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That lil red triangle is far far far ahead, will I catch thee.....
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Just realized that I'm just over half way to my goal of 10,000km's. yay!
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Half way to target.
The old dog has a few more miles in him yet
Haven't been on here in a while and just had a read of the last few pages .......... Geeeeeezzzz what have I missed?
Things have got a little heavy it seems.
Lighten up Peeps. Get out and enjoy what short time we have on the planet and let others do the worrying!
Got to agree with comments about being in the hurt locker though.
I have been doing some racing in the Vets and while it is a great workout, enjoyable and good socially, I don't wish to suffer that much all the time.
I get more enjoyment from longer social bunch rides at a steady 28-30 kph average and they probably do more for my health than slogging my guts out for 50 klm and run the risk of throwing myself on the road for $15 prize money.
A lot of my mates race, so I feel left out a bit if I don't take part but I think if I push my self that hard reguarly, then I will stop enjoying my riding.
Excuses are like arseholes! Everybody has one and they all stink! - Lance Armstrong .
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I agree Novice. I've raced a couple of times and haven't really enjoyed the experience. I'm quite happy to push myself hard on solo rides during the week, racing against my best times and trying to get a high average speed.
In saying that, I think my next big purchase will be a TT bike and I'll look at doing more TT's and more 70.3's.
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Just changed my rear Conti after having a few flats. Today was a rusty nail (last nail in the coffin!!). From memory it was put on in November so it's travelled about 11,000km with about 8 punctures.
Also attached the clip-on aero bars tonight*. I'm on holiday for a week and will spend a bit of time rolling up and down the Kwinana bike path (shared).
Safe cycling everyone.
*note to self - must remember to remove said aero-bars before the group rides on the weekend
10K PLUS club 2012
A week off sounds great... My wife and I were only talking this morning about having a holiday. The only issue is where - with only 1 week/10 days available and with me wanting to take the bike, we need to stay inside Oz.
What's the Gold or Sunshine Coasts like in July/Aug?
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Can I ask...is it appropriate to ask within an existing thread or should I create another one....how does everyone get so many k's..is it by commuting, is it by racing or just riding in spare time as much as they can
I see people with > 8k already and just wonder how people can get so many k's under their legs. I commute around 4 days a week and only have 4200 k's for the year, mind you I did have 5 weeks off due to a broken thumb..but..even if I hadnt I would still only be at 5-6k mark
the follow up question would be single or got a family??
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Married with family, retired from the workforce and am lucky enough to be able to spend anywhere from 2 hours to 8 hours on a bike 6 days per week Then when i get home from the ride, look after the house cleaning and when my wife is working shifts look after the meal prep etc .
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I'm still a long way behind some of the people here, but most of my KM's just come from commuting.
I (usually) ride ~35KM (each way) to/from work, 5 days a week. 350KM a week starts adding up pretty quickly!
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yeah...I do 45 odd k's each way myself 4 days a week, and 20 k's on the other day..so my k's add up eventually....but it is the guys who have got 8000 + k's that I am amazed about
just wonder how they do it. I think that if I am consistent, I should be able to hit the 10k myself this year...already done more k's in a year than ever before, so am pretty happy
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My commute can vary from 55kms to 62kms typically, but I can really push it to 80 if I wanted to I'm currently doing that 3 times a week, and will be doing 4 times a week next week and couple that in with a 100km ride this Sunday well. I'll catch that red triangle eventually.
Way my legs are feeling now 150km rides are doable as are 200km's soon.
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Not sure about the Gold and Sunshine Coasts, but Perth weather is pretty awesome at the moment!!
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Sunny coast this weekend will be down to single figures (AT) 5.30am (our shop ride time) but that is the extreme usually 15 at that time, warms up quickly after 8am.
The coast is quiet at the moment, good roads with generous verges, PM me for local shop rides & accomodation recommendations.
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My work is Monday to Friday, 5am to 1:30pm. Once I get home from work during the week I'm normally straight out the door for a 50km ride, get home at about 4:30pm, little bit of computer time, wash clothes if needed, prepare dinner if needed, wacth tv with the missus and daughter for a couple of hours and then off to bed. Weekends I join my club group rides which normally means 100km+ both Saturday and Sunday, normally home by 9:30am on Saturday and 11am on Sunday.
I sometimes cycle to work as well, but it's only 19km round trip.
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Half way through my ride, front wheel slips in the rain on some leaves, quickly correct it but pinch a nerve in my back. Farrrrk that hurts, sore and very slow ride home. Can't straighten my back, what a princess eh ;(
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Bit of bad luck about your back but at least you didn't kiss the hard black stuff.
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Maybe but I would rather have gravel rash ahead of a pinched nerve/slipped disk any day.
Good save but sounds like bad luck
Recover soon LTR
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Ditto - recover soon LTR!!!
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Heal fast LTR. Don't want you having a legit reason for not catching back up to me
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LTR get a trike
Woohoo got a 100km ride on my trike today, getting my bents legs nicely. 200km ride in 4 weeks away now!
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I now have no need to worry about the cycling nazi's anymore as they won't talk to or even acknowledge me anymore.
I now have my new training bike, 10kgs of single speed track bike, rode yesterdays Brisbane2Ipswich came back via Gap Creek Road, all up 130kms for the day.
Won't be riding 130kms again, average speed was just over 20kph, passed 60kph more than 3 times, average speed on the flats was over 30kph, it's any kind of hill that hurts, got the bike set up to do 40kph at 100rpm cadence, so can sprint it up to 60kph at 150rpm, but don't stop on any sort of hill or try riding up anything steeper than about 6 or 7% gradient.
Riding a single is good, you're not all there in the head as far as the 'proper' cyclists are concerned, so you can wear whatever you want, behave exactly how you wish to & have all the fun in the world (except when the road turns up).
My target will take a flogging, I've probably banked enough kms to make it this year but next year it maybe back down to 6 or 10K.
I won't be hard to miss around the Brissie streets now, I'm the idiot with the beard, hairy legs, built like a front row forward, wearing whatever cycling gear takes my fancy, riding a pure black Dolan track bike (with brakes, yeah I had to upset the single fraternity by fitting brakes & my knees are too old for that macho BS). Wave if I go by, I'll wave back because I'm having a ball.
Oh & I'm chasing Sugino 75 parts for my new race bike when it comes, didn't realise that quality track gear can cost nearly as much as 10speed road gear.
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Glad to hear you've given the "plonkers" the slip Wal. Just make sure they stay in the rear view mirror, a good distance behind, and then you don't have to worry about them at all
Huge congrats to my friend TimW for hitting the 10k mark yesterday. Well done Killa!!
Safe and happy riding everyone!
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Thanks Stu
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Huge Kudos to Dimma, for completing the Nuun twice the tour challenge on Strava, having cycled over 1500 MILES this month, top effort mate, I hope those 3am starts were worth it. Tim
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My last day of Annual Leave today. On my 7 days off I managed to squeeze in 723km of cycling, a 10km run and a 7km run. Was attempting to do 1 x 100km+ ride each day but only managed the first 6 days. Got to 74km today, it was a little windy (not much!) and I'd had enough. Legs were still going ok, considering.
Now, I just need o catch back up to TimW!!
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This sounds much more important than following up on my stolen car from 2 weeks ago...wish I was joking. Thanks Columbus police.
Yeah we already got the 7 in there. Just looking at where the holder was when it was kicked, the 42.
Negative. Gotta add that endzone Yardage in there. He Kicks from the 42 then it has to cover 42 yards plus the extra 10 to get to the back of the endzone to the goal posts.
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It costs money to go to college...you make friends at college...you pay money for friends. I paid dues for almost every club/group I was a part of.
Compared to Sullinger anyone was a stiff... I'd take Ravenel on this year's team though. A serviceable big is the name of the game at this point, and we just don't have one.
Ill never feel comfortable with a recruit that lists Duke or Kansas in his top schools. Heres hoping Thad can pull off some recruiting magic. Just wish he hadn't visited for the Iowa game...
I'd have to agree that the definition should fall somewhere between 3 and 4, while also encompassing 5. When you promise a player a scholarship the only things that should keep him from receiving the full 4 years of schooling should be contingent on that player's actions. This would include but is not limited to academics, legal issues, and team rules violations. I really don't understand the process enough to point fingers at specific coaches, but I think once you offer a scholarship it should be upheld regardless of how the recruit pans out. That is one of the inherent risks of recruiting, and is also why the universities pay the coaches so much to recruit the correct players.
I definitely agree with the article I feel like Im watching Terrel Pryor HS higlight videos. The way Gibson runs though is more RG3, just ridiculous looking track speed. Seems like the real deal. Get after em Urban.
I don't have a horse in this race...so naturally I will have to cheer for the team with the best hermit crab..."Marshawn Pinch." Have to cheer for the Seahawks because this is real life.
Damien Harris to Brady Hoke this morning...
Tough to say I'd personally give up my senior spring and everything that comes along with it (skip days, graduation ceremonies, senior prom, etc). But you have to respect the sacrifices that these kids make to better themselves on the football field and in the classroom. I'm not sure if they have measured or tracked the effect of getting into a college classroom a semester early, but it has to be so nice for these kids to get all their academics/scheduling (a way underrated pain in the ass!) out of the way before the fall, when the focus is so heavily weighed on football.
Only slightly related...where are we on Raekwon McMillan nicknames? I'm wondering if going "the Chef" route is just too obvious? I feel like the possibilities are endless.
Also watch out for Sam Hubbard. Seen the guy play down in Cincy and he moves like someone half his size. A little skinny for LB at the moment but beef him up and he will be a beast.
Kennard looks like he might add a nice three point dimension that we don't really have right now (no offense Amadeo).
Great to hear stories like Turner. Kid really sounds like he turned it around after quite the wild ride. Hope he and all of the guys on this list kill it wherever they end up.
Never said he was a coordinator. Just that he has been on the staff. But you are technically correct that he was in fact the Special Teams coach in '02-'03 and not on the defensive staff.
...about espn. GO BUCKS!
I'm pretty sure Fickell has been on the defensive staff since 2002...and you are going to say hes not a winner? Id say that span saw arguably one of the greatest consecutive years of defensive college football in the history (Im biased...deal with it). Lets also not forget which position group he coached last year and how that group faired. I think its wise to take a step back and look at the facts before we start demanding people's heads.
A league minimum salary beats a senior year with a career ending injury any day. I never have a problem with young athletes trying to cash in on their athletic gifts while they still can. That unfinished degree will still be there when they are done in the League.
Heacock did have Urban on his staff at Illinois State in the early 90's so there is definitely a connection there. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he was brought on in some capacity more than his current consultant role. You have to think Urban would want a tireless recruiter at is co-DC position though. Especially to fill the Vrabel void.

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Having played TSW less than a week and done most of the quests in Kingsmouth I'm on tier 16 of a story line quest that wants me to go to a deep mine in blue mountain, another to polaris which are beyond my current capabilty to finish solo so I have to decide to wait a bit the level up my gear or join a cabal or group to help me out.
Either way as TSW does not have levels it does have exp to obtain ap/sp points needed to progress or strenghten your character build, so what is the best way or stats needed to do it quickest?
I realise there are no real shortcuts other than doing missions or farming mobs but I need re-assurance that I am definately doing it right with the lack of any class or character level in TSW sometimes I wonder if I'm missing something.
Ultimately I would like to eventually PVP with an assault rifle and chaos claws as a second weapon so is building DPS with hit or penetration stats the best way to go?
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Well, the one thing I would advise is to not do the main storyline mission exclusively-- don't skip all the main and side missions, since they will give you added gear and XP (and hence AP/SP) that will help you in Savage Coast and Blue Mountain. You should probably be about QL 3/4 gear to go to Savage Coast and QL 5/6 for Blue Mountain. It's a good idea to do the dungeon just before you go to the next zone (Polaris before Savage Coast), but there's no set rules about any of this.
The thing about the abilities and decks is that you can do anything, but as a rule of thumb, it's good to focus on 2 weapons to start and then branch out to other decks as you get familiar. You can use the starter decks in the panel to the left of the ability wheel to see how some work -- they aren't the best decks in the game, but they will give you an idea of what is possible. The key is find active / passive combos in your equipped abilities -- that is find passives that USE the conditions your active abilities trigger. So if your active triggers Impaired, look to equip passives that USE the Impaired state -- basically you are creating a 1-2 punch.
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Since I got my iMac it's just been me using it with no log in.
I've now added daughter an account. When I attempt to log in nothing happens just the background screen.
Ellie can log in fine and I can then switch user to me with no problem.
I can have it set that I automatically log in with no problem.
It is simply when I switch the machine on, log in window appears with both our names, I input my password and then nothing just the background screen as I said.
Anyone know a solution?
If that doesn't work, use the Cleaning tools in Onyx to remove the various cache files.
If that fails, locate the following pair of preference files and drag them to your Desktop:
Macintosh HD/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist
Macintosh HD/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist
On rebooting, OS X will make fresh copies of these. If this fixes it, trash the originals you moved to your Desktop. If it doesn't fix it, you can put the originals back, or just trash them if you are satisfied with how it is logging on with the defaults for now.
If none of these work out, please let us know so we can keep nipping at it. If it does work, please let us know for future reference.
Hi, tried all the options you mention but still the same, Ellie can log in ok, I can't have to switch user once Ellie logged in.
Drop that on your Desktop, then reboot. If the problem is solved, delete the one you moved. If it is NOT solved, then put it back and read on.
If the prior tip didn't solve this, then we can try something a little more radical as a test, but be sure you understand this entirely before doing so. Move the entire Preferences folder for your user to the Desktop, then reboot. Do NOT delete it. The goal here is to prove if the problem is a preference file at all. Regardless of if it solves it or not, you'll want to restore the original folder because you will reset a lot of preferences in the system and many apps back to defaults.
If the above doesn't work, put the folder back, then repeat for the Preferences folder in the root Library:
Macintosh HD/Library/Preferences
Drop it on your Desktop, then reboot. Plan on putting it back like before, even if it fixes the problem or not. Let us know how any of this works out.
No joy. I could only copy the folders to desktop, kept getting message that OS X needs them cannot delete or modify.
I have read that this might be caused by an update in Leopard, anyway it looks like I'm not on my own with this. Maybe wait and see if Lion cures it?
Create a new account, test to see if the same problem occurs, if not then copy your docs over to it.
Hopefully this will fix your problem. Short of this, I can only recommend making a new user and manually migrating your data over.
Cheers guys, will give the final options a try. If they don't work I might wait till Lion is out later this month (?) and I might do a clean re-install of everything. Could do with a tidy up.
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Among the common commercial substances targeted for elimination is cesium chloride. The government is trying to convince hospitals and blood banks in the country to cease using irradiator machines that contain cesium chloride and instead use X-ray irradiators to make sure blood is safe for transfusion. The government is weighing using grants and other inducements to encourage the move away from cesium chloride irradiators, unidentified officials and specialists told the Boston Globe for a Monday article.
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I'm trying to create a DSE cluster of 2 search nodes to run the wikipedia sample. Note that everything works fine if I only use one node.
I can successfully install DSE, OpsCenter, and agents are running on both machines.
As soon as I run the first script for the wikipedia sample however, my cluster enters a state where only 1 node will ever be up at a time. Restarting one node will cause the other node to crash. They error they produce is:
ERROR 08:56:19,241 Fatal exception in thread Thread[WRITE-/192.168.62.204,5,main]
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite0(Native Method)
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite(Unknown Source)
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.write(Unknown Source)
at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flushBuffer(Unknown Source)
at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flush(Unknown Source)
at java.io.DataOutputStream.flush(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.cassandra.net.OutboundTcpConnection.writeConnected(OutboundTcpConnection.java:123)
at org.apache.cassandra.net.OutboundTcpConnection.run(OutboundTcpConnection.java:99)
The log files for both nodes can be found at: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B56RRVlR8h2MZENKWjBUN0tsbFE
Any help as to what's happening would be much appreciated..


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Lots of features... if you learn
Had this watch now for around 1.5 years. I mostly just use the altimeter function and haven't really tried to figure out the compass/barometer parts because they're so complicated. I'm sure I could learn the functions but it just seems too difficult, even after watching a few videos.
The altimeter is usually off by 100ft and has to be calibrated at every trailhead (and at every possible elevation marker, if you really want accuracy, which defies the point...). Also, the battery screw on the underside of the face was nearly impossible to take off.
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When Mitt Romney told radio talk-show host Hugh Hewitt that there was a "one in a million" shot that he would run again for president, the 2012 Republican nominee probably thought he was, once again, shooting down speculation about him considering a 2016 run. But by prefacing it with the words "circumstances can change," Romney gave pundits enough to restart speculation about his intentions. Those claiming that Romney is reconsidering his plans are almost certainly wrong. But the reason why so many are talking about this tells us a lot more about the GOP's problems than it does about Romney.
That even a savvy political junkie like Chuck Todd would bite on this story and say on MSNBC's Morning Rundown show today that Romney's statement "opens the door a crack" to a 2016 run illustrates a few things.
The first is that once the Democratic attack machine that spent a solid year sliming Romney shut down it was possible for a lot of people to start noticing that Romney was not the cartoon villain his opponents claimed him to be. His decency, good humor, and competency look even better because of the ongoing disaster that Barack Obama's second term has been. After a year and a half of ineptitude, scandals, and foreign-policy disasters, the national buyer's remorse about giving Obama another four years has softened Romney's image and given him a legitimacy that the president's cheering section in the mainstream media denied him when he was a candidate.
But it must also be admitted that one of the reasons so many people continue to try and raise Romney's name is that none of the likely Republican contenders for 2016 have yet eclipsed the 2012 nomine.
Bridgegate derailed New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's 2016 juggernaut. Senator Marco Rubio, who seemed the party's savior at the end of 2012, has had some ups and downs with respect to immigration and sometimes gave the impression that he wasn't quite ready for prime time. Jeb Bush appears unlikely to buck his mother's advice and probably won't run. Governor Scott Walker is in the fight of his life seeking reelection in Wisconsin. Many in the national party don't take Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal seriously as a presidential prospect. Senator Ted Cruz is loved by the Tea Party but hated by everyone else in the Senate and viewed as likely to be a disaster in a general election.
Rick Santorum would like the GOP to continue its tradition of nominating the runner-up from the previous primary battle, but he's finding that most Republicans are as apathetic about his candidacy now as they were before 2012.
The one candidate who has gained ground in the last two years is Senator Rand Paul, who has expanded the libertarian base of his extremist father and shown himself to be a savvy politician even if his isolationist policies are being exposed as ill suited to the times by events in the Middle East. But while it must be conceded that Paul has a plausible chance to be the nominee, mainstream Republican opposition to him remains fierce.
All of which leaves some on the right wondering if they might not be better off trying Romney again. In a more rational world, saying that there's a one-in-a-million shot of something happening would be interpreted as proof that it won't, but we are discussing politics, not reason. Yet leaving aside the fact that Romney has made it perfectly clear that he won't run again, there are good reasons why he shouldn't even if the former Massachusetts governor changes his mind.
First and foremost is the fact that, as Romney has repeatedly said, he already tried and lost. It's been nearly 50 years since one of the parties nominated a candidate that had already lost a general election to run for president. That doesn't mean it can't happen, but the odds are it won't. Were Romney to start making real noises about running, the new respect he's earned in the media would evaporate and Democrats would restart their smear campaigns about his faith and his business experience. He may have been right about the threat from Russia and much else in 2012, but don't expect anyone in the media to remember that if he intended to run again.
More to the point, a Romney candidacy would throw away the one clear advantage the Republicans have going into the 2016 race. Any Republican running against Hillary Clinton is going to seem like a fresh-faced outsider in comparison to that veteran of more than 20 years of Washington political infighting. Anyone, that is, other than Romney. In spite of his ability to raise money and the trust he has earned from many on the right because of his dogged underdog fight against Obama, Romney would come across as a tired, if likeable retread. That isn't going to be a winning formula against the person who will be touted as America's potential first female president.
Republicans, especially conservatives, have good reason to feel some remorse about Romney. Many of them spent most of 2012 trashing him as a RINO instead of doing everything they could to help him beat Obama. That wasn't the reason he lost. The odds against any Republican going up against the first African-American president were always almost insurmountable and once the economic tailspin in late 2011 turned into the more stable situation of 2012, Obama's reelection was probably guaranteed. The awful reality of an Obama second term has inspired a surprising amount of nostalgia for Romney's gallant efforts. But that's no substitute for a competent and competitive 2016 candidate.
Republicans need to re-focus on their party's deep bench. All of the possible GOP candidates will be underdogs against Clinton. But there are many with genuine promise and there's plenty of time for them to hit their stride in the next two years. Romney deserves the love he's belatedly getting from Republicans, but looking forward rather than backward is the GOP's only path to victory in 2016.


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Smooth out new scene and clip starts in your video projects with the help of Windows Movie Maker transitions including dissolves and fades.See Transcript
Transcript:Create Transitions in Windows Movie MakerHi. I'm Isaac Brody for About.com Computing. Today I'll teach you how to add transitions in Windows Movie Maker.
Show TimelineFirst open up your movie project. I've already placed clips on the timeline. If you can't see the timeline, and see the storyboard instead, click on the Show Timeline button. Adding dissolves and other effects helps smooth transitions between clips in your videos.
Transition OptionsNext to the Collections button is a drop-down menu. Click it and select Video Transitions. Here is a list of various transitions you can use. One of the useful tools in Movie Maker is that it will show you what each transition does. To see what a transition will look like, click on a transition and click Play in the preview window. If the preview window is too big or too small click and drag it.
Transition TypesSome transitions can be used for artistic expression while others denote the passage of time. A fade is the most basic transition and implies time elapsing between the events in the clips. I'll scroll down and find a transition I like.
Inserting TransitionsTo add this transition, I can drag and drop it between two clips. The shaded area shows the transition. In the timeline there is a transition track. There is our new transition. If I go to the left edge of this transition, I can trim the length.
Transition EditingIf you want to replace a transition with another one, all you have to do is drag and drop a new one over it. If you want to delete a transition, click on it and hit the Delete button.
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Crusaders take final game of series, 8-1After coming off of a recent 15 game winning streak, Susquehanna's baseball team lost two of three in a series against conference opponent Moravian on April 5 and 6.
In the first game on April 5, Susquehanna lost 5-4 in a 10-inning battle
By the top of the fourth inning, Susquehanna was down 2-0, but with a trio of RBI hits from junior outfielder Jared Musilli, junior shortstop Nick Kennedy and freshman outfielder Taylor Luckenbill, Susquehanna took a 4-2 lead. Moravian got runs in the fifth and sixth innings to tie the game at four.
In the 10th, Moravian got a run for a walk off win.
Moravian 3, Susquehanna 2 (12 inn.)
In the second game, Susquehanna lost 3-2 in 12 innings. Susquehanna's scoring began in the fifth, when sophomore second baseman Dylan Glassmire drove in a run to tie the game at one.
In the next inning, junior shortstop Nick Kennedy drove in a run for Susquehanna to take the lead, but Moravian tied the game in the bottom of the inning, and no more runs were scored until the 12th inning when Moravian scored a run to win the game in walk-off fashion.
Before Moravian scored the winning run, Crusader relievers had combined to throw six innings of shutout baseball after junior starter Casey Hood left the game after hurling 5.2 innings of two-run ball.
Susquehanna 8, Moravian 1
Susquehanna won 8-1 in the third game.
The scoring started for Susquehanna in the third when senior outfielder Ty Raubenstine drove in a run on a single. Two more runs were scored in the inning on a ground out and a walk. Susquehanna added on in the sixth with five runs. It started with a RBI double for Raubenstine, followed by a RBI single from Luckenbill and a two run single by junior designated hitter Kyle Semmel. The scoring that inning ended with a fielding error that scored another run. The only run for Moravian came in the bottom of the seventh.
Junior and Selinsgrove native Spencer Hotaling had a dominant performance on the mound, pitching a complete game and allowing one run on two hits and a walk with six strikeouts.
Hotaling said it was important for him to finish the game.
Hotaling said, "As the game went on, I was focusing on finishing the game myself, especially in the later innings."
Hotaling explained that the support he received from the offense was impressive and had an effect on him mentally. "It was extremely important to grab a win in the last game after losing the first two," Hotaling said.
Susquehanna head coach Denny Bowers said, "Spencer pitched the best game of his season, he dominated the game."
After the series, Bowers said the team has to execute better offensively.
"All our losses were only one play away. The most important thing is hitting with runners in scoring position. We had opportunities, but didn't execute," Bowers said.
Susquehanna will return to the field at home against Scranton on April 12.
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Unlike the zigzagging protagonist of his latest film, Up in the Air, Jason Reitman tends to stay close to home. "If we were in a small town, you'd call me a 'townie.' I'd be the guy who's always lived within a mile of the house he grew up in," says the Oscar-nominated Juno director on a recent afternoon in his West Hollywood office, where a small sign beside the front door announces, modestly: "We Make Movies." "I grew up riding my bicycle around here," Reitman adds, gesturing toward a bank of windows overlooking Sunset Boulevard. "I lived on Elm, I lived on Crescent, and now I live near Coldwater Canyon. I've never moved west of the 405."
By contrast, Ryan Bingham, the character played by George Clooney in Reitman's Up in the Air, gathers no moss. A third-party hatchet man enlisted by companies too timid (or already too short-staffed) to handle their own firings, Bingham spends most of his life at 20,000 feet, basking in the comfort of strangers and the anodyne pleasures of business class, touching down just long enough to deliver the bad news to the newly downsized, along with the smiling guarantee that, really, this is going to turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to them. Then it's off to the next hollowed-out cubicle wasteland — a landscape Reitman turns into the most resonant of this movie season's many apocalyptic visions. Indeed, for most of us, this is how the world really ends — not with a Roland Emmerich–size bang, but with a pink slip.
Adapted by Reitman and Sheldon Turner from a 2001 Walter Kirn novel, Up in the Air can be considered a companion film of sorts to Reitman's 2005 debut feature, Thank You for Smoking, which focused on the fast-talking exploits of another professional bullshit artist — a Big Tobacco lobbyist played by Aaron Eckhart. It was an auspicious beginning that offered ample evidence of Reitman's sure hand with actors and an ear for the kind of barbed dialogue that powered the rat-a-tat Hollywood comedies of yesteryear. It's also a good yardstick of just how far he has come as a filmmaker in the four years since: Where Smoking sometimes hedged its satiric bets to make sure we knew Eckhart's Nick Naylor was really a good guy at heart, Up in the Air views Bingham with considerably greater ambivalence.
"I think I'm growing up, and my films seem to be becoming more real," says Reitman in his let-me-level-with-you way, adding that he recently caught parts of his two previous films on HBO and is learning from his mistakes. Growing up is something of a constant for Reitman, on-screen and off, perhaps because, at all of 32, he's still in the midst of it himself. In the last five years, he married, bought a house and became a father. He's also made three movies that, beyond their surface topicality, are all portraits of people questioning their beliefs and struggling to find their footing in the world.
"My films never touch on what the answers are when it comes to their polarizing subjects — they simply use [the subjects] as a location," Reitman says. "In Thank You for Smoking, cigarette smoking is the location for a movie about parenting. In Juno, teenage pregnancy is the location for a movie about people trying to decide what moment they want to grow up. It's about the loss of innocence — that's what that movie's about, and this movie's not about the economy. The economy is a setting to talk about how we complete our lives. Is it OK to be alone?"
Reitman's life so far might easily be mistaken for a stereotypical second-generation Hollywood legacy case. The oldest of three children born to Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman and actress Geneviève Deloir, he came of age on his father's film sets, from a visit to the Oregon location of Animal House (which the senior Reitman produced) when he was eleven days old to a summer job as a production assistant on the Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy Kindergarten Cop when he was thirteen years old. Reitman rubbed elbows with other scions of the rich and famous at the prestigious Buckley and Harvard-Westlake prep schools, where he claims, being the son of one of the most successful filmmakers of the 1980s brought him nothing but grief. "I was never a popular kid," he recalls. "I know people say that all the time, so let me repeat: I was never a popular kid. I was not well liked. All the movie thing brought was teasing and mockery. It never seemed something to be proud of."
More paralyzing for Reitman was the fear of following in his father's footsteps. "I knew the presumption of who I was," he says. "If you think, 'son of a famous director,' your immediate reaction is: no talent. Spoiled brat. Drug or alcohol problem. These are the going ideas. In addition to that, one of two things is going to happen to me in my career — either I will succeed but live in my father's shadow, or I will fail on a very public level. It's not like, 'Oh, I gave it a shot, it didn't work out, and nobody knows.' You go for it, everyone takes a look at it and goes, 'God, you are bad.'" So he halfheartedly enrolled at Skidmore College as a premed student. By the end of his first semester, Reitman's dad had convinced him to hang up his scrubs and give movies a try.
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Heiselt to lead new service-learning center
With the beginning of the 2013 spring semester, one very busy Mississippi State faculty member will become even busier.
April K. Heiselt is being named director of the university's new Center for the Advancement of Service-Learning Excellence. She officially began the part-time duty Jan. 1 while continuing as an associate professor in the College of Education's counseling and educational psychology department.
Announcement of Heiselt's appointment recently was made by Jerry Gilbert, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, and Gary Jackson, MSU Extension Service director.
Approved last month by the Board of Trustees, State Institutions of Higher Learning, the center is a joint effort between the academic affairs division and extension service. Its major missions include:
--Advancing service and learning within MSU's academic programs and extension service and;
--Creating opportunities for faculty to take advantage of local and statewide service opportunities that may be integrated into course learning objectives.
Gilbert said Heiselt, a University of Utah doctoral graduate who joined the MSU faculty in 2006, brings extensive experience to the position.
Faculty adviser for the Maroon Volunteer Center, director of the Service DAWGS (Donating a Wonderful Gift of Service) student-employee volunteer program and chair of the Maroon Edition Service Committee are among some of the campus positions Heiselt has held in recent years.
Gilbert said she now officially becomes "the university's chief advocate for service-learning in her role as center director, and as chair of the Community Engagement Committee."
Sammy McDavid | University Relations


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A Caledonia man is facing charges for allegedly trying to damage the reputation of a Rochester businessman.
Authorities say John L. Lyons, posed as a private investigator and sent text messages to the president of the company.
The company is involved in a battle over a family-owned business.
Lyons, posing as an investigator hired by the family business, offered to hand over incriminating information in return for $25,000.
He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.


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Hi all,
I'm new to Cassandra and Hector, and I have a doubt about managing clusters.
I have installed a test environment in windows and executed the Datastax installer.
Cassandra starts and works perfectly, I also run opsCenter, and I can see that the Cluster is named "Test Cluster".
Now I do the following (in a java class):
cluster = HFactory.getOrCreateCluster("My Cluster", "localhost:9160");
logger.log(Level.INFO, "Found Cluster named: {0}", cluster.getName());
I thought that Hector would thrown an error, as I'm trying to open a cluster with the wrong name. But, unexpectedly (at least for me), everything works fine, and the name reported in the log is "My Cluster".
This behavior is not clear to me, in particular, if it works like that, why should we pass the cluster name to the getOrCreateCluter function?
I'm rather confused, any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance,


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this one-semester course, she explained, each of which accounts for 10 to 15 percent of the total course content:
• earth systems and resources—the atmosphere (composition, structure, weather and climate, atmospheric circulation and the Coriolis effect, atmosphere-ocean interactions, El Niño/Southern Oscillation);
• the living world—natural ecosystem change (climate shifts, species movement, ecological succession); and
• global change—global warming (greenhouse gases and the greenhouse effect, impacts and consequences of global warming, reducing climate change, relevant laws and treaties).
However, she added, climate is a theme that runs through most of the course; it arises naturally in the context of many of the topics covered, such as energy and the formation of fossil fuels. The course also addresses the human impacts of global warming, such as the spread of diseases and increases in mosquito populations and ranges based on temperature changes. Students are asked to go beyond the environmental impacts and address such issues as the potential effects of environmental changes on society and economic conditions.
AP environmental science is one of the fastest-growing AP courses, Lionberger noted, averaging annual growth rates of 17 to 20 percent per year. However, just over 100,000 students took the course in 2010 (out of over 3 million students who took all AP courses in 2010). Students are generally excited about this course, she added, and the course design makes it easy for teachers to engage students through fieldwork, helping them see the material's relevance to their lives. One challenge for AP environmental science teachers is that few students come to the course having previously taken an earth systems or earth sciences course, whereas students in other AP science classes have often already taken a year's worth of coursework in the subject. Thus, AP environmental science introduces students to a wide range of material. Lionberger observed that, "it's an introduction to probably ten different majors that you could spend three years of intense coursework on. It really is a challenge to try to balance all of these topics and give students a broad but deep understanding."
This challenge is one of the focuses of the redesign of the course, Lionberger noted. "They are moving away from what, as a teacher, you'd call the march of topics into depth of understanding. Instead of spitting out information, students will be required to justify, argue, look at data rationally, and make an argument for their decisions," she explained. The program is also working on improving resources for teachers—not only for the AP teachers, but also for teachers at the elementary and middle