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Hotel Fliana in , Austria
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Holiday features
So what's it like?
The Hotel Fliana has been completely refurbished and is now an official 4 star superior rated hotel. In a great location just a short walk to the resort centre. The hotel has excellent facilities, superb cuisine and lots for keeping the kids entertained too - making it an ideal base for your holiday.
· 2 minutes' walk to resort centre · 10-minute walk to nearest gondola station
for 2 people on half board sharing a 30-35m² Klassik room with Austrian twin beds, private bath or shower, WC and balcony. 40-45m² Deluxe rooms are available at a supplement. Klassik anbd Deluxe rooms sleep maximum 3 adults or 2 adults and 2 children up to 15 years inclusive - third and fourth beds are sofa bed. Single rooms are also available at a supplement.
All bedrooms have satellite TV, bathrobes, slippers, free WiFi, hairdryer and safe.
Austrian twin beds
Austrian twin beds are very common in Central Europe. They're simply one large bed frame containing two single mattresses, both with separate duvets and linen sets, that cannot be separated. Separate twin beds are less common and can often be head to head beds, rather than side by side, if they are available.
· lift to all floors · free WiFi throughout
Wine, dine and unwind
· spacious bar and lounge area with open fireplace
Spa, wellness and pools
· indoor swimming pool with pool towels included · extensive spa area with with saunas, steam room, panoramic garden and relaxation areas · extra charge for solarium, spa baths, massage and beauty treatments
For the family
· children's playroom with toys provided · children's supervision 6 days per week, provided by Ischgl Tourist office
Keep active
· adventure sports with local company available for an extra charge including mountain biking, canyoning and rafting · free guided walks and Nordic walking tours with an experienced local guide - rucksacks and poles included
· welcome drink · hot and cold buffet breakfast · afternoon buffet with a selection of cakes, salads and snacks · 5-course evening meals with a choice of courses · daily salad buffet · weekly themed evening buffet and gala dinner
Holiday features
Outdoor pool
This hotel has an outdoor pool.
Spa and wellness facilities
There's a range of spa treatments and facilities available here - things like pools, hot tubs and massages. Have a look at the hotel description for more details.
Exclusive to Thomson
This accommodation is only available through brands operated by TUI Travel PLC in the UK including Thomson.
Bike hire
Hire a bike directly from the hotel, an easy way to get about.
Indoor pool
This hotel has an indoor pool.
Board basis
Half board
Half board includes breakfast and evening meal.


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Lose Fat and Gain Muscle Tools for Motivation
People need constant motivation to achieve any goal. Whether the motivation is intrinsic or extrinsic, it is important to keep the drive within the person going. If you want to lose fat and gain muscle, you need to keep your enthusiasm alive especially when progress is quite slow. By setting factors to keep you motivated, you can stay on the road to lose fat and gain muscle. The key to keeping the fire burning is to track your progress. Here are the classic tools you can employ to know how well you are doing.
Lose Fat and Gain Muscle
Fat Measurements
Reducing unwanted fats in the body is the first target of those who want to have a sexier physique. These are mostly in the abdominal area, back, arms and thighs. Many exercises target these problem areas. You can do weight lifting and sit ups to lose fat and gain muscle. To measure the progress of your work, you can use a fat caliper to measure the decrease in fats. The caliper is available in many fitness stores and even online. When using the device, take all the measurements from the same site to have accurate results. The right side is advisable. Pinch the body part and place the caliper in between the folds. Wait for few seconds for the device to take measurements. When the reading comes out, repeat the steps two or three times. Compare your three readings. They should have a difference of only 1-2 mm. You can check for your measurements once a week to keep you motivated.
Seeing yourself in better shape is another motivating factor to lose fat and gain muscle. By taking pictures once a month, you can have a documentation of your own progress. To get more accurate and convincing results, take the picture using the same background, same angles, same time of the day and same clothes if possible. By keeping as many external factors controlled as possible, you can have standard pictures to keep the motivation going.
Blood Test
Good health is one of the strongest motivating factors to stay on your program to lose fat and gain muscle. To have a baseline data, have your blood tested before you begin the regimen. The initial results will serve as your basis to track your progress. After month, check the changes with the level of substances in your blood. An efficient indicator in lose fat and gain muscle programs is by the reduction of the cholesterol level in the body.
Weighting Scale
Weighing is another motivating factor. However, limit your weighing to weekly and not daily. Daily weighing will only cause frustration due to daily variations in hydration status. To get accurate results, use the same weighing scale each time and weigh on the same day of the week. If you assign Monday, then check your weight ever Monday. Ideally, 1-2 pounds of weight loss is safe. If you do not lose your excess pounds after two consecutive weighing, review your training program to lose fat and gain muscle. You might be on the wrong track.
Training Journal
A training journal helps you record the loads you can carry each week. By keeping a record, you can easily determine whether you are gaining more strength. Bear in mind that to lose fat and gain muscle, you have to strengthen your body. If your repetitions for a certain exercise is 20 in week one, by week 2, it should reach 25 and progress from there.
Lose Fat and Gain Muscle Motivating factors are important to sustain you in the program day in and day out.
When you keep a good record of how well you are doing, you keep the enthusiasm burning and achieve your goal better.

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Slightly omitted from yesterday's post (I admit to being sorely distracted, haha) was an important safety message: be nice to bikers on the road.
In cities especially, many people have been yelling, swearing and honking at us. Just to clarify, the law in Michigan is that bikes have the same rights as motorcycles and cars. We stop at stop signs and traffic lights and use hand signals to indicate turns. But there's a reason that I don't ride on sidewalks, and that's because they're a safety hazard.
Think about this: when you're driving, and considering making a turn, you look at traffic. What you might not see is a biker 20 feet up the sidewalk that you could hit while turning. Also, as a biker I often can't see up a perpendicular street. When someone comes from that street and stops blocking the sidewalk, I can't rely on being able to stop fast enough to not plow onto a car waiting to turn or cross.
I know, you'd think riding in the road would be dangerous. And hell yeah it's a little scary – that's why I stay to the right and wear reflective clothing and hold my breath every time a semi truck goes by. But don't be the asshole that yells or honks. We've been honked at on roads where a sidewalk wasn't even available. We've had a whole row of cars shout reasons about how we should "get off the fucking road" even though there was a passing lane. And today we had a dude honk twice and then get out of his car to lecture us on what he thought was safe.
When I've been riding more than 50 miles with all safety and legal regulations in mind and you honk at me because it took 5 seconds out of your 10 minute car commute to yell at and pass me, I'm pissed. So be nice to those bikers (or even better, be one of them!).


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Marlin Stratford contains over 100 serviced apartments from studio apartments to stylish penthouses, meeting the strong demand for quality living without the Central London price tag.
Located in the newly rejuvenated Stratford area of East London, it is well connected by several underground lines and a railway station, and Westfield Stratford City is a mere 5 minutes' walk away. What's more, each and every guest receives complimentary Wi-Fi whilst staying with us.
Though Marlin Stratford is in East London, Central London is less than 20 minutes away via public transport and The O2 Arena is only 7 minutes away via tube. Stratford itself is becoming a major tourist destination with London's newest park, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, opening last year and hosting many popular events such as Wireless Festival and RideLondon - less than 10 minutes away.
Major shopping centre Westfield Stratford City is also just a 5 minute walk away, hailed as Europe's largest urban shopping centre and home to state-of-the-art casino, Aspers.
Facilities near Marlin Stratford include:
As well as becoming a thriving centre of leisure, many new businesses have opened in Stratford recently, making it one of London's newest centres of commerce. Guests can enjoy the freedom, space and flexibility our apartments provide whilst maintaining uncomplicated access across the city. The ExCel Exhibition Centre is just 12 minutes away via DLR, so Marlin Stratford is ideal for those either attending or exhibiting as an easy living, home away from home accommodation option.
Marlin Stratford is accessible from all London terminals, and is just 15 minutes from London City Airport via tube. It is also directly accessible from major London train stations such as Waterloo, King's Cross, London Bridge and Liverpool Street stations.
Explore the serviced apartments at Marlin Stratford, or click here to see our amazing 90+ night stay offer.


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Challenge Nation is coming to Seattle! Participate in an urban adventure race, "Amazing Race" style. Teams of two or more dash around the city solving clues, exploring new parts of the city and compete for a chance to participate in the National Championship race in Las Vegas this November.


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June 17 - Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
Johnston is based in the Stanley J. Roszkowski U.S. Courthouse in Rockford.
He succeeded U.S. Magistrate Judge P. Michael Mahoney, who retired at the end of last year but remains on the bench as a recalled judge. Chief U.S. District Judge James F. Holderman presided over the investiture.
"Iain is knowledgeable, gracious and temperate," said "Gil" Johnston a professor and former dean of The John Marshall Law School.
Read more: Iain Johnston Sworn in as Magistrate Judge


text: Article Art galleries exhibitions Artists from all over have beaten a path to Wales, reflected in the diversity of work exhibited. List Wales underground There has been a lot of underground activity in the long history of Wales. Article Craft centres of Wales Wales is arguably the craftiest place on the planet. Article Museums in Wales From acclaimed National Museums to thrilling caves and mines, Wales has museums for all the family.


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There is an online casting call to land a role in 'How to Catch a Monster,' an upcoming movie being filmed in Detroit.
'How to Catch a Monster' is written by Ryan Gosling and will also be directed by the star. The role of "Frankie" still needs to be filled. The role will go to a 2 to 3-year-old male who is Caucasian or bi-racial.
To apply, e-mail snapshots or video with contact information to
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Slow-roast lamb with cinnamon, fennel & citrus
By Sarah Cook
Cooking timePrep: 15 mins Cook: 4 hrs, 20 mins Plus overnight marinating plus resting
Skill levelEasy
ServingsServes 6
For lamb that will melt in your mouth and surprise your palate, follow Sarah Cook's easy recipe
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 514
- protein
- 50g
- carbs
- 8g
- fat
- 32g
- saturates
- 13g
- fibre
- 0g
- sugar
- 5g
- salt
- 0.29g
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- Put the lamb into a large food bag with all the juice and marinate overnight.
- The next day, take the lamb out of the fridge 1 hr before you want to cook it. Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7. Take the lamb out of the marinade (reserve remaining marinade) and pat dry. Rub with half the oil and roast for 15-20 mins until browned. Remove lamb and reduce oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3.
- Mix the zests, remaining oil, honey, spices and garlic with plenty of seasoning. Lay a large sheet of baking parchment on a large sheet of foil. Sit the lamb leg on top, rub all over with the paste and pull up the sides of the foil. Drizzle marinade into base, and scrunch foil to seal.
- Roast for 4 hrs, until very tender. Rest, still wrapped, for 30 mins. Unwrap and serve with juices.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2011
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Comments, questions and tips
I have made this numerous times and it is always a hit with our guests. The last time I made it I added a couple of sliced fennel bulbs in the foil as I was roasting. I also add the juice of an extra orange when marinating. Also when roasting I add a little white wine which helps to keep it so moist. I serve with the crunchy potatoes with dill & onions and herb salad with pomegranate & pistachios as suggested.
Re question about marinating - put the lamb in a food bag with the juices of the lemon and oranges and marinate overnight.
Served this for Easter lunch , in France , to my French in-laws. In view that some of my customers are known to,like the lamb undercooked I was apprehensive that 4 hours in the oven would generate a resounding Non! However things tuned out to be absolutely to the contrary with smiles all round. Served with the suggested potatoes. Could not find pomegranate seeds and so went with walnut, dried raisin and cranberry mix which went well with a dish considered to be similar in flavour to a Tagine.
cooked this yesterday, along with the suggested salad and potatoes, for family and friends and it went down a storm... 2.5kg leg easily fed 8 but upped the potatoes to 2.5kg and used 200g of salad leaves. Made Honey Yogurt Cheesecake to round things off and can honestly say it was the best received meal ever and I do a lot of cooking; so simple and yet so good!
Made this for Mothers day when my parents-in-law were over and it's the most succulent lamb I've ever eten!
It's well worth the effort (in the end, it's not that much of an effort because as soon as it's in thte oven for 4 hours, it doesn't require any attention).
The leftovers went into a curry the next day and worked like a treat!
I made this for a dinner party. It was fab! Very easy to make, almost no intervention. Cooked really well and in the times suggested. Did it with peas with lemon and olive oil, glazed carrots, mash and roasties and a lamb gravy. Loved by all! Will definitely make again. I would recommend you try it!
Served this last night for a New Year's Eve dinner party with the suggested potatoes and salad. Preceded with meze, followed with almond and honey pastries with orange cream. All wonderful: easy to prep ahead and needing relatively little attention during the party so creating a really chilled and enjoyable evening. Lamb was really tasty though I'd look it slightly less next time.


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Japan wound up their 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ preparations with another disappointing performance - a scoreless draw with Zimbabwe in a training match. The draw at least brought to an end a run of four successive defeats for Japan, to Serbia, South Korea, England and Côte d'Ivoire.
Japan had wanted to play an African side as a tune-up for their FIFA World Cup opener against Cameroon on Monday, but Mozambique told Japan they would skip the scheduled match, only hours after losing 3-0 to Portugal in a friendly in Johannesburg on Tuesday night, forcing the Japanese Football Association into a quick re-think. "We wanted to make the announcement only after confirming that the Zimbabwe team had arrived here," said JFA technical director Hiromi Hara.
The training match was played over three 30-minute periods with Japan's first-team regulars, including rising CSKA Moscow midfield star Keisuke Honda, competing only in the first one. Honda played as Japan's lone frontman, a new role given to him by coach Takeshi Okada to boost the Blue Samurai's firepower. Japan have managed only one goal in their warm-up games, through Marcus Tulio Tanaka in the 2-1 defeat by England in Graz.
I don't think Cameroon will let us play easily like this.
Honda said he thought the Zimbabwe workout, espepcially the first period he took part in, had been good for the team. "Although we didn't score in such a short period, we managed to find several patterns that we can use against Cameroon. I take it as a positive," he said.
Honda, who helped CSKA Moscow reach the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals after moving from Dutch club Venlo in January, was easily Japan's most productive player, spraying passes out to both flanks and into the box. Yoshito Okubo latched on to one of them, but fired it straight at the Zimbabwe goalkeeper.
"I don't think Cameroon will let us play easily like this," said Wolfsburg defensive midfielder Makoto Hasebe after taking part in the first period. "We came so close to scoring several times. I believe we will surely have a good chance to beat Cameroon as they have yet to hit top form."


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By On the occasion of our 20th anniversary
Why Do Mexis Like Wrought-Iron Fences?
By Gustavo Arellano
By R. Scott Moxley
By Alfonso Delgado
Women For: OC are Stitching and Bitching
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Santa Ana River Ready for Its Renaissance
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Can Tech Ruin the Kim Pham Murder Trial?
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I have just read Bob Emmers' article on the Orange County Animal Shelter ("Pet Hell," May 14). It is difficult to believe that such an educated, prosperous community could harbor such inhumanity in its midst. The perceived need for catchpoles for cats left me stupefied. Obviously, people who think they need those inhumane devices are not animal people and should not be employed in a situation in which they come into contact with innocent, unwanted animals.
Many shelters all over the country try to find homes for their animals—and if they can't, they give them a gentle and peaceful end. "Good death" is the definition of euthanasia; the killing methods for cats described in the article are anything but that.
Let us hope the animal lovers of Orange County will come forward and clean up this cruel mess at their animal "shelter."—Bonnie Kalmbach, via e-mail
The Orange County Animal Shelter has good and bad employees. I can see why some might be insensitive because they have to clean up everybody else's mess. They serve—what?—20 cities? That's a lot of dogs and cats. And with that comes a lot of irresponsible pet owners.
The shelter is definitely not state-of-the-art. This is all about money. We need a new people- and animal-friendly shelter that is equipped for winter weather. Programs need to be implemented to make it an "adoption center," not an animal shelter. Hours need to be extended in summer months, and the shelter needs to be open on Sundays. We need to address this issue in a positive way to make the Orange County Animal Shelter user-friendly.—Therese M. Galvan, Santa Ana IT DOESN'T REGISTER
How refreshing it is to know that one Orange County paper (the Weekly) and one writer (R. Scott Moxley) haven't been bought off by the real-estate developers ("Sympathy for the Devil: The Register's upside-down campaign for sprawl," May 14). Like its stance on most issues, the Register and [its editorial writer] Steve Greenhut are nothing if inconsistent. They love to slam the high costs of government one day and praise developers who demand and get absurd taxpayer subsidies the next. Thanks for cutting through the bullshit.—J. Matthews, Newport Beach
Moxley correctly condemned the Mission Viejo City Council's $41.6 million tax subsidy to the private owner of the Mission Viejo Mall. However, in the next sentence, he stated Greenhut was "not troubled by nauseatingly cozy relationships between developers and government officials."
In a scathing editorial, Greenhut blasted Mission Viejo officials and the Simon Property Group regarding that mall subsidy. He is an ardent foe of developers seeking corporate welfare in the form of taxpayer-funded redevelopment subsidies. Furthermore, Greenhut has editorially supported grassroots groups against arrogant officials, condemning Mission Viejo City Councilman Bill Craycraft for attempting to interfere with access to public documents when Craycraft sought to publicize the names of individual requesters.—Brad Morton, Mission Viejo Committee for Integrity in Government R. Scott Moxley responds:The Register preaches that our local governments have been captured by wild-eyed environmentalists who do nothing but hinder defenseless real-estate developers. In fact, it is the developers who—through massive campaign contributions—dominate many of our city councils. Evidence? Plans for as many as 60,000 new houses throughout the county are near completion. TheReg deserves praise when it slams corporate welfare, but far too often, the paper argues from a businessman's fantasyland. Their April 19 editorial, for example, demanded that city councils "step out of the way" of developers. DOWN ON TOWN
Rich Kane's "My Kind of Town" regarding fabulous, glamorous La Habra was right-on (First Person, May 7). Sometimes the truth hurts. Don't La Habra's civic leaders go to livable places on vacation? They have to know about their poor community image. The local government acts as if we should be grateful for paved roads and indoor plumbing! Improving the town's semirural community identity will require state-of-the-art, small-town revitalization.
They could start by televising City Council meetings and creating a pedestrian-oriented downtown in a park-like setting. There's no reason why we have to look like Beirut; plant a tree.
As the town approaches its 75th anniversary in the year 2000 (it was incorporated on Jan. 20, 1925), we can only hope for visionary leadership and some comparative city planning. Thanks for the article; I'm mailing it to every council member.—Robert Dale, member, La Habra 2000
I am mystified by Kane's piece. Having lived there for most of my life, I am most grateful to have never seen the La Habra he painted for your readers. How unfortunate that his experiences as a "proud resident" of 19 years left him with such a bitter taste in his mouth. How deeply unfortunate, too, that La Habra is left with an equally bitter impression of Kane and his talent.—Connie Michaud, Hull, Massachusetts A CRYSTAL BALL
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Twitter announced on—where else?—that it has filed papers for an initial public offering.
We've confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale.—
Twitter (@twitter) September 12, 2013
The decision to file has been the source of speculation since Facebook, Twitter's larger social media counterpart, went public in May 2012. The company has an estimated value of $10 billion and more than 200 million active users.
Under a federal law passed last year, companies with less than $1 billion in annual revenue (Twitter will bring in about $500 million in 2013) can submit confidential S-1 statements to the Securities and Exchange Commsision without subjecting them to public scrutiny. If the company decides to pull out, it hasn't divulged its internal numbers to the public, according to Forbes.
But the form must be made public 21 days before the company begins the potentially long process of reaching out to investors and analysts to win support for its public offering.


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You can use a .forward file to forward mail to an address outside of Courant. Forwarding mail to another machine at Courant will result in an alias loop due to the existence of your global alias. So beware.
To forward all your mail to an outside address from your CIMS address, simply open the .forward file in your home directory. Modify the file so that it contains only the e-mail address that you would like all your mail to be forwarded to. If you want to disable mail-forwarding, simply delete the file, or leave it completely blank.


text: EDCP Theses and Dissertations http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14677 2015-11-27T14:14:55Z Displaced displacement : an a/r/tographic performance of experiences of being unhomed http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43730 This study is an a/r/tographic living inquiry that investigates the theme of displacement through visual and textual performances of my experiences of being un/homed. It is an aesthetic (and not anesthetic) self-exploration of my struggles of in-betweenness and unbelonging through and with/in multiple layers of my identity as a Persian-Canadian, and emigrant/immigrant artist, researcher, learner, and teacher. Additionally, this work draws on post-colonial literature to analyze the journey of an artist, researcher and teacher sharing her personal experiences as an emigrant/immigrant struggling with absence and loss, trying to make a place to belong. In the pedagogical process/product of this living performance, I re-visit, and re-member my lived and living struggles with the concepts of home, language, Othering, invisibility, exoticism, pain and ethics, and critically analyze those struggles through a post-colonial lens. What is re-presented throughout this dissertation is a critical self-exploration through art creation (photographs and video installations) and writing. I suggest that through the process of visually/textually writing about home one can create a home for oneself in the spaces of one's creation. I highlight the significance of the pedagogical moments of being together, with pain and I call for a sensitive pedagogy of representation in art education. 2012-12-20T00:00:00Z Designing immersive language learning environments in virtual worlds http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43724 During the past decade, there has been increasing attention to second/foreign language teaching and learning in virtual worlds. The purpose of this study was to explore affordances of a 3D virtual world platform designed as an immersive language teaching and learning environment. Focusing on designing virtual worlds as a catalyst for change, three design phases (development of artifact, low fidelity prototyping, and high fidelity prototyping) were detailed and documented in this study. Nineteen students from a pre-service teacher cohort, two technicians and eight language learners from high schools in Vancouver as well as eighty language learners from universities in China were involved in this study; participants were asked to immerse themselves in the virtual language learning environment designed for the study. Participants' interactions in the virtual world were videotaped and avatar interactions were recorded. Group discussions, observations, suvey questionnaires and the video-stimulated post interaction interviews provided complementary data for understanding affordances of virtual worlds in designing immersive second/foreign language learning curriculum. Analysis of the feasibility study, low fidelity design, and high fidelity design suggested a more robust design for immerisve virtual language learning environments. Three design cycles revealed primary design factors of immersive second/foreign language learning in virtual worlds (embodied avatar, co-presence, and simulation) and their relative significance in the process of learners' meaning-making and knowledge construction. Findings showed that embodiment through an embodied avatar, community of practice through co-presence, and situated learning through simulation had a greater impact on the immersive virtual learning design. Building on a theoretical framework of embodied mind, situated learning and distributed cognition, this study documented features of learning theories key to language learning curriculum design in virtual worlds. The findings and techniques resulting from this study will help designers and researchers improve second/foreign language curriculum design in virtual worlds. It also prompts designers and researchers to achieve a better understanding of how virtual worlds can be redesigned by rethinking learning theories. The refinement of design-based research stages into low and high fidelity prototyping provides researchers with empirically tested and nuanced understandings of the design process. 2012-12-20T00:00:00Z Unwrapping citizenship : getting inside the nature of citizenship education http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43519 Citizenship education has been and continues to be espoused as a primary purpose of schooling. Citizenship education has been challenged by not only shifting notions of what is means to be a citizen, but also by the contested nature of citizenship and democracy. Neoliberal impacts have changed citizenship from a political and social to an economic concept. Citizenship has been professed as a universal concept providing all people in our democracy equal rights and protection. This, however, fails to promote understanding of the realities of inequality that permeate society. Hegemonic structures continue to separate the privileged and the not so privileged. Problems of citzenship inherently mean problems of citizenship education. This purpose of this study was to explore the reality of citizenship education. The research questions were: • What are the opportunities present (in the curriculum) for students to develop citizenship at the elementary school, and what is the nature of the student experiences and interactions with those opportunities? • How do school experiences promote development of citizenship attributes of personal responsibility, participation, and social justice? Data was collected through environmental observation and a series of semi-structured individual and group interviews with grade seven students at Westview Elementary School in Vancouver, British Columbia. The data revealed an emphasis on developing personally responsible citizenship, while participatory citizenship education remained set aside for the students in leadership group, and opportunities for developing authentic social justice citizenship education were minimal. In the interviews, students communicated the impact of agency and increased awareness. There was a void with regards to critical opportunities to question systems and explore reasons for injustice. Student experiences with citizenship education did not tackle concepts of democracy, universalism of citizenship, nor explore effects of privilege. This lack of critical pedagogy and questioning of current structures disables the capacity of citizenship education to transform society. Tensions presented themselves in the struggle for educators to step out of the neutral zone, unpack limitations, and have time to alter the current curriculum path. Amidst the tensions and the challenges of citizenship education at Westview, however, there are many possibilities and promises for transforming the citizenship rhetoric into a reality. 2012-10-22T00:00:00Z Rehearsing a maroon mythopoetics in mathematics education through consideration of an artefact of mathematics popularization (the pedagogical film All is Number) http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43490 In this transdisciplinary study I rehearse ideas of communication, discourse, identity, representation, ethics, and responsibility as they relate to mathematics education through critical engagement with the medium of a specific pedagogic film – All is Number – which was produced in the Caribbean and intended for Secondary School and non-specialist audiences. I argue that popularizations of science and mathematics, even as they work to interrupt particular limiting narratives, simultaneously participate in ideological, political moral and aesthetic economies and ecologies in which the discursive enactments of colonial power/knowledge are necessarily implicated and show that mathematics popularization has proselytizing and pedagogic functions. I consider the film All is Number to be situated with/in the heteroglossia of broader cultural phenomena, viz. the 'popularization' of educational consumption, and most specifically, the popularization of mathematics. Specifically, I illustrate how the film constructs an idea of mathematical authority and mathematics that is simultaneously sensitive to concerns in the mathematics education literature about the representation of mathematical practitioners and mathematics yet insensitive to practices of Othering. I argue that the film is an ethnomathematical artefact representing aspects of a particular culture of mathematics and that the mythopoetic tradition in Curriculum Studies might serve as a useful alloy for ethnomathematical studies. In addition, I contribute towards a language for Caribbean Curriculum Theorizing by arguing that the film and dissertation as anomalous places of learning can be construed as a maroon narrative. I introduce and rehearse the implications of my concept of intervulnerability where rehearsal is taken as being an ethically and epistemologically vigilant mode of dialogical inquiry, a demythologizing critique and recursive elaboration. 2012-10-18T00:00:00Z


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Electronic requests for public records held by local governments are sometimes much further than a few clicks away.
A public records audit conducted by journalists in each county of the state found local governments have a scattershot approach to electronic requests.
Some auditors found websites to school districts, cities and counties with email addresses or online contact forms. Others had difficulty sussing out officials' email addresses or sent multiple emails requesting information but received no response. ...


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What are the advantages and challenges inherent in working with children in the design process for creating games or apps? How do you stop them getting bored, and get useful information? This case study looks in detail at a project that tried to do just that, and provides some handy tips at the end.
(Images from a different project working with children at Games Britannia, reproduced with kind permission from Mark Hardisty)
I am Monica and I am a UX Researcher working at City University London. My interest is in how technology can enhance learning in children and adults. I finished the Masters course in Human-Centred Systems at City University London in September 2012. For my dissertation, Designing applications for children, I worked with children aged 4-5 years old to design an iPad application to learn the names and sounds of the letters, and to read and spell simple words. Here is a brief description of what I did, what I found out and why I think children should be involved in the design of technology.
The method
Different methodologies, methods and techniques can be used when designing technology for children. I chose to use the Cooperative Inquiry methodology because it has the highest user involvement compared to the others. Cooperative Inquiry has been developed by Dr. Allison Druin and her colleagues at the University of Maryland. It treats children as full design partners over the whole duration of the design process, equal to the professional adult designers on the team.
A combination of techniques is used in Cooperative Inquiry, which are listed in the table below, according to the design's goal. There is not a magic formula for working with children, but rather a philosophy and approach that can be used to gather data, generate ideas, design and develop prototypes.
|Goals for Co design
|Cooperative Inquiry Techniques
|Observation – Design team adults and children observe others using technology (Technology Immersion)
|Interviewing – Design team adults and children interview others using technology (Technology Immersion)
|Critique other systems using sticky notes
|Brainstorming – of ideas
|Mixing Ideas – merging individual ideas into bigger ideas
|Layered Elaboration – use of acetate sheets to generate ideas though an iterative process
|Low-tech prototyping with art supplies (pens, papers, sticky notes, etc.)
|Wear informal clothes – adults should wear informal clothes, like children do
|Adults at the same level of children (to make them more confortable) – sitting down on the floor or at the table, with children
|No hand raising – everyone is equal
|Use first names – and not Ms, Mrs or Mrs
|All ideas are good ideas – there is not such thing as a bad idea
|There are not right and wrong answers
|Group presenting
|Adult debriefing
Following the Cooperative Inquiry methodology and all its techniques, two sessions were organised with the children: a games session and a design session.
Games session
The main aim of the games session was to observe the children (the users) doing their normal tasks, their hand movements, to capture the details of what they do, and to explore which games and activities were more interesting, challenging and kept them focused.
The children played six different games that each featured aspects of children's behaviour that we wanted to observe and learn more about. So for example, in the Parking Spot game, the aim was to observe how children move objects on a flat surface. Each child was given an A3 piece of paper with each letter of the alphabet drawn in a different parking spot. They were also given a car each. The Teaching Assistant, present at the session, pronounced the name and sound of five letters. The children had to find the correct parking spot for each letter.
In the Cups game the aim was primarily to observe where the children's attention was (on the cups, the letters or the sweet) and also to reward them with a sweet. Letters were written on the cups. They were turned over on the table and a sweet was hidden underneath one cup. The children had to change the position of the cups and find the correct spelling of the word. Once they had done that, they had to find the sweet and eat it.
The Find all letters game was the last game the children played. The aim was to find the yellow letters and spell correctly the name of the animals and/or object shown in the paper the children were given. The game was chosen again to observe how children would find the letters, how they would move them and what they would do once they found them.
The children were given an A3 piece of paper each with a square in the middle and pictures of animals and objects on the edges of the square. They were also given some letters written on small yellow papers. Unfortunately, the game didn't work as planned as there were too many letters and the children had difficulties to find the correct ones. The children were then asked to write the name of the objects instead of finding the correct yellow letters.
At the end of each game, the children were asked some questions to understand if they enjoyed the game, what they liked the most, what they didn't like, and if they found the game easy or difficult. At the end of the session, each child was given some chocolate egg surprises, as a thank you for participating.
Design session
The main aim of the design session was to generate ideas for the design of the iPad application and to create a low-fidelity prototype. The children were asked to dress up with their favourite costume. One child dressed up as a Spanish flamenco ballerina, one as Ben10, one as a pumpkin and we also had a Peppa Pig.
I started by explaining the purpose of the session. The children were told that they were "inventors of technology" to help them understand that their ideas are very important when designing new technology. They were also told that they were going to design and draw an iPad application. I explained the meaning of design (drawing what something will look like, for examples, the builders who build houses, first they draw the house on a piece of paper and then they copy and build the house) and the meaning of an application (a game). They were all familiar with what an iPad is.
I began the brainstorming by asking questions about the children's characters and costumes. Questions like what do you think <character> had for breakfast this morning?, do you think <character> went to school today?, what do you think <character> did?, did <character> learn the letters? and how did <character> learn the letters? were asked to give them a starting point from which to find ideas for the design of the iPad application.
They were also asked to draw their own ideas on the A3 piece of paper in front of them. The purpose was to mix the four ideas into only one main idea. This technique is called "Mixing Ideas" and is applied in Cooperative Inquiry. It is a technique used to merge individual ideas into a bigger, collaborative idea. Unfortunately, this did not work as children aged 4-5 years old who are very egocentric and jealously protective of their own ideas. It is difficult to understand the concept of putting together each individual's ideas to form a bigger idea.
The children kept drawing on their own piece of paper, and some of them started to be bored and impatient. At this point, it was time to change task. It is difficult for children at this age to stay focused on the same task for a long period. They were offered some Playmobil figures and stickers to play with and generate more ideas. They were also given an iPad prototype made of cardboard and white paper of the size of the iPad screen to create the low-fidelity prototype.
Unfortunately, the design session was terminated earlier than planned due to the children getting impatient. I preferred to terminate the session earlier rather than pressure them and make them upset or disturbed. All children were given some books and chocolate, as a reward for participating, which, of course, were very much appreciated!
The games session went very well. The main aim was to observe the children's hands movements on a flat surface, to capture the details of what they do, and to explore which games and activities were more interesting, challenging and kept their focus. They were familiar with the games played and understood well the problems and what they were asked to do.
There were lots of hands movements, from left to right and from right to left, lots of enthusiasm and participation. They kept repeating the sound of the letters. There was a little bit of surprise, which kept them interested and motivated. And there was also a little bit of reward too: the sweets in the Cups game and the chocolate at the end of the session!
The children liked the majority of the games. The activities they liked the most were joining, finding, colouring, drawing, parking and writing.
The observation and analysis of the games session culminated on a set of requirements to be met by the iPad application.
The design session didn't go as well as the games session. The main aims were to generate ideas for the design and create a low-fidelity prototype. Four ideas were generated:
- Peppa Pig learned the letters with a clown
- The pumpkin eats fire from his tummy
- Ben10 guesses the letters, which go into his head
- The Spanish ballerina learned the letters with the teacher, whiteboard and songs
Although lots of activities were planned and organised to keep the children motivated, as mentioned, the session was terminated earlier than planned due to the children getting tired, bored and impatient. For this reason the low-fidelity prototype was not created.
I took into consideration the children's ideas mentioned above and the requirements gathered from the games session to create the application as wireframes. The application was not actually turned into a fully coded application, as I was more interested on the process of involving children in the design of technology, rather than the final product.
Conclusions and tips
"It is not easy for an adult to step into a child's world, and likewise it is not easy for a child to step into an adult's world" by Dr. Allison Druin
Children have preferences, likes, and dislikes, needs and wants, which are different from adults. This is why we should include them in the design process, to facilitate usability, improvements, creativity and innovation. It is important to involve them in a relevant and useful way, considering their age and stage of development.
Working with young children is not easy. For example, they are very enthusiastic but also get distracted very easily. Here are my final tips for successfully working with children:
- Have clear goals in mind. Ask yourself what you want to achieve from working with children and how to achieve it. Do you just want to observe them doing their normal activities and tasks? Which age should the children be?
- Do your research. Before starting the project, do some user, product and market research to better understand what you want to achieve
- .Be organised. Due to their school and family commitments, it is not always possible to work with children for a long period of time. You need to try and make the most of the children's available time. Sessions need to be well planned, unexpected events can happen and the planned work should be changed accordingly.
- Organise lots of tasks and activities. Children, especially young children, cannot concentrate for a long period. They need to be kept busy otherwise they become bored and not participatory. Stimulate their imagination organising activities according to their age.Try to work with children of the same age. Although all four children who participated in my project were attending Reception class, their ages were different. Laura was 4 years old and the other three children were 5 years old. One year of difference in younger children makes a big difference in their personality and development.
- Make the children feel important. Explain who you are, what you are going to do and why, wear informal clothes and remember to sit at the same level of them.
- Thank and reward the children after each session. Books are always a good idea and children love them!
- Keep in touch with them, the school and parents for future collaborations
Co-designing with Children by Catalina Naranjo-Bock, UXMatters
Approaches to User Research When Designing for Children – by Catalina Naranjo-Bock, UXMatters
Druin, A. 2002. The Role of Children in the Design of New Technology. Behaviour and Information Technology, 21(1), pp. 1-25.


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|Electrocardiographic ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in critically ill patients: an observational cohort analysis.
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|PMID: 20890196 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|OBJECTIVE: To investigate the specificity of the electrocardiographic diagnosis of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in the critical care unit setting.
DESIGN: Retrospective observational cohort analysis.
SETTING: An 880-bed tertiary care teaching hospital with 120 intensive care unit beds.
PATIENTS: The population included medical, surgical, trauma, and neurosurgical intensive care unit patients.
INTERVENTIONS: Electrocardiograms were systematically collected to include all consecutive recordings over a 15-month period in which the interpretation software indicated ***ACUTE MI***. Patient demographics, markers of intensive care unit complexity, and hospital mortality were ascertained. The electrocardiograms were then further evaluated by a blinded, board-certified cardiologist for agreement or disagreement with the interpretation software. Serum troponin measurements obtained within 96 hrs of electrocardiogram acquisition were used to determine the likelihood of myocardial infarction.
MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Over the 15-month study period, the interpretation software diagnosed ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in 67 of 2243 intensive care unit patients (2.99%) who had an electrocardiogram performed. In the final study population of 46 cases with electrocardiographic ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, 85% had peak troponin elevation<5 ng/mL, a strong suggestion against clinical ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. The cardiologist agreed with the computer interpretation in 39% (18 of 46) of cases, but of those 18 patients, only six showed a significant rise in the troponin level. The cardiologist disagreed with the computer interpretation in 60.9% (28 of 46) of cases and of those, one patient had a marked elevation of the cardiac troponin.
CONCLUSIONS: ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in the intensive care unit is a relatively common electrocardiographic reading both by standard interpretation software and by expert evaluation. In contrast to nonintensive care unit patients who present with chest pain, the electrocardiographic ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction diagnosis seems to be a nonspecific finding in the intensive care unit that is frequently the result of a variety of nonischemic processes. The vast majority of such patients do not have frank ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction.
|Stephen L Rennyson; Jody Hunt; Michael W Haley; H James Norton; Laszlo Littmann
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|Created Date: 2010-11-22 Completed Date: 2010-12-21 Revised Date: -
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|Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA, USA.
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Chi-Square Distribution
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Electrocardiography / methods*
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Hospitals, Teaching
Intensive Care / methods
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Myocardial Infarction / blood*, diagnosis*, mortality
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Senior Players notebook: The Walrus welcomes new swing
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With a white bushy mustache and a lighthearted nickname to match, Craig Stadler has been a crowd favorite for decades. But for the first time in years, golf has the Walrus smiling again.
"I'm actually excited about this week, I think," said Stadler, whose win Sunday in suburban Chicago was his first Champions Tour victory since 2004. "I haven't been excited about playing anywhere for a while, so I don't know what this (feeling) is exactly."
At Fox Chapel Golf Club for the Constellation Senior Players Championship, Stadler finally has reason for hope.
The 60-year-old reworked his swing in recent weeks with guidance from instructor Billy Harmon, who oversaw the first major mechanical overhaul in a career that included a Masters title in 1982.
There were just two top-10 finishes among Stadler's 17 starts in 2012, but he placed worse than 30th a dozen times. When those struggles lasted into this season, Stadler was embarrassed.
"It was do or die," he said. "Either (Harmon) was going to fix it, or I was going to quit. It's that simple. I'd had enough."
But that was before Sunday's victory, which has him wanting more.
A 12-foot par putt on the final hole earned Stadler a one-shot victory over Fred Couples at the Encompass Championship in Glenview, Ill. Maybe even more so than any trophy or check, Stadler cherished the phone calls, the few dozen emails and the nearly 200 text messages from friends saying congratulations.
"The nicest thing that I appreciate more than anybody knows ... was I got way-to-go notes from probably 30 or 40 different pros," Stadler said. "That's pretty cool."
Among the swing changes, his shoulders now are more square and his grip was strengthened, gaining him 10 yards on his irons. He'll play the first two round with Rocco Mediate and defending champion Joe Daley.
"I played the same for 45 years, and now it's all different," said Stadler, who has endured hip, back and foot problems. "Obviously, something in there works."
Monty draws strong group
For the first two rounds, newcomer Colin Montgomerie will join Champions Tour leaders David Frost and Bernhard Langer in a grouping. Frost and Langer, who rank first and second in the Charles Schwab Cup standings, each have two victories this seasons. The trio will start at 11:53 a.m. Thursday and 9:30 a.m. Friday.
"That's an honor for me to play with the No. 1 and 2," Montgomerie said. "I look forward to finding out my standard, taking the standard from them and seeing what I have to improve."
Frost, 53, has 1,417 points in 11 starts, with eight top-10 finishes. The 55-year-old Langer, who has 1,119 points in 12 starts, has finished 10th or higher seven times.
Montgomerie has 40 professional wins, including one European PGA Tour victory he shared with Langer when darkness halted their 2002 playoff at the Volvo Masters. More than a decade later, the two friends are rival contenders again.
"I've been playing the past 10 years with people who I have children older than," Montgomerie said, "and that doesn't seem fair to me. At least we're all put in the same boat now, being over 50. I look forward to the opportunity of competing. And not just competing, but contending for tournaments again."
Another noteworthy trio includes major winners Tom Watson, Hale Irwin and Tom Lehman.
Pro-am pairings
Montgomerie and Rocco Mediate will lead back-to-back groups in Wednesday's pro-am, with Mediate leaving No. 10 at 12:50 p.m. and Montgomerie following at 1 p.m.
In all, 48 professionals will take part, split between morning and afternoon tee times.
Showing their skills
Champions Tour golfer Larry Mize, retired Pirates pitcher Kent Tekulve and media member Paul Alexander combined to win Tuesday's skills competition at Fox Chapel, earning $10,000 for Pittsburgh Pirates Charities.
Two other teams, led by former Penguins forward Phil Bourque and retired Steelers safety Mike Wagner, each received $5,000 for charity.
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While it may be more comforting to consider these men but lone wolves acting upon their own deranged ideas, that no longer seems to be the case. In this age of social media and easily accessible information in which we live, it is no longer necessary for contact to be made for a message to be passed on.
The latest manifestation of this campaign centres on the veil, or niqab, worn by a minority of Muslim women in Britain but recently inflated to assume the status of a threat to society. It is a campaign which has drawn support from both right and left of the mainstream political spectrum and commentariat, justified on the basis of women's rights, security, and/or progress.
The moment Clegg got into bed with Cameron and co. was the moment he relinquished all rights to that kind of balanced assessment. It should never have happened; simple as. A token voting system referendum and a few quid added to a tax threshold doesn't make up for the fact he has lost the student vote for his party.
I recently wrote on this site that, in reference to the recently published photos of the Duchess of Cambridge, pregnant and on holiday, that '...our morbid fascination with this bizarre, ordinary family invests them with a sort of inverted dignity just by them doing and saying nothing of real consequence.' I didn't expect such a vivid illustration to present itself so soon.
Sexual orientation is, I think, a complex thing and not reducible to the facile and outdated categories of nature or nurture. Likewise, rights can be complex. But the case here is simple, whether that way by chance or choice, gays and lesbians deserve the right to marry. Granting that right in the UK is a good choice, let's make it now.


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(Times of Israel) BETHLEHEM — Josiah Cohen first came to Israel last summer through a religious study tour organized by Wheaton College, an evangelical liberal arts school in Illinois where he studies music education.
An active member of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Cohen, 20, said he "fell in love with the land," but craved firsthand contact with the people, an element lacking in the for-credit school pilgrimage he joined.
So Cohen began saving money through extra shifts as a college writing consultant, also appealing to family and friends for financial assistance — all so he could attend Christ at the Checkpoint, a biennial conference organized by Bethlehem Bible College for evangelicals from across the world. This year, 650 participants arrived from 15 countries.
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Davonte Williams of Detroit watches as Gregory Jackson sizes up the 4-year-old's feet. Jackson, the president and CEO of Prestige Automotive, owns three car dealerships including a Toyota dealership.
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How to Make Graphene
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James Tour, a chemistry professor at Rice University, says that this is "certainly the easiest method I've seen for making [graphene thin films] over large areas." He thinks that the process could easily be converted into a larger, commercial-scale manufacturing technique. "It's very amenable for rapid production," he says. "It's not going to take much to get these things produced … and cover large areas."
Chhowalla and his colleagues control the thickness of the film by changing the suspension's volume. A volume of 20 milliliters results in a film that is mostly one to two nanometers in thickness, while an 80-milliliter suspension results in films that are mainly three to five nanometers thick. The thinner films are 95 percent transparent. The researchers have used the films as the transparent electrodes in organic solar cells. They have also made transistors by placing their films on a silicon substrate and depositing gold electrodes on them.
The graphene films need a lot more work. Right now, the transistors do not carry as much current as those made from individual graphene flakes, which, the researchers speculate, is because of overlapping flakes in their films. For high-quality transistors, they will need to make single-layer graphene films with no overlap. They also need to improve the conductivity of their film: indium tin oxide is still hundreds of times more conductive. Organic solar cells with indium tin oxide electrodes are between 3 percent and 5 percent efficient. "With graphene thin-film electrodes, we get 0.1 percent," Chhowalla says, "but these are proof-of-concept devices and of course will improve with time."
Tour believes that the film holds more promise for organic solar cells than for transistors. Many researchers are also studying carbon nanotube films as a way to replace indium tin oxide coatings on solar cells. But Tour says that graphene would be "possibly easier than using carbon nanotubes because of the greater availability of the material." The industry might also find it easier to adopt graphene because of the concerns that some people have about the effects of carbon nanotubes on the environment.


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- Published: New York : Philomel Books, c1995.
- Year Published: 1995
- Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
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The legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.
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A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.
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This is the September 24, 2013 news archive. View today's Pirates rumors and news.
A look back at the last Pirates team to make the playoffs
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The Pirates are headed to their first playoffs in 21 years, but what did their last playoff team look like?Share Tweet
Sveum: Winning not that far off for CubsMLB.com Sep 24, 2013The Cubs had to watch the Braves and Pirates secure postseason berths in back-to-back games, and Chicago manager Dale Sveum says he hopes the young players can learn from the experience.Share Tweet
The day in baseball mash-ups: Robin Thicke meets the Braves and 'The Breakfast Club' meets the Piratesyahoo.com Sep 24, 2013Comedian Aaron Chewning and singer/rapper Miles Austin (not the NFL dude) have given the Internet an Atlanta Braves version of Robin Thicke's hit single "Blurred Lines." They've flipped it into "Baselines" and even managed to score a…Share Tweet
Pirates and Reds clinch, Halladay and Machado hurtCNNSI.com ESPN.com post-gazette.com yahoo.com Sep 24, 2013The Pirates and Reds clinched playoff spots and won in thrilling fashion on an exciting Monday.Share Tweet
Cards eliminate Nats, magic number to fourMLB.com Sep 24, 2013The Cardinals took another step toward the National League Central crown Monday. St. Louis opened their last homestand with a 4-3 win over the Nationals, dropping their magic number to clinch the division to four over the Pirates and the Reds. They can …Share Tweet
Pirates Crush CubsSep 24The Pirates topped the Cubs 8-2 for their second straight win.
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NBA -- Shaquille O'Neal joining the Sacramento Kings? Smart moveSep 24Shaquille O'Neal bought a minority share of the Sacramento Kings. Smart investment? J.A. Adande examines.
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Wausau West High School's concert chorale, led by director Phil Buch, records a holiday CD in 2004. Elementary schools' holiday concerts have been canceled after the Wausau School District issued a directive to limit religious music.
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Officials from a national group that fights for separation of church and state said Wednesday the organization plans to send a letter to the Wausau School District thanking it for efforts to limit religious music in school programs.
Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation, said the organization in 2012 received more than 2,500 requests from across the country for help with separation matters. Gaylor said the most common complaint was religion in public schools.
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The Power of Independent Thinking
C.S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism
Recorded: Saturday, August 2, 2014
David J. Theroux, founder and president of The Independent Institute and the C.S. Lewis Society of California, discusses the writings of C.S. Lewis and Lewis's views on individual liberty, natural law and statism.
The presentation was the keynote talk at the first annual conference of Christians for Liberty, that was held at St. Edwards University in Austin, TX, August 2, 2014.
Experts: David J. TherouxType: Other EventIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Collectivism, Culture/ Society, Education, Family, Freedom, Government Power, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics, Privacy, Privatization, Property Rights, Regulation and Deregulation, Religion, Science, Taxes, Welfare
Robert Higgs on FDA and Consumer Welfare
Recorded: Wednesday, July 23, 2014
This presentation by Independent Institute Senior Fellow Robert Higgs was presented on July 24, 2014, at Mises University, sponsored by the Ludwig von Mises Institute, in Auburn, Alabama.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: Other EventIssues: Economists, Free Market Economics, Government Power, Regulation and Deregulation
Robert Higgs: The Welfare State
Recorded: Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Robert Higgs discusses the rise of the welfare state in the United States.
For information on The Challenge of Liberty Summer Seminar, click here.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: Challenge of Liberty SeminarsIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Corporate Welfare, Economic History and Development (International), Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Free Market Economics, Government Power, Government Waste/Pork, History (U.S), Labor and Employment, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Regulation and Deregulation, Social Security, Welfare
Robert Higgs on The Peter Schiff Radio Show on Economic Intervention
Recorded: Thursday, December 15, 2011
Fill-in host Tom Woods on the Peter Schiff Radio Show interviews Senior Fellow Robert Higgs. They discuss the history of government economic interventions during the Great Depression and World War II and how those lessons apply today. Check out some of Robert Higgs books mentioned on the program.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: RadioIssues: Banking and Finance, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Fiscal Policy/Debt, History (U.S), Labor and Employment, Regulation and Deregulation, Taxes
Is U.S. Justice Broken?
Recorded: Thursday, December 9, 2010
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From fingerprinting to criminal sentencing, from lawyer licensing to judicial selection, and from eminent domain to wealth transfers via class-action lawsuits, how do perverse incentives impact the law and what reforms would create a more just and efficient legal system?
Experts: David D. Friedman, Alex Kozinski, Edward J. López, David J. TherouxType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Crime, Criminal Justice/ Prisons, Law Enforcement
Is U.S. Justice Broken?
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Experts: David D. Friedman, Alex Kozinski, Edward J. López, David J. TherouxType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Criminal Justice/ Prisons
Edward López with David Theroux on the New Book, The Pursuit of Justice
Recorded: Thursday, December 9, 2010
Independent Institute Research Fellow Edward Lopéz, Associate Professor of Law and Economics at San Jose State University and editor of the new Institute book The Pursuit of Justice, talks with Institute President David Theroux about the faulty incentives at the heart of government legal failures and whether market-based alternatives can provide viable solutions to the serious problems caused by the bureaucratization and politicization of the law.
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David Theroux on the Arizona Immigration Law
Recorded: Thursday, July 15, 2010
David Theroux discusses the Arizona immigration law on The Neil Asbury Show.
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So far this preseason, the Carolina quartet of quarterbacks has been unimpressive.
Matt Moore was the expected starter coming into the season – we thought he would have to be absolutely terrible to get passed on the depth chart – followed by some combination of Hunter Cantwell and rookie Jimmy Clausen. Then, the fourth-stringer was Tony Pike, and it wasn't out of the question that the Panthers would try to keep all four quarterbacks.
Now, the Panthers would settle for just one quarterback who can play productively.
As Steve Reed of PanthersGrowl.com asks, is it time to panic yet?
It may be, because this preseason is beginning to look remarkably similar to last year's preseason.
And that's not good.
The Panthers managed just one touchdown pass during a winless 2009 preseason and the problems in the passing game carried over into the regular season resulting in three straight losses to open the season. The Panthers never recovered and finished the season 8-8 and out of the playoffs one year after winning the NFC South.
So far, the quarterback ratings of Moore and Clausen are pathetically tiny, stuck in the mid-30s. Coach John Fox doesn't seem concerned, but Moore understands that there's still plenty of aspects of their game that need to be fixed.
"We need to keep working," Moore said. "There are plays there that need to be made and we're capable of making them. We're just going to keep grinding it out and keep working on it and take these next two preseason games and keep learning and be ready to go in Week One."
Moore, who went 4-1 last year after replacing Jake Delhomme, was expected to hold down the starting job until Clausen was sufficiently ready – maybe not this year, but probably next season. It's still the preseason, but if Moore doesn't improve, it might not be a terrible idea to start Cantwell.
Actually, that wouldn't be a very good idea at all, but at this point, that's probably a better option than throwing Clausen into the mix so early in his career.
In reality, Moore, even if he continues to struggle, will start, and the Panther will just have to see how it goes.
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Students' safety must be a part of the discussion of integrating Guam's busing for mass transit riders, high school students and senior citizens under a pilot program, said Guam Regional Transit Authority Executive Manager Rudy Cabana.
A supporter of the governor's recently issued unified busing executive order, Cabana said the safety of students came to mind because mass transit riders may include convicts, or people who may be in the sex offender registry.
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Entrance fees by participants are used for scholarships at Chambersburg Area Senior High School -- for students who model the characteristics exemplified by the late Tim and Susan Cook.
The one-mile race honors the memory of the Cooks, who were both 49 when they died Dec. 13, 2002, as a result of a car accident on Interstate 81.
Both were 1971 graduates of Chambersburg Area Senior High School. Tim Cook was a mathematics teacher at CASHS for 28 years, and he was the coach of the girls' cross country and track teams. Susan Cook was an administrative assistant at Shippensburg University.
The race is organized by the Greater Chambersburg Chamber of Commerce and the Chambersburg Roadrunners, with sponsorship support by area businesses.
Prizes include tickets to Six Flags America and DelGrosso's Amusement Park as well as gift cards to The Orchards Restaurant, Chambersburg.
Same-day registration begins at 7 a.m. July 13 at Chambersburg Memorial YMCA, 570 E. McKinley St. The race begins at Chambersburg Area Middle School South and ends at CASHS.
There will be three events: A race at 8 a.m. for women and girls, a race at 8:30 a.
Participants in the run/walk are not eligible for awards and prizes but all participants will receive finish ribbons.
Cost is $18 an entry if not receiving a T-shirt on race day, and $22 an entry with a T-shirt (if available).
For more information or a race registration form, call Kathy Leedy at 264-7101, Ext. 204. Register online by clicking on events for July 13 at http://www.chambersburg.org.
A full array of ChambersFest events continue through July 28. View the schedule at http://www.chambersburg.org (choose Community and click on ChambersFest).


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I had 1 of the 3 friends I previously mentioned work with me today for the first time this season and he took his time and did really well. Thank the lord. First time I have not had to go behind my helper on every yard.
I tell guys to go fast as hell and accuracy will follow because a lot of times while learning they go real slow, and its more opportunity for the line to grab the ground and pull-same thing with the RPM's too low.
fast seems to let them learn faster IMO
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People have a hard time bc they are scared to mess up...once you get confident it is second nature.
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Also, when guys tell me they have experience, the interview is my truck and trailer in my driveway loaded, and I tell them "edge 10 feet of my yard"
Have weeded out the guys that "invented" their references that way.
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I haven't found that to be the case at all. Running with a trimmer is awful pointless when it's just me and my helper. Having them take their time delivers quality and if he get's done trimming and edging real quick, big deal? I find that even if he takes his time we both always finish right about the same time and jump on the blowers.
I can see where some companies are more interested in the clock though, I'm just glad I don't have to sweat it.
For the guys just starting out, think about this.
I think it is all in the initial training and time you spend explaining things to the employee.
You have to use the safety gear and wear the strap ergonomically
so that when the trimmer hangs loose, it is in a natural position for your
hands to comfortably hold the handle and trigger.
If your wrists are bent at a strange angle you can end up with injuries.
If you don't wear the shoulder strap correctly, you also put strain on your wrists
and will end up with carpel tunnel syndrome.
Alot of the key to trimming in my opinion, is in the way you balance the machine
with the strap, and offset your movements as you walk or run along.
There is alot of hand to eye coordination.
You have to know how deep you can let the line go into the soil along the edges before it bends over and does a bad job. You have to keep the line cut clean with the guard,
so that it operates properly and doesn't tear the grass or flail around.
I see so many guys without guards, throwing rocks and doing a bad job.
A regular horizontal trim is the easiest. It takes a while for some-one to be able to operate with finess and do vertical edging and tree circles at a gallop.
What I call vertical edging requires you to turn the trimmer on its side, so
that the line cuts towards the ground and doesn't send up flying rocks etc.
I can emulate the look of a hard edger with a line trimmer, which saves me
alot of time not having to dig out another tool all the time.
I start people off in low profile areas and monitor their progress until they operate the trimmer the way that I want them too.
Proper training and Safety gear used right from the beginning are important.
Employers are also obligated to have employees read all equipment manuals and safety information.
Having the employee sign off on each piece of equipment they are trained on is a good idea too. Keep the check list in their personel file.
I need people who can cut and then trim without being monitored all the time.
It takes less time to learn how to mow, so spend more time training people how to
trim from the beginning.
I hired a guy who had seven years experience, and he sucked at trimming.
He used the machine upside down! He threw rocks every-where.
His edges looked ragged
I was unable to train him, because he thought he knew it all.
Broken windows cost money.
I hope this helps the newbies.
lol you wear a "strap" with your trimmer? Oh lord...
All you need is yo trimmer and your shades. Not the bs safety gloves, safety underwear, safety this safety that.
I've gone through a lot of Helpers because of their trimming abilities. Some have had years of experience and some had very light experience. My current guy has 6 yrs full time experience but still trims too low sometimes and I constantly have to remind him an edge IMO, is supposed to be 90 degrees but he always wants to edge at an angle (with a stick edger). Pisses me off to no end but I can't find anyone any better even though I'm willing to pay more than I should. If anyone knows a good way to teach someone please god post it! I've taught people the best way I know how and its still not working.
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What kind of unit is it? Give him a Husky 223 or 323 and he can use his pinky holding it. My trimmer "floats". You should be watching him trim and diagnose the problem from there.
working for several different companies before starting my own I can say what is trimming to one company is crap to the other. when i started i had push mowed my own lawn. and w/ training and patience... I cant say that i'm the best but well cultured in trimming. after learning the basics, practice and common sense of how that area needs trimmed. for one company it was burn it to the ground so it wont need it next week for another everything had to look like a golf corse. but finally hate to admit while working for a woman she taught me the finese. and i learned to blend both worlds. burn the stuff that doesnt matter. manicure the stuff that does and skip that stuff that can be let go.
I find the student even after 10 years of schooling can be taught by a good teacher. but only if he is still willing to learn.
a weed whacker is just an extension of your arm. time teaches you how to use your handicap to your best abilities...
not sure which is worse the stress of teaching a guy to do it your way or the stress of hiring yet another guy and then teaching him how to do it your way...
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Sohyun Bae, 7, Annie Park, 10, and Heidi Kwon, 10, enjoy a trolley ride in downtown Montgomery on Saturday as part of the Korean Family Day at the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
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Inside and outside the Alabama Department of Archives and History building, people waved Korean flags. Children carried Purple and green feathered Mardi Gras masks that they'd constructed themselves.
They were there for the Archives' Korean Family Day to learn more about their new hometown and state.
Jang Hee Lee moved his family to Montgomery from Korea two years ago, and they are finally starting to feel at home. ...