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Today, March 14—Einstein's birthday no less—marks the release of the beta version of an incredible new tool for the study of history: ChronoZoom. This powerful open-source tool, a joint effort of the University of California, Berkeley; Moscow State University; the Outercurve Foundation; and Microsoft Research Connections, will be unveiled at the Northwest Council for Computer Education (NCCE) Conference and is available for download.
What, you might ask, is so wonderful about ChronoZoom? After all, history resources abound. There are thousands of digital repositories, collections, libraries, and websites full of images, videos, documents, facts, and figures—not to mention the wealth of content squirreled away in private offices, personal computers, and university servers. But the sheer volume and disparate locations of these resources confound researchers, educators, and students, who spend untold hours searching this information, seeking to better understand history and its lessons for our future. What if we had a tool that could bring all these resources together?
Moreover, despite increasing collaboration, the sciences and humanities are still largely taught and researched in silos. For example, when I took an East Asian Studies course in college, I learned what was happening in China in the 1400s, but not what was going on in the Middle East or Africa or Latin America, or what was taking place in the scientific realms of physics and chemistry. If we brought these worlds together, would we ask different questions? Would we arrive at new understandings of the past, resulting in different innovations and insights today?
Such are the questions we hope to answer with ChronoZoom, which makes time relationships between different studies of history clear and vivid. In the process, it provides a framework for exploring related electronic resources, including videos, text, charts, schematics, images, articles, and other multimedia content. ChronoZoom thus serves as a "master timeline," tying together all kinds of specialized timelines and electronic resources, and it aspires to bridge the gap between the humanities and the sciences. In the spirit of "make no small plans," ChronoZoom seeks to unify all knowledge of the past and to make this information easy to understand.
In so doing, ChronoZoom emerges as a potentially vital tool in the evolving field of Big History, which attempts to unify the past—all of the past, from the beginning of time, some 13.7 billion years ago, to the present—through the four major regimes: cosmic history, Earth history, life history, and human history. Big History offers a broad understanding of how the past has unfolded, and it lets us explore the unifying characteristics that can bridge the intellectual chasm between the humanities and the sciences.
Today's release of ChronoZoom is especially exciting for me because this tool was made by the academic community for the academic community. There's no other timeline tool today that is supported by such a vast number of experts in different disciplines around the world. ChronoZoom has two communities that are led by two outstanding universities:
In addition, significant student involvement sets ChronoZoom apart. On the dev side, more than 80 percent of ChronoZoom is the work of undergraduate and graduate computer science students at Moscow State. The amazing application you can explore today was developed in three months by these students with support from Microsoft Research engineers. Similarly, 90 percent of the content in ChronoZoom was organized and developed by students at Cal Berkeley.
Today's release is a call to action to the academic community to try ChronoZoom in their classrooms and then vote on its features and let us know what could make the tool even more useful. For academic experts and digital collection owners, it's an opportunity to help determine the content that should be in ChronoZoom. For computer science institutions and developers around the world, it's a call to join our open-source community and help us build the next set of features.
ChronoZoom has a long history and has gone through different phases of development. In the spring of 2009, Roland Saekow had the good fortune of taking Professor Alvarez's Big History course. During the course, Professor Alvarez used a variety of tools, from log scales to multi-sheet paper timelines, to convey the vast time scales of Big History.
Luckily, Saekow remembered a TED talk about a new computer zoom technology called Seadragon. He approached Professor Alvarez after class, and they started brainstorming about how a zoomable timeline would function. With the help of the Industry Alliances group on campus, they got in touch with Microsoft Research and Microsoft Live Labs, which helped produce the first prototype version of ChronoZoom.
Today, with feedback from other Big History, humanities, and science professors around the world, we are focused on creating an all-new ChronoZoom that is a great educational tool for the classroom and research tool for academics. After creating the first version of ChronoZoom, we worked in collaboration with universities, professors, and students to make this tool easier to use in the classroom, but we definitely encourage feedback. This is why we are making the ChronoZoom beta version available to the community—hoping for significant feedback and collaboration to create a great tool that helps students, educators, and researchers really understand the history of everything.
We're pleased to announce that the ChronoZoom project is now part of the Outercurve Foundation's Research Accelerators Gallery. The Outercurve Foundation, a non-profit, open-source foundation, provides software IP management and project development governance to 22 open-source projects. The foundation's four galleries—the Research Accelerators, ASP.NET Open Source, Data, Languages and Systems Interoperability, and Innovators Galleries—support the collaborative development of software in open-source communities, yielding faster results and improved community development for organizations and research groups worldwide
If you're attending the NCCE Conference, I hope you'll visit me today as I launch ChronoZoom beta in a training workshop for educators. And wherever you are, please try out the ChronoZoom beta in the weeks ahead, as we hope to get more than 500,000 users providing feedback over the next six months. If you want to help with content or development, please email us at email@example.com.
Zoom away!
—Rane Johnson-Stempson, Education and Scholarly Communication Principal Research Director, Microsoft Research Connections
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The Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF) has undergone a significant transformation since it was first released. Over time, it's become clear that a new name was also in order. So today, I am pleased to announce that MBF will now be known as .NET Bio. In addition to the new name, .NET Bio will also have a new location: the Outercurve Foundation. This move is the next logical step in the life of the project: transferring its ownership to a nonprofit foundation that is dedicated to open-source software underscores our community-led philosophy; while Microsoft will continue to contribute to the code, it will do so as one among a growing community of users and contributors.
About .NET Bio
.NET Bio is a bioinformatics toolkit that was built using the Microsoft 4.0 .NET Framework. It is designed for use by developers, researchers, and scientists, making it simpler to build applications to meet the needs of life scientists. This open-source platform features a library of commonly used bioinformatics functions plus applications built upon that framework, and can be extended by using any Microsoft .NET language, including C#, F#, Visual Basic .NET, and IronPython. Users can perform a range of tasks with .NET Bio, including:
Like other frameworks (for example, BioJava and BioPython), .NET Bio can help reduce the level of effort that is required to implement bioinformatics applications through the provision of a range of pre-written functionality.
In addition to enhancements to the performance and capacity of the basic features contained in the previous version, the new version will provide a range of new features and demo applications. This includes:
.NET Bio is now in use by both academic and commercial organizations—including Microsoft—worldwide.
—Simon Mercer, Director of Health of Wellbeing, Microsoft Research Connections
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We are pleased to announce the launch of a program that is designed to support collaborations between Microsoft Research Connections and major research institutions to build the foundations for a unified game layer for education. Our first official project is Just Press Play, an experiment to craft gameful experiences for the students of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) undergraduate game design program. (Gameful experiences incorporate the use of game play mechanics that focus on the user's intrinsic motivation, engaging the user in a way that can produce long-lasting and powerful results.) You can learn more about the project by visiting the Just Press Play developer blog.
Just Press Play: Students bringing gameful experiences to education.
Microsoft Research has a long-standing commitment to games for learning, which began more than a decade ago with our support of Henry Jenkins and the MIT Education Arcade through programs like Games to Teach and iCampus. This work complemented games research that was being performed by Michel Pahud, Andy Wilson, and other Microsoft researchers. More recently, we founded the Games for Learning Institute, a consortium of 8 universities, 14 principal investigators, and a small army of graduate students whose mission is to find out what makes games fun, what makes them educational, and to develop patterns that assist developers in the creation of effective educational games.
One of those principal investigators is Andrew Phelps, director of the RIT School of Interactive Games and Media. Andy began his experiments with games for learning in 2003, when he created the Multi-User Programming Pedagogy for Enhancing Traditional Study (MUPPETS) to teach computational thinking through 3-D graphics and animation. More recently, he and Jessica Bayliss began pushing the boundaries of games in the classroom by conducting an experiment to award experience points to students in lieu of grades. In collaboration with Elizabeth Lawley, director of the RIT Lab for Social Computing and creator of the citizen heritage experiment, Picture the Impossible, he began to develop a much more ambitious idea: create a "frame game" that wraps around the most common activities that are inherent to student life at RIT. In other words, he is developing a platform that deeply integrates with the school's core student information systems in order to create gameful experiences for students that pervade their online experience, versus their person-to-person interactions. By using this platform and the resulting experiences, he can gather data on student activities, improve student motivation, and reduce attrition in the IGM freshman class.
The Just Press Play experiment is an important first step in bringing gameful experiences to education, but it is only the beginning. Throughout the year, we intend to announce additional partnerships with other researchers and organizations to build out the foundations of a unified game layer for education. This layer is similar to the social layer developed in the first decade of the twenty-first century to support a unified representation of identity and social networks across websites and applications. The social layer is arguably complete with the creation of the Open Graph protocol and applications such as Bing Social Search. Now we need to begin work on another layer, one that will instrument our everyday experiences, transform these experiences into gameful experiences and, by doing so, provide the inputs to entirely new capabilities such as e-portfolios, adaptive learning, and project-based learning.
Intrinsic motivation is a primary goal of the game layer, but there are other benefits as well. Because a great deal of data is needed to power these gameful experiences, we are encouraging participants to instrument their the online experience versus person-to-person interactions in a way similar to how Foursquare encourages players to keep track of the places they visit. This instrumentation provides entirely new insights into the worlds of students and educators. It enables large-scale longitudinal studies that span the many institutions of learning that we travel through over the course of our lives. It is the promise of true lifelong learning environments to teach twenty-first-century skills and guide our students along a rewarding journey of lifelong learning. We look forward to inviting you to the game!
—Donald Brinkman, Research Program Manager, Games for Learning, Digital Heritage, Digital Humanities, Microsoft Research Connections


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Mike Palmer keeps bees at French Hill Apiaries in St. Albans. We are grateful that he has agreed to answer questions on beekeeping in Vermont, his workload permitting.
VBA Members: Ask Mike your question with this form. (Requires you to login to the site.) We'll post the best questions and answers here as regularly as possible. (Personal responses to questions will not be possible.)
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Carol Miner writes:
I am a beginner beekeeper. I have two hives - one with a deep and two medium supers the other with a deep and three medium supers. Will it be all right to leave just one medium super on each deep for the winter and take the honey from the other supers? Will this leave enough food for the hives? Thanks - Carol Miner - Weston, VT
It is possible to winter honeybee colonies in a deep/medium configuration. Whether or not yours have enough feed for the winter is questionable. A hive of that limited size has to weigh 120-130 pounds. Do yours weigh that much? They can be fed 2:1 syrup until they do, but the question really is, would it be better to leave the extra box of honey on the hive? Extra honey left on the hive...within reason...is turned into bees in the spring. I would leave your colonies in one deep and two mediums, minimum. This will help insure the bees have enough feed to go through winter and into early spring when you can check them for feed. It will also give the bees extra comb space that they'll need come spring brood rearing time. When I winter a colony, my broodnest size is two deep, and one medium. When a colony has only one deep, I leave three mediums with it. Even then, some have to be fed a bit. You still have to check the weight of your hives. You don't mention how much honey is in those medium supers. Are they all full? Your colony will need 70 or 80 pounds of stores to go through the winter and into spring. This would be two mediums fully capped, and maybe a few outside combs in the deep full as well. You can weigh them with a bathroom scale. A hive with a deep and three mediums should weigh 150-160. With a deep and two mediums, 140-150.
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The soon to be released 6-Series Gran Coupe was first seen as a concept platform to showcase the new 6-Series Coupe styling, back in April of 2010. But then rumors and then design patent filings revealed that indeed BMW was going to produce a production version of the vehicle. Final confirmation came in the form of the first spyshots of the vehicle.
Today, we bring you the best quality spyphotos of the new 6-Series to date. The new photos reveal one very important feature. BMW has stayed … CONTINUED
Introducing for the first time – the production BMW 6-series gran coupe spied during testing! The beautiful 6-series gran coupe is a sedan-coupe take on the F13 6-series coupe and features frameless windows. As earlier patent images revealed, the Gran Coupe shows the same front and rear bumpers as the existing 6-series models F12 and F13.
The 6-series Gran Coupe is quite a bit longer than the 6-series coupe and convertible. The Concept Gran Coupe unveiled back in 2010 has a length of over 5m (197 inches) … CONTINUED
Info on the next generation M3 lineup comes courtesy of insider SCOTT26. Expected in the M3 lineup will again be the M3 coupe and cabrio, but the M3 sedan will supposedly be replaced by the M3 Gran coupe (a 4 door version of the F32 M3 coupe). Also for the first time there will be an M3 touring wagon. Finally, the X3M and an X4M (based on a future X4 SAV model) are speculated. Full details inside.
In case you missed this information (as it was added later), BMW insider Scott26 has disclosed plans for an 6-series M Gran Coupe, two gasoline versions, two diesel versions, and an ActiveHybrid version. The tentative release and sales schedule has also been provided – Summer 2012 debut in Paris or Beijing and on sale in late 2012.
It's official! BMW officials at the Gran Coupe Welt premier have acknowledged that this concept car will join the coupe and cabrio in the next 6-series lineup. We have been told that it will be marketed as the "6-series Gran Coupe" and will be BMW's first sedan "coupe," to take on the likes of the MB CLS and Porsche Panamera.
The BMW Concept Gran Coupe is set to make its German debut at BMW Welt. BMW's latest concept car will premier at the Welt beginning this Thursday at 5PM (until Aug. 4) in a free party open to the public. Stay tuned to our site for photos.
According to BMW insider SCOTT26, the Gran Coupe has already been approved for production, with a standard model available for completion in a short time frame. But, the fully working concept version (the one in Beijing has no interior or mechanicals) will not debut until the Paris Autoshow. The final Gran Coupe concept car will feature innovative interior design and materials, with use of glass, copper, stone, and wood.
Here are the first live photos of the BMW Gran Coupe Concept from the Beijing unveiling. The concept is reportedly already green lighted for production and will become the 6-series Gran Coupe, a low slung 4-door "coupe" to take on the likes of the Mercedes CLS and Audi A7.
We've been given some very strong hints that the front and rear design of the just unveiled stunning BMW Gran Coupe Concept signals the design of the upcoming F12 6-series coupe. Our resident photoshop guru Gerald Alvarez has wasted no time in rendering a 6-series coupe based on this knowledge.
BMW insider has revealed that the BMW Concept Gran Coupe has already been approved for production as the 6-series Gran Coupe. The new 6-series line will thus have 3 variants – the coupe, Gran Coupe, and convertible. A shooting brake model concept has also been built for evaluation. The BMW Concept Gran Coupe will make its debut at the 2010 Paris auto show.
BMW has just revealed the BMW Concept Gran Coupe at the Beijing Auto Show. It's a stunning, sleek low slung 4-door sports coupe ready to take on the likes of the Mercedes CLS, Porsche Panamera and upcoming Audi A7. The Gran Coupe concept will debut at the 2010 Paris autoshow. Full details and photos inside!


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Torri Allen
Nov. 11, 2013
ATHENS, Ga. --- Three members of the Georgia soccer team have been honored by the national College Sports Madness Web site as all-conference selections, the organization announced. Forwards Madeline Barker and Marion Crowder as well as defender Torri Allen were each chosen to the All-SEC second team.
The most recent awards come after Crowder and Allen were named All-SEC by the Southeastern Conference office last week, as voted on by the league's 14 head coaches.
Barker turned in the best season of career as a senior, as the Atlanta native tallied a career-high eight goals and three assists for 19 points – second-most on the team. She has started 19 of 20 games on the year, leading the team with 62 shots while her three game-winners rank second on the squad.
Crowder emerged as a top offensive weapon for Georgia as a rookie this season, starting 19 of 20 games with a team-high 11 goals and one assist for 23 points. The Madison, Miss., native sits just one score shy of tying All-American Carrie Patterson's school record for goals by a freshman set back in 2006, while Crowder's seven game-winning goals rank second all-time for a single season in UGA history.
Allen has started all 20 games for Georgia and has logged over 1,800 minutes of action on the Bulldog back line as a senior. She was instrumental in Georgia's record-setting shutout streak of 652 minutes earlier this season, a scoreless run that came in as the second-longest in school history, and has helped the squad to 11 shutouts – just one off the program record in that category. The Stafford, Va., native also has three assists on the offensive end, as well as two defensive saves.
The Bulldogs (12-7-1) are awaiting today's NCAA selection announcement as the field of 64 will be revealed in a live stream on NCAA.com at 4:30 p.m. ET.


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Scantily-clad photo shoot turns out 3D video
The eagerly awaited annual Swimsuit Edition of Sports Illustrated Magazine is to be given an extra-dimensional makeover as Sony produces a 3D show around the making of the swimsuit issue.
Crafted by Man in Hat Productions in conjunction with Sony, the 3D special, which will bring a new, scantily-clad meaning to the term broadcast, will feature behind the scenes footage as some of the world's most attractive models don swimwear for the sports publication's annual release.
Set to be released via the PlayStation 3 online platform, Sony's PlayStation Network, the 3D footage will offer a new, and exclusive look at the rigours of working with a fleet of beautiful, barely clothed women whilst holing up in some of the world's most stunning surroundings.
What other events and features of popular culture would you like to see behind-the-scenes 3D footage of? Let us know via the T3 Twitter and Facebook feeds. Whilst we don't have 3D footage of the Swimsuit issue, we do have video of our latest T3 cover model, Olivia Garson.


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How a famous racing town is turning on to electric
It doesn't take long before you figure it out. Monaco is a car town. The winding roads have played host to the Grand Prix for more than 70 years. The streets are full of remarkable automobiles – Lamborginis among the most beautiful. And residents will proudly tell you that the fomula one cars that race around their streets once each year are the pride of the town.
Leading the car culture is Prince Albert II, His Serene Highness. The monarch of this principality, Prince Albert II is the son of Prince Rainier III and Grace Kelly. He assumed the throne in 2005 on the death of his father. With 0% unemployment and a small and wealthy population, he's a man who clearly doesn't have to spend much time concerned about the day to day issues that affect most of us. Monaco seems to float above the world's problems and concerns.
Which is why it's so notable that Prince Albert has taken a passionate interest in the issues effecting the environment. Prince Albert has gone green. And, given the impact of greenhouse gasses on the environment, he's decided to take a leadership position in an area that is certain to be less than popular among the hard driving, gas-guzzling owners and fans of Fomula One Racing.
Prince Albert has made it his mission to lead the world in adoption and promotion of electric cars.
For the small but passionate community of high-speed electric cars, the first weekend of spring Monaco hosts "Ever Monaco" an exhibition with all EVs and hybrids on the market, conferences on electric mobility, and a rally for green cars. The same streets that have embraced the roar of Fomula One will now invite a new class of race car to hug the turns of the famous track.
Tesla, Fisker and Monaco's own locally built Venturi Volage are all competitors in the fast paced world of EV Racecars.
And Monaco's commitment to electric goes beyond the monied owners of celebrated plug-in racecars. While neighbor Nice offers just 40 plug-in points for electric vehicles like the SMART Car, Monaco has a stunning 400 charging stations within the principalities' tiny 0.75 square mile. Buyers of EV's and plug-in hybrids receive a tax rebate of €9,000 (around US$12,600) and owners enjoy free parking anywhere in the Principality, and free charging too.
And just to make sure his subjects understand that he leads by example, The Prince arrived at his wedding last year in a custom built Lexus full hybrid LS 600h L Landaulet.
Electric vehicles are shifting into high gear, from prototypes and concept cars to vehicles that can have a meaningful impact on reducing greenhouse gasses and slowing the environmental impact of global warming.
Day to day – the impact of making cities 'electric friendly' can only happen with access to charging stations. Monaco's leadership in this regard can't be underestimated. But on global scale, having the beating heart of automotive enthusiasts embrace the purr of the electric car in the winding race track that has for so long rung with the roar of performance Formula One race cars can't be underestimated. Making electric cars cool is as much an effort of storytelling as it is a effort of advertising. And it's not hard to imagine in the years ahead that great stories of remarkable race victories will emerge from the FAI (Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile's) as have come from the Grand Prix. Expect the new Formula E ('E' for Electric) race season to be be announced as soon as next year.
Prince Albert's joy behind the wheel of his electric Lexus speaks volumes, sells cars, and opens minds to an electric vehicle future that is both green and powerful. Gearheads - this is the checkered flag of a new race about to begin. Start your engines – softly – and we're off!


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COLUMBIA CITY — Columbia City's tennis team downed DeKalb, 4-1.
"I was very pleased with the girls tonight," Columbia City Head Coach Kathleen Myers said. "They stayed focused on the courts and took care of business."
The Lady Eagles got wins in both doubles matches, and the No. 1 and 2 singles competitions.
Breanna Hicks and Sydney Ford won in close 6-3, 6-4 sets in the No. 1 doubles match. In the No. 2 doubles, Blake Farber and Macie Hinen won 6-2, 6-3.
Celine Rongos defeated DeKalb's No. 1 Ashley Likens 6-0, 6-0. In No. 2 singles, Adrianna Brown won in a match with extra points, 7-6 (7-4), 6-3.
Although Alaina Beckner had Columbia City's only loss, she didn't go down without a fight, in a match that went to three games. After winning the first 6-1, she lost 6-4 and 6-3 in the final to games.
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Which Jersey Shore Couple Wore Matching Pajamas For the Holidays? (PHOTOS)
A lot of the Jersey Shore roomies are in relationships now, which means we're seeing a ton of couple cookie making, Christmas tree decorating, and outfit coordinating.
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Michael J. States has been the assistant dean for admissions at the University of North Carolina School of Law since August 2004.
Dean States was the associate director of admissions and financial aid at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois, from August 1997-August 1999. He then moved on to become the director of admissions at the Hamline University School of Law from August 1999-December 2003. He served as the assistant dean for enrollment management at the Stuart Graduate School of Business from January 2004 until joining the University of North Carolina School of Law in August 2004.
He has served as the president of the Midwest Alliance of Law School Admissions (MALSA), and as the chair of the American Association of Law Schools Subcommittee on Pre-Legal Education and Law School Admissions. He has served on the Law School Admission Council's Finance and Legal Affairs Committee and is currently a member of its Board of Trustees. He also serves as a consultant and a presenter for the Council on Legal Education Opportunity's (CLEO) Achieving Success in the Application Process program.
A native of St. Louis, Missouri, he received his B.A. in political science from the University of Kansas and his juris doctor from St. Louis University School of Law.


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Hey everyone. I am aware there are probably millions of post just like mine. Ive looked around and tried everything but keep getting errors. Ive had homebrew installed a while ago when 4.0u came out. Basically all i want to do is just play burned iso dvd's of games that i download. Someone please direct me to the correct way of doing this lol. I do have previous files on my sd card.
Please help
well if you bought your wii with 4.0, you can not downgrade and should not downgrade it. What you should do is use dogegg's any wii 3.1-4.1 softmodding tutorial to softmod your wii.
Come to the Irc room to get help or just have fun
Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.
i strongly believe that i bought my wii with an older version, and then when i updated it, it was 4.0u
yea sorry for the confusion. Ive been reading around and people say to downgrade so you can have an easier time installing cios.
Overall how & what do i have to install on 4.0u so i can read the burn iso's
Lol it might be easier if it were a lower version, but going the path to make it a lower version doesn't make the process easier. This just adds more unnecessary steps and confusion to the whole process. Did you try to use our softmod guides?
can you link me......sry
Ok so the guide did work. Noob part on me. But i have one last question. I know it says to use verbatum dvd-r, i have a generic one that i burnt an iso onto. Now when i run the game, it loads to a green screen then resets. Does that mean the disc is bad?
Green screens often times means out of region. Like PAL on NTSC or vice versa. There are settings in Neo Gamma to fix this FORCENTSC, FORCEPAL or similar. I'm not sure about the resetting part, however. You're not trying a tougher nut to crack like Wii Sports Resort, NSMB, or anything like that are you? Those have their own tutorials...


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Memories of Puss Carroll
Puss, you gave me three of the greatest gifts ever, Taylor, Pooh Bear and Shadow. Your son, Taylor has just joined you and his stepbrother, Buster. You were a cuddle bug even when you were not hungary. I remember the day you first showed up on my doorstep, we looked each other in the eyes and you proceeded to smack my cheeks with your paws. I remember the day you came to me when you were about to give birth to my three other babies and I stayed with you all the way. I miss you so and cannot wait to see you, Taylor and Buster. Mom
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Overall User Rating: Dart Solo 60HT1 6" x 6" x 3" White Foam Hinged Lid Container 500/Case ( 4.8 stars from 33 reviews )
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Perfect size for my sandwiches. Sometimes I take some pasta and bread to go. Nice standard size. Sturdy for a foam conatiner. Really good price for a pack of 125. I wouldn't take soup though obviously but I took some pudding and it was fine.
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Good product that does what i need it to. I was looking for a smaller sized to-go box for just a sandwich, side, or small amount of leftover for customers who didn't want a giant meal sized box. This was just right and can be used upside down, or down side up to accommodate what is going in them.
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Denise C. from Le Spicy Mango Posted on 06/04/2013
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Great foam to go box. Cant beat the price!! Really helps cut some cost by packaging our smaller side items in these over our larger containers
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The Dart 6"x6"x3" foam hinged lid container are wonderful for sandwiches, hamburger, or our special sausage/cheese speciality sandwich at Butterfly Cafe. We also use them for slaw as long as the slaw is not juicy.
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This is an excellent foam container. Its the perfect size for all side orders, and appetizers to go. Its also great for any left overs that are smaller than your standard twelve inch box. Can't beat the price, and quality.
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Great little containers, perfect for our side orders and for leftovers. The foam is good quality and doesn't melt easily like some other cheaper brands I have used. Price is right and shipping is quick.
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We use these containers for take-out orders for breads, salads, or deserts. They have worked well for us and will reorder this item again soon.
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First Eau De Parfum Spray 2 Oz
designer's notes
Fragrance Notes: floral black currant, jasmine, narcissus, sandalwood and vanilla.
color: N/A First By Van Cleef & Arpels Eau De Parfum Spray 2 Oz Year Introduced: 1976 Recommended use: romantic This item cannot be shipped 2nd day air. Allow 1-2 additional shipping days for beauty and fragrance items. This item cannot be shipped outside of the United States. Fragrance; France; style# 313047701


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Step 1: Supplies & Materials
Required materials:
- Tertial Lamp
- Sugru, or all purpose adhesive
- needle nose pliers
- philips screwdriver
- rubber bands (to stabilize the cam while the adhesive dries)
- a few zip-ties for cable routing (optional)
[If you don't already have a Tertial you can get one at your local IKEA for around $9.00]
Step 2: Preparing the Tertial arm
- Start by removing the shade from your Tertial.
- Remove the two screws holding the switch and socket assembly the arm.
- Take a moment to make sure your lamp is NOT plugged in.
- Now cut the cord, freeing the socket and housing.
- The lamp cord can now be removed, perhaps for use in another project, or just to get it out of your way.
- The springs can also be removed now. Unless your webcam is extremely heavy, they won't necessary.
Step 3: Choose your cam
Step 4: Prepare the webcam for mounting
Now is a good time to look for a mounting point on the back of your webcam. The C200 has a nice void just below the data cable exit point.
Step 5: Choose your glue
I began with a starting weight of 250g (8.8oz) and increased by 50 gram increments until the arm failed. "Failure" was the inability to maintain position at any given point in its range of motion.
The Tertial held both with and without springs loaded to 250 grams.
300 grams proved too much for the Tertial without springs, it couldn't maintain position fully outstretched.
With springs it handled 300 grams just fine. 350g also not a problem.
At 400 grams it was clearly under strain, creaking springs and all.
I wouldn't recommend a load of more that 400 grams (14.1oz) in an overhanging situation where the center of gravity is far beyond the anchor point on the desk/table etc.
In a non-overhang situation the arm could hold more; how much exactly would depend on the particular position.
So, if you want to mount a kindle touch (212g) - no problem. A kindle fire (413g), maybe. An iPad 2 (600-610g) - look elsewhere.
Nice idea, i had thought about doing something similar to use with Evernote to capture notes and book pages. If you have any experience using your setup to do the same I would love to know.
... and thanks for your response
Great instructable.
It could be folded and slipped into a backpack.
It's funny how things work out. I woke up in the middle of the night and was trying to figure out how to support a monopod for the same use. Then I crank up my PC and there's an 'Instructable' that would work better.
Thank you!
A couple of improvements I found;
* If you remove some of or change the springs used it helps retain the poise-ability. Just needs adjusting for the lighter weight.
* You need to get the webcam pan joint perpendicular to the ground and put the tilt joint on top of that, or as it turns side-to-side the picture will end up tilted.
I ended up combining two broken lamps into one that had three spans per arm. Way more than needed, but was thinking of motorising it at the time so overbuilt it to take more load.
Then after that, you could mount anything (within reason and weight spec) to the stand without having to redo the mount each time. You might have to tweak the springs and counterbalance it a bit for the heavier items but be reasonable when you go about it.
Thanks for sharing,
This first attempt was more proof-of-concept than anything else. I'm tempted to make another, namely one featuring a HD webcam. There's always next weekend right?


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Upward Bound (UB) is a college preparatory program for high school students funded by the U.S. Department of Education and sponsored locally by Texas Wesleyan University.
UB provides fundamental support to eligible participants in their preparation for college entrance. The program provides opportunities for participants to succeed in their precollege performance and ultimately in their higher education pursuits.
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Gear Question
Since Becca did not get a satisfactory...
Since Becca did not get a satisfactory answer to her question, I'll ask it again:
How do you determine what size of bars to get? I live in UT, I'm 5'5"...what are the factors that go into choosing the best size of climbing bars?
I have been wondering the same. I found on the voile website that the short and standard sizes are designed for the 8.5 mm heel pads that are with the 3-pin bindings. The tall (72mm) wires are for the taller 20 and 30 mm risers that come with the hardwire binding models. Beyond that I have heard that smaller boot sizes can complicate things by needing a shorter wire, but I have never heard what qualifies as a smaller boot. hope that helps some and maybe someone else might be able to give more info.
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Is there no end to this girl's talent?
P.S I'm adding this post to Jane's Post of the Month Club!
Yuuuum! I'd drop every French meal for a taste of that. Thinking I might have to muscle in there and we could be a threesome. Amanda, Ange and Katie... Whadaya think?ReplyDelete
looks like a great book, how inspiring that she did so much of the book herself!ReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing...this book looks amazing. xoxo Hope you are well my friend.ReplyDelete
Sound delicious and your photos look amazing. You're right...you MUST cook through the entire book a la Julie Powell and see what happens? After I saw the movie I made the 'Pate de Canard en Croute' or rather duck stuffed with pork and veal then wrapped in pastry.....it was a monumental effort and we were eating it for DAYS. Katie's food looks much more enticing! RxReplyDelete
Me thinks you are wonderwoman Amanda! Along with everything else you do, you can serve amazing meals. Very impressed! xReplyDelete
Ooooh I love her recipes too. Much nicer to have the book, rather than having to get the laptop set up on the kitchen bench.ReplyDelete
Yum - it all looks and sounds utterly delicious! I shall be adding Katie's book to my wishlist.
Loved reading about your LA trip - what fun.
I've always been a big fan of Katie's photography and styling. I've never tried oneof her recipes though but hearing about what you've cooked from her book makes me want to try them all now! Yum! They sound like nice, simple dishes with simple ingredients and flavours, exactly the sort of recipes I like xReplyDelete
that does look delicious. I think your photo of the dish is pretty good too! I'm very keen on cookbooks that revolve around simple meals at the moment. The dust on the recipe books from fancy restaurants on my bookshelves is evidence of that! xx (PoTMC)ReplyDelete
i love the blog for What Katie Ate-the books looks lovely-problem is-i don't really cook-not enough, I am a baker...but it is on my wishlist-and i know she does bake tooReplyDelete
Hi there, just popping in from POTMC :)
I love the WKA cookbook, her styling is fantastic, and the blog is equally as good. I have yet to make any of her recopies, but soon... :)
Your fam is so lucky! I have very much enjoyed looking at my copy... ... xReplyDelete
Let me know your thoughts. I love receiving your comments! Thanks for visiting. Kind wishes, Amanda xx
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August 4, 2015
Find out what's lurking behind the kitchen door of your favorite
restaurant. How do they fair under the watchful eye of the Brazos County Health Department? KBTX continues to look at which Brazos Valley restaurants are making the grade and which ones aren't.
Here's what inspectors found during the week of December 30:
For the second time is less than two weeks, Las Lomas in Bryan is shut down.
This time for rat droppings, old produce and mold in the ice machine. It scored a 55 and reopened a day later.
The Texas Avenue Mexican restaurant was recently closed for nine days due to a faulty fire protection system.
The Fas-Start convenience store on Highway 21 had its permit suspended for moldy vegetables and hot food not hot enough.
A score of 66 cost the store $500.
The Kroger deli on Longmire in College Station also received a failing grade.
Inspectors found more than a dozen roaches and shut it down for 24 hours.
It's an 84 for The Republic for fruit flies and an outside BBQ pit not screened in.
While T. Jin China on Boonville also gets an 84 for cold food not kept cold enough and mold in the ice machine.
Plus, a pair of perfect scores is awarded to Cheddar's on University and Koppe Bridge Bar and Grill on FM 2154.
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Some Background
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About Jim Burns
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By: Rick White
On February 1, 1946 Alice Burns gave birth. Alice and her husband Don named the boy James Luther Burns. The family called him Jimmy until he was twelve or thirteen, then he won the argument and was thereafter called Jim.
Jim played French horn in his High School band and was in his senior year Drum Major of the sixty-piece band. After high school, in 1964, Jim joined the Marine Corps and served three years nine months and twenty eight days; he got out early to be a policeman in Washington DC.
In September of 1973, Jim discovered the Libertarian Party (LP). By January of 1974, he was elected chairman of the LP of Nevada. The LPN was, back then, faced with a seeming impossible task. They did not have enough strength to get 5% of the voters of Nevada to sign the petition to place the LP on the ballot, and in 1974, the state would not allow a person to register as a Libertarian. To build the LPN, it was decided to run a candidate for office. Jim was (in 1974) a registered Republican. Jim decided to run for Congress which at that time was the only state wide office for which he was legally qualified. There was very little money and not too many ways to tell people that there was a Libertarian Party. Jim legally changed his middle name to Libertarian. His name appeared on the ballot in the Republican Party statewide primary as Burns, James Libertarian. The word Libertarian for the first time appeared on a Nevada ballot. That got some notice. The members of LPN gained some experience.
The office of Mayor of Las Vegas is a non-partisan office. In 1975, Jim ran for mayor. That time he dropped James: on the ballot was Burns, Libertarian. He ran the first TV spots by a libertarian candidate. He came in 5th in a field of nine. The LPN got bigger. Jim sent a letter to the Attorney General: the letter persuaded the Attorney General to allow the people of Nevada to register as members of the Libertarian Party, and Jim was the first person to do so.
In 1976, Jim was the leader of the first successful ballot petition drive: more than 25,000 signatures collected. He was the first candidate from Nevada to file for the LPN: Congress again. We did not get enough votes to stay on the ballot, back then but the LPN got stronger.
In 1978, Jim financed and led the successful ballot drive: more than 25,000 signatures. He ran for the assembly. Jim was the first LPN candidate to come in second in a three-way race and the first LPN candidate to get more votes than a major party candidate: a Republican.
In 1996, he ran for the assembly again, and again he came in second in a three-way race.
In 1998, he ran for Congress. He came in third in a four-way race. He got almost twice as many votes as a former Chairman of the Clark County Republican Party.
In 2004, Jim started running for President and just does not know how to quit. As they say, practice makes perfect.
Jim served twice as Chairman of the LPN, twice as Clark County (Las Vegas) Chairman, twice as At-Large Representative, and once as Southern Regional Representative of the LPN Executive Committee, and the Northern Regional Representative of the LP of Nye County Nevada. January 2013, James Libertarian Burns was elected to the Water and Sanitation District, Beatty, Nevada.
Jim has been a delegate to national LP conventions seven times, and in 1979, he was a member of the Platform Committee. He is a life member of the National LP.
You may wonder why nothing is said about the 1980's. Well, he puts his thoughts into action. He fought the IRS. January 18, 1980, he was convicted of failure to file income tax returns, a misdemeanor. He served 9 months and 28 days in jail. The IRS and Jim did not get along in the 1980's until about 1992. Since that time, they have not had any particular problems with one another, so far.


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Belen students, staff to receive substitute lunches after five charges
In light of tens of thousands of dollars of unpaid charged lunches by students and staff each school year, the Belen Board of Education voted 3-1 to amend its meal policy.
According to the new policy, students and staff will be allowed to charge up to five lunches. After that, they will be provided with a nutritionally balanced, but less expensive, substitute lunch.
Superintendent Ron Marquez said federal reporting requirements technically don't allow meals to be charged, but the district does acknowledge that, because of extenuating circumstances, students occasionally will be granted temporary credit for lunch.
Marquez said the type of substitute meal will be determined at the time of the student's sixth meal charge.
"In the district to the north, that's a cheese sandwich," Marquez said, referring to Albuquerque Public Schools' policy.
Board member Larry Lindberg said there was "a real hunger problem in this district," and gave several anecdotal examples of times he helped get lunches for students who, he says, would have otherwise gone without.
"I can tell you, I will not vote yes. I want to know what kind of meal they will get," Lindberg said. "We do need parents to be responsible and fill out the forms."
Board President Sam Chavez agreed with Lindberg's assessment of there being a "hunger problem" in the district.
"This is not an attempt to deny any child a meal. The substitute could be as simple as a cheese sandwich, peanut butter and jelly sandwich or another commodity," Chavez said.
Chavez reiterated that the policy would let students charge up to five meals.
According to the policy, each time a student charges a meal, parents will be contacted. When a student is given a substitute meal, after the fifth charge, parents will be sent an application for free or reduced lunches.
Parents of students who receive (substitute) meals for an extended period of time will be required to meet with the principal or another district administrator to discuss the student's situation to determine a plan to ensure the student receives proper nutrition, the policy says.
"I hope we have parents responsible enough to provide money for lunch or apply for the free or reduced lunches to see if they qualify," Chavez said.
Each year the district is faced with paying the debt of the uncollected lunch charges. According to federal law, the district has to make good on that debt. The money ultimately comes from the district's operational funds, shorting students, Chavez said.
Last year, at one point, the debt was $25,000. The district made a push to collect from students and their parents, as well as staff, and reduced the debt to around $17,000
"The cost of a meal is pretty minimal. This is several meals and in certain instances the parties were pretty blatant and chronic in charging meals," Chavez said.
Board member Lorraine Espinosa added that the students will be provided a meal that will be nutritional and contain all five food groups.
"No one will go without food," Espinosa said.
David Carter, the district's director of support services, pointed out the district offers free breakfast to all students.
"I have learned way too much about feeding kids over the last year," Carter said. "The alternate lunches will meet USDA requirements. It will simply be a meal that is a lower cost and less variety for those students with outstanding charges."
The changes to the meal policy passed 3-1 with Lindberg sticking to his guns as the one nay.
After the meeting, Marquez said if 85 percent of the students at a school qualify for free or reduced lunches, the entire student body gets lunches for free.
"We are trying to encourage everyone to fill out the applications to see if they qualify," he said. "If a parent knows they won't qualify, they can simply put their name, the students name and 'does not qualify' on the application."
Only four schools in the district haven't reached the 85 percent, Marquez said. They are La Merced Elementary School, Family School, Belen Middle School and Belen High School.
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Logies Honour Molly
Stars Pay Tribute To The Aussie Music Icon At The 2012 Bash…
Molly Meldrum has been honoured at the '2012 Logie Awards.'
The 54th annual TV bash paid special tribute to the Aussie music icon, who suffered a near fatal head injury after a fall at his Melbourne home last year, by inducting him into the Logies Hall of Fame.
A host of celebrity pals praised the MTV Classic 'Mastered By Molly' star in a video montage of his longtime career in showbiz.
"I refer to Molly as the Godfather, he always watches over me and many other artists," said local songbird Delta Goodrem.
While pop legend Elton John added in a pre-recorded interview,
"I know I speak for many artists and music lovers around world when I say 'thank you, there's no one like you."
The much-loved entertainment guru, who's been recovering from his injuries at Epworth's Post Traumatic Amnesia Unit, recently thanked fans for their ongoing support.
"Although I am not ready yet, I can't wait to go home," he said in a statement.
"To see my friends, and to properly thank them, my family and the hundreds of people who sent their best wishes and love to me."
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PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Officials with Sustainable Pike County say they hope a community garden under construction in downtown Pikeville, Ky., is the first of many.
The group's project aims to mirror the success seen by another sustainability project in Williamson, W.Va.
Williamson City Commissioner Eric Mathis told the Appalachian News-Express (http://bit.ly/12Jhoh5) that Sustainable Williamson, which has partnered with the Pike County group, responds to the need for a diversified sustainable economy though a market-based approach.
Pike County businessman Roger Ford says the garden will offer a multitude of opportunities.
"There are a lot of benefits," Ford said. "Number 1, it benefits the growers by giving them fresher foods and giving them the chance to sell them to local businesses. No. 2, it benefits businesses by letting them buy locally and save money as transportation costs go up. It also lets them know where the food they serve comes from. And no. 3, it's safer. All of this food is organic, which is a condition to use this garden. No chemicals or pesticides are allowed."
In addition, he says it is self-sustainable, requiring little assistance from local governments.
Mathis said a similar effort in Williamson has greatly improved the community.
"Two years ago, you never saw anyone running around in Williamson," Mathis said. "Since we started Sustainable Williamson, now we've got over 400 people that take part in our lunch walk, we've got people interested in a healthier lifestyle. This is a real-world economic development project.
"You can't talk about economic diversity without a healthy community," Mathis continued. "You also can't talk about a healthy community without economic diversity — they go hand-in-hand — and this project aims to bring them together."
Ford said Sustainable Pike County would like to partner with mining companies to grow food on post-mine land. He said that would give Pike County enough land to create large gardens that produce massive amounts of food.
"When we do this, we don't only want to do small gardens like this one (in Pikeville)," Mathis said. "We want to do gardens along entire hillsides if the land is available."
University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Office representative Suzanne Stumbo said efforts could have a significant impact.
"Things like this could be the answer to this county's economic troubles," Stumbo said
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Swansea are willing to let Agustien leave the Liberty Stadium this summer as he does not figure in Michael Laudrup's long-term plans.
The 26-year-old, who has one year left on his contract, was left out of the club's pre-season tour of Holland and is set to find himself well down the pecking order this season following the arrivals of Jonjo Shelvey and Jose Canas this summer.
Brighton boss Oscar Garcia is keen to add to his midfield options and he is thought to be an admirer of Dutchman Agustien.
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His research covers several different areas, but he is best known for his work in hydrometallurgy and electrochemistry. His contributions have been recognized on a number of occasions, including the Australasian Corrosion Medal (1979), the Stokes Medal for Electrochemistry (1997) and the Applied Research Medal of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (1997), a Doctor of Science from Cambridge University (1999) and the President's Award of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (2001). In 1997, he was made West Australian Citizen of the Year (Professions). He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Murdoch University in 2002. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering. He is a member of the West Australian Premier's Science Council.
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OK, it went up a little late (mostly because of me), but episode 2 (from season 3) is up live. Here's what's in this free episode:
- Matt goes on location for tips on getting creative lens flare by shooting into the sun (He did a really great job with this—-the capture above is from his segment).
- Larry Becker is back with a solution for a cheap DIY crossbar for backgrounds in his latest installment of Cheap Shots (Note: I found this one particularly clever).
- In the 2nd part of my three-part series for beginners, I show you when and how to use exposure compensation on Nikon and Canon cameras
- Top wedding photographer David Ziser drops by to talk about Highlight Tone Priority and Active-D Lighting to get extra exposure latitude for tough situations.
- Matt shows off the Booq Python Blur backpack
- Check out this week's featured photographer, Jeremy Cowart and his Voices of Haiti project!
- and you can leave a comment over at the D-Town Blog for your chance to win a copy of my Photo Recipes Live book/DVD combo! (here's the link).
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Learn a few simple but effective beginner cardio exercises for overweight people so that you can build cardio strength without straining yourself. Here are some beginner cardio exercises for overweight people.See Transcript
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Hi, I'm Steve Peterson, certified personal trainer of Steve Sweat NYC for About.com. In this video, I'll be going over some beginner cardio exercises for people who are overweight.
Cherry Pickers Are a Good Beginner Cardio Exercise for Overweight People
For the first routine, we're going to do some cherry pickers. Raise your arms up into the air, then touch your waist, touch your knees, touch your toes. Touch your knees, touch your waist, then back into the air. Move faster as you get better. This can bring up your heart rate and help you shed the calories that you are seeking to burn.
Go On Your Toes as a Beginner Cardio Exercise for Overweight People
Move your legs just like this. You might even feel a slight burn on your calves. You can do this part of the routine between 15-30 seconds. After that, go from side to side while touching your heels together. You can do this for the same duration as well.
Initially we're looking to have 30 seconds of movement like this. Then we can graduate to a minute. From there, to two minutes. Eventually you can build up to move on to more advanced routines.
Use Ropes for Beginner Cardio Exercises for Overweight People
For the next exercise we have two heavy exercise ropes. You can substitute with jump ropes at home. This is more for people who were not able to perform the routines we had gone over earlier. Bend your knees slightly so as to be crouched over. Take the ropes and swing them with your arms.
As you continue, you'll start to feel it in your lower body because your knees are bent. You will also start to feel your cardio-respiratory system start to pick up. Continue to go from 30 seconds to a minute if you can.
Tips for Doing Beginner Cardio Exercises for Overweight People
As you progress and become better at this, you can extend the length of time you exercise in this way. Or, you can crouch over on one leg and move like so. Those were some routines that are good for people who are overweight because they can be done without too much strain, nor do they require a lot of range in motion.
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HUNTINGTON -- The Renaissance Art Gallery will host an opening reception for the 12th annual National Miniature Exhibition from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4.
The miniature show will feature 70 artists, making it the biggest show of its kind in the event's history. More than 200 pieces of art small enough to hold in your hand will be on display.
The reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.
The exhibition will run through Sunday, Dec. 9, at the Renaissance Art Gallery, located at 900 8th St.


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The Wesley House United Methodist Campus Ministry at Stetson University is partnering with Change This World to host a meal packing event at 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov.18, at the Rinker Fieldhouse in the Hollis Center Gym, Stetson University, 421 N. Woodland Blvd.
Change This World is a nonprofit organization based in Orlando. The organization mobilizes churches and schools to host packing events in which specially formulated, high protein and vitamin meals are packed and sent to people facing extreme malnourishment all over the world.
The students began raising funds in December 2011. So far, they have raised $12,500, enough to pack 50,000 meals.
The project was spearheaded by Change This World's Student President Melanie Myer, a senior, who is majoring in psychology with a religious studies minor.
Myer is from Bell.
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The great fightback hasn't hapenned, and India have been dismissed for 279 in their first innings, chasing England's 400. MS Dhoni began what could have turned out to be an epic fightback — and the tail wagged on and on — but Dravid's men have clearly yielded the initiative to a second-string England side on home ground, which does not augur well. Sachin Tendulkar and Sehwag's waning form has caused much consternation, and the onus is now on the spinners — an out-of-form Harbhajan and the dependable Anil Kumble — to restrict the damage as much as possible in England's second innings. This Test is hotting up, and there will be more twists and turns before it winds to a close, so have you spotted yopur Player of the Day yet? Will you go for James Anderson, who was under fire for having dropped pace and swing after remodelling his action but came back to bag four wickets, or Dhoni? Or is it somebody else? Write in with your comments before 8 pm.
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MADISON - Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen commends the State Senate for approving legislation that would enable law enforcement officers to have quicker access to driver license photos. Assembly Bill 230 passed the State Senate by a voice vote and if enacted will allow police officers to have, solely for law enforcement purposes, real-time electronic access to photographic records stored by the Department of Transportation.
"AB 230 is supported by law enforcement statewide," explained Van Hollen, "This proposed change in state law will allow officers to have access to driver license photos instantly, on-the-scene, making officers and the public they serve safer."
State law already permits law enforcement access to driver photos through written requests, but the process takes considerable time. Technology exists to effectuate the policy behind the current law instantaneously. It is time for the law to permit law enforcement to take full advantage of modern technology.
"I also want to commend the authors of this legislation, Representatives Ann Hraychuck and Kitty Rhoades, and Senator John Lehman," Van Hollen said. "This bill is one of the most important public safety proposals introduced this legislative session and I look forward to the Governor signing it into law."
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Over time, as more and more students are exposed to the MAP from the start, the older students' scores may improve. Still, by high school there are so many ability levels and motivation levels crammed into one classroom that teachers can't possibly reach them all. The kids are savvier, too; it's a challenge just getting them to show up, let alone take the test seriously. "They don't see the direct application to them as individuals," explains Joseph Powers, principal of Ladue Horton Watkins High School. Is there a direct application to them as individuals? "Well, no," he admits. "There really isn't." This is why Ladue's MAP scores, although they fell into Missouri's top 10 percent, "didn't have the same punch as the results on our ACTs and SATs," he continues. "They do cooperate; I had no discipline referrals from testing last year. But I know there were kids who thought, 'What difference does it make?'" Last year a Clayton High student was making elaborate designs with the multiple-choice bubbles; when the proctor reproved him, he shot back, "Mind your own business." By the time the student saw his scores, he'd have different teachers and different classes, and although a lousy score on the MAP might make his school look bad, it wouldn't keep him out of Harvard.
It's his teachers who are suffering from test anxiety.
"My teachers are usually a lot more nervous around testing time," reports Fowler. "They get real short with us, 'cause it matters so much to them and they know the kids don't care. Sometimes the school has assemblies about the MAP, like, 'We have to do good on this so we can get our money.' And the teachers try to incorporate it -- they'll say, 'Yeah, we have to prepare you for the MAP test; that's why we have these essay questions.' One of my teachers said their salary's based on how well their students do on the MAP test." Actually, the only money involved would be the funding lost if scores were so bad the school lost accreditation, and Pattonville hasn't yet tried bonus incentives for teachers whose students do well -- but teachers think it's only a matter of time until their salaries are tied to the MAP.
"Some of them copy the multiple-choice part and give you a grade themselves," continues Fowler, "because they know we only care if it counts." What about the pep rallies, prizes and pizza days educational consultants are recommending? Does the promise of pizza really sharpen somebody's mental concentration? "Prob'ly," he says with a shrug. "I like anything that's free. You can't make a test fun; I have yet to see it."
As an educational consultant, Grady's not enamored of the MAP, either -- he says it narrows curriculum and encourages unfair comparisons of the districts -- but he's resigned to its inevitability. He even conducts "test-wiseness programs" for schools that haven't grasped "the new three R's: reinforcement, review and rewards." Principals, meanwhile, bring in motivational speakers to get the kids pumped up, and some even ask parents not to yell or scold on a test morning, lest the kids come to school mad and flub the test. They also send reminder letters urging parents to make sure their child gets a good night's sleep -- an extra half-hour, even -- and a good breakfast (the Ferguson-Florissant School District feeds the kids itself), with a hug and a kiss for good luck.
In Missouri's new educational gamble, the kids hold all the chalk. If they score really badly two years running, their school could lose accreditation, their teachers could lose tenure and their principal could lose her job. If they score just sort of lousy, the school board will lose its temper, the disgusted residents will vote down any tax increases and the great educational hope of the new millennium will be foiled.
It's called "high-stakes testing" for a reason.
Missouri first plotted the MAP in 1993 with the creation of the Show-Me Standards, a series of concepts that teachers and decision-makers thought students should be grasping as they moved through school. Once those standards were in place, the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education asked testing experts at CTB/McGraw-Hill to help devise a test. They started with math and added new subjects each year thereafter. The goal, both politically and educationally, was accountability. But the game soon turned into a tug-of-war, with the teachers on one side and the bureaucrats on the other.
"We're not against accountability," emphasizes Carol K. Schmoock, assistant executive director of the Missouri National Educational Association, which represents about 30,000 teachers. "We supported the development of the Show-Me Standards. But now what we have is such a focus on doing well on the test that our teachers feel limited in being able to teach beyond it. Districts and boards are putting undue pressure on principals and, sometimes, teachers to improve test scores or else. Districts are beginning to talk about 'pay for performance.' And the exams don't even follow a given class of students, so you're not showing what a given class is learning. The third-grade science test is not a test of the third-grade science teacher, it's a test of everything the kids have learned both inside and outside of school in grades one, two and three."
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