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My first issue with it was that if you choose to close the shout boxes on one page and you go to another, they all open again. This is a bit of a pain if you are working on designing a site for normal peoples monitors as it covers up a part of the page. The author of this did say he was working on changing this in the future. This is not why I gave up on this though. The support was friendly and quick. Thumbs up to that.
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In case you hadn't noticed in the overwhelming deluge of attention that's been rightly lavished on Steph Curry's tremendous work in the playoffs so far, Kevin Durant is—still—completely out of his mind. Having watched him in person this season at Timberwolves' games, it's tempting to crib from Bobby Jones' analysis of Jack Nicklaus following his win in the 1965 Masters and say that Durant plays a game with which I am not familiar.
Except I am. I've seen it before, just not in real life. Durant's closest antecedent is Rashard Lewis in NBA 2K2.
Hear me out. Lewis was drafted out of Alief Elsik High School in Houston, Texas, in 1998, a few years before the zenith of the preps-to-pros trend in 2001 when Kwame Brown, Tyson Chandler, Eddy Curry and DeSagana Diop all went in the top ten. Expected to go in the lottery, Lewis instead slid and slid until he was the last guy in the green room, finally taken by the Seattle Supersonics with the 32nd pick.
His first couple seasons were fairly unremarkable. His rookie year he only logged 145 minutes, managing a Filene's Basement-esque 4.5 PER. In 2000 he came off the bench and looked a lot better, improving his PER to 16.5 and recording a .521 effective field goal percentage.
When he broke out in his third year as a starter with the Sonics, he looked good. And by good I mean GOOD. His per 36 stats didn't make a huge jump, but when his minutes per game jumped from 19.2 to 34.9, he went from scoring 8.2 ppg to 14.8. His FT% jumped from .683 to .826 and his 3P% leapt dramatically from a solid .333 to a sterling .432. The advanced stats looked good as well: a PER of 17.3, an offensive rating of 114, and a true shooting percentage of .587. Although his usage rate was well below Durant's, Lewis' 2000-01 season is fairly comparable to Durant's sophomore season in 2008-09.
2K Sports clearly thought of Lewis' 2001 season as a harbinger, not a high water mark. In NBA 2K2, Lewis was a scoring MACHINE. At 6'10" and blessed by the game's makers with guard-level speed and preternatural 3-pt shooting, Lewis could easily play shooting guard or small forward. He could shoot over just about any guard and was fast enough to get past any forward. He could finish hard at the rim and make his free throws. When he put it on the floor, he opened things up for the other shooters on the Sonics, which in 2002 included Brent Barry and video game Vladimir Radmanovic (who was very good). I scored 100 points with him once. He was, in short, a polygonal fever dream of beautiful basketball.
But then, it turned out that Lewis' 2001 was both more illusory and more concrete than NBA 2K2 made it look. It was ephemeral in the sense that 2K Sports had to look at his play from the year before and see what it augured. Where they saw growth, we instead got stability. His PER inched up to 18.5 in 2002 and his wins shares per 48 rose to .160, but that's about as high as they ever got. Through the peak of his career between 2004 and 2007, he would be named an All-Star and his PER would hover around 20 as his usage rate increased to around 24%.
And that's good. That's very, very good. But it's also not Durant-good, and not Lewis-in-NBA-2K2 good. Rashard Lewis' points per game peaked at 20.6, his rebounds per game peaked early on in 2000 at 7.7, and his assists per game never got higher than 2.6. Consider that this season Durant averaged 28.1 points, 7.9 rebounds and 4.6 assists per game, plus notched a career-high PER at 28.3, and he's very possibly going to get better.
And while the numbers are impressive enough, they have a hard time the uncanniness of Durant on the court. His jumper is so smooth it looks lathed, his crossover so startlingly fast across such a broad reach that it looks like a canned animation. As he threads through the lane on a fast break to throw down a dunk, you question the collision detection. He's a living, breathing cheat code, rubberband AI made flesh.
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By Tristan Harris Thursday 13 December 2012 Updated: 18/12 12:08
BROMSGROVE District Housing Trust (bdht) chiefs also came out this week to speak up in favour of the proposals for the three garage sites.
Following last Friday's front page story about the proposals, bdht chairman John Morgan claimed that, currently, there was a complete mismatch in the supply and demand of all forms of housing across Bromsgrove district.
"While councillors are arguing over small developments on our garage sites, it is likely that families are going to be in bed and breakfast accommodation over Christmas.
"Coun Hollingworth states none of these developments should have been approved by the planning committee.
"It is our view that this is completely wrong.
"All three sites met Bromsgrove District Council's planning policy and were recommended for approval by the council's own professional planning experts.
"They are on 'brown field' sites and meet both local and national policies."
He added bdht was appealing the Alvechurch decision, claiming he felt it contradicted the approvals given to the other sites.
The housing trust, which manages the accommodation list for the district council, said it had 3,341 affordable properties, but at least another 3,500 individuals and families waiting for homes.
He said, previously, bdht had carefully managed its own temporary accommodation, enabling Bromsgrove's homeless to be rehoused. But, he added, that was now at breaking point.
"We are pleased to see Coun Hollingworth accepts the need for more affordable housing.
"But while he says it shouldn't be at any cost, we are really struggling to understand what the BDC housing strategy is."
Mike Brown, Chief Executive at bdht, claimed the situation appeared dysfunctional.
"We are having developments rejected and delayed often on what appear to be spurious, non-planning criteria, while all the time, more and more families are finding where they live less and less secure.
"Some are even finding themselves homeless."
He concluded by saying larger strategic developments needed to be supported to meet housing needs.
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The topic recently came up of the best way to convert a folder to an application on remote shared hosting server. Some hosts may have this built-in to their control panel. I know many (like Cytanium) have options in the control panel to create Virtual Directories, but sometimes an application specifically needs its folder to be marked as a literal "application" within IIS. Read more »
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Guest post from Rick Barber from OrcsWeb today…
While attempting to install IIS through role services with other than the default options checked or ASP.Net under IIS in role services on Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 you may come across errors like the one below; 'Attempt to install XXX failed with error code 0x800736B3. The referenced assembly is not installed on your system.'
After little success trying a variety of 'fixes,' I came across this KB article:
Once I downloaded and installed the proper hotfix, I was able to install IIS and ASP.Net on my Windows 2008 R2 server.
Happy hosting!
Basic IIS Performance Statistics
There are some neat counters available in Windows Performance Monitor for showing some IIS (Internet Information Server) statistics. My three favorites are:
- Current Anonymous Users: This counter shows the number of current anonymous HTTP connections. Since most web sites serve content to anonymous users, it's the one that seems to make the most sense to me when trying to gauge current traffic / activity on the site.
- Anonymous Users / Second: This counter shows the data above, but how many connections per second those site visitors are generating.
- Maximum Anonymous Users: This counter just show the peak number of anonymous users that were connected at a single time. Sometimes it's neat to see where the site activity peaked.
How do you see these? Here are the steps and screenshots:
First find the Performance Monitor by clicking the Start Menu then Administrative Tools then Performance Monitor:
Then click on Performance Monitor in the left-hand pane under Monitoring Tools. After that you are presented with the graph window and you can click the green plus icon to add counters to this window (play around and different counters – there is a LOT of really neat information available).
After clicking the green plus icon, you are presented with a huge list of counter groups. Within each of those groups are individual counters. There are a ton – you really do need to just play around and check out the options.
For web (IIS) counters though, look for the group named Web Service and click the plus sign next to it to expand and show the individual counters.
After you add the counters you'll see them listed at the bottom of the graph window, along with the color of each counter so you can match them easily.
There you go. Play around and have some fun checking out what type of traffic is hitting your site and how well the server is performing.
Happy hosting!
Does anyone manually install IIS anymore?
Microsoft has made installing – and doing the initial base configuration of – Internet Information Services (IIS) ridiculously easy by using the Web Platform Installer (WebPI).
Open WebPI, select Products in the top menu bar, then select Server in the left menu bar, then choose the IIS Recommended Configuration. What's installed/configured with the IIS Recommended Configuration install?
- Static Content
- Default Document
- Directory Browsing
- HTTP Errors
- HTTP Logging
- Logging Tools
- Request Monitor
- .NET Extensibility
- Request Filtering
- Static Content Compression
- ISAPI Extensions
- ISAPI Filters
- WAS Process Model
- Management Console
- WAS Configuration API
- WAS .NET Environment
- .NET 4.5 Extended with ASP.NET for Windows 8
- .NET 3.5 for Windows 8
Let WebPI install all these things for you and you're pretty much ready to roll. A few other things you might want to install on your web server afterward (also through WebPI) are:
- Web Deploy
- URL Rewrite
- FTP Publishing
Happy hosting!
Can you run WordPress on Windows? Sure, it works great!
Did you know that WordPress works – and works great – on Microsoft Windows? Sure, WordPress runs on top of PHP and MySQL, which are commonly thought to be related to Linux, but they work perfectly on Windows Server also. In fact, this blog post that you're reading right now is running via WordPress on Windows, MySQL, and PHP.
Here's a blog post by Artur at OrcsWeb showing a walk-through of installing WordPress on Windows Server.
As you can see in the post, Microsoft's WPI (Web Platform Installer) makes it super-easy even for non-administrators.
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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved." ~ Victor Hugo
Valentine's Day is celebrated worldwide. The holiday is named after the martyr, St. Valentinus, who often performed secret weddings for soldiers for which he was imprisoned. Lovers worldwide celebrate the holiday by giving each other gifts to show how much they care about each other. It is a time when children eat candy hearts and send heartfelt messages to each other. It is the holiday of romance, but in the classroom we can teach various themes including relationships, kindness and various kinds of love, such as love of a pet, family, one's self, or hobby.
ESL-Library has collected all of their resources on the theme of love and relationships in this NEW collection.
Below are a few more activities with these themes in mind.
Explore Heart, Love, or Romance Idioms
Valentine's Day is a perfect excuse to teach idioms. Your students will enjoy learning about various idioms related to love, such as, "falling in love," or "head over heals." ESL-Library has three lesson plan sections that combine the theme of love with idioms, including First Love, First Year, and The Case of the Missing Ring (a Detective Series). Here are some more ideas.
- Use this infographic with visuals to teach various idioms like, "Pop the question," or "Get back together."
- After learning some idioms, have students choose a few to explain in a comic, with tools like ToonDoo, Make Beliefs Comix, and Creaza. Be sure to check out this post, Create Your Own Cartoons for Teaching Languages.
Heart Candy Activities
Ever receive a box of candy hearts with their short but lovely messages? Try any of these activities.
- Try playing charades where each student picks a candy heart and has to act out the message for their classmates. When someone guesses the message the actor gets to eat the candy heart. This could help motivate shy students to play.
- Play guess the drawing where each student picks a candy heart and has to draw out the message for their classmates to guess.
- Have students pick out 3 to 5 of the messages and create written or digital stories using these messages. They can use tools like Storybird, Zooburst, or Animoto.
- Students pick out 4 to 6 of the messages and create a video dialogue between 2 or more fictitious characters using digital storytelling tools like GoAnimate, Xtranormal, Dvolver, and ZimmerTwins. If you want them to use their mobile devices, then try these free dialogue apps- Sockpuppets, PuppetPals, or Talking Ben and Tom News Reporter.
- Students pick out 4 to 6 of the messages and create a digital comic of the conversation.
Explore Love in Art
Take a famous piece of art like Marc Chagall's Dream Village. This painting represents Chagall courting his wife. Break students into pairs and have them write down at least 3 scenes/visual symbols they observe in the painting. Have them guess what each of these scenes/visual symbols represent. Regroup as a class and have them share their ideas with the class.
Check out ESL-Library's NEW Valentine's Flashcards. Katelin did a fantastic job drawing this new set! Here are a bunch of ideas for how you can use these Valentine's images in the classroom.
Explore Love in Poetry
Valentine's Day is a perfect time for students to explore the language of love in sonnets, haikus, limericks, etc. Try these ideas:
- Break students into pairs and give them a few poems to explore then have them create a comic or multimedia presentation where they recite the poem and add visuals that highlight the meaning. Use tools like Animoto, Photopeach, or UTellStory.
- With Photopeach they can create a multimedia, interactive quiz about the poem that their classmates have to answer.
- Have students create their own love poetry with this cool online magnetic poetry tool. The words are there. They just put them together to create a poem, then can take a screenshot and post in a blog or wiki.
- Students can learn to write haikus, sonnets, limericks, or any other type of poetry with the Poetry Idea Machine. This incredible site walks students through each step in creating various forms of poetry. They can send these poems to their family, relatives, or friends.
Analyze Love Quotes
Collect a list of love quotes like Einstein's, "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love," and cut them into strips. Have the quote in one strip and on another strip list the author and a few clues. Give each student a strip. Instruct students to walk around the room to find their partners. Then give them 5 minutes to discuss the meaning of the quotes, whether they agree with the author, and name an example to support their stance. They will present their quotes and ideas to the rest of their peers when you regroup as a class.
Analyze Pick Up Lines
Take famous pick up lines and have students create dialogues in which they have to create clever comebacks like in this funny post. They can use the previously named dialogue tools and comic strip tools.
Create Valentine's Day Messages & Send to Friends & Family
Have your students create handmade crafts, cards, or origami where they insert kind messages for their family members or classmates. When sending these creations to their classmates, make sure they send nice messages to everyone so no one is singled out. You may want to check the messages for any grammar errors before they send these out.
- Find out how to make origami hearts, boxes, and more
- Create a Valentine- A Starfall game that teaches kids phonics and vocabulary
- Use mobile apps such as Red Stamp, Fotobabble, or Animoto to send Valentine's Day messages. These are free and have templates related to the holiday.
More Great Websites and Resources
Find more ideas for teaching about Valentine's Day by visiting the resources below:
- Valentine's Day Sites and Activities by Cybraryman
- Best Sites to Learn About Valentine's Day by Larry Ferlazzo
- Reasons for Buying Flowers- Great Lesson Plan by Jamie Keddie
- Valentine's Day videos, quizzes, and more by ESOLCourses
What other ideas do you have?
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Shelly Sanchez Terrell is a teacher trainer, instructional designer, and author. She has been recognized by various entities, such as the ELTon Awards, The New York Times, and Microsoft's Heroes for Education as a leader, innovator, and visionary in the movement of teacher driven professional development, education technology, elearning, and mobile learning. She is the co-founder of #Edchat, the Reform Symposium Web Conference, and The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators. She has trained teachers and taught learners in 100+ countries and has consulted with organizations such as UNESCO Bangkok, The European Union aPLaNet Project, Cultura Iglesa of Brazil, the British Council in Tel Aviv, IATEFL Slovenia, HUPE Croatia, and the British Council in South East Asia. She is the host of American TESOL's Free Friday Webinars and shares regularly via TeacherRebootCamp.com, Twitter (@ShellTerrell), Facebook.com/shellyterrell, and Google.com/+ShellySanchezTerrell. She's the author of Learning To Go, Byte-sized Potential, and The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers published by Routledge. Recently, she was named Woman of the Year 2014 by the National Association of Professional Women and awarded a Bammy Award for #Edchat. Website: http://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/ Twitter: @ShellTerrell


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Grecian Grape and Walnut Salad
- Yield: 4 servings
- Prep: 15 mins
- Cook: 15 mins
- 1cup seedless green grapes, halved
- 1cup seedless red grapes, halved
- 1cup seedless black grapes, halved
- 1/2cup plus 2 tablespoons honey
- 3/4cup water
- 1stick cinnamon
- 1cup California walnut halves
- 1tablespoon lemon juice
- 5ounces mixed baby greens
- 1/4cup fresh mint leaves, chopped or cut in chiffonade
- 2tablespoons crumbled feta cheese
- Place the grapes in a non-reactive shallow bowl or baking pan. In a medium saucepan bring 1/2 cup of the honey, the water and cinnamon to a boil. Boil over medium-high heat for about 5 minutes, to reduce the liquid slightly. Remove the cinnamon stick and pour the hot syrup over the grapes. Cool to room temperature, then cover and refrigerate until serving.
- Preheat the oven to 325F. Line a baking sheet with foil and coat with nonstick cooking spray. In a bowl combine the walnuts and the 2 remaining tablespoons of honey, stirring to coat. Spread the walnuts on the prepared pan and bake, stirring two or three times, until the nuts are toasted, about 15 minutes. Watch carefully the last few minutes, so they don't get too dark. Cool about 2 minutes, then remove from the pan and cool completely.
- Drain the grapes, reserving the syrup. Add the lemon juice to the syrup.
- To serve, spread the greens on a large platter and sprinkle with the mint. Moisten the greens with several tablespoons of the lemon syrup. Top the greens with the grapes and sprinkle on the walnuts. Moisten with a few more tablespoons of syrup (depending on how much dressing you like, you might not use all the syrup) and sprinkle with the feta.


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Students and faculty return to campus this fall amidst significant turmoil around the world. Whether it's protests against police violence in Ferguson, Missouri, wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, or the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, distressing events far from home and close to it are likely to be on students' minds—and therefore to enter your classrooms, whether you anticipate them or not. Because these issues in so many ways relate to differences in social identity and power—and because so many of our students have personal or family connections to places experiencing crisis—these events may also influence ongoing conversations about the campus climate here in Ann Arbor.
None of these are simple or easy topics to talk about. Over many years, CRLT has developed guidelines for discussing difficult topics to support teachers in facilitating such conversations in classrooms across the curriculum. If you want to raise such topics in your classes in order to explore connections between course material and contemporary events, you can find strategies for planned discussions of high-stakes topics. Other resources offer you ways to prepare for and respond to challenging conversations that emerge when you haven't planned for them.
Some strategies highlighted on these pages--useful for either planned or spontaneous discussions--include: Read more »
What are effective ways to get to know my students and create a positive learning environment from the very beginning of the term? How can I pique students' curiosity about the subject matter? How can I set student expectations for active engagement in the course?
These are common questions as teachers prepare for the first days of class, an important time for setting the tone for what is to come in the term. CRLT offers many resources to help faculty and GSIs think carefully about getting the most out of the first days. These include tips for learning student names, activities for building community, and suggestions for ways to introduce course material and communicate expectations.
Other resources about inclusive teaching provide specific strategies for ensuring that you foster learning environments that include and enable all of your students, from the very beginning of the term. Inclusive teaching can begin before you ever walk into a classroom, as emphasized by these resources on course design and syllabus design.
As always, CRLT consultants are also available to work one-on-one with instructors. We're here to help you get your classes off to a great start.
At this point in the semester, many courses are building toward a midterm examination. As a teacher, how can you best design such tests to motivate and assess student learning? How can you be sure that your classroom instruction adequately prepares students for the exam? How, in short, can you make the most of exam time as a learning opportunity for your students?
The process of designing an exam can offer a great opportunity to ensure that your learning goals, instructional practices, and assessment techniques are all well aligned. Our website features several resources to help you thoughtfully design exams that reliably measure whether students have learned what you've been trying to teach them--and evaluate those exams fairly. These emphasize that effective exams Read more »
It's a common challenge: A student answers a question in class. But the answer is wrong. How do you respond?
When there are definite right and wrong answers, it's important that instructors provide clear feedback on student responses so that the class knows which answers are right, which are wrong, and which are somewhere in between. Often, a wrong answer gives some insight into how students are thinking about the question, and provides an opportunity to lead the students to a better answer. Of course, you also want to communicate that the student's answer is appreciated, and maintain a safe space for students to contribute answers in the future.
We've located some resources from teaching centers around the country with suggestions for how to handle wrong answers. Some of the best suggestions include: Read more »
With the beginning of the semester just around the corner, many instructors are strategizing about how best to start productive classroom conversations. Students who speak even briefly at the beginning of a class meeting are more likely to participate in discussions going forward, and a well-chosen icebreaker can help everyone join in. As quick, low-stakes, and often fun activities that involve students at the beginning of a session, icebreakers can be a good way to learn about who's in the classroom, reduce anxiety, and engage all students in thinking together about course content.
CRLT provides examples of icebreakers and guidance for using them in the Handbook on Departmental GSI Development. We also recently polled our Graduate Teaching Consultants (GTCs) to gather a list of their favorites. Here are some good ideas we received when we asked the GTCs to "tweet" us a particularly effective icebreaker they have used, seen, or heard about: Read more »
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The Northwestern football and men's basketball programs are at a bit of a crossroads.
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Steve Martin plays with the Steep Canyon Rangers on Thursday in Owensboro, Ky. He'll perform "Me and Paul Revere" with the Rangers on "A Capitol Fourth," 7 p.m. Monday, WTTW-Channel 11. | John Dunham~AP
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More than 30 years ago, Steve Martin immortalized King Tut in song. Now he has paid lyrical homage to another historical figure, Paul Revere.
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"One is accurate," says Martin, 65.
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The actor/comedian/writer/musician will be performing the just-released "Me and Paul Revere" with bluegrass band the Steep Canyon Rangers on PBS' annual "A Capitol Fourth" special (7 p.m. Monday, WTTW-Channel 11).
Told from the point of view of the patriot's literal sidekick — his horse, Brown Beauty — it's the "REAL story of Paul Revere!" as Martin tweeted Wednesday. Unlike, say, comments about ringing bells and firing warning shots uttered a few weeks ago by a certain potential presidential contender.
But Martin is generous when it comes to parsing Sarah Palin's remarks.
"On one hand, it's actually quite accurate," says Martin, who based the facts in his song on Paul Revere's Ride, the 1994 book by Brandeis University historian David Hackett Fischer, which he read several years ago. (During the height of the Palin hubbub, Martin tweeted something relatively sympathetic to some of what Palin argued, that the Boston silversmith warned the British: "Paul Revere did not warn that 'the British are coming,' because all the citizens WERE British. There was no America yet.")
Still, he's staying away from any partisan nitpicking.
"My song is a historical song, not a political song," he says. That said, if it inspires people to delve deeper into the country's revolutionary past, he's thrilled. The true story is "actually just as interesting as the mythological history of Paul Revere's ride."
Martin is on tour with the Rangers, promoting his bluegrass album "Rare Bird Alert." He'll have company for his PBS gig, including Jordin Sparks and Matthew Morrison from "Glee." Though he's not an avid watcher — his wife, writer Anne Stringfield, is — "I'd be on it in two seconds," he says. "I know it's a fabulous show."
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I'd wanted to learn to dance since I was a little kid, but didn't start because I never thought I could get good. When I finally decided to learn, I filmed myself learning to dance over the course of a year. The video went viral, with 4 million views.
It's been a crazy experience - I got to go on the Queen Latifah Show and have spoken and danced at conferences like Google I/O, TedX (watch video of performance), and Ignite. Here are my tips to learn how to dance and to make a viral video.
I was the lead designer at the startup Exec, where I learned to design and ship extremely fast. For my work there, VentureBeat called me "one of those rare startup Swiss Army knives who can seemingly do a little bit of everything: marketing, product, design, and beyond."
I designed two iPhone apps (Exec Errands and Exec Cleaning), the website, and all the marketing materials (everything from campaign emails to chocolate packaging). Exec sold to Handybook in 2013.
I was a product manager for Microsoft Excel, where I led a team of 10 people to bring animations to Excel 2013. I made wireframes, ran usability tests, and got hordes of people to agree with each other on very long email chains and in conference rooms. I worked with developers to make sure the right features got shipped on time for an extremely complex product.
For my work on Excel, I have 9 patents pending. Oh - and I'm not the one responsible for the ribbon (that happened before I got there).
Giveit100 is a place for people to make inspirational progress videos from their practice footage. I got the idea for it after my dance video went viral, and built it with my co-founder Finbarr. Giveit100 has over 70,000 members with a combined 30 million video views. Some of our members have gone on to be featured in their own viral videos. Lakeisha's 100 days at the gym and Estella's 100 days of push-ups each have over a million views.
Awesome Baby Name is a baby name generator with an SEO twist: it finds unique names based on available domain names. Finbarr and I built it in a weekend at a hackathon. In just one week, over 100,000 people had tried it. The idea came from a joke - because I have such a common name, I couldn't get karencheng.com. Finbarr joked that there should be a website that makes sure newborns never have this problem.
Cosmopolitan magazine called it "the insane new selfie trend that's going viral." It started with a video I made, Donut Selfie, which uses a technique where I'd swing my arm in a circle around my head (making a donut) with my iPhone. It's a way to put a professional cinematography look into an everyday selfie, and the best part is all you need is your arm and a phone.
I'm working on an unreleased dance project that will take me about two more years of training before it's ready. In the meantime, I share my dance practice videos on Instagram. Here are some my favorites:
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The applause and well-wishes of administrators, faculty and family resonated throughout the auditorium at Wisdom Lane Middle School as 183 students received their certificates of completion from the Levittown School District's Gerald R. Claps Career and Technical Center program on June 10.
In her opening remarks, Principal Joan Lorelli told the students that she is humbled to be their principal. She also explained that GC Tech is at the forefront of offering both college-ready and employment certification. "The world of work is the endpoint for all of our students," she said. "Thanks for shining a spotlight on career and technical education."
The crowd was roaring with cheers and applause as the Island Trees High School Class of 2014 marched across the track for the 58th Annual Commencement ceremony.
On June 27, 210 Island Trees High School seniors received their diplomas, signifying the next step on the road to adulthood.
During the ceremony, Island Trees Schools Superintendent Dr. Charles J. Murphy addressed the graduating class with a quick anecdote about how he was once in their shoes. He recalled how in 1984, one teacher warned him, "don't even think about being different or I'll kick you out of the ceremony."
On June 2, over 400 students gathered in the Island Trees High School gymnasium to share their love of literacy through the In2Books pen pal program, now in its fifth successful year.
This year, Mrs. Marks was once again joined by her enthusiastic colleagues Mrs. Link, Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Egert, Mrs. Reens, Mrs. Kane, and Mrs. Durando to offer the In2Books program to all of their third grade students at Stokes Elementary.
MacArthur High School students Brianna Abatelli, Mary Cervantes, Clare Del Grosso, Amanda King and Alex Philbin received certificates of merit in the Irish Cultural Society of Garden City's annual writing contest. In addition, Cervantes was a second-place winner. The five students' essays were selected from among the submissions of 425 talented writers from 24 schools across Long Island.
The Island Trees High School Music Department had successful Spring concerts in May.
The first featured Concert Band, Symphonic Band, and Jazz Band, under the direction of band director Greg Warnokowski, and the Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of percussion specialist Gerard Noble. The community choir was also featured at this concert, and was under the direction of Mrs. Chet Lazzara.
The Hartwick College Department of Music recently visited Island Trees High School to perform and talk to all music students. The instrumental and choral groups were under the direction of Dr. Jason Leo Curley, Director of Instrumental Music and Conducting, and Dr. R. Colin Armstrong, Director of Choral Music. Performing groups included Brass Ensembles, Chamber Choir, and A Capella Choir. After the performances, the Hartwick College students introduced themselves, stated the subject they were majoring in at the college, and answered many questions the students had about college life and music opportunities at college for all students no matter what your major is.
— Submitted by Island Trees High School Music Department Chairperson Mrs. Susan Oliveto
Beginning May 28, several hundred paintings and pieces of artwork were put on display to showcase MacArthur High School's most dedicated artists at the 22nd annual Spring Art Show. The event provided students a chance to take a closer look at some of the techniques used by the best and brightest artists at the school and to encourage their peers to further explore their creativity.
"This show is a labor of love and the culmination of a year's worth of work and collaboration between talented students and teachers," art curriculum associate Frank Creeter said. "Beyond applying a medium to a surface, or simply satisfying an art assignment, students inevitably learned that art communicates, evokes emotions and can serve as an outlet for otherwise ineffable ideas."
Many of the photographs, sculptures, drawings and paintings were selected for exhibitions and scholarships across the region, including the Art Supervisors Association All-County exhibit, Long Island's Best, PTSA Reflections, Advanced Visions 10: High School Artists of Excellence and New York State Sen. Kemp Hannon's Best in Town exhibits.
Division Avenue High School student Joey Nepravishta was the third-place winner in the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven Bridge Contest. Approximately 180 students from 13 Nassau and Suffolk county high schools entered the competition in which they designed and built the lightest model bridge that holds a maximum load of 50 kilograms. Joey's bridge weighed 12.43 grams and held 44.13 pounds, which is 1,610.38 times its weight.
The goal of the contest was to promote the study and application of the principles of physics and engineering. This activity also helps students develop hands-on skills and to see, first-hand, what it is like to be an engineer who designs structures to a set of specifications.
Division Avenue High School Principal Joan Lorelli, science curriculum associate Kevin McDermott and adviser Gerard Marzigliano congratulated Joey on this outstanding accomplishment.
— Submitted by the Levittown School District
From May 8-10, Island Trees Memorial Middle School's eighth grade class embarked on an incredible adventure to our nation's capital, Washington D.C.
During the trip, the eighth graders met with politicians, visited historic monuments, explored some of our national museums, and experienced the culture of one of the most important cities in the world.
Each year students in the local area compete in a contest sponsored by New York State Senator Kemp Hannon entitled, "There Ought To Be A law." Students in the sixth grade work with their social studies teachers to brainstorm issues that could be resolved by creating laws. The entries are submitted and winners of the contest are honored in the spring.
This year Erin Maguire, a sixth grader at ITMMS, has been named a finalist in the competition. Maguire will be honored at Levittown Hall on May 22, when he will be presented with a citation from the office of state Sen. Kemp Hannon. At the end of the ceremony, the Grand Prize Winner will be announced.
— Submitted by Island Trees Memorial Middle School Principal Dr. Roger Bloom
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Tonto Dikeh, Ini Edo, Monalisa Chinda, Julius Agwu & More Storm Akwa Ibom For Moses Iwang's Wedding
Yesterday April 5th 2014 Nollywood producer/director Moses Inwang tied the knot with model & actress Emem Udonquak at a beautiful traditional ceremony in Uyo, Akwa Ibom.
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Mountain View High School student Alexander Burlingame just learned to knit this fall, and he has already crafted dozens of hats. He donated most of them to cancer patients in Virginia and Maryland, and sold some hats to make money for yarn.
The effort started on a lengthy bus ride to a cross country meet in Williamsburg. One of Alexander's teammates, Ben Sorensen, broke out a round plastic loom and started knitting a beanie.
Alexander was intrigued, so Ben showed him how to make his own hat.
Alexander finished his first hat on the way to the race. And he was hooked on the hobby.
"As soon as I made the hat, I knew I wanted to do something with it," Alexander said.
The 18-year-old International Baccalaureate student was already studying social entrepreneurship as part of a yearlong project. He was especially interested in TOMS, the shoe company that donates a pair of footwear for every pair sold.
Alexander first thought about selling the hats for charity but then decided to give the hats directly to chemotherapy patients who had lost their hair.
He and his cross country teammates started knitting beanies, often breaking out skeins of yarn during class. Alexander said that he still pays attention--and that the knitting actually helps him concentrate.
His IB teacher doesn't bat an eyelash when the loom comes out while she's teaching.
"I love that our boys do the knitting around here," laughed Lisa Renard-Spicer.
It takes about an hour and a half to knit one hat, and Alexander often knits during bus rides to cross country and track meets and while watching television, although he doesn't often get a chance to relax that way. In addition to intensive IB classes and running, Alexander is active in the faith-based Young Life club and at Crossroads Church in Fredericksburg.
Renard-Spicer, his teacher, said he embodies the International Baccalaureate's mission to create "active, compassionate and lifelong learners" in a genuine and sincere way.
Alexander, who moved to Stafford last year from Germany, hopes to attend the University of Richmond next year and to study philosophy and religion. He is the youngest of three children. His brother is now on a mission trip in Thailand and his sister is a student at Virginia Commonwealth University.
He doesn't plan to hang up his knitting loom any time soon.
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Orbital Successfully Launches Minotaur I Rocket Carrying TacSat-3 Satellite For U.S. Air Force.
DULLES, Va. -- Orbital Sciences Corporation Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC, though commonly referred to as Orbital) is a Dulles, Virginia company which specializes in satellite launch and manufacture. Its Launch Systems Group is heavily involved with missile defense launch systems. (NYSE NYSE
See: New York Stock Exchange : ORB) announced today that its Minotaur I rocket successfully launched the Tactical Satellite-3 (TacSat-3) for the U.S. Air Force. The mission originated earlier today from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport The Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) is a commercial space launch facility located at the southern tip of NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on the Delmarva Peninsula in Virginia. (MARS) launch facility at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island Wallops Island (wäl`ləps), island, 6 sq mi (15.5 sq km), Accomack co., E Va., off the Atlantic coast of the Delmarva pensinsula S of Chincoteaque island. , VA. At approximately 7:55 p.m. (Eastern), the rocket's first stage ignited, beginning its flight into low-Earth orbit See LEO. . Approximately 12 minutes later, the Minotaur I deployed the TacSat-3 spacecraft in its targeted orbit of approximately 285 miles (460 kilometers) above the Earth's surface Noun 1. Earth's surface - the outermost level of the land or sea; "earthquakes originate far below the surface"; "three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water"
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Today's mission was the 16th mission for the Minotaur program since its inception in 2000, all of which have been fully successful. It was also the third Minotaur I launch from the MARS facility, following the TacSat-2 and NFIRE missions conducted from the Eastern Virginia launch site in 2006 and 2007, respectively. Including the TacSat-3 mission, which carried four other smaller payloads, Minotaur I rockets have put a total of 30 satellites into orbit.
"We are very pleased with the results of this evening's flight of the Minotaur I rocket, and are proud to be able to support the Air Force's important work in the area of Operationally Responsive Space (ORS ORS oral rehydration salts.
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A liquid preparation developed by the World Health Organization that can decrease fluid loss in persons with diarrhea. ) systems," said Mr. Ron Grabe, Orbital's Executive Vice President and General Manager of its Launch Systems Group. "Following this successful launch, our Minotaur launch team's focus will shift to the Minotaur IV vehicle, which will considerably extend the performance of the Minotaur family."
Orbital will conduct the first two Minotaur IV flights later this year when it launches TacSat-4, the next in the Air Force's series of smaller-sized tactical satellites, from Kodiak, AK, and the Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS SBSS Space-Based Space Surveillance
SBSS Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship (US nuclear weapons' maintenance & certification)
SBSS Standard Base Supply System
SBSS Small Business Source System ) satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base Vandenberg Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 3,456 acres (1,399 hectares), SW Calif., near Lompoc; chief Pacific coast launch site for military satellites. , CA.
The TacSat-3 spacecraft is designed to meet the growing need of U.S. forces for flexible, affordable and responsive satellite systems. The program is a joint effort of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate, Army Space and Missile Defense Command Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) is a specialized major command within the United States Army. The SMDC is an organization composed of five components:
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SMC Safety Management Certificate (maritime shipping) ) Space Development and Test Wing, the Department of Defense's ORS office, and the Office of Naval Research The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR), headquartered in Arlington, Virginia (Ballston), is the office within the U.S. Department of the Navy that coordinates, executes, and promotes the science and technology programs of the U.S. .
The overall launch service and management for the Minotaur I vehicle was provided by the Air Force SMC's Space Development and Test Wing at Kirtland Air Force Base Kirtland Air Force Base is located in the southeast quadrant of Albuquerque, New Mexico, adjacent to the Albuquerque International Sunport. The base is the third largest installation in Air Force Materiel Command, covering 51,558 acres (209 km²) and employing over 23,000 people, , NM.
About Orbital's Minotaur Product Line
Orbital's Minotaur product line was developed under the U.S. Air Force's Orbital/Suborbital Program (OSP (Online Service Provider) See online service.
OSP - Optical Signal Processor ). The initial five-year OSP contract was competitively awarded to Orbital in 1997 and the company also won the follow-on 10-year OSP-2 contract in 2003. The Minotaur I space launch vehicle design used in today's TacSat-3 launch is the original member of Orbital's Minotaur family of launch vehicles This is a list of space launch vehicles sorted by country/operator in alphabetical order, commercial vehicles are listed under their corresponding country.
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Situated on or below the floor of the orbit of the eye.
n. vehicles for missile defense and other specialized launch missions.
The Minotaur vehicles are the only proven launch vehicles currently capable of supporting the Department of Defense's evolving ORS launch requirements and are also specifically designed to be capable of launching from all U.S. spaceports, including government and commercial launch sites in Alaska, California, Florida and Virginia. Due to the minimal amount of specialized infrastructure that is required to support Minotaur launches, they can also be operated from other U.S. launch sites.
The Minotaur I space launch configuration combines Orbital's commercial launch vehicle technologies, including upper stage rocket motors, structures, avionics and other elements, with government-supplied lower-stage rocket motor stages to create responsive, reliable and low-cost launch systems for U.S. Government-sponsored spacecraft. It can place up to 1,300 lbs. into low- Earth orbit.
The Minotaur family of launch vehicles utilizes standardized avionics and subsystems, mature processes and experienced personnel to make them reliable and cost effective. In addition to the Minotaur I space booster, Orbital's Minotaur product line also includes:
* Minotaur II - A three-stage suborbital rocket used as a target vehicle for testing U.S. missile defense systems and related missions;
* Minotaur III - A three-stage suborbital rocket, Minotaur III can deliver suborbital technology demonstration payloads of up to 6,500 lbs. or serve as a target vehicle for testing U.S. missile defense systems and similar missions;
* Minotaur IV - A heavier-lift four-stage space launch vehicle using retired Peacekeeper rocket motors, capable of launching U.S. Government-sponsored satellites weighing up to 3,800 lbs. into low-altitude orbit. The first Minotaur IV missions are scheduled for later this year, carrying the TacSat-4 and SBSS satellites for the U.S. Air Force; and
* Minotaur V - An enhanced-performance version of the Minotaur IV space launch vehicle that may be used to launch government satellites into higher-energy orbits for missions related to space exploration and other activities beyond low-Earth orbit.
About Orbital
Orbital develops and manufactures small- and medium-class rockets and space systems for commercial, military and civil government customers. The company's primary products are satellites and launch vehicles, including low-Earth orbit, geosynchronous-Earth orbit and planetary spacecraft for communications, remote sensing, scientific and defense missions; human-rated space systems for Earth-orbit, lunar and other missions; ground- and air-launched rockets that deliver satellites into orbit; and missile defense systems that are used as interceptor and target vehicles. Orbital also provides satellite subsystems and space-related technical services to government agencies and laboratories.
More information about Orbital can be found at http://www.orbital.com
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