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By BetterRide Founder Gene Hamilton
In a culture of more, now, faster, we all want to improve quickly. In mountain biking this means we want to corner faster, climb faster, bunny hop higher and be able to ride technical terrain better, now! As a mtb racer and a coach I am always looking for ways to improve my riding and my coaching too and like you, the faster the better. The funny thing is, we ignore, gloss over and just don't want to talk about the thing that really holds us back from reaching our goals in all aspects of life. Our focus tends to be on the physical; "what are the mechanics of a j-hop?", "what should my body position be in a corner?", "will these lighter wheels will make me faster?", when it is our mind that is holding us back. We subtly sabotage our efforts with negative and often flat out BS thoughts. I have posted on this before, but I was wrong about the best way to get ourselves to actually perform at the highest level we are capable of.
In our camps and previous posts we have focused on positive and negative "self-talk" and how powerful both are. Negative self-talk ("I am a decent descender, but suck at climbing"), is probably the number one thing holding most riders back. In the past we have stressed the value of positive self-talk ("I am a good descender and getting better at climbing with practice.") which is far and away better than negative self talk, but turns out not near as good as interrogative self-talk. Interrogative self-talk is asking, "Can I do this?" which changes your self-talk from declarative statement, "I am a great climber" to a question, "Can I climb this?". The first statement, "I am a great climber" will give you an emotional lift but the question, "Can I climb this?" will lead to a response, "Well I climbed a steeper, rockier hill in Moab last week.". Then you are likely to remind yourself of how you have prepared for just such a climb, "Of course I can climb this, I have increased my power by 15% in the last two months of training and I have have been practicing my climbing techniques…". Then you are likely to give yourself some advice, "last week in Moab I resisted the urge to try and sprint the lower part of the climb and maintained a slower cadence which really helped my balance in the loose stuff". Positive self-talk makes you feel good and possibly confident while interrogative self-talk prompts you to come up with ways to accomplish the task.
Before or during your next ride, instead of declaring your abilities with positive self-talk simply ask yourself, "can I do this?". The best time for self-talk is before a ride or when you have stopped to either rest or access a trail feature. A lot of self-talk while riding leads to not being in the moment which can cause mistakes and crashes.
For more information read: "Motivating Goal-Directed Behavior Through Introspective Self Talk: The Role of the Interrogative Form Simple Future Tense," Psychological Science 21, no. 4 (April 2010), Ibrahim Senay, Dolores Albarracin, and Kenji Noguchi .

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Two Wabash professors will use a grant from the National Science Foundation to study pedagogical approaches to help students in the sciences retain more knowledge.
Chemistry Professors Ann Taylor and Wally Novak were awarded a National Science Foundation grant in the fall of 2011 in excess of $125,000 to analyze and implement methods to increase knowledge retention.
The Chemistry Department started a program dubbed QUACK approximately a decade ago. QUACK stands for Questions Assessing Chemical Knowledge. Chemistry professors include a five-point bonus question at the end of tests which measures retention from previous courses.
The average score on those bonus questions range from 25 to 80 percent percent, Taylor said.
"We thought about ways we could take that and implement it in biochemistry," Taylor explained. "One of the reasons biochemistry is an ideal class is because it's kind of a capstone for the minors. They've taken four other courses in chemistry and it's kind of their last course. It's a good point for juniors to remember what they learned, because it's a year before they're up for comprehensive exams.
"It seems like pretty much every day in class we end up saying, 'Remember when we did … whatever?'" Taylor and Novak agreed the responses they get from students suggest they do not recall in great detail what they learned prior to biochemistry.
The three-year grant will begin by assessing student knowledge in biochemistry. Materials developed by faculty at Seattle University will be used in assessment during the first year. Taylor, who begins a year-long sabbatical at the University of Tennessee this summer, will be working to review data and write materials for coming classes. In the grant's third year, both professors will test theories in the classroom aimed at retention — based on the first-year assessment and second-year dive into the research.
"We'll be sharing the research and asking others if they'd like to try it," Taylor said. "Then we want to see if it works for other people. Will it work in bigger classrooms like Purdue or the University of Tennessee?"
The research should also be applicable across disciplines. "Biochemistry has been late to this," Novak said. "The idea is to send students back into the literature to reinforce previously learned concepts. Anything we bring to biochem should be applicable across other fields as well."
Taylor admits frustration for having to repeat material in higher-level classes, and Novak agreed. But both stress the benefit of helping students retain more of what they learn in their early college years.
"We're successful teachers only when our students are successful when they leave here," Novak said. "The better prepared our students are, the more successful they will be. We're interested in seeing students succeed. We're interested in seeing students get into great graduate schools, great medical schools, and one of the ways we can do that is having better learning experiences and helping them retain that information."


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Falcons hold off fumble-prone Redskins 27-26
ATLANTA – Desmond Trufant deflected Kirk Cousins' pass on a potential winning 2-point conversion with 18 seconds remaining, and the Atlanta Falcons edged the Washington Redskins 27-26 on Sunday.
The Falcons scored 20 points off seven Washington turnovers. The Redskins tied a team record with five lost fumbles.
Cousins passed for 381 yards and three touchdowns but had three turnovers in his first start of the season after coach Mike Shanahan decided to bench Robert Griffin III. Griffin watched from the sideline.
Cousins' touchdown pass to Santana Moss gave Washington a chance to force overtime by kicking the extra point. Instead, Cousins' attempted go-ahead 2-point pass for Pierre Garcon was deflected by Trufant.
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Married actor Armie Hammer is glad to be through with dating because one ex-girlfriend once tried to leave her mark on the actor by stabbing him in the bedroom.
The 26-year-old "The Lone Ranger" star wed TV personality Elizabeth Chambers in 2010 when most guys his age were still partying and boasting about their sexual conquests, but he insists he was happy to put single life behind him following one dangerous encounter with a former lover.
He tells Elle magazine, "I like the idea of marriage. I like the idea that I have a best friend. It's just really comforting. I remember being single and trying to date, and it was just stressful and hard. It wasn't fun…
"One chick tried to stab me when we were having sex. I should so not be telling this story. She was like, 'True love leaves scars. You don't have any.' And then she tried to stab me with a butcher knife. Of course I promptly broke up with her… seven months later."


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* Alirocumab cuts LDL-C by 47.2 pct vs 15.6 pct for Zetia
* Small clinical trial is just one of 12 to run until 2018
* Sanofi, Regeneron hope to seek drug approval by late 2015
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NEW YORK/PARIS (Reuters) - A new type of cholesterol drug from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc and Sanofi SA, when used by itself, cut levels of "bad" LDL cholesterol almost in half in the first of a dozen late-stage trials of the medicine.
The injectable drug, called alirocumab, is from a promising new class of medicines called PCSK9 inhibitors also being developed by Amgen Inc and other drugmakers. It has been touted by industry analysts as a potential blockbuster that could bring annual sales of over $3 billion.
These man-made antibodies block a protein that prevents the body from eliminating LDL cholesterol from the bloodstream and offer a new way of fighting the build-up of artery-clogging fatty deposits that put patients at risk of heart attacks.
They work differently from widely-used statins - pills that inhibit the liver's production of LDL cholesterol in the first place, and to which some patients don't respond well.
In earlier mid-stage studies, when combined with statins, alirocumab and Amgen's own PCSK9 drug cut levels of LDL cholesterol by close to 70 percent, more than statins alone.
But the Phase III study unveiled on Wednesday involved patients who either took just alirocumab, or just Merck & Co Inc's cholesterol drug Zetia (ezetimibe) - a pill often used by patients who cannot tolerate statins, whose side effects can include muscle pain.
In this 103-patient study, alirocumab, which has to be self-injected every two weeks, reduced levels of LDL cholesterol by 47.2 percent after 24 weeks of treatment, compared to 15.6 percent in those taking daily 10-milligram doses of ezetimibe.
"What we're seeing in the first Phase III trial of our drug is in line with what we saw in Phase II," George Yancopoulos, Regeneron's research chief, said in an interview.
"The good news here is there were no surprises, and that it supports the good efficacy and safety profile we've seen to date."
Patients taking alirocumab started out with a low 75-milligram dose every two weeks, but this was increased to 150 milligrams at week 12 if their LDL levels at week eight were above 70. Most patients, however, remained on the low dose throughout the study because they got their LDL levels below that threshold - an aggressive LDL target - by the eighth week.
"It shows that a low dose, when used as a monotherapy, can be quite effective," Yancopoulos said, noting that no worrisome side effects were seen in the study nor in earlier trials.
Shares in Sanofi, which rose 0.8 percent in early trade, were down 0.8 percent at 1150 GMT, roughly in line with the STOXX Europe 600 Healthcare index.
Citi analyst Andrew Baum said the monotherapy data was "incrementally positive" but further trials on targeted patient groups, such as patients with high cardiovascular risk, were needed to really assess the drug's utility.
Patients in the so-called Odyssey Mono trial had high cholesterol levels but were deemed to have only moderate cardiovascular risk due to the absence of many other risk factors.
The Odyssey Mono study is the first of 12 Phase III trials on some 23,000 patients and the drug's ultimate success will depend on longer-term studies, some of which will only give results in around five years. But Sanofi and Regeneron are hoping positive trial data could be enough to get the drug approved for some patients and on the market before then.
PCSK9 drugs are mainly aimed at the millions of people who either cannot tolerate statins such as Pfizer Inc's Lipitor or AstraZeneca Plc's Crestor or who cannot get their cholesterol levels under control with statins alone.
Yancopoulos said Regeneron and Sanofi hope to seek regulatory approvals by late 2015 for their drug, for use by itself and with statins.
Yancopoulos said Amgen's rival drug might reach market soon after alirocumab, or even before. But he predicted neither drug would have much of an advantage by getting approved first.
"But we're hoping to have bragging rights for the first approval," Yancopoulos said.
At an investor conference last month, Sanofi's CEO Chris Viehbacher said the drugmaker could look at nearly doubling its stake in Regeneron, voicing confidence in the drug's success. Sanofi holds about 16 percent of Regeneron.
Deutsche Bank analysts said in a report last month that the new drug could be priced at around $15 per day, comparable to the cost of injectable diabetes drugs known as GLP-1s, such as Novo Nordisk's Victoza.
"Today's results should go some way to building confidence in Sanofi's improving pipeline capability and in our view forms the first step to bridging credibility following recent poor financial results," Deutsche Bank wrote in a note on Wednesday.
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In this final installment of our Chemical Kinetics series, we will look at one of the major chemical syntheses of the modern era. This is a process that every single one of us has benefited from, whether we know it or not: ammonia synthesis. It has become one of the most studied reactions in history, its intricacies and complexities are the subject of several textbooks, and its history is a complex tale of good and evil.Read More
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The last two blog posts in the Chemical Kinetics series were concerned with modeling chemical reactions based on a particular set of parameters. While this is important and of great academic and industrial interest, the relevant parameters were assumed. Now, let's find out how to estimate the chemical parameters using COMSOL Multiphysics.Read More
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While the mathematical study of chemical reactions has been performed for more than a century, it is only fairly recently that the computational tools for numeric integration of rate equations have been widely available. The old adage of "necessity is the mother of all invention" holds true in this instance. Here, you will find a classical analysis of a non-trivial reaction system, and learn how the simplified solution compares with the "real" one.Read More
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Chemical reaction engineering is an interesting modeling challenge. At first glance, describing a reacting system seems to be very manageable. There remain, however, countless complications and pitfalls that make chemical simulations both challenging and rewarding. In this first post of a new blog series, we will introduce chemical kinetics in general and walk you through how you can use COMSOL software in chemical reaction engineering.Read More


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Sagetech Corporation introduces UAV Sniper, a highly accurate unmanned combat air vehicle armed with a 50-caliber sniper weapon system. For the first time, the tactical targeting precision of a field sniper team will be available in an unmanned aerial platform. Employing long-range communication links, a mature system will be operable day and night from control stations thousands of miles distant, undetectably placing sniper shots with perfect confidence.
The long range precision shooting skills of the military sniper team have found increasing utility in the urban combat environment of Iraq and sparsely populated regions of Afghanistan. Unfortunately, the speed and effectiveness of a sniper team is limited by the need to find concealed firing locations in range of the adversary. The remotely operated UAV Sniper system will remove this requirement while drastically increasing capability and keeping the shooter out of harms way.
The effectiveness of the UAV Sniper vehicle will not be measured simply by the number of casualties inflicted upon the enemy. Realization of the UAV Sniper's presence would instil fear in enemy troops and influence their decisions and actions. In a close air support role, the UAV Sniper would enhance a unit's firepower and augment their means for destruction and harassment of the enemy. This role becomes more significant when the target is entrenched or positioned among civilians where firing automatic weapons would result in the wounding or killing of non-combatants.
It kinda sounds like that gun used in the movie, "Shooter".
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Santa brought me a GPS.
He meant well.
Obviously, he and I have a slight communication problem. When I wrote "Travel" on my wish list, it didn't mean one of those little black boxes that talk to you and tell you where to go.
A year or so ago, I decided it was time to modern up and get one of those GPS things. The young man at Staples had been well taught by his mama. Even after an hour of my asking questions and making sure the GPS I was interested in really could direct me over the Atlanta freeway to the Georgian Hotel, he never once lost his temper.
He did get sort of glassy eyed, which was probably due to allergies.
It was a good thing the store has a tolerant return policy. The GPS I purchased, after much consideration, went back the next morning.
I reasoned that if I was driving and needed to watch out for traffic, road signs and such, there was no way I could check out what was going on with that GPS.
As far as I was concerned, it was back to maps and "turn right at the red pick up truck" kind of directions.
Daughter Tamela uses a GPS and I have been sitting right next to her when "the voice" says something like "Re compute" or "Take the first right and then the next first right."
Why doesn't it say "Turn around dummy as soon as you can. You missed the road".
I love maps. They come in all sizes and colors so you can see there are wonderful scenics waiting for you. The down side is that they are mostly outdated. Roads appear that aren't on the map and engineers have a peculiar sense of what is North and South compared to East and West.
My new gift of a GPS stayed in its pristine wrapping and moved from my car to the house and back again. Talk about procrastination. I'd read the instructions. Later.
Then, wouldn't you know, I needed to go to a shop in Charleston that is in one of those strip malls that are miserable to find.
With great trepidation, I unwrapped the box, managed to get the pieces of my GPS together and called son Boo, who talked me through setting it up. After all, he was the one who had advised Santa and started this adventure.
The female voice, I promptly named Miss Pris, was plain aggravating until we got the point where we needed her directions and then, it was sweet.
Now, if she can be programmed to figure out how to get to that restaurant in Mount Pleasant that I can't remember the name of or exactly where it is, that would be grand.
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Last-gasp Llera sinks Lions
Miguel Llera hit a late winner as Sheffield Wednesday extended their unbeaten run under Dave Jones to 17 matches with a 3-2 win over Millwall.
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The Spanish defender had already fired Wednesday level in the 68th minute when diverting the ball home from close range, and with the scores level at 2-2 heading into time added on, he pounced again from a rebound in the penalty area to grab the winner.
Goals from Millwall pair James Henry and Liam Trotter had given the visitors a 2-1 half-time lead after Owls winger Jermaine Johnson had put Jones's side ahead.
But Llera was the hero as Wednesday maintained their unbeaten start in the npower Championship following promotion in May.
Millwall midfielder Henry pulled the first chance of the game wide when well-placed inside the penalty area in the fourth minute, while Wednesday responded through winger Johnson, who thumped a 20-yard drive straight at visiting goalkeeper Maik Taylor.
Johnson cut in from his wing again to fire another angled effort wide soon after and, after Millwall had failed to heed the warning, the Jamaica international took advantage to blast the Owls into a 19th-minute lead.
This time drifting in from the left, Johnson took aim from the edge of the penalty area and found his range with a right-footed rocket which flew into the top corner.
Millwall wasted a gilt-edged chance to equalise soon after when defender Karleigh Osborne lashed a volley over the crossbar from 12 yards.
But 10 minutes before the break the Londoners were back on level terms. Striker Andy Keogh played the ball across the area from the right and Henry buried the ball into the top corner.
Wednesday midfielder Rhys McCabe's 20-yard effort was comfortably held by Taylor before the home side were rocked by Millwall's second.
Defender Alan Dunne this time supplied the cross from the right and Trotter applied a carbon-copy finish, slamming the ball beyond static Owls goalkeeper Chris Kirkland into the roof of the net.
Wednesday stormed out of the blocks at the start of the second half, winger Michail Antonio crashing a shot over the crossbar from the edge of the area, while Taylor kept out another angled effort from Johnson.
The home side laid seige on the Millwall goal for the next 15 minutes and after substitute striker Chris O'Grady's point-blank effort was brilliantly held by Taylor, the Owls finally forced the equaliser.
Antonio whipped in the ball in from out wide and central defender Llera stuck out a long leg to divert the ball home from six yards.
But Wednesday continued to swarm forward in search of the winner.
O'Grady, a 58th-minute replacement for Gary Madine, and new Spanish striker Rodri both fired in shots in quick succession before the latter volleyed over the crossbar.
As the game headed towards stoppage time O'Grady's shot following McCabe's free-kick was blocked by Lions defender Osbourne and when the ball broke loose six yards out, Llera lashed home the winner into the top corner.


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If you work with a projector, you should have a projector screen. Some people argue that having the screen is equivalent to using a wall, but this isn't the case. There are plenty of benefits that come with having the screen instead of a wall:
Advantages of the screen
Smooth image: When you use the screen you tend to have a smooth, crisp image. The reason for this is because the screens have a vinyl coating that allows the projector's light to be reflected back to the viewers. These sheets come in handy and significantly affect the picture qualities such as contrast, brightness, and viewing angle.
You can move them around: In addition to the units giving you a better view, they are also easy to move around; therefore, you can use them even in areas without walls.
Types of screens
When you are looking for the screens, there are many of them that you can go for. Some of the best ones are:
Fixed-frame: A fixed-frame screen features a screen material that is stretched over a metal frame. Since you don't have to roll the fixed screen up and down, you can maintain a tight, tensioned surface to provide you with a completely smooth image. The fixed units are also easy to install as you don't have to connect power to them.
Motorized: Also, known as retractable screens, these units are ideal for the movie time. The units easily roll up into a long metal case that you mount to the ceiling or wall. The most identifying feature of the unit is the case that houses a powerful electric motor that easily raises and lowers the screen at the touch of a button.
While the units are great, their main flaw is that they are more cumbersome to install. This is because you have to supply power to the electric motor. The units also feature a trigger input so that they lower themselves automatically as soon as turn on the projector.
Factors to consider when buying the screens
When purchasing the units, you need to consider a number of factors. One of these factors is the screen gain. This is simply the amount of light that is reflected back to the viewers. When the gain is high, there is more reflected light and as a consequence a brighter picture.
You also need to consider the screen color: This is solely dependent on your preference and the industry you are in. If you are looking for high-quality images, go with a white screen.


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This guide will show you how to jailbreak EVERY iOS device including the new iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C, iPad Air and iPad Mini 2 on iOS 7 to iOS 7.0.4. The Evasi0n Jailbreak is a really simple process, just make sure you watch the video and follow the steps carefully. Also, its VERY IMPORTANT to read all of the "Notes" in this post before you jailbreak. Make sure to share this with your friends so they can jailbreak their iOS device!
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I just installed the program on a new Win8 laptop and I'm encountering the following problem. I thought I was pretty good at running this program, but this is throwing me for a loop Program installed fine, I downloaded the updates (yes, including the LARGE update that took over 30 min to download), and everything appears to run just fine.
I opened a trip file that I transferred from my other system, a simple trip from CA to AK. I clicked Get Directions and I got the error message "Access Violation at address 03B5FB21 in module 'MP2013.OCX' Read of address 00000000."
I searched this forum for any thread that was possible addressing this, but couldn't find anything. So, I'm at a loss I tried running the program right-clicking, as administrator - just in case, but I got the same result.
My first thought was that the program is not compatible with Win8, but I saw others here that are running in Win8, so that can't be it. I uninstalled and re-installed twice already, and I'm willing to try any suggestions, at this point.


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Americans took to the Internet Thursday as tens of thousands signed petitions on sites pleading for Google Reader's life.
One of several on the Change.org online petition website had collected more than 63,000 signatures by 1:30 p.m. ET, less than 24 hours after Google announced that Reader and its RSS feed would vanish July 1.
Dan Lewis, the director of new media communications for Sesame Street, kicked off that petition Wednesday, calling on Google to reverse its retirement plans for Google Reader. "You're a huge corporation, with a market cap which rivals the GDP of nations," wrote Lewis. "Show us you care. Don't kill Google Reader."
Lewis declined an interview request Thursday, even as his petition was accumulating thousands of signatures each hour.
Others also took to Change.org, which listed at least six more petitions, their titles reflecting some serious angst. "Please do not shut down Google Reader," read one that had gathered nearly 4,000 signees in just hours. "Please don't kill Google Reader!" another with 4,800 signatures stated.
Even Change.org was impressed with the reaction, particularly to the petition started by Lewis.
"Getting 63,000 signatures on a petition in less than a day is extremely rare," said Charlotte Hill, Change.org's communications manager, in an email. "There are 20,000 petitions started every month on Change.org, and only a handful, if that, achieve that rate of growth."
Google announced Reader's death on Wednesday in a blog post that also IDed several other scrubbed projects. The company cited declining use of Reader for the decision.
That was likely true, but Reader fans -- or simply users, since many were connecting to Google's RSS feed through third-party applications or websites like Reeder on OS X, and Feedly on the Web -- reacted with alarm.
One user went to the trouble of registering the keepgooglereader.com domain yesterday to host a petition. "If Google won't keep Google Reader alive, then lets [sic] get them to open source the code and we will run it ourselves! Who is with me?" asked the site owner, Christopher McCann, of the U.K.
McCann's campaign had attracted nearly 24,000 signatures by 1:30 p.m. ET.
Someone even created a petition on the White House's We the People petition platform. But that petition was deleted by the White House, which said it violated the framework's terms.
One petition on Change.org asking Google to reconsider its death-to-Reader decision has collected more than 62,000 signatures in less than 24 hours.
Those terms forbid petitions "that advertise or call for the endorsement or purchase of commercial goods or services" as well as those "that do not address the current or potential actions or policies of the federal government."
It seems unlikely that Google will listen to consumers' calls to keep Reader and the RSS feed alive. "We've given an overview of our reasoning and plans on our blog posts ... and we'll be communicating directly with our users as we make these changes," a Google spokeswoman said in an email reply to a request for comment. "We don't have anything more to share than what was in the posts."
Brian Shih, who said he had once been Google Reader's project manager, noted that Google had tried to kill the service several times.
"Reader has been fighting for approval/survival at Google since long before I was a PM for the product," Shih wrote on Quora. "I'm pretty sure Reader was threatened with de-staffing at least three times before it actually happened. So with dwindling usefulness to Google Plus, (likely) dwindling or flattening usage due to being in maintenance, and Google's big drive to focus in the last couple of years, what choice was there but to kill the product?"
Meanwhile, users -- some who said they were "freaking out" even though the deadline was more than three months away -- have scrambled to find alternatives. Unfortunately, many of the most popular rely on the Reader RSS data stream.
A few, however, have said they'll adjust. Swiss developer Silvio Rizzi, the creator of Reeder for OS X and iOS, said, "Don't worry. Reeder won't die with Google Reader," on Twitter Thursday.
And Feedly, a Web-based RSS service with add-ons for Chrome, Firefox and Safari, and also iOS and Android apps, said it would "seamlessly transition" to an RSS back-end infrastructure of its own creation this summer.
Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer, on Google+ or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed. His email address is email@example.com.
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Kesar Pista Ice-Cream with a touch of elaichi in it is a home made ice cream. Very easy to make at home and loved by kids. I have tried myself and now ask you people to try at home and do let me know how you liked it
- Milk (100% Fat) - 2 cups
- Milk Powder - 1 cup
- Castor Sugar - ½ cup
- Corn Flour - 1 tbsp
- Saffron Strands (Kesar) - 2-3 tsp
- Cardamom Powder (elaichi) - 2 tsp
- Fresh Cream - ½ cup
- Chopped Pista - 1/2 cup
- In a mixing bowl mix well 1 cup milk, milk powder & cornflour and keep aside
- Heat a saucepan on gas, add sugar, saffron, cardamom powder and another cup milk and mix well then
- Then add milk mixture prepared earlier in this and stir well until the mixture gets thickened
- Add fresh cream and chopped pista in it and keep stirring until the thick mixture is ready
- Once done pour the mixture in serving bowl and refrigerate for 3-4 hours
- Then scoop out chilled kear pista ice cream in ice cream bowl and serve to your families


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New laptop video (intel 855GM) drivers holding up pleasantly well. One crash so far, from attempting to play a video; I haven't tried to reproduce it, since that's not something I do very often in any case. (Said video was of my own extremely minor contribution to UK televisual arts programming, so maybe my video drivers were wisely preventing me from narcissistic overexposure...)
Meanwhile, back in the land of sort-of-industrial research and development, I've been using (and simultaneously learning) R for analysing the meaty chunks of data that my colleagues are generating. A couple of my academic labmates were already R users, unashamedly using R for their data treatment needs, even when their data came from Lisp programs. Shocking, I know. So, when substantial datasets started landing on my lap a few months ago (not just from a group of people in mobile broadband; energy use data and computer usage metrics also crossed my desk) I decided that the time was ripe to learn some new tools and techniques.
Initial reactions: mostly positive. To help put my observations into context: I've dabbled in MATLAB before, and it's never quite stuck. The everything-is-a-matrix aspect was painful; graphical output was OK but nothing to write home about; and environmental support pretty painful. (GNU Octave suffers from all of these problems too, and then some; it does have the significant advantage, from my point of view, that at least there isn't the attempted lock-in from purchasing a bare proprietary wrapper over BLAS and LAPACK with the option to buy yet more functionality wrapping BLAS and LAPACK in slightly different ways). I've also used (a long, long time ago now) IDL, again a vector-oriented language; my memory of it is mostly faded, but I remember being satisfied with its graphing facilities and much more satisfied with an Emacs-mode than with its default User Interface. This was 1998; I dare say things would be much the same today...
By contrast, R has data types that are mostly comfortable to my inner Lisp programmer. Yes, number crunching is best done through vectors (matrices being a thin wrapper around vectors rather than a distinct language data type), but lists of vectors are fine, and are used to collect data into data.frames. It has a lightweight object system, with single dispatch on the class of the first argument; mind you, classes of objects are a pretty mutable concept in R, settable at arbitrary points in program execution (there's mostly no relationship between object class and object contents). Speaking of settable, there's the `<-` operator both for assignment and for mutation, like Common Lisp's setf. "Mutation" there might actually not be quite the right word; the evaluation semantics are mostly lexical binding and call-by-value, with the interpreter attempting to perform copy-on-write and deforestation optimizations. Speaking of interpreters, there's a reified environment and call stack at all stages of program execution, which makes the language mildly tricky to compile, particularly since environments are just about the only thing in the language which can be mutated; this aspect of the language has recently been the subject of discussion in the R community (and, would you believe it, one of the camps is advocating a rewrite of the engine using Common Lisp both as a model and as an implementation language, mentioning SBCL by name... sadly without increasing my citation count. Oh well.)
In any case, once I saw the reified environments, and also spotted parse (analogue to read) and eval, I started wondering whether the comint-based Emacs mode for R, Emacs Speaks Statistics, could be enhanced or replaced with some SLIME-like functionality. I was particularly interested in whether there was enough introspective capability to replace the default debugger, which I was not having much success in using at all. So I started digging into the documentation, finding first try, then tryCatch (OK, that's like handler-case, so far so normal), and then on the same help page found withCallingHandlers and withRestarts, direct analogues of handler-bind and restart-case. At that point it seemed logical, instead of trying to write some SLIME-like functionality for ESS, to simply write an R backend for SLIME. With some careful (ahem) adaptation of a stub backend Helmut Eller wrote for Ruby, I got cracking, and swankr now supports a slime REPL, slime scratch buffers, SLDB, the default inspector, and presentations.
Here's a teaser screenshot, demonstrating functionality not yet merged: image output for lattice objects, presented in the SLIME REPL, and usable in subsequent input. There's plenty in swankr that doesn't work, and plenty more that's buggy, but it might be good enough for the enthusiastic R/Lisp/Emacs crossover community to give it a try.
(No, my screen is not that tall.)


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The Mendenhall Wetlands is a parcel of land that surrounds the Juneau Airport. This is actually a view off of Egan Drive, Alaska State Route 7, the road that connects Juneau to the Airport. Look out for hunters and dogs and bear traps, oh my!
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Tune Into The ODU Football Show Fridays On Fox43
By ODU Athletics
Aug. 12, 2010
PORTSMOUTH, Va. -- Get your game face on as FOX43 and the most successful start up FCS college football program in NCAA history team up to debut The Old Dominion Football Show with Bruce Rader and Coach Bobby Wilder, on Friday September 10th. Sponsored in its entirety by Priority Automotive, the weekly show will be broadcast every Friday night at 10:45 pm during the college football season exclusively on FOX43.
"Priority Automotive is proud to sponsor The Old Dominion Football Show with Bruce Rader and Coach Bobby Wilder and to be associated with the amazingly successful football program," said Dennis Ellmer, President of Priority Automotive. "I hope our participation in this prime time show will help take the entire athletic program to another level by augmenting recruiting and increasing the University's media exposure."
The Old Dominion Football Show is not your ordinary coach's show. You'll feel like you're on the 50-Yard line for all of the action every Friday at 10:45pm only on FOX43. The Old Dominion Football Show gives college football fans a unique look inside the Monarchs football program, as well as all the behind-the-scenes excitement of the game day experience. Coach Bobby Wilder and WAVY News 10 / FOX43 Sports Director Bruce Rader will not only take a look ahead to the week's opponent, but will also highlight team players, the coaching staff, the campus, and growing fan base.
"This will be unlike any football show you have ever seen," said WAVY News 10 / FOX43 Sports Director Bruce Rader. "Coach Bobby Wilder and I won't be breaking down week old film like you generally see on most other college football shows. Our program will be feature-oriented, interactive and most of all, FUN!"
The Old Dominion Football Show can also be seen online at WAVY.com. It's the perfect place to watch must-see plays, listen to coach and player interviews and interact with the team like never before. The Monarchs open their 2010 season against Jacksonville Saturday, September 4th at 6:00 pm at Foreman Field at S.B. Ballard Stadium.
"This is an incredible opportunity for our fans to get a closer look at our program and community," said Old Dominion Football Coach Bobby Wilder. "It's going to be an exciting season ahead and we are glad our 12th Monarchs get to come along for the ride."


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The four major Democratic candidates running to face Gov. Scott Walker in the spring recall election will be in Racine Monday evening.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk, Secretary of State Doug La Follette, and state Sen. Kathleen Vinehout are expected at the town hall at the George Bray Community Center.
Todd Stoner, an organizer with Wisconsin Jobs Now, says people attending will have a chance to ask questions and then each candidate will have a minute to answer.
The Journal Times reports (http://bit.ly/JyKrUY ) former Democratic state Sen. John Lehman, of Racine, is also scheduled to attend.
He is running against Republican state Sen. Van Wanggaard, of Racine, in the upcoming recall election. Lehman is facing protest candidate Tamra Varebrook in the primary.


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here is some info for you to read:
The following quotes are all from the American Veterinary Medical
"Animal poisoning by drugs is by far the most common type of small
animal poison exposure, accounting for 75% of 1990 toxin exposures as
reported by the AAPCC and 82 of 425 fatalities."
ACETAMINOPHEN (Tylenol)
"Dogs (particularly small dogs) are also susceptible to significant
tissue damage from as little as two regular strength Tylenol and
repeated doses increase the risk significantly. Signs develop quickly
and can include salivation, vomiting, weakness and abdominal pain."
"Due to the significant toxicity to pets in relatively minimal
dosages, the recommendation is clear — Tylenol should not be given to
dogs or cats. "
ASPIRIN, IBUPROFEN, PHENYLBUTAZONE, NAPROXEN (NSAID toxicity)
"...NSAID's (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) and are widely
prescribed with caution by veterinarians to relieve pain from
arthritis and other conditions. Animal dosages, however, are much
lower than human dosages. Use of NSAID's can significantly increase
the risk for development of stomach or intestinal ulcers, particularly
in a sick patient, or one receiving other medications... Two regular
strength aspirin in a small dog can cause clinical signs of
"Any medications need to be discussed with and prescribed by a
veterinarian prior to giving them to your pet to avoid an inadvertent
and tragic poisoning."
but you guys decide. i personally do NOT give Tylenol, but rather buffered baby aspirin.


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A truly dedicated and passionate Gardener!!!
Friday, 12 September 2008
Dedicated Gardener!!!
A truly dedicated and passionate Gardener!!!
20 comments:
- Leabank Square said...
Awwwwww thanks!!
You're such a sneak!
I love you Nadira!!
- 13 September 2008 at 11:52:00 BST
Hey you two!!
Nadira, you are reflecting the views we ALL feel about Sóna!!
Since he has taken up the Volunteer gardener role, we have ALL benefitted from the work he & ALL the children have done!!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart Sóna, you have made life in Leabank Square so much more pleasant than it ever was!!
- 16 September 2008 at 13:03:00 BST
Hi Sóna
I knew you were a nutter, but watering the handbags in THAT storm, that shows committment man!!
Sóna, everbody is right, thank you very much for doing ALL you do in Leabank Square. And thanks for getting the kids involved!! They absolutley love getting their hands dirty!!
Keep up with the good work.
- 16 September 2008 at 19:57:00 BST
I second that!!
Sóna - there is no-one here in Leabank Square who shows more love for his neighbours than you!
You are an inspiration to the rest of us!
Thanks for everything you do!!
- 17 September 2008 at 11:13:00 BST
Hi Sóna
I was hoping someone would put a blog up thanking you for ALL the work you do in Leabank Square!
Thanks Nadira for sneaking this one past Sóna!!
More than that Sóna, is the work you do getting ALL our kids involved!! We really are turning out great world citizens of the future! The care & patience you show our kids while teaching them about gardening is setting them on the right path. Like a lot of other places in Hackney - there are some kids who turn out bitter & twisted adults because they DON'T get involved in their own community!
Here, in Leabank Square at least, there is a perfect opportunity to play an active role in helping your neighbours, by getting INVOLVED!!
- 17 September 2008 at 12:29:00 BST
Hello Sóna
I know that the children in the Gardening Club absolutely love getting their hands into the soil!!
Being an inner-city estate - kids hardly ever get a chance to do some gardening - but thanks to you guys - our children can get in touch with nature while making Leabank Square look as lovely as it does!!
Sóna - thank you so very much - now will you come & sort MY garden out please!!!
- 17 September 2008 at 20:31:00 BST
I'll third that!! Since you guys started the Gardening Club here in Leabank Square, I have been meaning to come downstairs and thank you ALL for making our Square look so beautiful!!
Thank you for doing us all proud, I think you should enter into Hackney In Bloom next year.
Thanks too for giving the children the opportunity to do good deeds in Leabank Square as well.
- 18 September 2008 at 12:48:00 BST
you're the man ;)
and Nadira, you sneaky thing you!! well done to all of you, you are appreciated even if some people don't say it. Thanks for brightening up the square, I definitely prefer our nicer brighter square. If you need more compost just let me know ;)
- 18 September 2008 at 14:21:00 BST
Hi Shona
I'd like to add my thanks to the growing list of other residents.
You are an inspiration to the rest of us lazy gits who all claim not to have green fingers, but should really then be digging holes, or spreading compost!!
I really think people like you are rare mate, and although I will probably still just look at what you're doing through my windows - I am 100% behind you!!
- 18 September 2008 at 17:47:00 BST
I would also like to add my thanks to you and your family who have amde the riverside here below our flat so lovely.
I have seen how hard you all work in and around Leabank Square. It really has made a difference to our lives.
Thank you
- 19 September 2008 at 10:59:00 BST
- Leabank Square said...
ok - OK - OKAY!!
Thanks everyone!
It's only because we don't have any gardens up in the flats you know!!
- 20 September 2008 at 22:31:00 BST
Hi Sóna
Yeah I know you said that's nuff, but I just want to add my thanks for giving Leabank Square a much friendlier face!!
All the work you do AND then organising the Festival!! Getting us all to start talking to each other is the best thing that has ever happened to Leabank Square.
Ta mate!
- 23 September 2008 at 12:34:00 BST
Sóna, you definetely deserve a gold medal for Services to the Community!
Thanks for getting us all off our bums & getting stuck in.
If every estate had one of you, there would be amazing unity, peace, harmony & BIG love spread all around the land!
You know what's even amazing most of us, it's that you're doing this all for free!! Some of the less community spirited residents are now seeing all the benefits of volunteerism, but are openly saying that THEY should be a paid caretaker for Leabank Square!
Can you believe that?
We have all seen you (in all weathers) out there digging, planting, picking up litter, fixing drain-pipes, painting rusty rails, watering, sweeping, cleaning, disinfecting, composting, pruning, beautifying, meeting officials, raking, introducing...... I could go on & on!!
But you are doing this all voluntary!!
Good on you mate!
- 24 September 2008 at 12:58:00 BST
Hello Sóna
Everyone is right, the 4 of you have turned the entire square around and made us all proud to live here again!
The sooner we get rid of PMMS and start getting much more control of the square, the better we will ALL feel about Leabank Square.
I'm really looking forward to our 1st Festival, and seeing how all our visitors feel about all the hard work you've made us all do!!
Thank you for everything!!
- 24 September 2008 at 19:16:00 BST
- Leabank Square said...
Right! That's it!!
No more!! Please everyone - I'd rather you all saved up ALL your energy for the Leabank Square Festival in a couple of days time!!
Remember - on the day - starting EARLY!! - we need as much help as possible putting up posters, chalking up the Giant Hopscotch, hanging the Kids Art Gallery, tidying the bin areas, leafletting Hackney Wick Station, marking out the Giant Yard Sale pitches, blowing up balloons, etc, etc!!
Thanks for the thanks everyone, now let's make the 1st Leabank Square Festival one to remember!!
- 24 September 2008 at 21:28:00 BST
Spoil Sport!!
- 24 September 2008 at 22:15:00 BST
Yeah Spoil Sport Sóna!!
All we want to do is show our appreciation for all the wonderful effort you put into making us all feel united.
I've heard your 'no gardens in the flats' excuse too many times now. The real reason he's doing this, fellow residents, is to get us all talking to each other. AND it's working!!
The shy ones are doing it here online, and most of us are doing it in the square.
Thank you Sóna.
- 25 September 2008 at 11:11:00 BST
Hi Sóna
Everyone at the Festival said how lovely the gardens are looking - especially the Riverside Gardens!!
You are truly putting Leabank Square on the map!! Thank you!!
Did the Head Mistress from Gainsborough School catch up with you - by the way? She was quite keen to do something similar there.
Thanks again
- 30 September 2008 at 13:30:00 BST
Hey Shona
I can see why the residents at Leabank Square think highly of you! We need someone like you over the road on the Trowbridge.
My grandchildren had a lovely time last Saturday at the festival. Thank you very much for making all us old timers feel so welcome in Leabank.
I hope to play a more active part in next years festival and put Trowbridge just as much on the map as Leabank Square.
Thanks again.
- 4 October 2008 at 11:08:00 BST
Salaam Sóna
I can only echo all the other residents, you are such an asset to Leabank Square.
In the absence of any management company, you are contributing to the cohesion and community spirit of our Square like no other.
Thank you for everything you have done for me and my family. As you know, we are moving, but thankfully, not too far away. We'll always stay in touch and visit often.
Thanks again!
- 4 October 2008 at 12:59:00 BST


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While we all wait to see if The Twilight Saga is getting a reboot, there is still the old business of closing out this first version of the story, which will be done when Breaking Dawn – Part 2 hits theaters this winter. Today, we have the first full trailer for the film, which was once again directed by Oscar-winner Bill Condon (Dream Girls).
The teaser trailer focused on Bella (Kristen Stewart) as she enjoyed the super speed, strength, and ruby eyes that come as perks with being transformed into a vampire. In the full-length theatrical promo for the film, Mrs. Cullen also clarifies that she was, in fact, born to be a blood-thirsty immortal creature (take THAT as you will).
However, there are far more important events in motion in Breaking Dawn – Part 2, beyond Bella's coming of (vampire) age. The powerful Volturi clan has gotten wind of the fact that Bella and Edward (Robert Pattinson) have procreated, giving rise to their human/vampire hybrid daughter, Renesmee (Mackenzie Foy) – and are misled to believe that the Cullen child represents a serious threat to the very existence of their kind.
Determined to protect Renesmee at all costs, Bella and Edward gather allies from around the globe, including, Jacob (Taylor Lautner), who remains fiercely loyal to Bella and her daugher, having "imprinted" on the latter – and other vampire clans, hailing from areas as exotic and foreign as the Amazon. Together, they form a small army, in order to prepare for the impending battle against the Volturi and their forces.rMuch like the trailers for previous Twilight films, there's many a noteworthy moment and scene teased in the Breaking Dawn – Part 2 footage shown here – which is enough to send die-hard fans running up the wall in excitement – similar to how trailers for The Avengers left superhero fans ecstatic. Of course, those who fall on the opposite side of the Twilight fence (does that even exist?) will have little in the way of new material to bring to the conversation, other than the usual complaints about the quality of the collective cast's acting, CGI werewolf effects, or a joke about just how tight Lautner's shirts are.
To be fair, though, not every Twilight fan was blown away by what director Bill Condon and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg did with the first half of Breaking Dawn (read out review). In fact, a minority are probably envious of how other young adult series (Harry Potter, The Hunger Games) have managed to offer solid entertainment value for their fans, beyond the chance to see their favorite characters brought to life on the big screen. For that reason, we hope Breaking Dawn – Part 2 does, in fact, end up being a satisfying finale for Twilight's followers.
Sandy Schaefer blogs at Screen Rant.


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Nov. 8, 2006
The Lipscomb Bisons basketball team went near and far to find members of the 2007-2008 recruiting class.
Locally, Coach Scott Sanderson received scholarship papers from Josh Slater from David Lipscomb High School and Brian Wright and Brandon Brown from Brentwood Academy. On the far side of the talent search the Bisons signed Adnan Hadzic, a native of Bosnia who has been playing high school basketball in Indianapolis, Ind.
Slater, 6-foot-3, 175 pounds, can play both guard spots. He averaged 17 points, five rebounds, five assists and two steals per game as a junior.
Slater was an All-Region selection as a sophomore and All-District as a junior. He was also the Most Valuable Player in Region 5-AA.
"Josh is long and athletic," Sanderson said. "He fits in perfect with us. I think he will be a better college player than a high school player. He is a very, very intelligent player. He is a very good decision-maker."
Brian is a 6-foot-6 forward. He averaged 7.8 points and five rebounds his junior season. He is the brother of Brandon Wright, a freshman for the University of North Carolina basketball team and a three-time Mr. Basketball in the state of Tennessee.
Brian is expected to play next season behind Eddie Ard, the preseason pick by Atlantic Sun college coaches to be the player of the year in the conference.
"Brian is very athletic," Sanderson said. "He is really hard to guard. He is absolutely a great kid."
Brown, 6-foot-7, is also a forward. He averaged 6.3 points and five rebounds a game last season as a junior.
`Brandon is extremely athletic," Sanderson said. "He can really shoot the ball. He is a good rebounder. He has played against great competition. He teams like Kent State and Richmond recruiting him."
Sanderson pointed out that Slater, Wright and Brown are local players who know how to play the game and also help to add to the overall team height.
"They all three fit where we are going," Sanderson said. "We are trying to get 6-4, 6-5 and 6-6 long athletic wing guys.
"They are all three very close. They are local players who can play. All three of them will be a great lift for our team on both ends of the floor."
Hadzic, 6-foot-8, 240 pounds, plays for North Central High School. He was All-District, All-Region and All-State last season. He was All-State Honorable Mention in 2004-2005.
"Adnan looks like Tarzan," Sanderson said. "He is very strong. He is a good rebounder in traffic. He has good low post moves. He should be a very good presence for us inside."
From 2003 through 2006 his high school conference has been known as "the hardest basketball conference in America."
Hadzic's team has been ranked 12th nationally. One of his teammates, Eric Gordon, is rated as one of the top players in the country. He has signed to go to the University of Indiana.
"A lot can be said for recruiting kids out of winning programs," Sanderson said. "Kids from winning programs come in with an air about them. They expect to win."


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I'm occasionally asked what people should read and do if they want to teach themselves TEI P5 XML. Where should they start? This depends, obviously, on what time they have and what resources. I tend to recommend directed intensive training such as the Digital.Humanties@Oxford Summer School as good ways to get an introduction to such topics.
However, some people are unable to participate in such training and prefer self-directed learning. What should they do? There are lots of resources online such as TEI By Example and the TEI Guidelines. Where to start?
When people are taking an Introduction to TEI workshop I usually introduce markup but move onto TEI and XML very quickly because in such intensive workshops time is limited. Instead, when people are undertaking self-directed learning I think they should use the time they have to learn more about HTML and then XML before starting to learn about the TEI vocabulary of XML itself.
There is so much reading that is possible to suggest for an initial exploration of XML and Markup. I would suggest at least looking at:
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/ (basic section and xhtml section)
- http://www.w3schools.com/xml/ (basic section and page on namespaces)
- http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/SG.html
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML
- http://www.tei-c.org/About/Archive_new/ETE/Preview/guidelines.xml
- http://www.tei-c.org/About/Archive_new/ETE/Preview/principles.xml
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS
as a good start.
If I were to suggest a series of assignments someone might undertake based on this reading it would be to do the following, writing up answers to the questions.
- Read the W3Schools HTML basic section and XHTML section, do the HTML and XHTML quizzes
- Read the W3Schools XML basic section and XML Namespaces page, do the XML quiz
- Read the TEI Guidelines Gentle Introduction to XML; and the wikipedia article on XML.
- How does XML differ from HTML? Why might it be more powerful to describe what some piece of data is, rather than say how it should be presented?
- Download and install the oXygen XML editor (you can get a 1 month free trial license, otherwise costs $64 USD)
- Choose a very short (1 page) sample of a document you are interested in.
- Create a list of the overall structural aspects you feel define this sort of document. Create a list of any of data-like entries (like names or dates) in the document. Create a list of presentational aspects of the document that you think important to record.
- Funding challenge part 1: Hypothetically, imagine you had funding to mark up several thousand pages of this material. Look at the list of aspects you would like to record. Why is each one important? What benefit does recording each of these things give those wanting to use or understand the text (or culture from which it originates)? Which would you choose to markup? How consistently can you mark up this feature? Such document analysis should be done long before any project starts (or asks for funding).
- Funding challenge part 2: An uncaring government has slashed its funding for higher education research projects and has reduced your project's funding by 50%! What would you do? Will you mark up only 50% of the material? If so, how do you decide which parts? Will you only mark up certain aspects? If so, which ones and why?
- Using the 'Text' (code view) mode of the oXygen XML editor create a well-formed XML file of your sample document with elements and attributes that you have invented yourself. What difficulties do you encounter doing this?
- Why might it be better for communities of users to agree on elements, what they mean, and how they should be used?
- What are the central ideas of Michael Wesch's youtube video? How do they relate to the nature of XML and how it is used?
- Read the wikipedia article on RSS, and find an RSS feed to subscribe to in google reader to see its application.
- Does order really matter in an XML document? What is the difference between:
<list><item n="1″>item 1</item><item n="2″>item number 2</item></list> and
<list><item n="2″>item number 2</item><item n="1″>item 1</item></list>
And how much difference does this make when viewing XML as a data storage format rather than a presentational one?
- Join the TEI-L mailing list and start lurking.
This certainly isn't exhaustive, but with a bit of support, I suggest someone undertaking this would be much better placed to start learning about TEI P5 XML from the online sources available.
The next post in this series is an Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines.


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Welcome to gradplus.com
Discovery is a leading Graduate Recruitment and Training company, helping 100s of Graduates a year to find the right graduate position for them. Established in 1999 our focus is on continued development for our graduates.
Discovery continues to work with those Graduates we place. We provide expert training, support and mentoring ensuring the best possible start to their career. Whilst we recruit for all industries, we specialise in our unique Sales Development Programmes and Graduate Management Schemes.
We work with a very select client base. Our clients are those companies that can offer genuine career advancement and training for Graduates.
Continued growth now means we have a position for a talented individual to join our business in a Candidate Marketing role. This role requires an individual who is use to working under pressure and achieving targets.
You would be responsible for: -
ò Ensuring we always have a consistently high number of quality graduates in the business
ò Telephone interviewing
ò Arranging booking and co-ordinating assessment centres
ò Devising marketing strategies to increase candidate numbers
ò Raising the profile of Discovery within the University sector
ò Liasing with the consultants and their clients.
We are not necessarily looking for experience with this role although exposure to a targeted business to business environment would be an advantage.
You will be naturally creative, proactive and energetic being able to demonstrate your desire to achieve greater things than just doing your job!
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Every year, there's one question asked of all stars as they walk the red carpet during awards season; and that is, "Who are you wearing?" From Badgley Mischka and Carolina Herrera to Jason Wu and Roberto Cavalli, these names are almost just as important as the name of a winning star or starlet. In fact, for designers, dressing a celebrity for an awards show is an invaluable way to promote their brand amongst the rich and famous. As knock offs of their dresses start to appear in department stores later in the season, these designers become household names for us normal folks, too. And, even if you don't have a chance to rub elbows with famous designers, you can learn a lesson from them by choosing to use promotional brand name apparel to promote your organization, too.
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Petition to the President
Guest Post by David Holland
Dick Lindzen has sent to President Trump a letter and petition signed by some 300 scientists and experts (H/T Anthony Watts). The petition is for the US to withdraw from the UNFCCC. I had some difficulty accessing it but eventually located a pdf of the letter and the petition itself here.
I'm sure Dick speaks for many BH readers as well some of our MPs. Even at the high water mark in 2008 only a little over half of British voters thought humans were responsible for most global warming and less than half thought it a pressing problem. Recent opinion polls now show that barely 10% of the public regard climate change as a serious concern. Few can now dispute the global agricultural benefits of increased carbon dioxide concentration, but in the UK and elsewhere we are seeing the chronic health damage resulting from the dash to diesel subsidised by foolish governments.
Hopefully when Parliament debates the Grand Repeal Bill some of our smarter MPs will push to dump any directives requiring reductions in carbon dioxide emissions or support for the UNFCCC.


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pennsylvania education officials have asked to measure charter school achievement by a different yardstick than traditional schools, a standard that critics say inflates the success of charters for political reasons.
And while federal officials have not yet approved the request, Pennsylvania has begun using the new standard anyway.
Charter school supporters are championing the change, which this year led to about 59 percent of charters meeting the federal benchmark known as "adequate yearly progress." The ratio for public schools overall was 50 percent. Without the change, only 37 percent of charters would have made the AYP benchmark.
Some public education advocates characterize the request as a stealth move by the state, favoring the charter lobby that supports Republican Gov. Tom Corbett.
"The administration seems to be doing whatever it can to present results in a fashion that facilitate their agenda," said Lawrence Feinberg, founder of the Keystone State Education Coalition.
Education Department spokesman Tim Eller countered that the new methodology simply levels the playing field for charters, which are publicly funded but operate independently of school districts.
The controversy surfaced last month after Education Secretary Ronald Tomalis released the state's latest standardized test scores.
To reach the AYP benchmark, schools must hit certain targets at every tested grade level. For a district to meet the benchmark, it need only hit targets in one of three grade spans: grades 3-5, 4-6 or 9-12. Schools that fail to reach the benchmark receive additional oversight and, eventually, could end up with new staffs or closed altogether.
Until this year, charter schools had to meet AYP based on the school method. But in July, Tomalis sought federal approval to allow charters to meet AYP based on the district method. Every charter school is considered its own district under state law.
While Tomalis' request is pending, he used the grade span standard in calculating AYP status in September, without disclosing the change — a move that yielded a wrist-slap from the U.S. Department of Education.
"The department understands the pressures of time in getting these analyses done, reviewed, and published, however, [Pennsylvania] acted prematurely," it said in a statement.
The Pennsylvania Coalition for Public Charter Schools touted the charters' 59 percent mark as a "striking" contrast to the 50 percent rate for schools overall.
Eller, the department spokesman, acknowledged that grade span "does mask potential academic problems." But he said school districts have taken advantage of the same calculation for years. Grade span enabled 61 percent of districts to make AYP in 2011-12, while only 22 percent would have made AYP without it, Eller said.
But Feinberg said a district's overall AYP status is often less relevant to parents, many of whom care more about individual school statistics.
Charters have been a lightning rod in the debate over education reform. Supporters say they provide innovative and sometimes safer alternatives to traditional neighborhood schools. Opponents contend they drain resources from school districts without providing a better education.
A Stanford University study released in 2011 showed mixed results for Pennsylvania charters in math and reading, with all cyber charter students lagging behind their peers at traditional schools. The state has 16 cyber charters, with applications pending for eight more.
Jonathan Supovitz, an associate professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania, said the methodology change could end up being much ado about nothing because of the limited time frame for its use.
AYP is a key component of the federal education law known as No Child Left Behind, which requires all U.S. students to pass standardized reading and math tests by 2014. The nation is far from achieving that goal, and 26 states have received waivers from the legislation — though Pennsylvania is not among them.
The Obama administration has pushed for a comprehensive reauthorization of the law, yet there has been little movement in Congress over the past two years.
Eller said Tomalis has also considered dumping the grade span calculation altogether but hasn't yet because of possible changes to No Child Left Behind and an expected backlash from many fewer districts making AYP.


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iambiguous wrote:Nah wrote:When I observe how people tend to use the word truth, it seems to represent the (wrong) presumptions that there is something absolutely unquestionable and its common to everybody, everywhere, without exception.
I should point out that, in part, this post is facetious. I had just been listening to The Godfathers's classic "Birth School Work Death" when the idea of "basic truths" popped into my head.
I use the word truth here only as someone curious about those things that seem relevant to all of us.
I see.
Still, isn't "relevant to all of us" showing the high degree of certainty (you might have felt at that time)?


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Hotel Moderno
This family-run hotel offers you the warmest of welcomes. It is 15 minutes walk from the International Airport 'G. Galilei'!
The Hotel has a total of 21 guest rooms (some with balconies) that come complete with telephone, color TV and hairdryer.
There are various types of rooms available: en suite/shared bathroom; with/without air conditioning; double rooms and triple rooms.
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The hotel is close to the main train station and bus terminal (just 120m away), making it easy to reach the Galileo Galilei International Airport and the main Florence-Pisa-Livorno highway, as well as the Palazzo dei Congressi, Leopolda Station and two hospitals (Santa Chiara and Cisanello). These great transport links are another reason why Hotel Moderno is the ideal base for your trip, whatever your needs may be.
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Strategically located, it is the ideal base for a vacation. A short walk through the magnificent, culture-rich historical center of the city will take you to the Piazza dei Miracoli, home of the Leaning Tower.


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Paraprofessional, Programs for Cognitively and/or Physically Impaired – MULTIPLE OPENINGS
Ingham Intermediate school district
Position Announcement
Job Title:
Paraprofessional, Programs for Cognitively and/or Physically Impaired – MULTIPLE OPENINGS
Heartwood School
Start Date:
As soon as possible
Salary Range/ Level:
$12.12 - $16.80 per hour
(commensurate with experience)
2018-19 OPEIU Salary Schedule
Terms of Employment:
38 weeks/year; 5 days/week; 6.75 hrs/day (8:15 am-3:00 pm)
Date Posted:
Monday, February 4, 2019
Application Deadline:
Monday, February 18, 2019 @ 4:00 pm
Application Process:
A completed online application is REQUIRED. (See application instructions at Ingham ISD under Employment.)
Resume and cover letter may be:
- Attached within the online application (preferred)
- Faxed: (517) 676-4294
- Emailed: email@example.com
- Mailed: Ingham ISD, Human Resources
2630 W Howell Road, Mason, MI 48854
Ingham Intermediate School District
Ingham ISD exists to serve and lead through collaboration, innovation and advocacy.
Ingham ISD, in partnership with all stakeholders, will transform our community by fostering the success of all learners in preparation for college, work and life.
Job Description
Position Opportunity:
Assists teachers in district classrooms for the cognitively impaired and/or physically impaired by performing a variety of duties designed to carry out individual student education programs and positive behavioral support.
- High school graduate or GED recipient.
- Prefer two years of successful experience as a paraprofessional in a program for youth with physical and/or cognitive impairments or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrates continuous learning as it relates to instructional, behavioral and therapeutic interventions for assigned students.
- Ability to read, comprehend multi-step instructions and written correspondence. Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measurement, using whole numbers, fractions and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding and learned skills while interacting with students and adults. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations. Ability to generalize concepts/skills learned in one situation and apply those concepts/skills to new situations.
- Ability to work with students who have severe disabilities. Ability to develop effective working relationships with students, staff and the school community. Ability to perform duties with awareness of all district requirements and Board of Education policies. Self-directedness and initiative when given a variety of tasks and responsibilities. Demonstrate understanding of student and family confidentiality.
- While performing the duties of the job, the employee is regularly required to reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit, talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employees must regularly lift 50 lbs and push/pull up to 100 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and peripheral vision. The employee needs to be to tell where a sound is coming from and hear in a noisy environment. The employee must possess physical abilities sufficient to employ physical intervention strategies when necessary, i.e. non-violent crisis intervention techniques.
Working Conditions:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be part of a team responsible for safety, well-being and work output. The noise level in the environment is usually moderate. The employee may be exposed to infection or aggressive behavior from students at a greater risk than the average person.
Notice of Non-discrimination
It is the policy of Ingham Intermediate School District not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender/sex, age, disability, height, weight, marital status, or lack of English language speaking skills, in its programs, services or activities. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding the nondiscrimination policies: Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources, 2630 West Howell Road, Mason, MI, 48854. (517) 244-1289.


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Green Knights Finish 21st at NCAA Regional
From Sports Information Director, November 16, 2013 | Men's Cross Country
by Dan Lukes, email@example.com, (920) 403-4077
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - St. Norbert College finished 21st out of 39 teams at the NCAA Division III Midwest Regional at Saukie Golf Course.
The Green Knights finished with 635 points. North Central College finished with 56 points to earn the team championship. Washington (Mo.) University was second with 101 points. North Central's John Crain won the 8-kilometer race with a time of 24:17.2.
Michael Linzmeier led St. Norbert with an overall finish of 123rd place with a time of 27:10.0. Nathan Heppe was one place behind Linzmeier with a time of 27:10.2. Benny Swift was 129th with a time of 27:17.3.
Daniel Reigh placed 132nd with a time of 27:19.6, while Michael Heise was 137th with a time of 27:26.1. Alexander Clemetson was 186th with a time of 28:10.5, while Hayden Hoffmann was 206th with a time of 28:40.6.


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In the critical disease of addiction to alcohol and to drugs the emerging treatment of choice is acupuncture. This is a wonderful breakthrough because the former treatment of choice was drugs. It is ironic and sad that our best technique to detoxify addicts from drugs was more drugs. The drug treatment happened in extremely expensive treatment facilities; whereas, the acupuncture treatment is effective for most people in a completely out patient setting. This is a revolution in health care.
The acupuncture points for this treatment are all in the ears. I use this example here because it is fascinating to note the extent to which treatment of the ear reflexes trigger powerful healing mechanisms in the human body. Research has shown that at least one way in which the stimulation of ear reflexes works is through the activity of the brain chemistry, specially the neurotransmitters. Acupuncture or pressure stimulation of the ear reflexes stimulates the productivity of important neurotransmitters.
One of our patients at the Health Action Clinic had an unusual pain that was caused by the contraction of his prostate gland. Sometimes this painful contractions would occur after sex.
Occasionally, it would occur spontaneously. It was very painful and would last for hours. He was very much against the use of drugs. He tried relaxation, hot beverages, yoga and shifting to many different positions. He also felt that acupuncture and herbal formulas were helpful in regulating his health, in general. What gave him the most direct relief of the intense pain in his prostate was self-applied massage of the ear. Within 5 minutes of vigorous massage to the whole ear and about two minutes of massage to the prostate reflex the pain would ease and disappear.
Massage of the ear is similar to massage of the foot and hand. Begin with moderate pressure and work over the entire ear on both sides. Notice areas of discomfort. Return and work the uncomfortable areas vigorously. This may not bring immediate results as in the two examples given. Vigilant application of self-applied massage over long periods of time has helped many people to overcome serious health disorders.