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The current generation of high school athletes isn't familiar with the concept of a three-month summer vacation.
It's safe to assume coaches and parents carry only vague recollections.
The enticement of playing travel sports, coupled with relaxed coach-player restrictions in Indiana, has whittled away at the gap between school years like never before.
Eras during which equipment hibernated in dark storage areas during the summer months are gone forever.
How you play the game, while still a vital component for sportsmanship reasons, now plays second fiddle to whether you actually win the game.
This is where summer is so vital. It serves as the season before, or after, the season.
"There are some (coaches) who have the willingness to relax what they do in the summer, but there's also this fear if we don't play in these 7-on-7 (football) opportunities or we don't play in these summer basketball leagues that (other programs) are going to get ahead of us," Indiana High School Athletic Association commissioner Bobby Cox said. "And (a coach's) job might be on the line, so they feel like they have to keep up with the Joneses."
Though not officially summer, June, July and August used to be packaged together and relished by students, teachers and coaches as a time of relaxation.
Time with friends. Swimming pools. Sleeping until the crack of noon.
These are foreign luxuries to many of today's high school athletes, who are accustomed to their alarm sounding at 6 a.m., or earlier, to remind them a weight room, gym, soccer field or running course awaits.
At the same time, it's difficult to miss what you've never known.
"Basketball takes up my entire summer, other than the moratorium week. In June I work out with my high school team. Once July comes, it's all AAU until the beginning of August," Center Grove senior Michael Benkert said. "I don't feel cheated because in June I would be done by 7:30 or 8 in the morning.
"That leaves me the whole day to go to the mall, swim or whatever."
"Sometimes I wish I could lay around or go hang out outside," Franklin Community volleyball player Jess Admire said. "But there are days you want to be in the gym with your teammates. They're my best friends."
Focus shift
High school seniors such as Benkert and Admire were between their preschool and kindergarten school years when the IHSAA began allowing coaches to instruct athletes during the summer of 2002.
Much like the multiclass boys and girls basketball tournaments, it's all today's high school athlete knows.
Furthermore, a moratorium was included to give all parties involved one week in which such instruction would not be permitted.
"We once had pretty big restrictions. The schools and the coaches were complaining that the AAU coaches and the club coaches and all these other people were ruining their kids, and they wanted to have more contact with them," Cox said. "That's one of those where you better be careful what you ask for because now we're at that point. And now we've got coaches wanting to revert back to some more restrictions.
"I hear coaches speak to their athletic directors, and subsequently they ask about, 'There is no more summer'."
At Center Grove High School, this summer serves as a perfect case in point.
The Trojans boys golf team extended its season as far as possible, placing sixth at the IHSAA State Meet on June 18.
Now consider school begins July 29 at Center Grove because of the balanced calendar, and the IHSAA has designated Aug. 4 as the first day of practice for most fall sports.
So much for the tradition of two-a-days, which are no longer a part of most high school football teams.
"With boys golf finishing, the fiscal year, and the corresponding budget report, wrapping up on June 30, camps, clinics and the new school year beginning on July 29, there was not much left of what people traditionally think of for a summer break," Center Grove athletic director Jon Zwitt said. "(Assistant athletics director) Scott (Knapp) and I are both in the office, on days that we are technically off, trying to put some pavement down for the upcoming school year and subsequent athletic seasons. It has become a year-round experience, with very little down time.
"But our coaches and players continue doing it with a smile. We adapt and we improvise."
More moratorium?
Although not a cure-all by any stretch, additional moratorium time is always an option for IHSAA-member schools.
"Schools do it on a voluntary basis. We have a moratorium week that everyone observes, but then there are other schools in our membership that declare a second moratorium week for whatever reason," Cox said. "If you're a rural school and the county fair is a big deal, maybe that's the week you take off. Or if you're an urban school in the city of Indianapolis and Black Expo and other events that are in town and are very important to your school community, maybe you take that week off.
"If the membership wants to expand the moratorium week, we would certainly entertain a proposal that would allow it to occur and our board would vote on it."
This summer's moratorium week (June 30-July 6) has passed, meaning coaches, athletes and those parents responsible for transporting their son or daughter to and from school are back to their familiar routines.
As Johnson County's smallest public high school, Edinburgh, with an enrollment of 277 students, tends to produce its share of three-sport athletes — which means kids might jump from one sport's summer practice to another, with little rest in between.
"We just do the one week (moratorium), but I'm a firm believer that if kids have family vacations they need to go. And if they miss something because of it that, they need to be excused," Edinburgh athletic director David Walden said. "I still think kids need to be kids.
"They need to have a summer."
Franklin athletics director John Regas agrees.
"At Franklin, we provide summer opportunities for student-athletes who want to enhance their athletic performance, but encourage them to spend time with their families," Regas said. "We don't have the mentality that spending time away is a bad thing.
"Kids need to be kids as well as great students and athletes."
For the love of sports
Edinburgh's Elliott Parmer's so-called summer hiatus involves spreading himself as thin as possible, both athletically and in general.
A wide receiver and strong safety for Lancers' football coach Bill Unsworth's program in the fall, the 5-foot-8, 150-pound senior then shifts his focus to basketball before roaming center field for Edinburgh's baseball squad in the spring.
In a time of athletic specialization, Parmer — who estimates he works 35 hours a week as a lifeguard at the Edinburgh Aquatic Center, and even took an online class recently — is a throwback in the most flattering sense.
"Of course you're always busy trying to soak up everything the coaches tell you, but every sport teaches you things for another sport," Parmer said. "Everything can be moved over to a certain extent. I've done three sports since sixth grade and wouldn't want it any other way. I like staying busy.
"You try to be productive every day because it makes you a better person."
There are times Parmer meshes aspects of all three sports into a single day, starting with 7 a.m. weightlifting sessions with his football teammates. Then it can be a 9 a.m. baseball workout with basketball gym time scheduled that very evening.
"Everyone is tugging on him three different ways. I don't know if there's a time when (Parmer) is off other than moratorium week," Edinburgh boys basketball coach Drew Glentzer said. "It takes a special kid to do that, and he's a starter in all three sports."
Parmer believes an extra moratorium week might be counterproductive in terms of coach-athlete communication, but understands why some high schools incorporate it.
"A two-week breather would have been pretty cool, but there would have been a lot of lost time, too," he said. "I like the one week."
What the future holds
Whether the blueprint on when high school coaches and athletes interact between school years remains in its present form remains to be seen.
Both extremes have been part of the IHSAA's bylaws, which means some form of middle ground might be worth exploring.
"What we're getting feedback on is member schools want flexibility," Cox said. "They can all live with one week that's dictated by the association, but they may want to do the week right before practice starts. A lot of schools don't even allow the kids to come in and lift. They just shut it down. Others will say they're going to extend the moratorium to two weeks and work on their gyms and our fields.
"Others will say the week after school lets out is off limits because we're going to let the kids have a week away before we come back. It depends on the school and what their culture provides, and we're fine with that."
Greenwood Community High School football coach Mike Campbell believes the balanced calendar is as much to blame as anything.
"I do think that a lot of the onus can be put on the schools themselves. If I were (IHSAA) commissioner, I would stay away from the balanced calendars," Campbell said. "Greenwood is on a modified balanced calendar, and there's talk we may go to a full one.
"If a school is starting July 24, that's a school issue, not an athletic issue."
Center Grove boys soccer coach Todd Sheely said a second moratorium week would be a step forward. With schools often letting out for summer vacation at different points of late May or early June, it would then be up to that school's administration when to use it.
"That first week we're out of school, maybe that's our moratorium week, and then we have the second one when everyone else takes it," Sheely said. "I look at some of my club soccer kids, and they've played between 40 and 50 games this spring. That's insane.
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Thunder rookie forward Perry Jones III can play the No. 3 and No. 4 positions. Either/or.
Or neither/nor, when you're backing up three-time NBA scoring champ Kevin Durant.
Exactly what does the future hold when your only designated position is backing up a four-time All-Star who since he entered the league six years ago has logged more minutes (17,595) than any player?
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"It could be a good thing because I can play multiple positions," Jones said. "If he (coach Scott Brooks) needs me to play the 2 at one point, hopefully I can help and play the 2. But it could be a bad thing if he feels like I'm not ready to play the 2 yet, or I'm not ready to play the 4 yet because of my strength or something. But that's about it."
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Working in Jones' favor is that teammates and coaches believe he has the talent to someday get significant minutes — particularly Durant, who quickly placed the Baylor standout under his wing (or 7-foot-5 wingspan) after being selected No. 28 overall in last year's draft.
"We're excited about what he brings," Brooks said last October, when Jones was the talk of training camp. "We're excited about his effort and his energy and the person that he is, but he's also a rookie. He's a guy that can play multiple positions, and he can guard multiple players, and that's always a big asset to our team."
During Summer League ball in Orlando last July, assistant Mark Bryant said of Jones: "He can make some passes. You guys haven't really seen him make passes yet. He's a pretty good passer. He's going to be a pretty special player when it's all said and done. … I'm not saying he's Lamar Odom yet, but he seems like he could be that type of player."
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What a difference a day makes. Two days, actually. Or three if you want to consider the Easter calendar. The latest faith-based venture, Heaven Is For Real, whose title is at best a spoiler alert, or at worst false advertising, opened two days prior to Good Friday. Mid-week it bested all films including Captain America, setting up a potential 4-way battle for the top spot. Two days of frontloading may have robbed it from stealing headlines with a #1 finish. Alas its third place finish becomes less of a story than Johnny Depp's Transcendence, which could have had a full week under its belt and still not challenge the winners.
What's Happening to Johnny Depp?
Hopefully nobody is dim enough to suggest that this is some reaction to The Lone Ranger. People did not show up to Transcendence because of some post-bomb punishment to the 12-time People's Choice Award-winning moviestar. The previews are still trying to figure out precisely what debuting director (and Oscar-winning cinematographer) Wally Pfister was going for. First it looked like The Lawnmower Man for a new generation; now the focus has shifted to making the film's cyber-terrorists look like the bad guys. Whoever the villains actually are in the film, they clearly took Morgan Freeman's advice to "run from this place" and pushed Depp from the future back into his past.
Just look at Johnny Depp's post-Pirates opening 3-day success:
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest ($ 135.6), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End ($ 127.9*), Alice in Wonderland ($ 116.1), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ($ 90.1), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ($ 56.1), Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl ($ 46.6), Rango ($ 38.0), The Lone Ranger ($ 30.1), Dark Shadows ($ 29.6), Public Enemies ($ 25.0), Once Upon a Time in Mexico ($ 23.4), Corpse Bride ($ 19.1), Secret Window ($ 18.2), The Tourist ($ 16.4), The Rum Diary ($ 5.1)
That doesn't even count the $ 50+ million grosses of his Oscar-nominated roles in Finding Neverland and Sweeney Todd; grosses that Transcendence–with its $ 11 million opening–will not come close to equaling. Granted most of those are tentpoles (*the At World's End gross also includes Thursday night shows) and most all are representative of Depp's familiarity for quirky personas. That alone is something Trasnscendence is missing, as it takes a very creative actor and reduces him to HAL 9000's less interesting cousin.
Now we go back over a decade before Jack Sparrow officially moved Depp into the national consciousness; a feat critics had been trying to do for years.
Sleepy Hollow ($ 30.0), Blow ($ 12.4), Donnie Brasco ($ 11.6), From Hell ($ 11.0), The Ninth Gate ($ 6.6), Edward Scissorhands ($ 6.3), Don Juan de Marco ($ 4.5), The Astronaut's Wife ($ 4.0), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ($ 3.3), Benny and Joon ($ 3.2), Nick of Time ($ 2.7)
And that's without mentioning Ed Wood and What's Eating Gilbert Grape, films that should not even be mentioned in the same sentence as Transcendence. It currently has a 19% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, nearly putting it amongst the ten worst-reviewed wide releases of 2014. Depp has a supporting role in the upcoming Into the Woods and is slated to be a part of Lionsgate hopeful franchise, Mortdecai, but expect Pirates of the Caribbean 5 to be put on the fast track very soon.
Heaven Is Definitely Real (At Least at the Box Office)
Adapted and directed for the screen from the guy who wrote Braveheart (and Pearl Harbor), Randall Wallace's film (based on Todd Burpo's book) has received much better reviews than its faith-based counterparts.
Not including The Passion of the Christ or just how much the Narnia series counts, films of such messages and themes are having a good year. Heaven is for Real is already $ 28 million rich on a $ 12 million budget making it Sony's first hit since American Hustle. Say what you will about Noah but it's grossed over $ 290 million worldwide and may still hit $ 100 million in the U.S.. Son of God drew nearly $ 60 million in sales despite being an excerpt from an already-aired miniseries, and God's Not Dead ("I'm getting better") is still in the top ten with over $ 48 million in sales on a $ 2 million budget. Compare that to Transcendence's God-fearing cyber-bullies and $ 100 million budget. Of course, 2016: Obama's America grossed over $ 33 million, too, so I guess it pays to know your audience. Plus, remember that people seemed to have gotten tired of Johnny Depp too.
Tales of the Top Ten
Two other films opened this weekend: Bears is looking like the least successful in the five years of the DisneyNature documentaries. A Haunted House 2 is starting with only about half of the first film's opening, but thanks to another miniscule budget (of $ 4 million) this will be Open Road's first true moneymaker since the original from January 2013. Proof indeed that God is not dead. But at the top your leaders have held steady. Rio 2 is just a few million off the pace of the first film, which grossed $ 143 million in the U.S. With over $ 200 million worldwide, the sequel should have no problem hitting a profit for Fox, but still needs quite a bit to erase Mr. Peabody & Sherman off the books.
Then there's your champ Captain America: The Winter Soldier, enjoying its third straight weekend in the #1 slot. Next week it goes for four against The Other Woman, The Quiet Ones and Brick Mansions. Could he actually be taken down by Kate Upton? Well, who couldn't, really? But The Other Woman is unlikely to see the returns of a superhero who has no time for dating. Captain America is over $ 200 million in his home country and over $ 585 million worldwide. The first Amazing Spider-Man did over $ 750 million. Which Marvel film is more likely to hit that tally this year: The Winter Soldier or the sequel opening in two weeks? Time will tell, but things are still looking good for the Captain.
– Erik Childress can be seen each Thursday morning on WCIU-TV's First Business breaking down the box office on the Movies & Money segment.
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Ines works selling children's and adults' clothing. Most of her customers are neighbors and family members.
Ines is very happy to be receiving her loan and she would like to use it to buy clothing such as tops, pants and jackets. This will give her a wider range of clothing to offer her customers.
Ines is married and the mother of three children. With a lot of hard work and effort, she has managed to improve her family's quality of life. Her biggest wish is to set up a small clothing store in which she can sell her merchandise.
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Ines actualmente dedicase a la venta de ropas para niños y adultos, siendo sus mayores clientes familiares y vecinos de la zona.
Ines está muy feliz con el préstamo y con él quiere comprar ropas como polos, pantalones, casacas y de esta manera tener más variedad de ropas para ofrecer a sus clientes.
Ines es casada y madre de 3 hijos. Con mucho esfuerzo y trabajo, ha logrado mejorar la calidad de vida de su familia. Su mayor deseo ahora es instalar una boutique donde pueda ofrecer sus prendas de vestir.
Ines es la primera del lado izquierdo y viste casaca roja y pantalón azul. ¡Ines agradece a los prestamistas Kiva por la ayuda brindada!
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OKC Barons edge San Antonio 2-1
The Barons are hopeful the power-play/goaltender combination that produced a 2-1 win against San Antonio on Tuesday night at the Cox Convention Center is one they can use to make another playoff run.
Goalie Richard Bachman stopped 33 of 34 shots. Both OKC goals were scored with the man advantage.
"This kind of game reaffirms we're doing the right things," said defenseman Taylor Fedun. "Even though we lost four games in a row, we were right there against the top two teams in our conference. To get this win, it lets us know we're still on the right track."
With 10 games remaining in the regular season, the Barons are tied with Charlotte for ninth place in the Western Conference, both one point behind Rochester, which currently owns the final playoff spot. OKC trails seventh-place Rockford by two points.
Bachman, a 26-year-old veteran with 35 games of NHL experience, has been in net for 25 of the Barons' past 28 games dating back to Jan. 11, but was given a game off last weekend.
"I think it refreshed me, which will help going down the stretch," Bachman said. "It's not so much physical as much as mental. It was nice to get a mental break. But during this stretch, we've won a lot of games. It didn't matter to me how tired I was as long as we were winning."
Since mid-January, Bachman is 15-6-2, but he dropped three games during a recent four-game losing streak against Grand Rapids and Texas.
"That one night off I think was really beneficial for him," said coach Todd Nelson. "He looked really good tonight. He was controlled and stopped goals in traffic. The only time they beat him he didn't have a chance on a backdoor play."
Bachman most likely will play all but one or two games the remainder of the season.
"He's the backbone of our team," said Will Acton, who scored the Barons' second goal. "He has stood on his head a ton. When a team has belief in their goalie, you can see it in everyone's game. No one worries about making a mistake, knowing he has our back."
The Barons are playing without several key forwards who helped them get back in the playoff race.
Team captain Anton Lander and veteran Tyler Pitlick are with the Edmonton Oilers. All-time franchise scoring leader Mark Arcobello and current scoring leader Roman Horak have been sidelined the past three games with undisclosed injuries.
The difference Tuesday night was OKC was 2-of-4 on the power-play.
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"This is pretty much the way we'll have to continue to play until we get some guys back. Who knows what will happen. Maybe we'll get some help from (Edmonton). Right now we're moving forward with the group we have. They worked really hard tonight to get a quality win."


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I keep checking in with Gamestop every other week or so, but there still aren't any DS games listed for 2013 on the list they keep showing me. They have a few games coming out in a week or two but that's the end of the list.
If remakes are in the works they'll most likely be for the 3DS as in 2013 the DS is pretty much dead. If Gamestop doesn't have an active list then there's a good chance that nothing is coming out.
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I don't know, i wanted to draw 10 years nico and then this happened. In the last one he got a hair cut, and is healthy, and happy, and he got a boyfriend, and everything is fine <3
I drew a picture very simpler to this but never posted it!
argh he deserves more love
that is just gay love
I hope nico has his happy ending but I feel he'll never be the same...
he got a boyfriend? dont u mean girlfriend :3
nope, if you read who you will know he is gay c:
Nico!!! i hope the last one is true, he deserves happiness in life
I love the 17 year old Nico!!! He looks like a whole new person (in a good way) but he deserves a happy ending
if only he deserves it, he's been through so much
this is awesome the last one he still looks a bit young but i love the 14.


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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and come back to us as effects.
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The group representative, Généviève Akouavi (whose hand is raised in the photo), is 44 and married to a stockist named Gatient. The couple has four children (3 dependent), and all of their children went to school. Généviève Akouavi stopped attending to school in high school. Généviève Akouavi lives with her children and her husband, and she and her husband take care of the family expenses.
Généviève Akouavi has been selling fish in her region for close to 15 years. Généviève Akouavi buys her supplies in a market in Benin.
This is the third time that Généviève Akouavi and DIEU SEUL SUFFIT are asking for the financial support from ALIDé in order reinforce their working capital and better respond to the demands of their clientele. Their two previous loans have been repaid.
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yes unbelieveable volume today !!!
For every seller there's a buyer - 50/50 split. I suspect they may issue a pre-announcement before the next quarterly earnings, possibly at ex div day - especially if they recaptured a fair amount of the mark to market losses. Or, possibly sooner.
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Her husband operates a dairy business and has some buffaloes for that purpose. He gets up early in the morning, milks the buffaloes, and sells that milk to his community clients. His clients are very happy because he sells them fresh quality milk at very reasonable rates.
Nasreen has applied for a loan from KIVA partner Asasah for her husband. With the loan investment, he will buy another buffalo. That will help him to get a larger quantity of milk and increase his sales and profits.
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A group of Oklahoma City bombing survivors is organizing an effort to seek a review in the way $10 million in remaining funds donated after the bombing is being distributed.
Holly Sweet, a freelance television photographer from Tulsa, is coordinating the effort. The group has set up a private Facebook page and an email address, firstname.lastname@example.com, to collect information.
The group is seeking information from those who were injured or whose family members died in the bombing, and will attempt to answer questions submitted by survivors and victims. The group has had initial discussions with attorney Kenneth Feinberg, who has helped determine compensation for victims of the 9/11 attacks as well as the Virginia Tech shootings, BP oil spill and other cases.
Sweet, who shot video for media outlets after the 1995 bombing, said she befriended several survivors at the time.
Over the years, she said, she has heard repeated complaints about the Oklahoma City Community Foundation's treatment of survivors. She said some were denied assistance for needs related to the bombing and treated rudely by foundation staff.
Sweet said the community foundation, which controls the remaining $10 million, "has had 17-and-a-half years to prove whether or not they were capable of fairly dispensing money."
"I just feel like while they certainly have the abilities, they seem to have lost their moral compass."
Nancy Anthony, president of the Oklahoma City Community Foundation, said the foundation received $14.6 million in donations following the bombing. The organization has spent $11 million on "assistance and contributions to the memorial," she said.
"We have generated significant earnings over the 17-year period," Anthony said.
According to the foundation's latest public report to the IRS, $10.6 million remains in the fund. Records show the foundation allocated $4.4 million in 2005 to items not directly related to services for bombing survivors.
Anthony said those funds were generated by interest earned on the donated funds.
Kathy Sanders' two grandsons, Chase and Colton Smith, were killed in the bombing. Sanders said she believes Feinberg or some expert should review the remaining funds and recommend what should be done.
"They ought to do what they did with the 9/11 funds. … They brought in this analyst, and he designated what the needs are."
Feinberg, nicknamed the "pay czar" in press accounts, recently administered donations collected for victims of a movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo.
Colorado's governor asked for Feinberg's help after a community foundation in that state came under fire from the shooting victims and their families. The foundation had collected $5.2 million in donations and distributed $5,000 each to families of the 12 killed and 58 wounded in the attack.


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I'll edit this post when I get home from the store but for now I'm gonna
leave this article about privatizing education.
Edit: I return. Excellent.
Anyway, as that article points out, running some things like businesses does not work. Government is one of those things, as are schools and prisons.
I agree with you on the school and prisons. But Government can and should be run like a business. To a certain extent. Not in the profit-seeking motive, but in operating efficiently. Remove people from your workforce who are expendable, follow management best practices, spend sensibly. Maybe government should act like a business, but it could certainly stand to be well-managed. (Which is not to say every business is well-managed. Far, far from it. But there are techniques, practices, and policies that stem from the business world that could be borrowed)
There are things that government does try to run like a business, like public transit, that could be much better if they worked with private enterprise.
And there are ways of having private industry in the school system besides having them running it (although, there already are private schools that co-exist alongside the public system to begin with). In Sweden (I think? Might have Switzerland), starting in grade 9 students get to take co-ops and apprenticeships in their chosen career field. And they get paid for it. You can actually do something worth while and learn through it (in addition to getting paid), rather than working at McDonald's while your in school. Like, learn something in shop class and then actually put it use. Or you can shadow someone in the science industry for example.
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Katie Workman's Shrimp Stir-Fried Rice Recipe
Make your own Chinese take-out any night of the week—then enjoy the leftovers for lunch.
Katie says: "This fried rice dish is lighter than take-out and has an appealing simplicity to it. Substitute diced chicken or pork for more variations." Read more about The Mom 100 Cookbook here.
IngredientsNumber of servings: 4 to 6
• 1 pound large (31 to 40 per pound) peeled and deveined shrimp, cut in half crosswise
• Kosher or coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 3 large eggs, beaten
• 3 cups cold cooked white or brown rice
• 1⁄2 cup chopped carrots
• 1 tablespoon minced peeled fresh ginger
• 2 teaspoons finely minced garlic
• 1⁄4 cup low-sodium soy sauce, or 3 tablespoons regular soy sauce and 1 tablespoon water
• 1 cup frozen shelled edamame or peas, thawed
• 1⁄2 cup thinly sliced scallions, both white and light green parts
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh Italian (flat-leaf) parsley, or 1 additional thinly sliced scallion, for garnish
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Season the shrimp lightly with salt and pepper. Heat a wok or a large saucepan over high heat until very hot. Add 1 tablespoon of the oil and, when it is hot, add the shrimp and quickly stir-fry them until they are pink, about 2 minutes. Transfer the shrimp to a plate and set them aside.
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Heat 1 more tablespoon of oil in the same wok or saucepan over high heat. Add the eggs and scramble them quickly with a whisk or fork. Slide the eggs onto the plate with the shrimp when they are just cooked through, about 1 minute.
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Return the wok or saucepan to the burner over high heat, add the remaining 1 tablespoon of oil, then add the cooked rice and cook, stirring occasionally, until it is lightly browned in spots, about 5 minutes. Add the carrots, ginger, and garlic and cook, stirring, until they become fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes. Add the soy sauce, edamame or peas, and scallions and cook, stirring often, until everything is hot and the carrots are tender, 3 to 4 minutes. Return the cooked shrimp and scrambled eggs to the wok or saucepan and stir until everything is well mixed and heated through, about 1 minute.
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Garnish the stir-fry with the parsley or scallion and serve.
Excerpted from The Mom 100 Cookbook: 100 Recipes Every Mom Needs in Her Back Pocket. Copyright © 2012 by Katie Workman. Used by permission of Workman Publishing Co., Inc. New York. All Rights Reserved.
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Combining top-end desktop and notebook components, the MALIBAL Nine X7200 is the workstation you can take with you. Today we see how it compares to our fastest "desktop replacement" notebook, and how well it stands up to a similarly-configured desktop PC.
The fact that Intel's Core i7 adds an incredible level of performance to semi-portable notebooks won't come as news to most people, with examples like the i7-720QM-powered G51J and i7-820QM-powered W860CU arriving a year ago. Yet, when Intel's fastest mobile processor couldn't match the performance level of its earliest desktop CPU, many enthusiasts were left to wonder, "is that it?"
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Going back even farther, we saw Clevo making notebooks for the Core i7 architecture even before Intel was ready to announce its mobile version. These desktop-based machines certainly wouldn't thrill the ultra-mobile crowd, yet "mobile workstation" performance makes no apologies for heft. That tradition follows through in Clevo's latest power monster, its X7200, supporting Intel's high-flying six-core Core i7-980X Extreme and up to two of the fastest-available mobile graphics modules.
If you want one, you're going to have to buy it from somewhere, and white-box builder MALIBAL wants to be your source. It sent a fully-configured ultimate-performance configuration for Tom's Hardware to look over, complete with SLI graphics and a RAID 0 configuration of two SSD drives.
|MALIBAL Nine X7200 Component List
|Intel LGA 1366, X58 Express / ICH10R, MXM-III Discrete Graphics
|Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Six-Core, 3.33-3.60 GHz, 6.4 GT/s QPI, 12 MB L3 Cache, 32 nm, 130 W
|Samsung 12 GB (3 x 4 GB) DDR3-1333 MT/s SODIMM, CL9, 1.5 V, Non-ECC
|Dual Nvidia GeForce GTX 480M, 2 GB GDDR5, SLI
|17.3" Glossy LED Backlit TFT, 1920x1080
|3.0 Megapixel
|Integrated HD Audio
|Built-in Fingerprint Reader
|Hard Drive
|2 x Intel X25-M 80 GB SSD, Striped: MLC, SATA 3Gb/s
|Optical Drive
|Matshita BD-MLT UJ240AS 6x Blu-ray Reader / 8x DVD Writer Combo Drive
|Media Drive
|9-in-1 Flash Media Interface
|Wireless LAN
|Intel Ultimate-N 6300, IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n, 11/54/450 Mb/s
|Wireless PAN
|Optional (not installed)
|Gigabit Network
|JMicron PCIe 10/100/1000 Mb/s Ethernet
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|Expansion Card
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|1 x eSATA 3Gb/s
|Headphone, Microphone, Line-In, Digital Out Jacks
|1 x Dual-Link DVI-I w/VGA Adapter, 1 x HDMI
|Power & Weight
|AC Adapter
|300 W Power Brick, 100-240 V AC to 15 V DC
|14.8 V 5300 mAh (78.44 Wh) Single
|Notebook 13.4 lbs, AC Adapter 3.6 lbs, Total 17.0 pounds
|Operating System
|Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Edition, OEM
|3-year labor, 1-year parts
Not a configuration for lightweights, this 17-pound (with adapter) behemoth "weighs in" at over $5000, yet even the least-expensive $2600 version carries MALIBAL's three-year extended-service warranty. Far more portable than any desktop PC competitor, enthusiasts with extra heft in both their arms and wallets will definitely want to take a closer look at its performance.
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Quote:Fast processors, high memory bandwidth, and quick hard drives have little effect on AVG.
0daglesj , 5 November 2010 18:12They shouldnt really be classed as 'Notebooks/laptops' in this class.
Anything above a standard 17" chassis and I refer to them simply as 'portable PCs'.