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Austin: Fernando Alonso said finishing third in Sunday's United States Grand Prix was, for him, as good as a win after he had qualified only ninth for Ferrari on Saturday.
He was soon after elevated to eighth because of a gearbox-change penalty for Frenchman Romain Grosjean of Lotus and, on Sunday, advanced another position -- and to the clean right side of the grid -- when his team decided to incur a penalty for Brazilian Felipe Massa by breaking the seal on his car's gearbox.
It was a pragmatic strategic decision to give the two-time champion Spaniard a better chance at the start of the race and he grabbed it when the lights went out.
"We know that our championship is alive thanks to the first laps," said Alonso.
"We always qualified around seventh or eighth and finish the first lap in the first three or four positions.
"And after that, the race becomes a bit easier if you are in leading group. Today we knew we had a good chance. I tried to overtake people at the first corner and then the pace improved and we were in the leading group.
"It was not possible to have the pace of these two guys (Lewis Hamilton and Vettel). They were too far ahead, but I had enough to keep the guys behind.
"This weekend it is like a victory for us. Losing just three points was something no one thought yesterday night or Friday night after practice. So we are happy to have another good Sunday and score good points again."
Alonso swept up to fourth on the opening lap and inherited third when Australian Mark Webber retired in the second Red Bull car.
His result kept alive his title challenge with one race remaining in Brazil next Sunday. He is now 13 points behind defending champion German Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull who finished second on Sunday.
Alonso has not won a race since the German Grand Prix in July and needs to finish at least third to have a chance of winning the title in Sao Paulo.
If he wins, he would need Vettel to finish outside the top four.
He added: "We go to Brazil with the possibility to fight for the championship.
"It is something we have been fighting for during the whole year. Only Seb is in a better position than us. We should be proud of ourselves, enjoy the race and see at the end what the outcome is."
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This is a guest post from Jennifer Herbek. Jennifer and I have been Army wives together for just under a decade. We have a combined of 6 kids, 12 moves, 7 deployments and 2 crazy, chaotic lives. She has always been a master organizer, so I was thrilled to learn she had taken my Evernote with GTD technique and combined it with the FLYLady. Organization PLUS a CLEAN HOUSE! Does it get any better than that?! I am fortunate enough that she took the time to give us all the step by step instructions on how to do it. Read more about Jennifer's life on her blog, HOOAH, Ever After.
I need to confess something: On any given day, I live life on the edge of chaos…both the literal sense and in the CHAOS (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome) of the FLYlady. I have three kids: 5 years, 3 years and 1 year. My husband is in the Army so we've moved five times in five years and are preparing for yet another move this summer. Toss in a fluffy dog, part time graduate school, a couple of volunteer projects that I am crazy enough to think I have time for and — Voila! CHAOS with a side of madness. That's my life, and a love it but I know I'm not the only one that wants a little more organization and predictability to life. Evernote and my FLYlady routines are the only things that keep me (most days) on THIS side of chaos.
Below are instructions for creating a FlyLady Control Journal in Evernote. I don't use a binder because I hate having it on my counter, I don't really use paper for much anymore and I need something easily transportable. I know FLYLady has some calendar applications and to-do list tools, but I didn't want to learn another gadget, add another app to my already crowded smart phone or fragment my information. (I don't have time to hunt through my Outlook Calendar, iCal, Evernote or other devices for my appointments, shopping lists and other reminders.)
In true FLYlady style, here's a quick warning: If you are not already a FLYbaby, please don't attempt a control journal just yet. Tackle one thing at a time! First, go to her website (www.flylady.net) and start with her Baby Steps. Come back to these instructions whenever FLYLady gives you Control Journal tasks. Likewise, if you are new to Evernote, take some time to check out Lauren's e-book: A Mom's Guide to Evernote, to help you get started with Evernote quickly.
For those of you that already have Control Journals or those ready to create your first Control Journal, here's a step-by-step guide, in my best FLYlady method: (Remember, fellow FLYbabies, you don't need to do this all at once…five minutes a day on each step will get you there!)
1. Set it Up: Create a Notebook Stack titled "Control Journal". Within that Stack, created two notebooks: "Routines" and "Zones". This is similar to the first two sections of the FLYLady's Control Journal, but instead of tabbed dividers, you are using separate Notebooks in a Notebook Stack.
2. Create your Daily Routine: The first note you'll need in the Routines Notebook is your "Daily Routine". List your morning routine and before bed routine. (For more on creating these routines, see the FLYlady's 31 Day Baby Steps and her Guide for Building a Control Journal. My first note looked like this:
Yours will look different since our Morning and Before Bed Routines are different. The FLYlady's Control Journal instructions suggest creating a separate page for each routine but I did not separate them so I could work from one Note all day. Don't worry about the fancy check-boxes; just get your routine in there and pretty-it-up later! New FLYbabies, spend a week or two here and give yourself time to tweak your daily routine as you work through the 31 Day Baby Steps.
3. Create Your Weekly Routine: FLYLady's Control Journal has this in a separate section, but I found it cumbersome to flip between my Daily Routine and Weekly Routine. Again, I like to work from one Note all day. Create a new note in the Routines Notebook for each day of the week. Copy your daily routine (from step 2) into each day of the week note and add in your Daily Focus and any additional routine tasks. (I like to save that original routine note as a template.) For example: Monday is my Planning Day, so I've listed that as a reminder and added tasks for "Planning" into my afternoon routine. Here's what Monday looks like, for me:
I've highlighted the Monday-specific changes I made to my original Daily Routine. Again, your routine will look different; modify it however you need and create one note for each day.
Here's a rundown of how each of my days differs in the Routines Notebook:
MONDAY – Planning Day
- Planning: Calendar, Meals, Grocery List, Errands, Reminders
TUESDAY – Desk Day
- Desk: Pay Bills, Balance Checking Account Register, Assess Budget, Respond to E-mails
WEDNESDAY – Grocery/Errand Day
- Clean out Fridge (Morning Task, right as I'm cleaning up from Breakfast!)
- Errands
- Grocery Shopping
- Put out Trash (Thursday is Trash day for us, so I add this into my routine right after cleaning up from dinner.)
THURSDAY – Hobby Day
- Blog, volunteer work, etc
FRIDAY – Home Blessing Day
- Home Blessing Hour: bathrooms, dust, vacuum, change sheets, empty trash, purge magazines, etc.
- Car and Purse Clean Out
SATURDAY – Family Day
- Family Fun
SUNDAY – Renew Your Spirit Day
- Church
- Calendar Review w/ Hubby
** TIP: I like to save the Weekly Missions e-mail directly into Evernote at put it in my Routines Notebook for quick reference during the week.
4. Create your To-Do List: Now that you have routines established, you need a system to remember what non-routine tasks you need to accomplish that day or week. FLYlady doesn't have a To-Do list in her Control Journal so I adapted Lauren's GTD Lists in Evernote to my Control Journal. (For more on her GTD system, see her post here: http://getmegeeky.com/2012/07/master-lifes-juggling-act-maximize-daily-productivity-with-evernote-gtd-and-a-daily-portfolio/)
In my Notes for each day, at the very top of each Routine I added Lauren's GTD:
5. Create your Zones: In the Zones Notebook, created a note for each of FLYlady's Zones and saved her PDF detailed cleaning into a new note. (http://www.flylady.net/d/zones/) Easy Peasy. You can copy/paste the text and to modify each zone's list to reflect your house and family. No more running to her website for the cleaning list!
Once you have your basic Control Journal running, you can add to it as you need. There are several other sections she recommends for your basic Control Journal: Emergency Contacts, Family Info, Inspiration, etc. You can certainly add these to your Control Journal, though Evernote gives you more options for organizing and storing info than just a Control Journal. If you are a hard-core FLYbaby, FLYlady offers downloads with Word and PDF files on her website (http://www.flylady.net/d/control-journals/) for specialty Control Journals like the Holiday Control Journal, the Home Maintenance Control Journal, Financial Control Journal and more. It's very easy to use the word file to create the specialty journals in a new notebook within your Control Journal Notebook Stack. Just copy and paste each section into a new note and you'll be ready to go!
For daily use, you can cycle through your saved Day of the Week notes in the Routines notebook. At the end of the day, copy the GTD portion of today's routine into the next day's routine and update the GTD portion as needed. I do not create a new note for each day, I just cycle through my saved Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/etc Routine notes. If you like checking off the boxes in your Routine each day, you can create a new note for each day. If you want to create new notes, I would suggest keeping a separate note with all of your templates for your Daily Routines so you can copy/paste a clean version into each new note.
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A smile like yours won't ever go- I won't let it.
Truth: Seems like courage hasn't been much of me, lately. A feather just hasn't floated by or maybe I just haven't noticed.
To be inspired when my spirit is already lit, is a bit tricky.
In and out of life, I fly.
Everyday passing, and Night after Night falling.
I dance my dance and hum my daily hymn.
My spirit paints my lips and colors my eye lids.
I shout love and laugh loud. I teach and guide. Humble and honest, peaceful and poised.
Yet, somehow limited in my everyday existence.
(I Ponder) Just how HIGH can I fly?
Will gravity send me falling?
Will a a flock of geese peck me down?
Will a bullet shoot me out of the sky?
Will Cupid's arrow pierce my thigh and poison my mind and a stupor soon follow?
Will the evil doers flock beneath me and scream obscenities and lies, Will they throw flaming torches at me; just to steal my wings for themselves?
But, what if I manage to stay afloat. What if I fly so high that I'm too high. Will Creator send me back to my "rightful" place?
Will the clouds kick me down?
Will the Angels say "You don't belong here".
I'm Stuck for now…
Happy, Happy to be me. Happy-Happy to enjoy my own breath. Happy-Happy to see the placement of my feet in the morning. Lovingly awaiting the Sun; Proud.
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The Mozilla-Eudora partnership has debuted Eudora 8.0 beta 1, a new release of the Thunderbird-based email client that incorporates the "Penelope" add-on. Whereas Eudora is a Thunderbird-based client with extra features added by the Eudora developers, Penelope is an add-on that adds additional functionality to both Eudora and Thunderbird, but is built into the former. According to the development team, most features in Penelope can be accessed when used with Thunderbird, but there are a few that require Eudora in order to work correctly.
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Community foundations play a key role in identifying and solving community problems. In 2011, they gave an estimated $4.3 billion to a variety of nonprofit activities in fields that included the arts and education, health and human services, the environment, and disaster relief. The Community Foundations National Standards Board confirms operational excellence in six key areas—mission, structure, and governance; resource development; stewardship and accountability; grantmaking and community leadership; donor relations; and communications. Foundations that comply with these standards can display the official National Standards Seal. Right now nearly 500 community foundations have earned the seal.
More than 750 community foundations operate in urban and rural areas in every state in the United States; currently, more than 570 belong to the Council on Foundations. The community foundation model also has taken hold around the world. According to the 2010 Community Foundation Global Status Report, there are 1,680 community foundations in 51 countries. Forty-six percent exist outside of the United States. You can use our Community Foundation Locator to view a list of community foundations in the United States.
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In this week's Washington Snapshot:
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Online giving days are generating huge interest among community foundations.
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Time, place set for auction of Bell-Avon Elementary
Kiski Area School Board will auction the shuttered Bell-Avon Elementary School building to the public next month.
Business Manager Peggy Gillespie said the auction will be at 9 a.m. on Nov. 16 in the Salina area of Bell Township, where the building is located.
The board will vote on Monday whether the mineral rights on the property's 5 acres will be included as one item with the building when it hits the auction block. School board President Keith Blayden said he expects unanimous approval.
"It makes the property that much more attractive, and it opens it up to different types of buyers," he said. "I don't know what's under there or how much it will go for."
Gillespie said potential buyers, whom she would not identify, have expressed interest in converting the former elementary school into a storage facility or senior community center. Others have mentioned scrapping the building and selling its composition, she said.
"You can do a lot with it, especially with its open gym," Gillespie said. "It could be a unique project."
Upper Elementary project costs rise by $64.4K
The board on Thursday was presented with $64,415 in change orders for its $19.9 million Kiski Area Upper Elementary School project. The project, which began last summer, involved the renovation and enlargement of the former North Washington Elementary School to four times its original size.
The project was completed in time for fifth- and sixth-grade students to use the building on Sept. 3, the first day of school. But project manager Steve Peterman of Massaro Construction Management Services said construction crews came across unforeseen expenses in the later stages of the project.
Included among the final change orders were $15,457 to reduce emissions from concrete poured in the school's kitchen and $17,564 for the removal and replacement of unsuitable soil.
Board member Elizabeth Kovach took exception with the uncontracted expenses.
"Anything over $10,000 is supposed to be approved by the board, and none of this came before our attention," she said. "They're mistakes that could have been prevented, and we're paying for them."
Peterman said he decided to forgo board approval in the interest of completing the project on time. The change orders, delivered to the board since last summer, account for an additional 0.94 percent of the project's overall cost, said board member Robert Keibler.
"The national standard for change orders is 5 percent, and the average is 3 percent," he said. "Right now, it's looking like the entire project will finish under 1 percent. That's phenomenal work."
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Long time readers of The Tales have followed the trials and tribulations of CJ the Dog. If you haven't, the Cliff Notes version is that CJ doesn't like getting his hair cut. He also doesn't like the mailman or anyone else that walks, bikes, or drives past our house. And he doesn't like anyone touching any of his stuff. Stripes reference. But I digress.
So for various reasons, we made our way to an appointment with Groomer #7 on Monday. Groomer #7 is a nice lady who does dog grooming in her home.
In less than five seconds of meeting this nice lady, CJ tried to bite her. Keep in mind, we were in her house. Undeterred, she asked if I would pick him up and hand him to her. In my mind I thought, "Please don't bite me. Please don't bite me." I figured that would look really bad if he bit me, and thus harm our chances of a haircut.
But then some divine intervention took over, and as CJ wiggled around in her arms, he had a look in his eyes that he finally realized we were running out of dog groomers in the phone book. And with that, they descended the stairs and she told me to come back in two hours.
The longest two hours of my life. Except for the time I sat through "Joe Vs. the Volcano."
Anyways, when I picked him up Groomer #7 said he had been a perfect little gentleman and said we could come back in three months.
As God is my witness, I tipped that woman more than I've ever tipped my own hair groomers. But to my credit, I've never tried to bite any of them.
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J-School Confidential: State of The Campus Paper
In light of all the news students find online, a journo in college takes stock of campus papers- September 21, 2007
Welcome to our new series, J-School Confidential, filed by media experts in the making. Our rotating cast of emerging journos will take on that great media debate -- to j-school or not to j-school -- while chronicling their tales of learning the craft both in the academic settling and on the ground.
In this week's edition, Hamilton junior Eric Kuhn explores the future of the college newspaper. He finds that while online sources for disseminating campus news are increasing opportunities for new journalists, there will always be a place for the ink and paper version.
COLLEGE, USA - From inside the bathroom stall, to the table of the cafeteria, a hard copy of a campus newspaper lies wide open. Like many things that don't resemble the real world, on a college campus literally everyone reads their college newspaper. Yes, that old-fashioned ink and paper edition where your fingers get smudged by just flipping its pages.
College journalism and papers "have a captive audience with no competitors," says Kelly McBride, the ethics group leader at Poynter Institute and an ad-hoc advisor to college newspapers around the country. "The local daily isn't going to investigate failing security systems in the dorms or document the plague of sex abuse on college campuses." But while most newspapers are struggling, are college papers in trouble? Probably not, according to McBride -- "Sure the college newsroom is as relevant as ever. But the system for delivering the news should be changing." And by "changing" she means going online.
Of course, going online opens a can of worms: blogs, freelancing, online publications, heck, really anything (as a senior in high school I started co-editing an international photography magazine). Why would a student want to write for their college newspaper, when there is a world of other things to write for and about?
Take, for example, The Campus Word, a Web site that, according to co-founder Chase Gabarino, "provides college journalists and students a platform to freely voice their opinions on anything to do with college life." Expect two things if you write for the Campus Word (unlike many college newspapers): a paycheck and a chance to be uncensored.
"There [is] an issue with freedom of press at colleges and universities across the country," Gabarino says. "We saw this issue in the Hosty v. Carter case in 2005. If something truly offends you, you can comment on the item voicing your displeasure. That is the beauty of the Internet, not just freedom of speech."
Whether it be via the Internet or simply on (literally) the editorial page of the paper, opinions are what college students love to read. Of course, a paper's Web site can help bring out the best of both worlds. "The editorial section is frequently the most-read section of a college newspaper and the online edition enables readers to respond, fostering a dialogue around issues that matter most on campus," says College Media Network director Paul Pennelli.
But David A. Klatell, Vice Dean and Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia's School of Journalism recommends that while "there is no single 'right' way to do journalism...students [should] act as general assignment reporters, covering a wide range of stories and subjecting their work to editing, rather than the tendency to write opinion columns, blogs, or other outlets for personal opinions."
|There is something about the college culture that allows the actual paper (finger smudges and all) to flourish.
Herein lies the key to a campus paper: community. "Working on a college newspaper is to learn how to work with people and work in a creative environment," says Ben French, the former editor-in-chief of the Indiana Daily Student (University of Indiana Bloomington) and now the general manager of UWire.com, the leading aggregator and distributor of student-generated content. "The creative process is tricky, but a college paper is a good way to cut your teeth." French believes that the Internet offers a new level of collaboration because everyone is navigating new waters on the same boat.
Campus papers do offer benefits that keeping a blog does not. "The great thing about writing for your college paper is that you should get some editing," McBride says. But she warns that sometimes fledgling journalists receive bad advice. At any campus news organization, bad editors, colleagues, or just overall bad papers can exist. "Those realities are present at many college papers."
"College Paper 2.0" is now easier then ever. In 1999 everyone in "the real world" become a blogger with the launch of Blogger.com. In that same year, three Emerson College alumni teamed up to create a product allowing college papers to easily place their content online. College Publisher, Inc. was created and quickly spread. The company was soon bought by Y2M: Youth Media and Marketing Networks, which mtvU (part of MTV Networks) acquired in 2006. College Publisher, according to their Web site, "soon became one of the most influential organizations in the world of college media," covering over 500 diverse schools such as Harvard University, Dartmouth College, Boston College, the University of Texas, Arizona State University, and Stanford University.
College Publisher allows journalists to be read outside his or her campus. It costs nothing for a paper to have its content on College Publisher -- advertisements support the site -- the often difficult campus-wide search for a tech-whiz is eliminated, and fellow newspapers can band together for services ranging from free AP content to a private-label broadband player. The site gives aspiring journalists an invaluable opportunity to play with "new media."
Pennelli, who oversees the College Publisher software, says that with its creation, "The biggest change is we've eliminated a whole set of factors college newspapers used to have to worry about when establishing or maintaining an online presence. Recent research shows that approximately 75 percent of college students regularly read their college newspapers -- at least twice the rate with which they read national newspapers." He believes that the near future will still include print papers on campuses and the content will not solely live online.
Of course, campus papers will continue to grow on the Internet. However, there is something about the college culture that allows the actual paper (finger smudges and all) to flourish. It is a safe bet that everyone who lives in the campus bubble will take some time out of their busy day to grab the college paper on the way to the bathroom or while sitting down in the dinning hall.
|Eric Kuhn is a junior at Hamilton College, majoring in Government, but has already made a name for himself in print, television, radio, and podcasts. He is a Huffington Post contributor, the co-editor of PBase Magazine, an international online magazine, host of the radio show and podcast Kuhn & Company, and the editor-at-large of his school newspaper. Eric has interned for NBC News Digital Media, MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, and The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, and has published numerous articles and blog posts on MSNBC.com and CBSNews.com. To find out more, visit him online.
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