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Photography allowed me to find my original authentic voice. Photography, "writing with light" opened a passage to express my emotions by weaving both male and female narrative voices and energy into my images. This non-verbal medium of images tapped into my deepest thoughts, dreams, and objects and drove me to open up to see what was inside of the people, objects and landscapes to which I was magnetically drawn.
I have always been interested in the scars, lines and topography of the earth as well as the human body and the transformations either faces as it ages. How people's hands inform us of their unique gestures, a signature in the air. Self-expression of the younger generation fascinates me; piercings and tattoos needled into the flesh of those who need to individualize themselves in a culture that is becoming more diverse.
This journey has found me searching for people who, with my camera as passport, have allowed me into their culture or private lives. I make connections with them if there is one to make. Most of all I need that connection to feel alive: to resonate with another form of energy and find equilibrium between another and myself.
Caroline Vaughan studied at Duke with John Menapace and with Minor White at M.I.T. The photographers who have most influenced her include Imogen Cunningham, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, August Sanders, Clarence White, Paul Capinigro, Brett Weston, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Ruth Bernhard, Wynn Bullock, Paul Strand and Minor White. Her work is found in museums and major private collections across the country.
Ms. Vaughan participated in Polaroid's Young Artists' Program from 1971 for about ten years and received additional support from Polaroid in 2007. She received a N. C. Fellowship in 1990, as well as a grant from The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke. In 1996, Duke Press, with an introduction by the late Reynolds Price, published her monograph, Borrowed Time: Photographs by Caroline Vaughan, Durham and London. She was also published in Quartet: Four North Carolina Photographers, by Safe Harbor Press in 2004. Museums that have collected Vaughan's work include, among others: The Addison Gallery of American Art, MA; The Amon Carter Museum, TX; The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX; The Polaroid Collection, MA; and The Gregg Museum, The North Carolina Museum of Art, The Cameron Museum, and The Mint Museum in North Carolina. Additionally, her work has been published in Camera(Switzerland); Zoom (France); and Aperture (USA). Retired from working in fund raising at Duke for 25 years, Caroline is learning digital photography and taught at Penland in 2007.
This retrospective of Caroline Hickman Vaughan's photography ranges from the mid-1960s to the present day, and includes rare early silver gelatin and platinum work as well as archival pigment prints. The Gregg Museum of Art & Design at N.C. State recently acquired Vaughan's photographic archive; she held select pieces back for this very special exhibition.
When capturing an image, Vaughan is searching not only for the essence of the subject but a part of herself which resonates with the subject. In this process, she is trying to define the essence of humanity in her every portrait and some part of us that is drawn to a certain quality in a landscape, which taps us emotionally down to our core.
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I just read the interview with Sage Rosenfels after practice today and I just about puked. When asked about requesting a trade, his first response was "I haven't thought about that yet." Disgusting.
After today's news, I think the reaction of the other QBs really spoke to each of their respective characters. Tarvaris Jackson calls it like it is, recognizes that there isn't anything he can do about it other than improve his own play and he was overall pretty professional.
Sage debated whether he wanted to be traded or not, made it clear that he was disappointed and frustrated, but said he would continue on as if he was anointed the starter.
Therein, my friends, lies the issue.
In his short tenure with the Vikings, I have not been impressed with the attitude I've seen from Sage. Honestly, his complaints about the Vikings signing Favre are childish and disruptive. The fact that he seems to think that just because they gave a 4TH ROUND PICK for him that he should just be handed the starting QB job here is borderline arrogant.
I was really for the trade in the beginning, but this doesn't seem like the type of guy that I would want leading my team.
Firstly, let's call a spade a spade here, this wasn't the ideal way to go about things. No, the ideal way would have been for us to draft Aaron Rodgers four years ago instead of Troy Williamson.
The ideal way would have been for Jackson to STEP UP and be the QB that he was drafted to be instead of the on-again/off-again enigma that he has been. Neither of those events had happened, which leads us to the roller-coaster ride us Vikings fans have been on for the past four months.
Regardless of how we got here, the Vikings front office has an obligation to its fans, owners, and everyone who believes in the game of football to field the best possible team that it can. If your quarterbacks are SO BAD that a wishy-washy, 40 year-old, future Hall of Fame QB in the twilight of his career is the best possible option to bring the first Super Bowl to a hungry franchise, then it is their duty to make every effort to sign him.
Football is a business and, despite what some backup signal-callers would have to say, this was the best possible move for the Minnesota Vikings franchise.
It gives them the best opportunity for a Super Bowl (this year), it is a brilliant marketing move, and it has the opportunity to go down as one of the greatest or possibly dumbest moves in NFL history.
I've been a Vikings fan for 12 years now (since I've been a fan of the NFL) and this is the most excited I've been since 1998. I'm also a lot more excited than I was this time yesterday that's for sure.

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Sony was forced to rein in their PlayStation Vita and PSP hardware annual sales targets following lackluster results posted for their first fiscal quarter. As losses widened both company-wide and for the division encompassing the PlayStation business, Sony confirms it will reduce its combined Vita and PSP hardware sales target to 12 million units for their current fiscal year ending next March 2013, down nearly 25 percent from its original 16 million unit target reported back in May.
Sales from Sony's gaming division fell 14.5 percent year-on-year to ¥118.0 billion ($1.5 billion USD) during the three month period ended June 30th, leaving the division mired in operating losses of ¥3.5 billion ($44.7 million USD). Compare this to the ¥4.1 billion ($52.3 million USD) in income the division posted for the same quarter last year.
Sony sold 1.4 million Vita and PSP handhelds combined during their first fiscal quarter, down from the combined 1.8 million handhelds they managed to sell last year. Since the company has now taken to combining their hardware unit sales for the purposes of reporting, it's not known exactly how much the Vita accounted for the current total. Combined PS3 and PS2 hardware sales similarly fell year-on-year to 2.8 million units.
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Spencer C. Luchak
Spencer Comer Luchak, 72, of Hedgesville, died Friday, April 26, 2013, at City Hospital.
Born July 6, 1940, in Jacksonville, Fla., he was the son of the late Alex Martin Luchak and Ruth Estelle Lindstedt Luchak.
He was a veteran of the United States Navy, and was retired from the C&P Telephone Company, as a lineman.
He was a member of the Independent Bible Church, Caregivers of IBC, Christian Motorcycle Association, Panhandle Square Dance Club and former Big Brother.
At his request, services and interment will be private.
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Free calendaring software for the office
Our office has outgrown our ad-hoc personal calendars and we are looking for a calendar tool. The biggest need for us is to see when others are available for meetings and make meeting requests. We're not an Exchange shop, so Outlook/Exchange compatibility is not important. Most of us are accessing our email over POP3 in our favorite client, so something that can send/confirm meeting requests via email without preference for a specific client is helpful.
Project management and scheduling for a scientific team
I am part of a large collaborative lab-based project. We are currently disorganized and inefficient and are are looking for some project management systems or tools. [more inside]
Bad and good experiences with Collabtive
Your experience with Collabtive: I want to know. Should I put up with it for a month and a half, or go with the Bugzilla I already have? [more inside]
Build a collaborative online system for his college dorm floor.
Help me help my nephew build a collaborative online system for his college dorm floor. [more inside]
Collabtive Installation Error
Why is my installation of Collabtive 0.6.2 not connecting to the MySQL databases on my web server? I've uploaded the software and set up a MySQL database, but when I run the install module I keep getting an "Error: Tables could not be created" message. [more inside]
Web-based Microsoft Office alternatives?
Does anyone use Zimbra as a complete replacement for Office/Exchange? How did it go? Are there any builds of Zimbra that attempt to declutter the interface? Alternatively, are there any open source projects that provide Google Docs functionality, that I don't know about? [more inside]
Artist groupware. Please find enclosed a list of requirements.
We're a group artists in a non-profit and are currently using Facebook to organise ourselves. I find it lacking - it's not a platform with collaboration in mind, so I'm researching alternatives. Hlep! [more inside]
Web based document sharing
Non-profit group looking for a web based document storage / file sharing system to allow remote offices to share (mainly download) relevant organization documents. Does not have to have check in/check out capabilities. Will need to be able to password protect access so that general public does not have access. Could also use web portal capabilities and wiki like features - a lite CMS, but not required. Have looked at things like Drupal (too complicated to get set up), Alfresco (wayy too expensive!), OWL (couldn't get demo to work). Prefer to host on our own Linux based webserver, and have tech resources for installs etc, but not extensive coding.
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I need something like dotProject but better.
In my quest to find a project management application that fits our situation, I've been evaluating dotProject. This app ended up not being viable for us for a number of reasons, so I'm wondering if any of you out there have experience with a project management app that meets the following requirements... [more inside]
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How do you persuade people to share their data (Groupware)?
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Kobus vardonii
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General Characteristics
Body Length: 126-142 cm / 4.2-4.6 ft.
Shoulder Height: 77-83 cm / 31-33 in.
Tail Length: 28-32 cm / 11-13 in.
Weight: 62-90 kg / 136-198 lb.
The coarse coat is a uniform golden brown in colour, with the underparts, including the underside of the tail, being slightly paler. The forehead area is generally darker than the body, while there are inconspicuous off-white areas around the eyes and lips. Around the edge of the ears is a fine black rim. The body is heavy with a level back, and the legs are somewhat shorter than the others in the genus Kobus and without any markings. The strongly ridged horns are found only in males. Less lyrate than those of the kob, they grow 45-53 cm / 18-21 inches long.
Ontogeny and Reproduction
Gestation Period: 8 months.
Young per Birth: 1
Weaning: After 6 months.
Sexual Maturity: 12-14 months.
Life span: Up to 17 years.
Breeding occurs year-round, with a peak from May to September.
Ecology and Behavior
Feeding activity of the puku is generally limited to the early mornings and late afternoons, although this period may extend long after dark. The puku is more adaptable in terms of habitat requirements than the kob, and will inhabit areas of open woodland if conditions are suitable. During the rainy season, populations spread out on higher ground, descending to the margins of watercourses during the dry season. At this time, smaller groups may join together to form parties of 50 or more animals. When alarmed, the puku emits a shrill, repeated whistle. Solitary males hold territories throughout the year, and each attempts to induce a herd of females to remain on his patch of ground for as long as possible. These territories are spaced out over a considerable distance, and no lekking behavior (as seen in kob) has been recorded.
Family group: Small maternal of 6-20 animals, adult males solitary or in bachelor groups.
Diet: Grasses.
Main Predators: Lion, leopard, hyena, Cape hunting dog.
Floodplain grasslands near water in central southern Africa.
Range Map (Redrawn from IEA, 1998)
Conservation Status
The puku is considered a low risk, conservation dependent species by the IUCN (1996).
Although sometimes classified as a southern subspecies of the kob, the puku is now generally considered a species unto itself. Puku is an African native name. Kobus (New Latin) from koba, an African name. The puku was named in honour of Major Frank Vardon, an English elephant hunter, and a friend of Livingstone when in Africa about the year 1850.
Literature Cited
Alden, P. C., R. D. Estes, D. Schlitter, and B. McBride. 1995. National Audubon Society Field Guide to African Wildlife. New York: Chanticleer Press.
IEA (Institute of Applied Ecology). 1998. Kobus vardonii. In African Mammals Databank - A Databank for the Conservation and Management of the African Mammals Vol 1 and 2. Bruxelles: European Commission Directorate. Available online at http://gorilla.bio.uniroma1.it/amd/amd342b.html
Kingdon, J. 1997. The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals. Academic Press, London and New York: NaturalWorld.
Wilson, D. E., and D. M. Reeder [editors]. 1993. Mammal Species of the World (Second Edition). Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. Available online at http://nmnhwww.si.edu/msw/
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Rihanna reveals nearly all as she goes topless for the May issue of Vogue Brasil.
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Frances Connelly, PhD
Frances Connelly's teaching and research focus is modern European art of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular interest in the intersection of art history and anthropology. Connelly's most recent book, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, explores the seminal role of the grotesque in modern art and culture. She was the editor and contributor for Modern Art and the Grotesque, published by Cambridge University Press in 2003 (reprinted 2009). Connelly's other research interest is primitivism and globalization. She published The Sleep of Reason: Primitivism in Modern European Art and Aesthetics, 1725-1907 with Pennsylvania State University Press in 1995 (reprinted 1999). More recently, she contributed an article, "Authentic Irony: Primitivism and Its Aftermath," to Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art, History, and Visual Culture (forthcoming). Book chapters include "John Ruskin and the Ethics of the Picturesque" to Twentieth-Century Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Art: Revisiting a Century, published in 2008 by the University of Delaware Press, and "Tiefsinnige Spielerie: Die Bildtradition des Grotesk-Komischen," in Groteske! 130 Jahre Kunst der Frechheit, Exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main and Haus der Kunst, Munich (Prestel Press, 2003).
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Job Training and Career Consulting — Poised to Grow and Ready to Hire
The magazine explained that with boosts from government funding and the surging emphasis on specific skill training, this industry is expected to have revenue growth of more than three percent in the next year. This results in thousands of dollars more in income each year for those holding these positions.
Professionals in the job training and career consulting field can expect to spend their time guiding others on how to most effectively apply their specific skills, interests and qualifications toward long-term success.
There are a variety of programs and degrees at Northcentral University that effectively prepare Students for a meaningful career as a career consultant or job training specialist. These include an MBA in Human Resources Management, a Master's degree in Industrial Organizational Psychology from the School of Behavioral and Health Sciences or a Doctor of Education in Global Training and Development. The latter is specifically geared toward preparing those who seek leadership positions in the field of training and counseling and provides classes like "Human Performance: Paradigms and Possibilities" and "Strategic Links for Successful Global Training."
Bruce Frey, a recent PhD graduate of Northcentral University's School of Education, explains how his own career in the education industry improved as he progressed with his study at Northcentral.
"The degree which I have earned at Northcentral University is going to enable me to contribute to the education community," Frey said. "And enable me to fulfill my career desires of becoming an educator."
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Flagler Beach News? Where do residents get their news from? I can't get home delivery at my apartment due to the lobby being locked and some knucklehead stealing my copy almost daily. Where should I go for my news now? Any websites that cater to Flagler Beach, FL residents?
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Try those two sites. I'm not from the area, but I get all of my news online because its free and I don't have to deal with the paper after I'm done with it. Welcome to the 21st century bub!
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Apps for Energy offers $100,000 in cash prizes to the developers with the best energy-focused apps. Design by Hantz Leger.
The ever-increasing demand for new mobile and web programs and the developers who build them are the driving forces behind a rapidly growing industry – the "app economy."
In just a few short years, this new industry has established itself as a formidable job creator. Since the iPhone's introduction in 2007, the app economy is estimated to have created nearly 500,000 jobs in the U.S., according to a study released by TechNet, an advocacy organization for the technology industry.
In addition to fostering job growth, the app economy acts as a catalyst for a rising wave of innovation. Well-documented Application Programming Interfaces, open source software, and low-cost tools make it easy for app developers to innovate and test out new ideas.
The Energy Department supports the creation and commercialization of new ideas, with programs that make it easier for companies to use the technologies developed at our National Labs, and with grants to companies that are working on innovative technologies. The Energy Department's Apps for Energy competition brings this same commitment to the app economy, offering cash prizes to the developers of the best new energy-focused applications.
In the case of Apps for Energy, the challenge at hand is helping consumers get the most out of their electricity usage data. Through the Green Button initiative, millions of Americans can now access their electricity usage data online – straight from their utility or electricity supplier. This data comes in standard, open format, and we're challenging app developers to combine it with other data sets, models, analysis, and sharing tools to create an app that helps utility customers understand their energy usage.
Since its launch, 12 utilities have committed to providing more than 27 million Americans with their electricity data via Green Button, with Reliant being the latest utility to roll the program out.
Companies are proving the viability of Green Button data. FirstFuel Software – a commercial building energy analytics company – recently announced that it will use Green Button data to perform comprehensive, energy assessments of commercial buildings. Technology companies, such as Tendril and Opower, also have plans to build products compatible with Green Button data.
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If you want the pinnacle of sport-specific computing sitting atop your stem, look no further. That sounds like a high, hard sales pitch, but it's the damn truth. The Garmin Edge 810 does everything that anyone as dreamed of a bike computer doing, and probably a couple more things, too. It handles the basics easily: navigation, multiple bike selection, ANT+ compatibility so your heart rate strap or power meter data comes through, and Bluetooth compatibility for easy uploads via your smartphone. On top of that, you get real-time weather updates, Virtual Partner and Virtual Racer training programs, and a 17-hour battery life.
It'll accept microSD cards if you want to expand its storage capabilities, and its touchscreen is designed to work in heat, cold, and wet weather, with both gloved and bare hands.
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- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
The 810 is a data machine. The 810 provides all the necessary information for any serious cyclist. With two modes, train and race, you have options for every style of ride. My only issue is it tends to lose the gps signal fairly easily when riding my mtn bike. I have had no issues on the road. I recommend purchasing the cadence and speed sensor to a Alleviate this issue.
Poor software quality
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I've been using the 810 for about 8 months on training rides and tours up to 150 miles. While the device works great on rides less than 50 miles or so, my unit will randomly shut down if I use the map screen while following a course. Which is sad, since navigation and LiveTrack is supposed to be the justification for the extra cost of this unit, right?
After about 6 months, the unit also stopped synching with my phone reliably, regardless of all the updates Garmin makes you install.
While the hardware of the unit works well, ANT+ pairing is great, and battery life is around 11 hours, the unstable mapping aspect is a deal-breaker for me. I'm pretty much forced to use this unit with only the sensor reading screen active if I want to complete my ride without the device bombing around every 20 miles.
Good ideas, but poor execution.
Great, but maps and routing poor
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I upgraded from the 500 last fall and this has been great for me. The mapping and stuff is good and it's nice to always have on hand and not waste phone battery. Battery life for this unit has been good for me. Id say about 12 hours on a charge. The integration with the mobile app had been great for me. Just push a button at the end of the ride and it auto to ride updates to strava simple as that. I did have one issue on a century where it did freeze after a long break and did lose my ride :( no other issues besides that one tragic event though. The size is nice and it's got all the data I need. Routes just need to be made on their website prior riding if you want turn by turn. I have had issues with it saying I'm off course and need to turn around when I'm not. Have had improper directions given too. Come on Garmin!! Great for other stuff. Just not maps :(
Sad to say I agree with you. Lost track of the number of times, the Garmin has said I'm off-course. It all works out, but the back tracking is tiresome. I'm waiting for Google to produce a cycling computer.
not really a reliable upgrade.
I had an edge 500 for a few seasons and then "upgraded to an 810. in two seasons I am on my second 810 and need to replace the one I currently have because the device no longer connects to the computer. The 500 was about 98% flawless the 810 is not a quality device for the price. I am waiting for Magellan to get their unit to the US hoping they give Garmin an eye opening run for their money.
The best!
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I use solely Garmin on my rides. Mainly they are easy to use; I have used them so long; have a great CS; and stay abreast of what cyclist need. This unit is great for rides in general or desigining your own ride for uploading to go by. The system works and what more can you want. I never hesitate to look to Garmin when it is time to upgrade. This is my 3rd unit and and I am sure the 4th will be Garmin as well! I would go into detail with what all this unit wil do but you can read that on their site.
Good upgrade from Edge500
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
The Edge500 is compact and does all the basic things well. I purchased the 810 a few weeks ago. I liked the bluetooth connectivity of the Edge810.
For fun (and maybe safety), follow-live is a good gadget. With bluetooth, uploading your ride is automatic. Garmin connect organizes all your workouts. Open source maps are available. I was concerned about the battery life. However, I just did a 3:30 ride on a full charge. Bluetooth and follow-live on. I have 80% left on the Edge810 and 75% left on my iphone. Like the Edge500, connectivity to cadence and HR is simple and excellent. On the downside, I think the screen brightness/resolution are okay for numbers and data but not very good for maps (maybe Garmin maps will be better???). The touch screen could be better; it is not always very responsive. However, I can fit all the pertinent variables on one screen. On one occasion, I had trouble synchronizing the Edge810 with the Garmin Connect App. Eventually, it worked. With most rides, sync is automatic. Overall, I am happy with Edge810.
All that and a bag of potato chips.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I've been using a Garmin 500 for the past three years...it's been a great device, light, dependable, easy to use. Recently i've been doing more traveling, which is a drag without a bike and have found myself lost several times in unfamiliar lands far from the comforts of my local routes and pit-stops.
- Enter the Garmin 810 -
This device is everything I hoped it would be - essentially I was looking for an upgrade to the 500 with map usability. I don't really care about bluetooth connectivity and to be honest I'm a bit of a luddite. I buy a device to do a single job, in this case it's navigation, and to do it well. I have to say the 810 turn by turn directions with a GPX file from any of a host of on-line mapping sites takes the terror out of venturing onto unfamiliar roads and the courage to go left when you might normally go right. Or as Robert Frost might say..."I took the road less traveled by and that has made all the difference..." Thanks to the Garmin 810 I was able to do this.
Another bonus: now through May 31st 2014 Garmin is offering a $100 rebate on the 810, http://garmin.blogs.com/promotions/2014/03/Edge_810_Rebate.pdf - making this decision a whole lot easier
Very nice
Only had it a few days. Nice improvement from the Edge 500. Far more user friendly. just wish it didn't cost so much.
Newest greatest...............
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I have to say I am a Garmin junkie and love the units I have had over the years. I am on my 4th unit (different model) the 810 with HRM. As in past units this unit does more than most folks care to have analyzed for sure. But if you want an all inclusive unit to have the capability to do anything you care to do in cycling this unit can do it. The only complaint I have is the unit can at times be hard to read if the sunlight hits it at a certain angle. You also have to hit the buttons to move from screen to screen deliberately. Not a hard tap but it is not very sensitive. Maybe a good thing or not. The unit pairs well on Garmin Connect via Bluetooth and your phone to send your ride to those you wish to watch live! I do this routinely so my wife can monitor my rides if riding solo. This unit is lightweight as well so the weight weenies have nothing to fear. I do highly suggest getting the tacky rubber housing for the unit to protect it from drops and inadverdent impact. Also you can use course creator online and upload to the unit and enable turn by turn directions to ride unfamiliar roads. So if you want an al inclusive unit to record all pertinent information for hours of recap you need the Edge 810.
Almost great
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I have used the Garmin Edge 800 for a little over 2 years. It developed a problem and being that it was out of warranty, I had to send back to get a refurbished unit for $100. I decided to upgrade to the Edge 810 while I waited for my refurb unit.
The good:
Easy to set up bike profiles (TT bike, road bike, MTB with different sensors on each)
Easy to set up activity profiles (training, race, even have a kayak profile)
Easy to set up custom screens displaying the data you want
Gets GPS lock even faster than the already fast Edge 800
Bluetooth connectivity to phone is the biggest upgrade. I can upload workouts immediately without connecting to computer. You can also stream your ride using the Garmin Connect app on your phone. A great way to let someone know where you are, especially in case of an accident.
The ability to create a course on the Garmin Connect site and then transfer it to the phone without hooking up to computer is also an excellent feature.
The bad:
Battery life isn't what the Edge 800 was, although I have certainly had it last a lot longer than 5 hours mentioned in a previous review. I have used it up to 10 hours and it hadn't died but was in the low teens on charge percentage.
There are intermittent connection losses with my Ant+ power meters. All will be fine and then suddenly my power and cadence drops to 0 for 5 seconds or so. Then power shoots up really high (although my output has not changed) and it all starts working again. I think it pretty much averages itself out so it doesn't matter much unless you are doing short intervals. The Edge 800 did not have this issue.
Overall, I think this was a solid upgrade. I would not have done it if I hadn't had problems with my Edge 800. After 2.5 years of use in all conditions, I was willing to overlook the $100 to get a refurbished unit. If making a decision between the 800 and 810 I would chose the 810 based on bluetooth alone.
Unit works, lacking in many areas though
Good and bad. The speed in which this unit connects to speed, cadence and heart rate sensors is amazing compared to what I have used in the past to include other Garmin units. It connected to my phone via Bluetooth easily. The speed it connects to the satellites is pretty amazing as well. All in all, a fairly easy to use unit though I have not figured out if you can modified the data display screen yet in terms of adding or removing boxes of data which is annoying. Its not completely intuitive in my opinion.
The bad, the price and what you get. This is $500 which is as expensive as most high end phones you might buy without a contract. This unit isnt nearly as complicated or stuffed with as many features as a phone but, I will not ride with my phone mounted on my bike and my phone currently doesnt connect to the sensors. The screen is usable but there is a learning curve with it. Dont expect it to act like your phones screen. Also, while the screen does what it needs to, at this price I think it should be higher definition. Now for the REALLY bad, you wont get anywhere close to 13 hours out of the battery. Using it as you would in most outside situations, meaning Bluetooth on, screen at maximum brightness etc... youll get about 5 hours if you are lucky. Its probably fine for what most people will do but its the idea that Garmin would KNOWINGLY mislead people about this units battery life that annoys me. I want one GPS unit for all outside activities I do. Is it too much to ask to get a unit like this to work for hiking and golf for no additional cost? No its really not. Not when phones can do the same these days for less money. Also, 40 bucks for a piece of plastic to mount this unit the way it NEEDS to be mounted to make it the most useful it can be? Seriously Garmin, you are going to nickel and dime people like this? I wont be sorry to see you go when phones finally do everything.
I dont get it. Where is the other review thats knocking the 810 up to 4 stars Backcountry? You aren't...you arent manipulating data for sales are you? I would hate to think so because that would mean I cant trust ANY of the reviews here.
What is the cost of the Heart rate monitor for the Garmin Edge 810?
Thanks again,
You can find them from 40-70 bucks. Be sure to get the Premium model. It is soft and very comfortable.
Wish I'd seen this question a year ago. FYI, I've used both the Garmin premium and regular heartrate straps. The premium strap failed on me twice (two straps) while the regular strap is much more substantial and has never failed. I'm still using my regular strap from 2012. I don't notice any difference in comfort. I suggest new users try the regular strap (more reliable and durable) and only use the premium if comfort is paramount.
Will the Garmin Edge 810 work when my bike is on a Turbo Trainer?
Will I be able to use the virtual partner and virtual Racer training programs on my Turbo Trainer?
Thank you,
You will need an ant+ speed sensor as the gps will obviously show you not moving. I still don't use one so I can't speak for the virtual stuff. I use the timer and heart rate to judge my efforts.
This is BS...multiple entries of this same...
This is BS...multiple entries of this same device on this site. The "Map bundle" version has bad reviews here...they should be combined here. Seems as though this unit isn't living up to expectation for many folks...
Does the extra features will justify the...
Does the extra features will justify the upgrade from the Edge 800?
The only real difference between the 810 and the 800 is that the 810 is compatible with Garmin Connect Mobile. So if you are tethered to your smartphone like me then it might be worth getting the 810, otherwise it sounds like the 800 is your model.
Thanks Wayne, that it is what I though, I'll keep my 800.
In the picture there is a cadence sensor...
In the picture there is a cadence sensor and heart rate monitor...but in the sidebar it specifically says no HRM. Is this the bundle version?
Negative. Sorry for the confusion, I'll see about getting that image removed.
Hey Josh,
No HRM, what about cadence sensor?


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Remember when searching the Internet was hard? The dark days when we relied on dumb-as-sand machine intelligences, like those on the back-ends of AltaVista and Lycos, to rank the documents that matched our keywords? The grim era before Google, when searching was a spew of boolean mumbo-jumbo, NEAR this, NOT that, AND the other?
God, that sucked.
Lucky for the Internet, Google figured out the One True Way to make sense of the Internet, to defeat gamers of the system and send info-free brochureware plummeting to number n - 1 out of n results.
They did it with our help. Google's near-magical ordering of the Internet is built around the notion that computers are good at doing repetitive, uncreative things -- fetishistically counting things, for example -- and rotten at understanding why they're being asked to do these boring tasks. By contrast, human beings are great at understanding why they're doing something, but they're woefully deficient in the do-the-same-thing-perfectly-and-forever department.
AltaVista tried to get computers to do both the repetitive parts (capturing billions of documents) and the creative parts (figuring out what the documents are about). This yielded the largest collection of randomly organized documents in the world, a Web-accessible version of a library where all the books have been re-shelved by axe-grinding illiterates who wanted to make sure that no matter what you were looking for, you'd find porn.
Yahoo tried just the opposite, getting human beings to manually identify and describe all the documents comprising what was meant to be an exhaustive index of all the worthwhile pages on the Web. There were "scaling issues" involved in this laudable effort (for "scaling issues" here, substitute "catastrophic failures"), and over time, Yahoo's directory dwindled to an increasingly marginal sliver of the Internet's vastness. At the rate that Yahoo's army of indexers work, and at the rate that the Internet's unwashed horde of writers is adding to the noosphere, it's only a matter of a few years before every human being alive will have to pass his or her every working hour contributing to Yahoo's index, just to keep its sliver from dwindling into utter pointlessness.
Google bridges the divide between human-generated indexes and machine-generated analysis.
Y'see, the Web is full of people like you and me, making links between documents; human beings, making decisions about documents, voting with their links. When I link to some arbitrary document, it's an indication that I think that it's in some way authoritative. When you link to a document I wrote, you're indicating that I'm in some way authoritative. The Internet is already structured in a meaningful way, but that structure is obscured. Google teases out the relationship between the URLs, examining the webs of authority: this person is linked to by 50,000 others, and he links to this other person over here, which indicates that person one is a pretty sharp individual, one who's inspired 50,000 human beings to take time out of their busy schedules to link to him; and person one thinks that person two is on the ball, which suggests that person two knows what she's on about.
The 2002 O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference explored how P2P and Web services are coming together in a new Internet operating system.
It's a best-of-both-worlds solution. The computers at Google are asked to tirelessly count and re-count the number and destination of links on every page that Scooter, the Googlebot, can lay its user-agent on. Those links are made by human beings, doing what they do best, link by link, drip by drip, layering a film of order over the Internet.
The approach works well. Eerily well. Enter a couple of search terms, and biff-bam, the most authoritative documents containing those keywords are served up in an instant. Nearly every document on the Web has a human decision associated with it for Google to glom onto; that's because nearly every document on the Web has a human author. Human authors don't just put documents onto the Web; they put them into the Web, into the meshed hairball of incoming and outgoing links, indicating not only what keywords the document contains, but also who the document's author believes is authoritative, and vice versa.
It's quite elegant.
Meatspace ASCII, the revered printed word, has many things going for it:
It's high-resolution: Whether scrawled with a toddler's crayon or hammered out by a quaint, humming Selectric's print-ball, a traditionally printed word is an order of magnitude sharper and better-defined than the phosphors marching across your screen.
It requires no specialized reader: A printed word can be read by any literate human being during daylight hours without any particular technological assist, specialized readers, or even electricity.
It is hard to make obsolete: Printed works don't staledate the way that electronic words do. It's difficult to apply "digital rights management" schemes to the printed word that will stymie generations to come with bizarre cryptosystems that seek to circumvent posterity.
As someone in possession of tens of thousands of books, I understand why people get misty and sentimental about dead-tree libraries. As someone who has moved twice in the past 18 months, I feel compelled to point out that the printed word has a couple of major downsides:
It is fragile: We print books on the same substrate we employ for cleaning our nether regions after excreting. Think about that for a second: Paper is considered degradable enough to flush billions of sheets of it down the crapper every day, and yet we entrust our precious words to a material that auto-incinerates if you put it into contact with oxygen.
Well, so what? We've got mass production techniques that will let us preserve our most important documents by making millions of copies of them. Which brings us to the next problem:
It is bulky. Moving-box companies sell specialized shipping boxes for books, boxes that are smaller than all the other species of boxen. That's because books are freakin' heavy. They're made from trees!
By contrast, of course, bytes are pretty manageable. They've got their own degradability issues -- CDs, magnetic tape, flash, and platters all fall apart pretty quickly -- but that's OK, because bytes are not only comparatively tiny (I can carry 50 novels on my 3-ounce PDA, or 7,000 novels on my 6.5-ounce iPod), but they get tinier every year.
Every year, storage media increases in density, decreases in size, and gets cheaper. I can fit all the hard drives of all the computers I've owned, plus all the floppies for all the computers that I owned before hard drives were common, onto the hard drive of my latest laptop, with storage to spare. Hell, most of that stuff will fit on my iPod! The data that previously occupied a roomful of storage devices now fits comfortably in my pocket.
In a world of degradable storage, replicating copies is the surest way to guarantee longevity. Whether your data is in atoms or bits, the more copies you make of it and the more widely you disperse it, the greater the likelihood that your data will persist forever. (That's why Jaron Lanier jokingly proposed encoding printed matter into the DNA of the notoriously prolific cockroach, as a means of ensuring archives through a nuclear war and beyond.)
With bulky printed words, only the commercially successful (and hence prolific) and very lucky works are likely to survive the voyage through history. All the words we write try to crowd into the lifeboat, but only a lucky few survive.
The historical forgettery is something of a blessing, though. Many's the word that's been penned, in casual correspondence or published works, that is best forgotten. I know that I've written a few things I'd rather no one ever saw. Much of it is embarrassing; most of it is banal. History flenses away the great bulk of utterance and leaves behind a barely manageable archive that we can get our heads around.
Words-as-bytes need not be forgotten! Storage is cheap, storage is compact, and the lifeboat has got plenty of room for every jot and tittle keyed into the Internet. Brewster Kahle built an archive with several copies of the Web at different times, using off-the-shelf PCs and standard drives.
This is a good thing, but it's also a pain in the ass. Our embarrassing excesses, drunken rants, typos and brain farts and flames no longer vanish into our sub-consciences, but rather hang around like embarrassing relatives, undeniably ours, with us forever.
There's an upside, of course. The enduring presence of our publicly stated positions acts as an accountability system, making us own up to our errors and perhaps encouraging us to think carefully before putting our fingers on our keyboards. Old Usenet clients used to have a standard warning that would appear the first time you used Usenet to send a message, a dire warning to the effect that your words were about to pass from your computer and onto the computers of thousands of other people, and are you really sure that you've expressed yourself adequately?
Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn features Lionel Essrog, a private detective with Tourette's Syndrome whose obsessive-compulsive illness makes him ideal for long, boring stake outs and wiretap parties. Once the compulsion to listen for a keyword in the soup of a rambling conversation or to continually re-check a staked-out doorway for a suspect has been planted in Lionel's Tourettic brain, he is unable to do anything except listen and watch until the compulsion has been satisfied.
Boring, repetitive, endless tasks don't actually require someone with a compulsive disorder to do them; computers can do them just fine. A computer can sieve through the torrent of packets passing over the Internet and look for keywords like "terrorism" and "anthrax" and "fissile" and "child-porn," then flag them for later consideration by law-enforcement officials at spooky three-letter agencies.
Law enforcement doesn't really need any specialized equipment to surveil the average netizen. Google does it better than anything else possibly could (dirty snitch), and it doesn't cost a cent.
But Google only acts on the public data that human beings are free to link to and that the Googlebot is free to discover. Private documents (email, instant messages, internal memos) are off-limits to Google. Even if you manually poured them down the Googlebot's throat, the absence of incoming or outgoing links to these documents means that they won't be placed in any meaningful context in the Googleverse.
Increasingly, law-enforcement agencies are pushing for (or owning up to) the creation of really creepy spyware projects like Eschelon, Magic Lantern, and Carnivore, systems that are placed on your computer, at your ISP or at a major Internet backbone, and used to indiscriminately capture all of the data they encounter, shunting it off to shadowy bunkers where the secret masters of the universe can use it to shine a light up the skirts of your privacy and, possibly, that of criminals, too.
People are, rightfully, very upset about all of this. Continuous wiretapping of the entire Internet is a revolting idea, something like the Panopticon, a prison where the warders can see your every move from perfect obscurity. It's enough to make you want to draw your blinds and curl up under the sofa.
But what do they do with all of that data that they collect? Filter it for keywords? Fat chance. The volume of false positives (e.g., people talking about child pornography who aren't child pornographers) far exceeds the volume of actual criminal activity. Even creaky old Lycos gave up on plain-old keyword matching a long, long time ago.
Maybe they manually check it. After all, that approach worked for Yahoo, right? Oh, right, it didn't work. Scratch that.
Then they must use some hybrid approach: human editors and AI (Artificial Intelligence or Almost Implemented, take your pick) working in concert to tweeze out the most relevant material as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Right. AltaVista.
Poor bastards.
Cory Doctorow is the co-editor of Boing Boing and the Outreach Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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This is the part that it took me a long time to understand: how the different parts of the default couchapp collaborate to present data to the user.
In this post I'm just going to deal with client-side couchapps using the default technologies. As explained in the previous post you can use any combination of HTML and javascript in a couchapp, and you can also do some of the work server-side in couchdb. However, I'm going to explain what the couchapp tool gives you when you create a new project, as that is where you are likely to be starting, and once you understand that you can choose where to deviate from that model.
jQuery events
Our first detour is in to a little bit of background, the excellent javascript libarary that is heavily used in couchapps.
jQuery allows for events on elements in the DOM. There are standard events, such as "click" and "submit", but you are free to define your own.
These events are given a name, and you can then "trigger" them, and bind handlers to act when they are triggered.
By building up events from low level ones such as "click", to more-complex and app-specific ones such as "item purchased", you can break down your code in to smaller chunks, and have different parts of the page react to the same event, such as having the "buy" link disappear from the item that the user just bought, as well as having the total of the shopping cart update.
Events can also have data, or arguments, that travels with them. For instance the "item purchased" event could have the item that was purchased as the data, so that handlers can make use of it when they run.
Now that we know something about jQuery events, we can look at something built on top of them, the "evently" library. This is a layer on top of jQuery that allows you build up your app from pieces that have a specific function, and communicate through events.
An evently "widget" can be bound to an element (or several elements if you want). The widget is a bunch of event handlers which can do anything you like, but have some conveniences built in for fetching data and updating the page based on the result.
When an event is triggered the handler you defined is run. If it is a simple javascript function then that function is run, and can do anything you like.
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- {click: function() {
alert("You clicked!");
Often though you want to update the element based on the action. evently has built in support for the "mustache" templating language, and if you specify a template in that syntax it will replace the current HTML of the element that it is attached to with the result of rendering that template.
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- {click:
- {
- mustache: "
You clicked!
"
Which will put "You clicked!" in to the page instead of in an alert. What if you don't want to replace the current content, and just want to append another line? For that use the "render" option.
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- {click:
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- mustache: "
You clicked!
", render: "append"
Which would put another "You clicked!" on the page every time you click. As well as "append" there is also "prepend", or really any jQuery method that you want to call.
Simply rendering a static template isn't going to be very useful though, usually you want something dynamic. For that use the "data" option, which can just be an object if you want, but that's still not going to be very dynamic either, so it can be a function that returns an object.
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- return {name, "Bob"};
}, mustache: "
Hi {{name}}!
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The data function gets passed the event object from jQuery (so you can e.g. get the target of the event), and any data for the event too (so it could see what item you just bought).
That's all well and good, but it doesn't help us get data from couchdb in to the page. For that we need the opportunity to make a request to couchdb. We could just fall back to using one function to handle the event, but then we lose the integration with mustache. Therefore there is an "async" key that allows us to make an AJAX request and then use mustache on the result.
See part one and part two.


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Attorney general expects to run again in 2014
Van Hollen is entering last two years of his second term
Published On: Dec 18 2012 02:22:39 PM CST
Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said he expects to run for re-election in 2014.
Van Hollen told The Associated Press during an interview Tuesday he doesn't have any real political aspirations but wouldn't rule out the possibilities if someone approached him with ideas of him running for another office.
Van Hollen is entering the last two years of his second term as attorney general. He said he's still having fun at the Justice Department and feels challenged.
He said he's never had any real desire to move on.
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A $100,000 grant is up for grabs for organizations fighting chronic hunger in La Crosse County.
Mel Hoffman, the executive director of the Robert and Eleanor Franke Charitable Foundation, announced the Coulee Charitable Award at the end of last week.
It's goal is to teach people how to eat better and requires organizations interested in the funds to work together to fight the local hunger problem.
"In our discussions with food related organizations in the community over the last 8 months or so," says Hoffman, "there seems to be a general agreement that there is enough food in La Crosse County so that nobody should suffer from chronic hunger."
Applications will be available on January 1, 2013.
You can find all the details and deadlines at the foundations website: www.frankefound.org


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U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and Italian Minister for Economic Development Claudio Scajola today signed two important nuclear energy agreements that may lead to construction of new nuclear power plants and improved cooperation on advanced nuclear energy systems and fuel cycle technologies in both countries.
The U.S.-Italy Joint Declaration Concerning Industrial and Commercial Cooperation in the Nuclear Energy Sector, which was signed on behalf of the United States by Secretary Chu and Deputy Secretary of Commerce Dennis F. Hightower, affirms the strong interest of the United States and Italy to encourage their respective nuclear industries to seek opportunities for the construction of new nuclear power plants. The Joint Declaration in English is available HERE. The version in Italian is available HERE.
"The agreements reached today reflect our vision for strong partnerships with nations around the world to help address our shared climate and energy challenges," said Secretary Chu. "Nuclear power will play a key role in the production of low-carbon energy in the years and decades to come, and we look forward to working with Italy and the U.S. private sector to advance these important technologies."
"Clean and efficient energy technologies, including nuclear power, will be a cornerstone of a vibrant and prosperous 21st century economy," Deputy Secretary Hightower said. "American companies can offer Italy world-class nuclear energy solutions while strengthening our own domestic industry."
Secretary of Energy Chu and Minister Scajola also signed a bilateral Agreement on Cooperation in Civilian Nuclear Energy Research and Development, which will facilitate cooperation between DOE and Italy's Ministry for Economic Development in the areas of advanced nuclear energy systems and associated fuel cycle technologies. Both parties will collaborate in research and development of advanced technologies for improving the cost, safety, and proliferation-resistance of nuclear power systems. The agreement will also expand efforts to promote and maintain nuclear science and engineering infrastructure and expertise in each country. The R&D Cooperation Agreement is available HERE.
Italy will be an important partner in building international consensus and momentum on our shared nuclear energy and nonproliferation agenda. The United States looks forward to working with Italy at the Nuclear Security Summit in April 2010.


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Caroline the Great
Sitting in the stands at last night's U.S. Open, I seemed to be the only person cheering on Danish player Caroline Wozniacki. It's not that I have anything against newbie American phenom Melanie Oudin—I just have a bit of a soft spot in my heart for Wozniacki. When I interviewed the 19-year-old back in June, she had just broken into the top 10 of the Sony Ericsson WTA tour with a number nine ranking. We joked that she only had eight more steps to go. Little did we know then just how fast she'd be on the move. After easily beating Oudin, she's now set to take on Yanina Wickmayer, a Belgian ranked 50, tomorrow in the semifinals. Our bets are on Wozniacki, and that we see her Saturday at the championship match.


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Education Online Services Corporation (EOServe Corp.) Announces Promotion of Shantanett L. Sands to Director of Faculty Services
Ft Lauderdale, United States (IBwire.com - December 06, 2012)
Education Online Services Corporation is proud to announce the well-deserved promotion of Shantanett L. Sands to Director of Faculty Services. As a long-term member of the Education Online Services team, Ms. Sands has been with the company from its inception in 2009 and has served in various positions including Student Services Manager. Based at the company's headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Ms. Sands will now assist our educational partner colleges and universities with administrative and technical support as it pertains to the management and development of courses, training materials, knowledge of operational policies and procedures and assistance in evaluating academic department processes.
Ms. Sands has over three years experience in online education project management as well as the company's processes and technology platforms including Pearson eCollege. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Bethune Cookman University, Daytona Beach as well as a Master of Science in Psychology from the University of Phoenix.
"I am proud to be a part of the EOServe Corp. team and having the opportunity to assist in the growth of our online programs on behalf of our educational partner institutions," said Ms. Sands "Education Online Services Corporation is the leading educational service provider in the nation and I am fully committed to the success of its mission and vision," added Ms. Sands.
"With our company poised for its next phase of growth, Ms. Sands is precisely the kind of employee that will continue to make us successful," stated Ezell Brown, Chairman of Education Online Services Corporation. "Her prior and continuing online education services and support experience represents EOServe Corp's commitment to excellence in delivering the highest quality services to our educational partner colleges and universities," Chairman Brown added.
"As our new, well-experienced Director of Faculty Services, Shantanett Sands will enable our company to enhance significantly the multiple professional and academic services that we provide to the faculties and administrators of our educational partner institutions of higher education," stated Dr. Benjamin Chavis, President, Education Online Services Corporation.
About Education Online Services Corporation (EOServe Corp.)
Education Online Services Corporation was founded by a select team of academic and marketing professionals who recognized the opportunity to assist colleges and universities in underserved communities with the development of full-service online degree programs. With the primary focus on graduating students, Education Online Services Corporation works closely with the admissions, financial aid, and academic departments of each institution to help them market and increase enrollment by expanding their on-campus degree programs to online degree programs.
Joseph Mazon
Education Online Services Corporation
Ft Lauderdale, FL
Phone: 954-606-5658
Website: www.educationonlineservices.com
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JazzSet Recording Jonathan Batiste Tonight at Jazz Standard
March 17, 2008. Posted by Becca Pulliam.Add new comment | Filed under: Jazz Alive
Do you wonder where JazzSet gets our music? Tonight, March 17, we'll be at Jazz Standard on E. 27th between Park & Lex to record the young New Orleans pianist and Juilliard student Jonathan Batiste. Sets at 7:30 and 9:30, with Duuuke Markos doing the mix, WBGO's Yujin Cha and Josh Webb assisting. See you there!
This past Friday, Chris Willis recorded the SF JAZZ Collective at Chicago Symphony Center for JazzSet.
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Let's start by admitting it is a trick question—there really is no defense against Aaron Rodgers in fantasy football. So if you are one of the ones who drafted him, good for you!
But if you are playing against him, just hope for an average day from him, but don't worry because with bye weeks upon us and injuries everywhere, you can match up against anyone.
This week, the teams on a bye are Baltimore, Dallas, Miami, St. Louis, Washington, and Cleveland. As far as fantasy goes, this doesn't seem too imposing. Chances are, you have to replace Baltimore's defense, and Ray Rice.
You should look also look into Dallas' Tony Romo, Jason Witten and Dez Bryant, Washington's Santana Moss, Ryan Torain, Tim Hightower, or Roy Helu and Cleveland's Colt McCoy.


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Intel Exhibiting at CEA Line Shows
Intel is confirmed once again as an exhibitor at CEA Line Shows in New York.
LG Electronics, Manhattan Products, Stewart Filmscreen, Digital Projection, NYNE, Securifi, Sanus Systems, CSR and Kicker also recently announced their involvement.
CEA Line Shows are scheduled for June 27 and 28 at Metropolitan Pavilion in New York. Others interested in participating as exhibitors or sponsors are invited to visit CEALineshows.com.
CE Week is a weeklong, citywide event in New York City, including CEA Line Shows and Digital Downtown Conference, organized in association with CEA, the producer of the International CES, along with Martin Porter Associates and Consumer Technology Publishing Group/NAPCO, publisher of Dealerscope, Custom Retailer and Tell Magazines.
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My goals are to have good blood sugar control over time, lose another 10-15 pounds, and have Michelle Obama arms. But nothing is simple, you know? I was on target Friday for a reasonable set of meals. Unfortunately, I went low twice on the plane while we were stuck on the tarmac and the only snack I had handy was pretzel M&Ms. They're delicious, but that was 360 calories more than I had planned to have while just sitting on my ass in a plane. So I started dinner with 196 calories left for the day. That was unrealistic.
I ate reasonably and at 10pm my blood sugar was 160. I was fine with that and figured the pump would alarm if my sugar started to climb. My pump did its duty faithfully from about 1am until 7am when I woke up, but it was under the 50 pounds of covers provided by the Marriott so I never heard it. I woke up with a sugar of 331 and a low pump battery. So. Angry. I love that my Minimed sensor is built into the pump but I hate that it doesn't have sufficient range that I can put my pump outside the covers and still have it work. I could really be tempted to get a separate sensor just for that one reason.
I grumpily put on my workout clothes and wasn't sure how much insulin to take as a correction. I was about to get on a treadmill, but my sugar was really high. Rich was heading to breakfast and I wasn't sure if I should eat yet and how much. I also hated that all this had put me in a foul mood first thing in the morning and my teeth felt all fuzzy and my head hurt and dammit, why didn't my sensor work better? I opted for oatmeal, a banana and a bagel with Rich and then planned on running all that off.
I ran for 45 minutes. I didn't turn off my pump like I normally do, but I also hadn't taken any insulin for my breakfast which would have been probably 6-7 units. About 30 minutes in, I decided to take 3 units and see how that would fare. After running my sugar was 153 but I had two down arrows on my pump telling me it was going to possibly tank. I suspended the pump for 30 minutes or so to see what it would do, since I still intended to do some sit-ups, push ups, and other stuff in our tiny hotel room. By 11am I was at 147 and fine with that.
We walked 1.25 miles down Michigan Avenue to lunch and my sugar was 114 when we sat down. I had salad and a small steak sandwich. I only took 3 units for the bread, anticipating another 1.25 mile walk back to the hotel. My sensor has not quite recovered from this morning so it keeps thinking my sugar is around 150 (so it keeps alarming to warn me) but it's really more like 120.
That's all the logistics from my day so far, but I wanted to talk about some of the emotional stuff. It's frustrating that blood sugar maintenance and calorie control can seem at odds with each other so often. I also would have loved to run down to the Navy Pier this morning versus watching Good Morning America on a tiny TV in the crowded Marriott fitness center, but I'm not willing to risk a low blood sugar miles from home and there were just too many factors this morning between a roller coaster of sugars and foods and travel.
I absolutely love running. I thought it would be boring but it's very zen for me. I am so slow but I just don't care. No really, however slow you are? I'm slower. I don't have to change the pace on the treadmill between my warm up walk and my run. I rock the 15 minute mile and I'm fine with that. I don't want to run with other people. I just want to listen to my playlist and do my thing.
And holy smokes would I love to not have to get off the treadmill every time I have to cough in order to avoid wetting my pants. It's a little ridiculous. I would have to jump off the treadmill to the side bars, cross one leg over the other, do a little squat, cough, and then hop back on. We'll just call it cross-training. As a few coughs snuck up on me, I failed to make it through my entire workout with my bladder control intact. I am going to make one of those Map My Run apps that rates how many of the miles I ran were with clean, dry undies. You all can click "Like" on Facebook to cheer me on through my kegels. Absolutely. Ridiculous.
But once you've wet your pants, you no longer are worried about if you look ridiculous singing along to your iPod.


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Home List of Titles A combinatorial library of micro-topographies and chemical compositions for tailored surface wettability
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/201878
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- A combinatorial library of micro-topographies and chemical compositions for tailored surface wettability
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- Kolind, Kristian; Bennetsen, Dines Tilsted; Arpanaie, Ayyoob; Duch, Mogens; Lovmand, Jette; Besenbacher, Flemming; Kingshott, Peter; Foss, Morten
- Abstract
- Surface modification of topography and chemistry in order to achieve a specific water contact angle (CA) has been explored by using a novel combinatorial screening platform. The screening arrays consisted of 507 distinct combinations of micro-topographies and chemical compositions. By performing chemical modifications with 1H, 1H, 2H, 2H perfluoroethyltriethoxy-silane (PFS) and n-octadecyltriethoxysilane (ODS) on standard silicon wafers it was possible to include both superhydrophobic and very hydrophilic pad arrays in the same screening platform. Surfaces modified with PFS were more hydrophobic than surfaces modified with ODS, while the unmodified silicon surfaces were hydrophilic. For the PFS modified surfaces the largest CAs were achieved with a small pillar size of X = 1 µm and an intermediate inter-pillar gap size of Y =& 8201;4 µm with superhydrophobic CAs over 170°. Surface analysis with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) revealed that CF3 groups were present at the surface, contributing to the superhydrophobic effect. The ODS modified surfaces had intermediate wettabilities with CAs between 100 and 150°, which were dependent on the pillar size, the inter-pillar gap size, and the specific pillar pattern. The unmodified silicon topographical surfaces were very hydrophilic with CAs below 20° independent of specific topography. With this approach we have managed to fabricate 507 distinct surface areas covering a range of wettabilities, which is useful when screening these effects in several different applications. The measured CAs did not follow the simple Wenzel model. Furthermore, the adaptation of the Cassie model introduces Φs, the fraction of solid surface in contact with the liquid, which is difficult to estimate, thereby emphasizing the need for an experimental determination.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Source
- Advanced Engineering Materials, Vol. 13, no. 6 (Jun 2011), pp. 516-524
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- 2011
- FOR Code(s)
- 0912 Materials Engineering
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- Chemical compositions; Micro-topographies; Surface modification; Wettabilities
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- Wiley-VCH Verlag
- 1527-2648
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Coast Guard says NH tug sinking human errorAP , Associated Press
Feb. 28, 2013 1:11 PM ET
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says the sinking of a tugboat working on a new bridge between Portsmouth, N.H., and Kittery, Maine, was due to human error.
The Coast Guard is considering an enforcement action against the operator of the tugboat Benjamin Bailey that sank on Oct. 24, while moored to a barge at the construction site of the Memorial Bridge.
Ken Anderson, co-owner of Riverside and Pickering Marine Construction — which operates the tugboat — said he couldn't comment because he has yet to see the report.
"We were unaware it was even done," Anderson said Thursday. "We've submitted a request for a copy of it."
No one was injured, but the tug spilled an estimated 225 gallons of diesel fuel into the Piscataqua River.
The Coast Guard's report on the sinking was obtained by Foster's Daily Democrat (http://bit.ly/YCprFF). The report said a lack of attention to the mooring position of the boat as the tide dropped was a primary factor in the sinking.
The captain of the tugboat did not change its mooring position as the tide dropped and currents changed in the river. The currents pushed the tugboat and it listed to its starboard side and began to take on water. Efforts by the crew of two to take corrective action and shift the tugboat's position failed. The pair jumped free of the boat as it submerged.
The tug was later raised and taken to a Maine shipyard for salvage.
The investigation also deemed the company's operating handbook to be "inadequate" because it did not address mooring arrangements and policies about working at the Memorial Bridge construction site.
Information from: Foster's Daily Democrat, http://www.fosters.com
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I saw that the folks over at Mollie Makes have a peek inside the new issue and thought I'd share it with you. You can see the full peek here. It's such a gorgeous magazine. I really love the mix of topics they cover - it's not just a craft magazine! They feature travel spots, home interiors, fashion and more. I'm especially excited to check out this little circus elephant pattern below by designer Jill Hamor. How beautifully made is this little guy?!
I've also been thinking about some resolutions I've mentally made that have to do with my children, Cooper and Campbell. There are some things that I've been wanting to do for a few years now, but can never get organized. As you all know, especially those with children, life is just BUSY. But you know what? We (i.e. *I*) can't use that excuse anymore. It's all about MAKING time. And yes, we all hear that "groan" in our heads when we hear the word "resolution"... but the beginning of the year really is such a great time to reaccess and really try to follow through with goals you've been putting off.
So I thought I'd list out these goals here, partly so that you guys can hold me accountable (wink), but also in hopes that these ideas might spark some inspiration in you.
- The 52 Week Challenge (thanks Liz for mentioning this!) We've all seen the 365 photo-a-day challenge. That so wouldn't work for me. Too overwhelming and stressful. But a photo (one per child) a week? I can manage that. And even through we're well into January, it's still doable. And the beautiful photo book you're left with at the end of those 52 weeks? Totally a carrot worth chasing.
I've seen tons of people doing the Project Life thing, and while I don't rule that out in the future, I think that would just be too overwhelming for me, at this point in my life. But taking photos, I can do. I used to do the scrapbooking thing, and a lot of it I was getting paid to create for books and magazines, and I totally burned out on it. The past 5-6 years of NOT doing that, has been wonderful, I must admit. I like that I'm not always in my kids faces trying so hard to document what's going on, but instead, I'm in the moment, LIVING it with them. I also have to think my kids appreciate me not always taking their picture. In fact, I rarely take their photo and leave it only for specific occasions.
But I want to get back into the art of portrait photography - to push myself a little more. And to capture those everyday moments, but hopefully in a beautiful way. We'll see how it goes.
(ok, while I realize this image is kind of inappropriate for the following topic, because A) it doesn't show children and B) because children can't even give blood, I thought "Buddy the Blood Drop" - not to mention that dude's copious amount of hair - was too funny and at least we adults can give back and give blood, right? ; )
- Volunteer with our kids once a month. I'm sure to some of you, that might not even seem like enough! Some families out there are so good at demonstrating to their kids how to "give back" on a weekly, if not daily basis. I admire those families. I would like to find ways to pull my kids out of their very sheltered and abundant lives to see how others live, and to find ways that we can help them out in big and small ways. I'm hoping that we'll see how easy it is to volunteer, and we can make it a more regular part of our lives, not just once a month.
Do you do this with your children? I would LOVE to hear some ideas that have been successful for you in the comments section if you don't mind sharing. Here are some websites I found that might be helpful to you:
Compassionate Kids, Volunteer Match, Volunteer With Your Kids, PBS Guide to Family Volunteering (If you're in Atlanta like I am, try Hands on Atlanta, or Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta)
(image and printable source)
- Create a Chore Chart for the kids. Wow. We've needed this for a very long time. You'd think it wouldn't be a big deal to create one of these. Well, for me it's just been a mental block. There's not a whole lot of helping out around our house. That's got to change. I want to show them that they have to earn those fun things they get to do. I think for me, I just feel overwhelmed about how to organize this chart. Do you have any recommendations? Approaches that have worked for you? How do you organize your chore chart? Or do you use a different rewards system maybe? Maybe I should call it something other than "chore" chart. That might be a good way to start (ha)... maybe a name that doesn't have such a negative connotation. There are some great printables including charts and rewards systems on Etsy and Pinterest.
So those are my three things I'd like to pull off this year with our kids.
(photo source: Pioneer Woman)
One personal resolution that I've actually already successfully followed through with for this year (this is making up for the fact that I'm failing AWFULLY at my resolution to stop eating out so much... working on it...) is to stop hitting the Starbucks drive-thru every. single. day.
You do it too right? I know some of you are out there! Stand up! Admit it. ; ) I was doing that every day towards the end of last year. SO NOT GOOD. I personally only drink iced coffee. I might be in the minority here, but I find the too-hot-now-it's-too-cold-better-go-warm-it-up-forgot-its-in-the-microwave dance exhausting. So I keep it cold. It's easier. I was tired of burning my mouth.
SO, I found this recipe from Pioneer Woman (not so much a recipe, but the steps to do iced coffee RIGHT instead of just putting ice in a cup of hot coffee). And guess what? It's incredibly easy. I made a gallon of coffee and it's lasted me about two weeks. No dealing with coffee grinds every day. I just pour the already refridgerated coffee in my cup, add my skim milk, my pumps of sugar-free vanilla syrup (I use the Starbucks brand, but I had to find a pump on ebay - couldn't find a pump to fit at any local restaurant supply stores) and I'm done! Super easy and I honestly like it better than Starbucks coffee. I use coffee I buy at our local farmers market. I thought I'd share this since it's already been so successful for me! It's kind of fun being my own Barista. And I get to use fancy straws at home. I'm also going to try the Sugar Free Torani syrup that I've heard good things about.
What about you? Following through with those resolutions you made a few weeks ago?
P.S. Thanks for the feedback on the vintage embroidery! I bought some of this to see if it will help get some of the dirt out. I'll keep you posted!