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Skitch crashes on 2FA login
jhsbakker posted a topic in Skitch for iOSI'm unable to login to Evernote with Skitch running on IOS10. When I enter my username and password it is asking as expected for the extra security code from the Authenticator app or SMS, however Skitch is crashing when I try to enter the code. To get the authentication code I need to open first an external app, next I return to skitch to enter the code, however as soon I try to enter it in the box it crashes. Is there a workaround without disabling 2FA?
Hi everyone I'm a high school teacher in Switzerland I regularly have to correct students essays written or paper. I have sucessfully done this in the following way using Evernote: Students hand in their texts. (In my case usually written into exercice books)I open a new note in Evernote Mobile and I take photographs of all the handwritten pages. (Putting a Post-it with the students's names on each page helps me keeping order.)I keep all photographs in one single note. This might be 30 to 50 photos. A resulution of 3M is good enough and doesn't overload the note. (I watch out for the correct orientation of the camera)I sync the note to my tablet to check the order of the texts and to see if I can read everythingI leave the texts at school and take with me only the note.Now I open the page photos one after the other on Evernote Desktop. I click on the @ symbol of each photo to open the Evernote Skitch editor. I write directly in to the texts using text, symbols, colours etc.Later I, print these edited photos and hand them back to the student with their untouched texts.They can finally edit or correct their texts into a final version. (If it makes sense, they can keep my feedback photos)Hope this might give someone a good idea or that someone has hints to further develop this. Swissmorgy
I use Skitch for screenshots and have them automatically saved to Evernote. At some point all of my notes made with Skitch have become locked and are listed as Read Only. This is on both Mac and iOS. Any thought or help is appreciated.
Skitch buttons for next and previous image
slowkow posted an idea in Evernote for MacAdd next and previous buttons to navigate between images in Skitch
Skitch - High Sierra
BDenison posted an idea in Skitch for MacEver since the upgrade to High Sierra, the drag and drop has been dropping the wrong image. It has also been crashing consistently.
Skitch Errors.
Worldspawn posted a topic in Skitch for MacI've been having a lot of issues with Skitch. I think they started around when I upgraded OSX. Sometimes, I'll try to drag an image, and I just get a blank. Sometimes, it gets into a funky state where it doesn't drop off images. I like to drag and drop into Slack, and I get this sometimes: Failed to compile /var/folders/xb/zm03wqls70gf3thlfy0d67bh0000gn/T/DMD84DD4A20-630F-40F4-9013-62D848BAB409/1__root_sftp___home_tcg__ssh__and_2__vim__vim__and_FE_.png: Asked for /var/folders/xb/zm03wqls70gf3thlfy0d67bh0000gn/T/DMD84DD4A20-630F-40F4-9013-62D848BAB409/1__root_sftp___home_tcg__ssh__and_2__vim__vim__and_FE_.png but it was not precompiled! Error: Asked for /var/folders/xb/zm03wqls70gf3thlfy0d67bh0000gn/T/DMD84DD4A20-630F-40F4-9013-62D848BAB409/1__root_sftp___home_tcg__ssh__and_2__vim__vim__and_FE_.png but it was not precompiled! at FileChangedCache.getCacheEntryForPath (/Applications/Slack Beta.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/electron-compile/lib/file-change-cache.js:218:15) at /Applications/Slack Beta.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/electron-compile/lib/file-change-cache.js:127:41 at Generator.next (<anonymous>) at step (/Applications/Slack Beta.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/electron-compile/lib/file-change-cache.js:27:191) at /Applications/Slack Beta.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/electron-compile/lib/file-change-cache.js:27:437 at Promise (<anonymous>) at /Applications/Slack Beta.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/electron-compile/lib/file-change-cache.js:27:99 at FileChangedCache.getHashForPath (/Applications/Slack Beta.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/electron-compile/lib/file-change-cache.js:177:7) at /Applications/Slack Beta.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/electron-compile/lib/compiler-host.js:284:51 at Generator.next (<anonymous>) at step (/Applications/Slack Beta.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/electron-compile/lib/compiler-host.js:47:191) at /Applications/Slack Beta.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/electron-compile/lib/compiler-host.js:47:437 at Promise (<anonymous>) at /Applications/Slack Beta.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/electron-compile/lib/compiler-host.js:47:99 at CompilerHost.compileReadOnly (/Applications/Slack Beta.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/electron-compile/lib/compiler-host.js:326:7) at CompilerHost.compile (/Applications/Slack Beta.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/electron-compile/lib/compiler-host.js:263:37) at Function.<anonymous> (/Applications/Slack Beta.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/electron-compile/lib/protocol-hook.js:213:41) at Generator.next (<anonymous>) at step (/Applications/Slack Beta.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/electron-compile/lib/protocol-hook.js:28:191) at /Applications/Slack Beta.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/electron-compile/lib/protocol-hook.js:28:437 at Promise (<anonymous>) at Function.<anonymous> (/Applications/Slack Beta.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/electron-compile/lib/protocol-hook.js:28:99) at Function.protocol.interceptBufferProtocol (/Applications/Slack Beta.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/electron-compile/lib/protocol-hook.js:241:19) I think it's an issue caused by Skitch, not Slack.
Crashes frequent in High Sierra?
Mitch Wagner posted an idea in Skitch for MacI'm finding Skitch crashes frequently in High Sierra. Anybody else seeing this?
Sharing options in skitch for OSX
VishM posted a topic in Skitch for Macthe option to share via messages or mac mail has disappeared from my skitch sharing options. how do I get them back?
Skitch Text Gets Hidden
jubishop posted a topic in Skitch for Macwhen i add text of any size no matter what i try it ends up obscured like this. i try putting a newline above it, or resizing it, or resizing the square, doesn't matter, it gets shunted off the top of the box. in ghost or normal mode.
Marker highlights turn into solid color in ipad pro.
obins posted a topic in Skitch for iOSIn annotation mode, when using marker, highlighting text turns into solid color on ipad pro. when i do it on mac, it comes right. Please assist.
Why doesn't Skitch stay logged in for me?!
Bossminty posted an idea in Skitch for MacI am logged into Evernote. I use it every day. I am logged into Skitch. I use it every day. Every day it asks me to sign in to save my screenshot. *insert internal screaming* Is this because I am still on El Captain (v10.11.3)?
Hi Guys, I know that Skitch for the Desktop version allows you to do that. But I don't know if the iOS APP of Skitch lets you do that or not and i.e. Take Screenshot of the selected area on a webpage right now in my iPad I have to take a screenshot of the entire webpage and then edit the portion in Skitch that I don't want, instead I am looking for a feature of Skitch iOS Version which allows you to only take a screenshot of the area that you have selected ? How can I do that on the iOS Version of Skitch ? Thanks !
Is Low Resolution for Macbook Retina working?
Scott Adelman posted a topic in Skitch for MacI have been having the issue that is described in many other places of my images being large due to the Retina display resolution. I read about the option of toggling off the high resolution in Skitch. I could not get it to work. So I deleted my app and downloaded new copy. Same thing. I can place and remove check box next to High res option but it does not seem to change icon at lower right corner of capture window. It always states High Resolution and when I copy and paste a screen shot it is still huge. Is there some other setting I should be changing? Is this just an unresolved error? Everything I read seems to say this issue has been resolved. Help!
Skitch Default Colors
Joe Belmonte posted an idea in General Feature RequestsHi, Is there a way to set the default color for arrows/boxes/etc. in Skitch? For some reason it defaults to white whenever I restart the application, which doesn't stand out very well in most cases. I end up changing it to red almost every time. Can I just set red as the default? I've looked in preferences and didn't see anything. Thanks, Joe
Falling of frames during capture image. Low FPS.
josephreish posted a topic in Skitch for MacDuring the capture of the image from the screen, frames fall, the mouse moves with a delay as if low fps. Could you fix it? This program cannot load the computer so much.
How can I login into Skitch with my Evernote account, which I create with google account? It seems that Skitch doesn't know anything about my Evernote account by Google. That way I can't log in.
I'm getting this error when I try to markup a picture in Mac OS Photos.app using the Skitch extension. Can anyone help? See attached screenshot for what it looks like in real time, very exciting! I've seen others with this problem on the Apple forum but never seen any solution. Thanks.
other ANSWERED old Skitch Image URLs all broken
bryanus posted a topic in Skitch for MacI have a bunch of Skitch screenshots uploaded to the Web, and I noticed only today that they are all broken. They all had the skitch.com hostname: https://img.skitch.com/.../...19-q35tt35my6k76fefs3hg4fphuin.jpg And now it seems all of the hosted images use evernote.com URLs: https://www.evernote.com/.../.../8976-1d89-4b36-bvd98-10a2a43cd596/f80e2756aecef6612dac1e5ee873ef83/res/f93035fc-ff7d-4fa4-bce6-ec3b1f98308b/skitch.png I assume this is due to the Skitch/Evernote integration. It's very difficult for me to track down each broken image and re-create a new Evernote link. Is there any way to fix my old skitch links? Any other tips to fix all of my broken skitch links/images? TIA.
Font size bug
martinjbaker posted an idea in Skitch for MacThis is an old bug that I've been seeing for well over a year. With text tool active click on the image Font size is tiny Press Escape to cancel Click again on the image. Font size is now correct. Please fix this :-)
Hide Skitch icon in dock - show only in menu bar
gabrielmulle posted an idea in Skitch for MacAny chance this feature be implemented in the future? Thanks
How to exclude Skitch notes from search results
cribhacker posted a topic in Evernote for MacI use Skitch often and the annotated images are stored in a skitch notebook which is fine, but when searching these random images pollute the search results and make it hard to find what I want. Is there a way to exclude Skitch Images from the search?
My skitch camera capture program was doing fine until i had the new mac update 10.12.12. After the update, the skitch camera capture is not working (abeit the count down is shown and a click sound comes, but only with a black out screen). I have latest version of the skitch. I also uninstalled and re-installed the newest version - nothing is helping out. Please guide. thanks
mac Resize image by dragging edges outward
Chip Roberson posted a topic in Skitch for MacIn the old Skitch I could grab any edge of an image and drag outwards to extend the image in that direction. I found this very useful -- VERY USEFUL. In the last version, I find that I can no longer do this. Am I just missing the right incantation or is it no longer available now that Evernote owns Skitch?
Resize Image
overskilling posted a topic in Skitch for MacOnce I figured out that the Crop icon on the left of the window also led to the image resize functionality I tried resizing my image. However after several attempts to 'Apply' the new image size it resolutely refused to change to the new size. Exporting the image it was still at the old size. I realised that if I scaled to half the number of pixels in any dimension then I got the actual dimensions I wanted when I exported. Has anyone else have the same problem? Is the scale interacting with the zoom functionality?
Window resizing
slowkow posted an idea in Skitch for MacProblem The gallery is difficult to browse because the user must resize the window again and again, every time a new image is viewed. First, resize Skitch to full-screen so I can see all the images in the gallery. Next, double-click to select an image. Uh oh! The Skitch app has automatically resized the window to a very small size that fits the image. Ok, let's go back to the gallery to find another image. The Skitch app keeps the small window size. I have to manually resize the window again to see all the gallery images. Solution Do not resize the window automatically. It is surprising behavior and causes repetitive window resizing. Instead, resize the content to fit the window.


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Record-Breaking Grid for the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Europe
Apart from the impressive entry figures, the series is also focused on first class venues. The international calendar, which includes stops in Silverstone, Paul Ricard, Spa-Francorchamps (for the 24 Hours) and Nürburgring, reaches its climax in Valencia with the fourth edition of the World Final scheduled at the beginning of December. The Asia and North America Series will also converge on the Spanish track: both series start in May, each of which will include a race on a city circuit (in Kuala Lumpur and the new "street race" in Boston).
Giorgio Sanna, head of Lamborghini Motorsport, is very pleased at the record-breaking grid and explains: "We are opening the 2016 season of the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo with important participation numbers, which indicate a growing trend in terms of interest in our sports programs. As the number of cars has increased, we have also improved the organizational structure on track to support customer teams, and provide a service that reflects the standards of Lamborghini."
The 2016 Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Europe has the same two-race format as in past years (each race lasts 50 minutes with a mandatory pit-stop and two 15-minute qualifying sessions to define the starting grid), but there are also changes: first and foremost is the introduction of the new Lamborghini Cup, created for less experienced drivers, which is added to the existing PRO, PRO-AM and AM classes.
The spotlight is also turned on new arrivals with seven debuting teams: Attempto Racing, Dörr Motorsport, FFF Racing Team, GDL Motorsport, GT3 Poland, MN Development and Van der Horst Motorsport. In addition Petri Corse is making a return: it won the team title in 2009 and comes onto the starting line with an exceptional name, that of former F1 driver Nicola Larini.

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Belfast bus lane driver fined over £4,000 has yet to pay single penny
A motorist has amassed more than £4,000 worth of fines after repeatedly driving in Belfast's bus lanes - but has yet to pay a single penny.
The same vehicle was caught 33 times in 15 months around the city.
The motorist owes a total of £4,050 - all of which is outstanding.
In another case, a motorist has around £2,500 in unpaid fines.
They paid one of their 35 tickets - but ignored the rest.
It has led to claims that drivers are rebelling against the controversial lanes.
Yesterday the Belfast Telegraph reported that more than 50,000 penalties have been issued since June 2015, when the fines system came into operational.
One camera has scooped a staggering £1m in that time. However, around one in four fines have not been paid.
According to figures released to this newspaper, a total of £727,630 in bus lane penalties had not been handed over as of August 31.
That is more than a quarter of the £2,729,021 worth of fines issued in that period.
UUP councillor Jim Rodgers said: "These are people who are quite clearly trying to defy the system.
"I don't approve of it, but clearly people are unhappy.
"It is a sign of defiance, although I wouldn't advocate it."
He added: "It is costing people a lot of money, and it's hard enough now for people. That is why people have told me they are not going to pay their fines.
"I said that I didn't want them to be appearing in court or facing charges, but some of them told me they couldn't care less - they are just sick of it."
Mr Rodgers said too many motorists were being penalised for an innocent mistake.
"I haven't been fined because I've been exceptionally careful, but I know a lot of people who have," he added.
"They are up in arms and a number have contacted me."
A Freedom of Information request from this newspaper reveals the depth of drivers' anger.
One has blatantly ignored the bus lane rules, being caught no less than 33 times in 15 months and racking up fines totalling £4,050.
As of two weeks ago, every penny remained unpaid.
A driver caught 42 times in the lane has so far coughed up £575, with a further £1,490 still to be settled. And one clocked 35 times paid one fine and ignored the rest, with £2,430 owing.
A Department for Infrastructure spokesman warned that any drivers who don't pay their fines will be pursued.
"DfI pursue all vehicle keepers who have contravened bus lane regulations where the keeper addresses are available," he said.
"However, there are some cases where it is not possible to formally identify the vehicle keeper details to issue a Penalty Charge Notice and these PCNs are written off. However, we continue to record any further PCNs for these vehicles even though the earlier ones have been written off, and will pass relevant information in such cases onto the police.
"Contravening these regulations has a knock-on impact on other road users and the department will continue to take action against those who contravene the regulations."
Since June 2015, motorists who drive in the lanes face a £90 fine, reduced to £45 if paid in two weeks.
If a parking ticket is not paid or is not cancelled as a result of challenge, representation or appeal, the amount outstanding will become subject to debt recovery procedures.
This may be pursued by TransportNI, or it may become subject to vehicle clamping and removal operations. Where additional fees and costs are incurred as a result of debt recovery procedures - including clamping, removal and storage - these fees and costs will be recoverable in addition to the amount outstanding.
- Are you not paying your bus lane fine in protest? Email email@example.com
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|Bose-Einstein condensate
The interest in the quantum framework of the Boltzmann equation has increased dramatically in the recent years. Although the quantum Boltzmann equation (QBE) for a single specie of particles is valid for a gas of fermions as well as for a gas of bosons, blow up of the solution in finite time may occur only in the latter case. In particular this equation has been successfully used for computing nonequilibrium situations where BoseEinstein condensate occurs.
At very low but finite temperature a large fraction of the atoms would go into the lowest energy quantum state. This phenomenon is now called Bose-Einstein condensation (see [link]). Experimentally this has been achieved thanks to strong advancements in trapping and cooling techniques for neutral atoms leading to the 2001 Nobel prize in physics by E.A.Cornell, W.Ketterle and C.E.Wiemann ([here] is a movie of BEC in Rb-87).
In the sequel we report some animated movies of numerical simulations in quantum kinetic theory. Simulations have been computed using the fast method developed in [1] and refers both to the case of a gas of bosons and of a gas of fermions. In particular in the second movie numerical evidence of the Bose-Einstein condensation is given. We refer to [1,2] for the simulations details.
1. Subcritical regime, regular Bose-Einstein stationary state
2. Critical regime, Bose-Einstein condenstaion
3.The case of Fermions, Fermi-Dirac steady state. Same initial data as in 1.
- P.Markowich, L.Pareschi, Fast, conservative and entropic numerical methods for the Bosonic Boltzmann equation, Numerische Math. 99 (2005), pp.509--532.
- P.Markowich, L.Pareschi, W.Bao, Quantum kinetic theory: modelling and numerics for Bose-Einstein condensation, Chapter 10, Modeling and computational methods for kinetic equations, Series: Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology, Birkhauser (2004), pp.287-320.


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Updated: Amendments to the detail section with updates to the Country-by-Country legislation.
This measure will require UK headed MNEs and enable non-UK headed MNEs to provide HMRC with information about global activities, profits and taxes.
More information can be found at The Taxes (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting) (Country-by-Country Reporting) Regulations 2016 No. 237.
This legislation updates the Country-by-Country (CbC) reporting regulations The Taxes (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting) (Country-by-Country Reporting) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 to take account of international developments. In particular the legislation:
- brings partnerships into scope
- amends the UK 'local filing' requirements
- introduces a notification requirement
HMRC has published guidance on the notification requirement in the International Exchange of Information Manual and will publish full guidance in due course. A tax information and impact note has also been published please read Amendments to Country By Country reporting 2017.
Source: HMRC


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House Approves Amendment Limiting G-Fee Use
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The House yesterday approved a Mortgage Bankers Association-supported amendment that would bar use of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac credit guaranty fees and a Federal Reserve bank stock dividend cut as funding sources for a highway spending authorization bill.
By a 354-72 vote, the House approved the amendment, introduced by Reps. Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas, and Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., that removed extension of an increase in g-fees and a Federal Reserve Bank stock dividend cut as funding sources for the highway authorization bill.
"MBA commends the full House for its strong bipartisan vote to pass the Neugebauer-Huizenga amendment and remove from the highway bill an extension of higher Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac guarantee fees that would have served as a tax on homeownership, as well as a harmful reduction in the dividend paid on Federal Reserve bank stock," said MBA President and CEO David Stevens, CMB. "Given the widespread support for the amendment from Republicans and Democrats alike, we will continue to strongly advocate for the House position as House and Senate leaders meet to reconcile the differences between the two chambers' highway bills."
MBA, which has long-opposed use of g-fees for purposes other than to guard against credit losses at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and to protect taxpayers from mortgage losses, fought hard for the Neugebauer-Huizenga amendment. It sent letters this week to House members (including a joint letter (http://mba.informz.net/MBA/data/images/Neugebauer-Huizenga amdt to HR22 (FINAL) (002).pdf) with other industry trade groups) and issued two separate Calls to Action through the Mortgage Action Alliance, its grassroots advocacy arm. Those efforts resulted in nearly 850 MAA members sending communication to 257 House members in support of the amendment.
MBA said the g-fee increase, first enacted in 2011, has "harmed homeowners, continues to do so every day, and should not be extended to fund unrelated federal spending. Using the housing GSEs as a piggybank to fund unrelated government programs is bad policy--plain and simple--and it puts the nascent housing market recovery in jeopardy."
The House approved the full highway reauthorization bill by a 363-64 vote.
MBA Senior Vice President of Legislative Affairs Bill Killmer noted, however, the g-fee battle is far from over. The highway reauthorization bill, which passed the Senate last month, now goes to a House-Senate conference committee. "The two chambers will need to resolve the differences between their two highway reauthorization bills," he said. "The Senate bill still contains the harmful g-fee extension and Federal Reserve dividend cuts."


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21st-Century Learning: New Technology in Schools
Web-based group projects. Teachers assigning homework via Twitter. The chance to cyber-connect with kids halfway around the world. No doubt about it. School is definitely better than it used to be.
Looking back, we refer to it as the Facebook War.
It started when my wife and I finally caved to my then-13-year-old son's incessant demands for a Facebook account. It made sense. He's a tech-savvy kid—what's known as a "digital native," meaning, he's grown up surrounded by computers and the Internet. Learning the ropes of social networking is an important survival skill for the 21st century.
But first we sat him down and went over the rules. Number one: We have to be friends, to make sure he's not being harassed by schoolmates or "friended" by creepy strangers. Number two: He shouldn't put anything on there he wouldn't want his grandmother (also a Facebook friend) to read. Simple, right?
Everything went fine at first. Then my very sarcastic son (he gets it from his mother) posted something rude on his Facebook wall. I knew he was kidding. However, anyone who didn't know him well could consider it offensive. So I told him to take it down. On Facebook. In front of all his eighth grade friends.
Oh boy.
Huge tactical error. He immediately unfriended me, my wife and every other adult in his Facebook network. We insisted he refriend us. With great reluctance, he agreed. A week later he unfriended us again. We threatened to delete his profile altogether and he put us back on. Two weeks later he told us his account had been corrupted and he needed to set up a new one and refriend us. Okay, we said. I was proud he'd volunteered to friend us without us having to nag him. He was finally getting it.
Things seemed to be going well until I sat down at my computer after my son had used it to print a school paper and Facebook popped up. Not my account, his. His old account. The one that had supposedly been "corrupted." And on it I found a note he posted to one of his friends, saying "Don't message me at my other account. I set that one up to fool my idiot parents."
Wow. Twenty-first-century survival skills indeed. For our moms and dads, television and the telephone were the enemies of good grades. Today's battles are over cell phones, social networks and YouTube. The issues are not all that different; these things are distracting, addictive and easily abused. But they're also unavoidable—your kids will need to navigate them in order to succeed, just as you had to with the phone and TV.
Here's the key difference: Unlike the boob tube or landline, Web tools can help your children do well in school, if they use them creatively and avoid the pitfalls.
It won't be easy. You'll have to learn to master these tools too, to keep your kids safe and to manage their time. You may need to act as an advocate for these technologies and push teachers and school administrators to play along. But the payoff will be well worth it.
Fearless Excuse Killers
"I left my assignment at school." "The dog ate my homework." "Nobody told me that project was due tomorrow."
Like all parents, we've heard these excuses (and more) from our kids. But we stopped getting them so often after the kids started using Google Apps and Google Calendar for their schoolwork. For example, recently, my 11-year-old daughter needed to write a paper on sea turtles for a fifth grade project. She simply logged on to Google Docs, a free, full-featured, Web-based word processor. When she needed help, I could log on too, and we could work together on the report, even though she was home and I was at my office. The next day, at school, her paper was online and she just had to print it out.
For my extremely absent-minded son, now 14, Google Calendar has been a godsend. To make big projects less daunting, we set up calendar events that will generate plenty of reminders sent to his e-mail account and cell phone. It's not a total solution—we still have to get him to do the work—but it helps with time management and cuts down on our nagging.
We're not alone. More than 7 million students use Google Apps, a figure that's more than doubling each year, says Ken Norton, senior product manager for the popular application. Raju Vegesna, spokesperson for Zoho, a competing suite of online software, says about 25% of its 3 million users are students or teachers.
It helps that our school has a Wi-Fi network and lets kids bring in their own computers and log on. (We had to persuade them a netbook would actually help our son stay focused; now several middle schoolers bring theirs to class.) When Cole comes home and doesn't know what the homework assignment is, he logs on to Facebook and asks his friends (at least that's what he says he's doing). Our son's algebra teacher even uses Twitter to remind students which problems they need to solve each week.
In fact, many Web tools can be used to help kids do their schoolwork, says Candace Lindemann, founder of the educational consulting company Naturally Educational (naturallyeducational.com) in New York. They can use Twitter to get instant access to experts, create their own social networks on sites like Ning.com or launch a blog to connect with students throughout the world. Even a notorious time waster like YouTube can be used productively.
"Say your kids are studying the issues surrounding pollution or human rights violations," Lindemann says. "In the past students would put together a presentation and stand up in front of their friends and maybe their parents. Today they can capture it with a webcam and upload it to YouTube. It impresses upon students why it's important to really know their stuff and be able to communicate it clearly. The kids understand if they get their message right, thousands of people can hear what they have to say, and they can make a difference."
Too Cool for School?
We were fortunate to find a school willing to explore new technologies. But not everyone is so lucky. Many shun Web tools because they often lack safeguards to protect against cheating, cyberbullying, inappropriate content, encounters with strangers and other abuses.
"Most social media tools are just that—for socializing," says Mary McCaffrey, CEO of TH(i)NQ Ed, which provides strategic online solutions for the education market. "Schools are excited about these options, but they have legitimate worries," she says. "Twitter, Facebook and other current options don't work well in an environment where concern for security and safety is paramount. We have an obligation to build engaging tools for students that connect them to the rest of the world, and to teach them the boundaries of appropriate conduct."
That's why many schools are turning to school-centric platforms that let students collaborate safely and securely. This year TH(i)NQ Ed (thinqed.com) plans to introduce what it calls a "learning networking tool" that lets teachers and students work together on projects in a secure environment. Another tool, ePals (epals.com), is already helping 25 million K-12 students share e-mail, blogs, videos, book recommendations and discussions with other kids around the globe.
High school students studying Chinese in the U.S. are collaborating with Chinese students learning English in Beijing via ePals, says company president Ed Fish. Middle schoolers in Missouri who are investigating the effects of natural disasters on people's lives are regularly communicating with survivors of earthquakes and tsunamis in classrooms in Turkey and the Philippines, respectively.
Your Homework Assignment
You don't have to convince your kids to try these Web tools—they're living online anyway. But you might have to persuade school administrators that social media tools can be safe and have real learning applications. The best way to get schools to adopt this technology is to use it yourself, says Fish, whose company offers free ePals accounts to individual parents, students and teachers.
"The greatest push will come from moms and dads saying, 'This is what my kids are doing at home—shouldn't they be able to do it at school too?'" says Fish. "If parents can say what their kids are doing is safe, effective and nonthreatening, and makes them want to continue learning when the school day is over, that can really work."
Unfortunately, many adults are overwhelmed by technology, says Tracey Mooney, chief cyber security mom for McAfee Security, and mother of three kids, ages 6, 13 and 19. "The parents don't understand technology and withhold it from their children," she says. "Then they freak out when they see their kid on someone else's computer. Or they just give in and allow access to everything without finding out what they should know." Instead, moms and dads need to be able to talk intelligently to their kids about technology, says Mooney. Sticking your head in the sand or leaving it up to your kids to learn the rules themselves is a recipe for disaster. "Parents would be smart to embrace any tool that might help their kids in school," says Lindemann. "Let's face it. Social media is here to stay."
Taming the Beast
Social media tools can be a huge time suck, for one thing—worse, they can provide great access for bullies or predators. To keep your kids safe:
1. Establish an ongoing conversation about appropriate behavior online. Sites like MySecureCyberspace (mysecurecyberspace.com) and iSafe (isafe.org) offer some good pointers. Then take the same approach governments apply to controlling nuclear weapons: trust but verify.
2. Be a silent friend on Facebook and other social networks. This allows you to see how your children are interacting without being in their business.
3. Use the social network's privacy settings to limit who can see what they post online. Facebook's newly revamped Safety Center (facebook.com/help/?safety) has helpful advice.
4. Try services like Online Family Norton (onlinefamily.norton.com, free) or software like McAfee Family Protection (mcafee.com, $40) or Net Nanny (netnanny.com, $40) to monitor which sites your kids visit, block the nasty ones and limit how much time they spend surfing.
5. Set up a Google Alert (google.com/alerts) to tell you when your children's names are mentioned on the Web, suggests Ian Lurie, author of The Unfun Parent. This can help let you know if they are being bullied or if nasty rumors are being spread about them.
Surf and Learn: Four Great Sites
Quizlet.com: Kids can create their own online flash cards for studying vocabulary or math drills, then share them with friends via Facebook, Twitter or e-mail. Started in 2005 by then-15-year-old Andrew Sutherland, the site now boasts nearly a million registered users. A basic version is free; a premium platform that lets users add their own images or record audio costs $10 a year.
Shmoop.com: A Cliff Notes for the iPod generation, Shmoop offers quick synopses of literary classics, history, art and more, filled with clever pop cultural references. Study guides can be viewed on a PC, an Apple iPod or an e-book reader like Amazon's Kindle for fees ranging up to $5.
Ning.com & Grou.ps: Teachers can easily create social networks specific to their classrooms where they're able to control who joins and monitor group activities. These sites are very popular with tech-savvy educators, says Greg Limperis, CEO of the Professional Learning Network.
Storybird.com: Lets students build beautifully illustrated storybooks by dragging and dropping artwork and adding text. Users can even invite others to collaborate. Creating electronic stories is free; print options (still being developed at press time) will cost money.
Originally published in the September 2010 issue of Family Circle magazine.


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"Say you'll wait for me, Liv. This isn't hypothetical anymore. This is real. It's happening. I'm going to divorce her and marry you," Fitz said. "Say you'll wait for me. Wait for me, Liv." While she spent the next week thinking about whether or not to wait for him, something had to happen.
"Screwing your mistress is one thing, but marrying her… that's political suicide," Fitz told her. His words stung her each time she thought of him. This was daily of course, sometimes even hourly. It was awful how the words he said months ago. She told him she would wait for him. Wait for him to divorce the biggest witch in D.C. The only one who held them back from being together. Mellie was the only problem that they had.
Olivia sat in the church after Verna's funeral. What could possibly be between them that he would call her a mistress? He NEVER called her mistress and wanted to kill anyone who called her that, sometimes even her. After an hour Olivia decided that whatever Fitz's problem was, she would think about it later. Liv went back to OPA and chose to work her way through all of it. Working would get her mind off the current events. Fixing anyone else's problem was what she could handle. Her problem's she couldn't take.
A few weeks had gone by and Liv hadn't heard anything from Fitz. Truth be told, she didn't really want to hear anything he had to say. Nothing he could say would make up for calling her a mistress. She sat in her office and ran the words through her head again. As she was thinking her phone began to ring.
"What?" she answered the phone.
"Meet me in the park in twenty minutes." Then the line went dead.
Olivia picked up her purse and put on her jacket. Liv walked through the park sitting in the same seat she always did for meetings. She waited a few minutes for him to show up.
"I'm being followed," he told her.
"Not my problem. Why am I here?"
"You're being followed."
"I don't care. Let him follow me. There's nothing for him to find."
"You don't get it. He's having you followed. He knows every single step you take. He's getting updates about you hourly. The guy, whoever he is, walks into all our meetings and hands him a folder of a minute by minute of what you do and where you're going. He's keeping a tally of how many times I see you," he told her.
"Cyrus, I do not care! And I'm not even sure why he cares. He knows about Defiance, that I am sure of. I don't know how he knows but that he does know. We were wrong to keep it from him but we were wrong to begin with in doing it. I don't know what information he's getting and I don't care."
"He loves you. You and he are supposed to be but I keep standing in the way. He loves you. You have to remember that. You have to care. Liv, he calls you the love of his life."
"He called me a mistress! He doesn't love me. Fitzgerald Thomas Grant the Third does not love me. He never has. I was some side thing that he needed. An itch he had to scratch. I do not matter to him. I never have and I never will. So him keeping tabs on me is whatever he wants to do. Because it doesn't matter. He can watch me all day. Get all the information on me he wants. All he's going to see is that I'm working. I have nothing to hide. When he sees that you and I met today, which by the way the agents behind you will probably tell him the second you get back to the White House, he'll ask you what we were talking about, maybe even ask how I am but you can tell him that it does not concern him. How I am, how I am doing, what I am doing is not any of his business anymore. On a happier note, how are James and Ella?"
Cyrus took out his phone and showed her a picture of Ella. "James sends me a picture of her every hour. I am supposed to ask you though. Will you be Ella's godmother?"
"Sure, I'm not religious a lot but I'm sure I can figure the whole godparent thing out. Who is her godfather?"
"James hasn't decided on that. He just asked me to pick her godmother. There's no one I trust more than you with someone so close."
"Thank you Cyrus. I'll call James later and set up a lunch date. Have a nice day, Cy." Liv got up and walked away. There was no doubt that the agents following Cyrus would tell Fitz about their conversation. They were close enough to hear every word that both she and Cyrus said. But she didn't care.
Olivia went back to OPA and dove back into work.


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On November 16th, Hot Air posted an article about the impact of the Trump tax cuts on government revenue. As I am sure you remember, the Democrats called the tax cuts on individuals 'crumbs' and swore that the tax cuts would bankrupt the country. Well, that's not exactly what happened.
The article reports:
Unemployment is at an historic low. Employment is at an all-time high. Wagers are growing after years of stagnation.
And now from all that increased economic activity, the federal government has just reported historic record tax revenues in October, the first month of the new fiscal year, of $252,692,000,000.
That's more than $11.4 billion above revenue for October of last year, which was the previous record tax revenue for an October.
And it did this by collecting more than $3 billion less in personal income taxes, thanks to the tax cuts.
The new revenues were the result of increased business taxes because of increased business. Here's how much different it was:
Corporation income tax receipts to the U.S. Treasury this year in October were a whopping $8,000,000,000. This compares to the previous October's $3.8 billion.
Despite the record tax revenues in October, the federal government ran a deficit of $100.5 billion that month because, spending. That's a problem that newly-elected members of Congress such as Indiana's senator-elect Mike Braun, a businessman, said would be a major target in 2019.
The thing to remember here is that as unemployment decreases, government spending should also decrease. Unfortunately Congress did not get the message. Our problem is not the revenue–the problem is the spending. If either party were serious about curbing government spending, it would have been done by now. Obviously they are not. There are a few members of the Republican party who have been trying to put the brakes on runaway spending for years, but they are either not trying very hard or they are ineffective. At any rate, we need to elect Congressmen (regardless of party) who will pledge to bring the spending under control. It does no good to increase the revenue if the spending increases right along with it.


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Deciding on Home Education.
"You are so brave". This is something I'm hearing a lot at the moment. Today our daughter walks out of her school for the very last time as a pupil. She has been unhappy for a long time, since she started on and off, but each year she had settled in the end and loved it. Up until year two. It got to the point where she was worrying on a Friday about Monday, never getting any down time on the weekend as she was fretting so much about school the following week.I think sending our second child to school really hit home for me how different it could/should be and highlighted just how difficult it's been for her to settle.
And it's not the school, they have been brilliant at trying to help in fact, her teacher is the kindest, most caring lady and she will miss her the most. She's not been bullied either, but she finds it too big, too busy and the playground overwhelming. She is a perfectionist and is driving herself crazy trying to get her work the best it can be. The idea of SATs is a step too far for all of us. Despite the best efforts to the contrary, she knows they are doing them and that it's a test, she can read the practise papers for a start, and for her, the pressure to perform well is just too much. I know she is bright and intelligent, I have no worries on that count but I also think she needs more fresh air and freedom then a conventional school is allowed to give her.
A model student at school, she couldn't hold it together anymore at home and the anxious meltdowns have been taking their toll on the entire family. The daily battle to get her in has become so draining. Most of all, my child is miserable. I can't take another day of seeing her pale, pinched, drawn face, nails bitten to the quick, and so, after much decision and more then a few tears, we have made a radical decision.
Home Education.
There is so much in the news about it at the moment with Stacey Solomon's announcement that she is doing it with her boys, and the statistics are overwhelming. Home schooling figures are at an all time high and climbing rapidly year after year, there has been a 97% increase in UK home educated children since 2011. This means that there are now so many provisions for home schooling families available, I was actually shocked at the wealth of things there are out there to do, forest school, language clubs, science groups, days out, meet ups, groups of parents clubbing together to hire halls and put on plays, it sounds amazing! In fact, we are struggling to narrow down all the classes and groups as we can't fit it all in to a week!
Other bonuses are trips to museums and galleries when they aren't overcrowded, meaning you get to see more. You can also take holidays out of season, saving so much money, although with our son still at school we won't be able to take advantage of that. A popular misconception is that you need to be at a desk all day, every day doing work. Home education is so much more then that, you really can learn anywhere!
We're in the extremely privileged position that we can do this. I already work from home and I can move my work hours to the evenings and weekends. I can also tailor the blog to a more home schooling slant and document some of the things we get up to and the highs (and lows!) that the next few months have in store. I have amazing support from my husband, my family and some wonderful friends, including my lovely blogger friend Jenny who has made me crave the lovely outdoor life she lives with her two boys home educating and been such a wonderful source of advice and inspiration.
We haven't ruled out a return to a school one day, I have no idea what the reality of having my child home again full time will do to me, maybe I'll find it too much, maybe she will. But for now I'm really really looking forward to getting my daughter back and seeing her smile again.


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If you were disappointed in Windsor's weather this summer, you should be pleased by warmer and drier conditions than normal this fall — according to The Weather Network's outlook for the season.
Weather Network predicts pleasant weeks to come for Windsor-Essex
If you were disappointed in Windsor's weather this summer, you should be pleased by our conditions this fall — according to The Weather Network's outlook for the season.
"It's going to be really good news," promised Weather Network meteorologist Michael Carter on Wednesday.
"This upcoming weekend is a great example across Southwestern Ontario. We're going to have summer-like temperatures settling in. We might break the 30 C mark on Saturday and Sunday."
According to Carter, the local forecast for the months of September, October, and November calls for warmer and slightly drier weather than usual — at least during the first half of the season.
That's in contrast to spring and summer temperatures that were "for the most part, below normal" across Windsor-Essex, Carter said.
Over those same months, precipitation was higher than normal — meaning our spring and summer was both colder and wetter than usual.
"I think folks are hoping to make up a little bit of ground with the pattern this fall. Maybe get a few more opportunities to get out and enjoy," Carter said.
But seasons don't last forever. The inevitable cool down of Windsor-Essex is still coming — probably in mid-October, by Carter's estimation.
That's when local temperatures should return to normal ranges: an average of 15.8 C in October, and an average of 8.8 C in November.
"The thing to keep in mind is: We are in a transitional season," Carter advised. "It's a season of change … We're going to see some back-and-forth temperatures."
Of course, thousands of Windsor-Essex property owners know all too well the chaotic nature of weather, having dealt with the worst flooding event in the history of the area on Aug. 29. How does Carter's forecast jibe with the occurrence of 150 millimetres of rainfall in the space of a few hours?
"That has really been a pattern across a lot of eastern North America. It's not just local to Windsor," Carter explained.
"We have seen very warm temperatures in the Gulf Stream. It provides extra moisture in the atmosphere. Extra juice for those storms."
Windsor-Essex might benefit from some perspective. Carter pointed out that Western Canada has been dealing with record-breaking dry weather this year.
"Vancouver had their longest streak ever of rain-free days this summer," he said. "Developing drought has been a big problem across the southern Prairies. It's kind of been a feast or famine situation."
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Schweinsteiger: Manchester not as bad as everybody thinks
Just over a month into his Manchester United career, Bastian Schweinsteiger has reflected on the change in clubs, cities and coaches.
Bastian Schweinsteiger insists he is relishing life at Manchester United and has jokingly stated: "Manchester is not as bad as everybody thinks."
The 31-year-old midfielder moved to Old Trafford in July, bringing an end to more than a decade at Bayern Munich, where he won 20 major trophies.
It has been a low-key start at United – who have taken seven from a possible 12 points from their opening four games - for Schweinsteiger, but he is enjoying the challenge of adapting to the frantic pace of the Premier League.
"Of course everything is new to me. But it is a lot of fun," said Schweinsteiger on Tuesday while away on international duty with Germany.
"The club is huge. Sadly we gave away a few points in the last two games [a 0-0 draw with Newcastle United and Sunday's 2-1 defeat at Swansea City]. Otherwise we would be in a better position right now.
"So again it is a lot of fun and it is something really great to be there. Manchester is also not as bad as everybody thinks.
"We believe that the city is not that beautiful but I can say that the people are really nice and respectful. The city is nice as well."
Schweinsteiger has been reunited with former Bayern coach Louis van Gaal since joining United.
And Schweinsteiger said of the Dutchman: "Yes he is still the same Louis van Gaal that we all know.
"He is very ambitious and he wants to win every game. He is a good guy and knows how to treat the team correctly.
"It is a lot of fun not just to work with him but with the whole team and the new players. The spirit of the team is great and I hope that we can use the dominance we already had in the games earlier to finally start winning."


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– The Jerusalem Post reports:
Many Jews clearly believe that the Jewish state is the best place to raise their families. I wonder how many of these Jews will live on occupied West Bank land.
– Josh Marshall examines John Yoo, the key lawyer involved in drafting Justice Department memos that gave George Bush almost unparalleled powers to do as he wished in the "war on terror."
– The Bush administration increases pressure on the mainstream media to not publish articles that could threaten "national security." Publish and be damned. For the US government – experts at spin and outright lies – to caution the press is a joke and should be treated with contempt. Sadly, we've already seen evidence of the cowered media in action.


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Fearless Females Lecture
"Lilith: She-Devil in the Garden of Eden"
Presented by Dr. Sharonah Fredrick
Assistant Director, ACMRS
Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 7:00pm
Changing Hands Bookstore
6428 S McClintock Dr. Tempe, AZ 85283
Free and open to the public
About the Program
This lecture will focus on the controversial, mythical figure of Lilith: her roots in the Judeo-Spanish writings of the Cabalah, her appearance in the earlier Hebrew-Aramaic commentaries of the Talmud, and her constant and unnerving apparitions in literatures as far-flung as Northern Europe, Arabia, and the Americas. We will trace the pathway of Lilith from the few mentions of her, direct and indirect, in the Old Testament and her flowering as Adam's first wife/she-devil/repository of erotic fantasies in late medieval Spain. Her place in English and French literature, her demonization and eventual redemption in the Early Modern and contemporary literature of the Americas, will also be explored. The relation between Jewish and Christian mysticism, non-canonic vampire legends, and the world of medieval and Early Modern folklore will flesh out this controversial, mythical figure, who continues to provoke theological and gender debates wherever she is mentioned.
About Sharonah Fredrick
Sharonah Fredrick joined ACMRS as its full-time Assistant Director in May 2014. She earned her doctorate in Hispanic Literature at Stony Brook University and her research focuses on the impact of the Early Modern Period in Latin America and on the effects of the Spanish and Portuguese conquests on the Native American peoples and on Africans in the New World. She is particularly interested in the manifestations of Pre-Columbian religion in epics authored in Latin America in the 16th-18th centuries, and issues of cultural survival and religious syncretism. Sharonah speaks four languages fluently: Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew and English, with some Arabic as well. She also enjoys exploring the world of Celtic pre-Christian myth, and the medieval literature of Sephardic Jewish culture, both before and after the 1492 expulsion, in Spain and the New World. Sharonah has an Ph.D in Latin American Colonial and Indigenous Literature from SUNY Stony Brook, an MA in Renaissance and Medieval History from Tel Aviv University, as well as a BA in Latin American Anthropology from SUNY Buffalo, and a TEFL English Teaching Certificate from the International TEFL Teachers Consortium (ITTO) in Guadalajara, Mexico.


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Man charged with alleged crimes against estranged wife faces more felonies
HARDIN — A man charged last week in Jersey County after allegedly kidnapping and assaulting his estranged wife, now faces three more felony charges in a second jurisdiction.
Monday, the Calhoun County State's Attorney's Office charged suspect Jonathan S. Trexler, 36, of Bunker Hill, with aggravated kidnapping, a Class X felony; aggravated battery, a Class 3 felony; and unlawful possession of a controlled substance, a Class 4 felony.
A judge set bond of $500,000.
According to the warrant at the Calhoun County Circuit Clerk's Office, Trexler allegedly kidnapped his wife, 39, who lives in Jersey County; hit her in the head with a wine bottle; and possessed less than 15 grams of a substance containing cocaine.
Trexler also has a $500,000 bond on the following three felony charges that Jersey County State's Attorney Ben Goetten issued against him Friday: aggravated kidnapping, home invasion and aggravated criminal sexual abuse.
Trexler is in custody at Jersey County Jail. He has a preliminary court appearance Tuesday in Calhoun County Court.
Authorities arrested Trexler on Thursday in Calhoun County following a standoff, during which they first rescued his wife from a trailer.
The woman's family had reported her missing Thursday, after she had not been seen since Wednesday morning. She also had not picked up her two children from school in rural Jersey County on Wednesday afternoon. Jonathan Trexler last had been seen Wednesday afternoon in Roxana.
The woman's family feared the man had abducted her and worried for her safety. Jersey County court records show she had filed for divorce this year.
Members of the Jersey County Sheriff's Department, Illinois State Police, FBI and other agencies participated in the investigation and search for the couple, interviewing the woman's neighbors and then finding her vehicle.
"Shortly after securing that scene, more officers were sent to a property in Calhoun County where we received information that Jonathan Trexler may be at a friend's place over there," according to a press release the Jersey County Sheriff's Department issued last week, not specifying the location.
"Jonathan's truck was located in a pole-type barn on that same property," it continues. "Officers continued to search said property, finding a trailer. Officers secured the perimeter and began a dialogue over a loud speaker with Jonathan."
The law enforcement contingent located the woman and took her from the area to be treated for any injuries she may have suffered.
"A standoff continued with Jonathan for a period of time," the release says. "Eventually he was taken into custody."
Editor's note: It is the policy of The Telegraph to not identify victims of alleged sex crimes.
Reach Linda N. Weller at 618-208-6450 or on Twitter @Linda_Weller


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Tony Award winner and 'Cheers' actor Roger Rees dies aged 71
NEW YORK – Roger Rees, the Tony Award-winning British stage actor who had roles in US television hits including "Cheers" and "The West Wing", died on Friday aged 71, his representative said on Saturday.
Rees' representative Rick Miramontez did not provide further details.
Rees' performance in title role in the Royal Shakespeare Company's "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" won him an Olivier Award and a Tony in the early 1980s.
Born in Aberystwyth, Wales in 1944, Rees spent more than 20 years with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He also took on major television and film roles, including the 1993 spoof "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" and "The Scorpion King" in 2002.
In the US television series "Cheers", he played the affluent Brit Robin Colcord and in "The West Wing" he was British ambassador Lord John Marbury. -Reuters


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Transition Care & Care Assist Programs
The Fund is partnering with Innovative Healthcare Delivery (IHD) to provide a Transition Care Program and a Care Assist Program for participants who are scheduled for an outpatient procedure or have been admitted to the hospital. This new benefit helps you navigate the health care system and stay healthy to avoid hospital readmission.
Here's How it Works
Transition Care Program: IHD will contact you if you have been admitted to a hospital to assist with coordinating your post-discharge care. Or, if you know you are going to be admitted, call 1-800-554-0281 to arrange for assistance in advance. The IHD staff is comprised of experienced professionals—called Navigation Specialists—who understand the Fund's benefits and the complexities of the health care system. They advocate on your behalf to ensure your pathway to recovery is free of any obstacles.
Care Assist Program (CAP): If you are scheduled for an outpatient procedure, call 1-800-554-0281 for help with medications, coordinating your medical records between providers, scheduling check-ups and evaluations, and setting up durable medical equipment needed for the recovery process.
IHD Services
- General assistance with post-discharge needs. IHD's Navigation Specialists are available to answer questions and provide support.
- Schedule medical appointments. IHD can schedule your follow-up doctor visits, as well as facilitate communication and coordinate care with your providers.
- Locate health care providers. If you need care your provider doesn't offer, IHD can locate appropriate alternate providers.
- Coordinate delivery of medical records. IHD can have your medical records delivered to your doctor for follow-up appointments.
- Assist with community resources. IHD can connect you with community resources to facilitate your care and recovery.
- Coordinate prescription fills. Discharged patients often require one or more medications. IHD can help get your prescriptions filled and see that you receive them.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Does IHD have nurses or doctors that can help me? IHD does not provide medical care. IHD assists patients in coordinating their care with doctors and other services that are available. IHD is your advocate in health care.
- When should I contact IHD? You can contact IHD anytime, but especially if you have been, or know you are going to be, admitted to the hospital. This way IHD can help ensure you experience a smooth transition home.
- What services does IHD provide? IHD can help schedule medical appointments, refer patients to programs and resources, and find health care providers that suit your needs. See above for more information.


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Day trips to Kinver
7.5 hour return trip to the lovely historic village of Kinver along the Stourbridge & Staffs & Worcs Canal. Boat leaves The Bonded Warehouse at 10am and returns at approx. 6pm with a two hour stop off at Kinver at lunchtime beside the popular Vine Inn. Bar also onboard.
Adults £13, Senior Citizens & Children £12, Family Ticket £42.
Visit www.canalboattripsstourbridge.co.uk email: firstname.lastname@example.com or tel: 01384 375912/07889 908090
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The Erasmus+ Project INCLUDE is started!
INCLUDE (ICT, Non-formal learning, Creativity and Life Skills. Universal Democracy for Entrepreneurship) is a 26-month European project to share best practices among 4 schools in 4 different countries: LICEO CLASSICO DANTE ALIGHIERI, Ravenna, Italy (coordinator); AOC DE GROENE WELLE, Zwolle, The Netherlands; ŠIAULIŲ LIEPORIŲ GIMNAZIJA, Siauliai,Lithuania; 4° GENIKO LYKEIO KALAMATAS, Kalamata, Greece.
- Being aware of a multicultural world
- Giving more possibilities to disadvantaged people
- Promoting citizenship
- Increasing Right, Respect and Responsibility for all cultures
- Combatting discriminations
- Researching and experimenting innovative techniques
- Developing skills for the changing world
- Supporting ICT-based teaching
- Introducing more non-formal and informal activities
- Giving more space to creativity
- Strengthening the critical thinking
- Placing the student at the centre of learning process
- Creating a cooperative teaching and learning environment
- Motivating teachers and students
- Enhancing European cooperation and reinforcing networks
- Stimulating students and teachers to cooperate
We aim at improving the knowledge in:
- Use of technology as an educational tool (I)
- Non formal learning (N)
- Creativity, critical thinking, problem solving (C)
- Laws and citizenship (L)
- Universal Declarations of Human Rights (U)
- Democracy (D)
- Equality (E)
- Philosophy and Ethics
- Multidisciplinary approaches
- Use of CLIL
- Literacy in Science, Technology and Mathematics


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WESTAMPTON — A fight involving more than 100 people broke out early Sunday morning at the Rancocas Community Center and resulted in $800 worth of damage and five arrests, police said.
Police were sent to the center on Main Street on a report of shots fired and a large fight, police said.
When they arrived about 12:25 a.m., police found more than 100 people acting disorderly and "jumping on top of vehicles," police said.
As officers cleared the crowd, police saw a 16-year-old juvenile and three other people fighting with a security guard, police said.
Police said the security guard told them that the four individuals were the culprits and were threatening people with a gun.
Police then arrested the 16-year-old juvenile from Willingboro; Darius Gonzalez, 19, also from Willingboro; Xavier Braswell, 19, of Phoenixville, Pa.; and Brian Richardson, 20, of Burlington, police said.
Police said they also arrested Aljawaun Silvera, 18, of Edgewater Park.
Police said no weapon was located, and the four adults were charged with obstruction and underage consumption of alcohol. The juvenile also was charged but was released to his mother, police said.
Police said the center, which is a converted firehouse, sustained about $800 worth of damage.
The center was being rented out for a party, police said.


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The Conway Library supports the learning needs of Reception to Year 12 students of St Dominic's Priory College in the following ways:
- Focussing on the three elements of Inquiry Learning pedagogy:
- Questioning frameworks
- Information seeking processes
- The Action Research cycle.
This is accomplished through the planning and teaching of curriculum based research units with subject teachers.
- Empowering students for life-long learning by nurturing in our students a value of learning, and encouraging them to be discerning in their pursuit of knowledge. Our focus on Inquiry Learning and Information Literacy prepares students for the new demands of the information society of the 21st Century.
- Promoting the appreciation of reading and literature, through displays, extended reading lists, writers-in-residence, book talks and literature units of study
- Supporting the Senior Study program by providing a peaceful environment conducive to the development of good study habits. The staff also offer individual support and assistance to students.
- Developing and maintaining a collection of resources in a variety of formats to enrich and support the curriculum
- Establishing a presence on DomNet, the College's intranet, so that students are able to access information both at school and home, about the operation of the library, research skills, reading suggestions, and links to useful web sites.


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Q: Tell us a little bit about THE BITTER SEASON.
A: In THE BITTER SEASON I return to my old friends, Minneapolis homicide detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska. Nikki has left Homicide to be part of the new cold case unit, a move she's making to be able to spend more time with her two sons. Her first case is the twenty-five year old unsolved murder of a decorated sex crimes detective. Meanwhile, Sam is having to adjust to life without Liska, and having to break in a new partner. Their first big call-out is a brutal double homicide—a university professor and his wife who have been killed with antique ninja and samurai warrior weapons from the professor's collection.
Q: Ninja and Samurai warriors? Where did that come from?
A: I have long had a fascination with ancient warrior cultures. One of my passions is mixed martial arts fighting, and of course, the heart of martial arts goes back to the principles and disciplines of those cultures. So this was my chance to indulge and to share my knowledge with readers.
Q: Kovac and Liska have been partners for a long time. How are they adjusting to their new roles?
A: The change is hard for Nikki because she's an adrenaline junkie. She misses the urgency of working a fresh homicide. She's also a very social animal. She misses the oddball camaraderie of her Homicide team. Life is much quieter in Cold Case, and she has to work with a misogynist dinosaur on top of that, but these are the sacrifices she's willing to make for her family.
Kovac's adjustment is different. He and Nikki have forged a partnership that is almost like a marriage. He misses her. He even misses her nagging him about his smoking. Also, his new partner, Taylor, is damn near perfect—young, handsome, smart—which Kovac finds irritating in the extreme.
Q: Family is a strong theme in this book, but not necessarily happy families.
A: Happy families are boring to write about. I prefer complex characters. I love delving into the psychology of the characters and the dynamics of their relationships. We are all a product of our pasts and of the impact our relationships have on us. I've known many people who grew up in difficult family situations or were tossed some terrible curve balls by life. The interesting thing is to see the choices they made in those circumstances. Did they let that baggage drag them down, or did they find a way to move past and rise above?
Q: THE BITTER SEASON opens with the murder of Ted Duffy, who is shot from a distance. One minute he's chopping firewood and the next he's dead on the ground. But the murders of Professor Chamberlain and his wife are up close and horrific. How do you decide how much of that violence to show the reader?
A: I am of the firm belief that violence should be depicted for what it is. It should be shocking and sickening. I never write violence for the sake of violence, but I want people to read a scene like that and be shocked and sobered by it. I want them to think: "oh, my God, what if this happened to me?" The seemingly impersonal nature of Ted Duffy's death is shocking in how simple and efficient it is. The murder of the Chamberlains is everyone's worst fear: faceless evil invading the place we should feel most safe—our home.
Q: Does living in the head of a character that would commit a crime like the murder of the Chamberlains keep you up at night?
A: Not at all. I'm very good at compartmentalizing and keeping those dark characters at arm's length. What literally keeps me up at night is work, because I often work very late when the world is quiet and there are no interruptions.
Q: The plot of THE BITTER SEASON interweaves several stories and a host of characters. Did you map that all out before you started the book?
A: No. I'm a seat-of-the-pants writer—a pantster, if you will. I knew some key points of each storyline going in, but I write an outline. I need the story to progress organically or I get bored. I want to be surprised. Somehow it all comes together in the end, and along the way I learn things about my characters I might never have if I had made a blueprint from the beginning.
Q: For example?
A: For example: Early on in THE BITTER SEASON, Liska goes to the home of Barbie Duffy, her victim's widow, and Barbie makes an off the cuff remark about her oldest daughter. At that point, I hadn't thought about the role of that daughter at all, but she ended up being an important character.
Q: You say that as if you were having a conversation with a real person: "Barbie makes an off the cuff remark." But the remark was what you wrote. How could that be a surprise?
A: That's a very good question. That's the mystical-magical part of this process for me. As I envision a scene, I feel like I'm watching a movie in my head. I'm watching these characters and writing down the things they say and do. If it feels like I'm trying to put words in their mouth, I know I'm going down the wrong road. I want the characters to tell me the story. That's when the story feels genuine and authentic.
Q: Do you not feel in control of what's going on during the writing process?
A: The notion of control is stifling to my creativity—and mind you, I am, in all other areas of my life, a serious control freak. I want the direction of the story to be dictated by the characters, not by me.
Q: So, you must have been one of those kids with imaginary friends, right?
A: Not in the "set a plate at the dinner table for my imaginary friend, please" kind of way. But I always had characters living in my head. I was always imagining elaborate stories.
Q: What advice do you have for aspiring writers?
A: Write. I hear from a lot of people who believe they have a story to tell but they're intimidated by the blank page. Just start and keep going. It doesn't have to be perfect on the first try, but you have to get it on the page. You can always change it, improve it, rearrange it later. Then, once you have a story and think you want to send your baby out into the big world, you have to educate yourself about the business of publishing. Writing is an art, but publishing is a business with specific rules and requirements. You might have the next great American novel, but if you don't know where to send it or how to present it, you won't succeed.
Q: Do you have any rituals to get yourself in the mood to write?
A: Yeah. It's called Put My Butt In The Chair and Get To Work. That's what it means to be a working writer. You sit down and you work.
Q: What do you do when you get stuck?
A: Get up and move around. I brainstorm on a giant white board. That usually helps. Sometimes I have to just walk away and go do something else—ride a horse, work out, go see a movie. But you can't make a habit of that or you won't get anything done.
Q: What distracts you most when you're trying to work?
A: Let the dogs out, let the dogs in. Let the dogs out, let the dogs in.


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Elsie the Cow escaped from her pen at Mayfest in Fort Worth earlier this afternoon.
The mascot of the Borden Company was on display for Borden Milk when she got loose from her handlers and wandered into the wooded area nearby.
A train that runs through Forest Park was stopped so as to not further spook the heifer.
The latest news from around North Texas.
We're happy to report Elsie is now safely back in her enclosure.


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Your first move is - never venture out without a Shopping List and all the Coupons or Vouchers you can find.
Make this your golden rule. See our tip below - No. 15.
If you use your credit card for payment of your supermarket bill set a pre-determined target and write your List with this in mind.
If you make a point of using this Credit Card on every possible occasion, you will soon reap a large cash bonus. Just make sure you settle the credit card payment in full every month.
If your cash situation is really serious take a small calculator with you and click the price as you put each item in your trolley.
Most Supermarkets offer the 'own brand' products. These are usually very good value, compare well with branded goods, and are always much cheaper.
A Shopping List will help keep you focused.
Keep your List in a convenient place at home and jot down any item when you are running short. This simple idea will cut down on the number of shopping trips you have to make to the shops.
The weekly supermarket spend is now at its highest price for 18 years, so.....the following easy, money-saving tips will help to lessen your bill:
Here we are helping you to shop smarter, so take a look at our
new page.
Here you will find an easy-to-read Food Index which lists all the foods that are healthier and cheaper for you. Really easy!
1. If you shop at Tesco, as well as your shopping list take several of your own carrier bags. They give bonus points for every one of your own bags that you use. These mount up and are paid quarterly. The money you receive will go towards paying your next shopping bill. What goes around, comes around.
2. Make sure you look to the top shelves and the bottom shelves as this is where you will find the cheaper goods. The higher priced, popular items are always in the centre eye catching position. Helping you shop smarter again!
ALSO learn to work the edges of the supermarket. You will mostly find all the fresh, cheaper items such as greengrocery, meat and fish on the 'edges' of the supermarket. The expensive, processed items are usually in the centre.
3. Always make a quick, final check on your bill before you leave the supermarket. Check-out operators are only human, and they do make mistakes.
4. Always look in the 'Reduced to Clear' section first when you are shopping and take advantage of any meat or fish that is available. Take a look at
the recipes
which should help you here. Take advantage of any of these cheaper items that you may see, mentally doing a quick revision of your planned menu for that day or week, if necessary. Helping you shop smarter again.
5. If you are an imaginative cook, take a look at the list of ingredients on any M & S ready meals. You should find it relatively easy to work out just how they achieve their high-class results.
6. Probably the most expensive time of the year is
so read our tips. has masses of tips. Helping you shop smarter again.
7. Many food manufacturers prepare large batches of a specific food, i.e., duck a l'orange. This same recipe and batch is used to fulfill orders for Tesco, Waitrose, Asda etc. The only difference is in the outer packaging and the pricing. The contents are the same in all three cases. Watch prices - don't be caught out. Don't be fooled. Helping you shop smarter again.
8. This also applies to fruit and vegetables when they are being packed. The goods are all the same, coming off the same production/packing line. The only difference is in the prices charged and the bags being changed from Asda, Tesco, Waitrose. This has been seen - Fair Trade bananas on sale in Tesco - £1.00. Exactly the same number of bananas on the exact same day in Waitrose £1.50. Helping you shop smarter again.
9. Some of the minor supermarkets (Aldi, Netto - now sold to ASDA - and Lidl) operate to a small percentage mark-up, 3 or 4%. compared with likes of Tesco, Sainsbury etc., where the mark-up can be as high at 10%. This naturally affects the prices on the shelves. In addition, these minor supermarkets sell the goods directly from the cases they arrive in, every inch of floor space is used, and the stores are very basic. This is reflected in the cheap prices. Waitrose really is the most expensive supermarket, but they are now (Sept. 2010) pledging they will match Tesco prices on 1,000 standard items such as Heinz Baked Beans and Persil. Aldi is moving very much up-market but is still providing down-to-earth prices.
10. Buy English vegetables when in season not expensive imported beans, etc., flown in from far away places. The English produce will be fresher. Helping you shop smarter again.
Better still go to
Our Gardening Diary
and find out how to 'grow your own' vegetables and soft fruit. Nothing tastes better than produce harvested from the garden and cooked straight away.
11. Bottled water costs 500% more than tap water. Just refill the bottle from the kitchen tap instead of wasting your money. Helping you shop smarter again.
12. Some 'special offers' are not so 'special'. During May you will be able find fantastic offers on frozen garden peas, often three packs for just more than the price of a single pack. This may be due to the fact that these peas can be nearly a year old and harvesting of the new crop is only weeks away. Beware. Helping you shop smarter again.
13. Think about using the
Barter System.
14. If you are prepared to venture into the so-called world of 'sell by dates', take a look at Food Bargains to see what you can find.
Another very good site is Approved Food Both sites sell food that has reached the sell by date, but they specialise in tinned goods and other foods that haver a longer shelf date life. Shopping made easy again.
15. It is also worth keeping your eyes on
On-line Discount Vouchers
Plan your meals for the week ahead then you will know exactly what you need to buy. Again - you will save time and money the easy way.
Make sure you don't shop on an empty stomach – pangs of hunger will lead you to buy food that you 'instantly' fancy. A bad move!
Also, perish the thought, this is the easy way to put on unwanted weight.
If you can leave the children at home, It is easier for you to concentrate and avoid the latest-as-seen-on-TV-junk-food.
If they should be with you – remember you hold the purse strings. Learn a two-lettered word - 'No'. You may well be doing them a double favour - less sugar to damage their teeth and less fat and salt to ruin their young figures. Obesity in children is on the increase, so watch their figures as well as yours!
Soooo...... When you are on a shopping expedition - be firm - the budget is at stake. Think of the state of your bank balance!
As you walk around the store with your Shopping List to hand take the easy way - imagine you are wearing a pair of blinkers so that you do not deviate from the list. The 'Reduced to Clear' shelf is the only deviation. This is where the real bargains can be found. Helping you shop smarter again.
If you are familiar with the layout of the store and you are able to write your list out in the order of items that you will pass, this will also help you. You will be less tempted to look around at the other items.
If you have a Tesco Credit Card use it where ever you possibly can on all other purchases. You will be rewarded by extra points on your Club Card statement. BUT do make a point of settling the amount due on your card each month, otherwise this tip will be pointless. Helping you shop smarter again.
Also, if you shop with either Tesco or Sainsbury you can send money direct into your savings account from the checkout. So if you save on your shopping bill, send that amount direct into your savings account.
It is possible to save time by ordering goods on line, but the downside is that some shoppers reckon that some fresh goods ordered from a supermarket in this way are less than fresh when they are delivered. It may be a case of experimentation.
If you do order goods on line from Tesco and order goods to be delivered during the week, you can save up to £1.75 on weekend charges. Helping you shop smarter again.
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WASHINGTON — American broadband is slow and expensive. But Masayoshi Son wants to help.
Mr. Son, the founder of SoftBank, the Japanese technology and telecommunications giant, took an unusual tack in a rare address to an American audience on Tuesday, saying that he wants to rescue the United States from broadband oblivion.
What he really wants, of course, is to merge Sprint, which he took control of last year in a $21.6 billion deal, with T-Mobile. But American regulators have told him that the prospects are not good for joining the third- and fourth-largest mobile phone companies.
In a speech at the United States Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Son said that wireline and wireless broadband service for two-thirds of American consumers was currently a monopoly or duopoly. "Pseudo-competition," he said, "is not the solution."
The address was a remarkable combination of patriotic appeal — a slide show regularly featured a backdrop of the American flag — a biographical sketch of his hardscrabble upbringing in a working-class family, and recognition of his achievements at the University of California, Berkeley, and as a businessman in Japan.
With a fortune estimated by Forbes at $18.4 billion, he is the richest person in Japan and 42nd wealthiest in the world. Before the dot-com bubble popped in 2000, he noted, "I was richer than Bill Gates for three days."
Mr. Son said he believed it was unacceptable for the United States to rank 15th out of 16 large economies in the world for wireless broadband speed but to have the second-most-expensive cost to consumers.
"It's not the case that American consumers pay more because Americans use more data" than wireless customers in the rest of the world, Mr. Son said, rejecting a standard argument used by wireless companies.
Japanese consumers use an average of 1.5 gigabytes of data a month, while Americans use 1 gigabyte, he said. But, he added, Americans also pay $52 per gigabyte on average, versus $30 in Japan.
In a television interview on Monday with Charlie Rose, Mr. Son said if he were successful with his bid to acquire T-Mobile, he would start a "massive price war" among wireless companies.
But after his formal remarks on Tuesday, Mr. Son told reporters that he could not start such a price war on his own, at least with Sprint at its current size.
"We have the spectrum; we have the technology," Mr. Son said. "But we need scale efficiency to make an investment in the network." Sprint currently has a negative cash flow, he said. "We can start a small fight but it does not scale, it does not last, it's not sustainable," he said. "We need to have a real fight — a long and deep and heavy fight. And for that we need scale."
SoftBank also announced Tuesday that it was opening a Washington office to be run by Bruce Gottlieb, who formerly served as chief counsel at the Federal Communications Commission and who, most recently, served as general counsel and senior vice president for corporate strategy at Atlantic Media.
Ronald Fisher, president of SoftBank Holdings, said: "Last year, we made the largest ever foreign investment by a Japanese company in the United States and we expect Bruce will play a key role in helping us manage the investments we have made in the U.S. mobile Internet industry."


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The 4th Annual Mudskipper Race in Magalia
|June 25, 2011 from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
Biking, running, obstacles courses, and an infamous mud pit! The Mudskipper takes place on June 25, 2011 at 9:00am located at the beautiful Meadowbrook Ranch 15424 Skyway, Magalia, CA. The course is comprised of 2 separate course loops, one running (1.25mi) and the other a bike course (2mi). Teams of 2 leap frog between the running and biking courses and must tackle a different obstacle at each transition. In order to reach the finish line the team must conquer a deep mud pit together. The basic course consists of each team member completing 2 loops of the running(2.5mi) and biking courses (4mi), the advanced course is 4 loop completion, and the youth course is 1/2 of the basic course. Race costs $30 before June 10, or $40 after, and includes race t-shirt, race, and post-race meal for participants. To register online visit www.active.com or Trailhead Adventures in Paradise (530) 877-6876.


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Los Angeles, Oct 15 (IANS) Actress Sunny Leone celebrated the birthday of the "light of our lives" — Nisha Kaur Weber, who she adopted in July.
Sunny and her husband Daniel Weber adopted the child from Latur in Maharashtra.
Daniel took to Twitter on Saturday to share a video showing the preparations the couple did to "surprise" Nisha.
"Surprising your baby girl for her second birthday. Priceless. Love you forever Nisha Kaur Weber," Daniel wrote alongside the video.
Later, Sunny took to the micro-blogging site and tweeted: "Such an amazing day today to see all our friends and family. Our baby girl turns 2. The light of our lives! Happy birthday Nisha Kaur Weber."
On Friday, Daniel also shared a photograph of himself with Sunny on Instagram and wrote: "Disneyland. Nisha's birthday. Amazing day."
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