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Rick Springfield Wants Jessie's Girl
Welcome to Forgotten Videos, the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards edition, showcasing past GRAMMY winners. For some, these videos are forgotten, for others just filed away, and for others still, a totally brand-new discovery. Whichever category you fall into, each week until the GRAMMY Awards on Feb. 13, we'll feature a video from a GRAMMY-winning artist that's possibly been collecting dust when what it really deserves is a fresh look. Or, just for old times' sake. We just want to take you on a little trip down memory lane. Yep, you'll remember when hair was really that big, when drums were that up front in the mix, when video was young(er) and so were you.
Rick Springfield
"Jessie's Girl"
What do you do when you're in love with your best friend's girl? You ask what Rick Springfield asks in this No. 1 hit: "Where can I find a woman like that?" Within this well-crafted pop/rock tune unfolds a scenario that would threaten the relationship between any two friends — unrequited love — and Springfield is anything but subtle when he plainly states: "I wish that I had Jessie's Girl/I want, I want Jessie's girl."
Three years following the release of this song, the lovesick Springfield found his own "Jessie's Girl" and married Barbara Porter, who's been "watching him with those eyes" for 26 years. As for Jessie's girl, was she a real person? "Oh, yeah," Springfield told Oprah Winfrey in 2008. "Her boyfriend's name was actually Gary and not Jessie, but Gary just somehow didn't sing right."
Born Richard Springthorpe in Sydney, Springfield doubled as an actor/musician, appearing in a number of TV shows in the '70s and starring as the young Dr. Noah Drake on "General Hospital" starting in 1981. That same year he released Working Class Dog, which charted in the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 and featured the hits "Jessie's Girl" and "I've Done Everything For You" (written by Sammy Hagar). The video for "Jessie's Girl," which depicts an envious-turned-enraged Springfield inflicting pain on his Fender Stratocaster in the form of a driving solo and a smash to his bathroom mirror, was released in 1981, coinciding with a seminal moment in music — the launch of MTV.
The song garnered Springfield a Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male, GRAMMY in 1981, marking his only GRAMMY win to date. The rocker picked up two additional nominations in the same category in 1982 and 1983 for "I Get Excited" and "Affair Of The Heart," respectively. Springfield continued to have success throughout the '80s, including another Top 10 hit with "Love Somebody" from the soundtrack to the 1984 film Hard To Hold, which cast Springfield as a pop/rock star who (again) attempts to win the love of a woman.
Are you envious of Jessie's girl? Got a Forgotten Video recommendation? Leave us a comment. And don't forget to tune in to the 53rd GRAMMY Awards on Sunday, Feb. 13 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

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I have wildly divergent needs from my mouse depending on whether I'm playing TF2, WoW or StarCraft. The upcoming G300 gaming mouse from Logitech aims to seamlessly handle all three from both sides of the keyboard.
The G300 supports three separate configuration profiles—three games or three people, however you prefer—which are conveniently color-coded to avoid confusion when flipping load outs between rounds. It's got nine configurable buttons to match your play-style and fragging needs. It doesn't matter if you play left-handed or right for a particular game, the lack of a thumb button means you just need to slide the mouse to the other side of your desk. It also features a 2500-DPI optical sensor that tracks both fast and slow movements on most surfaces for better precision when you need it and quicker acceleration when you don't. The G300 will retail for about $40 when it's released in September. [Logitech via TechCrunch]


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The equipment? Now missing.
"Our annual graffiti cleanup is coming up on April 27," said Adam Meyer, vice president of the Pacific Beach Town Council. "However, when we started gathering our supplies for the event, we found out that most of it had been stolen."
Someone broke the lock off the Pacific Beach Town Council's storage room. Nobody knew what had been taken until preparations got under way for the graffiti cleanup.
"Every year, we put together kits for our volunteers," Meyer said. "Safety goggles, scrub pads, gloves, paint, shop towels, that kind of thing. Everything goes in a bucket, along with some spray-on products to help loosen paint and stickers."
Each volunteer gets a bucket with everything they need to wipe out or paint over graffiti. When it came time to start assembling the kits for this year's event, Meyer said the materials were gone.
"When the gear was put into storage, we had enough stuff to make up about 35 kits, but most of it's gone," Meyer said. "We only have enough supplies for about five kits."
The Town Council is accepting donations to buy supplies for the cleanup event.
To donate, neighbors can write a check to the PB Town Council Graffiti CleanUp Campaign. Drop it off or mail it to the PB Town Council office at 1706 Garnet Ave.
To make a donation online, visit www.pbtowncouncil.org, and click on the "Join & Give" button. Type in "graffiti" for the "reason for donation" box. There's a $1 minimum donation.To give more, enter how many donations you want to make in the "quantity" box.
The sixth annual graffiti cleanup is slated for April 27 from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m.
"We'll meet at the PB Presbyterian Church, at 1675 Garnet Ave.," said Meyer. "Water, bagels and muffins will be provided. If you can just help for an hour or two, that'll be fine. Be sure to wear closed-toed shoes and old clothes, because you'll probably get paint on them."
The sixth annual event is a joint effort between the Pacific Beach Town Council, local churches, business owners and many community partners.
For more details, visit www.pb-towncouncil.org/2013/03/-annual-graffiti-clean-up-day/.


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All questions and answers are based on the 2008 NEC.
Q. Does the NEC require GFCI or tamperproof receptacles for replacement purposes in existing dwelling units?
A. When receptacles are replaced in locations where GFCI protection is required, the replacement receptacles must be GFCI-protected. This includes the replacement of receptacles in dwelling unit bathrooms, garages, outdoors, crawl spaces, unfinished basements, kitchen countertops, rooftops, or within 6 ft of laundry, utility, and wet bar sinks. See 210.8 for specific GFCI-protection requirements [406.3(D)(2)]. Tamperproof receptacles are not currently included in this replacement receptacle requirement.
Q. What are the Code requirements for motor disconnects?
A. Each motor must be provided with a separate disconnecting means unless the controller disconnecting means meets the necessary requirements to serve the disconnect for both.
Section 430.102(B)(1) requires a disconnecting means for each motor, and it must be located in sight from the motor location and the driven machinery location. "Within Sight" is visible and not more than 50 ft from each other [Art. 100]. Or, the controller disconnecting means [430.102(A)] can serve as the disconnecting means for the motor if the disconnect is located in sight from the motor location [430.102(B)(2)], as shown in the Figure.
A motor disconnecting means isn't required under either of the following conditions if the controller disconnecting means [430.102(A)] is capable of being locked in the open position. The provision for locking or adding a lock to the disconnecting means must be installed on or at the switch or circuit breaker and remain in place with or without the lock installed [430.102(B)(1) and (2), Ex].
- Where locating the disconnecting means is impracticable or introduces additional or increased hazards to persons or property.
- In industrial installations, with written safety procedures, where conditions of maintenance and supervision ensure only qualified persons will service the equipment. This should include lockout/tagout procedures.
Some additional requirements for motor disconnects include:
- The disconnecting means for the motor controller and the motor must open all ungrounded supply conductors simultaneously, and it must be designed so that it will not close automatically [430.103].
- The controller and motor disconnecting means must indicate whether they are in the "on" or "off" position [430.104].
- The disconnecting means must be legibly marked to identify its intended purpose [110.22 and 408.4], and when operated vertically, the "up" position must be the "on" position [240.81 and 404.6(C)].
- Either the controller disconnecting means or motor disconnecting means required by 430.102 must be readily accessible [430.107].
The disconnecting means for the motor controller and/or the motor must be a [430.109(A)]:
- A listed horsepower-rated motor-circuit switch.
- A listed molded-case circuit breaker.
- A listed molded-case switch.
- Listed manual motor controllers marked "Suitable as Motor Disconnect."
For stationary motors of two horsepower or less, the disconnecting means is allowed to be a general-use AC snap switch, where the motor full-load current rating isn't more than 80% of the ampere rating of the switch [430.109(C)].
A horsepower-rated attachment plug and receptacle having a rating not less than the motor rating is allowed as the disconnecting means for cord- and plug-connected motors [430.109(F)].
A horsepower-rated switch or circuit breaker can serve as both a controller and disconnecting means if it opens all ungrounded conductors to the motor, as required by 430.103 [430.111].
Q. What are the NEC requirements regarding an equipment grounding conductor installed with a feeder to a panelboard?
A. Section 408.40 requires that metal panelboard cabinets and frames must be connected to an equipment grounding conductor of a type recognized in 250.118 [215.6 and 250.4(A)(3)]. Where the panelboard is used with nonmetallic raceways or cables — or where separate equipment grounding conductors are provided — a terminal bar for the circuit equipment grounding conductors must be bonded to the metal cabinet.
There is an exception for insulated equipment grounding conductors for receptacles having insulated grounding terminals (isolated ground receptacles) [250.146(D)], which allows them to pass through the panelboard without terminating onto the equipment grounding terminal of the panelboard cabinet.
Equipment grounding conductors must not terminate on the neutral terminal bar, and neutral conductors must not terminate on the equipment grounding terminal bar, except as permitted by 250.142 for services and separately derived systems (see the definition of "Separately Derived System" in Art. 100).
Caution: Most panelboards are rated as suitable for use as service equipment, which means they are supplied with a main bonding jumper [250.28]. This screw or strap must not be installed except when the panelboard is used for service equipment or on separately derived systems [250.24(A)(5)]. In
addition, a panelboard marked "suitable only for use as service equipment" means the neutral bar or terminal of the panelboard has been bonded to the case at the factory, and this panelboard is restricted to being used for service equipment or on separately derived systems according to 250.142(B).
Section 215.6 also requires that feeder circuits must include or provide an equipment grounding conductor of a type listed in 250.118, and it must terminate in a manner so that branch circuit equipment grounding conductors can be connected to it, installed in accordance with 250.134.
Q. When can I "round up to the next size overcurrent device" when the conductor ampacity does not match a standard size overcurrent device?
A. The next higher standard rating overcurrent device (above the ampacity of the ungrounded conductors being protected) is permitted, provided all of the following conditions are met [240.4(B)]:
- The conductors do not supply multioutlet receptacle branch circuits.
- The ampacity of a conductor, after ampacity adjustment and/or correction, doesn't correspond with the standard rating of a fuse or circuit breaker in 240.6(A).
- The overcurrent device overcurrent device rating doesn't exceed 800A.
Example: A 400A overcurrent device can protect 500kcmil conductors, where each conductor has an ampacity of 380A at 75°C, in accordance with Table 310.16. This rule (i.e., "next size up") doesn't apply to feeder tap conductors [240.21(B)], or secondary transformer conductors [240.21(C)].
If the circuit's overcurrent device exceeds 800A, then the conductor ampacity, after ampacity adjustment and/or correction, must have a rating not less than the rating of the overcurrent device [240.4(C)].
Example: A 1,200A overcurrent device can protect three sets of 600kcmil conductors per phase, where each conductor has an ampacity of 420A at 75°C, in accordance with Table 310.16.


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It sounds like something straight out of Hollywood. Astronomers discover an asteroid that's on a collision course with Earth. But there's no reason to duck and cover — a giant laser in orbit takes aim, and in a few months it vaporizes the space rock. And when it's done, it wheels around to propel a robotic probe to another star.
This system is still in the realm of fantasy, but the scientists who designed it say it could be built with today's technology. It wouldn't be easy — or cheap — but it could defend our planet while performing other tasks.
It's called DE-STAR — Directed Energy System for Targeting of Asteroids and Exploration. It was designed by Philip Lubin and Gary Hughes, who are with universities in California.
There's no doubt that asteroids present a danger to Earth. A collision with one just a few hundred feet across could cause widespread devastation.
DE-STAR would use large solar panels to power an array of lasers. A full system would span miles, and the designers say it could obliterate a good-sized asteroid or deflect a really big one. And with enough lead time, even a small version of the system — the size of a couple of football fields — could provide enough energy to push most asteroids off course.
As a bonus, DE-STAR could accelerate a small interstellar probe to a few percent of the speed of light or provide communications across interstellar distances — all while protecting Earth from deadly space rocks.
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Leicester manager Nigel Pearson will have Andy King back for the clash with Plymouth at the Walkers Stadium.
There had been fears that King had picked up a serious arm injury in the 2-1 home defeat to West Brom before the international break.
However, the 21-year-old featured for Wales in their 3-0 demolition of Scotland and should play against the Pilgrims on Saturday.
But fellow midfielder Matt Oakley will definitely miss the match after picking up a one-match ban for collecting five yellow cards.
Therefore Nicky Adams, Paul Gallagher, Dany N'Guessan and Lloyd Dyer will all be vying for the two spots alongside King and Richie Wellens in midfield.
Aleksandar Tunchev and Stephen Clemence are still ruled out with long-term injuries.
Plymouth bid to extend their unbeaten three-match Championship run at Leicester boosted by the return of skipper and central midfielder Carl Fletcher.
Fletcher returns from a one-match suspension, having sat out the 2-1 win over Doncaster in their last outing before the international break.
Argyle boss Paul Sturrock does wait on the fitness of other key players, though, including wingers Alan Judge (knee) and Craig Noone (foot).
On-loan Blackburn ace Judge was substituted after scoring in the Doncaster success.
Noone - who featured as a substitute against Rovers - was substituted during Tuesday's 1-0 reserves defeat by Swansea and faces a race to be fit.
Argyle also wait on the fitness of on-loan Manchester United right back David Gray (hip).
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In a city starved for luxury flagship retail stores, consignment shops are the closest thing fashionistas have to getting the same haute couture looks worn by the world's rich and famous.
Although the fashions might not always be current, they are always a fraction of the cost of clothes found in the shopping districts of New York, Paris, London and L.A.
In Baltimore, the Roland Park neighborhood offers the greatest concentration of high-end consignment shops.
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Where to Sell Items
According to Cari Cucksey, who organizes estate sales on HGTV's Cash & Cari, "The average family has several thousand dollars' worth of stuff lying around." Check out how to find the right market:
Yard Sale
If you're looking to unload a bunch of goods that don't have a high intrinsic value, a yard sale is the way to go. Price items at 50 to 75 percent off the store price, and keep everything under $50. "People who go to garage sales are looking for the ultimate bargain," says Cucksey. "Higher-end items I would put online." First find out if your city or town requires a permit to hold a sale. Events are best held on a Saturday, when most people have time to shop. Then advertise like crazy a week ahead. Cucksey recommends taking an ad out in local papers; posting on Facebook and Twitter, as well as free sites like craigslist.org and yardsalesearch.com; and hanging poster-size signs on the street to direct customers to your home.
Online Auction
Put easy-to-ship, brand-name goods (a Sony PlayStation, a Waterford vase) and collectibles (baseball cards, American Girl dolls) on an auction site like eBay, where they'll be seen by millions of potential buyers and probably fetch the highest price. Check current listings to get an idea of what your things might go for. People are more apt to bid if they know exactly what they're buying, so include a detailed description, with measurements, plenty of photos (don't forget close-ups), and info about the item's history and even flaws, says Cucksey.
Online Classified Ad
A free website like craigslist.org or ebayclassifieds.com is ideal for things that are ordinary or bulky, such as an air conditioner you're no longer using or a child's playpen. These buyers expect a good deal, and they're hauling the item away for you, so don't ask for too much—about 25 to 30 percent off the store price. You can go even lower, especially if there's wear and tear, says Cucksey. Post a detailed ad (see "Online Auction," above) and keep safety in mind. "Have someone with you when a potential buyer comes over and conduct the sale outside, if possible," says Cucksey. Not getting many responses? Consider expanding your reach with a paid ad in the local paper.
Consignment Shop
Don't want to deal with marketing and communicating with customers? Bring your stuff to a consignment shop. These stores typically take good-quality furniture, household items, or clothes (call to inquire about specifics). While you may get more for something on consignment than you would on Craigslist, the store will take a cut—often a 50-50 split with you on the proceeds from the sale. Some may reduce the asking price if the piece doesn't sell after a specified length of time. Anything you plan to consign should be clean and worthy of display, or it may not be accepted, says Cucksey.
Where to Donate Items
Sure you'd like to recoup part of your investment in that bunk bed, but if there are no takers, consider donating it to a worthy organization instead.
Schedule a pick-up for volumes of all kinds with donationtown.org. Enter your zip code and choose from charities in your area. If none are available, contact your local library, hospital, or the nearest Goodwill or Salvation Army stores for drop-off spots. You can also send fiction and nonfiction titles to Books for Africa (booksforafrica.org), which will match them with schools, orphanages, and literacy programs across the continent.*
Formal Wear
Those worn-once prom or bridesmaid dresses take up valuable closet space. Log on to donatemydress.org to find a dress drive in your area. Affiliated organizations connect with teens who might not otherwise be able to afford something to wear for a special occasion.
Bring it to your local Habitat for Humanity ReStore (visit habitat.org/restores for locations). These shops sell donated items at a discount and use the proceeds to fund the construction of Habitat homes. You can also donate to a local furniture bank (find one at nationalfurniturebank.org), which distributes essentials like sofas, beds, tables, and lamps to families in need.
Sports Equipment
Give shin guards to youth teams in Colombia, basketballs to kids in the Philippines, or tennis rackets to students in Los Angeles through Sports Gift (sportsgift.org), which delivers gently used gear to disadvantaged children all over the world.
Winter Jackets
Keep them until the fall (most drives start in October) then search for a local coat drive on onewarmcoat.org. Sweaters, sweatshirts, hats, and gloves may also be accepted.
Tech Items
Try to recycle your high-tech junk (for tips, see the next slide). If you can't, consider greendisk.com, which safely recycles items for you. Ship off old VHS tapes and floppy discs to ACT (actrecycling.org), a nonprofit in Columbia, Missouri, that trains and employs disabled people. Call to Protect at Wireless Foundation (wirelessfoundation.org) gives charities the proceeds from selling phones. Cell Phones for Soldiers (cellphonesforsoldiers.com) puts the cash toward calling cards for overseas troops. The National Cristina Foundation (cristina.org) matches used tech equipment with local organizations like schools or nonprofits.
*In most cases shipping is on your dime but tax-deductible. Check websites for details.
Where to Recycle Items
Instead of tossing techno-waste in the trash, where it ultimately ends up polluting the planet, go eco with these earth-conscious strategies.
CDs and Other Media
No point in hanging on to all those discs you've uploaded. Same goes for your DVDs and video games that are so last year. Sell or swap at sites like secondspin.com and gamestop.com. Or recycle them for free at a Best Buy store.
Cell Phones
Find out how to dispose of your brand of phone by checking the information at digitaltips.org. Or look for complimentary drop boxes at retailers such as Target and Best Buy.
Computer Parts
Return tired towers, monitors, and laptops to their manufacturers. Some companies, like Apple, offer gift cards toward new models. (Find details at digitaltips.org.) Staples, RadioShack, and Office Depot accept computers as well as keyboards, printers, scanners, and more for free or a small fee. And the following cool sites will recycle some items without charge: gazelle.com and nextworth.com. Check each for details.
Drop off just about any used gear—TVs, DVD players, iPods, digital cameras, camcorders, remotes, speakers, and video game equipment—at Best Buy. The store will responsibly recycle your stuff for free or a nominal charge. Tube TVs larger than 30 inches are not accepted, but can be hauled away in exchange for purchasing a new set. Certain items can even be traded in for gift cards or cash; visit bestbuytradein.com for details. For answers to recycling questions and a comprehensive directory, log on to earth911.com. In the market for a new iPod? Best Buy will give you 10 percent off when you return any old model to one of its stores.
Stores like RadioShack, Lowe's, and Home Depot recycle rechargeable batteries for free; search for other drop-off locations near you at call2recycle.org. The single-use kinds, like AAs, no longer contain toxic metals, so it's okay to trash them. However, the casings can leak acid so seal them in a plastic bag first.
CFL Lightbulbs
Gather CFLs, which have mercury, in a plastic bag and toss them in the designated bins at Lowe's, Home Depot, or Ikea. Your local hardware store may also accept them—call to find out. Get more ideas at earth911.com and type in your zip code.
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Published on Monday, April 9, 2012
Many people are surprised to find out that rabbits can be litter trained. Some bunnies get it in a few days, others in a few weeks, or even longer. Don't get discouraged, I found that persistence pays off.
Bunnies are creatures of habit. Even a few weeks may be too short for the some bunnies. Though my other two rabbits got it within a week, Bailey took months, and even then I had to watch to make sure she didn't fall back into old habits. It only takes a few days to establish bad habits, and it can mean weeks of retraining.
Baby bunnies and bunnies that aren't spayed and neutered may be tougher to train. It still a good idea to litter train babies, some will get it, some will be more difficult, but either way, it's a good idea to help develop good litter box habits - even if they become challenging during sexual maturity. The early training will help cement litter box habits so that they will know what to do when their hormones have died down (and after neutering)
Note: If your bunny was litter box trained and then all of a sudden began losing his/her good habits and nothing else changed, (no new animals, environment changes, etc.), then you may want to make sure there is nothing medically wrong, like a Urinary Tract Infection. It would be a good idea to have your rabbit-savvy vet check out your bunny to rule a medical issue. For other medical issues that may hinder litter box training scroll down to Trouble-shooting tips (at the bottom).
Add a healthy treat: I like to add a small amount of a pleasant smelling herb like mint, basil, or rosemary in their litter box. It not only smells good, but it's a tasty treat for them too, and great encouragement to get in.
Actual Training
Start small: If a bunny is given too much freedom too fast, that just invites a poopfest. So, I allow my bunny to master one area before moving him/her to the next. If your only space right now is a small cage then I suggest getting an x-pen to allow at least some space to stretch and exercise while he's confined. This won't be forever, just until he is litter trained. Usually takes a few weeks.
Training Sessions - Catch 'em in the Act: I find this to be the most effective training tool. The best way to catch 'em in the act is to spend time with your bunnies everyday around the time they eat. This is when they will most likely need to poo too!
Each time you catch your bunny lifting its tail to pee or poo, at that very moment, say "Eh uh!" or "No!" and herd him or nudge him to the litter box. (it doesn't help to do it after he's done the deed). You may even want to put the first part of his body in the box. Best to allow him to get in the box so he will understand going into the box himself.
It is also helpful to teach your bunny to understand the word litter box so he will go there when you say the word. See tips on how to do this below.
Giving More Freedom
This is when great habits can go down the drain. It's important to allow limited freedom and watch like a hawk.
Should the litter box be only in their cage/pen? Many bunnies will still go back to their cage or area to pee and poop, but if you have a large house, or there is a corner in a room that just seems to be a continuous target no matter how much you've trained him/her, then I would put a litter box there.
Make sure to still catch them in the act in any new space. You'll need to be diligent about watching until they are completely trained in every place. In larger spaces, like the living room, I bring a water bottle, and give a quick squirt. It reaches them fast and right when they are lifting their tail. Then I herd them back to their litter box. Again, don't chase! If they just refused to get it, I would only then pick 'em up and place them just in front of the litter box, blocking escapes, so they can jump in the box on their own. Then I quickly back away so they feel safe to stay in there.
Teach the word "Litter box"
Tips for Stubborn Bunnies
Some territorial bunnies just figure everywhere is fair game for territorial marking. And it doesn't help if you are reaching into or entering their space. This may confirm that they don't really have a space of their own, therefore, it's all their space.
.....I let their space, their cage, be a place that is THEIRS. I don't clean or reach in while they are in there. (I may drop food and water in, but that's it). I try not to reach in to get them or physically lift them up and put them back in.
Instead, I let them come out on their own
Bailey - The Persistent Marker
My solution w/ Bailey:Spend time with her on the floor.
Even though Bailey mastered the litter box in her area, she has what I jokingly call OMD – Obsessive Marking Disorder, As soon as she gets freedom, she begins marking one small area in the living room with territorial pills. (and having a litter box there didn't help)
So I started observing her. Unlike my other bunnies who want to run and explore, Bailey immediately looks for attention.
...So as soon as I let her out, I lay on the floor in the area that she likes to mark and I pet her. For some reason that has helped decrease her marking. Maybe this makes her feel secure so less need to mark. Maybe since I'm on the floor too, she's sees it not as just her area, or maybe she feels she doesn't have to prove her dominance through marking since she's getting "dominant rabbit treatment" aka: grooming/petting. I'm really not sure, but whatever the reason, her marking diminishes in that area if I follow that routine.
UPDATE: Bailey rarely marked in the general area, but she took to making her own pen look like a poo bomb went off. But as long as she keeps her poos in her pen, I'm happy.
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Input needed for CMR: User Identification and Permissionskarl.rumelhart Mar 20, 2012 10:00 PM
One of the important priorities we have for our next version of CMR is to make the reports more actionable by identifying the people behind some of the numbers. For example, with the Profile chart you might see that 80% of users have selected an avatar and be led to wonder, "Who are the folks who don't yet have an avatar?" If you knew, you could reach out and suggest (politely ) that they get one. Or on the User Adoption Chart it is interesting to see that you have a bunch of Active users who aren't Participating, but even more interesting if you knew who they are so you can engage with them.
OK, sounds good. But one of the tricky things we have come up against is that in some communities, external communities in particular, is it quite common for users to restrict access to parts of their profile. We need to make sure, for example, that this CMR feature not become a backdoor way for a Group owner to see email addresses that she is not otherwise entitled to see, and handle other scenarios like that.
But not everything is completely clear cut here and I would value some advice from you guys.
First question: How much is enough information to identify a user? In particular, would it be enough to just export a list of the User IDs of the folks who don't have an avatar or are Active but not Participating or whatever? (This would avoid the permissions issue since User ID is always public.) Or would that be lame and you would feel that unless we export full names and email addresses we haven't really met the use case?
Second question: To be very concrete, let's focus on the Profile Chart, which is a global-only chart. Suppose that here we are able to list any (or every) user -- first name, last name and email -- and whether or not they have filled in their various profile elements. There are several options
- Don't list any names or emails, just user IDs
- Include only those names and emails that would normally be visible, hide the others
- Include all names and emails no matter what under the assumption that this is being exposed to someone in an administrative capacity
Keep in mind the set of people who would be able to see this: anyone with Admin privileges, System Manage privileges or someone who has been specifically granted the 'Global CMR Permission' that we will include in the next release.
I hope that these questions make sense and would appreciate any thought on them or this general topic.
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By John Goralski
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One girl slipped off the bars. Another one slipped off the beam. The vault and floor routines were about as perfect as they could be on the first competition, but Southington gymnasts picked right back up where they finished in their Class L title defense.
On Wednesday, Jan. 8, the Lady Knights cruised past Conard with a 15-point cushion. Two days later, they swept past Newtown and Oxford by double digit margins.
In the first week of the season Southington might not be in postseason shape, but they have already shown themselves to be one of the state's top contenders.
"For an opening day, I think we did really well," said Lady Knight gymnastics coach Kaitlyn O'Donnell. "We had a few falls, but that's expected for the first meet. I think there are just some opening meet jitters."
With a pair of preseason injuries and the loss of a New England champion, Southington entered the week with a number of questions. Could they rise above the losses to their roster by injury or graduation? How would the veteran's respond? How good is the influx of newcomers? Will the Knights be the ones to beat when the postseason comes around?
For now, O'Donnell is satisfied with the answers.
"I just wanted to see our lineups," said the coach. "We have a lot more girls this year, so we wanted to see how they'd work together, who would do well under pressure, and who wouldn't. It was really just a first meet, and I was trying to see where we're at."
Rookie sophomore Vicky Castillo led the way with an 8.8 on bars. Junior Lexi Rothstein executed a near perfect pike-tsukahara on vault to score a 9.25. Castillo (8.8) edged senior co-captain Kayla Nati (8.8) on beam. Junior Marilyn Sporbert (9.1) paced the Knights on a modified floor routine because of the gym's facilities, and Southington gymnasts posted five of the top seven scores.
Southington scored 137.85 points over the four varsity events, and Conard (122.15) never threatened.
"I think it was a good starting spot for us, and we can only go up from here," O'Donnell said. "Now we can go back and change things around a little bit. We'll see what works and we'll go right back at it again."
The Knights were able to show a good mix of veterans and youth. Sporbert scored in all four events and led the way in the all-around competition with 34.95 out of 40 possible points. Freshman Castillo (34.8) scored in every event.
Nati (33.4) scored in three of the four events. Rothstein (33.25) scored on vault and floor. Freshman Taryn Meenan made her varsity debut with scores on vault (8.25), bars (8.3), and beam (8.2). Kayla Birming-ham and Jessie Kane didn't score, but they helped set the opening standards in multiple events.
"I think we have more depth than we thought," O'Donnell said. "We do have two girls out for injuries, but I still think that we would have had [the three rookies] in the lineup. They're working really hard, and they're very clean."
Two days later, the Knights traveled to Oxford for a tri-team meet with Newtown and Oxford. Southington (138.95) improved their team score by more than a full point to capture two convincing wins. The Knights eclipsed their previous team scores in three of the four events but finished the meet on beam where they fell by almost a full point from their opening score.
Once again, Sporbert (9.2) and Rothstein (9.1) broke the 9.0 barrier on vault. Castillo scored a 9.0 on bars. Rothstein (9.0) reached that mark on the floor, but Southington was only able to post a trio of scores in the 8.0 range on beam.
Southington won easily against Newtown (125.65) and Oxford (76.55), but the meet showed some areas where the Knights need to focus.
"I'm still not satisfied yet," said O'Donnell. "We posted a good score on the first three events, but I think we got a little tired on our last event. We had a few falls on beam, but as long as our scores keep going up it's a good thing. It also means we have more room for improvement."
Now comes Southington's first true test. On Tuesday, they'll return to West Hartford for a dual meet against Hall, and then they'll open their home schedule at C.A.T.S. in Cheshire on Saturday against Glastonbury.
With an early 131.675 average, the Tomahawks are projected to be Southington's top competition at the Class L championships, but neither team has approached the early scores posted by state open rivals Woodstock (146.05) or Hand (140.7).
Reaching that 140-point barrier is Southington's next regular season challenge.
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Villaraigosa Is Everywhere!
Mayor Villaraigosa spent the morning shaking hands of riders as they boarded the new MTA Orange Line buses in North Hollywood this morning.
I can write it off as glad-handing, cynical and ego on behalf of the Mayor. And maybe all that is true.
On the other hand, the man is getting out there to the people. Even if he's insincere, its good for people to see the Mayor, whomever he or she is.
And its way more than Poopy ever did. Again, if Antonio is bogus, so be it. But if his prancing around town encourages folks to get involved, then its a good thing.


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Buzz Saw
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Simply thread the string through the button and tie in a knot. It will look like this:
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I've been using the Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI) in my web app, and one particularly cool component is the YUI Rich Text Editor: its cross-browser compatible, fully extensible, and best of all it's free :)
For all its greatness, one thing I've struggled with is that if you copy & paste stuff from another app into the YUI Editor, all of the original formatting is maintained. Most of the time for us, the "other app" is Microsoft Word, which does a particularly heinous job of generating HTML from a formatted document. This almost always wreaks havoc if the user subsequently tries to change text styles in the editor, as the underlying HTML is a total mess.
So, the solution for us was to try and strip out all of the formatting when somebody pastes stuff into the Editor, resulting in nice clean HTML that plays well with the YUI Editor formatting functions. Now, unfortunately no such feature exists in the YUI Editor, and Googling around just led to dead ends, so I was left to build my own.
CleanPaste for YUI Rich Text Editor
For information on what's supported, please read the notes on CodePlex, as I will keep this updated as I make bug fixes etc.
To use the CleanPaste script, follow these steps:
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- Place the CleanPaste.js file somewhere in your project.
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Ensure the src attribute points to the directory where the CleanPaste.js script is located.
- In the Javascript where you create your Yahoo Editor object, create an instance of the CleanPaste object, passing in the editor as the parameter:
var myEditor = new YAHOO.widget.Editor('editor', myConfig); myEditor.render();
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Moyes are running a trip to Inner Mongolia for hang glider pilots, comprising a week-long competition followed by sightseeing or free-flying.
The base will be Guyuan, China, four hours northwest of Beijing, and the trip starts 6 June. It will be aerotowing, so pilots need to hold the appropriate rating.
The cost above includes the competition entry fee, welcome and presentation dinners and a T-shirt, but does not include aerotow fees, retrieves or airport pick-ups.
For more information or to register your interest, email Vicki at Moyes.
2019 is a Red Bull X-Alps Year! The ninth edition kicks off with the Prologue on 13 June, when all athletes race around a course, aiming to win one of three available extra night passes.
The race itself starts on 16 June. 32 athletes will be taking part, including five-times winner Chrigel Maurer (SUI1) and Romanian running man Toma Coconea who hasn't missed a single race. Fourteen of the athletes to line up at the start are rookies, including the two female participants, Kinga Mastalerz (NZL2) and Dominika Kasieczko (POL).
The exact route for the 2019 event will be announced in March, and thousands will be following the athletes' progress day and night via the live tracking and media updates.
The Tarent'Airtour offers hike-and-fly pilots the perfect way to explore the Tarentaise – the Mont Blanc, Vanoise et Beaufortain regions of the Alps – by paraglider and by foot.
It's a three-day hike-and-fly tour around a circuit, demarked by five refuge turnpoints. Pilots have to stop at one of the refuges each evening, which means no chase-cars or supporters are necessary, and everyone gets a hot meal and a bed for the night. The event starts with a meal and briefing at the Val Joli refuge in Séez on 13 June 2019.
Points are earned by tagging lakes, summits etc which are assigned different point scores. Pilots must accumulate as many points as they can, before making their way to the finish at Bourg Saint Maurice by 3pm on the Sunday.
The €200 entry fee includes the meal on the first night, and the following two nights' food and accommodation in refuges. Pilots can opt to stay in the Val Joli refuge on 13th for an extra €15.
Jura'ltitude XC is an accessible two-day hike-and-fly competition in the Swiss Alps, with two categories:
In the Access category, a five-turnpoint 56km course is defined around Moutiers which pilots can follow either clockwise or anticlockwise; The Adventure category has 20 turnpoints, each allocated a certain number of points. Pilots visit as many of the turnpoints as they like, in any order, to gather as many points as possible.
The usual hike-and-fly rules apply and asistants are allowed, but not compulsory.
The magical mayhem of the Coupe Icare takes place on the third weekend of September at Saint Hilaire du Touvet and the Lumbin landing field near Grenoble in the south of France.
This year's festival pays homage to the great Leonardo Da Vinci, who died 500 years ago! There will be an exhibition at the church of Saint Hilaire and shows on the theme of the great Italian inventor.
A huge trade show takes over two large marquees as well as outdoor stands; demonstration flights from all sorts of craft fill the sky, and the fancy-dress fly down is one of the event's biggest draws, with some truly crazy costumes. Don't forget the all-important film festival that runs throughout the long weekend. As well as all of this, the south take-off becomes a children's wonderland, with activities from kite-making to science lessons to meeting birds of prey.
Paragliding from the sites during the daytimes is restricted to fancy-dress competitors and authorised pilots, but plenty make the early-morning hike to the Dent de Crolles if conditions allow, for a morning fly down among hot air balloons.


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Emory LaVista Parent Council meets for the purpose of strengthening the Emory LaVista school community by providing a forum for communication, and promoting educational opportunities for the children of our community. Please join us on the third Wednesday of the month for a lively discussion of school issues and topics. All interested parents are invited and encouraged to attend.
Serving these DeKalb County Schools:
- Druid Hills High, Lakeside High
- Druid Hills Middle, Henderson Middle
- Briar Vista, Fernbank, Laurel Ridge, McLendon, Sagamore Hills, Briarlake, Evansdale, Hawthorne, Henderson Mill, Oak Grove, Pleasantdale, Avondale, Coralwood,the Museum School of Avondale Estates, the International Community Charter School, the GLOBE Academy, and the DeKalb School of the Arts.
Prior to Shamrock's first year as a middle school (1996-1997) its feeder elementary schools worked closely together to plan for and create the Shamrock PTSA. Participants agreed that the exchange process itself was very positive and formalized its continuation with the Emory LaVista Parent Council.
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If you plan to breastfeed, a lactation consultant will meet with you before or soon after you deliver your baby. She will answer questions, ensure that pumping has been started, and provide information on realistic expectations for breastfeeding.
Throughout your baby's hospital stay, the lactation consultant and staff nurses will evaluate milk supply, help try to solve any problems, assist with difficult latch-on issues, answer questions, and provide discharge planning. Follow-up will also be provided after your discharge to make sure things are going smoothly. Outpatient lactation consultations are available for problems with breastfeeding or breastfeeding management.


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Beginning on January 28, 2013 we encourage event and conference attendees to park at the UMass Boston Bayside Lot on Mt. Vernon Street.
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DURHAM � Duke�s Mike Krzyzewski insists he has everything to gain by another stint as coach of the U.S. Olympic basketball team.
For a man who calculates his decisions carefully, this is a risk.
He could have stayed away when he said he walked away after directing a second consecutive Olympic gold-medal performance in 2012.
His legacy had been further cemented by the resurrection project he accomplished during the past two cycles with the U.S. national team. Add that to the label as winningest men�s basketball coach in NCAA history and there�s not much more to accomplish.
Now, he�ll be expected to nurture another gold-medal winner in 2016 in Brazil. Anything short of that would be viewed a failure.
Krzyzewski considers more time in the U.S. basketball lab as an opportunity to enhance his coaching.
�I got better doing it,� he said. �I don�t think it has hurt our (Duke) program. I think it has only helped our program.�
Krzyzewski, whose ninth grandchild is due to be born this summer, could have stepped aside with no chance of his record soiled on the international platform. So if the U.S. team comes up short in three years, does this mean he signs up again to make sure he gets it right?
That question can be raised regardless of the 2016 results. And, as we learned this time around, it might beg asking repeatedly because the answer could change.
Krzyzewski�s addiction to coaching has been no secret. He said he has no interest in doing crossword puzzles or playing golf, so don�t bother sending him the latest New York Times puzzles or a pitching wedge.
Jerry Colangelo oversees the U.S. national team in a general manager type of capacity. By bringing back Krzyzewski in this position, his message could be interpreted as twofold.
Certainly, he�s appreciative of the way Krzyzewski has handled the role, returning the United States to the top perch in the world in basketball.
But if Krzyzewski had been taken at his word that he was finished coaching the team, this spring�s outcome suggests that Colangelo didn�t identify another coach that he trusts for that role.
That might not be a good fallout in the big picture.
As much as that might sound like a risk on Colangelo�s part as well, going with Krzyzewski is no gamble. It�s the coach who�s putting his chips on the table again.
Bob Sutton is sports editor of the Burlington Times-News.


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As our beetle blog heads towards 50,000 views, it is fast becoming one of the most important interfaces between the Coleoptera Section and the world at large, but it is not the only public outreach that we do here on the section. As well as very regular Nature Live Events and Night Safaris at the Museum, we make occasional forays into radio and television, and one such example was on the 30th January when presenter Dr. George McGavin and BBC producer Andrea Rangecroft came to the Collections to record an interview on the 'Etymology of Entomology'
Max Barclay and George McGavin having a friendly chat about taxonomy, probably!
Even since the biblical instruction to Adam in the Garden of Eden to give 'a name to every creature' (leading to the oft-repeated quip that taxonomy, rather than anything else, is the 'oldest profession'), or perhaps more seriously since Linnaeus's Systema Naturae in 1758 which marks the start of formal Zoological Nomenclature, people have trying to name and classify the breathtaking biodiversity they see around them. There is considerable debate as to what is actually the largest group of organisms, with nematodes, some microbes, Hymenoptera (bees, ants and especially wasps) and Diptera (flies) all competing with beetles for the hypothetical species-richness crown, but of one thing we are certain: None of these groups has been so exhaustively and comprehensively named as the Coleoptera. Over 400,000 described species of beetles (about 20% of known biodiversity) shows an average rate, still undiminished, of 1000-2000 scientific names proposed each year since 1758 for beetles alone. It is perhaps not surprising, then, that a BBC team interested in the 'Etymology or Entomology' should have wanted to pay a visit to the beetle section..
Dr. George McGavin, the presenter of the show is an entomologist and zoologist and was once a student based at the Natural History Museum, so he is no stranger to the whiff of naphthalene and the ranks of cabinets and drawers that house one of the biggest slices of Earth's biodiversity to exist in one place anywhere in the world. His background of course meant that he knew many of us, and also pretty much what he wanted to see. In the radio show, he interviews a number of entomologists, (including me), and nomenclators in the UK and the US, such as the staff of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (the august body based at the Natural History Museum, that regulates the naming of animals). To hear a sneak preview click on Radio 4!
The ranks of cabinets of the Coleoptera section holding over half of the World's known species
To provide a bit of background, Linnaeus's system, that is still used today, requires that each species has a unique scientific name, based (loosely) on Latin or Greek, and consisting of two parts, the genus name and the species name. These names are 'universal', i.e. used by scientists throughout the world and allow us to know exactly what species we are talking about; I have had many conversations with entomologists with whom I have no common language, that consist of pointing at specimens and saying scientific names, and it seems to work. Most of these names are serious, often descriptive, referring to colour (e.g. ruber, niger, albus, viridis), shape (spinosus, elongatus, angulatus), habitat (marinus, sylvaticus, montanus, campestris), size (maximus, minimus, pusillus, giganteus, nanus). Others refer to places of origin (germanicus, africanus, yorkensis, londonensis) or to people who the describer wanted to honour or commemorate. In the last case, the name is formed by adding a latin genitive '-i' or '-ii' for a man, '-ae' for a woman, or '-orum' for more than one person, to the end of the name in question (e.g. Eulipoa wallacei, Wallace's Megapode; Ischnura fountaineae, Margaret Fountaine's damselfly; Apion hookerorum, a weevil named after the Hooker brothers). Often the person honoured will be the collector, but sometimes it will be a figure from outside the world of science, a writer or entertainer or whatever, and in some cases a politician.
One of the beetles that George asked to see is one of the most controversial to be named after a famous person, a blind cave beetle forever cursed by its describer Oscar Scheibel with the name Anophthalmus hitleri. Scheibel presumably collected and named that species in 1936, because it was published in 1937, and it shows that one should never name anything after politicians, or at least wait until they are good and dead, since you never know what they are going to do.
Scheibel's unfortunately named beetle!
Other politically named beetles include Quentin Wheeler and Kelly Miller's slime mould beetles Agathidium bushi, Agathidium rumsfeldi and Agathidium cheneyi, named after US republican leaders. It is a popular misconception that in such cases the beetles are named as an insult, because beetles are considered somehow unpleasant (especially when they live in or feed on slime-moulds), but this is nonsense- we love our beetles too much! No professional coleopterist considers beetles to be unpleasant, and the names above are certainly honorific (in fact at least one of the scientists also named species after his wife).
On the subject of naming of insects after partners or prospective ones, George Willis Kirkaldy (1873-1910) deserves a mention. British born and based in Hawaii working for the sugar plantations, he studied the true bugs (Heteroptera) and discovered that the Greek suffix -chisme sounds, when spoken aloud, sufficiently like 'kiss me' that he prefixed a lot of genus names with words that sounded like the names of young ladies (or at least, the kinds of names that young ladies had in the early 20th century) - Dolichisme, Elachisme, Florichisme, Peggichisme, and Polychisme. Apparently Kirkaldy was criticised for frivolity at the Zoological Society of London, and one can imagine that a young man using the scientific nomenclature to crow about his romantic conquests might have raised a few eyebrows among the bewhiskered Edwardian patrons of that learned institution. A close contemporary of Kirkaldy, Horace Donisthorpe (1870-1951), whose collection is also at the NHM, apparently employed a similar strategy: many of his species and subspecies are named after young women of the day, some examples being primroseae, irenae, florenceae. The striking thing about these names is that none of them have stood the test of time- all have been shown by subsequent workers not to be distinct. One is drawn to the conclusion that Donisthorpe looked at something that the young ladies in question had collected, told them it was new, and went as far as formally naming it after them, but that his motives in doing so were perhaps not entirely scientific...
We also discussed the Russian entomologist Nikolay Nikolaevich Plavilstshikov (1892-1962), who (perhaps unsurprisingly) was drawn to complicated names and gave the world the longest scientific name, Brachyta interrogationis interrogationis var. nigrohumeralisscutellohumeroconjuncta Plavilstshikov, 1936 - a rather attractive, 1cm-long yellow and black longhorn beetle that lives in peonies in northern Eurasia. Plavilstshikov is also remembered for bringing a gun into work and shooting at his line-manager, and getting away with it, but that is another story...
With 400,000 beetles one can only imagine how many stories, told and untold, surround the choosing of their names. We have attempted on 'Etymology of Entomology' to tell just a few of the best of those stories, and our colleagues from other institutes and other countries have told others. We do hope you'll tune in at 10.30 on Saturday 9th March, and we'll provide live links as we get them
Max shows George some of the species talked about in the radio show
To find out a little more about the programme please read on...and tune in on Saturday 9th March at 10.30am
On Saturday 9th March at 10.30am on BBC Radio 4, popular culture meets science as zoologist Dr George McGavin delves into the strange, and often bizarre, names given to insects.
There are an estimated 8-10 million living insect species with new specimens being discovered almost daily. Entomologists are turning to ever more imaginative names, referencing everything from literary figures, celebrities and politicians to playground puns.
There are flies named Pieza kake (piece of cake) and Scaptia beyonceae after the singer; beetles with political connections - Anophthalmus hitleri, Agathidium bushi, Agathidium cheneyi and Agathidium rumsfeldi; even entomologists who name discoveries after romantic conquests. Unsurprisingly, names can prove controversial but, once set, are difficult to change.
"Taxonomy is the foundation stone of science…without a stable system of classification, science would be nothing but a jumble of uncorrelated observations."
George takes us into the complex and intriguing world of the taxonomist. From the 18th century father of modern taxonomy Carl Linnaeus, to the present day, he explains why naming the things that surround us is the foundation of all science.
George pieces together his story at Linnaeus' original collection at The Linnaean Society, and at the capital's Natural History Museum and London Zoo. He also reveals some insects named after him at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.


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- Wireless. We can't sync every time we want to get something to students
- Centralized Location. Emailing, sending from one app to another, posting a link on a website – all these options create multiple copies of the same document, making it easy for students to get confused and hard for teachers to track down student work.
- Simple steps for teachers to send documents to students' iPads.
- Privacy. While we can build a culture of honesty and trust in our classrooms, a situation where students have access to other students' work – to view, edit or delete – leaves gaping holes in the reliability of any system.
- Multi-Teacher Access. We want portfolios of student work that pull from all subject areas. When working with middle school students in particular, this means multiple teachers must have access to each student's portfolio.
- Backup. If things do go wrong, we need to be able recover student or teacher work.
- The ability for students to view, edit and share Word Docs and PDFs. On top of docs, our teachers scan or download a lot of pdfs and want students to edit/annotate them on their iPads and quickly send them back to the teacher.
- Cheap. Free would be nice, but inexpensive is a must. There are plenty of business-class enterprise solutions out there, but they're way out of our league.
- Email – At first this was our primary method of file transfer. We use Google Apps, so sending a file to a whole class is super easy once Groups are set up. Every student has an email account on their iPad, so sending files to teachers is easy as well. We also setup folders and filters in Gmail so emails from students would automatically be sorted into folders in teachers' accounts. The problem, of course, is that files and emails are overflowing from all sides. Students open an email attachment in, say, Pages – now there are two copies. They export and email it from Pages back to the teacher, who then saves it to their computer – now there are four copies. If the teacher wants to send it back with feedback, the thing starts all over. We still use email with some apps that have no other viable way to export files, but all in all it made it very difficult to keep files organized.
- Google Docs – If you're using Google Apps, Google Docs is so close to being ideal. Sharing files and setting up folder and file permissions is a breeze, you get 25gbs per user, and you stay within the larger framework of Google Apps that you are likely using in other ways. We do use Google Docs on the iPads in certain situations, but there are three reasons we don't use it as our primary means of file management. 1) As far as I can tell, there are no PDF annotation apps that truly sync to Google Docs. Some, like PDF Expert, will connect to Google Docs and save a local copy of a PDF – which you can then edit and copy back to Google Docs. But that's a lot of steps and multiple copies of files, which creates too many chances for students' work to get lost on its way back to the teacher. 2) There is no free way to sync folders on your computer to Google Docs. Syncplicity does this to an extent, but the free version is quite limited. That means teachers have to upload and manage student files through the web interface, which, to me, is asking too much. 3) Office2HD and other apps sync fully to Google Docs for editing office documents. It works quite well in fact. There is one small issue: when saving a file that has been shared with you (that you don't own) Office2HD gives an error message, even though it does save the file correctly. If you have Google Apps, and you're not worried about annotating PDFs, then Google Docs with Office2HD might be a great solution for you.
- Edmodo – Edmodo is fantastic. We use it for student discussions, exit slips, quizzes, and now video sharing. It works great for assignments with documents if you're using a computer, but it is tricky to download a document from the Edmodo app to an iPad, and impossible to upload a document from an iPad back to Edmodo. For this reason Edmodo is not a good solution for distributing and turning in documents. Just recently Edmodo enabled integration with Google Docs. Now you can post and edit Google Docs directly through Edmodo. However, I'm not sure that this solves the issue of turning in documents from an iPad. Please comment if you're using Google Docs with Edmodo.
- Box.net – Box has a lot features that out-do Dropbox - 5gb free, share folders within folders, share read-only folders, native email-to-folder, etc. However, there is no free way to sync folders on your computer. That feature only comes with a premium business plan. This means no drag and drop – you have to upload and download files through the web interface or through the iOS app. It's a shame, but that makes Box too cumbersome for teachers to use consistently.
- WebDav – You can setup a WebDav file server on a Mac. Many apps (Pages, etc.) will allow you to connect to the file server to retrieve and save files. We looked into this briefly, but felt that navigating the server was too complicated on an iPad. There also seemed to be a lot of limitations on folder permissions, and it requires saving copies of files rather than syncing directly. Admittedly, our experience with WebDav on a Mac is limited. You might find that it works for what you need. iDisk also used WebDav, but I'm not sure what iDisk's status is now that iCloud is on the scene.
- iTunes Syncing – Using iTunes to regularly sync files is extremely cumbersome. Also, we wanted students' files to be edited in multiple classrooms and available to multiple teachers, which wouldn't have worked with iTunes.
- iCloud – iCloud is structured around a single user with multiple devices. Enabling file syncing in iCloud means that whatever is on one iPad is automatically pushed to all iPads that use that account. While there might be some classroom scenario where this could be useful, it doesn't facilitate our needs. All students would have edit access to other students' files, and there would be no way to organize files by student.
- Pages, CloudOn, Quickoffice, PaperPort Notes, Type on PDF, etc. – All the other apps we tried that connect to DropBox do not actually sync. You can retrieve a copy of a file, edit it, and re-upload another copy (or replace). The problem with this, besides being complicated for students, is that it we now have two or three copies of the same file. This creates all sorts of opportunities for lost work and excuses. CloudOn does do a full sync with DropBox, but when we used it with a full classroom it often lost connection to its servers. It might work fine in the morning and then be useless in the afternoon, which lead us to believe that this was an issue with CloudOn's servers and not our bandwidth.
- SchoolELockers.com & ePals.com – These two companies offer file management for schools. SchoolELockers is brand new and has a iPad app already. ePals is more established and offers a wide range of services, but does not have full functionality with iPads yet. They're worth a look, but not ready for primetime yet.
Dropbox + PDF Expert + Office2HD
This combo meets all the points we were looking for. It's a little weak on point 3, but not too bad.
Quick Setup Overview:
All students and teachers have a free Dropbox account. Each student has a folder for reading, math, etc. that is shared with their teachers. Only the student and their teachers have access to that their folder and documents. PDF Expert and Office2HD are setup to sync to each student's folder. There is also a Class-wide folder that is shared with all students in a class and their teachers.
Overview of Usage Scenarios:
- Students open Office2HD, navigate to their reading folder, create a new Word document, type a response to a prompt, and close the document. From their computer, the teacher looks in each student's folder to view, grade, and type feedback to students' responses. Students open documents in Office2HD to read feedback. No need for sending files back and forth. Students are prompted to push save when they close the document, which syncs the files to the teacher automatically.
- The teacher copies a pdf file from the textbook resources cd and pastes it into each student's science folder. Students open PDF Expert, navigate to their science folder, and open the pdf. They highlight text, draw a diagram by hand, and type short answers on the pdf. When they are done they close the document and hit the sync button. The teacher now has automatic access to all the edited pdfs.
- The teacher records a mini-lesson video on their iPad and uploads it to the class-wide folder using the Dropbox app. Students open Dropbox, navigate to the class-wide folder, and stream the mini-lesson video on their iPads.
- Dropbox is a file hosting service that allows you to access documents from multiple computers and devices. It is free in the iTunes App Store.
- Office2HD is an editing suite that allows you to create and modify Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on an iPad. It is $7.99 in the iTunes App Store, or $3.99 through the Volume Purchasing store. Doc2HD is a version of the app that only edits Doc files. It's cheaper - $5.99/$2.99 – so if you don't need to work with Excel or PowerPoint it may be worth checking out.
- PDF Expert is a pdf annotator which allows you to type, write, highlight and draw on pdf files. It is $9.99 in the iTunes App Store, or $4.99 through the Volume Purchasing store. GoodReader is another PDF annotator that fully syncs with DropBox. Its features are comparable to PDFExpert, and it is less expensive - $4.99/$2.49. We just liked the feel of PDF Expert better, but you may want to look into GoodReader.
Warning: The initial setup is not difficult, but will take some time. It took me about 7 hours to set up all of our 3rd-8th graders, but it's been worth it. If you're just setting up a classroom or two, you'll get it done in less time.
- Create a Dropbox account for every student with an iPad. Actually this didn't take much time. Go to www.dropbox.com/register. Creating an account is quick – name, email address, password, check 'Agree' and submit. There's no email confirmation. I already had a spreadsheet with students' name, email address and password, so creating accounts was just a matter of copying and pasting. If you plan ahead, you can use referral pages when you register to get free extra storage for certain accounts. Educational email addresses get 500mb per referral, up to a max of 16gb (from the original free 2gb account). So you may want to refer from a few different accounts, especially if you're registering more than 32 students.
- Create student folders in a Dropbox account that you will use as the admin account. I used my account as the 'admin' account. This account will house all student folders and files. I copied my 6th graders' names from my spreadsheet and pasted them into a txt document. Then I used a free Windows tool named NewFolderWizard.exe to quickly create a new folder for each student (there are Mac utilities that can do the same thing). Next I made five folders – Math, Music, Reading, Science, and Technology. I copied all five folders and pasted them consecutively into each student's folder. Lastly, I dropped all the student folders into a folder named 6th Grade and dropped that folder into my Dropbox folder on my computer. I now have a uniquely named folder, with five sub-folders, for each 6th grade student. Repeat these steps for the rest of your grades and you're good to go.
- Share each student folder with the student and their teachers. Login to your Dropbox account. Let's say you're starting with 6th grade. Go into the 6th grade folder and right click on the first student. Choose 'Invite to Folder.' You want to paste the email address for the student and also for any teachers that should have access to that folder. Again, if you're using a spreadsheet of students this won't be too cumbersome. I had 4 teachers that I wanted to have access to the middle school students' folders. So I copied and paste the student's email first and then copied and pasted the 4 teacher email addresses from a separate txt file. Then send the invite. You'll need to do this with each student. If you want a whole-class shared folder for 6th grade, share that with all students and teachers as well. This will make sharing things that students aren't editing easier, like videos, because you can just drop it in one location for all students. Now, each of the invites needs to be approves. That means each student and teacher needs to log in to the Dropbox webpage and accept the shared folders. For primary students I actually logged in as each student myself to accept the shared folders.
- Install Dropbox, Office2HD, and PDF Expert on student iPads.
- Once the apps are installed, we need to set them up to sync to Dropbox. We had 5th-8th graders do this themselves, and I completed these steps for 2nd-4th graders. Start by logging in to the Dropbox app.
- Next is PDF Expert. Open and go to the Network tab on the left. Tap the Add button at the top and choose Dropbox. Choose "Launch Dropbox app to authorize" so you don't have to log in again. Tap "Allow." Now, under "Favorite Servers" tap the Dropbox account. In the upper right-hand corner tap "Sync" and choose "Sync This Folder." PDF Expert will sync your Dropbox files. When it finishes, go back to "Documents" in the upper left. Always have students open files from the Documents tab. If they accidently open files from the Network tab it will create a second copy.
- Lastly, open Office2HD. I find it easier to navigate when the iPad is in landscape. When you open Office2HD it puts you into the Local Files folder. Push Back to get to the main folder. Tap Edit in the upper right, and then Add Service. Choose Dropbox, and enter your Dropbox email address and password. Tap Save, and then Done. Students can now navigate through their Dropbox folder and open, edit and save their files. We tell students that they should never have anything in their "Local Files" folder. If they do, they've made a mistake at some point and that file will not be available to their teacher. All documents should stay within the Dropbox folder to make sure the teacher has access and that there is only one version of the file.
- Share files with students. On your teacher computer you can copy and paste files into each student's folder. Do this if you want students to work from a Word doc that you've already formatted or annotate a PDF file. After doing this a few times, I can copy a file or folder and paste it into 25 students' folders in under a minute. If you want to share a document or video with students quickly, copy it once to the 2nd folder that you shared with all students. This gives everyone access to the same folder – no need to paste it 25 times. Do this only with files that students will not be editing, and remember that students can delete those files too, so keep a backup.
- Have students create or edit documents. If students are creating a document from within Office2HD or PDF Expert, make sure they navigate to the correct folder before they create it, and be sure to provide naming conventions for their files so that everyone can keep track of their files. If students are editing a document that already exists, they can just navigate to the correct folder and open it. Remember, we're not using DropBox to get to these files, we navigate our folders from within Office2HD or PDF Expert. When finished, students push "Close" and then "Save" in Office2HD. In PDF Expert they will close the document and press "Update" in the lower left corner and then choose "Push Changes" to sync their work. Occasionally you may need to have students push Sync when they open PDF Expert in order to access recently added files.
- Student and teachers can also upload photos and videos from their iPads to DropBox. This is particularly useful when students take a quick screencap of their work. Teachers and students can also create and share quick videos this way. To upload, go to the DropBox app and tap Uploads in the bottom menu. Tap the + in the upper right corner and choose the photos or videos you want to upload. Lastly, tap the bottom at the bottom to choose which folder to upload to, and then tap Upload in the upper right corner.
- You now have a reliable and easy to use infrastructure for students and teachers to create, edit, and share Word docs, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, videos, and images.
- Unfortunately DropBox counts shared folders against your overall account size. So, as a free 2gb user, when I connect a shared folder for each student, even though they each have their own account too, whatever files that are in their account also count towards my 2gb limit. We think 2gbs is fine for students, but teachers need additional space. We achieved this by using referral codes when creating student accounts. 28 students for each teacher gave us a total of 16gbs of space for teachers.
- Office2HD has been stable for us when we're just having students create and edit documents. When students have started moving files from folder to folder or deleting files we occasionally ran into errors in Office2HD. I showed students how to kill the app from the background, and that has always resolved any issues. One teacher had a Word document that was shutting down Office2HD when students opened it. I removed some formatting and it worked fine after that.
- PDF Expert is stable and works well. The Network tab can be confusing at first because it also shows students' folders and files. We had to reiterate a couple times to only access files from the Documents tab.
- Teachers had to practice copying and pasting files into each student folder. Once they did it became quicker, and they saw the value created by this method.
- It would be really nice to have read-only folders that could be shared with a whole class. But it's not a deal-breaker.
- The Dropbox app doesn't display PDF annotations, so in order to view students' edits to PDFs the teacher must open them in PDF Expert on the iPad or view them on a computer.
- Time investment for setup. It would be nice if there was a way to accomplish this functionality without having to go through all the steps listed above. If anyone finds one, please let me know. For now, this has been worth the time for us. Since setting up these tools, teachers and students are using iPads with more confidence and success.


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