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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland's rainstorms have given way to a rainbow that ends in a pot of gold as the Gay Games come to a close Saturday and the city looks ahead to hosting the Arena Bowl, The Republican National Convention and King James holding court at "The Q" once again.
Cleveland brought home gold, silver and bronze during this weeks Gay Games. The event has not only been an economic boost, as important, it's been an image boost that will continue to pay dividends as visitors return home and spread the positive feelings about the city that they've expressed in interviews with local media this week.


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Advancement of techniques to achieve efficient and relevant outcomes occurs when technologies merge at critical moments. In the pharmaceutical industry, techniques such as in silico drug design and microarray analysis illustrate the power of combined technologies to transform the manner and expectations of how pharmaceutical research is performed. The refinements allow for not only greater generation of data but also deeper understanding of that which is observed.
Drug safety advances have also been notable. The combination of high-throughput screening (HTS) technology, development of substrate probes, and quality of relevant cellular systems has led to the meaningful development of techniques for the assessment of drug-drug interactions (DDI). Traditionally, DDI occur when one drug affects a second drug's efficacy or toxicity due to perturbing the metabolic capacity of a patient by the inhibition and induction of cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes.
Inhibition of CYP enzymes diminishes the metabolic activity of an enzyme, resulting in accumulation of the drug that reduces therapeutic efficacy or increases toxicity. For example, bergamottin, a component of grapefruit juice, inhibits CYP3A4, the enzyme responsible for the metabolism of more drugs than any other enzyme. Clinically significant DDI have been associated with consumption of grapefruit juice and numerous drugs that are metabolized by CYP3A4 such as midazolam and atrovastin.
To test for this phenomenon in vitro, microsomes, the subcellular fraction containing CYP enzymes, have been used as the gold standard. However, results from microsomal inhibition may not correlate to in vivo responses due to other cellular events. The use of hepatocytes in lieu of microsomes leads to better in vivo correlation of clinically relevant inhibition when intracellular concentrations of a drug are affected by drug transporters or other events.
However, the use of hepatocytes to augment or potentially replace microsomes as the primary system for inhibition studies requires these cells to emulate key microsomal attributes while increasing the quality of data due to whole cell architecture.
To address these needs, cryopreserved pooled human hepatocytes have become readily available to the research community from companies such as Celsis, providing an average of responses from multiple donors to mitigate idiosyncratic responses and offering consistency among lots to minimize revalidation of reagents.
This mimics the power of averaging CYP enzymatic activities found in human liver microsomes and, in addition, includes the full complement of Phase I and Phase II drug metabolism, uptake transporter activities, and cell membrane barrier.
The utility of human hepatocytes to determine inhibition has been demonstrated in recent studies by comparing the inhibition of four clinical drugs with known transporter-enzyme interplay. In one study, the authors concluded that determination of inhibition and enzymatic activities is not intuitive between microsomal and hepatocytic systems, and highlighted potential shortcomings when using microsomes to predict clinical responses.
Promega, BioTek Instruments, and Celsis collaborated on research that was presented in a poster at "LabAuto" earlier this year. The poster described the use of pooled human hepatocytes in HTS format to measure inhibition of CYP enzymes. The authors developed a high-quality 384-well system for dispensing and incubating pooled human hepatocytes, as well as measuring hepatocytic responses using luminogenic specific substrates.
The results of the inhibition using pooled human hepatocytes were compared to human liver microsomes under the same conditions. The derived inhibition constant Ki was similar for most of the test compounds except for a few with known transporter interactions like verapamil (Table).
Pharmaceutical researchers now have a new technique to further study inhibition in a more relevant manner, while retaining the work flow expected with microsomal inhibition assays.
Timothy Moeller ([email protected]) is scientific advisor at Celsis.
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Yesterday, the NHL filed a Class Action Complaint in Federal Court in New York and a simultaneous Unfair Labor Practice Charge with the National Labor Relations Board against the NHLPA.
According to Ryan Dadoun at Pro Hockey Talk, the NHL made these moves after the player union's executive board reportedly gave its members the ability to vote on whether to give the board authorization to file a "disclaimer of interest," which would see the NHLPA dissolved, giving players the ability to file class-action anti-trust lawsuits against the league.
Here's the NHLPA's response…
"The NHL appears to be arguing that players should be stopped from even considering their right to decide whether or not to be represented by a union. We believe that their position is completely without merit."
While this might be the start of a lengthy legal fight, Dadoun adds that these recent actions might also pressure both sides into agreeing to a new CBA rather than risk putting the league's future in the hands of the court.
…while you might think this has become a complete cluster eff now that the lockout is in court, it actually could be a good thing. This is exactly how the NBA lockout ended last season, so let's hope the same thing happens for the NHL.
Rangers players Michael Del Zotto and Ryan McDonagh as well as Blueshirts prospect Boo Nieves were named in the NHL's complaint.
…apparently these three Rangers have been named in the complaint because of tweets or comments they made proving the NHLPA is using a disclaimer of interest as a tactic .
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A man charged with murder in a police chase that killed a Hodgenville officer has entered a not guilty plea in court.
Jason Avis, 29, is also charged with wanton endangerment and fleeing police.
Officer Mark Taulbee died Sept. 16, hours after he crashed his vehicle in a police pursuit with Avis.
Avis turned himself in after leaving the crash scene.
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Chris Tremlett is determined to make the most of the last three games of the Commonwealth Bank Series to put himself in the frame for future selection in England's one-day side.
The tourists still have everything to play for at Brisbane on Sunday, requiring victory in the remaining three contests to win the seven-match rubber.
Tremlett took 17 wickets in the three Ashes Tests he played but is yet to find that form in the one-dayers, although he returned impressive figures of 3-22 in the second game at Hobart.
Having missed out on England's 15-man World Cup squad, the tall fast bowler wants to make a case for inclusion during the summer or even as a potential injury replacement for next month's showpiece.
"It's been great to be part of the team for the last couple of months but unfortunately for me I haven't been picked," he said.
"I've still got things to work on, hopefully I can still do that in this series and prove that I can still be part of this one-day team.
"You never know, there might be injuries along the way. So I'll be going home and I'll still be working hard and keeping my shape and, if there's an injury that comes along, then hopefully I'm someone that can come into the squad.
"We've still got three games to play here and hopefully I'll be part of that, but when I go home I'll probably have a little bit of a break from bowling and keep myself in shape but still work on my skills.
"I know there is a chance that I might be flown over to India if there are some injuries. So it's just having a break but keeping my shape and being ready to come over to India if there is a chance."
While Tremlett is aware of the possibilities that lie beyond the current series, his immediate thoughts are on the fifth ODI at the Gabba.
It will be the first time international cricket has been played in Queensland since floods decimated parts of the state, including areas of its capital.
The 29-year-old has been following events during the tour and anticipates a poignant occasion at Sunday's game, which will be a fund-raiser for the victims.
"Our hearts have gone out, seeing the scenes on TV, it's been pretty shocking to be honest," he added.
"The England team have been fully behind it as well, personally we've made some donations towards the floods and I imagine it will be a very emotional time for a lot of people on Sunday.
"It's great that they've been able to get cricket to this game. We're all glad to be a part of that really."
Even if he does not go to the World Cup, Tremlett is delighted to be back in England's one-day fold, having been absent for two-and-a-half years prior to this series.
"It's been a while since I've played one-day cricket for England so, again, coming into a different side of players and adjusting to how we play things here," he said.
"I seem to have fitted in well and have enjoyed playing even though we haven't had a few results go our way.
"It's been nice to come in and contribute in some way and I feel I'm getting into the role of opening the bowling and improving each game so it's just great to be part of."
Tremlett was involved in the Commonwealth Bank Series four years ago when England came back from the brink to see off Australia and New Zealand.
Having lost five of their first six matches in the triangular tournament, Andrew Flintoff's side won four in a row to salvage something from a previously harrowing Ashes tour.
Although the tourists have achieved the major objective on this trip, Tremlett believes they can repeat the 2006-07 one-day feat.
"If you go 3-0 down and you come back and win four in a row then that's pretty awesome," he added. "That's what we're aiming to do. It would be pretty special if we could do that.
"We'll take one game at a time and we'll try to play like we did the other day. We've always believed we are a good side and that we can contest against Australia; we showed that in the Ashes.
"If we can play like we did the other day and keep being solid in our batting there is no reason why we can't do it."
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OECD Releases Paper on Role of Public Finance in Climate Change Mitigation
24 October 2008: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development (OECD) has released a discussion paper entitled "What Role for
Public Finance in Climate Change Mitigation," which considers how public
finance in developed countries can best be used to support climate change
mitigation in developing countries.
The paper describes the role of public
finance in climate change mitigation in relation to other instruments, and
analyzes market failures and barriers to mitigation technologies that could be
overcome by public finance. It also maps and assesses current initiatives and
proposals to raise and deploy public money to support international climate
change mitigation. Finally, guidance on how public finance might play a role in
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Providence Baptist's 'Valentine Banquet' Feb. 9
Providence Baptist will hold a "Valentine Banquet" on Saturday, Feb. 9 at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $12 per person; call the church at 565-3295 for reservations.
The dinner will include steak, baked potato, salad, rolls, dessert, tea and coffee. Come out and support Providence.
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For about the past four years Hood's Chapel UM Church youth and congregation have taken on a project of making Easter baskets for the children at MUSC. They make 75 baskets each year and deliver them.
They are in the process of making the baskets as Easter is earlier this year.
Don't forget the Young at Heart Lunch and program at Hood's Chapel UM Church. It is the second Wednesday of each month at 10:30 a.m. The next one will be on Wednesday, Feb. 13. Bring a covered dish and enjoy in the fellowship.
Jerry and Charlotte Hush have another great-grandchild, a little girl born on Jan. 24, weighting 7 lbs. and 3 oz. She lives in Kentucky with her parents Kyle and Toasha James.
Happy Birthday to Louise Bradley, Eugene Wyndham and Francis Mills.
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Continue to pray for Virginia Kirkland, Thelma Shurlknight, Eric Shurlknight, Louise Litchfield, Sarah Jackson, Patty Mathis, Marie Barlow, Liz Barlow, Kyle Thomas, Brenda Law, Patricia West, Sam and Yvonne Hood, Ricky Hood, Roy and Marlene Farmer, DP Caddell, Allen Mills, Byron Dupree, Kit Reames, Kelly Umphlett, Madison Litchfield, Kirby Litchfield, Diane Gaskins, Diane Litchfield, Gage Brinson, Shelvy Jean Wilson, Willis Wiggins, Willie and Neshia Cox, Vernon Morris, Brian Welch, Cody Mullanax, Gloria Connor, Viola Murphy, Viola Atkins, Violet O'Conner, Mitzie Caddell, Bryon and Jenelle Watts, Mike and Elizabeth Balard, Mike and Beth Crawford, Janice Musau, Sally Bowick, David Brown, Rosa Lee Litchfield, Bo Langley, Pete Wrenn, Burt Alexander, Maggie Dubose, Wilma Morris, Mildred Thames, Marilyn Tucker, Shirley Perry, Rouse Thomas, Dexter Floyd, Marion and Juanita Mills, Gennie Vincent, Geraldine Garrett, Justin Knight, Kitty Cumbee, Ruth Cumbee, Yvonne Cumbee, Arlene Giggleman, Zachery Waterman, Ted Caddell, Frank Litchfield, Frankie Garrett, and our firefighters, first responders, military, community and country.
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Dana Delany says she will never try plastic surgery because her dermatologist bungled a Botox injection seven years ago. The "Desperate Housewives" star, 54, tells Prevention magazine that the doctor killed a nerve when he injected the muscle-freezing brew in her forehead.
"It affected the muscle in my right eye, so my eye has started to droop a little bit. Now that I said this to you, everybody will look for it!" I notice it more than anybody else, but I was symmetrical before and now I am not. I stopped going to him right then. Doctors are human—they make mistakes. But I never went back, especially after he wouldn't own up to it."


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The report on "China Online Advertising Industry" includes a detailed study of the Chinese online advertising industry. AM Mind Research have analyzed the industry and its various categories/ segments and trends prevailing in the market. The report also includes the industry, present performance and forecast of its various segments. Additionally, AM Mind Research have discussed cause and effect relationship of macroeconomic and industry factors on the industry providing the basis for the future outlook.
Key Findings
- Despite the beginning of the slowdown in 2008, the country's online advertising industry performed well due to the Beijing Olympics and resultant increase in tourism. In terms of QTQ growth, industry grew by 19.17% in 2008 and performance of third quarter was the greatest when compared to other quarters of 2008.
- In 2009, China's Internet advertising revenue was USD ~ million, the growth rate was low as compared to the previous years. The search engine advertising, online video contributed to the market growth and helped the industry register positive performance.
- In the fourth quarter of 2010, China online ad registered USD 1.10 billion, growth was 25.60% compared to the same quarter in previous year.
- Video and search advertising segments registered the fastest growth while online advertising market was dominated by display and rich media, thereby, accounting for the highest share among all online advertising segments.
- In 2010 the market for search advertising grew 39%, up from 2009. In the first and second quarter of 2011, search advertising registered growth of 33.17% and 37.25%, respectively.
- During 2010, the leading contributors to online display advertising were automobile, apparel, entertainment, food and beverage and electronics sectors.
- In terms of ad spend, before the economic slowdown the online video advertising was witnessing double digit growth. However, in 2009 & 2010 the growth rate was low, during the discussed year.
- In 2010, vertical web site advertising was USD ~ million, up 14.73% from the previous year; however, the growth was low when compared to 2009. In 2009, revenues increased 15.90% and in 2008 it had risen to 17.39%. SHOW LESS READ MORE >
1. China Online Advertising – An Overview
- Online advertising revenue models
-- CPM (cost per thousand)
-- Click Through Rate
2. Market Size
-- Performance in Pre-recessionary period
-- Performance During Recession
-- Present Performance
- Online Advertising by Category
- Search Advertising
- Display Advertising
- Mobile Advertising
- Online Video Advertising
- Vertical Web Site Advertising
- Online Advertising Demand by Industry
-- Leading Internet Advertisers
3. Industry Players
- Online Search Advertisers
- Online Display Advertisers
4. China Online Advertising Growth Drivers
- Internet Users Driving demand for Online Advertising
- Mobile Phone Users and Demand for Advertising
- 3G market and Opportunities for Online advertising
- Working-age population in China
- Urban Population in China
- China GDP/Economy Growth
- China Population
5. China online advertising Industry Trends
- Potential in Search engine market
- Growth of Vertical search media
- Demand for Online Video and Advertising
- Social Networking
- Advertising for ecommerce
- Chinese Web Portals Raise Ad Prices
- Online Game Market and Web Game Advertising
- Internet Advertising Industry Standard
6. Industry Mergers & Acquisitions
- Focus Media Holding Limited M&A
- Sina and Focus Media merger plan Dropped
- Sina move to take stake in Tudou
- Baidu ventures into travel search
- ChinaNet Acquisitions
- Silver Lake Acquires Stake in Allyes
- Telstra expands China reach
7. Industry Forecast
- Forecast by Industry Major Segments
- Search Advertising
- Display Advertising
- Portal Advertising
- Online Video Advertising
8. Appendix
- Forecast Methodology
- Data Collection Methods
- Approach
- Multi Factor Based Sensitivity Model
- Final Conclusion
- Definition
- Abbreviations
- Disclaimer
List of Figures:
Figure 1: China online advertising spending (2006-2010)
Figure 2: China Online Advertising Market by categories in 2010
Figure 3: Online Search Advertising Spending (2006-2010)
Figure 4: Search Engine users in China (2006-2010)
Figure 5: Online Display Advertising Spending (2006-2010)
Figure 6: China Online Mobile Advertising Spending (2006-2010)
Figure 7: China Video Advertising Spending (2006-2010)
Figure 8: China Vertical Website Advertising Spending (2006-2010)
Figure 9: China Search Engines Market share in Q2, 2011
Figure 10: China Search Engines Market Share in 2010
Figure 11: China Internet Users (2006-2011)
Figure 12: China Mobile Internet Users
Figure 13: Third Generation (3G) Subscribers in China (2010)
Figure 14: China Urban and Rural Areas Population (2009 & 2010)
Figure 15: Leading Video Advertisers in China Q2 2011
Figure 16: China Social Network Users (2006-2010)
Figure 17: China Online Advertising spending forecast (2010-2016F)
Figure 18: China online Search Advertising Spending Forecast (2010-2016)
Figure 19: China online Display Advertising Spending Forecast (2010-2016)
List of Tables:
Table 1: Leading Industries by Online Ad Value (2010)
Table 2: China Leading Internet Advertisers
Table 3: Leading Online Advertisers in China
Table 4: Focus Media Recent Number of Deals (2005-2010)
Table 5: Industry Factors
Table 6: Macro-Economic Factors
China is considered as one of the most exciting and challenging media markets in the world, the reason being the country's size, diversity and complexity. In 2009, China's advertising market performed well and in 2010, the Chinese media market profited from the Shanghai World Expo, Asian Games and economic growth. The rising number of tech savvy population and introduction of new technologies made online shopping safer and user-friendly and all these factors support online advertising demand in the country.
China's online advertising mainly comprises of six categories: search engine, portal, networks, video, online community, and vertical site advertising. Among these, search engine advertising, advertising portals, and vertical sites are the most preferred forms of advertising. Presently, in the country online advertising market is dominated by display and rich media. Mobile advertising segment is also considered as a growing market as it is witnessing improvement in performance every year due to innovations in mobile phone technology and sale of 3G/4G mobile phones in the country. Search advertising segment continues to register growth and in 2010, it was the only segment that grew at a rate higher than the previous year. Video advertising is another segment that has been witnessing an increase in demand per year, the reason being that it is one of the most popular Internet applications, particularly among youth. Moreover, the rising consumer interest has made various sectors like toiletries, food & beverage, Internet services, entertainment and apparel, etc look at this segment to raise consumer awareness and drive sales.
Among the various industries, apparel sector was the largest contributors to online advertising in terms of ad spend in 2010, followed by computers/electrical, automotive, construction/real estate, FMCG and entertainment. In addition, an increase in ad spends from financial, insurance and food & beverage and health sectors are also being witnessed in the country. At present, the Chinese online advertising market is driven by both domestic and international advertisers. In the search engine category, the market is dominated by Baidu.com, followed by Google.
In the coming years, online advertising in China is expected to surpass advertising revenues generated from print media. Growing popularity of online video, large population, growing e-commerce trade, social networking websites and economic growth is expected to increase online advertising revenues. Moreover, entrance of foreign players in the market through deals and alliances is also expected to increase investment opportunities and market competition, thereby, leading to improved services at low cost.
- Online Advertising
- Search Advertising
- Display Advertising
- Mobile Advertising
- Online Video Advertising
- Vertical Website Advertising


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WASHINGTON — AIDS activists carrying simulated American flags with skulls and crossbones in place of stars ringed the White House yesterday to protest what they say is President Bush's weak response to the fatal disease.
The thousands of demonstrators, who formed a human chain with the aid of
6,000 feet of red ribbon, chanted, "Three more weeks, Bush will go."
But some questioned whether his Democratic challenger, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, would do any better in fighting AIDS.
Ed Des Rosier of Nashua, N.H., said he did not watch Sunday night's debate in which Bush, Clinton and independent candidate Ross Perot traded views on the AIDS epidemic.


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South Korean comic readers are enraged by a recent erotic manga that portrays Psy sexually assaulting one of its characters.
1. This preview panel comes from an erotic manga called "Samuge-sō no Kimchi na Kanojo":
In the issue, it's reported that Psy is portrayed as a member of a Korean gang that abducts and sexually assaults a group of Japanese high school girls. The Korean media went into an uproar when it learned of the parody. The above panel shows an obvious Psy caricature shouting "Gangnam Style" and kneeing one of the main characters in the groin.
3. The Japanese have already had a tumultuous history with "Gangnam Style":
It's entirely possible that the recent political climate in northeast Asia might have cooled the Japanese fever for Korean pop songs. In late August — just as PSY was quickly rising to worldwide prominence — a dispute erupted over the Takeshima and Dokdo islets between Japan and Korea, with both countries claiming ownership. With diplomatic tensions running high, the Japanese public increasingly steered away from any perceived pro-Korean sentiment.
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- Golf legend Arnold Palmer has died at 87. Known as "The King," his unusual style and charisma changed the game.
- Monday night's presidential debate may be the last hope for environmental activists who want climate in the national conversation.
- US officials have determined al-Qaeda likely influenced suspected New York City bomber Ahmad Khan Rahami.


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With the amount of times The Orange Box has gone on sale on Steam, I don't really see the point in getting hyped over a buggy console port that wasn't even really handled by Valve. :\
FWIW I have played most of Portal on PS3 recently and haven't noticed any bugs. Maybe they've been fixed in the 3 years since release.


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As members of the Western World, we live in a "busy is good" society. To attain social acceptance, we must be constantly contributing to the social machine.
Creativity makes us thrive. When was the last time you creatively expressed yourself? What have you done lately that gives the logic and reason part of your brain a rest and allows the creative expression side an opportunity to grow?
Successful people seek out challenges in business and life. Every day we are surrounded by challenges. When we are able to conquer a challenge, it leaves us with a sense of self-empowerment and success.


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I here and now resolve to start eating much better.....after the holidays. Until then, I am committed to continuing my baking binge. I made this...way too decadent cheesecake. It's a espresso/Baileys cheesecake with a chocolate crumble crust. OMG! If that wasn't enough, I soon plan to hearken back to my Nordic heritage, and bake an authentic Danish Layer Cake. It's a multi-layered cake with custard and raspberry filling between the layers. My Gramma K used to make them. Unreal! But I pledge, come the first of the year, it's back to practicality. Lest I fall over the gastro-cliff.
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For the first time since I can remember.....Terri and I ended up getting out Christmas tree from an urban tree lot.....not from a field somewhere. Normally.....we get together with the kids, and go out to a tree farm....do the trudge around thing and cut one down. It usually took the better part of a couple of hours to finally come up with consensus on the tree, but we always got it done. Then we'd go to a nice spot and have a bite. Not this year. Everyone's schedule is a bit too hectic. Crummy. Oh well, there's always next year.
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I think I'll just stick with the audio because braille, my version of print, is crazy expensive. So yes, I'd say it's much better.
It ranks in the top ten
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The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program offers grants for U.S. citizen undergraduate students of limited financial means to pursue academic studies and internships abroad. Over 2,000 scholarships of up to $5,000 will be awarded this academic year to U.S. citizen undergraduates studying or interning abroad.
The program aims to encourage students to choose non-traditional study abroad destinations, especially those outside of Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The Gilman Scholarship Program aims to: support students who have been traditionally underrepresented in study and internships abroad, including but not limited to, students with high financial need, community college students, students in underrepresented fields such as the sciences and engineering, students with diverse ethnic backgrounds, first-generation college students and students with disabilities. The program seeks to assist students from a diverse range of public and private institutions from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam and U.S. Virgin Islands.
Award recipients are chosen by a competitive selection process and must use the award to defray eligible study abroad costs. These costs include program tuition, room and board, books, local transportation, insurance and international airfare (on a U.S.-flagged air carrier).
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Yesterday, I put up an image Daniella sent me on Ben Franklin's Time Tracking.
After that, we got into a bit of a good discussion on the topic. We shared some thoughts on chaos and structure, and I wrote this -
Re: time tracking, it took me a few attempts and a few false starts before I started doing it. I've gotten a lot out of it, but I'm a big believer that your tools should serve you; you don't serve your tools. Track as much as makes sense for you so you get gains out of it. I'm naturally an unstructured person actually - I try to build structure and routine in the areas that I think it benefits, while letting creativity and chaos reign where it does well. My blog is actually more on the chaotic-just-let-it-flow side - I don't have an explicit pattern or schedule for posting. I just write something every day based on whatever I'm thinking or reading or corresponding about. I try to add more structure/order in areas where it helps a lot - even after doing it for a long time, I still forget to breathe and meditate a little at the start of my day if I don't refer to my time tracking. Likewise, tracking food and spending gives me a pretty good idea of what I'm eating and where my money is going, which adds a lot of value to my life. But again, it should serve you. Try it a little if you want to improve an area, make it work for you, make it yours. If it's not serving you at that time, discard it. I don't know if I'll track forever, but I'm still seeing big gains from it.
D writes back -
Thanks for the quick reply! Have to run to a concert now, but a question did pop into my head as I thought about the unstructured person living a semi-structured life and read your response. I guess I maybe resisted time tracking because it felt like I was self imposing structure on my daily life, which would "bind" me to it in a way. I'm the type of person that naturally resists structure but when I do have it, I do my best to succeed at it.
So when something so intimately permeates your daily life, which it appears to me that time tracking does, doesnt it get tiring? The days I was tracking, I felt like everything I did was guided by the fact that I was tracking time, if that makes any sense. That i didnt do it just because I wanted to, or whatever, but because there was the voice in my head that was constantly reminding me that that day was being tracked.
Isn't that exhausting? Do you ever take a day off?
Good questions. Great questions actually.
I do think your tools should serve you; you don't serve them. Likewise, tracking my time serves me.
Have you heard of the "Hawthorne Effect"? They were doing some experiments on productivity at the Hawthorne factory outside of Chicago, testing whether higher levels of lighting or lower levels were better for workers.
They increased the lighting... and productivity went up.
They also tried lower lighting... and productivity went up.
Actually, what they found was that just paying attention and measuring caused productivity to go up. As Drucker said, "What gets measured, gets managed."
So yeah, right away when you start tracking anything - your time, what you eat, what you spend - you're going to want to change your routine so it looks better on paper. You're not going to want to record that you ate, for instance, 7,000 calories on a day you weren't weightlifting or training at all.
I was staying with a friend of mine in Beijing who eats a lot of high carb and high calorie foods - pizzas, granola bars, crackers and peanut butter, etc. My diet changed quite a bit from the eggs/chicken/whole-wheat/vegetables/beans/nuts diet I was on at the end of my time in Saigon, and oftentimes I was hungry at the end of the day even though I'd eaten 2,400 calories already.
You know, I didn't want to eat another 700 calories and get up to 3100 - but I only knew that because I was tracking my foods. It didn't feel like I was eating too much early in the day, because I was hungry. (High calorie high carb low fiber foods do that to you - you eat a lot of it, and you're still hungry later)
Is that a good or bad thing?
Well, I'm cutting right now, so I take it as a good thing. Though, some part of me does get a little aggravated that I'm aware of this. "Damn it, I'm hungry. Frigging tracking..."
But it's not the tracking. The problem is that my life was out of sync with what I'd ideally want, with what serves my goals. The tracking just sheds light on that particular area.
But I know what you mean. It can feel cumbersome, or like it's too much. You don't want that, you really don't. The tracking should serve you and enrich your life and add far more than it takes from you. See, here's the latest version of my time/habit/life tracking, v5 -
Time awake:
Total sleep (hours/minutes):
Appointments today:
Other time-sensitive things:
Key habit today:
What assets could I build/improve/acquire today:
Vitamins (C, Fish oil, Calcium/D):
Drink Water:
Borderlands (+Solo):
Review Life Goals:
Review "Current Targets":
Reach out:
Exercise (walk/run/other):
Listen to audio:
Blog post:
Email in box, start:
Empty inbox completely:
Look at to-do List:
Do one thing on to-do list:
Help someone:
--> Subtotal Excellent:
--> Subtotal Good:
--> Subtotal Okay:
Surfing/wasting time:
Transit/dead time:
--> Subtotal Bad:
Did I start the day in my planner instead of online?
Did I only check email when I was ready to write back immediately?
Did I only check a site once, then done with it?
Did I check "Current Targets" if I caught myself wasting time?
Did I prioritize books/good learning instead of mindless surfing?
Did I keep surfing under 60 minutes for the day?
Did I make war on procrastination?
Did I act on my key habit for the day?
What are my key life goals? Spend 5 minutes on this.
Expenses for the day (estimate)?
Cash gotten or worked towards today:
What did I do right to move me towards my goals?
What would I do differently if I had the day to live over?
Plan tomorrow:
Make a request of my subconscious:
Set alarm:
But I totally recommend against starting with that much.
It'd kill you. You'd quit. Anyone would quit if they went from zero to trying to track 30 things at once. Don't do that.
It's not how I started. I posted two videos on the topic, one with how I recommend you start in this thread - "Two Videos on How to Do Time Tracking"
I add things as it serves me. If something isn't serving me any more, I delete it from my list.
But now, it's super handy. Why do it every day? Well, honestly, I still forget a ton of things that are on my list if I don't refer to the list.
Is it exhausting? Just the opposite actually, I get far more energy and time and life back from the tracking than I put into it.
I screwed one of my knees up a few years ago lifting weights with bad form. Since then, I've got to stretch every day to keep my muscles loose. I was never able to remember to do it every single day - when I got busy, I'd always miss a day or two or three in a row, and then my knees would start to hurt. Then I'd start again.
Same with vitamins. I'd buy vitamins, take them a while, then forget to take them.
Same with planning my day at the start of it. I'd do it for a while, get a big boost, then forget to keep doing it.
Now it's all on my little sheet there. Every day I remember to stretch, take vitamins, plan my day in the morning.
Updating the actual time-tracking part of the sheet can take as little as three minutes throughout the day. I don't need to get it exact, I can estimate the numbers a few times throughout the day. It gets easier the more you do it. Here's April 5th -
9:10AM: (15 maintenance, 10 general-life)
11:40AM: Call with Bren and Ben. (150 A-task)
3PM: (50 maintenance, 150 surfing)
5:20PM: (30 exercise, 30 general-life, 80 relaxing)
6:40PM: (60 maintenance, 20 surfing)
1:20AM: (160 social, 210 A-task, 30 general-life)
A-task: 360
Exercise: 30
--> Subtotal Excellent: 390
Maintenance: 125
Social: 160
Relaxing: 80
--> Subtotal Good: 365
General-life: 70
--> Subtotal Okay: 70
Surfing/wasting time: 170
Transit/dead time:
--> Subtotal Bad: 170
The subtotals/categories are already there so that's simple. I only made six entries for the day - at 9:10AM, 3PM, 5:20PM, 6:40PM, and 1:20AM. Since I do this a lot and it's fast, it probably took me 4-6 minutes total. That's way worth it for me to look at the current trends in my life.
If things get off-track, I can see where I'm doing good work, where I'm doing bad work, etc. If I wind up putting a lot of time into surfing the net, I notice fast. You can't have 2-3 days in a row of spending 5-10 hours doing garbage and not notice it if you're tracking your time. Again, filling this out took me six minutes MAX. That's totally worth it to know where my time went, and to remember to do all the little things I want to do.
So, is it constricting to do it every day?
No, not really. For me, it's like brushing my teeth or putting on clothing every day. It's just blended into my life, and I get a lot more back than I put into it.
But is it for everyone, all the time? No, probably not. You shouldn't start with some big unwieldly thing anyways, you should probably start with 3-5 things until you're getting a high success rate with those.
As for the actual time tracking part of it, I don't know if I'll continue forever. Maybe not. Right now, I'm getting much bigger gains out of it than I put into it, so it makes sense. It serves me and what I want to do in the world. If it serves you to do for a while, go for it. If you fall off after a while, no big deal. I aim for only a 70% success rate with things I'm working on, and I reckon brand new initiatives/habits will often take 3, 5, 10, even 20 false starts or failures to get going, depending on how hard they are. If it seems worthwhile, you keep trying to do it and eventually break through. If it doesn't serve you at this point in your life, you discard it for now and maybe try again later.
I love what I get back fro time tracking. Like, really love it. It's one of the best things I've ever done and it's brought a hell of a lot of understanding and clarity and focus to my life. But again - it should serve you, it should get you to where you want to be. I don't serve the tools, the tools serve me. It's a powerful tool if you use it to get what you want - but it should serve you; you don't serve it.
Great questions and great corresponding, Daniella. Drop a line any time, and thanks for the Ben Franklin link and the great discussions.
Updated my daily tracking template since v5. The basic idea is, I fill this out every day - it doesn't take that much time, and I get a heck of a lot out of it.
If you're new to the site, you might want to check out "The Evolution of My Time/Habit/Life Tracking" which describes the basic idea of what's going on here, and "Two Videos on How to Do Time Tracking" if you're looking to try this out yourself.
This post will mostly look at the differences between this one and my last version, so start with Evolution or those videos if you're new to this.
Okay, here's v6 -
------------------------------------------- START OF DAY ROUTINE: Time awake: Total sleep (hours/minutes): Appointments today: Other time-sensitive things: Key habit today: What assets could I build/improve/acquire today: ------------------------------------------- TOP PRIORITIES: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Gym today?: Current Top Creative: Current Top Enterprising: Explore today?: Today's target procrastination: Current book(s): Anything crucial on my to-do list?: Email in box, start of day: Time complete: ------------------------------------------- DO BEFORE GOING ONLINE: Vitamins (C, Fish oil, Calcium/D): Piracetam: Drink Water: Stretching: Brush/floss: Breathe: Borderlands (+Solo): Gratitude: Review Life Goals: Time complete: ------------------------------------------- ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Wednesday September 25, 2013
Good day for the challenge. I began a tracking habit, that I think will bring good gains and help me to keep on track and be more productive. It's given me a boost of motivation for today, that's a good sign. What it looks like:
Just looking at this, I know I spent 1 out of 5+ hours I know that I had free time on campus studying. Some of it was spent on eating, and things went well there. The tracking also gave me a motivational push to do some meditation today.
Going forward, I think this will be a useful tool.


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used on SNL (saturday night live) by mango meaning just gay...probably could be used as super ultra uber gay
"Why does everyone think I'm the homo gay?"
-Mango (Chris Kattan)
-Mango (Chris Kattan)
από the homo gay 12 Μάρτιος 2005
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Can you define these popular missing words?
Top Definition
The step beyond gay. A man that has taken time to go out of his way to make sure u know he's gay. This term doen't apply to women because lesbians rule... sept if they're butch and goss
"Holy crap look at that dude's scarf and pink button-down shirt thats open at the top. He's so homogay"
από Taildrag 20 Σεπτέμβριος 2005
when something is more gay than gay. thus, makes it homo gay.
"Hawthorne High School is homo gay."
από pedro 16 Φεβρουάριος 2005
extremely gay, therefore just about as gay as it gets.
Woah my friend, you ARE the homogay.
από Molly Williams 3 Μάρτιος 2003
A term (noun or adjective) to describe someone who too closely follows the 'gay stereotype.'
Usually used amongst super-christians.
Usually used amongst super-christians.
The homogays are staging capchta images to convert our children.
από Gatodo 11 Μάιος 2011
Very gay person.
Jonny is very homogay.
από jonny 11 Μάρτιος 2003
The splicing of "homosexual" and its more common synonym, "gay". Saying "homogay" takes off two syllables that would otherwise need to be said in saying "homosexual". Semi-formal way of saying "gay".
He is homogay. (ho-mo-gay instead of ho-mo-sex-u-al)
από SamusAX 11 Δεκέμβριος 2004


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News Archive
In Remembrance of Professor Emeritus Dr. Robert Sargent Fay: A Friend, A Colleague, and A Mentor
With great sadness, Landmark College has learned that Professor Emeritus Dr. Robert Sargent Fay has passed away.
Dr. Fay received a Bachelor of Arts from Amherst College and a Doctor of Education from Harvard University. He taught English and Humanities at Harvard University, Boston University, and in several public and private elementary and secondary schools before coming to Landmark College in 2001 as professor in the English department. In July 2011 he was named Professor Emeritus, and was the first faculty member to be distinguished with this title.
During his tenure at Landmark College, he was not only active in the classroom, but served as a member of the Faculty Senate and taught in the College's summer program for High School students. Most recently, he served students by providing direct instruction and academic support in the Drake Center for Academic Support.
Landmark College President Dr. Peter Eden noted in an announcement to the campus that the community will "really miss Robert and the purity of his actions and accomplishments as an educator, artist and all-around terrific human being." Likewise, the Landmark College Board of Trustees, through Board Chair Robert Lewis, passed on their condolences during this time, and expressed their sincere appreciation for everything that Professor Fay has done for the College and his students.
Robert was a talented and accomplished photographer, and often shared his love and talent for the art form with the College – most notably and recently in his exhibit celebrating the spirit of the people of Landmark College on the occasion of the College's 25th anniversary, and in the book "Ocian in View! O! the Joy: A Collection of Photographs of the American West" published by Landmark College in honor of its 20th anniversary. His photographs can be best appreciated in terms of chronology and theme: Family and Friends, Nature, Classic Form, Mystery and Spirit, and the Artist. Since 1995, he has directed his interest in photography toward people and places associated with the arts.
Counseling services remains available to all members of the Landmark College community throughout the week. A brief, informal gathering will be held on Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 3:30 p.m. in the Library to allow for reflection and remembrance before the end of the semester. A more formal memorial experience is planned for the start of the fall semester at the College.
The College invites faculty, staff, students, alumni, families and friends to share their thoughts and fond memories of Dr. Fay on the Landmark College or Alumni facebook pages or via email to Student Affairs.
Find more information about the memorial celebration for Dr. Fay happening on May 26 in Peterborough, NH.


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How to Articulate Your Vision
Now that gift giving season is upon us, I remind you that I have some items available on Amazon, such as the Basic Instructions 2012 Calendar. I further remind you that the link I just provided is an "Affiliate link," which means that I get a small cut of anything you buy after using the link, even if the item you buy has nothing to do with me.
Most bloggers and web cartoonists have an affiliate link somewhere on their site. It's a great way to send a little something our way without costing yourself a dime.
Just sayin'.
Reader Comments (24)
Is there any greater benefit to you if we buy directly from Gladstone?
Note from Scott: Well, it's slightly more profitable for Gladstone, and as such makes me slightly more desirable as a property. Really though, they're happy as long as you're buying it.
This is actually a great idea. I can see it being quite funny.
Anyone for whom smartphone games are a reasonable substitute for 3DS games doesn't have very high standards when it comes to video games.
This is to make up for being morally upright about the handicap scooter episode, isn't it?
A racing game with old people would take forever to play though. One lap would be like half an hour.
I would have bought something from that link but you stated your dislikement (My word) towards Mario Kart so there is that,
(*I wouldn't)
you might appreciate this
Note from Scott: That's the stuff!
Dave - that granny race game is making me look forward to decreptitude.
However I love Scott's idea of throwing walking sticks and dentures for power-ups. we could add popping an iron jelliod, or swigging Sanatogen tonic wine to that. Slow downs/penalties could include peeing your drawers, losing your medic alert bracelet and forgetting what you have done and having to repeat a level.
Note from Scott: The peeing the pants is a bit harsh. The goal is to laugh with the elderly, not at them. I like the forgetting to do a lap, though.
Instead of speed bumps, there would be wrinkles in the road. WRINKLES, do you hear ?!
"Escape from Shady Pines" - Make your way past nurses who try to medicate you into submission, grandchildren who want you to sign legal papers, and other "inmates" who want to bore you to death (literally!) with stories from when they were young. Collect power-ups such as glasses, dentures, hearing aides, upgraded walkers, and hard candies. Your goal? Get to the diner for the early bird special!
Not really a cart game, I'm thinking something more like "Harry the Handsome Executive".
@Roto13: I don't believe that Scott stated that smartphone games are a REPLACEMENT for other handheld games. His point is that smartphone users are less likely to purchase ANOTHER handheld system. Those same smartphone users might game on a computer or console, but they can't justify another handheld device.
I started laughing as soon as I saw the title and that today's characters were Scott and Missy. Nobody deflates a guy's hair-brained ideas faster than his wife, and I knew Missy would do her duty. Not that this idea doesn't have some merit.
What is Gladstone?
Note from Scott: Gladstone Media is my calendar publisher (Great group of people, btw).
Ah, cool. "Thanks for ordering from Amazon.com! Your purchase information appears below."
I got the calendar AND the new William Shatner album via that link. HTH.
(I _was_ looking for that new CD locally, but no one carries it. I bought the last one, "Has Been," in an actual store, but I'm guessing the CD market has shrunk a bit since then.)
Oh, yeah, Mario Carts Senior Edition: "And their blinker would be on _the whole time!"_
Plus, the game timer would end at 4:00 PM, when the drivers stop for dinner.
Smartphone games are really easy to make, and easier to copyright and sell. If someone was to make it, you should link it to your site! (Maybe I'll give it a shot)
Solak said:
"Instead of speed bumps, there would be wrinkles in the road. WRINKLES, do you hear ?!"
Reminds me of the problem I had with my iron. Turned out the iron was fine, but my ironing board had wrinkles built-in it, so now all my clothes have permanent wrinkles in them.
Anybody need a perma-wrinkling ironing board?
u suck 'cause I can't get your calendar shipped to the Norwayes and yes I know its not your fault and that I'm being unfair but I don't care so there. >:|
This is indeed a good idea, I will experiment.thanks!
Great idea! I'll start working on it as soon as I've acquired the skills needed to built such a game. Which means you'll hear from me in about 20 years or so.
Careful on the elderly humor, the probability of an elderly reader is going up all the time. An example of the true genius of Jobs/Apple: my 72 year old mother (still has her teeth, doesn't use a walker or cane BTW) has consistently refused to learn how to use a computer for the last 15 years and yet went out and bought an iPad after playing with my wife's for about 10 minutes. I can assure you she will never be a regular reader for you, Scott, based on her sense of humor, but others may be out there. Beware ;-)
Somebody's going to release an awful top-down racing game based on your idea in a month, I can see it now.
And Roto13 obviously doesn't have an iPhone. Infinity Blade, Fifa 12, Jet Car Stunts, Dead Space, Real Racing 2, Sonic 4, Hook Champ, Across Age....just a few examples of 3DS-quality iPhone games. And I bought all of them for the same price I paid for my first (and so far only) 3DS game, Street Fighter 4. Also there are numerous games that exist on both iPhone and 3DS.
*ahem* "I see no way in which this carefully laid plan could possibly go wrong"
I'd have changed panel 3 to "nobody over 40", because:
a. You already tweak oldsters pretty well in this strip, spread the love and get in a dig at the middle-aged
b. Even though I'm a gamer from way back, I won't game on a smart phone. Eyes can't take it.
c. Nobody i know plays games on their smart phone, aside from Scrabble and Angry Birds.
sounds like a cool game, release it for PC and i'd download the demo!
I think you also need to have the gas and the brake pedals randomly switch places.
@John's statement: "Careful on the elderly humor, the probability of an elderly reader is going up all the time. . . . " is correct.
At 72, I am one of the "elderly" and I love Basic Instructions. I've been devoting a good portion of each day getting caught up in the archives.....how many are there!? I'm annoyed that neither of my sons told me about this comic. They should have known I would like it--after all, they got their sense of humor from me!


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The Year 2015: Fewer Hoverboards, More Tablets
The year 2015 is coming—no doubt about it. It'll be dissimilar to what most of us had in mind, but it's on the way nonetheless. Provided we're all still kicking after December 21, 2012, we'd better be ready for some serious changes in the way technology informs our everyday lives.
One such change has to do with everyone's favorite futuristic toy…
I'm talking about tablet computers!
"But what exactly do tablets have to do with the year 2015 if they're already wildly popular now?" you're probably wondering.
Well, get this:
Just recently, South Korea's own Ministry of Education, Science and Technology announced that the nation's primary schools (the overseas equivalent of elementary schools in the U.S.) will begin phasing out traditional paper textbooks in favor of digital ones—in tablet form, to be exact. They expect the transition to be complete by 2015.
That's right! By 2015, South Korean elementary schools will be optimized to give students a fully streamlined educational experience. The announcement is sure to spark debate among members of the leading education systems in other areas of the world as to how beneficial it really is to make tablets a permanent fixture in classrooms.
According to a Korean daily news publication:
"The ministry plans to provide free tablet PCs for students from low-income families. 'It will be up to schools to decide which digital textbooks to choose for students in what year in what subject,' a ministry official said. 'We don't expect the shift to digital textbooks to be difficult as students today are very accustomed to the digital environment.'"
The potential for tablets to enhance the learning experience of youngsters has always been evident, but South Korea's nationwide initiative (reportedly costing upwards of $2 billion) confirms that what was once a mere notion may become a reality in only a few short years. It's quite a leap forward, really.
In a way, it's not exactly that big a surprise. Year after year, statistics tout South Korea as having one of the best educational systems in the entire world. The fact that they're putting this much effort into advancing their schools is practically a call to action to nations still hesitant to get their schools on the digital bandwagon.
A single digital textbook could be updated instantaneously with new information and educational material (on any number of subjects), eliminating the need for parents to purchase new paper-based textbooks for their children each consecutive school term. That's something any parent can appreciate.
Perhaps one day, when budgetary constraints are no longer an issue, education administrators will push for similar enhancements to classrooms in the U.S.
One day.
But what are YOUR thoughts on the development? Is it too much technology, too early? Or is this the kind of practical application of modern technology that the world has been waiting for?
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This sounds awesome! No more carrying heavy books around at school? Always a plus. 🙂 I can see some drawbacks, though–for example, what if you break your tablet? It'd be a lot more costly, I'd think, to replace a tablet and ALL your digital textbooks than if you lost one textbook and needed to borrow from a friend until you got a new one. Lots of interesting things to think about.
I also wonder what the textbook companies think of this. If students don't have to buy textbooks every year, and new information can be automatically uploaded to the tablets–are textbooks companies going to charge really high prices for the updates? If this trend becomes more widespread, I don't see how else they could keep making the money they do now, since I'm assuming much of their revenue comes from students buying new editions that can cost more than $100 apiece. (I know we're talking about elementary school kids here, but I'm assuming the digital textbook mandate would eventually venture into college/university territory.)
As I said, a lot of interesting consequences to think about here–both for consumers and for companies. Thanks for the great post, Joe!
Thank YOU for a great response, Rachel! 🙂
I never thought about how costly it would be if a student were to break a tablet. I wonder if schools would hold the students accountable to replace such expensive, high-end equipment. Worst case scenario, they'd have to buy a new tablet. I doubt they'd have to pay for new digital textbooks though. The schools or the students would likely have access to some kind of online account to download books — that way, they'd be able to download lost textbooks again onto a new device (at no extra cost) in the event that their first device breaks.
You're probably right about textbook companies charging for downloadable updates. Just goes with the territory, I suppose. They've got to make their money somehow. Of course, it's the same principle as forcing students to buy newer editions of traditional textbooks, only now they'll be in digital form.
And yes, this will no doubt extend to the high school and university levels at some point, though that's probably much further down the road. Can't wait to see the impact that tablets eventually have in U.S. schools. Then again, most of our school systems won't be able to afford such advancements for quite some time.
2-shay! 🙂
Books? Where we're going we don't need books! (Or roads…=] )
I absolutely would have murdered someone to have this as an option in school. For someone who *ahem* didn't exactly use the books all that often, it would have been amazing to not have 7,000 of them sitting around collecting dust.
"Where we're going we don't need books!"
Nicely done. I got a kick out of that. 🙂
And I hear ya — tablets would have reduced a whole lot of textbook clutter when I was in college. I envy future generations.
I just pictured baby Jeff murdering someone. Bwahahaha!
I love the idea of making the books digital, but at the same time I don't think this is practical where low income families are given tablets. Now this is me thinking the worse of humanity but I can just see parents pawning their kids iPads what kind of deterrent would be set in place to stop this? You can't have the kids turn them in at the end of the day due to them needing to complete homework. Only allowing this in richer school systems puts poorer school systems at a disadvantage. Granted I don't know the culture of South Korea, but it just doesn't seem practical for all "primary" school systems.
Has anyone noticed that in Star Trek: The Next Generation they are using tablets??? I mean it is the 24th century, humanity has conquered space travel (thanks to the Vulcans) but we haven't updated tablet technology!?!?
Excellent point, Vernon. The schools would most likely be responsible for distributing tablets to students of low-income families, and I'd imagine that the students would be required to turn their tablets in at the end of the school year/term in order to avoid being charged for the device. Of course, this is just me guessing. I haven't looked into the specifics of the new ordinance, but it would make sense for schools to go about it that way, otherwise, yeah, families would selling their kids' tablets like nobody's business.
And you're right: it's sort of disappointing to think that tablet technology won't advance at all between the 21st and 24th century.
You want to know why the tablet technology doesn't advance? They clearly make a move from tablet technology to holodeck & holoprogramming technology. Which I am totally okay with.
Well, where I went to school I wish we had had the option to download textbooks that were current, that way we would have been taught properly. Our school hardly had enough to go around and the books were all ten-fifteen years out of date. So to have current educational tools would have been marvelous! However, I don't see that happening too quickly in this country, as our main concern is not education. So to budget a transition like this will take a very long time, unless they burden the middle to lower class parents to spend their money on such items. By the time the American school systems make this transition there will already be a different technology at hand, putting us behind again. In the college respect I think this great; I remember almost all of my money (and a lot of it) went to ridiculously over priced books. So if we are going to have to spend this money, might as well do it as economically as possible.
Yup, it's going to be a long time indeed before schools in the U.S. make the jump to tablet-based textbooks. Such a shame. 🙁
"By the time the American school systems make this transition there will already be a different technology at hand…"
True, but look at it this way: by observing how South Korea's new ordinance pans out, our school systems here will have a better idea of whether tablet technology is the right way to go. If a cheaper form of personalized tech is available in the next few years that's more affordable for classroom environments, we'll be all over it.
Nice point Sam. Our schools got new books every few years, and that was normal I suppose. So they books weren't terribly old, but could have been more current in an ideal situation. It would be nice for all students to have very updated information all the time. Hopefully the cost will go down by 2015 so this is more of an option for many countries.
I personally am 100% in support of this, I hated buying textbooks for classes every term in college since they were so expensive. Then I started to rent them and couldn't keep them after the term ended (unless I wanted to buy them, which defeated the purpose of renting).
I'm surprised to read though that South Korea is starting this with children in elementary schools! Wow, talk about starting young. When I think back to my elementary school days, I don't think I'd trust myself as a fourth grader with a tablet that costs upwards of $500.
"I'm surprised to read though that South Korea is starting this with children in elementary schools! Wow, talk about starting young."
Yeah, it's a bit surprising, but at the same time, it's probably the best thing that the country can do for its youth. Technology is the future, and the sooner that youngsters get acquainted with it, the better.
I agree though: I wouldn't trust myself with such expensive equipment if I were still in grade school. I have enough trouble not dropping my cell phone on a daily basis. A tablet is something I'd keep safely at home. I wouldn't want to haul it around every day.
Super blog post topic Joe! =) This gets everyone thinking for sure!
I'm not sure how I feel about all this just yet. I think that elementary aged kids are just too careless to be accountable for that kind of equipment. A book can take lots of abuse like being dropped, spilled on, stepped on, etc. But a tablet can not. I think it makes more sense to get this technology into high school and colleges first–at least those would be handled with more care. I do, however, like the fact that there will be more updates available–so that kids will be learning very current information, and that the whole tablet won't have to be replaced with each edition, like it is with textbooks now. And it would be super convenient to have to carry only the tablet instead of 4-5 books. But I'm just not sure about it yet. I do like that you pointed out that by South Korea offering this first, we can at least see what happens, and learn from their experiences. Although, by 2015….I may feel different. Hopefully by then they will be affordable. I'd be more for it then I suppose.
I agree. I doubt that most kids would take very good care of their tablets. An initiative like this would definitely make more sense at a high school or college level. In time, I'm sure it'll get there.
I completely agree with Amanda. I couldn't keep a book in good shape though-out the year when I was in grade school. I can't tell you how many books my poor parents had to purchase at the end of each year due to my irresponsibility. Can you imagine the cost for a new tablet each year?
Maybe a way around it would be to let kids only use it in school, and work out a system for after/before school programs for homework. This way the kids will be monitored by someone when using it all the time.
Very interesting post, Joe. I feel that the pros would definitely outweigh the cons in this situation, but the only major issue I see is cost. Of course tablet prices will be much lower in 2015, but it still has to cost a fortune to supply them to all of those students.
My question is, why not laptops? You can get a better laptop for the price and having a keyboard for note-taking and such is a huge benefit. Maybe tablets appeal to students due to their accessibility? That's my only thought, but I feel that the versatility of a laptop outweighs the accessibility of a tablet. Or maybe I'm just hesitant to jump on the tablet bandwagon just yet. Heck, for all I know by 2015 there will be something newer/better/faster to replace both laptops and tablets.
Either way, I feel that going digital is definitely the right direction for education. Having that much information at your fingertips can be a great learning tool. This post definitely got my gears turning. Great stuff!
Thanks, man!
I'm with ya on the notion that laptops and traditional PCs are far superior to tablets. I won't be a tablet owner anytime soon — that's for sure. However, as you mentioned, tablets definitely have the upper hand in terms of accessibility and ease of use, which is probably why South Korean schools are opting for tablets instead of laptops; there's less of a learning curve attached to tablets.
I agree Kyle–Laptops would be a better idea. And yes, in 2015, we might all feel different. The keyboard would be so beneficial for note taking! =) And they're more durable it seems, and cheaper for sure! Great idea.
I don't think cost will be as big of factor as many think. If you want an iPad, then sure it will be $500. But a reader just for textbooks can be done for much, much less. A full size color touch screen Nook is $249. A more streamlined version could easily be made for less for schools.
In fact, The Tribune Company has plans to offer FREE tablets to it's long-term subscribers in the near future…
I see what you're saying Jeff. That's a great point–much more realistic to just have tablet e-readers. 😉 I'd be much more in support of this.
I know that everyone seems to be talking about kids breaking those tablets, but I bet that for $2 billion, they can engineer sturdier cases & screens. Not saying that it will be able to be run over with a car, but I'm sure they are taking the age factor into account.
What I have learned from this article and the comments is that companies spent too much time on tablets and not enough on hoverboards. Come on, Mattel! You're selling less and less Barbies every year — time to make that switch to hoverboards.
Great point! Seeing as how this is such a costly investment for South Korea, I'd imagine that they have measures in place to discourage or prevent the inevitable wear and tear that some of those tablets will encounter.
And yes, Mattel needs to get on that hoverboard technology, like, NOW!
Great post, Joe! 🙂 This really has the wheels in my head turning. A suggestion for South Korea…Kindles! As some of my friends know, I could work for Amazon and sell these things. I sold one to a dear friend whose excuse was, "Good! More books for me! And they'll be cheaper." ….Sam. 🙂 I do believe she has one…and loves it. LOL! I absolutely LOVE my Kindle. (Thanks to QLP's IT guy, Josh. It was my birthday present last year) 🙂 A. It's easier to read B. They're awesome! C. More affordable and D. Has all of the things needed for classroom use. The "tablet" I'm sure has all of those fancy things on it, like games, internet, etc. The Kindle does have that, but it doesn't just come with it. These are things you have to pay for, download, etc., making it more difficult to access at school. My concern also to would be if it did get broken. Who would be responsible for replacing it? Kids will be kids unfortunately.
Sidnote: I wish I had this for college! I agree with Sam. I put so much money into books it was ungodly! Coming from a highschool, like Sam, where the books were ancient, to going to college at a private university, the books caused me to be the stereotypical "poor college kid." I do think this is a fantastic idea though! I think this would spike kids' learning and intrigue them to keep up with their studies. As always, this sort of thing is a double edged sword. It has its good and bad features. Either way it can't hurt to give it a shot and prove everyone wrong! Rock on, South Korea! We Americans will catch up with you in 150 years! 🙂
Forgot to add: Yes, Mattel just needs to give up Barbies. They're so outdated. I had a few to satisfy my friends' play dates, but I'd much rather have had a hover board!! Let's do this!


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A proposal coming before the Oregon Liquor Control Commission could tip the balance in the endless struggle between state and local authorities, neighborhood associations, Portland's 2,200-odd booze dealers and the sometimes-belligerent drinkers who love them.
It centers on a seemingly ordinary matter: the frequency of restaurants' and bars' liquor license renewals, which currently happen once a year. But it is anything but routine to some neighborhood activists. They say annual liquor license renewals are an important means of exerting influence over the character of their streets.
The Oregon Restaurant Association sees it differently, and if the powerful 3,000-member trade association gets its way, bars and restaurants will get a break from the yearly rigmarole. In October, the OLCC will consider the restaurant lobby's request to allow renewals every two years, at twice the annual fee. If the OLCC moves forward with the proposal, it could be in force by next spring.
M.J. Coe, president of the Laurelhurst Neighborhood Association, would prefer to keep the status quo. Annual renewals, he says, are "one of the few tools that a neighborhood still has in its quiver to root out troublesome neighborhood establishments—because we are losing tools.
"The restaurant association has been fairly good at knocking back regulations at the state level," Coe adds.
Whatever the merits of the two-year renewals, it's clear which side has more influence in the state Legislature. Alcohol sales will contribute about $155.8 million this year to the state treasury—not to mention the $556 million in annual revenue from the Oregon Lottery, which is played around booze. Together, that's more than double what the state takes in from the corporate income tax.
"At some level the state is dependent, perhaps addicted, to alcohol sales," says Dan Anderson, a board member of the Northwest District Association.
Anderson also helps lead the city's Liquor License Advisory Group, a City Council-appointed committee that has pushed for stricter bar regulations, with little success, for the past several years.
In July, Portland police reported 871 incidents of disorderly conduct and liquor law violations (the two often go hand in hand). Instead of committing violent crimes like aggravated assault or rape, which have been trending downward, Portlanders have been increasingly drunk and disorderly since July 2004, when police counted 582 such violations.
Yet others argue that the peace-and-quiet activists have little influence over liquor licensing simply because most bars are, well, pretty chillax.
"At some point in time you've got to agree that there's a lot of staff time being spent on non-problems," says Bill Perry, the ORA's chief lobbyist. "Ninety-five percent of the licensees don't have any issues. The question is, why do we deal with them on an annual basis?"
Perry contends that the annual renewals worsen an OLCC backlog of up to four months to process new licenses, a "financial hardship" for restaurateurs with impatient backers. And he rejects the argument that people will lose control of their neighborhoods without annual renewals. "Say there's four neighborhood associations you have a problem with—why would you stop two-year licensing everywhere else?"
So who are the bad apples? Police and staff with the Office of Neighborhood Involvement were reluctant to share unsubstantiated complaints.
Currently, the OLCC splits its annual reviews into two periods. Licensees south of Burnside Street are looked at every July. In December, time's up for the alcohol vendors north of Burnside.
This July, the city recommended rejected renewals for six southside bars (out of approximately 1,100). Only two, Bettie Ford and Beckens Winning Hand, have actually shut down.
And a few northside establishments might have headaches with neighbors between now and December, when annual renewals come around for them.
La Fortuna Mexican Restaurant and Night Club on Sandy Boulevard, for example, stands near a street of single-family homes in Laurelhurst. In January, Edilberto Ville, 22, was shot in La Fortuna's parking lot and later died.
Neighbors had already complained of noise, rowdiness, litter and fights, and had brokered a "good-neighbor agreement" with the restaurant. Results were mixed.
"It would get better, then it would get worse. Then, of course, we had the homicide," says Laurelhurst Neighborhood Association board member Gary Naylor. "Things are better now. And I don't know what all the reasons are. There might be less people coming to the place."
Naylor hadn't heard of the ORA's proposal for two-year renewals until WW told him about it, but he says such a change would suggest even less enforcement from the OLCC.
La Fortuna managers did not respond to messages by press time.
Last week, city officials asked the neighborhood associations and police precincts to notify them about booze-fueled trouble spots among the OLCC licensees north of Burnside, in advance of their annual December renewals.


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ARGH, bit frustrated here. The other day my ten year old daughter tells me she's going primal and that bread gives her heartburn! YAY!
So this is all great until she goes to my best friend's place to stay with her daughter, and she announces that she's going primal like her mum. Well, my friend first says "but you don't need to lose weight" . Yes, I am losing weight through primal BUT to me it's not all about weight loss, but about eating a way I can eat FOREVER without cravings etc. etc. and giving my body the right nutrients.
Anyway, my friend seems to "tolerate" this about me... but complains she can't feed me (even though I've said "I just don't eat grains and sugar! You can just feed me normal food!!"), but flat out has told my daughter that she has to eat what she's given, whether she likes it or not. GRR.
Look I get it... I know people don't wanna go out and buy a whole bunch of stuff to feed one or two "fussy" people. But geez, how hard can it be to just give her meat and veg and forego breads and stuff?? (My daughter now says that bread and pasta gives her heartburn, so this is part of the reason why she wants to give them up).
The thing is, while I can go there and turn down bad food, if my daughter goes there to stay, they're going to have to feed her (or she'll go hungry), and I don't want to put them out... I could offer to send food along with her (so she can have her breakfast bacon ) I guess, but at the same time that seems a little rude as well (I know my friend would perceive it as rude... as she likes to feed people!).
I just find it a little disrespectful. I don't want people to go out of their way for me, but I do like them to respect what I eat, not just get a "well we don't eat that way in this house!!" comment (which is what my daughter got). But at the same time... I kinda get it. If someone's staying at my house, they eat what I feed them. That's it. If they have an allergy or something, I'm obviously going to cater to it. That being said, if I had a vegetarian kid staying at my house, I wouldn't force them to eat meat! But in general, I'll just feed them what I feed my kids and expect them to deal. And I guess my friend is the same way - she has a meal she wants to feed herself and her child, and expects any visiting children to eat the same meal.


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#28 - thejerseyjenn
Reply +5(11/07/2012) [-]
I am pro life simply because people just don't know how to take responsibility anymore. If the child is the result of a rape alright I would support that person getting an abortion if they wanted. But if it's because they were too lazy to use a condom or to forgetful to take the pill everyday then they should remember what comes of that. It's a child no matter how much you want to dehumanize it.
#100 to #79 - thejerseyjenn (11/08/2012) [-]
anyone can make something of themselves. given the opportunity to try.
#59 to #28 - frenchgenocide (11/07/2012) [-]
wait, you just contradicted yourself- you said it is a child yet you can still kill it if it is a result of rape/incest. I've always wondered the logic of people who say this, please (someone) explain.
#70 to #59 - lilpinkkitsune (11/07/2012) [-]
Because most people can understand that some women are just not emotionally capable of carrying their rapists baby and that it might drive them over the edge of sanity so for the sake of the mothers mental health abortion could be tolerable.
#74 to #70 - frenchgenocide (11/07/2012) [-]
understandable, but still many would remain normal, and it still is by all means a human life, so even though it is sad, life itself is more important than sanity
#76 to #74 - lilpinkkitsune (11/07/2012) [-]
Not when the sanity is stretched so thin that the mother offs herself to escape. Don't get me wrong, I am against abortion but I understand that as regrettable as it may be sometimes extenuating circumstances are needed.
#80 to #76 - frenchgenocide (11/07/2012) [-]
well, I still believe that the life is more important. at least the child has more life to live?
#84 to #80 - lilpinkkitsune (11/07/2012) [-]
Again I say if the victim of the rape is so distraught that she kills herself than not only do you lose her life but the life of her unborn child as well, can't you see how it would be better to at least save the victims life?
#86 to #84 - frenchgenocide (11/07/2012) [-]
you are right, but only for that instance, and this is a very rare one.
#87 to #86 - lilpinkkitsune (11/07/2012) [-]
See, there are almost always extenuating circumstances.
#88 to #87 - frenchgenocide (11/07/2012) [-]
#89 to #88 - lilpinkkitsune (11/07/2012) [-]
Most everyone always thinks in black in white, or that everything needs to have the strictest laws that constrict everything into little boxes of right and wrong. The thing people don't understand is there is a grey area and not everything fits into those little boxes.
#90 to #89 - frenchgenocide (11/07/2012) [-]
I know we're ur coming from, but some things just ARE black and white
#91 to #90 - lilpinkkitsune (11/07/2012) [-]
True, and that is why I said 'almost always.'
#92 to #91 - frenchgenocide (11/07/2012) [-]
oh didnt catch that
#94 to #92 - lilpinkkitsune (11/07/2012) [-]
Lol, quite all right.
#95 to #94 - frenchgenocide (11/07/2012) [-]
**frenchgenocide rolled a random image posted in comment #1331176 at Item Discussion ** ponies and I win the argument
#97 to #95 - lilpinkkitsune (11/07/2012) [-]
What were you trying to win exactly? Also, even the rolls know you lost.
#98 to #97 - frenchgenocide (11/07/2012) [-]
the argument, silly goose
#99 to #98 - lilpinkkitsune (11/07/2012) [-]
Ah well.... I think I won then. Lol.
#96 to #95 - frenchgenocide (11/07/2012) [-]
worth a try!


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This year marks the 75th anniversary of Child Evangelism Fellowship, a nondenominational ministry that sponsors the Good News Club in six Lycoming County elementary schools.
Students attend the club's hour-long classes weekly, usually from October through late March or mid-April, for Bible-based instruction and fellowship time.
CEF hopes to expand its program into more area schools soon, if adequate funding and volunteer teachers can be found. A class at one school costs $800 to run for an academic year and is funded entirely from local contributions, according to Paul Kinley, of Cogan Station, who works with the CEF afterschool Good News Clubs.
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Kinley helps promote the CEF's Good News Clubs as part of his work with Interlink Ministries, an Ohio-based group that provides logistical support and advice for worthy Christian missions programs.
"I create an awareness of the afterschool club program, recruit teachers and helpers and seek sponsorships from area businesses to underwrite part of the program cost," Kinley said.
Classes at Salladasburg and Jersey Shore Elementary schools, both Jersey Shore Area schools, began during the 2011-12 academic year.
CEF also has afterschool clubs at Avis, Hepburn-Lycoming, Ferrell and Myers elementary schools. A club at Cochran Elementary School also is planned.
Good News Clubs in Lycoming County average about 19 students per class, or about five percent of the student population. More than 133,000 students attended Good News classes in 2010, at more than 3,000 school locations, Kinley said.
"The children are taught Bible stories, they are told a 'real-life' missionary story, they sing Christian songs," Kinley said. "The volunteer teachers and helpers lead the children in prayer, the children are given a memory verse to learn, and sometimes games are played in conjunction with reviewing the materials from the previous week."
Kinley added that volunteer teachers and helpers must apply, complete a background check and attend a two-hour teacher training seminar.
"Most of our teachers and helpers come from local churches," he said.
Volunteers - CEF has more than 2,700 worldwide - also must collect references and are asked to fill out sheets rating their strengths and weaknesses. The legal requirements are far removed from the days when volunteers could show up, uninvited, at a CEF program and teach the gospel. CEF's Good News Clubs were the subject of a 2001 United States Supreme Court ruling (Good News Club v. Milton Central School District) that ruled religious groups could have equal access to public school facilities, if other non-school groups may use the space.
The Kennedy family, of Williamsport, also spends much of their time in the mission field on the Good News Club, along with other CEF programming. Bill and Mary Ann Kennedy direct operations in Lycoming County and train volunteers.
"We're raising up the next generation to go out and make a difference for Christ," said Bill Kennedy. "I'm sitting down with them and praying with them and watching them grow in Christ."
For more information about Child Evangelism Fellowship, visit cef online.com and lycoming cef.com. Businesses interested in donating to the program can visit kinley family.net/cefbusiness sponsorships.


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The pregnant Blanchard mother has been missing since Dec. 10.
A police report revealed that Adams' husband changed his account of the night she disappeared.
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Anthony Samad: The Los Angeles taxpayer would be astonished with the number of unexcused absences council members have, but these two small-minded council persons — Parks and Perry — wanted to send a message and get some press out of it—and they did.
Can the Bible Be Taken Literally?
Steve Hochstadt: So-called literalists choose which passages they want to take literally on the basis of principles which are very modern, far from the ideas and attitudes of Jews and Christians thousands of years ago.
Angels and Innocents
Sikivu Hutchinson: Since God sees and "forgives" everything that is petitioned, the moral universe of children is a tiny, confining funhouse of mirrors. In communities where death at an early age is considered unremarkable by mainstream media and policymakers, the deferment demanded by faith is an insurance policy against social oblivion.
In My Wildest Dreams: The Marriage That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Marc Stein: Oscar laughed. "Why of course they can't call it heterosexual marriage! That would make them appear like bigots. They would sound as if they endorse discrimination. They would seem prejudiced. They would be saying openly that they think heterosexuality is superior to homosexuality. And besides, if they called it 'heterosexual' marriage it would be too easy to ask questions about why the state has to confer so many special rights and privileges on heterosexual marriages in order to get people to marry heterosexually.
Reason Returns to the White House
Like it or not, knuckle-draggers: Science is back IN. As a life-long Catholic, I couldn't be more delighted. I'm sure the airwaves and the cable channels will soon be wall-to-wall with conservatives and Republicans and other assorted 13th-century thinkers whining and moaning and ringing their hands – probably gnashing their teeth and rending their garments, […]
The Death Penalty
Many and varied are the reasons to end, or at the very least, severely limit the death penalty. We argue its immorality, its discriminatory application, its violation of the cruel and unusual prohibitions in our Constitution. We argue that we are virtually the only nation borne of Western culture that still employs it; it is […]


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Camcorder videos usually need to be edited before they are watched on TV, streaming online, or burn to DVD as gifts. Sony Vegas is the most powerful camcorder video editing software in the market. It supports most video formats recorded by camcorders, especially the Sony camcorders from SD to HD camcorders.
Sometimes, importing camcorder videos to Sony Vegas is not so easy. This article will help you find the answer about how to import camcorder videos to Sony Vegas, divided into DVD camcorder video to Vegas and non-DVD camcorder video to Vegas.
Part 1: Vegas Import DVD Disc by DVD Camcorder
First, check out what you'll need to import DVD camcorder video with Sony Vegas software
- DVD drive (on most computers, if not, see import camcorder video using USB or Fireware cable)
- Sony Vegas software
How to import DVD camcorder video to Sony Vegas:
Step 1: Place a finalized recorded DVD in the computer's DVD drive
Step 2: Run Sony Vegas software and go to the Project / Import DVD Camcorder Disc. In some versions of Vegas you will find this under File / Import / DVD Camcorder Disc.
Step 3: The video clips will be saved to your computer as MPEG2 (*.mpg) files.
Step 4: Go to the Project Media, locate the *.mpg video files just imported.
Important Things:
- You cannot import commercially-produced DVD for those discs are burned with copy-protection. You need a powerful DVD converting software to copy the videos first.
- DVD recorded using avchd camcorders ( MT2S files) are not recognized through DVD Import. Consult the camcorder's manual for help, or convert MT2S files to all popular video formats.
- DVD-RW camcorder discs shot in VR mode can only be imported by Vegas if you are using Windows XP Service Pack 2 or greater.
Part 2: Import non-DVD Camcorder Videos to Sony Vegas
Besides DVD camcorder, there are also other types of camcorders such as hard disk drive camcorder, flash memory camcorder, miniDV camcorder, and so on. Taking hard disk camcorder for example, recent versions of Sony Vegas allow you to import files directly to the computer. The detailed steps will be a little different in each version, but the same principle applies in each version.
1. Go to File / Project and look for Import (you might also see Import avchd Camcorder).
2. Locate the camcorder within the Source menu.
3. Within the Destination menu, pick a location to move the files.
4. Click OK. This will begin the process of moving files from camcorder to computer.
As the same as importing DVD camcorder videos to Vegas, once this process is completed, you will see your files in the Project Media window.
Note: If you do not see these options within your version of Vegas, you will need use the default software coming with your camcorder to move files from the camcorder to the computer first and then import videos to Sony Vegas.
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Following photo/audio/video formats are supported to import to Sony Vegas. Check it out if your camcorder video can't be imported to Vegas. And if necessary, use the video converter to get Vegas supported videos first.
AA3, AAF, AIF, ASF, AU, AVI, BMP, BWF, CDA, DIG, DLX, DPX, DV, EXR, FLAC, GIF, HDP, IVC, JPG, M2T, M2TS, MOV, Sony MXF, MP3, MP4, M4A, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video, OGG, OMA, PCA, PNG, PSD, QT, R3D, SFA, SND, SWF, TIFF, TGA, VOX, W64, WAV, WDP, WMA, WMV
Note: Sometimes you need software to view what's the real codec for the video to import to Vegas. To do so, use the GSpot to find what video codec is used and install corresponding codec to import to Vegas. Download GSpot here.


text: Yes, it is due to school. I am now only going to be in school 3 days per week, rather than 5 and will have to make up the missing classes starting in January. At least I get a long weekend every week now. I did have a MUCH better day today though, thank you.