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Liberty unveils new Jerry Falwell Library with grand opening
Liberty University celebrated the grand opening of its new Jerry Falwell Library on Jan. 15 before more than 400 invited guests — including local and regional leaders, local college administrators, members of Liberty's Board of Trustees, supporters, and members of the media. The Wednesday morning event was broadcast live to more than 10,000 residential students in the Vines Center for Convocation and to countless other online students and supporters via an Internet stream.
Following the service, the facility was officially opened with a ribbon-cutting by President Jerry Falwell, Jr., Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Ronald Godwin, Lynchburg (Va.) Mayor Michael Gillette, Library Dean Marcy Pride, and Liberty Co-founder Dr. Elmer Towns.
The $50 million, 170,000-square-foot library is the university's largest investment in any one campus structure to date. It is the first major campus facility to bear the name of Liberty's founder, Dr. Jerry Falwell. With cutting-edge, interactive features, the building is designed to embody his vision of a world-class Christian university that trains Champions for Christ in all disciplines.
|More than 400 invited guests celebrated the grand opening of the new Liberty University Jerry Falwell Library.
As a testament to the library's innovative connectivity, the attendees in both campus locations joined together in worship — those in the Vines Center led by Liberty's Campus Band and those in the library by LU Praise — while being simultaneously broadcast to online viewers.
President Falwell thanked a number of individuals who co-labored with his father to make Liberty what it is today. He also recognized those who contributed to the planning, design, construction, and innovation of the library as well as the groups and civic leaders who support the university. Falwell said Carl Merat, acquisitions librarian and former library dean, was instrumental in the planning and vision of the library.
Falwell shared his appreciation for those who contributed to the library campaign through naming opportunities and brick donations.
President Jerry Falwell commemorates his father's vision
As President Falwell spoke, he recalled his father's vision and celebrated his faith and endurance in seeing it to fruition.
"Today, we are not here to honor my father for what he accomplished in the early days. We are here to honor him for his … unwavering commitment to the dream and vision for Liberty University through the almost four decades of trials and tribulations that ensued after Liberty was founded," he said. "We are gathered here to honor him for his undying faith, his perseverance, his determination, his tenacity in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, and his upbeat attitude and love for people that never waned in spite of all the turmoil and challenges that he was facing personally on an almost daily basis."
Lynchburg Mayor Michael Gillette shares city's support
Gillette spoke on behalf of the city, expressing its support for the university and thanking Liberty for its many contributions to the community.
"I am happy to extend to Liberty University our heartfelt congratulations on the dedication of this magnificent edifice and to acknowledge the role that you play in our community," he said. "I wish to convey in the most sincere terms the appreciation of our city and City Council's continued commitment to working with Liberty University as a partner for the betterment of the entire community."
Gillette challenged the students to take advantage of the tremendous opportunities afforded them in the new learning space.
"What you are witnessing today with the dedication of this building is something very special and something very important to the character of the university that you attend," Gillette said. "Liberty has made a significant commitment in creating a state-of-the-art library, a repository of learning and knowledge that will stand for decades and perhaps even for centuries."
Prayer dedications
Towns and Pride each gave a prayer of dedication for the library, asking the Lord to fill it with His presence and continue to bless and empower Liberty's students to excel in all disciplines and ultimately have a positive influence on the world.
Address by Dr. Ronald Godwin
During the event, Godwin shared many personal stories from the decades he labored alongside Dr. Falwell to create what is now the world's largest Christian university. He gave them a glimpse of "the real Dr. Falwell," who he described as a "real family-first man, a model husband, father, and grandfather."
He recalled how Dr. Falwell would often stop and count the amazing victories the Lord provided for the university and challenged the Liberty family to carry on that spirit of joy and gratitude.
State-of-the-art features
Pride, who has nearly 20 years of professional experience in library work, said she and her staff are looking forward to playing an important role in the academic experience for Liberty's students.
"A library is not only about information. Information is a good thing, but a library is also about imagination and inspiration and even, for some, transformation," she said. "The library has a number of kinds of spaces to accommodate a number of learning styles and needs. We have almost 40 group study rooms, all with writable walls. … An active learning classroom will allow students and the professors to interact in ways that they haven't been able to in the past. They will be able to communicate with students at a distance and peers around the world. So this is a very exciting part of the new library and we're looking forward to seeing what (students) will make of it."
Pride noted that library staff visited some of the most innovative libraries in the country to gain inspiration and ensure Liberty's library was second-to-none.
|Guests enjoy a 24-by-11-foot media wall equipped with Microsoft Kinect movement recognition technology during the grand opening of the Jerry Falwell Library.
Highlights of the Jerry Falwell Library include a 24-by-11-foot media wall equipped with Microsoft Kinect movement recognition technology, Perceptive Pixel tables (oversized tablets), a technology commons with most of the 160 computers located throughout the building, and interactive information kiosks. Electronic panels outside rooms allow students to reserve group study rooms. The library also features an Automated Storage and Retrieval System, a robotic book delivery system with the capacity for 420,000 items.
Architectural elements include a four-story book tower, rooftop terrace, lakeside balconies, a floating staircase, and nearly 40 group study rooms with fully writable walls.
Designed with more than 80,000 square feet of interior and exterior glass, the library features plenty of natural light and breathtaking views.
A two-story food court — the Tinney Café — features Pizza Hut Express, Starbucks, Tsunami Sushi, and Brioche Dorée (French bistro cuisine).
When asked how the Jerry Falwell Library compares to other libraries she has worked with and visited, Pride humbly said, "there is no comparison."
- For more information visit www.Liberty.edu/Library or follow LibertyULibrary on Twitter and Facebook.


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A group of Serbian nationalists hatched a plan to kill Archduke Francis Ferdinand, who was in favor of changing the Dual Monarchy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Trialism, or triple re-ogranization of the empire with Slavs having an equal place with the German and Hungarian peoples. The people of Serbia viewed this as a threat to all they coveted - a Greater Serbia and these Bosnian Serbs had to paint the Archduke as the most vile of villains. After the assassination took place, the world reacted like it wasn't a huge matter. All that changed when the Empire gave Serbia a demand, which included that they forgo their sovereignty and allow officials from the Empire to be involved in the capture and trial of these criminals. The world was aghast at this betrayal of international decorum and the world turned against the Austro-Hungarian Empire (except for their ally, the German Empire). Russia has seen itself as the protector of all Slavs and through a series of unfortunate events and failed diplomacy from all nations of Europe, Russia declared full mobilization. At this time in history, Mobilization meant War. This story follows what happened after that fateful day from the viewpoint of Czar Nicholas II of the Romanov Family.
Some people may have thought that Nicholas II was the last Czar of Russia. But was he really?

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Press Release: TORRANCE, Calif., July 9, 2013 — Fans will be treated to a colorful, anime-rich experience that will include giveaways, limited edition products, appearances by Hello Kitty and special guests from Sanrio's Tokyo headquarters, as well as the launch of a new graphic novel, Hello Kitty Fashion Music Wonderland. While Hello Kitty has appeared with partners and collaborators at Comic-Con in the past, 2013 marks the first year that Sanrio is bringing an interactive Hello Kitty fan experience to this famous gathering. Blending the worlds of anime, cosplay, product exclusives, Japanese street culture and superfandom, Hello Kitty Fashion Music Wonderland syncs perfectly with the passionate fan culture that is celebrated at Comic-Con.
- Hello Kitty Fashion Music Wonderland: Open to the public, this energetic hub is inspired by the styles of Tokyo and Japanese pop culture, putting Hello Kitty at the center of the ultimate fan experience at Comic-Con Interactive Zone at Petco Park. Hello Kitty's band of Lolitas, who personify anime, cosplay and the colorful style of Japanese pop culture, will host fans at the experience. A retail pop-up shop will offer a mix of event-only and limited edition Japanimation-themed collectible Hello Kitty items, including a free poster with any purchase.
- Kitty-chan Secret Space: Inside the convention center, the fan experience continues at "Kitty-chan Secret Space" (booth 4537). A term of endearment used for Hello Kitty in Japan, "Kitty-chan" is a nod to superfans and a clue that this Comic-Con Hello Kitty is truly distinct. Comic-Con badge holders will have access to the limited edition pink Hello Kitty flocked collector's figure by Funko that will go on sale each day.
- Hello Kitty Fashion Music Wonderland: A new graphic novel: Published in partnership with VIZ Media, this is the first-ever Hello Kitty graphic novel and it will make its debut at the retail pop-up shop. The Hello Kitty Fashion Music Wonderland graphic novel features three stories, each by a different graphic artist: Jacob Chabot, Victoria Maderna and Ian McGinty.
- Hello Kitty Comic-Con on Social Media (#HelloKittySDCC): Fans can stay connected with all things Hello Kitty at Comic-Con through a different interactive social media event each day including Uglydoll and Street Fighter promotions as well as a free download of the Japanimation photo app. Hello Kitty's millions of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram friends can share photos and access contests and behind-the-scenes footage to connect with their Hello Kitty fan community. The fun starts before Comic-Con with a Fan Fiction contest tied to the launch of the new graphic novel. Fans on-site and at home can stay engaged and entertained through a different interactive social media event each day of Comic-con including Uglydoll and Street Fighter promotions as well as a free download of the Japanimation photo app for a limited time.
- Limited Edition Products and Comic-Con Launches: A mix of Sanrio co-branded partnerships and special product launches at Comic-Con include:
- Hello Kitty Uglydoll: This collaboration will make its official debut at Comic-Con (booth 3245)
- Sanrio vinyl figures will be available from Funko (booth 5343)
- Limited edition Street Fighter x Sanrio plush at Toynami (booth 3229) and Capcom (booth 215)
- Additional Hello Kitty products at Comic-Con can be found at Mimoco (booths 5338 and 2913M), tokidoki (booth 5145) and Mighty Fine (booth 5647)
- The Hello Kitty 'Japanimation' product collection at the Hello Kitty Fashion Music Wonderland pop-up shop at Comic-Con Interactive Zone at Petco Park will include leggings, bodysuits, iPhone cases, a wrist watch, plush, cushions and much more
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Sanrio, best known for global icon Hello Kitty and home to many endearing characters including Chococat, My Melody, and Keroppi, is a worldwide lifestyle brand founded on the "small gift, big smile®" philosophy — that a small gift can bring happiness and friendship to people of all ages. For over 50 years, this philosophy has served as the inspiration for the broad spectrum of unique Sanrio products and experiences. Today, more than 50,000 Sanrio-branded items are available in over 70 countries and upwards of 12,000 U.S. locations including department, specialty, national chain stores and over 100 Sanrio boutiques. For more information, please visit www.sanrio.com and www.facebook.com/hellokitty.


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October 03, 2013
By BRIAN MAHONEY
AP Basketball Writer
Knicks coach Mike Woodson said Wednesday that J.R. Smith needs to ''grow up and do the right things'' after the sixth man was suspended five games by the NBA for violating the anti-drug policy.
Woodson said he was disappointed in Smith's actions, but would continue to support him.
''I'm not going to throw him out to the pasture,'' Woodson said. ''My job is to coach him and make sure something like what happened doesn't happen again. That's what we do as coaches, and I expect his teammates to show him love. But at the end of the day he's got to do the right thing by J.R. and his teammates, and me as a coach and this organization and the fans that support him. I mean, that's what it's all about.
''He's got to grow up and do the right things.''
Smith has been in trouble on and off the court during his career but was credited with showing more maturity last season while winning the Sixth Man of the Year award. Then he received a one-game suspension in the playoffs for foolishly throwing an elbow into Jason Terry's face in Game 3 of a first-round series against Boston, before getting hit with the five-game ban last month.
Smith is recovering from knee surgery, and Woodson doesn't know when he will be able to return. Once the guard is healthy, he will miss his first five games. Woodson said he hopes that's a learning experience for Smith.
''You talk about missing the first five games, I'm not happy about it,'' Woodson said. ''But hey, we know what we're facing and we've got to get through it, and we've got to make sure that he understands it's something that can't happen again.''
Smith said Monday that he was disappointed that he let his teammates and coaches down. He was asked Wednesday if he thought he had something to prove after the negative publicity he has received in the last few months.
''I think every day I step into the gym I have something to prove, not to anybody else but to myself,'' he said. ''I feel I can always get better. I have so much room for improvement, and I just want to be the best player I can be. Right now I'm not at the elite level yet.''


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Apartments/ Estates / Public Housing.
Look at Halle-Neustadt (town hall in the district of Germany) from a point high-rise building.
St. James Town apartments in Downtown Toronto. These residential towers were built in the 1960s & approximately 17,000 people live in the neighborhood's apartment towers, which makes it Canada's most densely populated community. St. James Town is the largest high-rise housing project community in Canada & it consists of 19 or more high-rise buildings (14 to 32 stories).
Flats in public housing estates in Singapore:
Top view of Bukit Batok, Singapore. Bukit Batok New Town is a new town located in western Singapore.
A typical Housing and Development Board Estate, Singapore.
Bedok New Town (eastern part of Singapore) is the fifth (HDB) new town & there are about 58,000 units of flats been built.
Punggol New Town is within the North-East Region of Singapore.
Sengkang New Town is a relatively young satellite residential town in Singapore. And by the end of March 2006, it had 384 HDB apartment blocks with 39,982 units in Sengkang New Town, which comprises of 16,017 four-roomers, 19,477 five-roomers & 4,488 executive flats.
Yishun New Town is a housing estate in the north of Singapore.
Bukit Merah (Singapore).
The 'Million Program' an ambitious housing program implemented in Sweden with an aim to build a million new dwellings in a 10-year period (therefore the project's name). By the end of this program, about 1,006,000 new dwellings were built, which changed the face of Sweden forever:
Bijlmer in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Tokyo, Japan.
The Pruitt-Igoe project (urban housing project built in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.) which is often used as an example of the unsuccessful venture of American public housing & urban renewal.
Aylesbury Estate in Southwark. This is supposed to be the largest public housing development in Europe:
Red Road Flats in Glasgow, the tallest Council (Public Housing) blocks in the UK:
The towers Aillaud (or towers Cloud) is a housing complex located in Nanterre, suburb of Paris, France. It was built in 1977 on the plans of Emile Aillaud, which are composed of 18-rise residential apartments:
Tallest commie blocks (with 30 floors) in Nantes, France.
East River & Woodrow Wilson Houses.
Residential blocks in Berlin.
In the East:
Bronxdale Housing:
A complex in Metro Manila.
This one comes from Europe.
A social-housing complex in Vienna. The residential park Erlaa old is a major residential complex in the 23rd district of Vienna Liesing. Due to its architecture, it became one of the most popular residential areas in Vienna.
Queensbridge Houses, the largest in NYC with over 3,000 units.
These are the images of housing projects during their construction, or just after, in the main cities of Brittany, western France during the late 1960's & the early 1970's:
Cité of Le Colombier, in Rennes.
Cité of Villejean, in Rennes, 1969.
'ZUP Sud', in Rennes, 1969.
A cité in Vannes, 1969.
Here are some more huge complexes, which we were unable to ascertain the locations & details:
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"Chuang-tzu theory" in the wind and awakened, different voices, there are
sobbing sound, some like Guikulanghao, but also a pleasant pondered, "blows
different", the wind stopped, no sound, dead. This free wind is so good. As the
freedom to speak, others have nothing to say, you still have something to say,
may be a manifestation of personality, perhaps a person to crazy, perhaps do not
believe the emperor really wear a new challenge, or, is the sense of innovation
Emmanuel A present. The number of teeth claws of the alternative, there is the
number of "old fish jump wave thin Jiao dance," the poetic, indispensable to
this freedom.
Others have nothing to say, perhaps after the hindsight, not as smart as you. Perhaps we are afraid of authority, such as the fairy tale to see the emperor's new clothes, well aware, do not want to sound, fool. Our nation, seems to be particularly fond of silence for gold, keep a low profile. According to the Arabs say, probably Laozhuang Confucius and Mencius philosophy, is the philosophy of the elderly, we pay attention to young people, and this. So, if asked for the truth, and even questioned, this personality highlight, is not afraid of authority, is "I love my teacher, but I love the truth" dedication. However, if the blindly asked and asked, for that, highlighting the personality, it became a publicity personality, is rebellious, is a strong youth hormone, is brush sense of existence, unconventional. Such people, and now more to go, the network can be seen everywhere on the keyboard frenzied knight. Many lectures, part of the question, more than a strange question, nothing, unintelligible, but pocketed the eye.


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Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Flores-Figueroa v. U.S., which questions whether the government can charge undocumented workers with aggravated identity theft for using forged documents. Ignacio Carlos Flores-Figueroa purchased identification from a forger, but was unaware that the Social Security number he received belonged to someone else. When he was later arrested by immigration officials, Mr. Flores-Figueroa found himself facing up to two additional years in prison for using someone else's personal information, despite the fact that he did not mean to.
In 2004, the federal government responded to the increasing menace of identity theft by passing legislation calling for a mandatory two-year sentence for stealing someone's personal information. Immigration officials have since used this law to pressure undocumented workers into quickly accepting deportation. In Mr. Flores-Figueroa's case, he was convicted under this new law and sentenced to 51 months for violation of immigration laws and an additional two years for "aggravated identity theft."
During oral arguments yesterday, the justices seemed troubled by the government's willingness to try Mr. Flores-Figueroa for identity theft considering he had no intention of stealing from anyone. He purchased a counterfeit Social Security number, not realizing that it already existed. His lawyer argued that there are almost a billion possible Social Security number combinations, less than half of which have been used. Chief Justice Roberts questioned the fairness of sentencing someone to two more years "if it just so happens that the number you picked out of the air belongs to someone else?"
According to the Associated Press, both "the Court's conservative and liberal justices signaled they have problems with the government's use of the law against defendants without additional evidence that those defendants knew they were invading the privacy of real people." And a New York Times editorial stated that this "is a case about the misapplication of federal law. It also is a case about unequal justice. The government is misusing the identity theft law to pressure illegal immigrants to agree to quick deportation." A decision is expected from the Court sometime this spring.


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The Chicago Police Board on Thursday fired four police officers for allegedly covering up a white officer's 2014 fatal shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald.
Public housing officials in Chicago were planning well-being checks on residents as the heat and humidity are expected to mount to dangerous levels.
Pools are a popular way to beat the heat during the summer months, but a new federal report warns of the dangers they pose to children.
Attorneys for the former "Empire" actor continue to proclaim their client's innocence, and say a judge's recent decision to allow a special prosecutor to review criminal charges against the actor is a "travesty of justice."
The 151-year-old zoo will continue to offer free admission for the next 30-plus years after agreeing to an extended contract with the city.
"Cats" and "Les Miserables" have both returned to Chicago this summer, and "West Side Story" is in the throes of a renaissance. Here are some brief impressions about all three musicals as experienced in their recent incarnations.
Four cops fired over an alleged cover-up. A life sentence for a former U. of I. student. A war of words between Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. Five casino locations are unveiled. And the Cubs are red hot.


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Ryan Howard has just been announced the Pepsi Clutch Performer for the Month of September.
And for the second straight season, they were able to reach that goal thanks to the booming bat of Ryan Howard.
The hulking first baseman batted a sizzling .352 with 11 home runs, 32 RBIs and 26 runs scored in 25 September games, leading the Phillies to a 17-8 finish and the National League East division crown. For his efforts, he was selected by fans in an online vote as the winner of the Major League Baseball Clutch Performer of the Month Presented by Pepsi.
Howard's timely hitting was put on full display from Sept. 11-18, when he led the Phillies to successive sweeps of the Milwaukee Brewers and Atlanta Braves. He racked up a dozen RBIs in that seven-game span, with his most memorable ones coming in the form of a two-run, eighth-inning homer that lifted his club to an 8-7 win over Atlanta on Sept. 16. The win pushed the Phillies into first place for the first time in September, a half-game ahead of the New York Mets.
Howard also drove in 14 runs over a seven-game span from Sept. 7-14, a stretch that concluded with a two-run blast vs. Milwaukee in a game Philadelphia would eventually go on to win.
The outstanding finish left the super slugger with a Major League-leading 48 long balls and 146 RBIs, numbers that place him among the favorites for NL Most Valuable Player honors.
Howard becomes the sixth and final winner of the 2008 Major League Baseball Clutch Performer of the Month Presented by Pepsi. Earlier winners include Carlos Quentin of the Chicago White Sox, who took home the award in May; New York Yankees Chien-Ming Wang (April), Jason Giambi (June) and Mike Mussina (July); and Milwaukee Brewers ace CC Sabathia (August).
Also up for September consideration were Andre Ethier of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Carlos Delgado of the New York Mets, Roy Oswalt of the Houston Astros, Cliff Lee of the Cleveland Indians and Carlos Pena of the Tampa Bay Rays.
The MLB Clutch Performer of the Month Presented by Pepsi winner is selected by the fans from a list of six nominees chosen by a special editorial panel from MLB.com, the official website of Major League Baseball. Each month, fans can visit a microsite powered by MLB.com specifically created for the Clutch Performer Platform, pepsiclutch.mlb.com, to vote for the nominee they believe was the best Clutch Performer.
From Oct. 1-19, fans have the opportunity to vote on the Major League Baseball Clutch Performer of the Year Presented by Pepsi winner at MLB.com, and the award will be presented during the postseason. Alex Rodriguez of the Yankees was named the inaugural recipient of the 2007 MLB Clutch Performer of the Year Presented by Pepsi. (H/T Phillies.com)
To say that this one came in as a complete surprise, as far as I'm considered, and since it was voted by other major league fans, makes this even sweeter than Howard winning the Player of the Month Award. Nice going, Big Guy.


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February 21: William Stafford Discussion Group #3
Friday, February 21, 1:00 pm at Lake Oswego Municipal Golf Course Restaurant, 17525 Stafford Road. Join in a special William Stafford Discussion Group! Come share one of your favorite Stafford poems and discuss his life and works with your fellow poetry enthusiasts. Stafford was also a photographer and by attending a discussion group you have the rare opportunity to win a small print of one of his photographs.
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For you beekeepers who keep bees inside, what do you use to feed your nucs this time of year.
I am thinking my nucs went in light this year. I hefted a few that were on top of the stack, and they seem light to me. Im thinking of feeding them starting March.
I have seen those white entrance feeders to screw a bottle on to, but they are charging 50 cent for them!
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Elena Osina, 24, felt that she needed to do something about her 9-month-old son. Her boyfriend had moved out and her parents, whom she lived with, were complaining about the child.
So she and her 21-year-old brother put the baby in the middle of a busy Moscow freeway in hopes that he would be squashed by passing traffic.
Just like that. Problem solved. Only, it didn't work out that way. Luckily, a passing motorist stopped and rescued the child. It's a wonder no one captured this on their dash cam.
Osina and her brother were sentenced to eight years in prison, so now she doesn't have to worry about a hard life with an unwanted child. Now, everything will be provided for.
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HP ElitePad 900 full review
The HP ElitePad is a tablet running 32-bit Windows 8 Pro, aimed at business users. Running Windows 8 means that it has an Intel rather than an Arm processor - in this case an Intel Atom Z2760 chip clocked at 1.5GHz-1.8GHz combined with 2GB RAM. Often tablets that run full-blown Windows sacrifce performance and battery life in order to offer full PC capabilities. We took the HP ElitePad 900 Windows tablet for a spin to see how it stacks up in a world of thin-and-light, high performance tablets.
HP ElitePad 900: build, style
Show the HP ElitePad to a non-technical friend and they'll likely describe it as 'an iPad'. A square slate, all black Gorilla Glass on the front and silver aluminum on the back, the moderately stylish ElitePad does differ from the competition, but mostly in ways of which we're not personally enamoured. The bezel is wide and the corners rounded in an almost cartoonish way. And the tablet's edges taper to a point that is almost sharp to the touch - it's a strange style point, because at 9.2mm this qualifies as a thin full-sized tablet (thinner than the iPad with Retina Display). It's also not as heavy as you might expect from an Intel tablet - at 680g it is in the same ball park as the 650g iPad, and blows out of the water the Surface Pro (Microsoft's own Windows 8 slate weighs 900g and is 13.5mm thick).
There is, alas, a single proprietary connector at the bottom. This allows the ElitePad to connect with a number of accessories - but only HP's own accessories. And we found the connector had a tendancy to slip out in our tests. At the top of the ElitePad is a power button, screen rotation lock and headphone jack. A volume rocker sits on the left. You can find welcome MicroSD and micro-SIM slots on the righthand side.
Generally the ElitePad feels unremarkable but classy. You certainly wouldn't feel ashamed to plonk it down on a meeting room table, and it feels built to last, but the silver back of the ElitePad did pick up black marks in our few days of carrying it around.
HP ElitePad 900: display
The ElitePad has a 10.1in multitouch Gorilla Glass display powered by PowerVR SGX 545 graphics. It's an LED display with a native resolution of 1280x800 - or WXGA, if you like. That gives it a pixels per inch of 150 - not poor in comparison to your Windows laptop, but very far from the eye-catching displays of consumer tablets such as the iPad with Retina Display (264ppi) and the Nexus 10 (300ppi). An image aspect ratio of 16:10 makes it a widescreen display in its native landscape format, which will be good for business tasks such as email and spreadsheets. And that is probably why the display is relatively underpowered on the detail front - this is a business tool and the ElitePad doesn't need to be able to display HD movies or games with any great degree of clarity.
In use the ElitePad's display is perfectly adequate. Text on the live tiles in Windows 8's Modern UI is occasionally a little unclear, but on documents with white backgrounds everything is fine. Viewing angles are pretty good, too. Subjectively the touchscreen can feel a little spongy in comparison to the best Arm-powered tablets, but not to the extent we could complain about it. Photos look pretty good - occasionally a little washed out and lacking a tiny bit of detail.
HP ElitePad 900: performance, specifications, battery life
Here's where we get to the meat of the issue: how does the ElitePad perform? First our subjective thoughts: the ElitePad is not a noticeably bad performer. It is perfectly adequate for general web-browsing and office use. But the sacrifices made to fit a Windows PC into such a svelte frame are there to be seen. As I previously mentioned the ElitePad is a much smaller device that the Surface Pro, but it can't hold a candle to Microsoft's tablet when it comes to performance. And that is born out by the test results.
Where the Surface Pro turned in an Ultrabook-like PCMark7 benchmark score of 4751, the ElitePad could stretch to an average score of only 1444. That's not a disaster, it puts it on a par with other Windows 8 tablets such as the Acer Iconia W510 and HP's own Envy x2 hybrid laptop/tablet device. The latter turned in a score of 1402 - like the ElitePad the Envy X2 is adequate for basic tasks such as web browsing, streaming video and running Microsoft Office. Don't even think about trying the latest Windows games, however.
'But that's not fair', I hear you shout. 'The ElitePad is a tablet and as such it should be compared to other tablets.' Never let it be said that I don't listen to you, imaginary head voices. In our GeekBench2 tablet and smartphone benchmark the ElitePad returned an average score of 1430. Given the ElitePad's business credentials this equates pretty well with the iPad's score of 1769. The Nexus 10's 2505 blows it away, but it is worth pointing out that those are the fastest two 10in tablets we have tested.
And although we can't prove it with our own science, we were impressed with the ElitePad's battery life. With moderate use throughout the day we found we could get a day out of the ElitePad which is the basic for tablets (and unusual for Intel Atom based devices). Indeed, CNET Asia recorded 8 hours and 24 minutes of use on test, which is very strong for an Intel Atom device. The battery is a 2-cell (25 WHr) polymer HP Long Life cell.
You get 64GB or 32GB of storage, as well as that MicroSD card slot. Our 64GB device has only 40GB of availabile space, however. Other now standard tablet features are present: NFC, accelerometer, gyroscope, e-compass and ambient light sensor. Our model has a 3G chip, but that is an optional extra.
HP EitePad 900: camera(s?)
The ElitePad has an 8Mp rear-facing camera, and a front-facing 2Mp webcam. That webcam is no slouch in the video department, able to capture 1080p HD video. Your camera's shot button is a tap of the screen. Software options include brightness, contrast, flicker and exposure, and you can set the megapixel rating of shots captured. We doubt anyone would buy the ElitePad in order to use it as their primary snapper, and that's reflected in its capabilities. Video calling using the front facing camera is pretty good. As is video captured by it (there's a test video below).
I'd love to tell you how good, bad or indifferent is the rear-facing 8Mp camera, but I couldn't work out how to use it. It is in the specs list, and there is a definite lens-like hole on the back... but we simply can't work out how to enable it. And if that is embarrassing for me as a technology journalist with more than 10 years under my belt, it doesn't reflect all that well on the ElitePad's usability.
Any suggestions gratefully received. (See also: What's the best tablet PC?)
UPDATE: after we reinstalled the ElitePad 900 in order to send it back to HP, we noticed that the rear-facing camera worked perfectly well. It can only have been an odd bug in an early production model of the ElitePad, and as such should not be considered a criticism. Unfortunately that means we didn't have the chance to properly test the rear-facing camera.
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Parent Education
Parent education is an important aspect of the overall Child Development Center program. On a regular basis we will send home a variety of child development articles. Additionally our monthly newsletter will offer information on your child's classroom program. All families (parents) are invited to attend a roundtable discussion that is designed to support your parenting skills or to volunteer in their child's classroom. The Child Development Associates will be hosting three 1 hour "Roundtable" Child Development Discussions each semester. Past topics of discussion have included: Ages and Stages, Positive Discipline Techniques, and School Readiness.
Parent Advisory Committee
The Parent Advisory Committee plans events to generate extra money for the children's programs. We regularly purchase educational materials and equipment for our classrooms with funds raised. Regular fund raising events are fun and afford participants the opportunity to meet other parents and caregivers. On-going events include: Plant sales, Holiday Craft Fair, and raffle baskets.
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Parent Group meetings are designed to be informal and will address parenting issues, concerns and problems that are at the forefront of parents' minds. Our Associate CD Associates, will help parents clarify the issues, include information about child development, and introduce skills, techniques, or suggestions that may help and support parents as they work through a given situation or want to change a behavior. They will host group discussions to hear other parents' experiences with similar issues and their solutions. These meetings are extremely beneficial to new parents and are highly encouraged by the Center. Meeting times are determined each month based on a survey of parent's availability.


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[January 07, 2014]
By Alwyn Scott and Bill Rigby
SEATTLE (Reuters) — Some Boeing Co <BA.N>
machinists plan to push for a recount or even a new vote on their
latest labor contract with the aircraft maker, possibly extending a
long-running drama over which state will get to work on Boeing's new
777X jet.
But union leaders said there would need to be a reason to take such
a step and that no formal request for action had been made.
"The vote is over and it was counted under the eyes of the members,"
said R. Thomas Buffenbarger, president of the International
Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), which
represents the Boeing machinists and other workers in the United
States and Canada.
"The tally is what it is."
The issue appeared decided late on Friday when local machinists
voted very narrowly in favor of the contract, apparently securing
thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of economic activity for
Washington state, but at the cost of union members' defined-benefit
Some members of the International Association of Machinists District
751 plan to rally at the union hall in Everett, Washington, on
Monday afternoon, said a source close to the union, calling for a
recount of the narrow vote or a completely new vote. Other union
members confirmed plans for the rally. A Facebook page run by union
member Shannon Ryker also had several posts about the planned event.
Ryker, a structural mechanic who works on Boeing's 777, said dozens
of workers also planned to carpool to Seattle this week to file
complaints about the vote.
"People are very angry," she said. "Some people have been physically
ill. A lot of members reported that they feel like there's been a
death in the family."
Local union lodges plan to discuss the issue when they meet over the
next three days, said the source close to the union, who did not
want to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly.
It was not immediately clear how any procedure to reconsider the
vote would work.
The contract offer, which was approved by a 51 percent majority of
machinists on Friday, exposed rifts in the union.
Had the workers rejected the offer, Boeing would have considered
making the successor to its popular 777 widebody jet elsewhere, and
had received offers from 22 states interested in hosting the new
But approving it meant pensions would be capped in 2016 and replaced
with a defined-contribution plan.
Local union leaders staunchly opposed the offer and had urged
members to reject the deal.
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But Buffenbarger and the union's international leaders, based in
Washington, D.C., had urged the machinists to consider it carefully,
while stopping short of a full endorsement.
Younger workers tended to favor the deal, whereas older workers were
more hostile as they had fought for the pension in the past and many
are close to retirement.
About 600 votes separated yes from no in the latest vote, union
officials said on Friday, and about 8,000 of the 31,000 eligible
union members did not vote. That is much higher than the prior vote
in November, when about 4,500 did not vote, said Lester Mullen, a
District 751 council delegate who works on the 777 wing production
Some workers said they did not like the choices between voting away
their pension or voting away their jobs.
Others were on vacation, as the vote came just after Boeing's
traditional week-long closure between the Christmas and New Years
But the international union leaders said everyone had an opportunity
to vote.
"I made a very rare exception and authorized electronic voting,"
Buffenbarger, the international president, told Reuters. "You could
be in Guam and still cast a vote."
Buffenbarger mailed letters to machinists' homes local leaders and
posted updates on website about it.
At least two members have filed complaints against the international
union with the National Labor Relations Board. And more could be
filed this week, Ryker said.
International leaders said there are many close votes in the
contracts it administers and they do not get recounted or re-voted.
"Just because there is a close margin is not a reason for recount or
revote," said Frank Larkin, spokesman for the International. "It is
not automatic."
(Reporting by Bill Rigby and Alwyn
Scott; editing by Phil Berlowitz and Andre Grenon)
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Host of the MTV game show "Remote Control," Ken Ober, died this weekend, it was reported Monday. He was 52.
A cause of death has not been released, the New York Times reported:
Lee Kernis, a manager at Brillstein Entertainment Partners who represented Mr. Ober for more than 20 years, said that Mr. Ober was found dead on Sunday. He said that Mr. Ober was last heard from on Saturday night, when he spoke to a friend and complained of a headache and flu-like symptoms. Mr. Ober told the friend that he was going to take something and would see a doctor as soon as possible.
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Mr. Ober, who was born in Brookline, Mass. and raised in Hartford, Conn., grew up idolizing game show hosts like Bob Barker and Bob Eubanks, went on to host four game shows of his own, including a revived version of "Make Me Laugh" in 1997. But his breakthrough came a decade earlier when Mr. Ober, a contestant on the televised talent show "Star Search," became the host of the MTV series "Remote Control" in 1987.
The show, set in Ober's fictional basement, featured armchair-bound contestants answering pop culture trivia.
"Ken was a great guy. His personality really brought 'Remote Control' to life, as well as a new style of programming for MTV. We were really flying by the seat of our pants then, and Ken was the reason it worked," Van Toffler, president of MTV Networks, told the Times.


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"Two years ago the FBI focused on a suspect with a far-fetched scheme—right as it stopped tracking the Boston Marathon bomber."
That's the subhead of Trevor Aaronson's latest piece at Mother Jones, entitled How the FBI in Boston May Have Pursued the Wrong "Terrorist".
You might remember Trevor from our episode "The Terror Factory", based on Trevor's book of the same name.
In this episode, we cover a whole new story of informant mishandling, plus other examples of "Incompitude", and cover a story on how Daimler A.G., the parent company of Mercedes Benz, will have to defend itself in front of the U.S. Supreme Court from allegations that its Argentina division collaborated with state security forces during the Dirty War of the 1970s.
About the guest:
Trevor Aaronson is author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism (Ig Publishing, January 2013). He is also co-director of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting and a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University.
Aaronson was a 2010-11 fellow at the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California, Berkeley, where he produced an award-winning project about FBI counterterrorism operations for Mother Jones.
Previously, Aaronson was an investigative reporter and editor for The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, where his stories ranged from local government investigations to reporting in Asia, Africa and South America. He was also formerly a staff writer for Miami New Times and New Times Broward-Palm Beach.
A two-time finalist for the Livingston Awards for journalists under the age of 35, Aaronson has won more than two dozen national and regional awards, including the Molly Prize, the international Data Journalism Award and the John Jay College/Harry Frank Guggenheim Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Award.
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Walter Plowright dies at 86; invented vaccine that eliminated serious cattle disease
Dr. Walter Plowright, the British veterinarian often called one of the "heroes of the 20th century" because of the massive increase in meat and dairy products resulting from his invention of a vaccine that has almost totally eliminated the cattle disease rinderpest, died Feb. 19 in London. He was 86.
Most Americans have probably never heard of rinderpest, a virus in the same family as measles that causes one of the most lethal diseases in cattle. It never established a foothold in the Americas and was eliminated from Europe early in the 20th century, but its introduction to Africa in 1889 in cattle shipped from India caused what some consider the most catastrophic natural disaster ever to affect that continent.
The virus, which strikes primarily cloven-footed animals, killed nearly 90% of cattle in sub-Saharan Africa, along with sheep, goats, buffaloes, giraffes and wildebeests. The loss of plow animals, herds and hunting resulted in mass starvation that killed a third of humans in Ethiopia and two-thirds of the Masai people in Tanzania. Subsequent outbreaks further contributed to poverty and starvation in the region.
Plowright was a young veterinary pathologist assigned to the United Kingdom's East African Veterinary Research Organization laboratory at Muguga, Kenya, when he and colleague R. D. Ferris began studying the rinderpest virus in 1956. Several groups had tried without success to develop a weakened version of the virus that could serve as a vaccine in the way that Edward Jenner had used a weak cowpox virus to produce a smallpox vaccine.
Plowright decided to use the relatively new technique of growing the virus in cells in glass tubes. After passaging the virus through nearly 100 generations of cell cultures over eight years, he and Ferris obtained a weakened version that could provoke immunity to rinderpest but did not produce disease. The weakened virus was inexpensive to produce and could be grown in large quantities.
The vaccine, called tissue culture rinderpest vaccine, was quickly adopted, but cattle growers did not initially use it for long enough and outbreaks occurred again. One such outbreak in Nigeria resulted in more than $2 billion in losses.
In 1994, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization organized a global eradication program that trained vets and farmers to recognize and control rinderpest and promoted widespread vaccinations. The last major outbreak of the disease occurred in Kenya in 2001, and the FAO is expected to declare the virus eradicated in the wild this year. Rinderpest and smallpox will then be the only disease viruses that have been eradicated worldwide.
The FAO has said that the cost of the rinderpest eradication campaign was about $3 million. That investment, the agency says, has led to an increase of $47 billion in food production in Africa and a $289-billion increase in India.
Plowright's technique has subsequently been adopted for other viral diseases, including African swine fever, malignant catarrhal fever and poxviruses. In 1999, he was awarded the prestigious World Food Prize.
Walter Plowright was born July 20, 1923, in Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England. He graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in London in 1944 and was commissioned into the Royal Army Veterinary Corps and sent to Kenya, where he developed a lifelong love of Africa.
After the war, he returned to lecture at the veterinary college, but in 1950 joined the Colonial Veterinary Service and returned to Kenya. He returned to England permanently in 1971 for stints at the veterinary college and the Institute for Research on Animal Diseases in Compton, Berkshire. Even after his retirement, he served as a consultant to many veterinary groups.
Plowright is survived by his wife of 50 years, Dorothy.


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How To: Raley To Wrapped/Shifty To Wrapped
The Raley (Shifty) to wrapped is a simple trick and can be your first handlepass trick beside the raley to blind. After you nailed this trick the progression never stops. You can add grabs or play with the landings. In this episode Ben will explane this trick.


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For our Muslim friends this is something to rejoice about. We already have about 4 or 5 Bible Apps in the Store, so I guess it's about time we saw apps from other religions too. Therefore, I am happy to announce that the first Quran app has dropped in the store. Titled "Holy Quran", the app is a reference source for Muslims around the world, and features both Arabic and English transliterated scripts. On the surface the App looks thoroughly thought out, but until its installed, its difficult to judge its feature. Since I don't speak arabic, I will not be the right person to judge the app quality. We can only peruse what the vendors says about the app, reproduced here below from the store:
Arabic and English Translation with English Search
The Holy Quran application comes to the Windows 8 app store. This comprehensive application includes Audio Recitation by Al Husari, English translation, transliterated Arabic, intuitive search functionality, and an easy to use interface.
Mushaf text from مجمع الملك فهد لطباعة المصحف الشريف (King Fahd Complex with Hufs Font.)
English Translation with side by side Arabic display
Arabic transliterated with side by side Arabic display
Individual Ayas selection and recitation by Al Huasari
Search in Arabic, English and transliterated Arabic
Sura and Juz index to go where you want in the Quran
Configurable font sizes: Large and Normal
Beatiful Uthmanic script font
Search using page number
Download Surah's as you go
Fast audio playback
I am sure you Muslim scholars can't wait to get the app, so please download the app from the Store via the following link: http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/0e37631e-5d81-4fc7-85fa-71857d107a03


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Conjoined Twins
conjoined twins, congenitally united organisms that are complete or nearly complete individuals, historically known as Siamese twins. They develop from a single fertilized ovum that has divided imperfectly; complete division would produce identical twins, having the same sex and general characteristics. Conjoined twins remain attached at the abdomen, chest, back, or top of the head, depending on where the division of the ovum has failed. In some instances the individuals are joined only by a band of musculofibrous tissue and can be separated surgically, but in other instances they share vital organs and separation may not be possible. Sometimes an ovum divides in such a way that an organism develops having one body and two heads, or one head and two sets of limbs. About half of all conjoined twins are stillborn, and many die within a week or so of birth. When they do survive, fatal illness in one dooms the other unless separation is possible. The name Siamese twins derives from the most famous of conjoined male twins, Chang and Eng, born in Siam (Thailand) of Chinese parents in 1811. They were exhibited in Barnum's circus for many years; although never separated, they married and fathered a total of 22 children. They died within 2 hours of each other in 1874. See also multiple birth.


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Survive the holidays with OneNote
Dealing with the frenzy that is all around us during the holiday season can be a challenge for anyone. Regardless of our diverse, individual backgrounds and beliefs, chances are that most of us have some amount of holiday shopping to do. Even if gift-giving isn't on your radar, holiday gatherings with family and friends will likely require planning of some sort — whether it's for a dinner party or a trip back home to visit the family.
If you're frantically scribbling lists on Post-It® notes everywhere you go — stop! Put the pen down and take a quick look at the following tips. I've provided some ideas for making sense of all of your holiday-themed tasks, including gift-giving, event planning, and trip planning.
A notebook for all seasons
The original version of OneNote came with only one notebook, so you had to rely on the sections within to keep information separate and grouped by project, event, or subject. Although you can create as many sections and pages within a notebook as you want, scrolling through dozens or hundreds of them can quickly became tedious.
OneNote 2007 has the ability to create multiple notebooks, so you can better manage all of the information that you gather and collect. Once you've created a notebook dedicated to a specific subject, project, or seasonal event, you can then use notebook sections to further categorize the information within that notebook.
Keeping multiple notebooks has a few hidden benefits. You can use a completely different way of organizing specific notes without messing up your usual note-taking system in your main notebook. Also, when searching notes, you can specify which notebook OneNote should search for information, which can be considerably faster than searching everything all at once. And, in the case of seasonal notes, you can easily pick up where you left off in the previous year.
Try it! To start your own holiday planning with OneNote, create a new notebook.
- In OneNote 2007, click File New Notebook.
- In the Name field, type "Holiday 2007" (or whatever you want) and then click Next.
- Under Who will use this notebook? , click I will use it on this computer, and then click Next.
- On the next screen, click Create.
OneNote creates the new notebook and then places a shortcut to it on the Navigation Bar.
Creating separate notebooks isn't just useful around the holidays. Use them to collect, organize, and refer to information during other seasonal events (for example, at tax time or during a summer vacation). You can click and drag your open notebooks to position them anywhere on the Navigation Bar. When you're done with a notebook, you can right-click it and close it. And don't worry: Notebooks aren't deleted when you close them; you can re-open them again at any time.
Use sections and pages to organize your notebook
Running out of time to plan and shop? Put things in order quickly by using sections for categories and pages for people:
You can right-click section tabs to create additional sections, rename them, change their color, and more. You can also click and drag section and page tabs to put them in any order you want. If you're planning an event (for example, a holiday dinner party), you can use a similar approach to keep track of dietary preferences and seating arrangements for every person on your guest list. For larger, catered events, you can even add sketches or drawings of the venue and of the individual tables.
Bring everyone's wish lists into your notebook
Once your holiday notebook is set up with the names of your family members and friends, you can import each person's wish list in any of the following ways:
Copy and paste There's nothing wrong with a low-tech approach if it does the trick! If you received someone's short-and-sweet wish list in a plain e-mail message, simply copy and paste the text into OneNote.
Send to OneNote If you're using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 as your e-mail program, getting information into OneNote is even easier: Right-click a message in your Inbox, and then click Send to OneNote on the shortcut menu. Alternately, you can open the message, and then click Send to OneNote on the Ribbon toolbar.
Send to OneNote menu command
(right-click a message in your Outlook Inbox)
Send to OneNote button
(open a message from your Outlook Inbox)
Print to OneNote OneNote 2007 comes with a special print driver which, instead of printing items to an actual printer, lets you "print" documents and other files directly to OneNote's electronic pages. For example, if your friends' and family's wish lists arrived in Microsoft Word documents, open the file(s) in Word and click the Print command. In the Print dialog box, select Send to OneNote 2007 as the printer's Name (as shown below).
Scanned images Importing scans of paper notes and drawings is useful when you want to keep everything together in OneNote. If you own a scanner and you've received a handwritten wish list that you want to preserve in its original format (for example, a child's handwritten note to Santa or the scribbles on a cocktail napkin), consider scanning it right into OneNote. Click Insert Pictures From Scanner or Camera. Next, follow the steps in the wizard to complete the scan.
Audio Clips Did someone leave you their wish list in a voicemail message? Not a problem! In OneNote, click Insert Audio Recording. Point your computer's microphone at your phone and record the message to OneNote. Click the Stop button in OneNote when you're done. If you want spoken words in audio clips to be included in your notebook searches like typed text, you can turn on Audio Search. Click Tools Options Audio and Video. Under Audio Search, click the Enable searching audio and video recordings for words checkbox.
Research and compare items, prices, and locations
Looking to buy gift items, researching the availability of holiday venues, or planning a trip? Until it's time to buy, all you need is OneNote, your Web browser, and your favorite armchair!
Insert hyperlinks The easiest way to find Web pages with important information again is to paste their Web address (also called URL) into a list. Hyperlinks pasted into OneNote are automatically clickable, so you can easily refer back to the pages you've visited. You can add a description to any link by typing text next to it. Or, you can change the link text to something more meaningful. Right-clicking a pasted hyperlink, and then click Edit Hyperlink on the shortcut menu. In the Hyperlink dialog box, type anything you want into the Text to Display box (leave the Address box alone), and then click OK.
Send to OneNote If you're using Windows Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP or Windows Vista, you can use the handy Send to OneNote feature. Bring up any Web page that holds information that you want to save for later (for example, a side-by-side comparison of two products), and then click the Send to OneNote button on the Internet Explorer toolbar (located just below the Search box near the top right side of the browser window). Pages that you copy in this way are automatically placed in the Unfiled Notes section on OneNote, from where you can move or copy the page to another place in your notebook.
Capture screen clippings Some Web pages contain complex scripts that make them unsuitable for exporting to other programs. This often happens on search results pages, shopping sites, and with information that rapidly changes (for example, flight availability and prices). If the Send to OneNote feature doesn't work well for a particular Web page, or if you want more control about the information you want to save, try creating a screen clipping instead. From your Web browser, switch to OneNote. Click Insert Screen Clipping. When OneNote minimizes and the Web page appears dimmed, click and draw a rectangle around the part of your screen that you want to capture. When you let go of the mouse button, the clipping is placed on the current page in OneNote. Although you can't overtype the text in a screen clipping image, you can annotate it by clicking and typing over the picture. You can also easily replace an outdated screen clipping with a new one.
Screen clippings in OneNote aren't limited to your Web browser or a single program window. Whatever you can display it on your computer screen, you can capture it all with OneNote. For example, to see how you can research and capture flight information from competing airlines using side-by-side windows, check out the video demo, "OneNote 2007 — An Executive's Best Practices." The example about screen clippings begins at around 3:30 minutes into the demo.
Bringing it all together
When you've done all of your research and consolidated your shopping and planning lists, it's time to do something with them!
Holiday shopping If your primary goal was to research and gather ideas for your holiday shopping, you should be all set. For things you need to get at the mall, print out your master list or download it to your mobile phone. For things you prefer to purchase online, refer back to your product and price comparisons and click the links in your notebook to recall and order the items you've decided on.
Event planning If you used OneNote to plan a holiday dinner party or similar event, you can easily share any part of your notes (for example, the menu, seating arrangement diagrams, maps with driving directions, etc.) with your guests. To send the information via Microsoft Outlook e-mails, create a summary page in your holiday notebook with the information you want to share, and then click File E-mail. Fill out the message envelope, and then click Send a Copy. You can also save a copy of any notebook page as a Web page by clicking File Save As, and selecting the Single File Web Page format from the Save as type drop-down menu. And if you're printing invitations in Microsoft Word, you can export any page in your notebook by click File Send to Microsoft Office Word.
Trip planning If holiday travel was your subject, review your screen clippings of flight/hotel/car rental information and go back to the sites that offered the best rates. Because this type of information changes rapidly online over even a few hours, be sure to verify the availability and final prices by performing new live searches before you book a flight or a hotel. When you receive your confirmations and itinerary in e-mail, bring it all into OneNote to keep everything together in one place. If you can't take OneNote with you (for example, on a laptop computer), you can e-mail your notes to your Hotmail account and refer to the information from hotels and local Internet cafés wherever you go.
Give the gift of OneNote
Need a last-minute gift idea this holiday? If you're already using OneNote 2007 for yourself, you know it's the perfect companion for the computer users on your list. It's available as a standalone program and as part of two versions of Microsoft Office 2007. Use the links below for more information:
OneNote 2007 (standalone version for Windows XP or Vista)
Microsoft Office 2007 Home & Student Edition (includes OneNote 2007)
Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate Edition (includes OneNote 2007)
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Explore the continued fraction: 2+3/(2+3/(2+3/2+...)) What do you
notice when successive terms are taken? What happens to the terms
if the fraction goes on indefinitely?
Two brothers were left some money, amounting to an exact number of pounds, to divide between them. DEE undertook the division. "But your heap is larger than mine!" cried DUM...
Which rational numbers cannot be written in the form x + 1/(y +
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Would You Try These Extreme Coffee Creamers?
I'm not at all averse to throwing cream at a problem coffee in emergency situations (turnpike rest areas, plane crash sites in the middle of the Andes mountains where I'm unlikely to be rescued for days), but technological advancements in the modern age had, until recently, escaped me. The array of "enhanced" creamers available in American supermarkets has taken a quantum leap from hazelnut to mind-boggling, from shelf-stable dairy to co-branded marketing cream genius. Without hesitation, I laid in a year's supply of what must be some of the most intense, extreme and in some cases experimental coffee flavor supplements under the sun.
Though I've been a coffee
snob enthusiast for several years now, I figured surely there were some guilty, slutty pleasures to unearth in the apparently exploding world of take-home flavored creamers. (Cinnabon flavor? Really????) With an open mind and palate, I dug out the stalest coffee I had (you know...to provide a sort of tabula rasa) and set-a-tastin'. Have you tried this stuff? Would you?
1. Almond Joy
This is a shock to the system and a confusion to the palate. Synthetic coconut, synthetic amaretto (er, "toasted almond") and....coffee? This "limited edition" licensed creamer opens with a cloying coconut butter aroma a little more like body lotion than food, almonds coming late on the finish by the time I actually get it into the cup. Sensorily, one is immediately transported to an airport, or perhaps an upscale convenience store like a Wawa, all the while submerging the idea of coffee completely in this liquid candy bar that doesn't quite taste like a candy bar, either. Maybe I hate candy now. Or coffee. I don't remember.
2. Bailey's Creme Brulée
Once upon a time, creme brulée was such a desirable thing to me I would necessarily order it above all other deserts on a menu, simply based on principle. Nowadays it is available in a four-month-refrigerator-stable coffee creamer with Bailey's branding, but let's not get bogged down with conversation here: this is not good. It makes your coffee taste much worse than when you drank it without cream, and it makes the cream taste worse than if you drank it without coffee.
3. Southern Butter Pecan
Ah, yes, a coffee additive "inspired by the Southern flavors of pralines and pecan pie", not that I've ever put either of those in my coffee. Though it's not as distinctly offensive in flavor as, say, a certain candy bar style creamer I may or may not have tried, the idea of sweet buttered pralines and pecans makes more sense in ice cream than creamer cream—precisely because you're not putting the former into a cup of coffee. Hell, it makes more sense in pie! And I'm not putting that in my coffee either!
4. Coffee-Mate Warm Cinnamon Sugar Cookie
It's been so long since I've put sugar in coffee I forget the up-front rush of sweetness and am nearly startled out of my cream coma. The flavor is more than palatable here—actual spices taste much less synthetic than lots of the other options—but it's still a strange flavor to put in your coffee. The sugar-cookie-ness of it all almost ruins the finish completely, like the almost bitter burnt-sugar bottom of the cookie itself. But in between the beginning and the end of the sip, this creamer ain't bad.
5. Coffee House Inspirations White Chocolate Mocha
Despite the rather poncey envisagement of your potential beverage on the package label—a full-cup rosetta latte art pattern on top of what is apparently a very lush cup of white chocolate mocha—this one goes down pretty easy. It's smooth and sugary, and since white chocolate isn't really chocolate anyway, there's not a lot of performance pressure on flavoring here.
At this point I'm starting to get into the heads of the marketing geniuses behind these flavors, some of which are even seasonal! (But speaking of which, where is the Pumpkin Spice flavored creamer? Have these people forsaken AMERICA?) Anyway, this one's easy drinking and inoffensive.
6. Coffee-Mate Eggnog Latte
I'll come right out and admit that a fair number of my collegiate days were spent counting down to the season in which I was able to purchase a Fa La Latte on the way to class (I guess you're right—I should have been studying.) That said, a coffee supplement that is flavored like eggnog while not actually being eggnog is a weird concept. Weirder still is pouring the mixture—not at all viscous, beige, or speckly—fluidly into your morning cup. That said, this pretty much sank right to the bottom of the cup and disappeared, making me wonder for a moment: do I need to use more? The answer is no, but as the seasonal cream flows, you could do a lot worse.
7. Bailey's The Original Irish Cream Non-Alcoholic Coffee Creamer
At a certain point in these reviews I became unsure of whether my choice of coffee—a nice, sturdy El Salvadorean whose farmer I won't embarrass by naming outright—might be some of the problem. Was I using coffee with too much character? Freshness? Too much flavor of its own? To test my theories I let some of the coffee I used to benchmark these creamers sit out for some time, then I microwaved it, forgot about it, and microwaved it again. Then I poured in this Bailey's The Original Irish Cream Non-Alcoholic Coffee Creamer. The leveled coffee playing field did seem to help somewhat, but once again the dominating flavor overall was one of sugar, rather than coffee, Irish Cream, or well, anything else. The flavors here are alright—a little musty, a little strange especially as coffee is a flavor in Bailey's Irish Cream—but a certain something is lacking in the combination. OH RIGHT, BOOZE.
8. Coffee-Mate Natural Bliss Vanilla
Ah, back to basics! This soft-focus gauzy packaging reminds me of fabric softener...wait, where was I? Yes, finally a flavored coffee creamer for those of us who wish to live a more natural, organic lifestyle. If this stuff is so pure and natural, why must it be so stickysweet? Why would I want to put vanilla in my coffee anyway? Unable to figure out why milk, sugar and "natural vanilla flavoring" would taste so strange in my coffee, I drank some of this straight: it was akin to drinking liquid frosting. That said, it tasted better without coffee than with it.
Any Serious Cream article would be remiss without honorable mentions to those many flavors our tasters were unable to track down and try: Coconut Creme, Sugar-Free Vanilla Caramel, Italian Sweet Creme, Bailey's French Vanilla, Caramel Macchiato, Peppermint Mocha, and the ever elusive Cinnabon. But if there's bad coffee in hell...surely one or two of these will find its way to the condiment station. See you on the other side!
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Door and Windows Plus does things the old fashioned way; they are exact and very thorough in their approach to the job. Others, less professional, would have been lazy and the window's would have been ordered and arrived at my home, only to be the wrong style, and I would have had to repurchase them! But Kelvin's approach made that additional expense and aggravation unnecessary. Don't we all really have enough aggravation?
Kelvin suggested and I agreed that Green World Windows would be the best choice. I was able to get beautiful energy efficient windows that matched the French style doors already installed in my property. The windows were made to order, with the correct mounting hardware because of the pre-visit of Door and Windows Plus professionals.
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Assess BRCA risk in women with family history: panel
Last Updated: 2013-12-23 17:00:00 -0500 (Reuters Health)
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women with a family history of breast or ovarian cancer should be assessed to see if those cancers could be linked to certain mutations, according to new recommendations.
Only if the assessments suggest a possible connection should women get genetic counseling and - if warranted - be tested for BRCA mutations, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) confirmed today.
The panel's final recommendation largely mirrors draft guidelines released earlier this year (see Reuters Health story of April 2, 2013 here: http://reut.rs/1cdBbJb).
"The first thing to understand is the vast majority of women will not need this testing and will not benefit from it," Dr. Douglas K. Owens said.
Owens is a member of the USPSTF as well as a professor at Stanford University and senior investigator at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System in California.
"We're talking about a small group of women that have a family history that suggests there may be a risk of BRCA mutations," he told Reuters Health.
One in 300 to one in 500 women has a so-called BRCA mutation - a version of a gene with small changes in it that heighten the risk of developing cancer. Depending on their specific gene changes, those women have up to a 65 percent chance of getting breast cancer by age 70 and up to a 39 percent chance of getting ovarian cancer.
Women who test positive for the mutations may take medication to reduce their risk of cancer or have their breasts and ovaries removed. They can also opt for intensive cancer screening - although how well that prevents advanced disease and death is unknown.
The recommendations are based on a new review of the current evidence on testing and counseling for BRCA mutations. Both are published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1i46lF7 Annals of Internal Medicine, online December 23, 2013.
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Though your kitchen may be oh-so-fresh and clean from floor to ceiling, there could be some hidden dangers lurking in your food.
That's right, you may be bringing back more than just canvas bags full of produce, you may be stocking your fridge withgerms and bacteria just waiting to make you sick. But rest assured, with a little know-how and practice, you can rid your fridge of these pesky invaders.
To help, the Center for Science in the Public Interest has put out a list of the top 10 riskiest foods regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, all of which account for almost half of all foodborne illness. Here's what to watch out for and what you can do at home to safeguard your family and your dinner table.
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One View: South Hill Vista
A recent grad returns to campus to revive the past and leaves renewed for the future. by Cornell Woodson '09, former SGA president
Five months out of college and I found myself desperately needing to come back to Ithaca.
After graduation, I moved to Atlanta, Georgia. It is everything I wanted: a large city with bright lights and a rich culture. I have a job that challenges me every day and the honor of teaching kids who inspire me. Still, I wasn't sure if I had made the right decision. I needed to be reenergized and reminded of the larger picture my Ithaca education enabled me to see, which I felt I had lost sight of recently. I needed to get myself together, because back in Atlanta 130 kids are counting on me. So, to Ithaca I went to relive pieces of my four years, if only for a weekend.
I landed in Ithaca wearing shorts, a t-shirt, and flip-flops; however, I quickly opened my suitcase to adorn myself with something more weather appropriate. I had an agenda, and there was no time to waste.
My first priority was to see the building where I spent many sleepless nights working and conversing with my peers. When I walked into the Campus Center, so much had changed. La Vincita had undergone a bit of a makeover, and the third floor had been given a huge facelift. Even though it was not my third floor, I had to admit it was an improvement.
My trip to the third floor of the Campus Center would not have been complete if I had not visited the Student Government Association (SGA). I remember when I first started at Ithaca College my goal was to be student body president by my senior year. Walking into that space five months after leaving campus was like déjà vu and disorientation combined. The new executive board is doing some amazing things, and it was nice to see them settled into their positions. This, and changes like the Dillingham renovation and Terrace 13, made it evident that Ithaca College is ushering in a new era. I realized that in 10 years Ithaca would not be the same as it was when my class was here. But to be honest, I found comfort in knowing that the College is changing with the times.
After interrogating the new SGA crew, I headed over to the Center for Student Leadership and Involvement to catch up with my mentors, who put up with my shenanigans for four years. Seeing them again is what really energized me, because they are the reason I made it through college.
As a student, I was always involved in something, and this weekend was no different. I was asked to be a guest speaker in my old Social and Cultural Foundations of Education course, taught by Teresa Michel. It was a treat to have the opportunity to share my experiences as a teacher with people who are working to enter the same field. The students had an abundance of questions, which helped me realize why I started teaching in the first place. Teaching has opened my eyes to so many new things, and I was itching for an opportunity to share everything. Talking about my kids became the highlight of my day.
I was also asked to be the keynote speaker for the African Latino Society's (ALS) 40th Anniversary Celebration. What an honor! It made me feel like I had done something right. I wanted the African, Latina/o, Native American (ALANA) community to understand that the struggle in being an ALANA student on campus is not in vain. We are working toward a much larger goal, and that is to create opportunities for more students like us to make it to college. ALS played a huge role in my success at Ithaca College, and I owe the ALANA community here a lot.
As the weekend came to a close, I began to understand the importance of the relationship an alumnus has with his or her alma mater. It's not just about donating to support the college's endeavors; it's also about connecting with current students. The College worked hard to welcome alumni back home and to create opportunities for us to interact with students. Now, I know why: Seeing how alumni are doing after college seals the deal for students that an Ithaca College education is worth it. And, for me, as an alumnus, interacting with students helped me see myself more clearly.
Thank you, Ithaca College, for a great, eye-opening weekend.
As a freshman, Cornell Woodson represented his class as a student senator. He served as the Student Government Association's vice president for campus affairs for the 2007–08 academic year and SGA president for 2008-09, while also working as the Campus Center building manager.


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Lakewood Cemetery's Garden
Stunning attention to detail by HGA Architects and Engineers.
Joan Soranno and John Cook of HGA Architects and Engineers have designed the Garden Mausoleum, located within Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
"Governed as a non-profit from its beginning, the Lakewood Cemetery Association recognized the need for prudent planning to ensure its vitality for the indefinite future. Despite the broad expanses of Lakewood's grounds, a mere 25 acres remain available for future development. With an existing 1967 Mausoleum nearing capacity (due largely to the increased acceptance and interest in above ground burial and cremation) the Cemetery's Board of Trustees commissioned a comprehensive Master Plan in 2003. The lynchpin of the plan called for a new Mausoleum to expand above ground options for crypt and cremation burials, and to accommodate contemporary memorial rites and practices. The project, a new "Garden Mausoleum" called for burial space for over ten thousand people, a committal chapel, a much needed reception space for post-service gatherings, and new landscaping for the surrounding four acre site."
"Challenged with the task of adding a large structure – 24,500 square feet – to a much beloved place, Joan Soranno, FAIA and John Cook, FAIA of HGA Architects and Engineers quickly committed themselves to a strategy that protected and enhanced the cemetery's historic landscape. A large building, no matter how artful, was bound to detract from Lakewood's pastoral beauty. Following an extensive site analysis, Joan and John chose to locate the building along the northern edge of a 1960's era "sunken garden." By placing the new Garden Mausoleum between the existing, two-story mausoleum on the west and the cemetery's 1910 Byzantine styled memorial chapel on the east, development is clustered around one location near the cemetery's entry. This has the benefit of consolidating much of the high traffic and infrastructure to a discrete precinct within the grounds, leaving the vast majority of the original landscape and critical view sheds undisturbed."
"The Lakewood Garden Mausoleum, true to the Cemetery's non-sectarian mission, builds its meaning from the most common and indelible aspects of human experience – the immediacy of light and dark, the immutability of squares and circles, and the echo of stone surfaces. An unabashed 21st century building, the design of the Garden Mausoleum is not going to confuse anybody about what is old and what is new. Already a remarkable place before the Mausoleum broke ground, Lakewood's landscape and its small campus of buildings are enriched because it is there – framing a view, completing an edge, and embracing human scale. At this cherished haven within the city, architectural progress meets history with grace and a newfound vitality."
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Residents in the vicinity of Magee Avenue and Blake Street became very much alarmed yesterday afternoon over the actions of a stranger. In fact, they became so alarmed that the marshal's office was called upon to investigate the case and protect the people from what they supposed was a maniac—and all because the man was so thoughtless as to sit down on the edge of the sidewalk and remove one of his shoes. -more-


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Hello Team,
I took the latest sqlite proxy code from github. After 3 days, I finally figured out how to remove the errors from the code and get it running to the previous state.
But the database table is still not created. I have the SqliteProxy.js and SqliteConnection file.js which is supposed to create the table(I assumed).
Any suggestion is welcome.
Thank you in advance.