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If you haven't been over to the SP Ning community in a while, you might be interested in the clothing swap thread Angie G just started. She noted the number of people who commented on Snarky's recent post on wanting to get rid of clothes that don't fit and thought that a swap might be the perfect solution. If you're interested, pop on over to that thread (and please, everyone, abide by the honor system!). And if you are new to the Ning community, click here to register (you might have to wait a few hours for one of us to approve your membership, so please be patient).
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Yay! Great idea! This gives me some motivation to clear out my overstuffed dresser.
perfect timing.! I was just taking a break from cleaning my closet in anticipation of a cross country move;-)
I'm doing a spring swap with some friends. Interesting how there is always
someone in my circle who currently is the size I was.
Of course, there are always leftovers due to personal preference, so I may
head to ning with them.
Also, I'm very excited. I followed some fatshionista advice and had a dress that didn't
fit properly altered. I'm picking it up this weekend. Yeah!
Nothing quite like clothes that are literally made for you.
This is a great idea! I have a lot of clothes that are either too big or too small and I keep hanging on to them "just in case".
SM, the Ning says that an invitation is required. How do I get one? Thanx! :D
brilliant. I posted. I'm traveling a ton this month so I won't have a yard sale any time soon myself.
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Now there are several Greasemonkey scripts and User styles which will allow you to disable the Facebook Timeline. However, most of them require you to perform several actions before you can get back to your old profile. Also, the same solution won't work for all the browser. So, if you are looking for a simple solution to disable Facebook Timeline with minimal efforts, here is what you can do.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Police in Saudi Arabia, where women are banned from driving cars, recently caught and punished three women found illegally behind the wheel, according to a report in the Saudi Gazette.
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The three recent cases, which are among the six registered against women drivers in the last five years, involved a variety of women.
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The Myth Of Original Creators
from the creativity-is-built-upon-others-ideas deptWe recently wrote about how many different sources Shakespeare used in writing King Lear, some of which he apparently copied verbatim. However, it seems quite likely that what Shakespeare did with those words created something wholly unique and valuable (at least, it's withstood the tests of time). Yet, this idea that taking the works of others and doing something with them to make them new and wonderful seems to be an anathema to the "true believers" in copyright, who insist that creativity is about being wholly original, and almost never about building on the works of those who came before. Yet, there's almost no evidence to support this. Nearly any creative work can be shown to be built upon the works of those who came before (hell, even our own copyright law is copied from others').
Law professor Peter Friedman recently had a few interesting blog posts that helped highlight this. First, he noted that the very notion of an author as the originator of a new work is a relatively recent phenomenon, and part of the Romantic Movement. However, prior to that, the view was much more akin to what we're actually seeing today with online tools of creation: "creative endeavors are derivative and collaborative, that originality is not the product of isolated genius but of, well, remixing."
He then goes on to discuss the blues musician Robert Johnson -- considered by many to be the "quintessential" Blues musician. However, a recent study into Johnson's work suggest that his fame and renown is basically an accident of history. Some British musicians heard Johnson's music, and since they'd never heard it before, they credited him for it, even though he was mainly copying (and building on) the work of others:
Conceptions of Robert Johnson's work highlight the context dependent nature of notions of originality. Originality is yet another characteristic of copyrightability that is not always easy to delineate in actual contexts of creation. However, what might seem original to those in one context may not seem as original in other contexts. Consequently, within the context of African American audiences of the 1920s and 1930s, Johnson's work probably did not seem startlingly original in the way that it did to British and other musicians and audiences listening to Johnson's music, often in relative isolation, in the 1950s and 1960s. This later audience was largely removed from the original context of other music that was prevalent at the time Johnson produced his music or able to listen to a limited and likely biased sample of such music. For early African American blues listeners, what seemed original and interesting was very different that what seemed interesting and original to the largely white blues fans that were the major force behind the blues revival in the 1950s and 1960s. For the latter, romantic conceptions about the blues were closely tied to notions of authenticity that are often unsuited to musical creation in living musical traditions. As a result, what is perceived as original may depend in significant part on the contexts within which listeners hear music.Friedman also points back to another recent post where he discusses the nature of content creation, based on a blog post by Rene Kita. In it, she points out that remixing and creating through collaboration and building on the works of others has always been the norm. It's what we do naturally. It's only in the last century or so, when we reached a means of recording, manufacturing and selling music -- which was limited to just those with the machinery and capital to do it, that copyright was suddenly brought out to "protect" such things.
But, today, with the rise of the internet, and the ability for anyone to perform those roles, we run smack dab into conflicting interests. People still want to create the way they always have, but the industry of the last century, that has relied on copyright law to make its product seem different and "original" freaks out about this ongoing content creation:
Culture is a conversation. Every act of culture is a reply to something, a restatement, correction, modification, reworking. Lawyers are constantly debating how much modfication is required to make a work legal. Thus, you may 'create' a new instance of The Blues(TM Martin Scorsese), by shuffling the notes and words around by a set amount. Shuffle too little and you're in trouble with the law. Shuffle too much and the purists start screaming rape. Still, artists are trained to recognize what is a new song and what a version and their publishing companies have experts to deal with these matters. And there we enter the crux of the matter:It's nice to see more and more people recognizing and speaking out about these things. The idea that there is a single "author" or "creator" who deserves to get money any time anyone else builds upon his or her works is something that should be seen as increasingly ridiculous as people recognize that all works are created based on the works of others, and it's inherently silly to try to charge everyone to pay back each and every one of their influences in creating a new work.
Copyright law is corporate law. Or it used to be.
Previously, it took heavy investment to publish art, music, writing, so it was always done by companies and professionals. Today, squirting anything into a blog is an act of publishing. The legalese you signed by clicking when you started your blog forbids any use of copyrighted material that you don't own. Suddenly, instead of plain ordinary citizens entitled to sing "Poops, I did it again" or tape Brad Pitt's face in a toilet bowl onto a postcard to a friend, we are all professional artists required to Create Art from Scratch. Because we are no longer just having a conversation, in which we quote from everything we have seen and heard without any thought of Creation and Originality. Your piddling little blog is a Publishing Enterprise held to the same legal standards as Time Warner Inc, except that you do not have the funds to pay for any borrowings.
You have been muzzled.
This is why people are angry. Their normal modes of expression have been turned into a crime. They know they are only safe from prosecution because they are small fry - unless someone decides to make an example of you. Thus, any time you post some photoshoppery or a musical mash-up you risk having it summarily deleted and your account cancelled for criminal cultural activities.
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Spring is finally here, and nothing makes me happier than seeing the cheery bright yellow daffodils that bloom this time of year! Daffodils are my favorite flower, and last year I came across a cute little craft project on Martha Stewart's website – making paper daffodil candy cups. I loved the look of these delightful decorations and thought why not make them edible! So this year I turned them into a cookie with a candy cup center. These cheerful cookies would be the perfect accent for your Easter table. I'm thinking of putting a cookie at each guests plate; I could even write a name on each cookie and use them as place cards. They would be beautiful for a baby or bridal shower as well!
To make the cookies, I started with my Excellent Sugar Cookie recipe. I used the daffodil template from Martha Stewart's site to make a card stock guide to cut out the cookies. I reduced the template to 85%, but I'm sure it would work at full size as well.
I baked the cookies on a Silpat non-stick baking mat. I love using these mats because the cookies slide right off, and they make for easy cleanup!
While the cookies are cooling, you can get the icing ready! I have tried a lot of royal icing cookie decorating techniques and recipes, and I have not always been successful. Through a lot of trial and error and searching, I came across a book called Decorating Cookies by Bridget Edwards. This is the most amazing cookie decorating book I have found. It has tons of tips, tricks, and methods for creating beautiful cookies, but most importantly it features what is, in my opinion, the perfect foolproof royal icing recipe, and the author, Bridget Edwards, has very kindly allowed me to feature that recipe here! Thank you Bridget!!! I should also mention that Bridget has a wonderful blog where she shares more of her lovely cookie creations and insight!
I used a bit of Americolor lemon yellow and egg yellow gel pastes to get the right shade for these cookies. I used a number 2 tip to outline the cookies with royal icing.
Next, working with three or four cookies at a time, I filled in the cookies with flood icing. Flood icing is just royal icing thinned with water. It is the icing you use to fill in the outlined area of the cookie.
I like to use these funny little picks called Bamboo Forks to drag the icing to the edges of the cookie. The ends of these picks are wider than a toothpick and I find that they really help me nudge the icing into those far corners. After I had covered the three or four cookies I was working with in yellow flood icing, I immediately piped the white dots onto the cookies.
Piping the white flood icing dots on top of the yellow flood icing was a bit intimidating, but it actually worked out great! Following the advice in Bridget's book, I added the same amount of water to both icings (the yellow and white) to make sure that the flood icings were the same consistency. For the white flood icing I added Americolor bright white gel paste to get a super white finish, and to help me get the polka dots pretty uniform in size I used these tiny little squeeze bottles. I use these bottles a lot for chocolate details, but they came in really handy for these cookies as well!
Once I had piped all of the polka dots, I breathed a sigh of relief and let them set out to dry.
I love the shiny, glossy sheen on these cookies. It took about six hours for the cookies to dry. I usually plan for them to dry overnight just to make sure they are completely set.
Okay so I feel like this project is getting a bit long now, and the cookies are cute just as they are, but if you're still as excited as I am about daffodil candy cup cookies, stay with me! I promise it's worth it! I filled these little fluted candy cup molds with candy melts. I like to use a baby feeding spoon to drop a dollup of candy coating into the mold cavity.
You can use the back of the baby spoon to push the chocolate up the sides of the mold.
I made these candy cups in two colors, because I wasn't sure which I would like better. I just let these candy cups dry at room temperature (it is 65 degrees in my house this time of year) for about 20 minutes, but you can stick them in the fridge to get the candy coating to set up even faster.
Now time to sort the jelly beans! If you have a little helpers, this is a great job for them! Just be aware that one or two jelly beans may go missing!
I used orange and yellow jelly beans, but you could fill the candy cups with other candies like Reese's Pieces or anything you like!
I saved a bit of royal icing to use as glue to stick the candy cups to the daffodil cookies. Royal icing is very strong and just a small dab is enough.
By pressing down in the center of the candy cups, I made sure my daffodil centers were completely stuck. I allowed about fifteen minutes to make sure that the royal icing was dry before filling the cups with jelly beans.
Put these little treats in cellophane bags and tie a ribbon around the top and you have an irresistible favor or gift!
- ½ cup meringue powder
- 1 scant cup water (meaning not quite full)
- 2 pounds (32 ounces) powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoons light corn syrup
- In the large bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, mix together the meringue powder and water until foamy and combined.
- Sift in the powdered sugar, add the corn syrup, and mix on low speed until the powdered sugar is incorporated. Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl with a silicone spatula. Increase the speed to medium-low and beat for 5 minutes.
- Increase the mixer's speed to medium-high and continue beating, just until the icing is glossy and stiff peaks form. To check for stiff peaks, take the beater off the mixer and hold it so that the icing is pointing up in the air. If the peak is floppy, keep beating. If the icing holds a point and keeps that point when jiggled, you have a stiff peak.
- Note: Be careful not to overbeat the icing, or it might become flaky when applied to the cookie. Keep a close eye on the glossy sheen; overbeating will cause it to go dull.


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I was thereIt was my first big concert. College freshman. Got lousy seats, cost $25. Signs outside saying they were filming a movie and that by entering concertgoers agree to "worldwide exploitation". (That movie was Rattle and Hum, and it was awesome!) The opening act was pretty forgettable. The u2 show was so powerful! The crowd energy was amazing. I've seen them several other times since, but never has the crowd been so charged up. Ended on 40. I remember the crowd singing "How long, to sing their song..." long after the concert ended an into the parking lot. I still have the stub...
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The Best Concert of my LifeIt was a Sunday night and I was a Sophomore in High School. My Dad wasn't going to let me go out, to a concert no less, on a school night. We had a very serious talk about it. I told him that I didn't want to disrespect his household but that even if it meant that I had to move out, I was going to attend this show." He relented (thank goodness - I really didn't want him to call my Bluff). The Bodeans were the opening band and for some reason, they were deafening loud. When U2 came on, they walked out silhoutted against a redd back drop with the building progression of "where the streets have no name". It was magical - and to this day and approximately 1000 concerts later (seriously) I have never had that moment equaled at a concert. I recall the Beatles Helter Skelter being covered and I think some of the Beatles "Help" as well. I remember the intro to Sunday Bloody Sunday - something bad had happened in Ireland that day and Bono was emotional and so eloquent that I couldn't believe what he was saying wasn't written down. When he asked us to sing for the Reverend Martin Luther King during Pride - I let loose with everything I had - as did everyone else as the lights flooded everyone in McNichols Arena. There was unadultered love for that band that night and I don't think that I have ever relinquished it.


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President Rodney Erickson's report to the Board of Trustees
1:30 p.m. Sept. 20
The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel
Good afternoon and welcome. For those of you who have visited Old Main during the restoration of the Land-Grant Frescoes, you are well aware that it has been less than picture-perfect. But last week, they began to unveil the restored frescos, and the change is transformative. Although we have a good deal of business to cover today, I wanted to begin by sharing a few fun facts about the frescoes.
In the spring of 1949, Stuart Frost was a Penn State undergraduate studying fine arts. At the time, renowned muralist Henry Varnum Poor was continuing the work he began in 1940 to complete the extensive Land-Grant Frescoes in the lobby of Old Main. Stuart was helping him with plastering and trips to the hardware store.
Stuart had applied plaster one evening and arrived early the next morning to check if the dampness was right for the artist to begin painting. Henry was already there, and what Stuart saw looking down at him was his own portrait captured in the face of a man holding the rein on an Angus bull.
Henry used other familiar faces as well. In the Lincoln fresco, the yellow lab under the table is Henry's dog, and the artist himself can be seen leaning on a stick in the group to the left of Lincoln.
I encourage you to stop by and see these Penn State treasures, which began with a significant financial contribution from the Class of 1932. Subsequent classes added to the funds, and this careful restoration will allow the entire mural to be enjoyed for generations to come.
Now on to the business of the day. First, I'm pleased to announce that we named Max Fredric Volkmann the interim vice president of Strategic Communications, effective Oct. 1.
Fred had a storied career at Washington University in St. Louis, where he served as vice chancellor for Public Affairs for 31 years. During his career, he advanced the entire field of public affairs through his adoption of cutting-edge communications, innovative media strategies, and talent for great content. He retired in 2011, but we were able to persuade him to share his expertise, while we conduct a national search to permanently fill the position.
Fred, can you please stand a moment so you can be recognized?
Thank you.
And please join me in thanking Cindy Hall for her outstanding leadership over the last year. She has done an excellent job, and will be working closely with Fred in her role as associate vice president of University Relations.
I also want to take a moment to recognize Julie Del Giorno, who serves as our athletics integrity officer. Earlier this week Julie was inducted into the U.S. Military Athletic Academy Hall of Fame in recognition of her outstanding record as a basketball player, and her ability to embody the academy's "mission of leadership." This is a great honor for Julie, and one that she attributes to "teamwork, having goals and pushing through limits."
Julie, can you please stand to be recognized?
Congratulations, we're pleased you're on our team!
As Keith mentioned, Penn State has seen a dramatic and unprecedented rise in the rankings in U.S. News & World Report's "2014 Best Colleges Rankings."
Penn State now ranks No. 8 among all public universities – up five places from last year. In the overall "National Universities" category, Penn State has risen to No. 37 overall, up nine places from last year. Penn State ranks No. 2 in the Big Ten.
Although it is reasonable to have some skepticism about rankings, it was refreshing to see that this year the rankings relied more heavily on measures of faculty research and academic excellence in a full range of undergraduate majors, plus master's and Ph.D. programs – all areas where Penn State excels. In addition, student outcome measures, such as retention and graduation rates, were weighted more heavily than inputs, and that contributed significantly to Penn State's rise in the rankings.
That is something we can all be proud of and a credit to Penn State's dedicated faculty and staff members. Their commitment to excellence in everything they do makes this possible. I'd like to ask all of the faculty and staff members in the audience to stand to be recognized.
Thank you for representing your many colleagues across the university.
The high rankings are also a reflection of our outstanding student body – and they are outstanding. We won't have the final numbers for the incoming class until later this fall, but we're fairly confident that our final new baccalaureate enrollment across Penn State will show about a 700-student increase compared to last year, close to equally split between University Park and the Commonwealth Campuses.
Total on-campus enrollment — undergraduate, graduate, and professional — should be very similar to last year's total when we take the official fall headcount at the end of the sixth week of the fall semester. I should add that World Campus enrollments continue to rise year-over-year.
This is also the time of year when we start to hear from ambitious students aspiring to be in next year's freshman class. When our application window opened on Sept. 1, about 1,000 students immediately pushed the send button so they could be among the first applicants.
To date, we have nearly 4,000 baccalaureate applications. Although it's obviously very early in the new admissions cycle, our applications are running ahead of last year at this time, and it looks like it will be a very typical year. I will keep you updated as the admissions season progresses.
Now I would like to turn your attention to some of the exceptional students who are currently attending Penn State, and are with us at this meeting. The students are the inaugural group in the Millennium Scholars program.
This highly selective program is modeled after one at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, that has been in existence for 25 years and has a 93 percent success rate in sending students on to graduate school.
This year, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Penn State University Park are piloting similar programs.
There are 20 students in Penn State's inaugural group, and all are freshman science and engineering majors.
-- The cohort is 62 percent under-represented minorities; half men, half women;
-- The students were selected based on their aspirations to obtain a Ph.D. in science or engineering, interviews, high school GPA, math SAT scores, and a commitment to increasing the diversity of researchers in STEM fields.
-- The majority of the students are from Pennsylvania, but they hail from as far away as Fort Lauderdale and Dallas.
-- After completing a six-week summer academic boot camp, which included theoretical calculus, the lowest overall GPA earned was 3.81.
Will the Millennium scholars now stand as a group so we can recognize you?
Thank you!
The research under way at Penn State is visionary, and this was affirmed this week with the receipt of a $10 million award -- focused on computer vision.
The project, led by Professor Vijay Narayanan, received an Expeditions in Computing award from the National Science Foundation. This award will provide $10 million in total funding over five years and represents the largest individual investments in computer science research that NSF makes.
Dr. Narayanan will be working with collaborators from several universities on the project titled Visual Cortex on Silicon. It aims to improve the holistic design of machine vision systems that will approach or exceed the capabilities of human vision.
It could have a profound impact on society, leading to aids for visually impaired persons, driver assistance capabilities for reducing automotive accidents, and other augmented reality systems.
Yesterday, we learned that Penn State's College of Medicine is one of 14 institutions nationwide named a Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science.
Funded by a $20 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health, the new center will provide the research foundation for the FDA to develop new and effective regulatory strategies for reducing the harm to health from tobacco products in the United States.
Joshua Muscat and Jonathan Foulds, both professors of public health sciences at the College of Medicine, are the directors of the new center. They will collaborate with colleagues from University Park and several other universities.
The research has the potential to make a real difference to public health in this country, while also training young scientists in the emerging field of tobacco regulatory science.
It was evident that employers value these types of research and training opportunities, during our Fall Career Days, held this week.
The turnout was excellent, with more than 500 employers attending the three-day long event that drew thousands of students.
Many resumes changed hands, bringing our students one step closer to future success. We're very pleased so many students and employers take advantage of the opportunity to meet on our campus.
We're also encouraged by the fact that many prominent employers are targeting Penn State as one of their top tier schools for recruitment.
For example, Penn State DuBois Information Science and Technology student Jessica Noland had an internship with Google this summer, at the Internet giant's Pittsburgh office.
What's more, Jessica didn't apply for the internship in the conventional way, but was contacted by a Google recruiter. It was a one-of-a-kind opportunity for Jessica to intern with one of the most world-renowned companies in her field.
On Sept. 25, Penn State will host the second annual Conference on Child Maltreatment with the Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Welfare and the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.
The conference will bring together district attorneys, children and youth service administrators, and law enforcement officials, as well as Penn State faculty, to learn about and expand the development of child advocacy centers, a core resource in efforts to combat child maltreatment.
Although registration is limited to the aforementioned groups, the event will be live-streamed at the HUB Auditorium and online.
Penn State students are also continuing their efforts to fight child abuse. Tomorrow, the group, One Heart, will sponsor the third annual Blue-Out at Beaver Stadium with proceeds going to the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape's Vision of Hope program.
During the last two years, the student group raised more than $126,000.
On Wednesday, a second student group will sponsor a Walk for Prevention to be held on campus with proceeds directed to the Darkness to Light training program educating our communities about the prevention of child abuse.
In addition to the Blue-Out, tomorrow will be the All "U" day, when we celebrate our Commonwealth Campuses with a special recognition at halftime.
Two students from each Penn State campus will carry their campus banner onto the field. It's always a great day, and one that recognizes the 40,000 plus students who attend our Commonwealth Campuses each year.
Looking ahead, planning is under way for the Croke Park Classic, which will be held next year in Dublin, Ireland. I had the opportunity to spend time with the Irish delegation, along with the group from the University of Central Florida, when they were here last week.
I'm excited by our common desire to make this a fun and educational trip for our student-athletes, and to use it to leverage our study-abroad programs. We already have strong relationships with the outstanding colleges and universities in Ireland, and this event will only serve to highlight the value of study-abroad options.
I know many of you are looking forward to the opening of the Pegula Ice Arena, which will be held on Oct. 11.
In addition to providing the finest facility of its kind for our student-athletes and fans, I want to emphasize the economic impact it will have on the community. It will help Penn State draw additional revenue events, and provide a venue for statewide tournaments and sporting competitions.
In addition, it will be available for commencement ceremonies and other university events. All in all, it will be a busy, beautiful, and valuable addition to our campus physical plant.
Moving on to development.
Even as we approach the final months of For the Future: The Campaign for Penn State Students, we are taking a hard look at how we can be even more effective and efficient at raising support in the future.
We invited the leading firm, Grenzebach Glier and Associates, to perform an organizational analysis of our structure, philanthropic metrics, and "cost/yield" performance as benchmarked against our peer institutions.
From that assessment, we're beginning to plan for new investments, strategies, and program initiatives.
What's emerging is a roadmap that will position Penn State to continue to serve our constituencies far into future.
At lunch today I had the privilege of recognizing David and Ann Hawk as the 2013 Fundraising Volunteers of the Year.
This award recognizes those who have served as fundraising volunteers, teachers or mentors, while demonstrating exceptional commitment and leadership in developing voluntary support for Penn State. David and Ann have done all that and more.
David earned his bachelor's degree in business administration from Penn State, and Ann earned her bachelor's degree in individual and family studies. David is chairman of the board and director of research for Gertrude Hawk Chocolates, which is one of the most popular companies among my staff. Ann is a certified Rosen Method Bodywork practitioner.
David and Ann met as students at Penn State Worthington Scranton and have been strong supporters of the campus, as well as active volunteers. We were very pleased to honor them in this way.
Since I began my remarks with the restoration of the land-grand frescos, one of the earliest class gifts, I'll end with another class gift story.
Last Friday we dedicated the 2012 Senior Class Gift, which was the restoration of the Nittany Lion Shrine. The Shrine was originally the gift of the Class of 1940.
The restoration provides a majestic platform for the Nittany Lion, and careful landscaping and better lighting enhance the accessibility, safety and beauty of the area. I encourage you to stop by for a photo.
I've been told the Lion is the second most photographed site in Pennsylvania, only surpassed by the Liberty Bell. With your help, perhaps we can take No. 1.
Now I'll be happy to take your questions.


text: The cost of the 'war on drugs' From the farmers to the traders, the cartels to the consumers, we assess the economics of the 'war on drugs'. 15 Apr 2012 12:51 GMT | Politics, US & Canada, Latin America, Guatemala, Mexico Producer: Samuel Hunt For decades the 'war on drugs' has been claiming lives and leaving countries riven with violence and corruption. A look at the figures shows that the stakes are incredibly high; UN estimates state that at retail level the illegal drugs trade is worth $332bn, making it one of the biggest commodity markets in the world. Up to 272 million people used illicit substances in 2010 and in turn governments across the globe annually spend $100bn in fighting the 'war on drugs'. The scale of the human cost is equally high. Central and South America have respectively the second and third-highest homicide rates in world, the Mexican government claims its war on drugs has claimed the lives of almost 50,000 people. In this special edition of Counting the Cost we ask whether those fighting the 'war on drugs' are seeing any benefit from their investment. With demand and consumption as high as they are, we question if this 'war on drugs' has actually been worth it - or at the least if it has been working. We speak to Otto Peres Molina, the Guatemalan president, who has broken rank by calling for the legalisation of drugs, saying: "we have spent billions over the last 40 years in a drug war that has solved nothing". Molina told us that he is proposing, "a debate, dialogue, where we have statistics, studies and serious analysis of the subject. Based on the results we must come up with alternatives rather than keep doing the same things we've been doing that have clearly shown that we are not winning the war against drugs." The desire for fresh debate is one which is currently not shared by the US. So much so that it is currently illegal to pay for research into legalisation. The "Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 1998" states that the director of the ONDCP "shall ensure that no federal funds appropriated to the Office of National Drug Control Policy shall be expended for any study or contract relating to the legalisation (for a medical use or any other use) of a substance… listed in schedule I of section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act…" We speak to those on both sides of the debate, including Dr. Kevin Sabet who advises the state department on drugs policy, and Danny Kushlick, the founder of the Transform Drug Policy Foundation. We look at Peru's coca farmers and the poverty that keeps them in the drugs trade; and looking at Mexico's drug cartels, we ask: How are the billions integrated back into the Mexican economy? Armando Santacruz of the Mexican NGO, Mexico United Against Crime, describes the effect of the drug cartels on the Mexican economy: "A lot of drug money has entered the economy and the competition is totally unfair, it is not a level playing field. Certain business endeavors are suffering while the associates of the drug cartels are doing a brisk business in the cleaning and laundering of money." Counting the Cost can be seen each week at the following times GMT: Friday: 2230; Saturday: 0930; Sunday: 0330; Monday: 1630. Click here for more on Counting the Cost. Source: Al Jazeera


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Earlier this year, after Jalopnik pointed to a tide of transmission complaints from owners of 2011 Ford Mustangs, Ford identified several issues with the car's Chinese-built Getrag MT82 six-speed, and issued a pair of service bulletins. Now, the Feds are done poking around. The verdict? No recall. The transmission's safe as milk. The problem was "abusive" Mustang owners.
It was back in April that we first started hearing about the issues, though Ford initially wasn't ready to talk about it, the automaker did say it would investigate.
Then, in August, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation based on 364 complaints to the agency regarding the MT82, which is built by a Ford-Getrag joint venture in Nanchang, China. While most complaints, which had started hitting the forums back in 2010, were related to trouble shifting while cold, grinding gears and clutch pedal stayout (pedal remains on the floor) at high engine RPMs, some of those made to the NHTSA alleged the shifting issues had nearly caused collisions with other vehicles.
Last month, Ford announced the results of its own investigation. Company officials said the faults had occurred with 3% of all transmissions, and that none of the issues found would cause a safety hazard. The first issue the company identified involved clutch plate bolts that loosened over time, making shifting difficult and causing grinding. Ford says it revised the fasteners and issued a "service message number" to techs. The NHTSA says only five complaints were related to this issue.
Of the issues reported, 44% were related to greater shift effort upon starting in cold temperatures. A service bulletin (TSB 11-3-18) suggested switching from the full-synthetic stuff to a lower-viscocity fluid used in the company's dual-clutch automanual. Third, 24% reported the clutch stayout issue, for which Ford issued a revised spring design and other clutch pedal parts with another service bulletin (TSB 10-19-4). Ford also identified an issue regarding fifth-gear syncros, saying it had "identified component quality issues regarding synchronizers and corrective action has been taken."
Ford also blamed the "abusive" Mustang owners themselves, saying "some vehicle evaluations by dealer service managers or field service engineers found that the driver's shift quality concerns were caused by their own shifting behavior." But it wasn't just poor "driver shift quality" — it was also modifications they were making to the vehicle. Ford found "inspections of some complaint vehicles have found modifications that may negatively affect shift quality and clutch and transmission durability."
Now, the NHTSA has issued their final word on the subject. "There is no indication of loss of motive power or unreasonable safety risk associated with the alleged defect in the subject vehicles," the agency wrote in its final report for Action Number: PE11024. "This preliminary evaluation is closed."
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Posted by R. Berg on April 07, 2001
In Reply to: Measurements posted by ESC on April 06, 2001
: : : : : Here in Britain were are slowly, oh so slowly, changing to the Metric system of measurement. The old system of lengths and weights is often termed 'Imperial'. What sort of collective noun is used in other parts of the world? I bet they don't call it 'Imperial' in the US!
: : : : My first impulse was to say that in the U.S., when we need to emphasize the difference between the two systems, we speak of British units: "I have a hard time thinking in centimeters. I was brought up on the British units." But, looking in a dictionary (American Heritage), I find these statements: "There are three major systems of measurement units in wide use: the U.S. Customary System, the British Imperial System, and the International (Metric) System. . . . The U.S. System has its origins in the British System, but they are not identical. . . . In the British System the units of dry measure (capacity) are the same as those of liquid measure. In the U.S. System they are not."
: : : I've never heard an American speak of the "U.S. Customary System" and about the only time we use Imperial is to refer to an Imperial gallon, which is apparently a different measure from a U.S. gallon. Mostly we just put our blinders on and wish for the metric system to go away. Part of this, I believe, has to do with American economy of speech. We abbreviate everything. We nickname everyone (whether they like it or not.) We compress. In this hyper-efficient atmosphere comes the metric system. Consider "inch" "yard" "mile" versus "centimeter" "meter" "kilometer" and so on. One syllable, one syllable, one syllable versus versus four, two, and four. It's downright un-American, by gum.
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: : I think that the metric system here in the U.S. found its way to only small select corners of certain industries like the entire medical industry and auto mechanic tools. Other than that, we use what we have always used--which most people refer to as "Standard". We still can only comprehend Fahrenheit over Celsius. Mile over kilometer. Cups/ounces/pounds/gallons/inches/feet ...... except the two liter bottle of coke. Why "liter" for soda when we buy a gallon of milk, a pint of half &half and a 12 ounce can of beer-somehow the metric system slipped into the American Champagne and laid rest. Go figure (in standard only please).
: All I know about it is "they" kept threatening to change to the metric system in the U.S. and it never happened.
Veering back to the question of what we call inches and ounces: I looked at some print sources. Manuals for writers and editors discuss the systems of measurement in giving guidelines for typographic treatment.
From "A Manual of Style" (12th ed., rev., University of Chicago Press, 1969): "ENGLISH MEASURE [heading]: Abbreviations for the English units of measure find very little use in straight text except for technical work. . . . INTERNATIONAL MEASURE [heading]: The international metric system of measurement employs three basic units. . . . Time [subheading]. The international system employs the same basic units of time as the English system . . . but to these are added two small units: . . . millisecond . . . microsecond . . ."
The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (3rd ed., Washington, D.C., 1983) doesn't use the term "British system" or "English system" in its parallel discussion. Instead it talks about the metric and nonmetric systems. Its conversion table has the column headings "Traditional U.S. unit" and "SI equivalent."
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No matter how many engineering hours you've logged over the years, it's always a good idea to keep in mind that properly focusing on specs and code can make or break a project. In 2013, Aubrey Kagan—an experienced engineer and long-time Circuit Cellar author—explained this quite well in CC25:
There was a set of BCD thumbwheel switches that I was reading into a micro. In order to reduce the number of input lines required, each 4 bits of a digit was multiplexed with the other digits and selection was made by a transistor enabling the common line of each switch in turn. This was standard industry practice. The problem was that in order to economize, I had used the spare transistors in a Darlington driver IC. Everything worked fine in the lab, but on very hot days the unit would fail in the field with very strange results.
Long story short, the saturation voltage on the Darlington transistor would increase with temperature to above the digital input threshold and the micro would read undefined switch settings and then jump to non-existing code. I learned three things: read and understand all the specifications on a datasheet, things get a lot hotter in a cabinet in the sun than the lab, and you should make sure your code can handle conditions that are not supposed to occur.—Aubrey Kagan, CC25 (2o13)
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IBM Linear Tape File System wins 2011 NAB Show Pick Hits Award
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Last month, the National Association of Broadcasters [NAB] had their big [2011 NAB Show]. Broadcast Engineering [announced the 2011 NAB Show Pick Hit winners]. The big news was that IBM's Linear Tape File System (LTFS) was a "Pick Hits" winner at this conference!
IBM introduced the Linear Tape File System last year, which I explained in my post [IBM Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary for LTO tape], and released it as open source to the rest of the Linear Tape Open [LTO] Consortium so that the entire planet can benefit from IBM's innovation. IBM presented a technology demonstration of its Linear Tape File System - Library Edition at the NAB conference, showing how this new IBM library offering of the file system can put mass archives of rich media video content at the users fingertips with the ease of library automation.
From left to right, here is Atsushi Nagaishi (Toshiba) and Shinobu Fujihara (IBM). Fujihara-san is from IBM's Yamato lab in Japan where some of the LTFS development was done. The Yamato Lab was not damaged by the [Earthquakes in Japan].
With the capabilities of LTFS, IBM has introduced an entirely new role for tape, as an attractive high capacity, easy to use, low cost and shareable storage media. LTFS can make tape usable in a fashion like removable external disk, a giant alternative to floppy diskettes, DVD-RW and USB memory sticks with directory tree access and file-level drag-and-drop capability. LTFS can allow the for passing of information around from one system or employee to another. And as for high video storage capacity, a 1.5TB LTO-5 cartridge can hold about 50 hours of XDCAM HD video!
A group photo of the global IBM LTFS team, from left to right, David Pease from IBM Almaden Research Center, Ed Childers from IBM Tucson, Shinobu Fujihara and Hironobu Nagura from IBM Japan.
IBM was once again #1 leader in Tape worldwide for the year 2010. With this exciting new win, tape is not just for backup and archive anymore!
Next week, I will be in New York City for the [IBM Storage Innovation Executive Summit].
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Yesterday I gave a presentation in the Python Ireland October meeting about some work we are doing with mongoengine and SQLAchemy and how we are managing three databases (MS SQL server, MySQL and MongoDB) on an online football management game we are working on.
So, here are the slides, so feel free to make comments, ask questions and even criticize them!
You can also download the presentation on PDF here.
PD: When I talk about football game, I'm referring to soccer.


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mark Koning necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 111 diseños de 41 diseñadores freelance.
An uncommon guide to: Saving money, Losing weight, having better sex, and possibly saving the world.
Blog Title/ logo needed for fun and energetic new blog.
Hi, I'm a Vegetarian/ semi professional runner. I'm looking for a logo to represent my blog and website....and possibly a book down the road.
I'm starting a blog that encourages/ talks about the vegetarian/meatless life-style in a VERY compelling and catchy way. different from the typical PETA guilt trip style. SO i need a logo that helps me share this idea.
A little about the name so you can understand it a little bit.
"An uncommon guide to: Saving money, Losing weight, having better sex, (and possibly saving the world.)"
1) People who eat a vegan/vegetarian diet spend less per meal. = saving money.
2) People who stop eating meat usually have to cut out most fast food items and end up loosing weight.
3) Growth Hormones that are in meat can cause E.D. and cancers.
4) Meat production accounts for 40% of a households greenhouse gases...more than family vehicles.
Logo should be bright, fun, and engaging.
and have a wow or...explosive factor.
If you think about the blog title its almost to good to be true..like "wow is this for real?!" use that energy in the title.
Young, tec savy, earth friendly people.
See the following for ideas and concepts.
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1) big fan of this book cover I like how the words fit beside and around each other:
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3) I like how the words are stacked on this blog title. http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog
The title of the blog is:
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(and possibly saving the world.)"
feel free to play around with the title...all suggestions are welcome.
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Uganda Alleged 'Spy' Story Expands
The investigation of Guma-Komwiswa was first reported in The Black Star News's second article on the scandal, under the headline "U.K. Probes Alleged Uganda 'Spy'� which was published October 18.
A Ugandan working for the British Home Office has been suspended from his job as British authorities investigate allegations of corruption in decisions about granting asylum, following two news stories in The Black Star News, in October.
British media today reported that that since John Guma-Komwiswa joined the Home Office "more than 2,800 Ugandans have had their initial asylum claims turned down." Guma-Komwiswa has denied the allegations of corruption.
On October 6, The Black Star News reported that a number of Ugandans who had their asylum applications denied alleged that Guma-Komwiswa, who is a member of Uganda's NRM party and is Secretary General of the U.K. and Ireland branches, was rejecting applications from people whom he suspected were supporters of the opposition Forum For Democratic Change (FDC), headed by Dr. Kizza Besigye.
The FDC contends that it was robbed of victory in the last Presidential election through massive rigging.
Another British media outlet, The Guardian, today reported on the investigations by British authorities of Guma-Komwiswa. The Guardian reported: "What his employers may not have known was that during his spare time, Mr. Guma-Komwiswa had a very different identity - a political post, in fact. As secretary-general for the UK and Ireland chapter of the National Resistance Movement (NRM), headed by Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, he was the figurehead in Britain for a grouping that helped the guerrilla general seize power in 1986 and rule the country. Now his professional and private life have been put on hold while a specialist team of Home Office investigators collaborate with police to probe allegations of corruption."
The investigation of Guma-Komwiswa's activities was first reported in The Black Star News's second article on the scandal, under the headline "U.K. Probes Alleged Uganda 'Spy'" which was published October 18. At that time a Home Office spokesperson told this newspaper, "Any suspicions or allegations of staff acting corruptly or improperly are fully investigated, and an investigation is underway into allegations of corruption against a member of staff. The Directorate has a dedicated unit of trained officers who work in close co-operation with the police to investigate internal fraud and corruption."
In The Black Star's October 18 report, Guma-Komwiswa denied the allegations. "There is no way I can influence a case, here in the UK the system is straight," Guma told The Black Star News. "It's not like that you can just call a certain office and say anything you want to—If a Minister can lose a job on the basis of influencing. What about me?"
"Honestly-speaking, those are purely false allegation made by jealous individuals," Guma, had added.
The Guardian today wrote that the "implications of the probe have spread to Uganda," as opposition leader Besigye, charged that Museveni's spies had penetrated the Home Office, and referring to The Black Star News's earlier exclusive report, the U.K. paper wrote, "'The UK taxpayer's money pays Museveni's spies, they are sponsored on official missions,' he told a pan-African website based in New York, The Black Star News." The Guardian was referring to Dr. Besigye's statement during a London visit.
In the remarks published in the earlier Black Star article referenced by The Guardian, Besigye had also said: "It's true many of my supporters are actually genuine and have been persecuted by Kampala regime---They were denied refugee status here. Yet Museveni's spies are granted refugees' status and some are working as Case Workers in the Home Office."
Dr. Besigye had also said: "We are trying to compile a list of people who are sponsored by Museveni's government to come and claim asylum yet they are working as his spies."
The Guardian's report today also said: "Investigators are likely to want to establish how a Ugandan political figure secured a role within the Immigration and Nationality Directorate and, crucially, whether any asylum claims were improperly influenced."
Separately, the British government has instituted immediate changes in its Immigration monitoring system as a result of the expose in this newspaper. U.K. Immigration Minister Liam Byrne has announced that, "an independent inspectorate for immigration is to be set up in an attempt to restore public confidence in the beleaguered immigration and asylum system."
"The new immigration inspectorate would be responsible for monitoring the overall effectiveness of the Home Office's immigration and IND. The quality of IND decisions, the use of its enforcement powers and its treatment of individuals," said Byrne.
IND refers to the Immigration and National Directorate department.
The initial report on this growing scandal was published in The Black Star October 6, under the headline "Uganda Spies On HRM's Payroll?"
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Joined this forum 48hrs ago...I've been trying to run an RMI application from the client side but i've not been successful at doing that. The general concept of RMI (distributed application) is that the server side of the application registers a server object with an RMI registry. This happened successfully with my server application. I'm testing the entire application on my local system for now i.e the server and client part all reside on the same computer. I'm connecting both ends of the application by opening two command prompt side by side with the RMI registry console in between them. Syntactically, there are no problems with the programs because both successfully compiled. Infact it's a basic RMI program in which the client program calls a sayHello() method and a greeting message is returned to the client. I have a feeling that the problem is more of external to the code itself i.e. IP referencing by the system an so on. I stuck to the default port of 1099. I followed the required steps (correctly) to get the application running but when it comes to running the client end to connect to the server, i kept receiving this same message. ConnectException.....refused to host:127.0.0.1
i followed the directives/advice i got from other forums but the error persisted. The directive i followed include
1 referencing the rmi.server.hostname env variable when running the server program
2 editing the hosts folder under \etc folder to ensure that RMI registry is indeed sticking to the localhost
The same exception persisted. I'll appreciate if someone assist with effective advice on the way out. The application is being run on windows 7.
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You can install {{AUR|tomb}} from the [[Arch User Repository]].
You can install {{AUR|tomb}} from the [[Arch User Repository]].
== Using tomb ==
== Using tomb ==
Revision as of 22:55, 29 January 2012
From the official website:
- Tomb is 100% free and open source software to make strong encryption easy to use.
- A tomb is like a locked folder that can be safely transported and hidden in a filesystem.
- Keys can be kept separate: for instance the tomb on your computer and the key on a USB stick.
Tomb aims to be a really simple to use software to manage "encrypted directories", called tombs. A tomb can only be opened if you both have a keyfile and you know the password. It also has advanced features, like steganography.
You can install tombAUR from the Arch User Repository.
tomb is not present in the official repositories, but has his own repository:
[crypto] Server=http://tomb.dyne.org/arch_repo/$arch
add these two lines to your /etc/pacman.con, then
pacman -Syy pacman -S crypto/tomb
Otherwise, you can install tombAUR, available in the Arch User Repository.
Bleeding edge
If you want to check out the development version, you can install
tomb-git from the "crypto" repo (the same as above),
or tomb-gitAUR from the Arch User Repository.
Using tomb
Tomb is meant to be used from the console as a single, non-interactive script.
it also provides
tomb-open, which is a simple interactive script to help you
create a tomb, open it, retrieve keys from USB.
Its typical usage is something like
tomb create /path/to/mysecret.tomb -s 200 tomb open /path/to/mysecret.tomb
This will create a 200MegaBytes tombfile, placing the key just next to the tomb (which is bad for security).
tomb-open is way easier to use. Calling it without arguments will launch a wizard for tomb creation; it will provide a simple way to put the keyfile on a usb key, to provide effective two-factor.
Calling it with a single argument will try to open a tomb.
tomb-open /path/to/mysecret.tomb
. Even in this case,
support for retrieving the key from USB is automagical.
Tomb syntax
Syntax: tomb [options] command [file] [place] Commands: create create a new tomb FILE and its keys open open an existing tomb FILE on PLACE list list all open tombs or the one called FILE close close the open tomb called FILE (or all) slam close tomb FILE and kill all pids using it passwd change the password of a tomb key FILE Options: -s size of the tomb file when creating one (in MB) -k path to the key to use for opening a tomb -n don't process the hooks found in tomb -o mount options used to open (default: rw,noatime,nodev) -h print this help -v version information for this tool -q run quietly without printing informations -D print debugging information at runtime
Advanced features
- steganography (to hide the key inside a jpeg/wav file)
- bind hooks: can mount some of its subdirectories as "bind" to some other. Suppose, for example, you'd like to encrypt your .Mail, .firefox and Documents directories. Then you can create a tomb which contains these subdirectories (and others too, if you want) and create a simple configuration file inside the tomb itself; when you run
tomb openit will automatically bind that directories into the right places. This way you'll easily get an encrypted firefox profile, or maildir.
- post hooks: commands that are run when the tomb is open, or closed. You can imagine lot of things for this: open files inside the tomb, put your computer in a "paranoid" status (for example, disabling swap), whatever.


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CNBC's Maria Bartiromo has a must read interview with Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) in Business Week. Bartiromo asks:
Should GM (GM) acquire Chrysler?
I'm not competent to say. I try to resist the temptation that too many of us in politics and the media fall into, which is telling people a good deal more than we know.
But earlier in the interview Frank knew exactly how to run the auto industry:
How do you make sure the government doesn't meddle too deeply in day-to-day operations and bring politics—like a push for green cars—into the equation?
Oh, well, a push for green cars is very much a part of what we're involved in. We don't think that's politics.
Why you try to wrap your head around the concept that forcing auto companies to build specific types of cares is not meddling in day-to-day operations, enjoy this Frank promise to:
Is Obama going to raise taxes on the highest earners?
Not in the first year, I believe, because the economic situation is what it is. I do think it is appropriate: Bill Clinton raised taxes on higher-income people, and we went on to have a very prosperous economy.
Congress running car companies today, and higher taxes tomorrow! No wonder economists are predicting a long recession.


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FREEHOLD, N.J. — A lawyer for a man accused of strangling a friend during a robbery and throwing her body off a New Jersey bridge said Wednesday that his client made up stories about planning to rob and kill the victim as part of a horror film an acquaintance was making.
Liam McAtasney's attorney, Charles Moriarty, made the claim during a hearing where he unsuccessfully sought to have a judge dismiss a murder indictment against McAtasney.
Moriarty told state Superior Court Judge Richard English that the acquaintance told detectives that McAtasney was "always making things up to be more interesting."
Police say the acquaintance secretly record McAtasney confessing to the crime. Moriarty is seeking to have that recording excluded from evidence at McAtasney's upcoming trial
Monmouth County prosecutors say the 20-year-old Neptune City man killed 19-year-old Sarah Stern on Dec. 2, 2016, during a robbery that netted $10,000.
McAtasney's friend, Preston Taylor, has said he helped him dump the body.
Stern's body has never been found.


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