza used long lenses and handheld cameras to produce an instinctive, player's-eye perspective of the action, with Vermaelen feinting in and out of frame as if taking on the viewer one-on-one. Controlling, dribbling and juggling the star-patterned Adidas ball through the chiaroscuro shadows of a floodlit training pitch, Vermaelen is kitted out in autumn/winter designs by his fellow Belgians, including items by Ann Demeulemeester, Kris Van Assche, Dries Van Noten and Tim Coppens, Raf Simons and Maison Martin Margiela. "He was great," recalls Hamza of the Premier League star. "Although he was a little unsure about the red Margiela leather trousers at first. The wardrobe was very much about the Belgian designers, so it's not just an arbitrary fashion film––it's about him and where he comes from, too."
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Give it a shot - something different and might help you get past that "plateau" you're stuck on:
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Yesenia, the first person in her family to enter college, struggled to fit in at San Francisco State University, failed her freshman math class, and considered dropping out. Fortunately, she had a coach from Beyond 12, a nonprofit that aims to break the cycle of poverty by increasing the number of low-income, first-generation students who graduate from college.
"Thousands of low-income students embark on their college journeys believing that they're prepared for the road ahead," says Alexandra Bernadotte, Beyond 12 Founder and CEO, but only 15 percent will earn a bachelor's degree within five years.
The Intel Foundation is supporting Beyond 12 with technology advice and a fellowship for Bernadotte through Ashoka, an organization that helps launch social entrepreneurs.
Beyond 12 works to keep students in college by tracking, connecting, and coaching, says Bernadotte. The organization has built a unique technology platform that tracks data about how students fare—academically, socially, and financially—once they enter college. High schools and colleges can use the data to improve how they prepare and support students. A Beyond 12 Facebook app connects college students with others of similar backgrounds, and with resources such as financial aid and budgeting and job-search tools. Struggling students are paired with Beyond 12 coaches who help them navigate campus life.
Beyond 12's combination of technology and service "allows us to impact not just the kids we're working with, but the educational system as a whole," says Bernadotte. The organization started in 2009 and is now tracking the progress of over 20,000 students and coaching 2,000 students at 180 colleges.
Yesenia is an example of Beyond 12's success. Her coach helped her turn things around, and she is now in her third year of college. Says Bernadotte, "Yesenia may be the first person in her family to graduate from college, but she certainly won't be the last."
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- Fort Ord: Board of Supervisors delays decision on plan to sell open space
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- Fort Ord sell-off raises hackles
- Jan 30:
- Fort Ord open space fight extends to state-ordered sell-off
- Sep 14:
- Monterey County supervisors to reconsider Fort Ord land use finding
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- MPC plans become bargaining chip in Fort Ord ballot measure
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- Seaside's Fort Ord ballot measure challenge fails
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- Seaside sues to kill competing Fort Ord ballot measures
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- Monterey Downs spent $86K on veterans cemetery petition campaign
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- Let the negotiations begin: Seaside picks possible developer for Fort Ord land
- Jul 31:
- Seaside to mull spending $50K for 'education outreach' on Fort Ord land use
- Del Rey Oaks, developer headed to bankruptcy court in Delaware
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- Fort Ord appraisal gets OK from Monterey City Council
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- Fort Ord's proposed veterans cemetery on track to get $1.5 million from state
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- A primer on the dueling Fort Ord petitions
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If Gov. Jerry Brown signs legislation extending the Fort Ord Reuse Authority's powers by his Sept. 30 deadline, several members of the FORA board will be left scratching their heads over pressure they received to approve changes to developer fees.
FORA board members said the agency's Sacramento lobbyist, John Arriaga, individually lobbied them in August to pass the "formulaic approach" to determining fees, saying the Legislature might defeat the FORA extension if they didn't.
Despite objections from county Supervisor Jane Parker, Monterey City Councilwoman Nancy Selfridge and others, the measure passed on an 8-4 vote on its initial consideration Aug. 10. Signaling further urgency, board Chairman Dave Potter then set a special meeting to take the required second vote on Aug. 29.
The Legislature approved the extension before that could happen. Next, board members said, Potter told them the governor might veto the legislation unless they passed the new formula.
It passed Aug. 29 on a disputed vote, with Parker and Marina City Councilman David Brown dissenting. Seaside Mayor Felix Bachofner, who first opposed, then voted to approve, subsequently requested a reconsideration.
That request appeared to be granted but was pulled from last week's board meeting after accusations that it was too vaguely worded on the agenda.
Unless someone asks for a special meeting, it won't be considered again until the board's Oct. 12 meeting, two weeks after Brown's deadline to sign FORA's six-year extension.
It is unclear whether the fact that Brown hasn't signed it yet has anything to do with the clouded standing of the formulaic fees. Brown's office declined comment.
Like most jurisdictions, FORA previously set developer fees for any given land use — $33,000 for a single-family residential unit, for example. The new approach establishes a formula whereby FORA essentially would exhaust its funding resources for capital improvements on an annual basis before turning to developers for impact fees.
Proponents of the approach say it removes the spectre of shifting politics and gives developers some certainty for how their costs will be determined. A staff report said it would reduce fees that were already reduced 27 percent in 2011.
Assemblyman Bill Monning, who sponsored the FORA extension legislation, said no one from the governor's staff has expressed concern about the fees to him. The only time he heard about the issue, he said, was when developers approached him and asked him to write the fee change into his legislation.
He declined that request, as well as requests from environmentalists, he said, and limited his bill to the extension.
Bachofner said he was hearing from developers in 2010 and 2011 that impact fees were too high at FORA and elsewhere. FORA addressed the issue by reducing fees in 2011. Since then, Bachofner said, he has heard nothing from developers.
The idea that Sacramento was pressuring members for a fee change "flies in the face of me receiving absolutely zero requests from developers to further reduce fees," said Bachofner. "Why is it that lobbyists are calling me to say it's urgent when I haven't heard from developers?"
Selfridge, who was out of town for the final vote, said she thinks developers took their pitch straight to Sacramento and Arriaga, who represents many local boards and groups.
"I don't think there ever was" any urgency, she said. "This was a way for the developers to get their fees reduced. They wanted it quick before the legislation was signed so they didn't have to work on it afterward."
Selfridge was the first to reveal the calls from Arriaga at an Aug. 10 meeting. In a show of hands, most of the rest of the board said they received calls.
Arriaga did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday.
Bachofner said it is unusual for a lobbyist to individually contact members of a board he or she represents. Legislative updates are usually delivered in writing or to a committee.
Contacting a majority of the board, which then discussed the matter in open session, did not technically violate the Brown Act, Bachofner said, because there were no private deliberations by a quorum. But it did leave some members feeling "somewhat uncomfortable, which is why there were those disclosures."
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Just yesterday I found out that the 14th Annual Judean Hills Wineries Festival is being held this week. In fact, it is in another three days, this Thursday, October 18th, at 5 PM at Kibbutz Tzora. I called the information number (*8108 in Israel) and was informed that the admission fee is 50 shekels. I am not sure which of the wineries in this region are participating but I'll try to find out and get back with the information.
By the way, I was looking forward to going to this and had been planning on it being held in November. Don't know if I'll make it because it is a long drive for me as I live in the Western Galilee on the border with Lebanon. I also had been looking forward to a road race in conjunction with this tasting of wines from the Judean Hills. It had been held the day after the festival last year, but this year it is to be held one day plus one week after the festival on October 26th. If you want information go to this link of the promoters of the race (in Hebrew)-- http://events.shvoong.co.il/yekavim/?page_id=18.