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With summer here with us many people will be heading for vacations. With that, most of us will end up in areas where it will be hard to find a place where you can work out. That said, there are some specific aspects of your body that you can end up paying attention to thanks to this easy workouts. You can focus on them until the next time you get back to the gym and in this article, we will be sharing with you this particular workouts to keep you going while in vacations.
While on the beach, the sand usually offers a surface that is not stable. With this unstable surface you will be challenged especially your nervous system. In addition to that there will also be resistance as you sink into the beach's sand. You can easily maintain your conditioning and fitness by Sprinting for 5 good yards. In addition to running for five yards you could take up the following workouts that are bound help with your conditioning and fitness. For these workouts, ensure that you do them in waist deep waters.
Butt Kicks at least 2-3 sets
High Knee run at least 2-3 sets
Backwards run at least 2-3sets
Squat Jumps at least 10-20 reps
Lateral Shuffle 2-3 at least sets
There you have it, main aspects that you should workout on during this summer during your vacation.
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Hi, this is Steven Cherry for IEEE Spectrum's "Techwise Conversations."
In 1707, four British ships mistook the ironically named Scilly Islands, 30 miles east of Cornwall, at the northern entrance to the English Channel, for Ushant, off the coast of Brittany, at the southern entrance to the English Channel. Fourteen hundred men died. It was just one of thousands and thousands of wrecks caused by a ship's not knowing where it was.
In the history of mankind, there has probably been no scientific and technological answer more sought after than the 60-year search to solve the longitude problem.
The problem is this: To know where you are on Earth, you need to be able to define your position. Latitude—your position north or south of the equator—is as easy as knowing the length of the day. Longitude—your position east or west of the prime meridian, is a different thing entirely.
In her 1995 surprise best seller, Longitude, Dava Sobel says, "To learn one's longitude at sea, one needs to know what time it is aboard a ship and also the time at…another place of known longitude—at that very same moment."
Seven years after the Scilly Islands disaster, an act of Parliament offered £20 000—£5 million today, or about $8 million, for, quote, "a practical method of reliably ascertaining one's longitude at sea."
Hundreds of scientists in England and Europe pursued it, from two different directions: horology, or clock making, and astronomy. Over the course of six decades, the clock makers—specifically, John Harrison and his son—would eventually win most of the money. That's the story told in Sobel's book. The story of the astronomers has largely gone untold—until now. Next month, a new book, with the title The Day the World Discovered the Sun, will be published by Perseus Books.
Its author, Mark Anderson, is my guest today. He's a freelance science and technology writer based in the decidedly inland town of Northampton, Mass., and although he also writes for the likes of Wired, Discover, New Scientist,and Harper's, we're very pleased that he's on our masthead as a contributing editor. He joins us by phone.
Mark, welcome to the podcast.
Mark Anderson: Thank you for having me, Steven.
Steven Cherry: Mark, the title of the book refers to something with the rather racy name of "the transit of Venus." What is it?
Mark Anderson: The planet Venus passes directly in front of the sun very infrequently, less than two times per century, but when it does happen it happens in pairs, separated by eight years generally. So it turns out that it provides the perfect measuring stick for the entire solar system. You can essentially triangulate the distance to the sun using Kepler's laws and a bit of creative geometry, and that number was really important in science, and it turns out to be highly relevant to this tremendously troubling problem of longitude and navigation at sea.
Steven Cherry: Yeah, so these really are erratic events. There were two in the 1760s, but the next one wouldn't be for over a hundred years. And we have two in the space of a decade as well: 2004, and there's one coming up in June. But after that there isn't another one until 2017 [2117] again.
Mark Anderson: Yeah, 2117. Yeah, June 5th is the last Venus transit of this very young century.
Steven Cherry: So tell us exactly how it figures into the longitude problem.
Mark Anderson: The background is that the Venus transit was something that Edmond Halley—he is...[of] Halley's comet fame—realized that this essential number in astronomy was the exact science of the 18th century. This essential number in astronomy that nobody had a clue how to really get a good fix on, he realized, well, when Venus passes in front of the sun next, that will be our measuring stick, and the Venus transit takes about 5 or 6 hours, and you've got to measure it down to the second to get a really good number. He said that you can get it to 99.2 percent accuracy. It turns out that the second time around, in 1769, people were able to do that. How does it relate to navigation? Well, turns out that the short answer is that there are basically two parts of a larger issue. Astronomy was in the 18th century the solution to the longitude problem. The longitude problem ultimately ended up being solved by the chronometer—by the John Harrison story, you know, the spring-wound clock. But that was so expensive and so inaccessible technologically in the 18th century that people just couldn't do it cost-effectively. So what they had to do instead was to figure out how to make really exact predictions of where the moon would be at any given time, at any given day throughout a year, and so these Venus transit expeditions proved to be the perfect testing grounds for these fledgling technologies and techniques.
Steven Cherry: Yeah, and so among other things, they really wanted to know the exact size of the earth as well as the distance to the sun, and I guess the key to that was taking measurements from various points on the globe, especially at the equator, and then as far north as possible?
Mark Anderson: That's right, yeah.
Steven Cherry: So it turns out—I lost count—but it turns out as many as six different countries sent out expeditions. Let's start with the 1761 transit: Who went where, and why?
Mark Anderson: Who went where, and why? Well, the number is big, it's more than 100 people reported into the—either the Royal Society or it's equivalent in Paris. So you have a lot to choose from, but for the 1761 there are two transits: one in 1761 and one in 1769. And the way it worked out was, the 1761 transit was basically kind of the rough draft; people figured out how they had to do it right, but they weren't able to get it all coordinated. So June 3, 1769, is the day of the book, the day the world discovered the sun. So in 1761, the French sent a big, high-profile mission into Siberia because that was predicted to be one of the best places in the world to see it. Mason and Dixon crucially were not Mason and Dixon before the 1761 Venus transit; they were paired together by the Royal Society to go and observe at another location in the Indian Ocean. They never made it to the Indian Ocean because their ship was attacked; England was at war at the time. But they did make it to South Africa, and they did such a tremendous job observing the transit from South Africa that when they got home, the Royal Society said, "Hey, you guys did such a great job we want you to settle a border dispute between Pennsylvania and Maryland."
Steven Cherry: Yeah, and we're actually going to have a follow-up later this week about the Mason-Dixon line itself because there's some interesting technology there. So this 1761 set of expeditions was sort of—was in large part—a bust. I guess there was an expedition that the French sent to India, and they spent months and months trying to get there, and when they finally did, the colony that they were going to take the measurements from was taken over by the British, and they could do nothing. So they didn't get all the measurements they needed. I guess I shouldn't call it a bust, but it wasn't a complete success. But fortunately, there would be another Venus transit in a mere eight years. Tell us about the 1769 expeditions.
Mark Anderson: Well, it became kind of the big science project of the age. We're used to today, you know, these big things like the Hadron collider, the Genome Project, and the Hubble Space Telescope, where you get this massive international collaboration across borders, across fields, that was obviously new to the entire world in the 1760s, and this really was the first full-fledged, big science project in history. There was a group of astronomers in Paris that ended up coordinating it, and it was quite an undertaking. I mean, you look at the literature of the time, and it's important to say that The Day the World Discovered the Sun is first and foremost a human story of incredible adventure: these people who are risking everything to go to the ends of the earth to find the sun. I do want to say that while we're talking about the science and technology angle, the book too is—we're always trying to keep the story right up at the forefront and just tell the adventure. But about the 1769 expedition: The French, the British, the Austrians, and the Russians, the Swedes, the Danes—those were some of the major players who were sending their own or collaborating—and the Spanish, too—who were collaborating or sending their own expeditions to various places. There ended up being more than 120 observations that were reported to the major scientific societies; we tell the story of three. We wanted to get the stories that did the most important science, that had the most interesting characters and had the best sort of stories to tell. And it turns out that you can tick all those boxes for these three major expeditions. One with Captain Cook and, just like with Mason and Dixon, he became a household name because he was sent out on a Venus transit observing mission. Captain Cook went to Tahiti. A joint French and Spanish expedition went to the far end of New Spain: present-day Mexico, at the Baja peninsula. And an Austrian-slash-Hungarian astronomer, a Jesuit priest with the unlikely name of Hell, Father Hell, at the invitation of the king of Denmark went to above the Arctic Circle to one of the northernmost towns in Norway, Vardo. So his expedition went there. So we're telling these stories kind of in parallel as they all unfold, and everybody encounters a lot of surprises along the way.
Steven Cherry: Yeah, there's some really wild stuff here. The French going to Baja California traveled thousands and thousands of miles and then took almost a month just to cross a 300-mile gulf, only to arrive at a place rife with epidemics, and this is the guy who eight years earlier had traveled through the Siberian winter and spring to make those measurements. And as you said, it's just, like, one-third of the story. The Danish king who turned out to be this 20-something genius who had, like, dementia?
Mark Anderson: Right. Hah!
Steven Cherry: And the stories just go on and on. It's really crazy. And we'll come back to that in a minute. But this was really kind of an insane decade anyway, the 1760s. It was also the decisive decade for the clock makers, wasn't it?
Mark Anderson: It sure was. Yeah, the story of longitude really figures so prominently into the story of the Venus transit that I was astonished that nobody had really connected those dots before. There are many, many books on the history of the Venus transit, and a number of them are very good: They tell the science, they tell the technology, they tell us who are the key scientists who did all this. But my agent and, in fact, my wife asked a really important question early on that initially I was not able to provide a good answer to. In one word, "Why?" Like, why did so many people care so much, and—crucially—why did people who weren't scientists—namely, kings like King George III—why did they write such big checks? This is not motivated...certainly, however much we love the Age of Enlightenment and love to imagine that everybody just cared about enlightenment and learning and all that stuff, there was still a bottom line. And what I discovered was that navigation was the essential part of the story. So clocks—so people are perfecting clocks, and John Harrison made some of his most important sort of leaps forward in the 1760s in developing his own technology, so it's really quite a race that's going on behind the scenes concerning navigation...and these two competing methods, namely, astronomy—navigating by the moon—and navigating by clocks, at the same time that people are racing around the world to try to make the June 3, 1769, deadline.
Steven Cherry: Yeah. So there was a lot of money, and there was this sort of practical angle to it as well as the pure science, just as we see in, as you say, big science projects today. So do you think that these kings and emperors and empresses got their money's worth?
Mark Anderson: Absolutely. Yeah, I think the Venus transit expeditions are a perfect case study of the importance of investment in, you know, sort of primary research because what they got…I mean, first of all, just look at Captain Cook alone. His first voyage, in 1758 to 1761—not only did he go to Tahiti, but in a sense he really kind of opened up much of the Pacific to exploration. Not that other people hadn't ventured there before, but he was the first mariner to not lose anybody to scurvy. Now, people died of other things along the way, but scurvy was an incredibly big deal. There were ships at the time that staffed half again or twice again as many crew as they needed because they expected to lose that many people to scurvy. And Cook cracked that code, too. But as I said, it was also a crucial testing ground for these sort of lunar navigation techniques which became the standard throughout the 18th century; it was the way that most people navigated, and reliably so. And one of the sort of footnotes to the Age of Empire in the 1800s, the 17th century, and into the early 19th century, is this quiet little story of The Nautical Almanac, which was...its whole birth, The Nautical Almanac. It was an annual production, and it came out once a year, and it's been published ever since from Greenwich, England. It was the centerpiece in longitude and in navigation for a long time, for generations, and it remained the essential sort of backup for when the clocks didn't work, even in the 19th century.
Steven Cherry: Yeah, and I guess it took another 30, 40, 50 years before clocks would be reliable and inexpensive enough to become the main method of calculating longitude. So these almanacs, which I guess used the configurations of the moons of Jupiter to actually tell the time, were the main method. But that—so that kind of was independent of this business of knowing the distance between the earth and the sun, and so I'm kind of curious whether the transits of Venus really…I mean, they certainly inspired a number of things, for example, Cook, who opened up, as you say, the South Pacific, you know, like, Australia had not been discovered yet. But with these transit of Venus expeditions, did everyone get their money's worth out of them?
Mark Anderson: I think—again, I think the short answer is yes. Because you look at the science and technology that came out of it that—essentially, perfecting navigation at sea—it's not just Captain Cook who did it. I mean, Jean-Baptiste Chappe, who is one of my main characters, he's the French explorer who goes to the Baja peninsula. Now, he did a lot of the testing of the French techniques of navigation at sea, both by clocks and by the lunar method, and so he helped to crack the code for the French as well. Interestingly, you look at the world's first information network, the world's first instantaneous information network—that was the visual telegraph system that was set up in the early 19th century. It relayed the results of the Napoleonic wars, various battles and things like that. There were hundreds of stations posted around Europe, and it spanned thousands and thousands of miles across Europe. It was essentially a network of sort of semaphore stations, and so someone could send a message in Paris and it could be received in Geneva in relatively short order, certainly much faster than a horse could carry it. Well, these visual telegraph systems were invented by Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche's nephew, and his nephew, as he reports in his own memoirs, he says that the reason that he turned to science and technology, the reason that he did all the inventing that he did, was because of the inspiration of his uncle. So that's one of those knock-on effects, that law of unintended consequences, that sometimes come up that you see that you can never predict these things. But there are a number of examples beyond that that I get into in the epilogue of my book, where the quest to find this number is almost as important as the actual science itself.
Steven Cherry: Very good. Mark, this book—we already alluded to it—has more ups and downs than the Alps. Besides ambitious astronomers and fortune-seeking horologists, it's got murderous banditos in New Spain, suspicious Russian villagers, Tahitian women trading views of their breasts for anything made of iron, and at least two actually mad, as in insane, European kings. Did you know when you went into this research what a wild ride this story would be?
Mark Anderson: I had a hunch, but I had no idea it would be this much fun.
Steven Cherry: Very good. Well, Dava Sobel's book kicked off an entire trend of books about natural phenomena with one-word titles. Two of my personal favorites were Coal and Salt (not to be confused with the Angelina Jolie movie of the same name). I think you missed a bet, having a title that has so many words in it—maybe just Venus or Transit would do better—but anyway, I wish you great success with a great book.
Mark Anderson: Thank you so much, Steven. I appreciate it. I love the podcast. I'm glad to be a guest here today.
Steven Cherry: We've been speaking with freelance science writer Mark Anderson about his new book, The Day the World Discovered the Sun, about the greatest tech contest ever, the Longitude Prize, and what we might learn from it today.
For IEEE Spectrum's "Techwise Conversations," I'm Steven Cherry.
This interview was recorded 18 April 2012.
Audio engineer: Francesco Ferorelli
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Whereas Barcamp is a face-to-face wiki, Office 2.0 is a face-to-face blog.
That is, it started as a blog that expanded into a conference. Four launches happened today, if you include the Google Docs timing. But mostly it is a cacophony of upstarts, lots of parroting of things others said years ago. And behind all the noise some good relationships.


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Loveland, CO – Day Eleven was another sunny day brought happiness to our family as they left Casper, Wyoming.
"Well, it was that and the fact that we were leaving Casper," Michelle said. "Casper was well and fine, but dusty. And we were really looking forward to a state park campground. We much prefer them over RV parks."
Along the trek, our family stopped at some of the historic sites from the Oregon Trail.
"Laurel loves playing Oregon Trail on the computer, and I played it when I was younger, too," Greg noted. "It was only natural that we planned our route to encompass some of the more notable sites."
Included in their journey were still-visible Oregon Trail wagon ruts and Register Cliff outside Guernsey, Wyoming.
Greg was doubtful about the authenticity of signatures on Register Cliff.
"Anyone could have carved anything on that," said our skeptical patriarch.
"True, and I'm sure they did, but look at some of them – some of them use letter stylings we no longer use, like the way that 'J' is formed, and others use name abbreviations we don't use now, like 'Go.' for 'George,'" Michelle pointed out. "Oh, and look at that one, that one is engraved with such care it looks like it was done by someone who set book type or something."
Michelle probably had more sleep than Greg the night before.
It was hot in Wyoming, sunny and dusty. Still, the family soldiered on to Fort Laramie National Historic Site, another Oregon Trail notable site. There, Laurel earned her fifth Junior Ranger badge.
"I just eat this stuff up," Michelle noted. "We spent a lot more time there than we really intended to spend, which meant we had to eat hastily-assembled sandwiches in the truck after walking all over Ft. Laramie, but it was just too cool to pass up."
The family arrived in Loveland, Colorado just after 4 p.m. and set up camp. Shortly thereafter, a cool breeze started blowing and the family started bickering. It took two attempts before the family could leave the campground without a meltdown.
"Everyone was hot, tired, and cranky from all the dust and driving – but it was a beautiful evening," Michelle said, "Of course, then we got lost in Loveland and Ft. Collins. We were relying on Google directions and they left something to be desired. Thank god for Greg's phone and Google maps. I think Greg hates Colorado now."
Even so, the family had a decent dinner, then returned to camp and fell asleep.
Day Twelve dawned with more perfect weather. Michelle awoke early and went for a run near the lake.
"My lungs weren't killing me at 5,000 feet the way they were killing me at 8,000 feet," she said. "I was still slower than I am in St. Louis. Not that I set any land speed records there."
The family members took their time getting up and around, but then made their way into Rocky Mountain National Park.
"We drove the Trail Ridge Road," Greg said, "and then I carried Ethan on my shoulders from the Alpine Visitor Center up to 12,000 feet. Michelle thought I was going to die."
"True," Michelle added, "but he's not the only one. I remarked that I sounded like John Henry's hammer suckin' wind."
Despite the difficulty of high elevation climbing, the family agreed it was wroth the trip. "We had never been in the Alpine Tundra ecosystem before, and marveled at the different plant life. We also got a family photo of us at 12,005 feet. Very cool," Laurel said.
Very cool was right. It was pretty chilly
After their Rocky Mountain National Park adventure, the family returned to Estes Park, Colorado, and rode a big slide.
"It was scary," Ethan remarked. "I stayed on my bottom and on my blanket but it still scared me."
Michelle added, "After riding down that slide, I understood why they asked patrons to refrain from sliding if they had back trouble. As is usual with me, I ignored the warning and felt a little twinge on the way down."
Next, the family rode up the aerial tramway, built in 1955. It fit about 12 people at a time, and went up and up and up.
"I did better if I faced the direction we were going. Things weren't so great when I looked back behind us," Michelle said.
The family eventually returned to camp for the evening. The children played on the playground next to the campsite, and the adults relaxed in the waning light as the temperatures cooled significantly.
"It's really very pretty here," Michelle said, "and it doesn't bother me that we're downwind from both beef AND dairy operations, or that the people in the campsite behind us are playing really shitty music!"
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From refugee camps to Kabul: The story of Afghan cricket
Despite neighbouring some of the titans of international cricket, Afghanistan does not have a long tradition of its own in the sport. But now cricket, long neglected and viewed as a foreign import in Afghanistan, is gaining in popularity and helping unite the country, as the BBC's Jafar Haand explains.
Last October thousands of people turned out in cities across Afghanistan in jubilation to celebrate a sporting victory - not a victory in football, as they had had in September, but in cricket. It was the first time Afghanistan had ever qualified for the Cricket World Cup, to be held in Australia and New Zealand in 2015.
No mean feat for a country where cricket has not always been a popular sport and people are struggling with the legacy of decades of war. So how has Afghanistan been able to take its place at the sport's top table?
The answer, like much of Afghanistan's recent history, lies in the refugee camps established in Pakistan by Afghans fleeing the war against the Soviets in the 1980s.
Unlike in other countries in South Asia, the British did not leave a strong legacy of cricket in Afghanistan. But I remember coming into contact with it as a child for the first time in the Jalozai camp near the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
In 1992, Pakistan won the Cricket World Cup and an already cricket-mad nation celebrated by taking to the game with a renewed fervour. In every street and every park in the country there was a cricket match going on - and before long, we in the camps were joining in too.
Karim Sadiq, one of the Afghan national team's opening batsmen, was also a child in one of the Pakistani camps, Kacha Kara, when he got the cricketing bug. He would work in a match factory by night and play cricket by day, such was the enthusiasm among the youth in the camps for the new game.
It was that sort of commitment that Taj Malook, the father of Afghan cricket, was looking for in the 1990s when he dreamt of setting up an Afghan national cricket team.
"We were living in Kacha Kara camp," Mr Malook remembers. "I was running an Afghan team playing alongside with my three brothers, we were crazy fans of cricket, following every international match.
"I was thinking that if we keep on playing cricket, we will have a national team representing our own country."
Mr Malook went between the different camps in Afghanistan looking for good players, and scouted for talent among Afghans who had made it into Pakistani teams.
But not everyone was as keen.
"When I started thinking about making a national team, I went to every Afghan player that I knew and encouraged them to come to Kabul. But their fathers came to our home and warned me not to do that. They told me that cricket kills the time of their sons," Mr Malook says.
Batsman Karim Sadiq has similar memories. "We did not even have money to eat, so I was under pressure from my family because I wasn't earning," he says.
However, Mr Malook persevered and by 1995, the Afghan Cricket Federation had been established in Kabul under the auspices of the country's Olympic committee.
This was despite the rise of the Islamist Taliban movement, who had banned other sports being played in public.
But where footballers' shorts were deemed by the Taliban to be un-Islamic, the more modest cricket whites posed no such problem. Besides, many Taliban, who had also spent time in the camps in Pakistan, had also acquired a liking for the game.
I was even present at some matches where Taliban officials would hand out awards to the players.
Once the game had made it back to Afghanistan, it still faced many obstacles. After the US-led overthrow of the Taliban, Mr Malook appealed to the new government in Kabul for support for the fledgling cricket scene.
"They said to us: 'We won't give you any money for this, it's a foreign game'," Mr Malook remembers, saying the team had to turn to friends for funds.
Nevertheless, the sport has continued to grow in Afghanistan, with only a few provinces without active local teams.
The International Cricket Council is now helping provide resources, and more and more of the country's talent is being nurtured inside Afghanistan, as shown by the country's thriving youth teams.
Cricket first took root in the Pashtun-majority provinces bordering Pakistan, and it has a reputation as being a Pashtun sport in Afghanistan, but even this is changing, with members of many of Afghanistan's other communities now represented in the national team.
When the team had its crucial World Cup qualifier match, it wasn't just Pashtuns who were praying for an Afghan victory - all of us Afghans were.
And it wasn't just Pashtuns who were out celebrating and dancing in the streets after the victory - Hazaras, Uzbeks and Tajiks were too.
Mr Sadiq says he is proud that proud that "our victory and cricket brought happiness to our county" and that the sport has "changed his life totally".
"I am very happy that we have raised our national flag in every part of the world, and showed a positive picture of our country to the rest of world that Afghanistan is not just a country of war and drugs, it's a county of love and sports," he says.


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Recommendations to fight obesity are to limit screen time to less than 2 hours per day. This includes computers, TV, video games, and cell phones. Replace screen time with physical activities such as walking, playing outside, running, etc. By replacing screen time with physical activity you will burn more calories and better manage your weight. Try setting a goal with family or friends to spend less time in front of a screen and more time walking outside together!
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The interest in djembe drumming is increasing rapidly. It can broaden people's awareness of cultures, expand their musical experiences, build team spirits, and develop confidence in all.
The djembe is a wooden goblet-shaped drum with a skin stretched over the top and pulled tight with ropes. It is a very important instrument in West African culture used for all occasions and ceremonies. African djembe drumming workshops are a great opportunity to not only give people a chance to try their hands at a new skill, but also to broaden their knowledge of a different culture's music and work together as a team.
The teacher:
Johnny McAdam has been djembe drumming since studying music in Perth in 2004 and has played in several drum troops and taught classes of all age groups and abilities for the past 8 years.
Aims of the workshop are to:
- Experience another culture's music
- Improve musical ability
- Have an increased awareness of others
- Enhance listening ability and skills
- Encourage participants to try new extra curricular activities
Participants will have had the opportunity to:
- Learn a basic background of the djembe and its culture
- Master the 3 sounds the djembe can produce – bass/ tone/ slap
- Play traditional West African rhythms
- Learn listening techniques and exercises
- Work together as a group
- Practice techniques for learning and memorising rhythms and grooves.
- Express different dynamics in playing
If the opportunity is there, we can work towards a performance (for example if you want 4 sessions over 4 weeks we can learn a full piece and perform it at the end).
Performing in front of an audience is a great experience for everyone.
Groups can be of up to 10 people but big groups can be split up into smaller groups of 10 at a time.
If a session is longer than an hour with the same group, a short break is advised.
For children that are 14 years and under, sessions will be kept to 30 minutes at a time.
All djembe drums can be provided.
Teachers/youth leaders/organisers are more than welcome to join in (it is fun for you too!)
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* but were ashamed to ask Second Edition, by the late [2] James D. McCawley. I highly recommend this book [1]. It presents a very thoural and accessible view of all the topics that we have been quibbling over. [1] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226556115/ [2] http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/issues/10/10-573.html Seth RussellReceived on Saturday, 2 June 2001 13:38:16 UTC
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What is TKAM about?
This book is about a young girl named Scout and her older brother Jem. They live in a small town called Maycomb, Alabama, where everybody knows everybody. The town from the outside looks like the perfect southern town, but from the inside, things aren't so great. There is terrible racism, and to top it off, there is a crazy house with an innocent psycho named Boo Radley right in town. Scout and Jem grow up next to this house, and Boo gets to watch the children grow up and play every day and falls in love with their innocence. Until one summer when everything changes. Their father, Atticus, who is a criminal defense lawyer, gets offered to hello with a case that he can't morally pass up. A young black man named Tom is accused of raping a white girl named Mayella. In this town, Atticus knows that the odds are strongly against him winning, but he doesn't want to see this man who did nothing to anybody get put to death because of a capital crime that he did not commit. The two stories of two innocent men who are wrongly given the tittle of bad people are intertwined in an amazing in an amazing book that you will never forget. "You can kill as many blue jays as you want, but don't forget, it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
Why should you read this book?
I think people should read this book because it give's you a good idea of how racism was and how it was handled. This book also shows how the blacks were treated even after they were considered free. You can relate things like this to now, because people are still treated poorly because of their skin color. I also think people should read this because it's a great example of American literature. Another reason people should read this is because it's a great book and it exposes you to a different writing style that you may not have read before. This book is also a simple love story as Harper Lee once described it as. I think all young readers should read this because you can get a lot from this book from a history lesson on racism to a book that keeps you on edge and you can't set it down until you've read it cover to cover..


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When: Friday Sept 9, 14h00-16h00
This workshop will take you through the parts of Eagle CAD needed to make your own PCB design. We will start out by looking at the manager window, then continue with the schematics editor and from there move into the actual PCB editor. Further more, we will take a look at designing your own parts in Eagle CAD. To take part in this workshop, you should bring your own laptop (running Windows, Mac or Linux). There is a free version of eagle that you can download and install ahead of time at http://www.cadsoftusa.com/


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By The Wheaton College Archives & Special Collections Staff
Title: Jeanne Murray Walker Papers, 1988-2005
Predominant Dates:1988-2003
Primary Creator: Walker, Jeanne Murray (1944-)
Extent: 11.0 Boxes. More info below.
Arrangement: The collection is arranged by series with folder level control.
Date Acquired: 00/00/1999
Subjects: American drama., Faith - Literary collections., Poetry, Modern, Poetry, Modern - 20th century., Poets, Poets - United States - Correspondence., Religious poetry, American, Walker, Jeanne Murray, Walker, Jeanne Murray - Correspondence., Wheaton College (Ill.) - Alumni.
Forms of Material: Audiotapes, Biographies., Correspondence, Photographs, Plays, Poetry
Languages: English
Born in Parkers Prairie, Minnesota in 1944, Jeanne Murray Walker, with childhood aspirations to become a professional violin player, is a poet and playwright having written several volumes of poetry, including A Deed to the Light (2004). Dr. Walker received her undergraduate education at Wheaton College and completed her graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
At 19, while a sophomore at Wheaton College, she entered a poem and a short story in The Atlantic Monthly Competition for young writers. She became the first writer to win first prize in both categories. She is a frequent contributor to periodicals such as Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Southern Review, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Nation, and Image. She gives readings, runs workshops, and speaks across the United States and abroad. Her poems appear in print anthologies, as well as on the radio, the web, and in busses and trains under the auspices of the Poetry in Motion project.
The author of many essays, she has also written extensively for the theatre. In 1990, she wrote her first play, which won the Washington National Theater Competition. Her scripts include Inventing Montana, Tales From The Daily Tabloid, Rowing Into Light on Lake Adley, and The Queen's 2 Bodies: The Double Life of Elizabeth I. They have been produced in Boston, Washington, Chicago, throughout the Midwest, and in London. Published by Dramatic Publishing, her scripts also appear in North American Women's Drama, a scholarly on-line reference work published by Alexander Street Press. Her work has been honored with prizes and awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, seven Pennsylvania State Arts Council Fellowships, the Prairie-Schooner Reader's Choice and Strousse Awards, many new play prizes, and the prestigious Pew Fellowship in the Arts. She serves on the Editorial Board of Shenandoah.
Married to Dan Larkin and the mother of two adult children, Professor Walker lives in Philadelphia and teaches poetry and script writing workshops, as well as courses in poetry, theatre, and the English Renaissance, at The University of Delaware, where she has been for over thirty years. She helped to design study abroad courses in London, which she has taught for two decades, and she administers The University of Delaware Script Writing Competition.
American drama.
Faith - Literary collections.
Poetry, Modern
Poetry, Modern - 20th century.
Poets - United States - Correspondence.
Religious poetry, American
Walker, Jeanne Murray
Walker, Jeanne Murray - Correspondence.
Wheaton College (Ill.) - Alumni.
Repository: Special Collections, Buswell Library
Alternate Extent Statement: 4 linear feet
Access Restrictions: There are no restrictions on this collection.
Use Restrictions: Duplication may be restricted if copying could cause damage to items.
Acquisition Source: Gift
Acquisition Method: Ms. Walker
Preferred Citation: Jeanne Murray Walker Papers (SC-72), Wheaton College Special Collections, Wheaton, Illinois.
Other Note: The Jeanne Murray Walker papers highlight the career of an award-winning poet and playwright through manuscript material and correspondence.
Other URL: http://library.wheaton.edu


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To the best of my knowledge they will only fit Stanley 42x saw sets
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Most Stanley 42X saw sets are sold through the vintage market, the seller has never used, or tested it regardless of the selling price.
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Installation of the springs is straight forward, no special tool needed. With the included instructions most take about 15-30 minutes.
After selling out the original run I took the opportunity to make improvements based on feedback. The inner, smaller spring is untouched but the outer spring is 25% to help with return rate and resistance. The size and installation remains the same
About the Manufacture: Alexander Murphy and John Read established Murphy & Read Spring Manufacturing Co. in 1917 in Philadelphia, PA. Read had been trained as a locksmith in England but was unable to find work in his native country. He immigrated to America as an indentured servant to a butcher. He later met Murphy, also a locksmith, and they started a small service company specializing in locks, keys and springs. In talking with them it's quite possible they produced springs for Stanley.
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Oh, it's been so long. Once again, I've fallen to using Facebook for updates, but not all of you are there. (Is anyone still here? I can only hope.)
I posted last nearly two years ago. Crazy. Today, however, I started thinking about trying to post regularly again, once again chronicling our gardening results, the growth of our family, and, mostly, tips about healthy eating that we've been picking up along the way..and the things we find that benefit our family in all ways. Okay, so that's a lot to cover, and there are plenty of blogs out there that do the same, but I can read them and bring them together here for you, our loved ones.
So, does everyone know where we stand? Megan Lenore was born in August of 2012. Mike left his job at Ball in September of 2013. He now works at home as full-time caregiver for Megan, and then part-time as a freelancer. I work full-time in my editing. This year, we're hopeful to have a good garden. We're not planting a lot of things, knowing how difficult most things are to grow in our soil. This year, we're focusing on catching up on care of things that fell by the wayside while Mike worked ridiculous hours (plus commute) at Ball.
So, there's your update. Right now, I'm gathering together some information that I just posted on Facebook today and posting it here (see the next post).
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Courses Details
EPID503: Strategies and Uses of Epidemiology
- Graduate level
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- Instructor(s): Needham, Belinda Kardia, Sharon Adar, Sara Karvonen-Gutierrez, Carrie
- Last offered Winter 2018
- Prerequisites: Biostat 501 or Biostat 521, and Graduate Status
- Description: This course offers an introduction to the principles, concepts, and methods of population-based epidemiologic research. It is intended to be the introductory course for students who are NOT majoring in Epidemiology. The course is divided into three primary sections: introduction to the basic principles of epidemiology and the measures used in epidemiology; epidemiologic study design and analysis;special topics that are important to an introductory understanding of epidemiology.
- Syllabus for EPID503
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|Industrial Hygiene
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Karlie Kloss is ELLE's March cover star. She also guest edits an incredible tech portfolio in the issue and has made ELLE's first ever documentary series for us. Over achiever doesn't even come close.
But yesterday she revealed a sneak peak of behind the scenes at our cover shoot. And we had to share it with you all.
Not only do you get a peek at all the incredible clothes on the shoot, but you get full evidence that Karlie's legs are the most incredible objects we've ever encountered.
Just, wow.
Buy the March issue with Karlie on the cover on sale now.


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Posted in Mundane Monday
"Our daily lives are so mundane,
we get taken over by
what is immediately in front of us
and we don't see beyond that"
Benedict Cumberbatch
Eyes staring
Almost glaring
Never moving
Only viewing
Toward the future?
Or into the past?
No one knows
What on goes
In a doll's mind
Just be kind
You may be surprised
Or even, hypnotized
They may be mundane
Objects d'art even
Dolls in the window
But no one really knows


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Book of Condolence
Lament for Paul
Lyrics & Murt Musings
Video / Projects
We very sadly lost Paul Winston Churchill - Murt on the 16th June 2010. One of Plymouths true characters, he will be missed by us all. This website will be maintained in his honour.
Please add anything you wish to the online
Book of Condolence
On the 24th September 2010, Murt's Bachelor of the Arts Sound & Music Production degree was awarded. This was collected on his behalf by his wife Maria, and sister Fleur.
Paul achieved a distinction for his first two years. - no great surprise considering his great musical talent. He was working on several projects for his final year, including his dissertation - "The Influence of Afro-American and Jamaican Music on the Rolling Stones".
In addition, the first recipient of the Paul Churchill Memorial Award for creative practice was announced by the University, in 2010, the award went to Jon Lister.
This award will be given in his name every year.
What a testament to the man and musician Murt was, and the impression he made on the University of Plymouth and students alike.
In September 2011, the award went to Danny Blackaller - a big well done to Danny, and we wish him the greatest of success in the music industry.
We are very proud of Paul's achievements.
Rock on Paul xxx
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A dream almost a century old moved another step closer to reality on Tuesday as the Smithsonian Institution chose a team led by David Adjaye, the celebrated Tanzanian-born architect, to design the National Museum of African American History and Culture, scheduled to open on the National Mall in Washington in 2015.
The winners of the design competition — which also include the Freelon Group, Davis Brody Bond and SmithGroup — were chosen over five others, including well-known architects like Norman Foster and Diller Scofidio & Renfro.
The museum is expected to cost $500 million and will be built on a site near the Washington Monument after a three-year design period to turn the winners' idea into a workable blueprint. The museum was established in 2003 by an act of Congress. And although it does not have a building yet, it has already begun collecting artifacts and conducting seminars and other events, including a recent two-day program on the Black Power movement.
Efforts to build a national museum of black history stretch back to the early 1900s, but they were thwarted by political opposition well into the 1990s. Among the opponents was Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina, who in 1994 blocked Senate passage of a bill authorizing the museum, saying Congress should not have to "pony up" for such a project. The museum's cost will be borne half by the federal government and half through private donations.
Mr. Adjaye, who works in London and recently opened offices in New York and Berlin, is known for his colorful and eclectic designs for the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, as well as for the homes and studios he has designed for artists and celebrity clients like Alexander McQueen, the fashion designer, and Ewan McGregor, the actor.Continue reading the main story
In accepting the commission, Mr. Adjaye described it as "the dream of my career" and said that the group's concept for the building — an elevated "mound" dominated by a two-tiered structure that he called a "celebration crown" — focused on the idea of a canopy or porchlike setting for people "to come as a respite, to come and view, to learn." He said he believed that the primary spirit behind the building, whose interior will be open to skylights at its top, would be one of praise.
"Throughout the history of African-American struggle and celebration, there are these moments of praise," he said. "It's for us a deeply spiritual and powerful culture."
The Freelon Group, led by Philip G. Freelon, will be the architect of record for the project. Based in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., the firm has designed the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture in Baltimore. The inclusion of Davis Brody Bond in the group was bittersweet; J. Max Bond Jr., a partner in the firm, a dean of African-American architects and educators and one of a few black architects of national prominence, died in February.
"It is his legacy and his vision that we stand upon now as we move forward," Mr. Freelon said.
The announcement of the design winners, at a news conference at the Smithsonian Castle, the oldest building on the Mall, was a reminder of the disagreements that have long simmered over where the museum should be built. Some groups had lobbied heavily for its placement south of the Mall, arguing that the new museum would help bring about a much-needed physical and psychological expansion of the Mall beyond its current boundaries.
But the museum's advisory council — which includes numerous influential black leaders, including Richard D. Parsons, recently named the chairman of Citigroup; Robert L. Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television; and Oprah Winfrey — recommended the 15-acre site that was eventually chosen: across the street from the National Museum of American History. The council rejected three other possibilities, two of which were not on the Mall. In an interview in 2006 Mr. Johnson said he had told Smithsonian officials that he would resign from the council if the Smithsonian's board chose a site off the Mall.
"To have relegated this museum to another site," he said, "when people are looking to it to answer everything from the need for an apology for slavery to reparations, would have been the ultimate dismissal."
Lonnie G. Bunch, the director of the museum, who also served as chairman of the jury that selected the design team, said at the news conference on Tuesday that "as we moved through this process, one thing was central to our thinking: we continue to be guided by our respect for this wonderfully important site."
He added, "What I can tell you is, this is a building that I think will sing for all of us, and I think that's what we wanted."Continue reading the main story


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June has always been a busy month for our Amnesty International group, and we went into it with a busy May, some of which I've already posted. . . and. . . I didn't even make it to everything.
It was a nice, if overcast, day on May 22, the Saturday we took group and individual photos at Kerry Park in support of AI Prisoner of Conscience Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma (or Myanmar, as the current military rulers call it). Aung San Suu Kyi has been under unofficial detention, house arrest and/or with restrictions on her movements for 14 of the last 20 years. In 1990, her party, the National League for Democracy, won 80% of the parliamentary seats in a general election, and the military leadership refused to cede power and instead jailed NLD party leaders and activists.
Read more about Aung San Suu Kyi at: http://www.amnestyusa.org/individuals-at-risk/priority-cases/myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi/page.do?id=1101239
The photos were part of the Stand with Suu Kyi! action by Amnesty International, to gather at least 2,100 photos in support of Aung San Suu Kyi and human rights in Burma/Myanmar, representing the 2,100 political prisoners detained in Burma.
Learn how you can take part here: http://www.amnestyusa.org/individuals-at-risk/priority-cases/stand-with-suu-kyi/page.do?id=1691013
Photos are online at: http://www.flickr.com/groups/standwithsuukyi
Then Lakeside School's Amnesty International club hosted a Freedom of Speech Night at the Neptune Coffee House the next weekend, in the middle of Memorial Day weekend and Folklife (more on that music soon). They focused on Prisoner of Conscience cases including Aung San Suu Kyi and Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist/blogger in prison for sending an e-mail to the US about the Chinese government's orders to play down the anniversary 1989 Tiananman Square Massacre (after Yahoo! gave up his name).
Their entertainment included a rock group called Radio Static, who played great music of their own, and covers including Springsteen's Radio Nowhere:
They also had an impressive poet, who started out by reading Shi Tao's poem June in Chinese, then proceeded to mesmerize the audience and a guy who was standing outside waiting for a bus who came on in with his own poems:
More information on Shi Tao at: http://www.amnestyusa.org/individuals-at-risk/priority-cases/china-shi-tao/page.do?id=1101243
Radio Static has music on their MySpace page at: http://www.myspace.com/radiostaticband
I missed our Tiananmen Square memorial this year, on June 3, as it was in the afternoon at UW and I got there too late. Our Amnesty International group took part in a Capitol Hill garage sale that weekend. I just came and bought a t-shirt. Thanks to everyone who did all the work! We also tabled a Sting concert that weekend at the White River Amphitheatre, and then Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at the Gorge the next weekend (carpooling it to both, as I don't drive). Those are a lot of fun, and we do get to talk to new people about AI, even if it can get frustrating trying to get signatures for our petitions at times (and challenging, literally doing it by candlelight before finally breaking down for the evening and catching the rest of the show).
I'm not going to go too much into the Sting and Tom Petty concerts since I'm so far behind, and I figure everyone knows who they are and what they sound like (and Joe Cocker, who opened for Tom Petty – at least for those of my generation). Although, I'd like to get around to a review of Ton's latest, Mojo, at a later point, as he and the Heartbreakers going to their blues roots on this one.
Sting was playing with a full orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, for this tour (with no opening act, and an intermission). He was really impressive with the orchestra and the woman singing with him, and having so much fun with it (including howling at the moon at one point, and 4 encores!). Sting's audience was a little more aware of who Amnesty International was from the benefits he played for AI back in the 80s & 90s. I also noticed quite a few people with Russian accents, and thought about his song The Russians (which he played that night) and the power of music in reaching people.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were awesome and still rocking out with no signs of slowing down, and it was great hearing Joe Cocker with all those classics from the 60s. Good thing we had a full crew for the table, because there was always one of us who just had to catch one of Joe's or Tom's songs, until it finally got too dark and we packed up to watch the show. Tom's is a mixed crowd politically. There were a lot of peace t-shirts along with folks who are more to the right. It was frustrating, because even most of them walked right by the table.
I think AI needs to do a better job of reaching people, so they at least know who we are and what we stand for in the US. It's my impression that more people are aware in Europe. I think more people should be stopping by (and I don't count out reaching people with more conservative views – human rights shouldn't be political).
The Gorge itself was absolutely beautiful, as promised. I've got to find some way of getting there the next time Pearl Jam plays! There are times it's real frustrating not being able to afford a car. . .
More photos of the Gorge and our drive there at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/javacolleen/sets/72157624142632977/
Coming up solstice, the next weekend, our Amnesty International group had our booth at the Fremont Fair, as we always do. It was a rainy, dreary weekend this year (though fortunately it held off a bit for the Solstice Parade, and those bicyclists wearing only paint beforehand. . .).
In addition to our usual petitions, t-shirts, buttons & literature; this year we raffled off a copy of the Pearl Jam vs Ames Bros concert poster book and a new, silver, iPod Shuffle. We were off the main track this year, near the Rocket; our new t-shirts didn't get done because of a death in the screen printer's family; and it was rainy and cold much of the time. We still collected a lot of signatures and it sounds like we broke even; which is good because our main reason for being there is outreach. Let's just say the raffle winners got a good deal and great odds, and that fortunately both items were previously won at other events by Group 4 members, then donated (the Pearl Jam book, by me, at the Backspacer Bash at Easy Street Records back in October).
Photos from the Fremont Fair, and especially the Solstice Parade (but not the bicyclists – in keeping with community standards) at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/javacolleen/sets/72157624313617514/
Then last Tuesday, we had a vigil and solidarity event for Troy Davis, who is on death row in Georgia. Troy's evidentiary trial (ordered by the Supreme Court) started Wednesday. We are still awaiting the outcome, and I'm going to hold off blogging until then to do it more justice. I need to find some way to keep caught up.
Learn more about Troy's case at: http://www.amnestyusa.org/troy
June isn't totally over yet, either, and I'll be tabling the Steve Earle concert at Zoo Tunes for Amnesty International on Wednesday night (& hopefully blogging about it sooner than a month or so later. . . )


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But is the propaganda drive effective?
China's participation in and sponsorship of international conferences, closed-door trilateral meetings and other forms of academic exchanges has exploded in recent years. From the near absence of Chinese participants a decade ago, the conference circuit is now swarming with panelists, observers and journalists from China who increasingly set the tone during the panel sessions and Q&A periods.
While such participation is arguably commensurate with China's size and importance, a pattern has emerged that suggests an orchestrated effort to 'shape' the international narrative on issues of 'core interest' to Beijing, such as its territorial claims in the South China Sea or the 're-unification' of Taiwan.
My article, published today in The Lowy Interpreter, continues here.


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Your dad still won't grow back the 'mo? Maybe he'll listen to a little thing called "democracy." Sign our petition asking dads to let their upper lip return to it's a natural, hairy state. We predict "yes" in a landslide.
Grow It Back Dad
This petition is now closed.
End date: Nov 30, 2013
Signatures collected: 16


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Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) allows researchers to amplify DNA in a test tube. This process uses an enzyme derived from heat-resistant bacteria. The steps of PCR are driven by changes in temperature.
Duration: 1 minutes, 27 seconds
Transcript: Polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, uses repeated cycles of heating and cooling to make many copies of a specific region of DNA. First, the temperature is raised to near boiling, causing the double-stranded DNA to separate, or denature, into single strands. When the temperature is decreased, short DNA sequences known as primers bind, or anneal, to complementary matches on the target DNA sequence. The primers bracket the target sequence to be copied. At a slightly higher temperature, the enzyme Taq polymerase, shown here in blue, binds to the primed sequences and adds nucleotides to extend the second strand. This completes the first cycle. In subsequent cycles, the process of denaturing, annealing and extending are repeated to make additional DNA copies. After three cycles, the target sequence defined by the primers begins to accumulate. After 30 cycles, as many as a billion copies of the target sequence are produced from a single starting molecule.


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Lee McCauley
Isaac Asimov coined the term Frankenstein Complex to describe the fear that the general public has towards human-made technologies when they invade the realm commonly considered to be God's domain. Recently, several people have made a name for themselves partially by fanning this flame. This poster demonstrates some of the historical evidence of this fear and provides reasons why it is unfounded. Finally, it suggests a way for the AI community to help ameliorate the public's fear of a marauding species of homicidal robots.
Subjects: 17. Robotics; 9.4 Philosophical Foundations
Submitted: Jan 25, 2007
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In the modern age of scientific analysis, management simulation games and football hipsters, every budding Premier League fan likes a quirky statistic to impress their mates with down the pub.
They certainly aren't in limited supply; if Gary Neville or Jamie Carragher don't churn out a couple of interesting facts you can mindlessly regurgitate over a few pints, then websites such as Whoscored.com and Squawka.com will throw so many football-based digits at you, you'll think you're trapped in a Number Wang sketch.
If you don't know what Number Wang is, it's like Countdown meets the Twilight Zone, presented by Robert Webb.
This article takes a look at Arsenal, and lists FIVE interesting statistical talking points from their season that are guaranteed to impress your footballing peers.
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Well today I've been bombarded with links to discounts here there and everywhere, so I thought i'd join in the fun! Enter code BLACKFRIDAY at the Squink! store for 15% off your order! This will be valid until tomorrow morning in the UK (Saturday)
Get your Weeping coffee bear tees with this special discount! For yourself, or maybe even a Christmas gift 🙂


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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Tips for Planning a Royal Wedding on a Pauper's Budget
If you're planning a wedding and would like to exchange vows in a more royal fashion on a limited budget, read on for 15 tips to help you tie the knot in style without sacrificing your savings.
1. The Proposal
Prince William took Kate all the way to Kenya to propose over a champagne dinner. While you can't replicate the location, you could pop for champagne and cook your own dinner. If you're looking for something a bit more romantic, try Michael Scott's incredibly romantic, candle-laden proposal on "The Office."
2. Princely Invitations
The royal invite is a relatively simple 8-inch-by-6-inch card that says the Lord Chamberlain has been "commanded by the Queen" to invite the holder to the wedding. Eliminating all the extra envelopes, tissue paper and fuss of traditional invites is both very modern and much less expensive. To save even more, opt to create the invite on your home computer or visit sites like PrintRunner.com which offer easy-to-follow directions on custom wedding invitation cards.
3. Pre-marital Counseling
Once the question has been popped, it's wise to seek a bit of advice. The royal couple will meet with both the Bishop of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury, but you can turn to your own spiritual adviser or check with your county mental-health center for a recommendation to a counselor who charges on a sliding scale.
4. Wedding Rings
The royal couple will exchange wedding rings made with gold from Wales' Clogau Mine. William is also having Kate's ring engraved inside, a sentiment common couples can easily duplicate. For an excellent price on rings, check out pawnshops and discount jewelry merchants, like Amazon. Watch for promo codes for even more savings on jewelry.
5. Teeth Whitening
Want to know a secret? Kate donned invisible braces and had her teeth whitened for the wedding. (She also lost weight, but that's another topic.) One of the cheapest ways to purchase a teeth-whitening session is via one of the group-buying services, such as Groupon and LivingSocial. Otherwise, try a more affordable drugstore product like Crest White Strips to make your smile dazzle on the big day
6. Flowers
Catherine's floral selection is easy to duplicate as she's planned a white pallet reminiscent of an English garden. While hot-house flowers are nice, it's much less expensive if you ask a variety of friends to share the bounty of their backyard gardens. Or you might use silk flowers, which can be repurposed to decorate your happy new home.
7. Bouquets
Queen Victoria created a tradition when she included a bit of myrtle in her bouquet to symbolize "constancy in affection and duty." Her highness later planted the sprig so future brides could share a piece of her bouquet. Not only is this an inexpensive and lovely idea but planting the sprig is very eco-friendly.
8. Tuxes
An all-tuxedo ensemble at the altar has become rather passe. Follow Prince William's lead and wear your military uniform, or go your own way with a simple suit. Don't have a suit? Thrift shops have some surprisingly good deals on quality jackets, pants and two-piecers.
9. Dresses
Lucky Catherine has her choice of gowns, from Vera Wang to J. Crew, and she can wear what she likes as there's no protocol on bridal wear. Everyday brides, however, can save by renting, borrowing or hitting second-hand shops. For those looking for a gown online or in-store, plan to buy discount gift cards before checking out to help lower the cost by up to 30-percent off.
10. Tiaras
Not everyone wants to wear a tiara, but it would be hard to forgo this headwear if, like Kate, you could chose from 80 stunning tiaras in the royal family collection. Brides who want to look more like a princess than a pauper might check out costume shops for realistic-looking tiaras at rock-bottom prices.
11. Music
Princess Diana rode to her wedding in a glass carriage. Trumpets sounded upon her arrival and three choirs serenaded her walk down the aisle. While that might be overdoing it just a touch for your wedding, there's no reason you can't replicate the sound with recorded music. For a more personal touch, ask a friend to play and sing.
12. Location
Commoners might find it difficult to fill St. Paul's Cathedral, but you don't want to overlook the many low-budget locations open to you. A nice backyard, local church, public park, community garden, historical building on your local university campus...there's no end to low-cost locations if you begin to think outside the box.
13. After Parties
Queen Elizabeth is hosting an intimate luncheon for 700 at Buckingham Palace, then the oldsters will clear out and 400 of the younger guests will enjoy an evening of dining and dancing. While you might need to scale down the numbers, you can follow the same blueprint. Hold a small champagne reception directly after the wedding for the senior crowd and, if you'd like to go really low cost, a potluck dinner followed by dancing to your favorite iTunes.
14. Honeymoon
Princess Diana and Prince Charles spent their honeymoon in Hampshire, England, but it looks like Kate and William will head to equally chilly Canada. Not all of us have a former colony to tour, but we can get away for a nice hiking weekend or time at a friend's cottage. If your budget has been destroyed by the wedding itself, there's always the option of a staycation. Turn off the phones and computers and turn your home into a spa, movie theater or whatever suits your fancy. Just don't tell anyone where you are.
15. Trousseau
Despite having a millionaire's bank book, Kate is an economical clothes shopper, which can't be easy when you have to wear all those hats. The soon-to-be-princess also doubles her wardrobe by sharing with her sister. You can follow Kate's tips or hit thrift shops, second-hand stores and the big boxes for your trousseau. Target, in particular, has a comparatively upscale clothing selection at very reasonable prices.
Consumer Savings Expert, Andrea Woroch has been featured on NBC's Today Show, FOX & Friends, MSNBC, ABC News NOW and many more as a media expert source. To view recent interviews or find more information, visit AndreaWoroch.com.
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McHenry County EDC Business Information
The McHenry County EDC is your single point of contact for business information.
We subscribe to various databases and programs which provide a wealth of information. Additionally, we can research state and federal sites to secure information you may need.
So, if you are looking for:
- Statistics
- Major Employers
- Incentives & Programs
- Tax Information
- Government
- Workforce
- Market Access
- Manufacturing
- Education
- Healthcare
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We have learned some important things when measuring:
- our tools have to be the same size
- we need to line up the tools end to end:
- we can use our hand to make sure our tool is lined up properly:
- we have to count how many tools we use:
After measuring their height, we hung the links from the wall so they could compare their height and write about what they found.
Students have created structures using 3D shapes. They have used a few different non-standard tools. I was inspired by Jocelyn Schmidt's post on Instragram (http://ljpskindergartenteam.blogspot.ca/) and created a template for our learners to record their thinking.
|Math small groups are a lot of fun!
|Recording and organizing our thinking
These SKs used links first to measure their structure. Before they measured they estimated how many links they thought their tower would measure. After they recorded their estimate they measured and counted how many it actually was.
|They then used cubes
|Finally they used blocks
|The blocks kept falling, so they lay them down on the ground and measured them against the other tools they used to measure
This JK group created a small structure out of 3D shapes and used links, cubes and blocks to measure it.
|Counting how many blocks the tower is
|This group used cubes to mark out the groups of 10.
|The perimeter of the carpet was 160 pastas!
|This group used links
|Making groups of 10
|Organizing the groups of 10 on the math carpet
|They then used 10 frames to help count their groups of 10
|The perimeter of the carpet was 208 links long!


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The company was formed over 40 years ago under the leadership of Mrs Lottie Wright and latterly Mrs Marion Halliday until her retirement this year.
During its history the 216th has enjoyed many successes in a range of competitions from Scripture, PE and Marching, Choral Speaking, Games and many other activities.
Both Captains have had a huge influence on many young girls some who are now Officers themselves in the company.
The 216th Company of the Girls Brigade has a dedicated band of Officers who are committed to the aim of the Girls Brigade:
To help girls to become followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, and through self-control, reverence and a sense of responsibility, to find true enrichment of life.
We are a vibrant company with approximately 100 girls and Officers. As a company our aim is to provide a varied programme of activities suited to each age group with a strong emphasis in Bible teaching and fun, to help promote a strong sense of unity and togetherness and to enable the development of good friendships.
The GB year starts in September and runs through to the end of April meeting every Tuesday evening at the following times:
6.30pm - 7.30pm
Pre-school -P1
6.30pm - 8.00pm
6.30pm - 8.30pm
7.00pm - 9.00pm
Year 8 - Year 10
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For greater form fitting hand protection consider using nitrile or latex gloves.
- Meets FFDCA requirements for food contact and safe food handling.
- Ambidextrous and chemical resistant economical vinyl glove.
- The 4 mil thickness offers seamless loose fitting glove.
- 100 gloves per box at 10 boxes per case, equals 1000 gloves per case.
- Available in S, M, L & XL.


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Outreach Digital (OD) is a pro bono volunteer-run community that brings together digital professionals from all industries to spread knowledge and skills in an inclusive environment.
All our volunteers are highly determined and motivated individuals who work at top businesses like Google, Amazon, TripAdvisor, PlayStation, Havas Media and Saatchi & Saatchi and many other organizations. We collaborate during our free time (after work) to create the most fun, educating and inspiring meetups in the digital space!
There are 3 different ways you can contribute to Outreach Digital:
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Vanessa Williams has reportedly signed a $20 million deal to continue as the face of skincare line Proactiv.
The "Ugly Betty" star has been a spokeswoman for the product in the past, which also lists Jessica Simpson, Kelly Clarkson and Britney Spears as celebrity clients.
Jessica reportedly just inked a $3 million deal to be the face of the line for the next five years.