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And I also say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.Matthew 16:18
The heart of a child needs to be cultivated. For the wounded child, the fatherless, abandoned, there is a basic instinct of trust that must be earned. Even kids from intact families struggle to understand their place. KOZ gives the mentor a regular opportunity to speak into the lives of the KOZ kids. Once it has been given to the adult, that is when the fruit begins to come. That is when mentoring works.
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.Proverbs 22:6
The average kid today spends 40 minutes a week outside and 70 hours a week looking at an electronic screen. Urban lifestyles, electronics and a lack of mentors in outdoor skills and adventure has created an unhealthy gap between the kids today and the outdoors.
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Splunk + Nagios = quick data center troubleshooting
A lack of prescience in Splunk's spunky search-based troubleshooting tool limited its usage to after-the-fact diagnosis. Adding Nagios, the mighty open source monitoring tool, puts Splunkers one step ahead in the data center troubleshooting race, according to Michael Baum, chief executive Splunker
San Francisco-based Splunk recently announced its partnership with Nagios Project, the development team behind the popular systems management host and service monitor, and Nagios creator Ethan Galstad. Just prior to the announcement, Baum and Patrick McGovern, Splunk's chief community Splunker, spoke with TechTarget about Splunk, Nagios and why data center management and troubleshooting is so difficult.
"Splunk," of course, is a play on spelunking, where you are dropping into a cave with your light on and looking around. Splunking is where you drop into your IT data center and look around.
There are a lot of tools that give you fancy dashboards of services. But, generally, tools available now to diagnose the problems in today's complex data centers have become very brutal and try to take the intelligence away from the system administrator.
Splunk allows the system administrator to surf their IT data just like they surf the Web. So, if one has an issue and thinks there may be a problem with system number 123, one can start there; do queries and different types of complex searches to be able to find out. Then, you are able to graphically search down into the different tiers and be able to find out more about the problem.
Splunk is not a magic potion that just fixes your system. It allows people to fix their systems faster. Why is IT troubleshooting so challenging?
The underlying root problem is too much complexity.
In a presentation that I give to Linux users groups, I have a slide that says: 'In the beginning, there was the mainframe, and it was good.' I show a picture of a giant computer with an on-off switch. Then I show a picture of a rack of servers and a data center with racks and racks of servers.
Now, think of this: Companies have dozens to thousands of servers stacked up in racks. Just one of those servers could be processing data that comes in from a thousand different sources. Think about a mail server and the tremendous amount of services that are going to create all of these different log entries. Now, that is just one machine. In a data center, the amount of log information that you need to sift through to resolve situations becomes very unmanageable very quickly.
Then, you have all these different systems that have to communicate together. There are a lot of different services to sort through. You have to see inside the different operating systems that are running simultaneously, each with their own format. You have people yanking out machines in the data center and putting new ones in and updating old ones. You're doing backup exactly at the same time a query is happening. Of course, all of these things are generating log information. It is a very complex situation.
So, if you ask a sys admin how he troubleshoots today, he'll say: 'Well, I have 200 machines, and I think that machine number 17 has a problem. So, I will look around; go through log files where I'm trying to diagnose what is going on. Oftentimes, it is not that machine -- it is one or two machines nearby that are causing that machine to fail. But I've had to spend a lot of time troubleshooting the machine that is having the problem, not the ones that are causing trouble.
Splunk sees all that unstructured data that is time-based and takes in that data at real time, whether there are systems being added or systems being yanked out. Splunk indexes all of the different data from all of the different tiers and services. From the response to our articles about Nagios, I've learned it's well-respected by sys admins. What does Nagios bring to Splunk's product?
If Nagios notices that something is wrong, then the sys admin can click a button, search their IT data, determine whether the problem resides in a log file or somewhere else, and see very quickly what is going on.
Nagios does have a great installed base; Nagios users can use Splunk to troubleshoot the tons of log files that they have to deal with on a regular basis. Nagios shows the flashing red light, and Splunk provides the troubleshooting tools that take them to cause of that flashing light, so to speak. It is going to be a tremendous win for both sides. Beyond Nagios, are there other open source tools that may be added to Splunk's troubleshooting tools?
When I ran Sourceforge.net for five years, I watched it go from 500 to over 100,000 open source projects. I saw firsthand the software that gets generated when a lot of passionate people get together and want to solve a problem. So, there is a lot of fantastic software out there, such as Nagios. There are a lot of possibilities. Our ability to work closely in an open source community is a big win. As a commercial vendor, how does Splunk draw the line between its free, open source products and commercial products?
We have two products out today. One is the Splunk Server that server is freely downloadable off our Web site. Anyone who wants to troubleshoot their data center can use it. The free product is a very simple inside, and in five minutes you can Splunk your data.
Splunk Professional has all of the things that the free product has, but it also has enterprise-class support, as well as functionality and features, such as the ability to search data from a number of different places and have multiple indexes of information. It also has live Splunk, where you can do searches on a regular basis be paged if something happens.
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2004 Track & Field Recap Lauren earned All-Conference honors with a third place finish in the 1,500m at the Big West Championship...set personal bests of 2:11.19 for 800m and 4:27.21 for 1,500m, ranking 5th All-time at UCSB in both events...qualified for West Regional Championship in the 1,500m.
2003 XC Recap: Lauren was the Gaucho's top finisher at the NCAA National Championship, taking 83rd place...earned All-West Region and All-Conference honors, placing 24th at the West Region championship in Portland and 2nd at the Big West Championship in San Luis Obispo. Lauren opened the season with a second place finish at the UCSB Lagoon Open in 18:03, and was also the top UCSB finisher at the Notre Dame Inv. and the Pre-National Meet.
2003 Track Recap: Lauren cracked the Gaucho All-time top ten lists at 400m and 800m as a freshman...won the Big West Challenge Cup 800m and finished sixth at the Big West Championship 1500m.
2002 XC Recap: Lauren finished 16th at the Big West Championships, a key contribution to the team's runner-up finish ... a consistent top five runner all season long Lauren posted a 5k XC best of 18:32 at the Fullerton Season Opener.
High School Notes: Showed great range in HS, winning league titles at 400m and 1600m...was a CA State meet finalist at 1600m in 2001. Played soccer for Harbor HS championship team, along with twin sister Lindsay who is also a Gaucho.
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In a large pan, add oil and turn burner to high. Add your goose meat, garlic, ginger, salt and shallot together and stir til the meat is cooked around. Turn burner to medium and add Curry paste and mixed vegetables. After 2 minutes, add coconut milk and let simmer for 15 minutes. Add your cilantro and green onions at last minute and then squeeze lime wedges to taste. Serve over steamed jasmine rice or brown rice.


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Some shotguns permit you to "float" a shell on top of the carrier, while one is in the chamber, and your magazine is full. In this way you can get the maximum capacity out of your shotgun. In this video the shotgun I'm demonstrating to "ghost load" is a M4 Benelli, with the full length magazine tube I put on it, I have a nine round capacity with carrier loading.
Carrier loading is included in the USMC's operation manual for the M1014 (the Marine version of the M4).
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Special to the NNPA from the Howard University News Service
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A woman pokes and pinches her face in front of a mirror, wondering if a smaller nose and thinner lips will boost her confidence. A patient stands in a gown as her doctor draws surgical lines on her body, and a man blushes, teary-eyed as his family sees him for the first time after his face-lift.
These scenes from reality TV shows like ABC's "Extreme Makeover" and E! channel's "Dr. 90210" mark a period of candor towards cosmetic surgery in the media. Some may even say they are, in part, responsible for the public's change in attitude towards cosmetic procedures Even among African-Americans and other racial minorities, this once taboo procedure is gaining acceptance.
The changing face of cosmetic patients is largely attributed to improving socioeconomic status among minority communities, images of cosmetic surgery in the media, and the open admission of celebrities who have undergone plastic surgery. Hollywood stars Queen Latifah, Tina Turner, Toni Braxton and Patti LaBelle are among the few African-American celebrities who have actually admitted that they have had some work done. Now the trend is transitioning into the general populous.
More than 900,000 African-Americans underwent plastic surgery in 2008, a 145 percent increase since 2000, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Numbers for other minority groups are also on the raise.
"These makeover shows have made cosmetic surgery more acceptable," said Dr. Michelle Hardaway, an African-American plastic surgeon in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Procedures she feels many people once regarded as only for the rich and famous, are now much less so.
TV programs have made it more normal, she said.
Dr. Stephen Baker, plastic surgeon and associate professor at Georgetown University Hospital, says the number of people with disposable incomes has helped contribute to the popularity of plastic surgery for patients. TV programming, Baker said, is also a factor.
"I think TV has somewhat demystified it," Baker said. "The stigma is gone, so maybe they feel a little less guilty about doing it themselves."
In his own practice, Baker has observed plastic surgery become more socially acceptable among minority communities. Over the years, he said, the number of African-Americans he has treated has grown to almost a sixth of his patient base.
While plastic surgery patients are predominantly Caucasian, the number of cosmetic patients among Hispanic, African-American and Asian communities has experienced rapid growth spurts in recent years. Combined, the number of minority patients opting for plastic surgery jumped 64 percent between 2004 and 2005, and another 33 percent between 2007 and 2008, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons reports.
In 2008, African-Americans made up 8 percent of patients in the cosmetic surgery industry, an industry that pulled in over $10 billion that year.
"I think it speaks to our culture being more mainstream," Dr. Shane Perrault, an African-American psychologist in Silver Springs, Md., said of the blurring of racial and social lines in today's American culture. "There was a time when we didn't do things because it felt like we were selling out. That mentality is gone and now we have a more glamorized, mainstream focus."
For Perrault, the growing number of African-Americans undergoing plastic surgery indicates a trickling down effect of values – those that start in pop culture, and overtime become accepted by society.
The stigma towards plastic surgery may be going in the direction of the stigma that used to be reserved for hair extensions, Perrault suggested.
"Those are so mainstream you don't even think about it anymore," he said.
According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, liposuction, nose reshaping and breast reduction are the most commonly requested surgical procedures among African-American cosmetic patients. Botox, injectable fillers and chemical peels are the most popular minimally invasive procedures.
While Hardaway agrees African-Americans are opening up to the idea of plastic surgery, she still notices a lingering hesitation among the community when it comes to rhinoplasty, also known as nose-reshaping.
"Sometimes I'll see patients where their family tells them not to have it," she said. "Or sometimes they won't even tell the family because of the stigma."
One patient came in for a consultation for rhinoplasty, but didn't go through with the procedure until years later, Hardaway said.
Both Hardaway and Baker have observed an increase in their African-American clientele, and both emphasize that the growth includes men, as well.
Hardway identified liposuction, eyelid procedures, and fillers as some of the most popular requests among her African-American male patients.
The doctors also agree on another point: the increase in plastic surgeries among African-Americans does not reflect a changing self-identity. Their patients, they say, aren't trying to significantly change their appearance; they're just looking for an improvement.
Baker likens it to trying to get the upper hand against the natural thinning and sagging of skin over time.
"The clock and gravity don't change," Baker said. "And I think that as people live longer they want to look as good as they feel."
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St. Daniel Monastery is the first one in Moscow,
founded by saint Prince Daniel of Moscow. He was the youngest son
of famous in the history of State and Church saint Prince Alexander
Nevsky and his wife - the righteous princess Vassa. St. Daniel was
born in 1261 in Vladimir-on-Klyazma, the capital of the Great Vladimir
principality. His father died when he was only two years young.
In 1272 he inherited the Moscow principality, which was rather poor
in comparison with other ones, where his elder brothers ruled. During
the severe tatar-mongol yoke and internecine wars peaceloving, piteous
and kind-hearted Daniil (as chronicles write) created peace without
bloodshed. During 30 years of ruling St. Daniel participated in
battles only once. Constantine, the prince of Ryazan, decided to
capture the Moscow lands with the help of Tatar-mongol force. Prince
Daniel defeated it near Pereyaslavl but he didn't capture the Ryazan
principality, as it was accepted. He took Konstantin a prisoner
and showed hospitality to him before armistice was concluded. Because
of his remarkable meekness, humbleness and peacefulness Daniel was
very popular and respected by the Russian people. In 1296 he was
given power and a title of the Great Prince of the whole Russia.
Little later his principality included vast Pereyslavl-zalessky
lands. Prince Daniel ruled 30 years, during those the Moscow principality
became one of the important and powerful ones in Russia. He marked
the beginning of the unity of the Russian land around the future
capital and became the first Moscow Great Prince of the whole Russia.
Prince Daniel took great care of both the population and the city
of Moscow. On the right bank of the Moskva-river, at a distance
of 5 miles from the Kremlin not later than in 1282 he founded the
first monastery with the wooden church of St. Daniel-Stylite. Now
it is St. Daniel monastery. At the age of 42 on the 17-th (4-th
in old style) of March in 1303 St. Daniel died. Before his death
he became a monk and, according to his will, was buried in the cemetery
of St. Daniel monastery. St. Daniel monastery took part in many
historical events during 700 years of its existence.
In 1330 the brethren of the monastery was
moved to the Kremlin, where was founded a new monastery in the name
of the Saviour (near the church of Saviour - on the Bor.The word
Bor means a pine forest.).
In 1490, under the ruling of Joann III, the
Saviour monastery was moved to the Krutitskiy hill on the bank of
the Moskva-river and received another name - The New Savioure monastery.
So the St. Daniel monastery marked the beginning of one of the most
important monasteries in Moscow. As for the St. Daniel monastery,
it was in a state of neglect during 250 years.
Only a small parish church and cemetery were
on the place of the monastery. But St. Daniel didn't forget his
cloister. On his grave there were miracles and cases of healing
people. Under the ruling of the tzar Joann the Terrible, the monastic
life in the monastery was revived and the first stone Church of
Holy Fathers of Seven Ecumenical Councils was built. In the 17-th
century the holy miracle-working remains of St. Prince Daniel were
founded and he was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church and
became one of the most popular Russian saints. The 17-th of March
and the 12-th of September (according to the old style: the 4-th
of March and the 30-th of August) are considered to be the dates
of memory of St. Prince Daniel.
The St. Daniel monastery played important
role in the defense of the south bounders of Moscow:
In 1591 the tatar-mongols at the head of the
Crimean khan Kazi-Girey were defeated near the walls of the monastery.
In 1606 the troops of the tzar Basil Shyiskiy
defeated the rebels of Bolotnikov.
In 1610 the monastery was burnt by False Dimitriy
II. Bat soon it was revived and surrounded by the brick wall with
7 towers.
In 1812 the French solders stole St. Daniel's
silver tabernacle, desecrated and robbed the churches.
The monastery could have been destroyed many
times but every time it was revived with the help and protection
of its Saint founder. Many prominent people of the Russian culture
were buried in the cemetery of St. Daniel monastery; among them
- great Russian writer N.V.Gogol,a poet N.M.Yazikov, a painter V.G.Perov,
a musician N.G.Rubinstein and many others.
After the revolution the bolsheviks began
to close the churches, and in 1930 the St. Daniel monastery was
closed - the last one in Moscow. Most of the brothers were shot
in 1937. The holy remains of St. Daniel were lost. After the monastery
was closed the churches were reconstructed, the graves of prominent
people were moved to other cemeteries, and Necropol of St.Daniel
monastery was destroyed. There were different stores and a colony
for children on the territory of the monastery.
In 1983 the St. Daniel monastery was the
first one which was given back to the Russian Orthodox Church.
By 1988 - the year of millennium of Baptism
in Russia - the St. Daniel monastery has been reconstructed, and
now it is considered to be the spiritual center of the Russian Orthodox
Church. There is the official residence of His Holiness Patriarch
of Moscow and all Russia Alexiy II.
Now the monastery looks like it was created
in XVII-XIX centuries. The oldest cathedral - The Cathedral of Holy
Fathers of Seven Ecumenical Councils - includes several churches.
After the period of restoration there is iconostasis of the Kostroma
school, which dates back to the XVII-th century. On the ground floor
there is the Church, named after the Protecting Veil of Mother of
God. The St. Trinity cathedral is the largest one in the monastery.
It was built in 1838 by the architect O.Bove in the style of late
classicism. The main altar was sanctified by saint metropolitan
of Moscow Filaret (Drosdov). After the restoration the interior
looks like the original one. There are two miracle-working icons
there: "Three - handed Mother of God" and the icon of the Rightean
John of Rome. The St. Trinity Cathedral is used for sunday and festive
There are other new-built and reconstructed
churches in the monastery: the Church of Simeon Stylite over the
gates (1732); the Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist; the
Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov; The Chapel over the St. Well and
the Funeral Chapel.
On the 4-th of September in 1997, on the eve
of 850-th commemoration of Moscow, the monument to St. Prince Daniel
of Moscow was erected and sanctified on Tylskaya Square. On the
17-th of March in 1998 the Chapel of St. Prince Daniel of Moscow
was sanctified on Tylskaya Square. It was recreated according to
the architectural design near the place where the original has stood
for 300 years until it was destroyed after the Revolution. The main
Holy Thing of the monastery is the remains of St. Daniel of Moscow,
while are in the tabernacles both in St. Trinity Cathedral and in
the Cathedral of Holy Fathers of 7 Ecumenical Councils. The first
part of the holy remains of St. Daniel was given to the monastery
by Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of America Feodosiy in
The monastery is subordinate directly to His
Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexiy II. Father Superior
(Archimandrite Alexiy) rules every-day life of the monastery. Services
take place every day. The brethren of the monastery take part in
charity and mercy in hospitals, schools, children houses and prisons.
They are also teachers in seminaries, academies and secular educational
establishments. There are different workshops, Sunday schools, lectures
on spiritual education for adults, monastic publishing house, piligrim
service in the monastery. There are two subsidiary holdings: in
Moscow and in Ryazan regions.
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Eben Freeman, bartender of Tailor Restaurant in New York City, developed this adaptation of a classic Cuban cocktail. As a sweetener, Freeman trades the traditional sugar syrup for superfine sugar, which gives the drink a slightly grainy texture.
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- 2 tablespoons (1 ounce) fresh lime juice
- 2 heaping teaspoons superfine sugar
- 1 cup crushed ice
- 12 fresh mint leaves, plus 5 small sprigs for garnish
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- In 10-ounce glass (such as Collins or highball), stir together lime juice and sugar until sugar dissolves. Add 1/4 cup crushed ice. Rub mint leaves over rim of glass, then tear leaves in half and add to glass. Gently stir for 15 seconds, then add rum, remaining crushed ice, and club soda. Gently stir for 5 seconds, then tuck mint sprigs into top of glass and insert tall straw.
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5IVE-T Product Bulletin
It has come to our attention that a small quantity of the 5IVE-T trucks were assembled with a shorter than correct length screw to attach the front gear box/skid plate. Before operating your 5IVE-T please remove and check the two front most 6mm flathead screws from the bottom of the chassis and confirm they are ¾"/20mm long. If they are not please call Losi Service @ (909) 390-9595 Ext. 300 and you will be sent the longer screws. Under no circumstances should you operate the 5IVE-T with the shorter screws. We apologize for this error and thank you for your help correcting it.
Bigger. Faster. Stronger. The 1/5-scale Losi® 5IVE-T® 4WD Off-Road Racing Truck is the closest thing to a full-size vehicle in realism, performance and experience. It features a 4WD drivetrain based on the racing- and award- winning 8IGHT™ buggy platfrom, Spektrum™ telemetry receiver, installed sensors, and 1/4-scale servos. And since it's a Bind-N-Drive™ vehicle, you complete it with the DSM® transmitter of your choice. There's really nothing like driving an RC truck as big as this. Come take it for a spin in all its 4WD glory.
These large-bore threaded, aluminum shocks feature oversized 7mm shock shafts designed to stand up to the punishment of 1/5-scale action. The threaded adjusters allow for fine-tuning of the ride you are looking to achieve. The extra high volume of fluid is essential in controlling the suspension movement over the roughest terrain.
This is no ordinary chassis. It is based on the award-winning, race-proven 8IGHT™ platform. It has been designed to produce the best performance possible. The chassis plate is constructed of 5mm aircraft-grade aluminum and has been machined to save weight and add strength to provide extreme durability.
To ensure a long engine life and proper care, the air and fuel systems are served by a two-stage filtering system. The air must pass through two different foam filters designed to block as much dust and debris as possible while still maintaining proper flow. The fuel system features a secondary filter that serves multiple purposes. One, to keep the fuel pickup in the gas mix no matter the orientation of the vehicle and as a filter to block larger debris, and a secondary bullet style filter to catch anything else.
The engine comes preinstalled with a high-volume muffler and features an electronic ignition, easy adjust carburetor with a built-in choke and fuel primer. An added bonus is the machined oval inserts that match the chassis cutouts precisely to locate the engine for proper gear mesh.
The finned aluminum clutch mount adds strength and durability and provides unmatched heat dissipation for increased longevity of the 8,000 rpm clutch. Since it is enclosed, it prevents dirt and debris from entering and fouling the parts. The oversized bearings handle greater loads and are more reliable.
The throttle servo performs more than just throttle duties, as it is also the main source for braking power. This heavy-duty, large-scale servo has the power to bring the 5IVE-T to a stop, thanks to the functionality of the bias adjustable dual-disk brakes. No 1/10-scale throttle servos here.
The core of the electronics system is the SR3300T receiver that is powered by Spektrum 2.4GHz DSM technology and has telemetry built in. The 5IVE-T comes prewired with sensors for engine temperature, speed and receiver battery voltage. Just add a surface DSM transmitter like the Spektrum DX3S, and all of this information will be transmitted back to the driver for real-time vitals of the 5IVE-T.
These monster wheels are true beadlock wheels with rings on both the inner and outer bead of the tire. With the amount of power the 5IVE-T produces and the sheer size of these tires, these wheels will provide a stable platform for the all-terrain tires. Many popular 1/5-scale tires will mount right on these beadlock wheels.
The 5IVE-T uses nothing but precision-cut or -formed, heat-treated steel gears throughout the drivetrain. No plastic gears. These are the strongest and most durable type of gears available and would be expensive option items on other models.
The realistic cage provides added durability to the assembly, absorbing impacts as well as providing a solid base for the modular body. The unique design allows the body and cage to be removed with only four screws and four body clips in seconds.
The individual four-piece body panels can be replaced in the event that they become damaged, so an entire body does not need to be purchased to get the vehicle back to the factory look. Clear panels and stickers are sold separately to create your own look or retain the factory schemes.
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Less than 20 miles from the Yellowstone National Park boundary, Big Sky has more skiable acres than any other ski area in the U.S. During the spring and summer, Big Sky transforms into an outdoor recreation haven brimming with trout streams and lakes for superb fishing, canoeing, and kayaking.
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We've been saying that 2013 will be the year TV Everywhere really takes off and Adobe is right in the center of this industry transformation with customer and technology partners worldwide. Delivering true broadcast television (live, linear and on demand) across screens at scale, personalizing those viewing experiences, and driving greater revenue for TV programmers and operators are some of the key challenges the industry is facing.
Help us bring the TV Everywhere discussion to South-By-Southwest (SXSW) 2014 in Austin, Texas next March! Jeremy Helfand, our VP of Video Solutions, will be leading an interactive session to discuss the future of TV and the impact of TV Everywhere on the industry. Here's how to vote:
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Haters Beware: TV is Everywhere
Here's a bold prediction: By 2018, Internet TV consumption by consumers will match that of TV broadcasts and pay TV networks. Welcome to the world of TV Everywhere. Given the deluge of mobile devices and increasing adoption, consumers expect any screen anywhere to act as a TV screen. TV is no longer the device; it's the content. Fortunately, as TV Everywhere evolves, new technologies and features are set to deliver:
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When you were a child and went out to play, what did you do? Most of us were bouncing balls, jumping rope, and racing through the neighborhood playing tag. When the street lights came on you'd beg Mom for five more minutes, just five more minutes! As an adult when you go out to exercise, what do you do? Many people find the most boring thing on the planet, an exercise machine in a windowless room, and plod through their workout muttering, "five more minutes, it's only five more minutes."
Nowadays we pay big money for someone to yell at us while we bounce balls, jump rope and race around. We call it boot camp. Why do we no longer equate exercise with play? According to the American Council on Exercise, the primary reasons adults give for not exercising regularly are boredom, lack of results, injuries, and lack of time (ACE, Fitness matters, Volume 13, Mar/Apr 2007, p.14). Let's address each one and see if we can put the play back into your day.
I'm going to address these two together because I believe they are related. If the exercise you've chosen is boring to you and the only reason you are doing it is to lose weight or get "vanity" muscles, you probably won't stick with it. It might be okay for a while but, honestly, unless you're 23 you're probably not going to look like a Victoria Secret model or Arnold Schwarzenegger in his heyday just from exercising. Exercise is one component of a healthy lifestyle. It can't be isolated and expected to do miracles.
What if you tackled this a different way and started to explore activities that you might really like to do? For example, a friend of mine began playing tennis and she really looked forward to her exercise sessions. As she progressed in her sport she joined a league. Because of the competition, she became interested in improving her game. My friend did a little research and discovered that if she improved her aerobic capacity and her running skills it would give her an edge. So, she hit the trail with a training goal in mind and running was no longer boring. When she saw the great results running had on her game, she was inspired to go to the gym two days a week to improve her swing by strength training. One day she put on her tennis shorts and they fell off because she had lost so much weight. She played her way to her desired end and in the process discovered a new joy in life that will stay with her for years.
When you are just starting out on your fitness adventure, you may have difficulty finding the time for exercise. A wise person once said, "If you plan nothing, that's exactly what you get." If you are not in a routine and you think that you'll just exercise when you have time this week, it won't happen. This is a recipe for failure that leads to guilt, despair, self-doubt, etc. Don't do this to yourself. Get out a calendar every week and schedule your workouts thoughtfully, taking all your week's commitments into consideration. These are important appointments that you've made with yourself. Take them just as seriously as any other important appointment. Don't argue with yourself, don't let other people sidetrack you, just do it. If you aren't sure how, or you aren't able to begin an activity that really sounds like fun right away, let your motive for exercise be preparation for play. Start working on general conditioning. No exercise is fun if you are out of shape.
Note to parents, your kids will be healthier, happier kids if they have healthier, happier parents. Martyrs may be admirable but they are no fun to live with. Sacrificing everything for your children isn't good for either them or you. Don't use your kids as an excuse, instead be a fit role model.
People who are involved in sports occasionally get injured. There are things you can do to decrease the risk, but it does happen. I look at it this way: shin splints are better than heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, etc. The key is to play smart. Several rules of thumb for avoiding injuries are:
Stick with it and you'll find an activity that you truly enjoy. God made our bodies to move. We're happiest when we are fulfilling His plan for our lives in every realm including the physical.


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RE/MAX, its real estate brokers and its partners offer you Securi-T, an exclusive protection program in case of loss of employment. Go ahead with your transaction without worrying about losing your job, which would place your mortgage payments at risk!
The Securi-T program covers both the principal and the interest of your mortgage payments, in the event of the loss of your main employment during the year following the real estate purchase.
Your mortgage payments will be covered up to a maximum of six thousand dollars ($6,000) per month and up to a limit of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) per insurance term, including property taxes.
You will also be compensated for any interest due on your Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC), if you have one.
The Securi-T program covers both the principal and the interest of your mortgage payments, in the event of the loss of your main employment during the year following the real estate purchase.
As a client purchasing a property with a RE/MAX Québec broker, you qualify for the Securi-T program, subject to the following conditions:
- You have had regular employment of thirty (30) or more hours of work a week with the same employer, or in the same field, for at least the past twelve (12) consecutive months.
- You are taking out a mortgage with a mortgage representative—at one of the three following financial institutions—and assigned to your real estate broker's agency: Desjardins mortgage financing services, Bank of Montreal, National Bank of Canada.
- You are 65 years old or under.
- You are not a legal entity, a corporation, a trust, an estate, a real estate developer or an incorporated business.
Does my new property qualify for the Securi-T program?
Your new property qualifies for the program if it is located in Québec and if it is:
- A main single-family dwelling or a condominium
- A plex with no more than (4) housing units (one (1) of which is occupied by the insured person)
- A second home that can be lived in all year long and is not used for business or commercial purposes
- A hobby farm
- A self-built home
Please note that a property that will be rented, a new construction, a lot or a piece of land, a mobile home or a property used for agricultural or other business purposes is not eligible for the Securi-T program.
Ineligible claims
The Securi-T program covers the majority of clients who deal with a RE/MAX broker and who take out a mortgage loan or a Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC) from one of RE/MAX's partner financial institutions.
Nevertheless, certain claims do not qualify, and in particular:
- The client has resigned from his/her main employment or was dismissed for just and sufficient cause;
- The client is not eligible for the Government of Canada's employment insurance benefits.
This coverage is offered to you, compliments of RE/MAX, its real estate brokers and its partners.
Changes may have been made to the coverage described on this website. You must refer to the certificate or to the terms (the wording) of your coverage in order to find out the conditions of this program. The contents of this site do not constitute a contract.
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The frequently asked questions regarding the Securi-T program:
1. I am self-employed. Am I eligible for the Securi-T program?
No. Self-employed individuals are not eligible for the Securi-T program.
2. I hold multiple jobs. If I were to lose one, would I be eligible for reimbursement under the Securi-T policy?
You will be eligible for reimbursement of your monthly mortgage installments only if you lose your main employment, which represents the employment providing the largest portion of your income.
3. My spouse and I purchased a residence together. If one of us loses our main employment, would the Securi-T policy provide reimbursement for our monthly mortgage installments?
Yes, you will be eligible for reimbursement of the amount of your monthly mortgage installments in the same proportion as that between the individual who lost employment and the total number of borrowers. For example, since you are two borrowers and only one person lost their main employment, Securi-T will reimburse half of the total amount of your monthly mortgage installments. In this example, the amount of reimbursement will be equal to fifty percent (50%) of the amount of the monthly mortgage installment.
4. I lost my main employment, but three (3) months later, I was able to find another job. However, my new salary is much lower than the previous one. Will I continue to receive reimbursement under the Securi-T program?
Yes, but only if your current salary represents less than seventy-five percent (75%) of the employment income you received before your loss of employment, as measured just before the time of your loss of employment.
5. I purchased a triplex and I occupy its largest unit. In the event I lose my main employment, how will the amount of reimbursement of my monthly mortgage installments be determined under the Securi-T policy?
You will be eligible to receive reimbursement for the amount of your monthly mortgage installments corresponding to the proportion of the living area of the unit you occupy. For example, you would be eligible for reimbursement amounting to 40% of the monthly mortgage installments if the living area that you occupy represents 1000 sq. ft. of the total 2500 sq. ft. living area.
6. What should I do in the event I lose my main employment?
Within sixty (60) days of your loss of employment, please contact the support centre by calling toll-free 1-833-736-2978, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. EST.
7. Who should I contact if I have any questions?
Contact GPL Assurance inc., the program insurance broker, by calling 1-833-551-9798. The team will gladly assist and answer all of your questions.


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Welcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we have reports from Business Insider, Playboy and Speedhunters.
Top Auto Execs Reveal The First Car They Ever Owned – Business Insider
Head of BMW North America Ludwig Willisch didn't start out with anything like a 2002. He had a VW Beetle. That could mean he's very qualified to work at Jalopnik.
"In my generation, the probability of driving a Beetle is very high, because at that time Beetle had about 50% market share," he explained. "Especially for poor students, it had close to 100% market share."
A Candid Conversation with Gawker's Nick Denton – Playboy
Full disclosure: I was not contractually obligated to put this in Must Read. Whatever you think of Gawker and Nick Denton, you need to read his interview, especially if you're fascinated with business, journalism and Steve Jobs.
PLAYBOY: Did it bother you, knowing that one of your heroes pretty much hated your guts?
DENTON: He does his job; we do our job. His perfect thing requires both excellence in engineering and user interface and absolute control of the marketing process so that when he goes onstage, his product is a surprise. And our purpose is at odds with his purpose. Our purpose is to get information out quickly according to our schedule, not according to his schedule. So there's a conflict. It doesn't mean we don't respect him. We did respect him.
#IAMTHESPEEDHUNTER: Meet Luke Huxham… – Speedhunters
Luke sounds like an interesting character, as car fascination came later in life.
My name's Luke Huxham, I'm 27 years old and currently living and working full-time as a freelance director/cinematographer under the name of Maiham Media in Japan. Born in New Zealand, I was like most kids – I enjoyed climbing trees, playing with ninja turtles and causing havoc. I can honestly say I was never into cars when I was young. I spent most of my days skateboarding with friends; cars were only needed to get from one skate location to the next.
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Five Minute Upgrade – Using CSS Borders for Emphasis
- Zach Dunn
- Jan 29, 2009
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I've noticed recently that many of the techniques used by top designers are actually quite simple. It's how these simple elements are pieced together that makes a design brilliant. Today we'll be looking at the first one of these highly effective, yet strikingly simple design methods with the use of CSS borders.
Color Scheme Inspiration – Birds
- Elyse Harrop
- Jan 28, 2009
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Having trouble finding a good color scheme? Color scheme inspirations will aim to fix that! Each post, we'll pick out a topic and build color schemes out of it to inspire.
In honor of winter migration, this round of color schemes come from our airborne friends.
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An Interview with Matthew Kammerer of UX Booth
- Zach Dunn
- Jan 26, 2009
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Since starting this blog just under two months ago, I've met a lot of truly interesting people in the web design niche. Still being a student myself, I particularly love finding others in my age group doing big things on the internet.
Matthew Kammerer of UX Booth is an excellent example of how age doesn't matter when it comes to success on the web. I had an opportunity this past week to ask him some questions about his background, projects, and future plans. The results are below in Build Internet's inaugural interview.
Changing Form Input Styles on Focus with jQuery
- Sam Dunn
- Jan 24, 2009
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A lot of forms can be boring and plain, don't let yours blend in. This tutorial will show you how to spice them up with CSS classes and default values that change according to which form item is selected. All with just a splash of jQuery.
New Blog – The Nonsense Society
For the couple months I've been working with artistic type Chris Collins to build an artistic centered community blog.
The resulting site has just officially launched, and we'd love to have you (and your work) on board.
The Real Problem With Design Contests
- Zach Dunn
- Jan 16, 2009
- 32 Comments
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Jacob Cass of Just Creative Design recently wrote an article entitled "How NOT to Design a Logo" on Web Designer's Depot. It received a lot of attention and eventually ended up on the front page of Digg.
The article acted as a catalyst for many design related frustrations. The comments strayed from the definitions of quality, to the apparent nerve of designers who don't do work worthy of their "thousand of dollars" price tags. Most of this debate fell around the ethics of design contests in particular.
Quick Tip – Accurate Web Colors in Photoshop
- Zach Dunn
- Jan 14, 2009
- 41 Comments
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Ever built a great website mock up in Photoshop only to slice it up and discover that the all the colors are off in the saved images? Even though the hex values are the same, the appearance is totally different.
Easy now! Don't curse out Photoshop just yet. It's a simple problem to fix if you know the right options to change.


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Home > Glossary > Musicology of Electroacoustic Music [MEM] > Discourse within Electroacoustic Music > Narrative > English definition
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Simultaneously with the widespread availability of digital tools in the early-mid 1980s, many signifying practices - visual arts, dance, electroacoustic music - which had for some time been characterised by self-reflexive 'abstract' work began to show a more explicit interest in various forms of narrative. From an acknowledgement that a work can explicitly document its own making it is a relatively small step to incorporating anecdotal, or programmatic-illustrative elements, and, encouraged by the sampler's propensity for quotation and cross-referencing between works, histories, cultures and genres, it is easy to see that narratives, particularly of the fractured or non-linear variety, may emerge as a fruitful speculative playground.
Clearly the references to narrative here function in music at levels beyond the programmatic-illustrative mode with which we are familiar from much nineteenth century composition. In order to clarify the different possible relations to narrative which might be invoked in the case of electroacoustic music it may be useful to establish a crude heuristic taxonomy of 'narratives' in order to avoid confusion:
Narrative 1 (involving literal, semantically significant text)
Narrative 2 (programmatic-illustrative)
Narrative 3 (documentary-anecdotal)
Narrative 4 (documentation of compositional process)
Narrative 5 (use of structural or semantic strategies from natural language, or which are more frequently associated with the linguistic realm)
(Source - Simon Waters "The musical process in the age of digital intervention"


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Our downtown, just a few blocks off US Highway 69/75, looks much like it did when the town was established on a buffalo trail long before statehood. Many of the buildings have survived great fires, tornadoes, and floods to charm and delight former residents and tourists from all over the world. The Indian Territory Museum will offer you a glimpse of Caddo's fascinating past- from murders and mayhem, to sacrifice and honor. Come for a visit and you'll want to stay forever!


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We have a long history in candle production and are looking to expand to new products and markets.
We are innovators. We do our own R&D, and we build our own candle making equipment, and candle mixtures. All of our products are high-quality.
We are riding the bio/eco trend with new products, produced from 100% natual beeswax.
We operate Business to Business, so we need an identity that is appealing to our business partners / customers and our investors / venture capital funds.
We would like a logo that is fresh, alive but stylish. simple but classy. Icon + Text.
Attached is our current logo. We like the icon of the candle within the flower. So the icon should be a stylized/classier version of that.
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The Power Of Suggestion
What are the odds?
On Tuesday morning I sat next to Bubba Bell on the PawSox flight out of Providence and reminded him that the last time the team played in Norfolk, he hit a huge home run – a 420-foot 10th inning blast that gave Pawtucket a 6-5 win.
"Do you realize that's the only Triple-A home run I've hit," Bubba responded. "That's ridiculous."
(photos courtesy of Kelly O'Connor)
Bell was apparently so annoyed that he did something about it; drilling a 3-run HR as the PawSox won the opening game of a 4-game series at Harbor Park 6-0.
The home run was his first in 312 at-bats dating back to last season, but I'm confident that it won't be his only one of the year. Bubba looks great at the plate – he has a 9-game hitting streak, going 12-for-33 (.364) with a HR and 7 RBI. Bell has a hit or walk in 16 straight games, going 19-for-56 (.339) with 6 walks for a .397 OBP.
And he's not Pawtucket's only hot hitter.
Aaron Bates has a 10-game hitting streak, going 13-for-37 (.351) with 2 2B, 2 HR, and 4 RBI. Has a hit, walk, or HBP in 34 of his 37 games this season for a .366 OBP.
Jorge Jimenez is batting .462 in his last 11 games (18-for-39) with 2 2B and 3 RBI.
While Pawtucket's hitting has been much-improved, good pitching has been the key to winning 8 of the last 10 games as the PawSox have posted a 1.70 ERA during that stretch (17 ER in 90 IP).
On Tuesday, Kris Johnson (6 IP), Scott Atchison (1 IP), and Dustin Richardson (2 IP) combined to toss an 8-hit shutout. At one point between the 7th and 9th innings, Atchison and Richardson struck out 8 consecutive batters.
We'll see if Michael Bowden can keep it rolling when he takes the ball on Wednesday night.
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PawSox manager Torey Lovullo played for seven teams during his 8-year MLB career and that gave him the opportunity to play with some of the game's all-time greats. I thought it would be fun to throw a few names at him and have Torey say the first thing that comes to mind about each of these former teammates.
Ken Griffey Jr. (Seattle 1994)
"A fun-loving guy who played the game like a little kid – like it was little league. He had so many things pulling at him during the course of the day between Nike commitments and interviews, but when it came time to play a baseball game, he played it like he was 12-years-old."
Don Mattingly (New York 1991)
"Don Mattingly once told me I made the worst throw across the diamond that he had ever seen. I threw one over his head in Milwaukee about 15 rows into the stands and I figured I would make a joke about it, so when we got in the dugout I asked him why he didn't even jump for it. He said, 'Are you kidding me? That's the worst throw anybody has ever thrown across the diamond at me.' It's a nice distinction to have."
Jack Morris (Detroit 1988-89)
"An intense competitor. He wasn't afraid to have confrontations with the other team's manager, or his own teammates because he wanted to win so badly."
Fred Lynn (Detroit 1988-89)
"One of the all-time most professional people that I've ever been around. He had a great perspective about who he was and what it took to go out there on a daily basis and be productive."
Mark McGwire (Oakland 1996)
"He hit the longest home runs I've ever seen hit. He hit one out of the old Tiger Stadium and then in the Metrodome he hit a ball that almost went into the second deck there. If you ever sat in that stadium, it is almost unbelievable how far that ball went."
Manny Ramirez (Cleveland 1998)
"Fun-loving and giggly. I made a mistake on defense one time and he said to me, 'You think that was bad? Have you ever seen me play defense!' "
Curt Schilling (Philadelphia 1999)
"A great teammate and a great professional. Even though he was intense and maybe looked like he was looking down on people, that's not my perception of Curt Schilling. He was always pulling for every teammate that he had."
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The PawSox will look to climb to .500 on Wednesday night as they face Norfolk at 7:15.
I hope you'll join us for radio coverage beginning with the pre-game show at 7:00 on the PawSox radio network and pawsox.com.
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Sticking point: Insurance backs off vaccinations
Even though customer service is such a difficult job, every business seems to be raising the bar to keep their customers happy and allow their business to thrive.
"This is Amy, your personal banking specialist who cares about you and will fight for every ATM transaction you do, even when your funds are as depleted as the national treasury. How may I be of service to you on this glorious day?"
In almost every business and every field, the customer's best interest is paramount.
What about healthcare? Healthcare is going downhill. Are Medicare and health insurance to blame?
Medicare is decreasing payments for medical services again– ignoring inflation. Maybe Medicare thinks inflation is something you do to balloons at a birthday party– or what Donald Trump does to his ego and hair everyday. Because Medicare is dropping reimbursements again, all the private health insurance companies are doing the same because they base their payments on Medicare rates. Is that the "Trickle Down Effect" because it keeps trickling doooooown?
Because of inflation, things like vaccinations cost more, but most insurances are paying less for vaccinations. So at this point, I can't give a simple tetanus shot to my patients. Before you get lock-jaw over this issue, don't' ask, "Why can't I just pay extra to cover the losses?"
Ha Ha Ha...a reasonable question and it seems like a basic right you should have. However, I just learned that the doctor cannot fiddle with reimbursement. Because the doctor is basically an employee of every health insurance company he or she contracts with, if insurance says no payment, there ain't no payment! So my advice to everyone out there is: Don't step on a nail.
In the winter, we bundle up. Insurance companies are bundling up too meaning they say, "Hmm, let's not pay for extra services and just say they're bundled in with the office visit." Have you noticed some doctors won't do a procedure on the day of your visit?
Let's say you feel a tumor in your neck and see the doctor about it. You're worried it's cancer, and you would like a diagnosis soon. The doctor might spend up to an hour with you to ask you questions, answer your questions, examine you, and figure out the plan. However, if he biopsies the tumor during that visit, the insurance will "bundle" the service of doing a biopsy with the office visit– i.e. not pay for the biopsy or not pay for the office visit. Insurance doesn't even pay for Lidocaine to numb the area for the biopsy, so bring a stiff drink with you and bite down on a bullet.
The story isn't over. Suppose, after the procedure, you see the same doctor for a different issue like a sinus infection. If you see the doctor within a certain time period, health insurance often won't pay the doctor for the second visit. That's like being a carpenter, and you don't get paid to renovate the bathroom if you're asked to do it too soon after renovating the kitchen.
"Ah, I know you just remodeled my kitchen, but I won't pay you for the new job on my bathroom, because hey– good enough for healthcare, good enough for me! Now remodel the bedroom PDQ because I have some guests coming for Christmas."
Once upon a time, patients would see their doctor, pay the bill, and get reimbursement from their health insurance companies. At least patients and doctors could figure out what was best for the patient then. Today, health insurance rules medical care– completely.
Getting paid by Medicare, Medicaid, and health insurance is as difficult as trying to figure out what figure skater Oksana Baiul is trying to say: "I skate for audience and I love myself and skate to be happy with me, no one else, except audience." I just hope she doesn't get cut on her skate's toepick and need a tetanus shot.


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Many children want to read books on digital devices and would read for fun more frequently if they could obtain e-books. But even if they had that access, two-thirds of them would not want to give up their traditional print books.
These are a few of the findings in a study being released on Wednesday by Scholastic, the American publisher of the Harry Potter books and the "Hunger Games" trilogy.
The report set out to explore the attitudes and behaviors of parents and children toward reading books for fun in a digital age. Scholastic surveyed more than 2,000 children ages 6 to 17, and their parents, in the spring.
Parents and educators have long worried that digital diversions like video games and cellphones cut into time that children spend reading. However, they see the potential for using technology to their advantage, introducing books to digitally savvy children through e-readers, computers and mobile devices.
About 25 percent of the children surveyed said they had already read a book on a digital device, including computers and e-readers. Fifty-seven percent between ages 9 and 17 said they were interested in doing so.
Only 6 percent of parents surveyed owned an e-reader, but 16 percent said they planned to buy one in the next year. Eighty-three percent of those parents said they would allow or encourage their children to use the e-readers.
Francie Alexander, the chief academic officer at Scholastic, called the report "a call to action."
"I didn't realize how quickly kids had embraced this technology," Ms. Alexander said, referring to computers and e-readers or other portable devices that can download books. "Clearly they see them as tools for reading not just gaming, not just texting. They see them as an opportunity to read."
Milton Chen, a senior fellow at the George Lucas Educational Foundation, said the report made the case that children want to read on new digital platforms.
"The very same device that is used for socializing and texting and staying in touch with their friends can also be turned for another purpose," Mr. Chen said. "That's the hope."
But many parents surveyed also expressed deep concerns about the distractions of video games, cellphones and television in their children's lives. They also wondered if the modern multi-tasking adolescent had the patience to become engrossed in a long novel.
"My daughter can't stop texting long enough to concentrate on a book," said one parent surveyed, the mother of a 15-year-old in Texas.
Another survey participant, the mother of a 7-year-old Michigan boy, said, "I am afraid my son's attention span will only include fast-moving ideas, and book reading will become boring to him."
More than half the parents surveyed said they were concerned that as their children spent more time using digital devices, they would be less interested in recreational reading. The study did not try to measure whether the digital devices actually did detract from time spent reading.
The study also examined the effect of parents and teachers on children's reading habits. Children ages 9 to 11 are more likely to be frequent readers if their parents provide interesting books to read at home and set limits on time spent using technology like video games, the report said.
The report also suggested that many children displayed an alarmingly high level of trust in information available on the Internet: 39 percent of children ages 9 to 17 said the information they found online was "always correct."


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Seismic Vector-Wavefield Characterization of Complex Reservoirs
The Exploration Geophysics Laboratory (EGL) was established in 1997 to develop seismic vector-wavefield technology for improved reservoir characterization and prospect evaluation.
The EGL develops a wide range of technologies, including seismic field-recording techniques and data-processing and data-interpretation procedures, to image reservoirs using all components of the seismic wavefield. The goal is to determine the value and applications of independent compressional-wave (P-wave) and shear-wave (S-wave) images of stratigraphic systems. When P and S images are combined, investigators gain more insight into petrophysical rock properties, pore structure, pore-fluid properties, sequence-stratigraphic relationships, spatial distributions of lithologies, fracture distributions, and anisotropic properties of complex reservoirs than when only one seismic mode is used to study these problems
Joint studies with industry sponsors give EGL access to onshore multicomponent seismic data and multicomponent marine data. EGL focuses on developing case histories and data examples that illustrate applications of multicomponent seismic technology. For example, EGL has demonstrated that four-component ocean-bottom-cable (4-C OBC) seismic data improve the understanding and characterization of gas-hydrate systems across the northern Gulf of Mexico because converted-SV waves can image the internal architecture of deep-water, near-seafloor strata with a better resolution than P waves.
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6 hard boiled eggs, peeled and sliced lengthwise
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1 1/2 teaspoon finely minced fresh Italian parsley
1/4-1/2 teaspoon fine truffle salt
white pepper
In a small bowl, use a fork (or a mini chopper/food processor) and thoroughly mix together the yolks, mayonnaise, mustard, herbs and pepper. Spoon an equal amount into each of the egg halves. Sprinkle with truffle salt.


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The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services visited actress Halle Berry's residence Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department's Hollywood Division.
The visit comes a day after a judge denied a request by Berry's former nanny for a stay-away order against the Oscar winner's ex-boyfriend. Model Gabriel Aubry allegedly pushed Alliance Kamdem into a door while she was holding the former couple's daughter, according to a police report.
Berry reportedly asked the judge to halt communication between Aubry, 36, and 3-year-old Nahla until the issue was resolved.
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It is common practice for child protective services to visit and interview parents when claims of abuse or neglect have been reported, law enforcement told TMZ.
"I was terrified," said Kamdem Tuesday in reference to the incident during a sworn declaration. "The push was so forceful that if there had not been a wall behind me to stop the force of my movement, I would have fallen down with Nahla in my arms."
The shove was a reaction to an argument that reportedly began when Kamdem asked Aubry why the child hadn't been in school. The model allegedly called Kamdem, "a nobody."
Aubry is being investigated for child endangerment and battery in connection with the altercation, published reports stated.
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The family of a Boston Pentecostal pastor abducted in Egypt on Saturday appealed to his captor to release the 61-year-old man, saying he is a diabetic and the family fears for his health.
The son of Rev. Michel Louis told The Associated Press that his father was on a church trip to retrace Jesus' steps through the Holy Land with 23 other members of the clergy and worshippers when he was abducted. Along with him, a 39-year-old Boston woman in the group and a tour guide were kidnapped in broad daylight Friday.
Jirmy Abu-Masuh, an Egyptian Bedouin, told the AP he was armed when he stopped the bus on a road linking Cairo to Mount Sinai, ordered the three to get off and took them captive. He said they would be released only after police release his uncle from prison, and he vowed to take more hostages of different nationalities if his demands were not met.
Louis' son, Rev. Jean Louis, said his father was making his annual mission trip to the Holy Land.
"He's been doing it for the past four years now, and this just turned out to be a little different from any other year," said the younger Louis, who works as a youth pastor at a church founded by his father. "He's a diabetic, so we'd like the person that, or the people that have him in captivity, to know that. We're just concerned for his health. But we know that the governments are working very hard negotiating."
U.S. Embassy spokesman David Linfield said the embassy was looking into the kidnapping and working closely with Egyptian authorities who were doing everything to ensure their safe release.
The abduction took place along the road linking Cairo to the sixth-century St. Catherine's Monastery, located at the foot of Mount Sinai where the Old Testament says Moses received the stone tablets with the Ten Commandments. The route is a frequent target by Bedouins who abduct tourists to pressure police to meet their demands, which is usually to release a detained relative they say has been unjustly arrested.
Friday's abduction was the latest in a series of kidnappings in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula over the past year. Abducted tourists are rarely harmed and usually released within days.
Louis' son said the family is concerned about all three captives and does not want to discuss communications with the U.S. government so as not to jeopardize the chances for their release.
"Any other family or anybody that has loved ones that are in a situation like that can feel ... a bit uneasy," Louis said outside the family home in Boston's neighborhood of Mattapan. "In spirit, we are confident, we believe in God and we know that our God is active and is real and is gonna intervene on our behalf."
The Louis family gathered at the elder pastor's home Saturday to pray and comfort each other. The elder Louis is pastor of the Free Pentecostal Church of God.
"We have a little command center, crisis command center inside and we are trying our best to do what we can do and be very calm in our action also," Louis said. "... we have some good people that are praying for us across the country, across the world ... we thank everybody that's working on our behalf."
Abu-Masuh, of the Tarbeen tribe in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, told the AP that Egypt's Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri called him personally and asked him to release the Americans "who are guests in our country." He said his uncle called him from prison pleading the same and fearing police might arrest his children or wife to pressure Abu-Masuh.
But Abu-Masuh insists that police release his 62-year-old uncle, who he said suffers from back and heart problems and diabetes. He said his uncle was arrested a week ago after refusing to pay a bribe to police who stopped him along the way.


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