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Howdi! So happy for you and your lovely new space... i hope you get many many blissful hours in it creating to your hearts content! It all looks neat and everything has a place and you will know where stuff is and can grab it and get scrappy!!! and fabulous layout too.. looking forward to seeing the tips!! I hope you have a great week ahead.. and yes it has been sooooooooooo hot up this way!!ReplyDelete
Ohhhhhhh your space LOOKS AMAZING! I love love love love it all (even the fishing rods ... adds character! LOL!)!!!!! And loving your page! GORGEOUS! LOVING the texture!!!!!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
So cool to have all that space - well it would be apart from the weather! So many nooks and crannies all neatly filled with shelves and crafting goodies. Lucky, lucky you!ReplyDelete
Oh wow your new space looks amazing!! Enjoy and just love your layout! Gorgeous :)ReplyDelete
Fantastic shabby chic space and all for you, great job guys.ReplyDelete
I love your new room, it all looks amazing and I'm a big fan of mish mash, mixed up furniture :) That page is stunning and I can't wait to read how you did it. Enjoy your new space xReplyDelete
It looks amazing and totally functional. Can't wait to come play...I am invited right?ReplyDelete
Having your own basin is a major plus for the mixed media cleanup!
Btw, you have way more stuff than I do! And now more space for more stuff. *winks*
What a wonderful welcome back from your hols .. (hope you had a blast!) .. your new space looks totally awesome!!! Can understand that you are happy and madly creating again .. brilliant space to be doing it in and who cares if things don't match as long as it's functional and you are happy with it. I love that set of shelves with all your pretties on it and .. you have a sink!!!!! AWESOME!!ReplyDelete
Love that layout too and looking forward to the tips and tricks!! Happy scrappin Lizzy!!! hugs xx
Gorgeous! Awesome! Fantastic! Marvelous! Or I JUST LOOOOOOVE IT!!! It is PERFECT Lizzy!!! ❤ Anna xoReplyDelete
So when you have a take over, you really go for broke! I'm suitably impressed, not only with the encroachment, but also your husband's skills at making exactly what you want where you want. Go Tom! You're a legend. Deffo deserve some lazy days fishing now :D Love all the before and after shots, and all the storage space. Can you see my green face about the MM station? And already you are churning out the goods. Rock on Lizzy, you deserve to play all night and every day! Hmm - was that a song some time last century? Seriously though, I'm thrilled to bits for you. Enjoy and thanks for sharing :DReplyDelete
Wow , Wow, Wow ! all that space and storage ! all those Shelves! Well done Tom ! You are going to scrap away blisfully in this space. As you know I have my scrapping stuff spread out in cupboards in 3/4 rooms of the house. Oh and I love that you can have your albums stored on shelves in your scrap room, I think Victor would love to have linen in our linen cupboard instead of albums . I sometimes think I would like to have a pretty , everything matching craft room, but I just think its more interesting not to have matching, well thats what I am going with. Love your space and I hope one day I can join you in there chatting and scrapping. And the layout, LOVE. The background looks fabulous and I really love the colours . It is a stunning layout Lizzy. Hope you are staying cool in the heatReplyDelete
Happy Anniversary! That's some present you got! What a labour of love. It's fantastic. I'm so jealous you have a sink! I drip water and the rest up and down the stairs. Enjoy every minute of being in there. You deserve it.ReplyDelete
Oh, Lizzy, you are so lucky!! I wish I had a room! It's wonderful! And I love love your beautiful layout! I love those colors together and your mixed media is so pretty! Wonderful!! xoxxo Have a great week, Lizzy!ReplyDelete
Oh, Lizzy, you are so lucky!! I wish I had a room! It's wonderful! And I love love your beautiful layout! I love those colors together and your mixed media is so pretty! Wonderful!! xoxxo Have a great week, Lizzy!ReplyDelete
Wow! Perfect! What a lovely hubby you have. I can imagine you are over the moon with your space. It's absolutely wonderful. Congratulations!ReplyDelete
How wonderful to have such a great place to create!! So nice to have a place for all of your supplies. Your hubby is a real keeper doing all that work!! ~ Blessings, TraceyReplyDelete
Good job! My craft room is a mess LOLReplyDelete
oh Lizzy i like your layout so much! I fall in love with those cracked background! and your scrappy room is really awesome! )))ReplyDelete
Fantastic job Tom and Lizzy of course ;-)ReplyDelete
Love your new scraproom!
That Layout is gorgeous and what a fabulous background you have created here as well!
OMG this is quite marvellous! I am, as we say in this neck of the woods, well jell!ReplyDelete
What an awesome chap T truly is 💜
Without wishing to pee on your chips those empty shelves better be staying that way for 2017 😉
Just also have to say that you've made my day with part of your decor 😄
The creativity will certainly flow in that fabulous space. Let's hope T continues to love life on foreign shores for a little while longer 😹
Your new space looks amazing and so great that you and hubby could make it special. So many little nooks and crannies for all your goodies....and they sure are needed! I know. ;-)ReplyDelete
I am sure everything has it's place now and that's all I ever want in my room too! ;-)
Love your super, sunny page....love the colours and your gorgeous stencilling! Perfect! ;-)
oh Wow!! Lizzy, your new space looks amazing, you will have so much fun in there :o) It looks comfy and functional and full of personality and I LOVE it!! So good to make space to display and enjoy stuff you've made or been given. Have fun messing it all up :o) xxxReplyDelete
Wow Lizzy...Your scrap room looks fabulous, what a transformation! I must say I love the pretty aqua door ( my fav colour)Love all the storage and shelves. Your room looks so inviting and really warm...perfect for creating!ReplyDelete
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What do grand mansions, ocean liners, natural science and industrial metals have to do with decorating? Experts predict that the latest home decor trends will demonstrate one or more of these special interests.
Indeed, as home fashion begins to reveal the newest looks for 2014, it is the influence of history, hobbies and the impact of nature that will be swaying our choices in paint colour, furniture pieces, and decorative art.
"It's an exciting opportunity to express admiration for many aspects of the world around us," says Erika Woelfel, the director of colour for Behr Paints. "And because it's a truly personal touch, this trend is creating some of the most beautiful rooms to date. Our company is launching four eye-catching themes with twenty brand new paint colours for 2014. They are Seaside Harmony, Urban Alternative, Grand Reign, and Natural Avocation – and each one gives the do-it-yourselfer easy tools to showcase the people, places, and things that most intrigue them."
Woelfel points out the highlights of each theme:
"Seaside Harmony is the open look of modern resort chic, where the colours of sun, surf, and sand come together in a relaxing mix. The cool palette of blue-green and white soothe the senses; a warm peach and white revives the spirit. The design elements for Seaside Harmony include minimal furnishings, sculptured driftwood, and sea glass."
For Seaside Harmony, the colour recommendations are Ocean Liner (T14-1), South Peach (T14-2), Miami Weiss (T14-3), Edgewater (T14-4), and Sky Blue (T14-5).
Urban Alternative applies neutrals like olive and burnt orange to showcase skills and craftsmanship in wood, metal and stone work. The atmosphere is modest, relaxed and attainable. Design elements: distressed wood treatments, raw metal finishes, filament lightbulbs and earthbound shades. Behr Paint Colours: Boho (T14-6), Offbeat (T14-7), Film Fest (T14-8), Hipsterfication (T14-9) and Coffee Bar (T14-10).
Urban Alternative, Woelfel continued, features inviting neutrals, especially olive and burnt orange:
"This style is inspired by time-honoured skills and craftsmanship in wood, metal, and stone work. It is the natural evolution of the 'industrial modern' decor into something that feels more modest, relaxed and attainable. The design elements for Urban Alternative include distressed wood treatments, raw metal finishes, filament lightbulbs, and earthbound shades."
The new colours for 2014 in this theme are Boho (T14-6), Offbeat (T14-7), Film Fest (T14-8), Hipsterfication (T14-9), and Coffee Bar (T14-10).
Grand Reign captures the imagination with a sense of opulence, romance and mystery. Use luxurious detail, colour, and ornamentation. Choose a rich, masculine look, or delicate and feminine. Design elements: jewelled colours, layered textiles, guilded frames, and decorative mouldings. Behr Paint Colours: Imperial Jewel (T14-11), Coronation (T14-12), Grand Soirée (T14-13), Cloisonné Blue (T14-12) and Minuet Rose (T14-15).
Grand Reign is your invitation to distinctive opulence and romantic glamour:
"Showcase a favourite room to reflect an exquisite residence from another place and time. Fascinate the eyes with luxurious detail, colour, and ornamentation. You can do it with a rich and masculine look, or make it delicate and feminine. The idea is to capture the imagination with a sense of romance and mystery. The design elements for Grand Reign include jewelled colours, layered textiles, guilded frames, and decorative mouldings."
Behr's new colours for Grand Reign are Imperial Jewel (T14-11), Coronation (T14-12), Grand Soirée (T14-13), Cloisonné Blue (T14-14), and Minuet Rose (T14-15).
Natural Avocation expresses respect for the things that intrigue you. In your favourite room, give any curious mind a rich colour experience in passions like botany, geology, archaeology and celestial events. Design elements: weathered maps, antique books, geological artifacts and illustrations of birds, plants and insects. Behr Paint Colours: Arboretum (T14-16), Archivist (T14-17), New Shoot (T14-18), Sunday Afternoon (T14-19) and Amaryllis (T14-20).
The Natural Avocation theme, says Woelfel, gives the spotlight to your hobby, adding a sophisticated touch to your home:
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The corresponding Behr colours are Arboretum (T14-16), Archivist (T14-17), New Shoot (T14-18), Sunday Afternoon (T14-19), and Amaryllis (T14-20).
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Today the Windows team released an update which adds support for the new rupee currency symbol for Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2. You can find more information about the update at KB2496898.
What Does This Update Mean for Office Users?
This update will allow users to input, view, print, and use the new symbol as the default symbol for data formatted as Indian currency, such as in Access fields, Excel cells, or the currency column in SharePoint lists.
The Windows update touches three main areas that will help Office users.
1. Updates the following font families: Microsoft Sans Serif, Times New Roman, Arial, Segoe, and Tahoma.
2. Updates the 13 Indic local keyboards to input the rupee using the Ctrl+Shift+4. On the new English (India) keyboard, the AltGr+4 key combination will input the new symbol. More on adding or changing your input language.
3. Updates the locale information so that the new symbol is automatically used for items formatted as currency, such as in Access fields, Excel cells, or the currency column in SharePoint lists. More on changing the country or region settings.
Typing the Rupee Symbol
If you don't have a keyboard that supports the rupee symbol, you can insert the rupee currency symbol by using one of the following methods.
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Type 20B9, and then hold down the ALT key and press X. (Supported by OneNote, and Outlook WordMail, and Word.)
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4. Click Close.
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Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then click Character Map.
To select a character in the Character Map, click the character, click Select, click the right mouse button in your document where you want the character, and then click Paste.
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Known Issues
Font Fall Back
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SharePoint 2007
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Office 2010 Web App
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For St. Paul third-grade teacher Carla Renz, last fall brought insomnia and panic attacks. For the first time in her 11 years with the district, a principal scrutinized and questioned her performance.
Still, said the Heights Community School teacher, the advice of the union representative she sought out took her aback: Go on medical leave.
"I am not sick," Renz said. "I would never qualify for a medical leave."
"Sure you would," the union rep said, according to Renz. "People take them all the time."
Before dipping in the current school year, the number of employees taking unpaid medical leaves in the 38,000-student St. Paul district rose steadily over the previous five years, even as its workforce shrunk. Officials are at a loss to explain the increase — or a recent spike in disability insurance claims that pushed up premiums.
A host of factors are likely at play, from the aging of baby-boomer employees to the wider use of parental leave.
But some district educators described the leaves as a safe haven from the stress and career consequences of stepped-up performance evaluations in recent years. A few said they chose that option at the suggestion of their union. The St. Paul Federation of Teachers, though, says it would not steer members toward medical leaves.
Cases such as Renz's likely account for a small fraction of district leaves, and it is hard to say what part they might have played in the overall increase. Still, they raise questions about the evaluation process in Minnesota's second-largest school district — all the more pressing now as the state gears up for mandatory, high-stakes evaluations of all its teachers and principals by 2014.
In 2007-08, 363 teachers, administrators and other St. Paul staffers took at least one leave, district records show. After steady increases each following year, about 513 of almost 8,000 employees went on medical leave last school year.
The portion of parental leaves remained relatively steady, at about 35 percent. The district is on track to see an overall decrease in leaves in the current fiscal year, which ends June 30.
The increase in leaves has not sounded alarms among district administrators. Employees are eligible for unpaid leave under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act and, in some cases, additional leave spelled out in contract provisions.
In a 2008 survey of 85 districts, the Minnesota School Boards Association found a 27 percent increase in days that educators spent on leave — medical, parental and other types — compared with two years earlier. And the association finds itself fielding more questions about medical leaves from districts, which report a spike in mental-health-related leave requests.
To John Sylvester, the association's deputy executive director, that comes as no surprise: Minnesota teachers have faced growing class sizes, a harsher public opinion of their profession — and ever-higher expectations.
"Teachers are experiencing more stress than they ever have," he said.
The pressure is certainly on in St. Paul.
Student test scores with teachers' names are on display in classrooms, hallways and principals' offices. Principals spend more time than ever observing teachers — a record 7,000 classroom observations last year.
These steps are key to the district's Strong Schools, Strong Communities plan for raising achievement, said school board Chairwoman Jean O'Connell.
The teachers union has been recognized for its engagement with the district's evaluation process. Educators new to St. Paul schools and, increasingly, tenured teachers on informal improvement plans get guidance from a trained colleague.
But once a teacher is placed on a formal improvement plan, union business agent Paul Rohlfing told online news site MinnPost last year, he starts discussing exit options: One is resignation, which lets some district veterans keep retirement health benefits they would lose if they are fired; another is medical leave.
Despite balking at the idea at first, Renz went on medical leave and qualified for long-term disability coverage. After weeks of frequent classroom observations and a letter in her personnel file saying she did not follow the district's curriculum closely enough, she was ready for a timeout.
"It's a trauma when someone comes in and pulls your career away from you in a matter of hours," she said.
Besides, if she landed in a formal improvement plan, she may not be able to transfer to another school; the leave left that possibility open.
A colleague at Heights Community School, Beverly Hanson, also opted for a medical leave to pre-empt a formal improvement plan. Leslie Greaves Radloff, the school librarian, did so after struggling to handle the pressure of her 21-step formal plan.
The three teachers said their union rep told each of them that if their physicians would not sign off on the medical leave paperwork, the union could refer them to a doctor who would.
Current and former teachers at five St. Paul schools interviewed for this report said they took medical leaves at some stage in the performance-improvement process. Some said the formal improvement plans are commonly known among educators as termination plans — a route to ousting teachers that prescribes dozens of performance changes to make in short order.
Because district principals are not required to formally evaluate all teachers, those they zero in on for improvement — often longtime educators who have not been evaluated for years — can feel singled out. Some say the plans appear to target the most veteran, and highest-paid, educators — a charge that the district denies and that the union said is not supported definitively by data it compiles.
The three Heights teachers have filed an age-discrimination complaint against the district with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights.
The teachers union first saw the leaves as a way to protect members the district was trying to force out about five years ago, according to a former union building steward who asked to remain anonymous.
Going on leave would protect members' benefits if they were close to retirement or allow them to transfer to a different school, the former steward said. The district, on the other hand, would not have to go through the time-consuming and expensive arbitration process should the employee challenge a termination.
"It was a situation of convenience for both the district and the union," the former steward said. "People had questions about the legitimacy of this strategy, but nobody talked about it."
Union leaders said reps would not suggest a medical leave without an indication that a member is seriously ill. Mary Cathryn Ricker, the Federation of Teachers president, rejected the idea of the leaves as a union strategy and said the union does not refer members to a physician.
She noted that the number of formal improvement plans is down this year, even as classroom observations have picked up.
"The process in St. Paul really is about making teachers stronger," Ricker said.
Educators said going on medical leave amid district performance scrutiny was justified.
Marina Hammond, an 18-year district veteran, found herself struggling for the first time this year when her school, American Indian Magnet, added the seventh grade. An elementary computer-technology educator, she was asked to take on a seventh-grade classroom.
With no experience or training teaching adolescents, she felt overwhelmed by the discipline problems in her class. She said she was placed on an improvement plan after a 30-minute observation with her seventh-graders.
The coach the union assigned to Hammond was helpful, she said, but that fellow teacher support did not dispel the anxiety and insomnia she suffered as she saw her career on the line. After an April panic attack in her classroom, she decided to go on leave, with no input from the union.
Still, she and others described deep displeasure about resorting to that option.
"It's such a waste of experienced teachers who want to work," Hammond said. "I would much rather be working."
Former Eastern Heights Elementary special-education teacher Charles Worthington took a yearlong medical leave in 2008 at the advice of his union representative. He'd spent the previous spring on an improvement plan.
"I didn't want to do this," said Worthington, who retired at the end of that year. "I was in good health. I wanted to teach a few more years at least, but I couldn't imagine going back."
Though most leaves are unpaid, district employees can bank sick days indefinitely and use them while on leave. After three decades with the district, Worthington had accrued 200 sick days.
In some cases, teachers can qualify for short- or long-term disability coverage the district provides. Last year, the district's long-term disability provider, the Hartford, flagged St. Paul for a spike in claims and raised premiums by more than 50 percent.
But the key repercussion of a leave increase, said Sylvester of the Minnesota School Boards Association, is the disruption from mid-year teacher departures, which studies have linked to drops in student achievement.
Tim Caskey, the district's human-resources director, said he does not know why leaves have increased in recent years. He has heard through the grapevine that the teachers union occasionally advises members to go on medical leave. But he said he can't do much when employees present the required physician's certificate.
"We have to accept what we hear from the physician," he said. "We can't go in and say, 'Really?' "
Experts such as Minneapolis employment attorney Carl Crosby Lehmann said 12-week leave requests under the Family and Medical Leave Act can be cumbersome to challenge, and the bar for employees to qualify is set fairly low.
The St. Paul district said this spring that its hands were similarly tied when a Heights teacher involved in a district investigation resigned — effective after a 24-week paid medical leave. Because of the pending resignation, the district said, it could not complete the investigation into parents' allegations that he discriminated against black students in his class.
But Rep. Mindy Greiling, DFL-Roseville, the retiring longtime education leader in the Minnesota House, said the medical leaves should trigger some soul-searching in the district.
If a teacher is truly underperforming, Greiling said, she would rather see that teacher go on unpaid leave than remain in the classroom. But if teachers are taking leaves to dodge or flee improvement plans, might these plans feel too threatening or punitive?
And, she asks, if teachers are ending up on these plans decades into their careers, where were their supervisors all these years?
"To me, that's a sign of too little, too late," Greiling said.
Sylvester has mixed feelings, too. On one hand, leaves should be an option for today's increasingly harried educators. But if they are seen as a way to block performance-improvement efforts, he said: "That's a problem. That's a huge problem."
He said that prospect is "scary" in light of mandatory evaluations of teachers and principals that will go into effect statewide by 2014. Though the process is still a work in progress, the idea is that these evaluations will guide district employment decisions.
"That's bound to be terribly stressful," Sylvester said. "Is a medical leave at that point legitimate?"
MaryJo Webster contributed to this report.
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"People shouldn't be screaming on a Ferris wheel." I said to my friend CB of Palarran. Along with Windy, Tawn, and the girls, we had swung by the opening festivities of the Savusavu (pop. 4,000) fair. The Ferris wheel was the star attraction and its rotating lights were visible from boats moored a mile up the creek.
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Cotton candy and popcorn vendors hawked from the perimeter of the rugby-field-turned-into-fairgrounds.
"It's the most developed nation in the South Pacific, but they don't yet have deep-fried Snicker bars."
The fair came on the heels of Fiji Day, a national holiday that marks two dates nearly 100 years apart: October 10, 1874, when King Seru Epenisa Cakobau ceded Fiji to the United Kingdom, and October 10, 1970, when Fiji regained its independence.
For a full week, the focus in Fiji is celebrating its diversity. Unlike every other South Pacific nation we've spent time in thus far, Fiji has a diverse population, comprised primarily of indigenous Melanesian Fijians, Indian Fijians, and some ex-pats from New Zealand and Australia. These populations are comprised of Christians, Muslims, and Hindus. Nobody seems threatened by anyone else. When I hear "As-salaam-alaikum" exchanged in greeting between people in a shop, nobody around me calls the police fearing a terrorist act.
Last night, on the fair's main stage (okay, only stage), an emcee introduced young women vying for a crown ("One of these Savusavu girls might be the next Miss Fiji!"). In turn, a half dozen women aged 18-30 introduced themselves before walking the catwalk in a sarong while the emcee announced the symbolism of their garment. The beauty of Fiji and the value of its diversity were reoccurring themes. The following video is of one of the contestants, a young woman sponsored by the Public Service Commission.


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The journey continues in my next new venture... Printmaking. My first task has been to learn Woodblock carving & printing. I began with the easier to cut linoleum as seen below in my insect-inspired piece. Then progressed with a wood block design inspired by the Mother Goose poem, "Sing a Song of Sixpence", with birds flying out of a pie. Certainly, moving to the wood became more challenging and a bit of arm strength to gouge and trim the wood full of grain and character, yet, the wood felt more satisfying. Printing requires a lot of ink to create a dark impression. I especially enjoyed the character of the graphic background cuts.
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Congressional Forum Examines the Potential Impact of State Voter Registration Laws
At a
Congressional forum this week, civil and human rights advocates warned
about the potential for widespread voter suppression under recently adopted
state voter registration laws.
Drawing on a
recent Brennan Center study finding that laws in 14 states could restrict
voting access for as many as 5 million Americans, participants at the forum
raised the question of whether many of the new laws were targeted at keeping
minorities, low-income people, youth, seniors, and persons with disabilities
from voting.
"The lawmakers pushing these new measures claim they are a protection
against an epidemic of voter fraud," said House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D.
Md. "However, evidence for such widespread fraud does not exist. The evidence
we do have points to a political agenda on the part of those who are crafting
these new rules. The right to vote should and must not depend on the politics
of the day but on eligibility."
Laws requiring government-issued ID's; reducing early and absentee voting;
and restricting the voting rights of citizens with felony convictions are among
the issues raising concerns.
During the forum, Lee and Phyllis Campbell, an elderly couple from
Tennessee, talked about their experience in obtaining a required photo ID. Mr.
Campbell said that upon going to the local Department of Motor Vehicles with
his wife to get her photo ID, he was told that it would be much easier to pay
an $8 fee and have the license reissued, rather than go through the process of
getting the free photo ID he requested.
"I want to state right now that paying the $8 fee was not the question as we
could easily afford that. The point was the state legislature in passing this
law had emphasized that the photo was to be free. Otherwise, in my opinion the
fee could be considered a poll tax," said Mr. Campbell.
The forum, "Excluded
from Democracy: The Impact of Recent State Voting Law Changes," was chaired
by Rep. John Conyers, D. Mich., and widely
attended by Democratic members, including Congressional Black Caucus Chair
Emanuel Cleaver, D. Mo., and Reps. Jerrold
Nadler, D. N.Y., Steve Cohen, D. Tenn., and Bobby Scott, D. Va.
Participants also included Hilary Shelton, Washington bureau director,
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Elisabeth
MacNamara, president, League of Women Voters; Lawrence Norden, Brennan Center
for Justice, co-author of the report "Voting
Law Changes in 2012;" Laura Murphy, director, American Civil Liberties
Union Washington Legislative Office; Barbara R. Arnwine, executive director, Lawyers'
Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; and Matthew Segal, co-founder and
president of OUR TIME and former executive director of Student Association for
Voter Empowerment.
The Leadership Conference and its coalition partners are working to prevent
the enactment of additional laws restricting voting rights and will be mounting
efforts to ensure that all eligible voters
have the opportunity to cast a ballot on Election Day.
"Thankfully, in securing the right to vote, the days of poll taxes, literacy
tests, and brutal physical intimidation are behind us. But today's efforts at
disfranchisement, while more subtle, are no less pernicious," said Wade
Henderson, president of The Leadership Conference on the Civil and Human
Rights, in a
statement submitted to the forum.
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Elmgreen & Dragset: Harvest
Elmgreen and Dragset's take on the tradition of the monochrome is a typically meticulous, cerebral affair – even if it is a bit like the proverbial watching paint dry. Using sophisticated conservation techniques, the Scandinavian duo have removed 14 large, rectangular sections of white paint from the walls of various public galleries around the world, and mounted them on canvas. A combination of monochrome and ready-made, then, brimming with institutional gravitas – yet also objects that are interesting for their purely physical, material qualities: from the glossy, softly scumbled surface of 'Tate Liverpool' to the pockmarking of Kassel's 'Kunsthalle'. Nearby, the museological theme jokily continues with a transparent 'Donation Box', filled with objects – sunglasses, an old trainer, a smashed brick – too bulky to ever fit through the coin slot.
In the upstairs space, the institutional tinkering is on a larger scale, with the gallery being de-evolved into a kind of hay barn (inspired by the building's original bare, wood-beamed ceiling), complete with hay-strewn floor and kitsch, agricultural motifs: rustic-looking furniture; a waxwork farm-boy sat on a ledge; farm-tools and horseshoes fixed to a timber-framed wall. The sense is of contrived, idealised versions of things, a deliberate air of theatre and artifice: the timber-framing spells the word kunst (art), and the whole diorama is overlooked by an evil-looking cast of a vulture entitled, a touch defensively, 'The Critic'. Yet it's never entirely clear what the artists' own position is – whether they're ridiculing rusticity itself, or simply the adoption of its iconography as a kind of aesthetic pose.
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You've installed Linux on a computer and everything's coming up roses — X is working, your servers are running, and so on. Suddenly, you run into a problem! When writing a new file, you receive an ominous error message: "No space left on device." Your disk — or at least one of your partitions — is full.
One way to deal with this problem, of course, is to delete unnecessary files. Depending upon the partition that's affected, you might search for and delete core files, remove unused but large packages, delete temporary files, delete large but unnecessary user files, or otherwise remove data you don't need. This approach can be effective, but sometimes it's not enough. Another approach is to add disk space by purchasing and installing a new hard disk. And sometimes, what's needed is a wholesale restructuring of the layout of your disk. Perhaps you gave too much space to /home and not enough space to /usr. Perhaps you've created too many partitions and need to consolidate them. Whatever the case, you need to deal with the problem by using tools that can repartition your hard disk.
Unfortunately, the simplest disk partitioning tools tend to be destructive: to create a new partition layout you must destroy the old one, including any data on the disk. The standard Linux fdisk utility, like the DOS/Windows tool of the same name, is an example of such a program. Another class of tools is less destructive, though. These tools are known generically as dynamic partition resizers. They enable you to change partition sizes without destroying the data they contain.
One of the earliest and simplest of these tools is the First Nondestructive Interactive Partition Sizer (FIPS), which can split a single File Allocation Table (FAT) primary partition in two. FIPS comes with many Linux distrubitions, but because it works only on primary FAT partitions, it's not very helpful if you need to resize a Linux partition.
A frequently-cited example of a flexible partition resizer is the commercial PartitionMagic from PowerQuest (http://www.powerquest.com). This tool provides an easy-to-use GUI and can resize FAT, NTFS, ext2fs, ext3fs, and Linux swap partitions. (Older versions could also handle OS/2 HPFS partitions.) PartitionMagic, though, is a commercial program that costs more than a new mid-sized hard disk, so buying it may not be worthwhile for a single-use operation.
But there is a program that fills the middle ground: GNU Parted (available from http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html). This program is an open source tool that aims to do more-or-less what PartitionMagic does. GNU Parted features a simpler, text-based user interface, though, and it's not nearly as polished. Nonetheless, GNU Parted is extremely useful in helping to manage partitions as your needs for disk storage space change.
Before proceeding with any partition resizing tool, be aware that dynamic partition resizing is inherently dangerous! A power outage, bug, or other problem during dynamic partition resizing can wreak havoc with your partitions — possibly even with partitions you're not modifying. You should always back up your data before using one of these tools!
Principles of Partition Management
The most common partitioning schemes on x86 computers today use three types of partitions:
Primary partitions. The original x86 partitioning scheme supports just four partitions, which today are known by the name primary partition. DOS and Windows must boot from a primary partition, but Linux doesn't suffer from this limit. Most disks have at least one primary partition.
Extended partitions. In order to extend the original x86 partitioning system to support more than four partitions, one primary partition can be set aside as an extended partition. This partition serves as a placeholder for additional logical partitions.
Logical partitions. A disk can support an arbitrary number of logical partitions, which in some sense reside within a single extended partition. If you use more than one or two Linux partitions, chances are most of them are logical partitions.
Other platforms support different partitioning schemes, which usually don't have the primary/extended/logical distinction. GNU Parted supports the x86 partitioning scheme as well as several others, such as those used by Macintoshes and the BSD partitioning scheme.
No matter what the partition type, a partition is defined by its start and end point on the disk. On x86 systems, these points are usually specified in terms of the cylinder, head, and sector of the endpoints — that is, in terms of the CHS geometry. Many partitioning tools, including GNU Parted, try to present partition data in terms that are more meaningful to humans, such as the partition size in megabytes or gigabytes. Other programs, such as Linux's fdisk, use cylinder numbers for partition management.
To resize a partition, GNU Parted must resize not just the partition (that part's easy), but also the data structures on the partition — that is, the filesystem on the partition. Unfortunately, resizing a filesystem is a tricky proposition. If a filesystem is shrunk, data stored beyond the new end point of the partition must be moved. If a filesystem is expanded, fixed data structures may need to be expanded, necessitating the movement of files or other data structures. Overall, expanding a filesystem is usually easier than shrinking one. It's also usually easier to change the filesystem's end point than to change its starting point. In fact, GNU Parted supports resizing ext2fs, ext3fs, and ReiserFS partitions only by changing the end point.
When you use GNU Parted, you should remember that you may need to change your partition entries in /etc/fstab. Although you may be able to use GNU Parted to change non-vital filesystems from your main Linux system, changes to critical partitions such as the root filesystem may necessitate booting an emergency Linux system.


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The title track is gorgeous. The kick shudders, the high-ends tingle and, in between, there's a balmy fug of pads, vocal smears and worming details. It's a subaqueous, womb-like environment you won't want to leave. The tone is a little tougher on "Easiness Supplier," but it's still dreamy and no less moreish. "Wired Evening" is darker still, with shattered percussion that gives it a wonderfully screwy feeling. If you don't know Sawlin, here's a great place to start.
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I am by no means an expert, but on at least older model burners, the ignition will never go off when the burner is running, in other words you will always have a "spark" between your electrodes. Second, you can't adjust your burner on the bench, it will do exactly what you are describing. Burners are meant to be used and adjusted in a combustion chamber. The combustion chamber allows you to control the amount of air and fuel to make an efficient and complete burn. Combustion chambers are designed to accept only a certain amount of fuel/air mixture and burn efficiently and cleanly. Turning your burner on while it is on the bench is an easy way to see if things are functioning with your burner, but you cannot do any adjustments until it is in some sort of confined combustion chamber.
Thanks Lew, since I posted that I figured all that stuff out, I have it installed on my new heating boiler and it runs without smoking, it smokes somne on shutdown but that is normal, I'm having trouble getting it to stay burning on anything but B100, I tried 50/50 bio and svo but the cad cell wont see the flame so it shuts down, I'm going to try the 56k resistor in paralel in the cad cell line and see if that helps.
I have also read about using a trim pot to find the sweet spot, as well as moving the cad closer to the retention head and drilling a 1/8" hole in the retention head to let more light hit the cad.
They say to drop a nozzle size and crank the pressure up to 150 PSI in the Beckett for B100 use also.
My bio boiler for my new reactor is going to be fired by a Beckett burner but I haven't gotten around to finishing it yet.
Coincidently my Riello burner in the shop furnace running on B100 does not suffer the cad cell problem at all, and the cell is further back in the tube then the Beckett, I wonder if the Riello cad will work on the Beckett... I will check it out when I drag the Beckett out from under my bench and let everyone know...
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I don't have a cad problem on B100, it's when I blend bio and svo I run into problems,
I could be wrong but I believe all these burners use the same cad cells, I have a big Johnstone supply catalog that has all the different burners and there are only two different cas cells one is White Rodgers and the other is Honeywell I believe.
B100 will burn very lean, giving an almost opaque fire, the cad cell will not see this type of lite. I had to cut back on the combustion air just so there was some yellow/orange in the fire, haven't had a problem since, and I can burn up to 20% svo without any problems, anymore than that, the nozzel cokes up. Tom
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I'm on my second winter of running B100 in the furnace for my house, my garage and my hot water heater and they are all running fine. All three have different burners but I made the same changes on all of them and they fired right off and have only had to change one nozzle so far.
First, I downsized the nozzles (1.25 to 1.00, 1.00 to .85 and .65 to .50) Then I rasied the pump pressure from 75 psi for dino to 150 psi. I have sinced backed it down to 125 psi to cut down on flame size and consumption and it runs fine there. I installed a pressure gauge in the line from the pump to the nozzle, using 3/16" steel brake line, so I can adjust it back if I had to switch beack to dino for any reason. Always use flare connections on any of your copper lines. Compression fittings will leak, especially on the suction side. adjusted the air slightly. I removed the nozzle assembly and cleaned it and the inside of the tube and sprayed both with heat resistant silver paint. The burner in the garage (very dirty and hostile environment) needed a repaint at the beginning of this heating season but the house and water heater burners are still ok. This has eliminated any problems with the cad cell shutting the burners down. And last, I had to change the transformers to newer high output units (14,000 volts). I have run over 800 gallons of biodiesel through these burners and all is going ok. Last season I was washing and drying the fuel but this year I treid running the fuel unwashed. After I drain the glycerin, I use the fuel just as it comes out of the processor. I'm not sure if I've been lucky so far or smarter than I think I am but I can't argue with success. Anticipating a pump seal problem I purchased back up pumps for the burners but they are still sitting on the shelf.
I'm not sure if everyone will have the same success I have had, but I've saved over $1600.00 and reduced my carbon footprint by more than 9 tons since converting to B100. (plus it gets me out of the house and gives me an excuse to go to my garage and play)
"This biodiesel tis a cruel and heartless mistress we home brewers have chosen"
Do you use a standpipe setup to drain off the bio? I,ve had success running B100 from a separate fuel drum ,but then I dumped my washed and dried bio into the HHO tank to make B50. I was orginally afraid to put bio into an old tank (my guess is the tank is 30-40 years old). I installed a Goldenrod filter in line to act as a sediment trap. The orginal fuel filter is still used after the Goldenrod but to me the canister does,t have enough area to settle out any particles.
Do you have no drip nozzles? Where can I get one?
You can always try Bete Industrial Nozzles. They pretty much have them all and probably have a distributor not far from you or you can order on line.
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I am very interested in seeing if indeed all pressurejet biodiesel users as I that are using at least 50% bio diesel mix with either kerosene or diesel have resolved the nozzle drip problem.
It is interesting to note that Riello do not advocate mixing biodiesel with kerosene and all their data that mentions Biodiesel is based on mixing 30% Biodiesel with 70% mineral diesel ( 35 sec Fuel oil) I wonder why on earth this is...... Does Riello know something that we do not.
I have 4 burners a Riello 40 G5, an old Electro-oil 109 (that I fitted an extra solenoild to on the line to the nozzle) which seems to suffer much less nozzle drip. I also have a Nu- Way Sterling S1S-63
and finally a Riello RDB 2........... I have a perfectly clean and efficient flame on the little modern Nu way Sterling which has a .5 ES nozzle in it and the pump pressure is 200 PSi which was the reccomendation of a very knowledgeable tech at Elaectro-oil some thirty tears ago........ I had telephoned this very aimiable young man to ask-- is their anything new re diesel pressure recomendations & he immediately told me ---wind the pressure up double & you'll see better cold ignition. In all this time since then I cannot see for the life of me why not operate a burner that is using fuel thicker than (higher viscosity)28 sec oil(parrafin) for better atomization ?
Jon Heron is very knowledgeable with burning Bio as is I make bio of Ireland but I do not know how often their burner heads are having to be cleaned...... I took a pic this morning of the blast tube that has been operating with the clean flame but is coked up near the front of it but the diffuser (turbulator) is clean. Back to the days of the drip tray under most large burners I caught two eggcupfulls of oil which I do not like as it has implications of fire safety.... the powers that be would not entertain that these days! It is interesting that my oldest Electroil burner that I cannot regulate to get a clean flame ( at smoke 1 ) is the least drippy but I fitted as said an additional solenoid at the nozzle line just as it enters the nozzle holder..... I wished whoever uses Bio in a good proportion can give explicit advise what their anti drip method is. I pondered on a solenoid which is Normally open put on the high pressure line between pump and nozzle holder that opens when the shut off solenoid shuts therefore relieving any pressurization on the nozzle line.
In my case having a Tigerloop the pressure relieving line can be joined into the air vent line as mine runs back to the tank..... Mind you I can fit either the Delevan eco device which replaces the bronze filter on their nozzles or the Danfoss E type which has the anti drip feature. Do they work efficiently in each and every case ? Come on Biotom , Jon H , I make Bio,, Lets get this problem ironed out >? I don't want to be buggering about every verse end cleaning & de-coking or else it'll be back to buying the kero..... not too bad a price lately though but it cannot possibly match my free diesel for ten years or so when I used to regularly change an oil burner for a gas one.... those were the days but it did have a reducing effect on the insurance once I'd got rid of the diesel fuel it was a very nice perk. well I did get my hands dirty didn't I and where ther's muck there's money...
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Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo has agreed to negotiate a "peaceful end" to his country's crisis without preconditions, regional leaders say.The chairman of the Ecowas regional group said Mr Gbagbo had also agreed to immediately lift the blockade around the temporary headquarters of his presidential rival Alassane Ouattara.
The UN regards Mr Ouattara the winner of November elections but Mr Gbagbo, the incumbent, refused to cede power.
Ecowas has threatened to force him out.
The BBC's John James in Ivory Coast's business capital, Abidjan, says it is important not to over-emphasise the importance of Mr Gbagbo's statement.
Mr Gbagbo has given no indication he is willing to step down, our correspondent says.
Mr Ouattara, who is holed up in a hotel protected by UN peacekeepers, has said he is willing to talk, as long as the internationally agreed election results are accepted by Mr Gbagbo.
Presidential visits The chairman of the Ecowas Commission, James Victor Gbeho, said after an extraordinary session of members in Abuja, Nigeria: "Laurent Gbagbo agreed to negotiate a peaceful end to the crisis without any preconditions.
AnalysisLaurent Gbagbo is a skilled political player, nicknamed the "baker" for his ability "roll his opponents in the flour". Here again, he appears to be getting positive headlines for being willing to negotiate, and negative ones for his opponent who is refusing to negotiate unless Mr Gbagbo admits he lost.
But between the lines there seems to be very little being given away and Mr Gbagbo does not appear open to the idea of leaving the presidential palace. On the same day he called for a peaceful resolution to the crisis, his soldiers attacked the headquarters of the PDCI opposition party which supports Mr Ouattara. The Ecowas chairman, James Victor Gbeho, admitted afterwards that this was only a slight glimmer of hope and that the prospect of military intervention is still an option if talks fail.
"He also pledged to immediately lift the blockade around Hotel du Golf, the temporary headquarters of Mr Alassane Ouattara, the president-elect."On his part, Mr Alassane Ouattara indicated his willingness to ensure a dignified exit for Mr Gbagbo provided the latter accepted the outcome of the presidential election as declared by the independent electoral commission and certified by the United Nations."
The statement followed a visit to Ivory Coast by Presidents Boni Yayi of Benin, Pedro Pires of Cape Verde and Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone - representing Ecowas (Economic Community of West African States).
It was their second trip to Abidjan in less that a week. On Monday they were joined by Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, representing the African Union (AU).
Mr Odinga said he had told Mr Gbagbo that power-sharing was not an option and would "actually hamper the democratisation process on the continent".
The latest Ecowas statement called for another joint delegation to visit Ivory Coast "as soon as possible" and called on both sides in Ivory Coast to "refrain from any acts liable to aggravate the already critical situation".
Although Ecowas said the military option was still on the table, some doubt the region's willingness to carry out its threat given the unpredictable response of the Ivorian army, which publicly continues to support Mr Gbagbo.Mr Gbeho said: "We are aware of the dangers in the force option, particularly in a country... where almost all citizens and ethnic groups of our Ecowas region are represented, and so it is an option that must be used with a lot of circumspection."
President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria had earlier described the situation as a "stalemate", adding: "Don't expect that if there's a major crisis in a country that we just jump in... and the matter is resolved."
The 28 November election was intended to reunify the country - the world's leading cocoa producer - which has been divided since a 2002 conflict.
Mr Ouattara was initially proclaimed the winner by the country's election commission - a verdict backed by the UN, which helped organise the poll.
But the Constitutional Council, headed by an ally of Mr Gbagbo, later ruled that he had won, citing voting irregularities in the north of the country.
The north is controlled by the New Forces, a former rebel movement that supports Mr Ouattara.
Both men have been sworn in as president.


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Getting to Know ArcGIS: Desktop Version 10.0, by Ormsby, Tim
- Cover: Paperback w/CD
- Copyright: 7/1/2010
Written by a team of technical and education specialists including Tim Ormsby, Eileen J. Napoleon, Robert Burke, Carolyn Groessl, and Laura Bowden, Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop is a hands-on guide for classroom lab work or on-the-job training.
Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop introduces principles of GIS as it teaches the mechanics of using ESRI's leading technology. Key concepts are combined with detailed illustrations and step-by-step exercises to acquaint readers with the building blocks of ArcGIS Desktop including ArcMap, for displaying and querying maps, ArcCatalog, for organizing geographic data, and ModelBuilder, for diagramming and processing solutions to complex spatial analysis problems.
Its broad scope, simple style, and practical orientation make this book an ideal classroom text and an excellent resource for those learning GIS on their own. A data CD for working through the exercises and a fully functioning 180-day trial DVD ArcGIS Desktop 10 software is included.
About the Author
Tim Ormsby works in product development at ESRI.
Eileen Napoleon is an educational specialist at ESRI.
Robert Burke is a senior instructor and technical writer at ESRI.
Carolyn Groessl was a technical writer for ESRI Press.
Laura Bowden currently works in GIS education at ESRI.


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Imagine That! is a 1987 Sesame Street storybook published by Ideal Toys for the "Big Bird StoryMagic" toy set. Caroll Spinney recorded the voices of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch for the accompanying cassette tape.
In the story, Big Bird thinks his life is very ordinary, and wants to do something really unique. First, he imagines that he can grow a mustashe, but then realizes that birds can't grow hair. Then, he decides he could build a bowling alley right by his nest, until Oscar reminds him that the cars couldn't pass. Big Bird wonders if he could paint the clouds, or take a bus all the way to the North Pole. He feels terrible as Oscar shoots down his ideas one by one, but then realizes that he can, in fact, do all of these things, in his imagination!
On the tape, there are two songs: "Imagination" by Michael Minard, and "I'm Remarkable" by Michael Mark.


text: Nothing makes my week like an MC Hammer sighting. Both ~will.i.am~ and ~MC Hammer~ had dinner in the private dining room upstairs at Waterbar with several tech titans, including Biz Stone (Twitter) and others. Managing partner Pete Sittnick, ever the prankster, exclaimed, "You can't touch this" when he went to shake Hammer's hand. will.i.am was reportedly wearing a chain link "murse" (man purse) with an American Flag on it, and both waved and greeted fans on the patio as they walked in.


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Our Rabbis taught: A ba'al keri on whom nine kabs17 of water have been thrown is clean. Nahum a man of Gimzu18 whispered it to R. Akiba, and R. Akiba whispered it to Ben 'Azzai, and Ben 'Azzai went forth and repeated it to the disciples in public. Two Amoraim in the West differed in regard to this, R. Jose b. Abin and R. Jose b. Zebida. One stated: He repeated it, and one taught, He whispered it. The one who taught 'he repeated it' held that the reason [for the concession] was to prevent neglect of the Torah and of procreation. The one who taught 'he whispered it' thought that the reason was in order that scholars might not always be with their wives like cocks.19The conclusion of the Rif is as follows:
There is one who said that this they they said "They have abolished immersion" is in regard to both words of Torah and prayer. And there is one who said that this is only as regards to words of Torah, but in regard to prayer you need immersion. And not immersion {tevila} specifically but rather washing in 9 kav. And Rabbenu Hai Gaon wrote that since the gemara does not deal with this matter, we should take the custom of all Israel that all Baal Keri, even if they have no water, should not pray until they wash.Practically, though, nowadays most (non-chassidic) people do not worry about tumat keri for any purpose whatsoever.
But see this practical halacha discussion by Rabbi Chaim Eisenstein:
Halacha & the Daily Daf: Berachos 22 -- Tefilla and Talmud Torah for a Baal Keri
Assuming one want to be machmir for this position, and also hold that nine kav is sufficient, then there is good reason to assume that a shower is a valid way of fulfilling this. But then, how long must the shower be to get nine kav?
Here, from Wikipedia, are the water standards for showers in the US. But one could turn a shower's water flow to the medium setting or the maximum setting.
Some governments around the world set standards for water usage and regulate shower heads. For example, in the United States, residential and most commercial shower heads must flow no more than 9.5 liters per minute (2.5 gallons per minute) per the Department of Energy ruling 10 CFR 430. Low flow shower heads, less than or equal 7.6 liters per minute (2.0 gallon per minute), can use water more efficiently by aerating the water stream, altering nozzles through advanced flow principles or by high speed oscillation of the spray stream. USEPA administers a voluntary water saving program, WaterSense, which can certify low flow shower heads.Meanwhile, how many liters are in 9 kav?
1 Kor (= 1 Chomer) = 30 Se'in
1 Lesech = 15 Se'in
1 Eifah = 3 Se'in
1 Se'ah = 6 Kabin
1 Tarkav (= 3 Kabin) = 12 Lugin
1 Kav = 4 Lugin
1 Log (= 1 Rova) = 4 Revi'iyos = 6 Beitzim
1 Beitzah = 2 k'Zeisim
1 k'Zayis = approximately 0.025, 0.0288 or 0.05 liters, depending upon the differing Halachic opinions.
1 Kav = 4 Lugin = 24 Beitzim = 1.20, 1.38, or 2.4 liters, depending upon the differing Halachic opinions
If so, taking the maximal 2.4 liters, multiply by 9, and 9 kav = 2.4 * 9 = 21.6 liters. Assuming a typical non-low-flow shower head at full blast, and it is a shower of 2.275 minutes.
However, that was assuming that a zayit was 0.05 liters. The minimal beitza is half that, 0.025 liters.
But then, according to Rabbi Slifkin in the Evolution of the Olive,
"An olive measures 4-6cc."If we take the largest of those olives, and plug that into Google Calculator, we discover that:
1 olive = 6 (cubic centimeters) = 0.006 liters
Update: Please see correction from J. in the comment section. An egg is not to be related to an olive in any such manner.


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GFKL Financial Services AG
Using Identity Manager and ZENworks Configuration Management, GFKL accelerated new user provisioning, reduced IT overhead, improved software distribution and license management, and created a secure desktop environment.
"Identity Manager enables us to handle a very high volume of changes to user information without significant effort, and allows us to offer a highly responsive service to the business. It's now much easier to keep all user information synchronised and ensure high levels of security."Norbert KampkaTeam Leader IT Organisation, GFKL Group
About GFKL Financial Services AG
GFKL Financial Services AG is a holding company with two business divisions: receivables management and software. With more than 1,700 employees servicing receivables totalling more than EUR 23 billion, the GFKL Group is one of the leading receivables management companies in Germany. On the software side, GFKL offers applications for loan and receivables management for banks, and business process software for insurance firms.
The dynamics of a growing and changing environment entail frequent changes in personnel and organisational structures. For GFKL's IT team, it became increasingly difficult to manage access rights and software distribution, and to provide adequate support. Setting up accounts for new users was largely a manual process, involving significant amounts of paperwork, and it was not easy to ensure that ex-employees were correctly removed from all systems. Each corporate system had a separate administrator responsible for provisioning and managing users.
The lack of a central point of control for user environments made it difficult for GFKL to provide effective support and to ensure that all users had the correct versions of software and the correct security patches.
When new users started work, or when existing users switched from one internal team to another, the IT team had to manually create or edit access rights and install the relevant software packages.
Our Solution
GFKL's preferred IT partner, DIDAS, proposed the introduction of Identity Manager, explaining the potential benefits it would deliver.
"DIDAS AG really led the initiative, and helped us with special requirements for Identity Manager, such as the specific drivers and connectors we needed," said Frank Marten, IT Specialist, Senior System Engineer, GFKL Group. "We have a strong working relationship with DIDAS AG across our entire portfolio of NetIQ (now a part of Micro Focus) products, and we appreciate the company's technical knowledge and responsiveness to our needs."
Working with DIDAS AG, GFKL implemented Identity Manager as a central point of control and administration for approximately 600 users, linking the solution to its HR system, to NetIQ eDirectory™ and Microsoft Active Directory, and to a number of business applications. The solution runs on a virtual instance of SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server on VMware ESX Server.
"We built workflows in Identity Manager to automate the provisioning of new users, including the creation of all the relevant network and application accounts," said Norbert Kampka, Team Leader, IT Organisation, GFKL Group. "Entering a new employee into the HR system triggers the workflow, which then just requires a manager to click a few times and approve the set up of all the accounts and access rights."
GFKL also introduced password synchronisation and single sign-on, enabling it to enforce the use of a strong password while simultaneously making it easier for users to access their applications.
To improve the efficiency and speed of software distribution, and to create a more standardised desktop environment that would be easier to support, GFKL deployed ZENworks on Microsoft Windows Server. Recently, the team upgraded to ZENworks Configuration Management.
"ZENworks has given us a central point of control for testing and deploying new applications, making it easier to ensure that all users have the right software and patches," said Norbert Kampka. "With ZENworks Configuration Management, we have created a 'software shopping basket' of 80 to 90 approved applications which are provided to users according to their roles in the organisation."
The shopping basket is integrated with ZENworks Asset Management, ensuring that GFKL can easily keep track of its software licensing obligations. In this past, software licences were managed manually using spreadsheets, which required more effort and delivered less clarity.
Deploying Identity Manager and ZENworks Configuration Management has enabled GFKL to automate and standardise many elements of IT administration, saving time and effort and keeping skilled staff available to work on project and consulting tasks.
"Identity Manager enables us to handle a very high volume of changes to user information without significant effort, and allows us to offer a highly responsive service to the business," said Norbert Kampka. "It's now much easier to keep all user information synchronised and ensure high levels of security."
With a standardised desktop environment controlled by ZENworks Configuration Management, all users have a familiar workspace wherever they log in. GFKL can more easily track software licenses and ensure compliance, and the standardisation of the systems also makes it easier to lock down desktops and increase security. Most important, the ability to test applications centrally and then deploy them across the network significantly increases rollout speed and reduces administrative effort considerably.
"The new repository in ZENworks Configuration Management makes it much faster to deploy applications. ZENworks packages can be created centrally and then get distributed independently from file permissions," said Frank Marten. "It now takes just 1.5 hours to set up a new workstation—it previously took three or four times longer—and support is easier, too. Just two administrators handle approximately 600 users, which would not be possible without the Novell (now a part of Micro Focus) solutions."
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Yesterday, Craig Dean held a guest lecture at University of Manchester for students of Advanced Computer Science.
The room quickly filled with eager students wanting to know more about the commercial world of software development. Some familiar faces were in the crowd as students who have worked with us on their industrial placement year turned up as well as some who are due to start working with us in the summer.
Craig's lecture covered a wide range of topics, starting with discussing the different types of I.T. roles. Rather than work in an I.T. department of a non-I.T. company, Craig encouraged the students to work in a software house such as ours where they will continue to learn constantly.
The development process was talked about as well, using our own as an example. Craig showed the FogBugz and Kiln systems we use to track developments. Using a prime number algorithm as an example, Craig illustrated the way we code; writing the interfaces and the tests before any implementation.
Drawing on a hypothetical situation of a student embarking on a start-up after graduating, Craig discussed the pros and cons of source control systems as a progression from lock based to conflict resolution and distributed version control systems.
Craig took the time to give the students some practical advice to prepare them for working in the fast-paced I.T. industry. First, work in teams at every opportunity. You will learn more from working with other people. Contribute to open source projects, showcase your skills and pick up knowledge from the current code. CodePlex, GitHub, SourceForge and Google Code are all great places to start. Keep up-to-date with the latest tech by reading blogs daily – Engadget, Tech Crunch, Scott Hanselman and Phil Haack were all recommended but there are endless amounts of others worth reading! Finally, consider attending events such as the upcoming Hack Manchester, putting your abilities up against others will motivate you to improve and you'll learn invaluable skills at the hackathon.
During the question time, Craig was asked why we employ graduates. As we recruit based on potential, we look for a passion for software development and a dedication to continuous improvement and learning. We don't restrict our recruitment to graduates; we are also open to applications from experienced professionals and anyone else with a certain level of knowledge and skill.
As you'll be able to see for yourself here, the lecture was a great success and the students were genuinely engaged by what Craig had to say. Hopefully there will be more opportunities for guest lectures on the horizon as I know Craig enjoyed it too!
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