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When did you baby first crawl??
Started by Chelsea , Oct 31 2006 08:01 AM
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Posted 31 October 2006 - 08:01 AM
As per request from some members please let us know what age you baby first crawled, please feel free to add any comments.
xx Chels
Posted 31 October 2006 - 03:55 PM
Thanks to those replying! I was actually one who wanted this poll as I often hear the term 'late crawler' or 'early crawler' or whatever and wanted to see in real babies the spread of when they actually do LOL!
Posted 01 November 2006 - 05:43 PM
my first son (now 3 years old) crawled at 5 months old and walked at 8 months but my other son riley is 6 months next week and has only rolled a few times.
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Posted 05 November 2006 - 09:54 AM
I put in 8-9 months. That's when he started proper crawling. However he had been commando crawling from about 5 months. He was on wooden floor boards and so had no incentive to get up onto his knees. One week of camping fixed that.
Posted 05 November 2006 - 09:56 AM
DS1 proper crawling at 5.5 months, DS2 proper crawling at 6.5 months
Posted 05 November 2006 - 10:05 AM
First one started crawling just short of 9 months old. Second one started crawling at 12.5 months. Third one combat crawled from 6 months to 15 months, then started crawling on all fours. Fourth one started crawling backstroke (on her back, pushing herself backwards) at around 5.5-6 months and crawling traditionally at 11 months.
All of them pretty much started walking within 3 months of learning to crawl on all fours.
Posted 05 November 2006 - 10:09 AM
Would be nice to be able to put in when each of my children crawled as each is different.
In the poll I selected 9-10mths, which was my daughter as my youngest isnt crawling as yet. No.1 son crawled earlier though, at about 8 months........and bulldozer baby son No.2 I think will crawl by 8 months at the latest as he is more then keen to take off.
Posted 05 November 2006 - 11:58 AM
I voted 8-9 months as this was the age at which DD2 started crawling, however DD1 started crawling right on 7 months (couldn't vote twice!).
Posted 05 November 2006 - 03:06 PM
Just wondering how to reply if your child walked before he crawled?
If it is still applicable DS 'bum shuffled' from the age of about 11mths then started walking by 14mths and then tried (for a week or two crawling at about 16mths.)
DD is 10.5mths old and is not doing anything! Refuses to crawl but is showing signs of a 'bum shuffle' (ie. doing 360's and slowly moving herself by going in circles..! ) I think she will follow her in her brother's footsteps....
Posted 05 November 2006 - 04:43 PM
Done. Easy for me as both of mine crawled at 5 months, it's the walking that's going to be totally different
Posted 05 November 2006 - 05:30 PM
DD was commando crawling at 5 months and crawling on all fours the day before she turned 7 months!
Posted 05 November 2006 - 07:53 PM
Hee hee I think my girls are a little on the lazy side, both crawled at 10 1/2mths.
Posted 05 November 2006 - 08:22 PM
Thankyou so much to all of you for 'voting'.
It did confirm for me what I was already thinking and has helped a lot. Looks like 6-9 months is pretty much the most 'popular' time to crawl!
Hee hee I think my girls are a little on the lazy side, both crawled at 10 1/2mths.
LOL! My reason for first wanting a poll like this is I have a baby coming up to his first birthday (wow, how'd that happen) who is not even considering crawling or even getting into the position! Some babies just take their time more than others I suppose.
Edited by catnat, 05 November 2006 - 08:23 PM.
Posted 05 November 2006 - 08:26 PM
WOW My DD has just turned 9mths and only last week learnt to sit!
Posted 05 November 2006 - 08:26 PM
Milly has been on the road to crawling for 2 weeks now. Still going backwards, but today crawled a little forwards. The on all fours to sitting I suppose was the turning point.
She is 8.5 months.
Posted 05 November 2006 - 08:35 PM
Crawling is not a gross motor development milestone because there is such a big range of when and if babies start doing it.
My DD has been slower than average for most gross motor, rolling, crawling, walking etc. It took her until well over 2y to be able to jump both feet off the ground. But she is well ahead with speech, language and fine motor. Swings and roundabouts...
Posted 05 November 2006 - 09:11 PM
my baby did 360s on her tummy/sideways crawl, and bkwds form about 8mnths, then this week at 10mnths and 4 days FORWARDS!! not sure if im happy or not, now she can see and get to what she wants but shouldnt touch, time for mega baby proofing.
not sure if lilys crawling a bit delayed, as she had very little tummy time, pre 6mths, due to reflux, not that i was too stressed, gave me a few extra months
poll a good idea, now, wheres the poll for talking, im sure my girl was BORN talking!!!
Posted 05 November 2006 - 10:40 PM
Both my girls started crawling at 8 months.
Posted 08 November 2006 - 10:50 AM
my baby alexander crawled at 10 mths late crawler
he turns one on the 16th november big party
he's only little but is full of smiles.
Posted 21 November 2006 - 11:58 AM
My eldest crawled by 10.5 months and my youngest has only just started properly crawling at 13 months although he has been commando crawling from about 11 months. He rolled and sat up 'late' as well.
Posted 29 November 2006 - 01:06 PM
DD crawled at 8months to the day!!!
Yay as she has been crawling backwards for 2 months now, I thought she was NEVER going to 'get' it!
I don't think it matters too much as you don't walk around with a sign on your head saying - 'I crawled at ___ months' or 'I walked at __ months'!! How many people do you know who never crawled or walked???
Posted 29 November 2006 - 04:30 PM
My DD started about 6mths & a bit months!
Just the cutest thing to see!
I have 2 friends who's babies walked before they crawled!!
Posted 12 December 2006 - 11:26 AM
Hi all my DS started crawling at exactly 7 months. He was commando crawling from i think 6 months.
And now he is trying to walk as crawling is to slow for him.
Where has my baby boy gone.
Posted 28 December 2006 - 07:21 PM
I voted 8-9 mths old as Caitlin just started crawling this week. She was commando crawling from 6 mths old and doing the occassional crawl, but only this week started to crawl on all fours all the time.
My DS#1 was 12 mths old, DS#2 11 mths old and my DS#3 9 mths old.
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Posted 06 January 2007 - 07:35 AM
Jebadiah first crawled at 13mths & 1 day..which was YESTERDAY!!
he hasn't stopped today & he's very proud of himself too LOL..
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French and Spanish researchers have used a novel form of near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy, known as NIR hyperspectral imaging (HSI), to confirm peanut contamination in food products. Read more »
Australian researchers have stated that some scientists are unknowingly tweaking experiments and analysis methods in order to increase their chances of obtaining easily publishable results. Read more »
US scientists have developed a new method to reduce uncertainty in X-ray wavelength measurement, in what is said to be the first major advance since the 1970s in reducing sources of error common in X-ray angle measurement. Read more »
At the newly opened Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Centre for Structural Cryo Electron Microscopy, located at Monash University, stands the FEI Titan Krios cryo-electron microscope. Read more »
A rap video of a young scientist promoting his skin cancer research is proving to be a popular entry in the Thinkable Innovation Awards, garnering crucial votes in the open research competition. Read more »
US neuroscientists have presented evidence suggesting the involvement of autoimmunity against the lipid ceramide in Alzheimer's disease. Read more »
In a case of cosmic serendipity, a US astronomer has observed multiple images of the same star's explosion. Read more »
Chemists at the University of Connecticut have developed a peanut allergy test which is said to be far more sensitive than current procedures. It is hoped that the blood test will be better able to diagnose the severity of an individual's allergic reaction. Read more »
As NASA's Curiosity mission searches for various minerals on Mars, in the hope of finding evidence of ancient habitable environments, British scientists have found that one such mineral (jarosite) breaks down organic compounds when it is flash-heated. Read more »
The average animal cell is 10 µm across - why? Why aren't they bigger? Read more »
The kilogram is about to be redefined using Planck's constant and you can now measure this constant yourself with a little 'do-it-yourself' effort and some LEGO. Read more »
Researchers from MIT have developed a new type of insulin which activates in the bloodstream only when it is needed. The development could make everyday life much easier for type 1 diabetes patients. Read more »
It's no secret that honey bee populations have been rapidly declining of late. An international group of scientists, including Australians, thinks the cause of this collapse lies in young bees who are growing up too fast. Read more »
Researchers from the US and China have discovered a structural variant of carbon called 'penta-graphene' - a very thin sheet of pure carbon that resembles the pentagonal pattern of the tiles which pave the streets of Cairo. Read more »
Anthrax and Bubonic plague were among the 637 known bacterial, viral, fungal and animal species identified in the New York City Subway system. Only 12% of the bacteria species sampled are known to have some association with disease, but more interestingly still, 48.3% of the DNA sampled did not match any known organism. Read more »
"What's in a name?" was essentially the Australian government's response when concerns were first expressed about dropping "Science" from the ministerial portfolio titles back in 2013. Read more »
The Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) at A*STAR has developed a paper-based disposable device that will allow dengue-specific antibodies to be detected easily from saliva within 20 min. Read more »
Scientists have announced the release of Aquaria - a publicly available web resource that streamlines and simplifies the process of gleaning insight from 3D protein structures. Read more »
While genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have imparted many benefits on society, they also have the potential to upset natural ecosystems if they were to escape. Physical containment of GMOs is not foolproof, so attention has since turned to biocontainment. Read more »
A team of German scientists, led by Dr Helge B Bode from Goethe University and Dr Ralf Heermann from Ludwig Maximilian University, has succeeded in decoding a previously unknown yet widely distributed chemical type of bacterial communication. Read more »
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I don't bother to review very many books, in part because I read a lot and in part because writing reviews takes time away from reading. However, I recently received the Kindle version of When Penguins Flew and Water Burned and wanted to quickly recommend it. The book is a recap of the career of Jim Clonts, a B-52 navigator (and, later, radar navigator) during the tail end of the Cold War. Clonts writes in an engaging style, and his tales of life on a bomber crew are absolutely fascinating if you're at all interested in military aviation. Although his crew position is navigator, he's also a pilot and so there's a fair bit of inside-baseball talk. The book is moderately heavy on jargon, as you might expect, but it's still pretty approachable even if you don't know anything about bombers or the USAF in general. Well worth a read if you're flight-minded.
Flying Friday: "When Penguins Flew and Water Burned" (review)
Training Tuesday: the software and services
It should come as no surprise to anyone who's known me for more than 5 minutes (or read more than one article on this blog): I'm a nerd and I like gadgets. In an effort to get the most out of my training, I've tried a variety of different services to track, analyze, and store my workouts, and I frequently see people asking questions about services such as Strava and TrainingPeaks online, so I thought I'd jot down a few Cliffs Notes to help people figure out which services might be right for them.
First, let's stipulate that pretty much every fitness device manufacturer (Garmin, Jawbone, Withings, Suunto, et al) has their own branded website. I don't use any of these (except Garmin's, about which more in a minute). Most devices require you to sync them with the manufacturer's website. Sometimes those websites can sync to others (more on that in a second), and sometimes they cannot.
The latest trend in this market is the emergence of services such as Apple Health and Microsoft Health that want to aggregate all sorts of your fitness data (with some surprising omissions), analyze it, and then give you "actionable insights." The things I'm writing about here are all targeted specifically at fitness, not necessarily overall health. For example, none of these sites directly lets you track the foods you eat (though some partner with food trackers). I'm not writing about the Microsoft or Apple services (or Google's for that matter…. hahahahaha, like I'd give Google all my health data) because I don't use them, but that might be a good topic for a future article.
Garmin ConnectGarmin recently updated their Connect service, so the version I'm writing about is labeled the "modern" version on the service itself. There's also a "classic" version which seems to mostly have the same features, but I don't use it.
Garmin ships a very wide range of products that plug into Garmin Connect: from fitness trackers to multisport watches to action cameras to special-purpose swim and golf watches, if it says "Garmin" on the front and isn't a GPS, it probably will display data in GC.
The screenshot below gives you an idea of what GC looks like. You can customize each of the tabs across the top ("Sports" being shown in this case) with data blocks, adding, removing, and positioning blocks as you like. The other day, a new block labeled "Golf" showed up, but I gave it the heave-ho posthaste since, of all the fitness activities I enjoy, golf is not one of them.
When I got my first Garmin device, I went to the GC site, signed up for an account, downloaded the sync software, and plugged in. This was all seamless, and the instructions provided were clear. Keep in mind that Garmin requires you to use sync software on your PC or Mac to sync your device, although if your device supports Wi-Fi or Bluetooth sync you may not need a computer at all. This sync software has nothing to do with the GC website itself, which you can use from anywhere.
(Personal note to my WP posse: there's a decent Windows Phone app called Astro Fitness that can sync with GC.)
Overall, GC is my favorite of the connected-device services. While its social features are poor compared to Strava, and it lacks some of the specialty features from MapMyRide/MapMyRun (such as the ability to automatically choose a route if you give it a starting point and a distance), it looks good and is highly customizable. It also integrates pretty broadly into the wider fitness ecosystem; it can automatically sync with TrainingPeaks and Nike+ and can import food data from MyFitnessPal. Garmin's support is forum-based and has done a good job answering the few issues I've raised.
Suunto MovescountIf you own a Suunto device, you'll be using this to sync workouts from your device and to change many of the settings for the device itself. Suunto, in general, prefers a simpler on-device UI, so you need the website for things such as specifying which activities you want to track or what data fields to display on the watch. On the other hand, that makes the device a bit easier to use, though it means that if you forget to change a critical setting before a race or event, you can't change it on the watch.
Below, you can see what a typical activity on Movescount looks like. Note that while Garmin Connect uses tabs, Suunto prefers a scrolling vertical layout, so you're not seeing everything in this picture that would actually be displayed on the page.
Like GC, Movescount shows you the pace, speed, distance, and location of your activities. It's important to remember that what you're seeing is based what the device recorded. While some Garmin devices will compute recovery time themselves, Suunto's devices don't, so the recovery time and PTE figures you see here are calculated by the service. On the other hand, the Ambit 2s can calculate "swolf" swim metrics, so Movescount will show them to you.
One persistent issue I had with the Movescount web site is that the distances shown for swims don't necessarily match what the watch says or what gets synced to external services. For example, if I swim 300m according to the watch, it's common for the site to say that I swam 275m (or maybe 325m, if it's feeling generous) but then to display the correct distance when I sync through Tapiirik. Suunto's support is aware of this problem, but hasn't fixed it in the six months or so since I reported it. That's sadly typical of my experiences with their support; the staff seems friendly, but they don't get stuff done. In addition, the site had multiple weekend-long outages during the nine months or so I was using it daily. While these outages are harmless, they were quite annoying
Movescount has fairly weak social features, although it can automatically post links to your workouts on Facebook and/or Twitter. The site has a ton of groups for various sports, but the ones I was interested in had very few people— a testament to Suunto's niche status in the fitness world. (Perhaps the groups for diving, hiking, etc were better populated?) Overall, a decent tool but not up to the standard of GC in my opinion.
Strava's tagline is "Prove it." The goal of the site is to help you "analyze and compare your data against yourself, friends, and pros." To do this, you can either use the iOS or Android app, or a compatible Windows Phone app such as CycleTracks, or a GPS device (which can be a watch, a bike computer, or any of the other supported devices) to track your workouts. As you ride and run, Strava tracks your performance; the fastest person on a given route is labeled as the "king (or queen) of the mountain" (KOM or QOM) and gets a little badge.
Post-workout, you get a display similar to the below. There are three interesting things about this summary. First is the data panel just to the right of the ride title. It shows average and max speeds, heart rates, etc. This is very similar to what you see on other similar sites. Second, notice the "top results" list above the map. Strava automatically tracked my progress across designated parts of the route (known as "segments") and noticed when my performance was good.
Third is the segments list itself, which you can't see on this page because the window wasn't big enough. As you can see below, in the expanded view, for each segment I can see how I performed compared to other people who have ridden or run the same segment. The "Analyze" button zooms in on that segment to show graphs of speed, power, cadence, and elevation for the segment alone, while the "Compare" button lets you track your performance against the KOM or against anyone on your friends list. You can break your performance down to see how it stacks up against people in your age group, weight bracket, friends list, and so on. This is both powerful and motivating, especially when you couple it with the goals feature, which allows you to set a time goal for a particular segment.
Speaking of friends: Strava has the best social features of any of these sites. You can follow (and/or be followed by) your friends, but there are also extensive features for forming clubs. For example, our local "We Run Huntsville" group has a Strava club, so when I look at the activity list I see what my real-world running friends have been doing. Same with my Complete Human Performance coaching posse, and so on. Strava also has a healthy environment of challenges (such as "complete a half-marathon this month" or "bike 250Km"). These challenges don't win you anything except a little digital badge, plus bragging rights, but as part of the overall goal-setting ethos of the site they're valuable as spurs.
The basic Strava site is free, although you can pay more for the Premium version, which includes more analytical features, plus videos, workout plans, and other goodies. If you're interested in giving Premium a try send me an email; I have a few codes that are good for a free month each.)
I use TrainingPeaks (or TP, as it's universally known) because my coach makes me. He puts workouts in, and they appear on my calendar, as you can see in the screenshot below. Because TP syncs to Garmin (and other services), when I complete a workout its data is almost always automatically assigned to the correct workout; in rare cases, I have to manually download an activity file and then attach it in TP. TP calculates a bunch of metrics that my coach can use to keep my training workload where it should be. As an athlete, I don't necessarily see all of this data (nor, as a novice, would I know how to interpret it), but the overall ability to plan and track workouts is very useful. You can use this solo just by putting in your workout schedule (and TP has training plans for marathons, various triathlons, etc. that help automate this process). I'd love to see the local Fleet Feet start using this for workout tracking, for example. One very nice feature of TP Premium is that it can export an iCal calendar, so when I tag a workout on TP with a time, it shows up in my calendar— a very useful aid to overall time management.
One complaint I have about TP is that there's no Windows Phone app, and their web site doesn't work well at all in mobile IE. I typically copy weight workouts to OneNote (then turn them into checklists, yay!) but it would be nice to be able to see workout details on a device without that extra step. I also have often heard my coach and my fellow CHP athletes complain about refresh and stability problems with TP but haven't had many problems with it myself. I will say that TP's support staff are excellent; every time I've had a question or problem, they have quickly and efficiently resolved it. The premium version of TP is $10/month.
I LOVE THIS SERVICE and have written about it a couple of times before (most recently here). It combines bike workout plans with power measurement (either using a power meter or an algorithm that estimates power output based on your wheel speed and the resistance profile of your indoor trainer), then gives you immediate feedback about your power on the bike. You run the TR app on your iOS device or PC, and you immediately see what your performance looks like. The center graph in the screenshot below is basically what you see during a workout: the yellow trace is your power output. During a workout, you also see your cadence, heart rate, and other useful data. It makes working out to a specific standard much easier: you ride until the yellow line is where you want it over the blue, then hold it— easier said than done, but much easier (at least for me) than trying to figure it out on my own.
TR costs $10/month, which gives you access both to the service (and its ability to sync directly to Garmin Connect, which is nice) and its workout library, which includes all sorts of cycling-specific training plans. I recommend it highly.
Tapiirik is very simple: it syncs services. You can choose to sync any supported service to any other supported service, in any combination. For a while, I had RunKeeper, Strava, TrainingPeaks, and Endomondo all set up. Suunto would sync to RunKeeper, which would sync through Tapiirik to the other services I use (some of which had their own sync relationships, such as the link from RunKeeper to Fitocracy). Now that Garmin, Strava, and TrainingPeaks all talk to each other, I don't use this much any more but it's a valuable tool if you want to talk to any of the services it supports.For $2/year this is a superb value.
Everything else
MapMyFitness: this is really a collection of very similar sites: MapMyRide, MapMyRun, etc. My favorite feature here is the "route genius", which will lay out a route of the specified distance given a starting point and workout type. This service costs around $30/year for the premium version, which is required to use "route genius". I use it because I got a year for free when I bought my headphones, but you may not find the features that compelling.
Nike+: this is the software I first started with. I liked it, but it only does running, and it only works with the Nike+ app for iOS (and maybe Android?) While the presentation is top notch, it lacks many of the features in Strava and Garmin, so I ditched it. Garmin recently added sync with Nike+, so if I ever go back to an iOS device I might take a look at it again.
There are lots of other services in this same mold: Runkeeper is another example. And then there are tons of apps that work with these services on various platforms… and more coming all the while. So this article isn't comprehensive, and it will probably be outdated sooner than I'd like, but such is life with cloud services.. even when those services are supposed to be for something fun.
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Training Tuesday: first week with the Garmin Fenix 3
Not long after I got my Garmin 920xt, Garmin announced the Fenix 3, which combines the same Connect IQ software platform with a round face and (to me) a much more attractive industrial design. I ordered one in January, figuring that I could probably sell the 920xt without too much trouble, then I settled in to wait for its arrival. I've had it about a week now, just long enough to get a sense of how it compares to the 920xt.
First,I love the physical appearance and build quality of the watch. It reminds me of the Suunto Ambit 2s, though it's a bit heavier. Whereas the 920xt felt plastic-y (makes sense, given that it was plastic), the Fenix 3 feels like a real watch. Screen brightness and clarity are excellent; the screen is a different shape but has the same resolution as the one in the 920xt. One significant difference is that the 920xt has six hardware buttons, while the Fenix 3 only has five. They're also arranged very differently; for example, the "up" button on the 920xt and the "start/stop" button on the Fenix 3 are in the same location, on the upper right side of the watch. The difference in button location has been the hardest thing for me to get used to. Starting and stopping activities is easy, but there's no longer a single-button shortcut for "connect to wifi" and there's no dedicated button to bring up settings— instead, you hold down the "up" button. I'm still trying to master the button combo to enter drill mode when swimming and have occasionally fumbled with the other buttons in the midst of an activity, but I'm getting used to it now.
In terms of functionality, the Fenix 3 does everything the 920xt does for tracking runs, swims, and so on. However, it has four additional sensors: an altimeter, a barometer, a compass, and a temperature sensor. The Fenix 3 software thus has several features missing from the 920xt, including the ability to display data from all those sensors, "trail run" and "hike" activity modes that track your altitude using the altimeter instead of GPS altitude, and a slightly different UI paradigm for interacting with the sensors: each sensor type has its own dedicated widget, which you page through using the "up" and "down" buttons. Here's a quick video I shot showing what the widget displays look like. The widget labeled "VIRB" is there for controlling Garmin VIRB action cameras. I much prefer having a separate widget for this than the 920xt approach of having the VIRB controller be a data page that appears within an activity. Here's a quick video I shot showing a little of what the user interface looks like.
There's about a $50 cost difference between the 920xt and the Fenix 3, assuming you buy just the watch and not the bundle with the heart-rate strap (and that you buy the basic Fenix 3, not the fancier and heavier one with sapphire glass). For me, the cost was well worth having a nicer-looking watch. One downside to the form factor of the Fenix 3 is that there currently isn't a quick-release kit, as there is for the 920xt, so if I want to use it while riding the bike I'll need to improvise a mount. That's a small disadvantage, though, for the way I use the watch.
Of course, the back-end Garmin Connect service doesn't care which watch you use to gather your data as long as it has the Garmin logo on the front, so switching the 920xt for the Fenix 3 was a non-issue there.
If you'd like to know more about the Fenix 3, I highly recommend this lengthy review at dcrainmaker. It goes into much more detail about the watch, how it works, and how it compares to its peers.
License usage reporting in Office 365, part 2
If you've been wondering where part 2 of my series on reporting in Office 365 was, wonder no more; it just went live this morning.
Filed under Office 365, UC&C
Microsoft rolls out Clutter admin improvements
Back in November, I wrote about my early experience with the Office 365 Clutter feature. I've been using it on and off– mostly off, due to a rare bug that surfaced because my mailbox is actually hosted on a portion of the Office 365 cloud that descends from the old Exchange Labs "friends and family" tenant. The bug kept Clutter from correctly moving clutter messages automatically; once it was fixed things returned to normal after I re-enabled the Clutter feature, and I've been happily using it since.
One of the big advantages of Office 365 is that the service team can develop and release new features much faster than they can for on-premises services. Sure enough, Microsoft today announced three new features for Clutter.
The biggest of these is the ability to create transport rules that flag messages, or senders, as exempt from Clutter processing. This is exactly the same thing as specifying safe senders for message hygiene filtering, although the implementation is a little different. You'll create a transport rule that has the conditions and exceptions you want, but with an action that adds a header value of "ClutterBypassedByTransportRuleOverride: TRUE", as described here. I have not personally had even a single false positive from Clutter since I've been testing it, and I haven't seen any complaints about false positive problems from other users, MVPs, or customers. Having said that, Microsoft was smart to include a way to exempt certain messages from processing, as this will soothe some users and tenant administrators who are worried about the potential to have important messages be misdirected.
Second, the Clutter folder can now be managed by retention policies. This is an eminently logical thing to do, and it nicely highlights the flexibility of Exchange's messaging records management system.
Rounding out the trio, you now have a very limited ability to customize the message that users see when they enable Clutter for their mailboxes: you can change the display name that the notification appears to be from, and you'll soon be abe to change the logo. Frankly, this is weak sauce; there's no way to customize the text of the notification, add custom URLs to it, or otherwise modify it in a useful way. Long-time Exchange administrators will recognize a familiar pattern exemplified by customizable delivery status notifications (DSNs), quota warning messages, and MailTips in previous versions of Exchange: first Microsoft delivered a useful feature with no customization capability, then they enabled limited customization, then (after prolonged complaining from customers) they broadened the range of things that could be customized. Let's hope that pattern holds here.
There's still one weak spot in the Clutter feature set: it still requires individual users to opt in (or out). While it's true that users would likely be alarmed by the sudden forceful application or removal of the Clutter feature from their mailboxes, it's also true that Office 365 as a whole needs to provide better controls for administrators to regulate which service features users have access to. I am hopeful that we'll see better admin controls (and reporting) for this feature in the future.
While these improvements aren't necessarily earth-shaking, they do add some welcome utility to what is already a valuable feature. Clutter is a great example of a feature that can make a measurable positive difference in users' satisfaction with the service, and I look forward to more improvements in the feature.
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License usage reporting in Office 365, part 1
On this blog, I write about whatever interests me. To the chagrin of some folks, this often includes aviation, fitness, and various complaints, but hey.. it could be worse. I save the really inane stuff for Twitter.
Besides the content I post here, though, I also blog at the Summit 7 Systems blog collective. Right now I'm publishing a series on reporting in Office 365. The first part of the series, on license usage reporting, is here, and the second part will be published shortly. In general, when I post content there that might be of interest to readers here, I'll cross-post it with a short post like this one.
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DEFINITION of 'Municipal Note'
Debt issued by state and local governments to finance capital expenditures such as construction projects. Municipal notes are appealing to investors because they mature in one year or less, offer fixed income and are often exempt from income tax at the local, state and/or federal levels.
INVESTOPEDIA EXPLAINS 'Municipal Note'
Investors can determine the risk of investing in a particular municipal note by examining the ratings issued by Moody's and by Standard & Poor's.
Moody's gives municipal notes three possible ratings: MIG 1 (best quality), MIG 2 (high quality) and MIG 3 (adequate quality).
Standard & Poor's uses a four-tiered rating system: SP-1+, SP-1, SP-2 and SP-3. Only the first three are considered worth investing in. SP-3 municipal notes are considered speculative.
Capital Expenditure (CAPEX)Funds used by a company to acquire or upgrade physical assets ...
Moody'sAn independent, unaffiliated research company that rates fixed ...
DebtAn amount of money borrowed by one party from another. Many corporations/individuals ...
MaturityThe period of time for which a financial instrument remains outstanding. ...
Municipal BondA debt security issued by a state, municipality or county to ...
Standard & Poor's - S&PThe world's leading index provider and the foremost source of ...
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Bismillaah hirrahmaan nirraheem
(In the Name of Allah the Most Beneficient and Merciful)
"Sallalaahu Ala Muhammad Sallalaahu Alayhi Wa Alehi Wa Sallam"
wazifa for child weakness
For Curing Physical Weakness of the Children
- Give them carrot and orange juice;
- The child should eat as many bananas as he/she can after meals; and
- Boil Figs (Anjeer) with milk (doodh) and give the milk to child to drink and the Figs to eat.
Wazifa to Remove Physical Weakness and Thinness of Child
In English:
On Day 1:
- Take two (2) pounds (2 lb) or around 900 mililitres (less than 1000 ml) of pure mustard oil and recite "Ya Jabaaru" 1000 times with a fresh wudu; and
- Take some quantity of oil and do a massage of the child who are thin, weak and those who are underdeveloped by birth.
On Day 2:
Again read 1000 times "Ya Jabbaaru" and blow on the same remaining oil. Take some quantity of oil and do a massage of the child who are thin, weak and those who are underdeveloped by birth. In this way blow on it daily and massage it. You can perform this till you see improvements, for example- 30 days or 40 days.
Such children could not be able to walk, fall frequently while walking, their fingers and hands are also weak, can't hold anything. By the blessings and mercy of ALLAH Azzawajal the children will be blessed with energy and strength.
By wearing a silver ring with "Ya Jabaaru" engraved on it. Anyone who wears it receives respect and honor in society.
In urdu:
Awwal Roz:
- Taqreeban 900 mililitre (1 kilogram se kam) ek dum khalis sarso ka tel le lijiye. Fir bawudu "Ya Jabbaaro" 1000 martaba pad kar us par dum kar dijiye; aur
- Usme se thoda sa tel nikal lijiye aur us se kamzor bachche ki malish kijiye.
Dusre Roz:
Wapas usi bache hue tel par "Ya Jabbaru" 1000 martaba padkar dum kar dijiye. Fir us tel me se thoda sa tel lekar bachche ki dusre din bhi malish kijiye. Esa teesre, chauthe aur roz kijiye jab tak apko farq mehsoos na ho. Insha ALLAH Azzawajal ALLAH ke karam se bachcha sehatmand hojayega.
Is tarah ke kamzor aur bilkul patle bachche chal nahi pate, kisi chiz ko pakad nahi pate aur bar bar girte rehte hai. Esa paidaish se hi hota hai ya bad me bhi kisi bimari ki wajuhat se ho sakta hai.
Anguthi par "Ya Jabbaaru" likha hua kisi mard ke pahenne par rishtedaro, dosto aur jan-pehchan walo me izzat afzayi hoti hai insha ALLAH.


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When one door closes, another exciting DIY opportunity opens.
"In the beginning ... so much of the work goes on before we even roll the cameras. The set is almost ready to go. A few final touches and we will begin taping. Once we get going we will be taping four shows a day," says Candi Jensen.
"That's me! And I'm showing Kassie how to make not only knit but crochet baby bibs. Kassie and I had a ton of fun on the show and managed to laugh out loud most of the time. Luckily we didn't have to start over too many times," says Jensen.


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2006: My Top 10 Movies
Stephen King's got his big-screen honor roll -- but notes when he's got the choice between going out to the cineplex or staying home at the TV, these days the small screen often wins
Jackson and Daniel Craig brought the star power to
two of the 10 pics on King's list of his 2006 favorites
10. The World's Fastest Indian Anthony Hopkins as a motorcycle racer. What else do you need to know? Oh, the movie's great — funny and moving.here's my list of the best I've seen since last December. Not a critic's list, remember; I'm just another schlub in the popcorn line.
9. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Frakkin' horrible title. Great movie. Tommy Lee Jones channels Cormac McCarthy...and it works.
8. Waist Deep This is old-school urban action, honey, the way they don't hardly make 'em no more. Starring the immensely likable Tyrese Gibson.
7. Snakes on a Plane You got your basic snakes on a plane, you got Samuel L. Jackson doing his thing, and a good-humored, high-tension script that recalls the first two Bruce Willis Die Hard pictures. So, hey — what's not to like?
6. The Illusionist Two movies featuring magicians from the early 1900s came out this year. I saw both, liked both. What made The Illusionist special for me was Edward Norton dueling with Paul Giamatti, and an ending that compelled me back into the theater at once to see how I had been tricked.
5. The Descent The best horror movie of the year, beyond doubt. Possibly because the main characters are all adults, for a change? The sense of doom-laden claustrophobia this movie generates is intense and remarkable.
4. Casino Royale I came out of the theater thinking it was the best Bond since Goldfinger. A subsequent viewing of Goldfinger — for this column — has convinced me it's the best Bond ever.
3. The Departed Ensemble ''star power'' movies hardly ever work, but when they do, they can be cool. The Departed is can't-take-your-eyes-off-it entertainment. Matt Damon continues to amaze me with his versatility.
2. United 93 If this emotionally wrenching docudrama isn't nominated for Best Picture, the Academy should be ashamed of itself.
1. Pan's Labyrinth I happened to see this in July and was completely seduced by its beauty and emotional ferocity. Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Mimic, Blade II) directed, and to call this his best work isn't enough. I think this extraordinary R-rated fairy tale for adults is the best fantasy film since The Wizard of Oz. And while it's much darker than Wizard, it still celebrates the human spirit. Your Uncle Stevie thinks you will see this movie.
I've posted threads about most of the films on my list already
but here's 10 of mine (in no particular order):
The Prestige
United 93
Casino Royale
The Queen
Little Miss Sunshine
Half-Nelson - Ryan Gosling's performance is amazing
The Departed
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Best animated film - 'CARS'
'Bug' - Ashley Judd gives a dazzling, strange brave performance
'The Dead Girl' - the ensemble cast is star-studded and makes this film hum
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Bob and Mike Holmstrom in the Grand Rapids Marine showroom.
Bob Holmstrom clearly recalls the date when he opened the doors of Grand Rapids Marine: March 15, 1978.
"I had been working with a local accountant to find a boat dealership in this area that I could buy," explained Bob, founder of the business. "We couldn't find the right deal, but Mornes Implement was located on this site. The Mornes business sold marine equipment along with LP gas and appliances, and they were interested in selling their marine business.
"On March 15, we opened the doors with five employees and a lot of enthusiasm," Bob continued. "One of the Mornes bookkeepers came to work for me, and we had three mechanics who were the heart and soul of the business for a long time."
Bob grew up in Warren, MN, and later moved to Bemidji. He held jobs in chemical dependency counseling and construction before making a decision to strike out on his own in retail.
"My family had a cabin in the Bemidji area, so I lived on a lake from Memorial Day to Labor Day every year," he continued. "I loved that life, and I thought that selling boats would be a way to keep me connected with what I loved."
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Bob's son, Mike, has just recently moved into his dad's former office. The office move is more than symbolic; Mike is running the business on a day-to-day basis while Bob lends his support to whatever needs doing.
Mike began his career at Grand Rapids Marine washing boats at the tender age of 12. In fact, Mike recalls that he even helped make a sale that summer: he helped a customer test-drive a boat at the Holmstroms's Deer Lake cabin, and the customer bought the boat later that day.
Mike graduated from Grand Rapids High School and attended Detroit Lakes Technical College to learn marine mechanics. He worked for the City of Detroit Lakes as a Zamboni operator while he attended school. After graduation he returned to the business here in Grand Rapids and worked in the service department for four or five years. He supplemented his on-the-job training by attending every business and economics course he could take at Itasca Community College.
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"Most of our business comes from within a 90-mile radius," explained Mike. "However, thanks to the internet, we can do business anywhere. A couple of years ago we had someone from the state of Virginia do an online search for a Hurricane deck boat. We got a call from this fellow, who e-mailed us and then called with a credit card to confirm the sale. The next week a truck pulled up from Virginia and he drove the boat home."
Mike finds that of all the social media sites, You Tube offers the most opportunity for his business. "We posted a You Tube video showing people how a certain dock tool works. I couldn't believe how many hits that got," Mike added. "The internet has been huge for us; it's a very cost-effective marketing channel."
Bob seems to savor the opportunity to provide some quiet coaching as his son takes the reins of the business. Grand Rapids Marine now employs 20 people in a business that for the most part was recession-resistant.
"Grand Rapids is a strong area for marine business," Bob explained. "Between us and other local dealers, Grand Rapids is a place where people in the region come to shop for boats. We didn't see a big decline in business during the Great Recession that affected most other businesses in our area, and for that we're thankful. We know that our reputation is founded to a large extent on the service we've provided over the years. We want to maintain that reputation."


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"Some nice tales for O's fans. But..."
As a longtime Orioles fan, it was nice listening to information about the team and stories told by some of the players over the years. However, the narration of this book leaves a lot to be desired.
The narrator never changes his tone throughout the book, so it's hard to tell where the author's text ends and the players' interviews begin. Unless it's something obvious, it is left to the listener to figure out whether they are listening to a quote or just information about the team, games and players.
I was also disappointed that the narrator never bothered to learn how to properly pronounce players' names before recording this audiobook. Players like Jim Gentile, Felix Pie and Nick Markakis' names are all mispronounced, along with other players. You'd think more effort would have been put into preparation for something like this well before recording took place.
Apart from some aspects of the narration, this was still a nice little audiobook for anyone wanting to revisit the highs and lows of Baltimore Orioles history. If you can get past some of the above, it's worth a listen.
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