text:
BRUSSELS: North Rhine Westphalia Minister Remmel has called for stronger efforts from the federal government towards achieving a new global climate treaty at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP17), as well as transformational climate leadership at the sub-national level.
As COP17 opened in Durban this week Johannes Remmel, Minister for Climate Change, North Rhine Westphalia, urged German Chancellor Angela Merkel to boost climate action and stressed the need for federal government and EU collaboration on a successor regime to the Kyoto Protocol at COP17. He said: "The federal government and, above all, the Chancellor, has lost credibility on climate change. […] In Durban, the groundwork must be laid for the necessary transitional arrangement; the only way we can limit global warming to two degrees."
Anticipating the absence of a global agreement though, Remmel highlighted the critical leadership role of sub-national government too, stating: "If you want to counteract the effects of climate change, then there is no alternative to international agreements. But previous years have shown that we cannot rely solely on international climate summit. We need more than ever, movement from below - from the economy, and initiatives of committed citizens groups, local communities and of course the states."
Remmel emphasized the urgent and economical need for such transformational action: "The aim must be binding obligations of the parties for the period after 2015. The time of waiting and hesitation is over, because we are running out of time. Climate change is not subject to environmental and natural romanticism, but pure economic rationality."
Remmel went on to list some of the world's recent extreme weather-related disasters to reiterate Nicolas Stern of the World Bank's striking quote that 'unabated climate change' would cost up to 20% of global GDP, compared to the 1% cost of 'active climate policy'. He also referenced research by DIW (the German Institute for Economic Research) which says climate change will cost the German economy up to €800 billion by the year 2050 - of which more than €70 billion would be to North Rhine Westphalia alone.
However, Remmel ended on a positive note when he applauded North Rhine Westphalia for having 'the first Climate Change Bill with mandatory reduction targets pioneered in Germany', which is a clear example of transformational leadership at sub-national level.
Luc Bas, Director of European Programmes and International States and Regions, The Climate Group says: "North Rhine Westphalia is one of the true leading sub-national governments in The Climate Group's States and Regions Alliance, and together with other states from North America, Latin America, Australia and Europe, they are on a path to a prosperous low carbon society, understanding the benefits such as new jobs and a booming green economy, that come from more ambitious climate action. They can rightfully call for more global and national action as they did recently in the Lyon Declaration."
Damian Ryan, Senior Policy Manager, The Climate Group, will also be writing news and analysis throughout COP17, and providing a more in-depth post-COP Briefing after the events. Keep up to date on our website and by following him on Twitter during COP17. Read Damian's Pre-COP17 Briefing.
Our international policy teams are also commenting on key regional positions in the lead-up to Durban; read about Australia, China, Europe, India and the US


text:
Boat Dad on Throwing Kid Overboard: 'I Was Trying to Kill My Son'
[There was a video here]
Throwing your annoying kid off a barge isn't funny. Explaining why you threw your kid off a barge, however, is a great opportunity for jokes! Here is Sloan Briles, the Californian charged with felony child endangerment after throwing his 7-year-old off a sightseeing boat, explaining himself to a local news station.
"Yeah, I was trying to kill my son," Briles quips with perhaps ill-conceived sarcasm. Would you throw the kid overboard again, if sober? "Absolutely!" But the child was crying and had all his clothes on? "What, do you want me to strip him down?" Just a little toss into the waves, forcing the boat to veer suddenly off course so it did not hit the child and kill him. Big whoop. [KTLA, HuffPost]

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Who hasn't wanted to drive a Zamboni? In honour of what would have been Frank Zamboni's 112th birthday, the mad minds over at Google created a Google doodle that puts you behind the wheel of the ice surface cleaner that bears his name.
The playable Google doodle lets drive a digital Zamboni using the arrow keys on your keyboard. Successfully cleaning the ice surface that has been scratched up by skaters lets you advance to higher levels and gives you more gas to put in your Zamboni's tank.
The ubiquitous ice resurfacer was invented by Frank Zamboni and patented in 1953. He died in 1988 but his creation is still going strong. Frank J. Zamboni & Co., which is operated by Zamboni's family, produced its 10,000th ice resurfacer last year.


text:
Recent Posts
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Naked Nanna
Posted by Unknown
Bad things happen when good bloggers decide to present themselves as healthy, athletic-y type people. This lesson was made painfully clear to me while attempting to improve my body through some actual exercise, guided by a personal trainer. I prefer the "by-proxy" type, which means that I lounge on the sofa while I watch an exercise video and shout criticisms at the TV while pelting it with Cheetos - the crispy kind, not the puffy kind!
This year on my birthday I made a declaration that I was going to trade in my present day physique for the one I covered up with my wedding dress and uncovered on my honeymoon 18 years ago. I am well aware, that having a great body can't be acquired by a twitch of the nose a-la-Samantha-Stevens, although I've truly tried to tap my "inner Bewitched." Typically, I just look like a crazy person with really bad allergies. If reinventing one's body were that simple, I'd be Gisele Bündchen. Please don't get me wrong, I'm totally for self-improvement and self-actualization. I truly believe everyone should take care of the body they've been given, and realize their potential, to chase after goals, yada, yada, yada, blah, blah, blah . . .
Of course, no establishment is more sobering, with it's droves of 20-something members clad in belly bearing work-out gear, than a gym. While I was waiting for my trainer, I noticed this lovely, long legged, perfectly tanned and toned young woman bring in her children and get them registered and comfortable in the day-care that was provided. Did I mention they were triplets and maybe about 6 or 7 months old, and it looked more like I had just had those babies, than she? As I craned my neck to see around the stroller top, I read baby #1's little tee, it read "I Party Naked", baby #2's tee read "I'm a Boob Man" and lastly, baby #3's tee read "Mother Sucker." As I sat passing judgments and thinking she was probably one of those women who "whore" . . . I mean "wore" maternity wear that said "Knocked Up", a perky voice said, "LeAnn" . . I look up, and guess who's standing there? Yep, Octumom minus 3! She smiled and extended her perfectly manicured hand and said, "Hi! Are you ready to get started?" I'm not really clear on what happened next, I'm pretty sure all the blood left my head after about the 50th lunge and I woke up in the ladies locker room, my body wrapped in a terry cloth towel with matching terry cloth turban on my head. The exhibitionist tendencies of my youth have turned into an almost Amish-like sense of modesty, I mean I'm an actual member of "Sensible Knickers Club" - no more thongs and trap doors for this chick! I tell you this to let you know that my tender constitution cannot really bare (if you'll pardon the pun) all the rampant nakedness that was going on in this locker room. Just as I look up, around the corner comes a lady, not just any lady, but an octogenarian. She's naked and seems to be kinda trying to wrangle her flat, long lady lumps into a bra, and for added effect, she's sporting a complete absence of afore mentioned knickers - sensible or otherwise. Let me just say this, I saw some images today that will be burned into my corneas for eternity - someone please, hold me. . . . I'm truly traumatized !
In my haste to cover my girly bits and divert my gaze away from "Naked Nanna," I stood up too quickly and bonked my elbow on the locker, which made me drop the towel around my body, and the towel around my hair fell over my half of my face. Just as this is all happening, old lady #2 comes scooting around the corner and giggles for an inordinately long time at my expense and exposure. Ten buck says two weeks from now an entire Mahjong-playin', caftan-wearing, Mojito-swilling old ladies club will be yuckin' it up when they recount this scene.
Though none of this has anything what-so-ever to do with the "vintage" or "inspirational" premise of this blog, It does address the "exhibiting exceptional skills" aspect of my posts. My trainer is really good at her job! So in closing, I feel the need to give some background here and explain that there are muscles in my body that have not been flexed since the Clinton administration . . . and now they HURT!! . . . and I feel VINTAGE!
Vintage postcard courtesy Photobucket.
Labels: "personal trainer", "work out", exercise, gym, healthy, humor · 4 comments
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Ukulele Gal
Posted by Unknown
This morning I'm chin deep in fellas dressed in short sleeved white button downs, black ties and pants and pocket protectors. I just threw up in my mouth a little bit and my head is beginning to spin, but it's my computer that is doing the better Linda Blair impression and truly messing with my world! However, my knights in shinning VW Beetle are here!
So, to calm my mind and soothe my soul I need to be transported to a kinder gentler place - one without RAM, CRASHES or SYSTEM ERRORS. And the remedy has been supplied by a fellow "old soul" and favorite friend. He introduced me to an amazing artist that I would like to share with you, and her name is Janet Klein. I think she is quite possibly one of the most charming people I've ever been introduced to!
I have discovered that it is virtually impossible to listen to singer, chanteuse Janet Klein and her band, The Parlor Boys, without smiling. Her love of lost classics, vaudeville melodies, and Yiddish songs of a bygone era are brought back to effervescent life through their stylings. Klein might seem at first to be a novelty act, with her sleek bob hairdo and vintage clothing, but when she opens her mouth to sing the obscure, naughty songs from the 1910s, 20s and 30s, her amazing talent and passion for curating these tunes is evident.
Her debut album, 1998's Come Into My Parlor, is almost a solo record, with Klein's vocals and ukulele occasionally supported by, John Reynolds' guitar and producer and husband Robert Loveless' accordion, mandolin, harmonica and triangle. Klein's second album, Paradise Wobble, was credited to Janet Klein and her Parlor Boys, and, like the first album, was bedecked in vintage photos and perfect replications of early 20th century graphic design. Subsequent albums, including her newest release, Ready For You, can be found here.
She performs with her band mostly in the Los Angeles area and continues to utilize her collection of vintage photographic matter in graphic design projects, including two miniature books, "Love is A Boomerang" and "Take A Picture of the Moon", and has plans for a DVD of musical film shorts and live concert footage. There are two must see videos that perfectly illustrate Klein's charm and eccentricities. The first is Klein singing an Irving Berlin tune entitled, "Cohen Owes Me Ninety-seven Dollars" at the West Coast Ragtime Festival in Sacramento, California - it's hilarious! The other is an instructional Ukulele video that can be found here and is a charming example of her manner and gentle spirit. Her Facebook and MySpace pages will lead you to her site where you can find their tour dates. This Sunday, April 26th at 7 pm, Janet the boys will be "Backstage" at the Coffee Gallery in Altadena, California.
There . . . all calm . . . now, to find my Ukulele.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Earth Day Dinner
Posted by Unknown
Since it is Earth Day and all, I'd like to do my part and reduce my carbon footprint. My plan is to stop cooking - well, at least to stop burning what I'm cooking.
Lately I've been all about the turkey and provolone - I'm trying to get everyone at my house in touch with their "Inner Deli". There's that, and the fact that when it comes to cooking, I am functionally retarded. I know I'm not supposed to say "retarded" because that insults all the developmentally disabled people of the world - people who, incidentally, could cook circles around me. I offer my apologies, but truly there is no better descriptive term for my lack of skills. So, when the natives started getting restless and voicing their discontent, I instituted a subsequent "All Pizza Hut, All the Time" tactic - that has not gone well, either. I have really tried to make friends with that white box in the kitchen with the fire coming out of it, but that has yielded mixed results, meaning that I caught a dish towel on fire, set off all of the fire alarms in the house, and set up a healthy neurosis for my children. This way, at their first session of therapy, their shrink can see they have clearly defined "mama-trauma" issues!
After multiple burns to my digits and other assorted limbs that were usually accompanied by mild streams of profanity, I figured it was time to seek some professional help of the culinary persuasion. (My therapist has taken to stabbing herself in the ear whenever I start recounting one of my disastrous cooking stories.) Imagine my surprise when my most recent foodie failure, blackened oven mitt with a side of "my-gag-reflex-isn't-what-it-used-to-be" was not a huge success - no accounting for taste, I suppose!
My searches proved successful and I found some wonderful mentors and ideas that I'd love to share with you. Moving beyond "Cooking for Dummies," I found a "breast-tacular" chicken recipe in this month's issue of Sunset Magazine as well as great inspiration from Donna Hay's site and magazine. Donna gave me great ideas for side dishs and Ina Garten's site, The Barefoot Contessa supplied me with a smorgasbord of selections for desert.
In conclusion, I'd like to address my family and say, "Leather up Nancy boys and girls, and grab a fork, because your going to be fine . . . but just in case, keep the take out menus near by."
Photos courtesy of Sunset Magazine, Donna Hay and The Barefoot Contessa.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
I'm Back . . . well, kinda
Posted by Unknown
My friend Jeanie's doll head collection - she illuminated the heads at night - she's a riot!
I'm almost fully recovered from my Warrenton/Round Top coma. I've been relishing the fact that I am not out in a field with 45 to 50 MPH sustained winds, hoards of rain and rotating 40 degree to 80 degree temperatures! I'm presently about a 20 oz. bottle of Diet Dr. Pepper away from having the "National Soft Drink Council of America" sponsor the remaining years of my life on this planet - can you say - OVER CAFFEINATED???!!! I have spent most of the past 2 weeks sitting on the sofa surfing the most excellent daytime programming available to me - please note the dripping sarcasm intended here. I've watched "I Love the 80s" marathon on VH1, I miss big hair and shoulder pads so much! And just so I can get a little exercise by proxy, I stopped on some yoga instructor telling me how important my "core" is on the "I No Longer have Self Esteem Channel", and turns out my pelvis has a floor - who knew? I've also taken it upon myself to test all the items in the pantry and refrigerator containing chocolate, high fat or ingredient contents that sounds unhealthy - Christian service work, don't you know? I don't want my husband or children to eat a bad Ding Dong or Dorito. I don't mean to get all religious on you here, but I'm fairly sure Dark Chocolate Dove Bars are proof that Jesus loves me. To be completely honest the only thing missing from this full force "lazy-fair" has been booze!
My neighbor and friend at the show, Maggie from The Veranda nails the Vintage Garden-Paris Chic-Rmantic Cottage look everytime!
Well, I have to get back to WHAM and Boy George, but I thought I'd leave you with some great images I snapped while out wandering the fields during Antiques Weekend.
And of course "Large Marge" from the Junk Gypsys has to make her appearance.
I'll return tomorrow with something wonderfully inspirational and "calorie-free."
Carolyn from Carolyn Westbrook Home was there with here usual amazing set up.


text:
Word 'round the campfire is that the power forward everybody loves to hate dared to whisper about a H.A.S. (high ankle sprain) ion the last 24 hours. No, Rick Mahorn wasn't whispering anything. Rick Mahorn doesn't whisper. He screams quietly. Different generation's hatable PF. Dude's old enough that stomping a cockroach too hard gives him a high ankle sprain. I'm talking about Chris Bosh, kids. He hasn't played in 10 days and if his self-diagnosis of a subtle and complicated lower extremity injury is to be believed (and why shouldn't it!?!) the Mighty Bosh isn't just out for the week, he's out for a chunka weeks. Chunka weeks, bee tee dubya, are somewhere between hella months and über days. At any rate, I'd start looking elsewhere for your tri-weekly19/8. And by elsewhere, I mean away from Miami's roster. Mike Miller will get some extra burn with the roster getting shuffled around, but guys like Joel Anthony just ain't gonna cut it. Definitive word should come out before Thursday, but it looks probable that he'll miss at least another week of games and possibly 3-4 months worth. Other than that, Bosh is perfectly fine.
Here's what else I saw in fantasy basketball:
Alonzo Gee – DNP-CD. Does Nothing Productive – Can Drop.
Daniel Gibson – Averaging 15/4.8 in his first four games since returning from injury. Plus, he missed two weeks, so he isn't filled with the same crippling sense of worthlessness as his teammates and should improve on these averages in another week or so. So that's a bonus!
Sasha Vujacic – Anthony Morrow is almost certainly going to slide into the starting SG spot within the next week, pushing Stephen Graham (he's the New Jersey Graham, right?) to the backup SG role with the Machine. And as we know, machines need frequent oil to run smoothly. Oil is for closers only!
Greg Monroe – 7/4 in 31 foul-plagued minutes. Started over Ben Wallace (good), but he had to earn his Dwight of Passage by guarding the big man all night (bad). Hey, it happens to the bets. It happens to the rest.
Tracy McGrady – T-Mac dug a little deeper against the second team in his career to caste him out (. So I guess the takeaway here is that McGrady exerted a little energy without crumbling like the Grecian Ruins.
Austin Daye – Season-high 20 points, season-high 34 minutes. I'm gonna go ahead and let you do the math. Unless you happen to work for the Detroit Pistons, in which case I should probably just spell it out for you.
Ryan Anderson – He's scored 15+ points and sank 3+ 3pt in all but one of his last seven games. Don't make me belabor this. I hate belaboring. He's the Florida Mike Miller you should own if you were unlucky enough to own the actual Florida Mike Miller.
Jerryd Bayless – Played ill (15/8/11) while Calderon was feeling ill. One is the good kind and one is the bad. Doesn't matter if you know which one because Joe Kettle should be back for the next game.
Julien Wright – 11/9 with 2 blocks in 41 minutes. Is that a good performance or a bad one? Is the glass half full of refreshing water or is it half full with cyanide?
Vince Carter – Six points on 1-for-6 shooting. He's taken less than seven shots in two of his last four games, shooting .250 in that span. Nash don't like Carter's steez. Am I using that word correctly? Steez means "diminishing ability to play basketball" right?
Evan Turner – 14/8/5 in 33 minutes. Still playing inconsistently, but the good news in the last month is that now some of that inconsistency includes good games instead of just fluctuating between poo, crap and shizz.
Andray Blatche – 2-for-10. His surname also serves as onomatopoeia for his performance.
Chase Budinger – He played 33 minutes on Saturday and sank three threes. He played 14 minutes last night and sank just as many. I say play him until he hits a trio of treys and bench him immediately afterward.
Corey Brewer – Started. Played fewer than 10 minutes, ceded most of his time to Wesley Johnson's amaze-a-line (19/3/4 with three steals and two blocks). He's neck-and-neck with the Milwaukee baseball franchise as the most boring Brewers in the upper Midwest. I'd rather own Johnson over Brewer even despite Corey's spot in the rotation. I'd rather own someone better than both, however.
Carlos Delfino – He's shooting sub-.300 across the board in his first three games since returning from a concussion. He still looks concussed. Delfino. DELete. FInito NOpe.
Chris Douglas-Roberts – Dropped 30 points on the unsuspecting Bulls, but like most other CD-Rs, the chances of continued replay quality remaining this high are almost nil.
Kurt Thomas – Thoroughly outplayed Carlos Boozer upon his return. Which says more about Thomas' game than Boozer's return. If you just lost Bosh or need a big guy in deeper leagues, Thomas has been the better pickup between him and Taj Gibson this month.
LaMarcus Aldridge – LMAO (LaMarcus Aldridge Off-night). 4-of-14 from the field. His hip don't lie. He ain't feeling tip-top.
Antonio McDyess – 14/10 and just his second double-double of the season. I'm pretty sure McDyess is DeJuan Blair's father. As long as you don't think about that too hard, it makes total sense.
David Lee – 31/12. Great. One game down. 81 more to go.
Andris Biedrins – Did you forget Biedrins was starting for the Warriors? 'Cause I did. Follow-up question, why is he still starting for the Warriors? Drop him if, for some reason, you haven't already.


text:
It's easy to wonder if actual events in the lives of great composers are directly reflected in their music. Sometimes, people even argue about it. But in the case of personal tragedies early in Giuseppe Verdi's life, the case seems like a slam dunk.
Verdi wrote his first opera, Oberto while in his late twenties, for Milan's historic opera house, La Scala. The 1839 premiere was successful enough for the company to offer him a contract for three more dramas. It seemed Verdi was on his way to a solid career. Then disaster struck.
Not long before, Verdi had endured the death of his young son. By the spring of 1840, he had also lost his second child, an infant daughter, and his wife. Later that year his next opera was a flop. Verdi's personal life and career were in tatters, and he considered giving up composing altogether.
Eventually, Verdi made a comeback with his third opera, the smash hit Nabucco. In it, he touched on a dramatic theme to which he would turn repeatedly throughout his long career. That theme is parental love, and in particular the loving yet complex relationship between a father and his daughter -- a relationship that, tragically, Verdi himself had never had the chance to fully enjoy.
The father-child relationship crops up in a number of Verdi's finest operas, including Aida, Simon Boccanegra and La Traviata. But the composer never portrayed it more poignantly, or more tragically, than in Rigoletto.
Verdi completed Rigoletto in 1851, basing the opera on a play by Victor Hugo called Le roi s'amuse. The composer once said it was "perhaps the greatest drama of modern times," and went on to describe its main character as "a creation worthy of Shakespeare."
That character, Triboulet in Hugo's play, became the title character in Verdi's opera. He's a man whose harsh life is warmed only by the unconditional love of his daughter, a young woman eventually destroyed as an inadvertent result of Rigoletto's own anger and bitterness.
On World of Opera, host Lisa Simeone presents Verdi's Rigoletto from the Teatro Regio, or Royal Theater, in Turin, Italy. Baritone Giovanni Meoni sings the title role, with soprano Desirée Rancatore as Gilda and tenor Piero Pretti as the Duke of Mantua.
Tragic Devotion: Verdi's 'Rigoletto'
It's easy to wonder if actual events in the lives of great composers are directly reflected in their music. Sometimes, people even argue about it. But in the case of personal tragedies early in Giuseppe Verdi's life, the case seems like a slam dunk.


text:
More Pets
- This set includes book, double-sided picture and word matching boards, double-sided picture and written word flash cards, laminated draw-a-line worksheets (word-to-word and word-to-picture, straight and diagonal) and guide for extended learning activities. Set also includes summarized instructions (inside front cover) and tips (inside back cover).
- The entire set is spiral bound and printed on 8 1/2 x 11 heavy card stock with laminated front and back covers. Flash cards are stored in pouch located on inside back cover.
- Detailed instructions for use are included.
- Vocabulary: more, pets, I, see, a, turtle, guinea pig, snake, rat, hermit crab, lizard.
Additional information
|6.4 oz
|8.5 × 11 × .25 in


text:
Hyack honeybees educate and pollinate
New Westminster Secondary School is a hive of activity these days, and not only because students are buzzing about the hallways, gearing up for second semester.
Four years ago this month, at the urging of his students, biology teacher Axel Krause approached the school board with a plan to build an apiary on the roof of the Pearson wing.
The plan was approved, and NWSS is now home to two beehives, with another shipment of bees on its way.
"It's a unique kind of thing to our school," said environment club president Isabel Sadowski, 17. "Not a lot of schools have beehives…"
"A hard part of being part of environment club is that sometimes your actions don't really produce a lot," said Sadowski. "You can raise awareness, you can change your own habits, but it's hard to see the effect that you're having. With the beehives, you can actually see the work you've been doing is creating something."
But for Krause and Sadowski, bees are so much more important than the substances they produce.
"Every third mouthful of food you eat has had a bee involved," said Krause, explaining that even dairy cows depend on bees to pollinate the alfalfa they eat. "It's amazing how much food we eat that's pollinated by bees. And the bees are dying."
This month in California, one million beehives will arrive from all over the United States to pollinate over 700,000 acres of almonds. In the summer, many of those bees will be shipped to the Fraser Valley to pollinate blueberry crops, then to Alberta for canola.
Krause believes this practice may be a factor in Colony Collapse Disorder – the sudden loss of entire hives of bees that has plagued beekeepers since it was first documented in 2006.
"Do you like bananas?" asked Krause. "Do you want to eat bananas for two weeks straight? No. But that's what we're doing to our bees. We're putting them into the almonds, and for two weeks all they get is almond pollen."
Steady diets of a single kind of pollen, pesticides and viruses have contributed to the deaths of billions of bees in recent years, but Krause believes urban beekeeping is one solution…


text:
Jump to navigation
Just because I'm Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, doesn't mean I always like to be in charge. I'm too hot to be tied down to one special interest guy.
If you're looking for a sensitive guy who's not afraid to make a commitment then look no further. If I believe in you and you're willing to look the other way, I'll give you the shirt off my back.
Over the years I've learned a lot about what it takes to make a relationship work. It's about being willing to compromise. It's about being willing to completely abandon your principles and values.
When I moved from Alaska to Washington, I wasn't sure if I'd be able to find someone who was right for me. Eventually, I did find a perfect match on Polluterharmony, but that doesn't mean I'm not still on the prowl.


text:
We're running a series of free introductory bike polo sessions in London. Come along to as many as you'd like and we'll teach you the rules, give you tips on the techniques to improve your game, and organize games that you can take part in.
Sessions are free and open to all ages (under 18s must be accompanied by an adult).
You must be able to ride a bike and you must wear a cycle helmet. It's recommended that you bring your own bike, but it's not essential, as we'll have a few bikes available to borrow.
Saturday 15th August & Saturday 29th August
From 13:00 to 17:00
Downham Road Play Area,
Downham Road at Ufton Road,
De Beauvoir, Hackney N1 5BY
Wednesday 19th August & Wednesday 2nd September
From 19:30 to 22:00
Harper Road Play Area,
Harper Road at Bath Terrace,
Southwark SE1 6QE
These Bike Polo sessions have been made possible with the support of Play Sport London.
from last session at Downham:


text:
Forgot Password?
Forgot Password?
It's All About Us is a series of Social Studies textbooks for classes 3 to 5. The series follows the latest syllabus guidelines of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations. The books have interesting features that encourage the learner to ponder, comprehend and infer knowledge from the content that has thoughtfully designed and presented.
© 2018 S.Chand And Company Limited
Designed & Developed by VRVirtual.com Pvt. Ltd.


text:
Thirty years ago the U.S. led the world in reading scores. Now, reading scores remain stagnant, leaving researchers to question why so many students have reading problems.
"We have done a lot of work on how to teach students in the early phases of reading acquisition, but we know a lot less about helping them develop comprehension skills, particularly as they get older," said Jack Fletcher, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor, department of psychology, University of Houston, and co-investigator on the grant titled, "Understanding Malleable Cognitive Processes and Integrated Comprehensive Interventions for Grades 7-12."
To address the challenges of reading comprehension among middle and high students, researchers from the UH Department of Psychology are teaming up with the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), Florida State University (FSU), Texas A&M University (Texas A&M), and University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHSC) on a five-year $20 million grant awarded through the U.S. Department of Education. The grant is part of the Institute of Education Sciences' (IES) Reading for Understanding Research Network Initiative to improve students' reading comprehension from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade.
UH will receive $2.9 million of the grant over a five-year period for data management, analysis and measurement development, and training in support of research studies involving cognitive processes, and motivation in reading comprehension with secondary students.
"I am proud of the team of UH researchers who are working collaboratively with other institutions to bring together the best minds to address a significant problem in the U.S. with reading comprehension," said UH President Renu Khator.
"The U.S. Department of Education felt that the basic science was strong enough and developed in this area that we could actually make a difference," said David Francis, the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor, chair of the Department of Psychology and director of the Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics (TIMES). He and Dr. Fletcher are the principal investigators for the UH section of the grant, which also includes Dr. Chris Wolters from UH Department of Educational Psychology, a national expert on student motivation and self-regulated learning, and Dr. Amy Barth, a Research Assistant Professor at TIMES with expertise in language development and disorders and their relation to reading.
"If we are successful at the end of five years, we'll be able to provide clear guidance to teachers and schools about cognitive and motivational processes that contribute to student reading, and that are amenable to intervention so that we can increase students' ability to learn through reading," Francis said.
# # #
About the University of Houston
The University of Houston is a comprehensive national research institution serving the globally competitive Houston and Gulf Coast Region by providing world-class faculty, experiential learning and strategic industry partnerships. UH serves more than 38,500 students in the nation's fourth-largest city, located in the most ethnically and culturally diverse region of the country.


text:
Notice is given that Articles of Incorporation, which will incorporate Excelsior Management, Inc., have been delivered to the Secretary of State for filing in accordance with the Georgia Business Corporation Code. The initial registered office of the corporation is located at 395 West Parker Street, Suite 11, Baxley, Georgia 31513, and its initial registered agent at such address is James A. Graham.
Kris Knox
37 Tippins Street, Suite B
Baxley, Georgia 31513
7-20 & 7-27pd
gpn06 NOTICE OF INTENT TO INCORPORATE
No Trackbacks
Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)


text:
The state announced today the opening of a new searchable archive of social media by and about government officials, according to WRAL:
The State Archives of North Carolina is going "social," beginning the capture of Twitter tweets, Facebook posts and the like as made by and about public officials with the help of Durham startup venture ArchiveSocial.
A pilot project was unveiled Tuesday through which searchers at the archives can find what's been said and posted about those in government, such as Gov. Bev Perdue, and – perhaps most importantly – what elected and appointed officials might say through their social media accounts.
The archive, which is live, will hopefully ease a backlog of public records requests – and perhaps change the tweeting behavior of many?


text:
clover (2009) - Billy Rennekamp
F1 Racer Mod (2004) - Cory Arcangel
This is a simple mod I did of the old Japanese famicom driving game F1 Racer. Basically I just took out the game, cars, etc, and left the road.
Required Reading
Many artists proffer a seemingly legitimate reason for being anxious about viewing copies: their works are supposed to be seen under very specific conditions in a gallery space. While this desire for "proper" installation complies with the art world's mystificatory economy of exclusivity, which still uses as its ultimate model the unique cult image in its sacred precinct, it is of course understandable that artists would want their work to be seen under the right conditions. However, it is a mistake to think that these must be the only conditions under which a work can ever be seen. In an age in which everyone is used to seeing moving images in incredibly degraded forms online, viewers have a great capacity for "correcting" these conditions in their mind, for imagining the "proper" presentation. Seeing shaky illegal copy of the latest blockbuster on a laptop does not really damage the film; if anything, knowing that it must be so much better when seen under optimal conditions can only increase its aura.
The dialectic of de- and re-auratization is thus rather more complex than Benjamin allowed. As tempting as it may be to try to match the fervor with which he posited "right" and "wrong" ways of dealing with film—allowing it to unfold or curtailing its ontological promise, respectively—there is no reason to assume that the near future will bring us anything other than a hybrid culture in which cult value and exhibition value develop in an increasingly complex interplay. A culture, in other words, that resembles the present, but not without a little difference that is worth fighting for: an emancipation of the viewing copy, resulting in a different distribution circuit alongside that of limited editions. In such an ...
Eleven Evocations (For Paper Rad)
The following essay was first published in the catalog for the exhibition curated by Raphael Gygax "Deterioration, They Said" which is on view at the migros museum für gegenwartskunst in Zurich, Switzerland until November 8, 2009.
1. The popular dissemination of magical worlds has ultimately shifted from folk tales to children's television. Paper Rad takes back this process from commercial channels, creating their own ever-shifting cosmos populated by robots, spaceships, monsters, talking animals, giants and wizards.
Like H. P. Lovecraft or J.R.R. Tolkein, Paper Rad created their own mythos, a set of characters that jointly share a fantasy world. Like Warner Brothers or Disney, Paper Rad circulate their creations across media—websites, comics, animated videos, sculptures, screen prints—thereby establishing themselves as the creators of both an imaginary alternative universe and an audio-visual brand.
Prepare for Overload
Issue Project Room will host two video performances by San Francisco artist Nate Boyce and New York's own Ray Sweeten this Friday September 4th. Boyce will be showing all new work, some of which was developed for a recent exhibition at Partisan Gallery, a space based in Chris Fallon's apartment in San Francisco. I caught the closing party for the Partisan show last week, and took some shots of the installation, below. Boyce's work has long been informed by an interest in the manipulation of human perception through the moving image, but his new videos operate much like subliminal advertising, where letters flash in between short, jarring segments. Sweeten's work, which often integrates the use of an oscilloscope, can be equally overpowering. For Friday, bring earplugs, shades advised.
Burn Your LiveJournal (2008) - Brendan Sullivan
SEP.12TH 2008, CURRENT GALLERY, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. Special Thanks : Zach Genin, Neil Sangiri, Ingrid Burrington, Ann Kelly, Jaime Friedman, Scott Ache and Neal Reinalda


text:
Status is a category of attack, along with Physical and Special, which was introduced in Generation IV. Moves in this category can increase/decrease Pokémon stats and cause status problems.
Moves of these sorts such as Growth and Leer bring positive and negative effects on Pokémon.
There are moves that completely protect Pokémon from incoming attacks of all kinds, however, moves such as Feint, Shadow Force, and Phantom Force can render protection moves useless. Multiple usage of protection moves can result in the chance of them succeeding very unlikely.
Status Effects
There are moves that bring status effects on Pokémon such as burns, paralysis, poisoning, sleep, etc.
Introduced in Generation VI are terrain moves that can that temporarily change the battlefield to the playing Pokémon's advantage. All the terrain moves increase the Pokémon of the same type's power by 50% while each also have different secondary effects. So far, only three terrain moves have been introduced so far.
|This article is a stub.
Please help the Pokémon Wiki by expanding it.


text:
AddonStreet provides exciting usable addons for Joomla CMS. We have selective products with great features to extend your Joomla experience... Read More
AddonStreet.com is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Joomla! Project or Open Source Matters. The Joomla!® name and logo is used under a limited license granted by Open Source Matters the trademark holder in the United States and other countries.


text:
Item #2002
Annual. Also called cornflower, this beloved heirloom adds colorful charm to any sunny spot and grows well in dry conditions. Airy plants look best when grown in groups. Sow every 2 to 3 weeks in spring for a long season of colorful flowers. Flowers can be used fresh or dried in arrangements and the petals are edible. Plants drop seed that may produce new plants and flowers the following year.
Seedling Image
Full Sun
Blooms summer
12" - 18" tall
Days to Emerge:
Seed Depth:
Seed Spacing:
When to sow outside: RECOMMENDED. 1 to 2 weeks before average last frost. Sow in late summer to early fall in mild climates for winter bloom. Easy to grow outdoors from seed.
When to start inside: 4 to 6 weeks before average last frost. Does not transplant well.
Artist: Pat Fostvedt
Item #2002
2.00 grams
These are some simple techniques you can use to extend the life of your cut flowers from days, to over a week.
1) In the morning or early evening,…More…
If you have a vacant lot, slope, field, or a large bare area you want to "naturalize", here are some suggestions. VARIETIES: Choose either prepared…More…
The following tips will help you create a beautiful garden that is helpful to bees and other beneficial insects.
Create Diversity and Color:…More…


text:
This event registration survey template for non-profit organizations serves as a registration form to register people for a certain event. It collects the event registration details such as time and the location of the event and proves to be a convenient source for the non-profit event organizers.
This donation request survey template helps non-profit organizations to get more insights into the donors view about their organization. The online donation request survey questionnaire also helps them to engage better with their donors and is completely free!
With a non-profit event participation survey template, it gets easier to track the participants and connect with them during an event. You can also get to know what are the factors influencing them to participate in non-profit events using this event participation survey questionnaire.
Whenever a non-profit organization conducts an event, it is essential for the organizations to connect with its participants and ask them event exit questions to learn about their experience. Hence a non-profit event exit survey template serves its purpose by getting all the relevant information such as how did they hear about the event and their thoughts on the same before they leave.


text:
Minnesota Wild Players Make Team USA
The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi are in about a month, and there will be some local talent on the team.
On Wednesday, according to ESPN 1500, Minnesota Wild forward Zach Parise and defenseman Ryan Suter will both join Team USA for the Sochi Olympics.
Team USA also announced that former Sioux Falls Stampede forward T.J. Oshie will play in the Sochi Olympics. He last played for the Stampede in 2004-2005, and is the first former Herd player to play on Team USA. Oshie is currently playing with the St. Louis Blues in the NHL. For the Blues, he has 33 points, and 27 assists in the 2013-2014 season.


text:
February 3rd, 2009
Adimec Launches Global website in Chinese
Simplified Chinese version for Chinese market
Eindhoven, the Netherlands/Singapore (3th February 2009). Adimec Asia-Pacific is proud to announce the launch of Chinese translated website – www.adimec.com/cn. The newly launched website goes live today and has been created to provide our Chinese partners, customers and end users a diversified means of information. We are providing product information, company profile, press releases and downloadable specifications in their 'local' language.
Adimec is a strong, well-established brand in Europe and the US that is also growing in Asia, especially China. Being a driven company, we were determined to create this Chinese translated version as a platform to communicate and get access to companies and organizations to directly reach a new market in
The debut of the Chinese web site marks our 2nd initiative for localization of websites, joining Adimec Japan for its Japanese translated version. The launch of the website is particularly timely given the rapid increase of Chinese-speaking end-users going online.
About Adimec Adimec has specialized in development and manufacturing of high-performance cameras and partnering with major OEMs around the world since 1992. The company has the distinction of serving industry leading companies in three application areas; machine vision, medical, and high-end securities imaging. Adimec's unique experience facilitates the creation of industry-leading cameras that deliver a performance advantage to high-end systems.
Adimec achieves long-term customer satisfaction by offering a unique combination of product configuration/performance, life cycle management, and total cost of ownership. Adimec has offices around the world focused on creating customer value and satisfaction through local, personalized support.


text:
This all stems from an article, no doubt released to the wire via a press release (ed. note: see below), from the European Heart Journal based on a review of the literature and meta analysis of 52 studies. It seems the reporters felt that this was so important to disclose to the world because the authors concluded: "The relationship between short stature and CVD appears to be a real one."
Meta-analyses and literature reviews of a large group of disparate studies culled from "MEDLINE, PREMEDLINE, and All EBM Reviews as well as from a reference list of relevant articles" could NEVER claim to reach such a conclusion, since just about every type of study bias known to man is introduced by such an approach. About the only thing that can be concluded from this so-called "analysis" is nothing more than maybe we should consider studying if this association actually exists.
In my view, the authors (and maybe even the editors of the European Heart Journal) have should explain what they have against short people in reaching their so-called "conclusion."
-The 5' 11", Wes
Addendum 1700 CST 9 June 2010: The European Heart Journal's press release:
Embargoed: 00.05 hrs London time (British Summer Time) Wednesday 9 June 2010
Short people are more likely to develop heart disease than tall people
Short people are at greater risk of developing heart disease than tall people, according to the first systematic review and meta-analysis of all the available evidence, which is published online today (Wednesday 9 June) in the European Heart Journal [1].
The systematic review and meta-analysis, carried out by Finnish researchers, looked at evidence from 52 studies of over three million people and found that short adults were approximately 1.5 times more likely to develop cardiovascular heart disease and die from it than were tall people. This appeared to be true for both men and women.
Dr Tuula Paajanen, a researcher at the Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, said that over the years there had been a number of studies that had provided conflicting evidence on whether shortness was associated with heart disease.
"The first report on the inverse association between coronary heart disease (CHD) and height was published in 1951 and, since then, the association between short stature and cardiovascular diseases has been investigated in more than 1,900 papers. However, until now, no systematic review and meta-analysis has been done on this topic. We hope that with this meta-analysis, the association is recognised to be true and in future more effort is targeted to finding out the possible pathophysiological, environmental and genetic mechanisms behind the association, with eyes and minds open to different hypotheses," she said.
Due to the many different ways that previous studies have investigated the association between height and heart disease, Dr Paajanen and her colleagues decided to compare the shortest group to the tallest group instead of using a fixed height limit.
From the total of 1,900 papers, the researchers selected 52 that fulfilled all their criteria for inclusion in their study. These included a total of 3,012,747 patients. On average short people were below 160.5 cms high and tall people were over 173.9 cms. When men and women were considered separately, on average short men were below 165.4 cms and short women below 153 cms, while tall men were over 177.5 cms and tall women over 166.4 cms.
Dr Paajanen and her colleagues found that compared to those in the tallest group, the people in the shortest group were nearly 1.5 times more likely to die from cardiovascular disease (CVD) or coronary heart disease (CHD), or to live with the symptoms of CVD or CHD, or to suffer a heart attack, compared with the tallest people.
Looking at men and women separately, short men were 37% more likely to die from any cause compared with tall men, and short women were 55% more likely to die from any cause compared with their taller counterparts.
"Due to the heterogeneity of studies, we cannot reliably answer the question on the critical absolute height," write the authors in their study. "The height cut-off points did not only differ between the articles but also between men and women and between ethnic groups. This is why we used the shortest-vs.-tallest group setting."
The findings have clinical implications. Dr Paajanen said: "The results of this systematic review and meta-analysis suggest that height may be considered as a possible independent factor to be used in calculating people's risk of heart disease. Height is used to calculate body mass index, which is a widely used to quantify risk of coronary heart disease."
It is not known why short stature should be associated with increased risk of heart disease. Dr Paajanen said: "The reasons remain open to hypotheses. We hypothesize that shorter people have smaller coronary arteries and smaller coronary arteries may be occluded earlier in life due to factors that increase risk, such as a poorer socioeconomic background with poor nutrition and infections that result in poor foetal or early life growth. Smaller coronary arteries also might be more affected by changes and disturbances in blood flow. However, recent findings on the genetic background of body height suggest that inherited factors, rather than speculative early-life poor nutrition or birth weight, may explain the association between small stature and an increased risk of heart disease in later life. We are carrying out further research to investigate these hypotheses."
Dr Paajanen said that it was important that short people should not be worried by her findings. "Height is only one factor that may contribute to heart disease risk, and whereas people have no control over their height, they can control their weight, lifestyle habits such as smoking, drinking and exercise and all of these together affect their heart disease risk. In addition, because the average height of populations is constantly increasing, this may have beneficial effect of deaths and illness from cardiovascular disease."
In an editorial on the research published at the same time [2], Jaakko Tuomilehto, Professor of Public Health at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, welcomed the study, writing: "The systematic review and meta-analysis on this topic . . . is well justified 60 years after the first observation and the hundreds of other papers which have been published since then on this topic. The results are unequivocal: short stature is associated with increased risk of coronary heart disease. This meta-analysis provides solid proof for this, but, as the authors conclude 'The possible pathophysiological, environmental, and genetic background of this peculiar association is not known'."
He suspects that environmental events affecting growth before and after birth may be involved. "Socio-economic adversity in childhood is . . . associated with delayed early growth and shorter adult stature. The so-called catch-up growth during the first years of life among children who are born small has negative health effects in adulthood; much of the early growth is due to greater fat accumulation. Thus, it is most likely that short stature is the link to coronary heart disease, and that tallness is not a primary factor in preventing the disease, although it indicates healthy growth. Short stature seems to be a marker for risk."
While more work is needed to understand the exact nature of the mechanisms at work, he writes that information on height can be used now for the prevention of heart disease and other chronic diseases linked to shortness. "Full term babies who are born small are likely to be short as adults. They should receive preventive attention early on. The primordial prevention of chronic diseases should start during foetal life, and health promotion should be targeted to all pregnant women with the aim of health development of the foetus. Low birth weight and some other birth characteristics can reveal potential problems during this period of life. After that, in babies with low birth weight, it is important to avoid excessive catch-up growth, i.e. early-life fatness."
In adult life it becomes more difficult to discover best practices, but Prof Tuomilehto, thinks it is likely short adults would benefit from more aggressive risk factor reduction.
He concludes: "Most of us know approximately our own height ranking, and, if we are at the low end, we should take coronary risk factor control more seriously. On the other hand, tall people are not protected against coronary heart disease, and they also need to pay attention to the same risk factors as shorter people."
[1] "Short stature is associated with coronary heart disease: a systematic review of the literature and a meta-analysis." European Heart Journal. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehq155.
[2] "Is tall beautiful and the heart healthy?". European Heart Journal. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehq183
Pdfs of the full research paper and the editorial are available before the publication date from Emma Mason or at:
The European Heart Journal is the flagship journal of the European Society of Cardiology (http://www.escardio.org). It is published on behalf of the ESC by Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press. Please acknowledge the journal as a source in any articles.
The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) represents more than 62,000 cardiology professionals across Europe and the Mediterranean. Its mission is to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease in Europe.
Contact: (media inquiries only):
Emma Mason: Tel: +44 (0)1376 563090
Mobile: +44(0)7711 296 986
Email: email@example.com
ESC Press & PR Office (for independent comment):
Tel: +33 (0)4 92 94 86 27. Fax: +33 (0)4 92 94 86 69. Email: email@example.com


text:
If you have Oct. 26 highlighted on your calendar, you're probably either an IT professional, computer geek, or technology reporter. That's when Microsoft debuts its much-ballyhooed rethink of the computer operating system, Windows 8. The company has released the final code to the original equipment manufacturers and they will flood the stores and Internet this autumn with a wave of new desktops, notebooks, and tablets.
The big deal about Windows 8 from a user perspective is the touch interface it will provide for touch-enabled devices. It's also the key navigator for traditional mouse-and-keyboard users. That interface — known for 20 months as the Metro interface until a German retailer threatened litigation — has served as a lightning rod for critics, occasioning more than the usual weeping and wailing from the tech community. Others maintain that it will be the neatest thing since sliced bread for both business users and IT departments.
Falling into the latter category is Peter Lee, engagement manager and desktop deployment lead at SWC Technology Partners, an IT consultancy. Lee thinks Windows 8 is a computing metaphor whose time has come.
But he doesn't forecast a wholesale migration to the new platform. The more likely scenario is that businesses will opt for a hybrid approach that mixes Windows 8 advanced security and mobile device compatibility with existing Windows 7 installations, especially as businesses move more to the cloud, virtualization and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) models.
Lee has been working with Windows 8 since the developer preview was released in 2011.
Much of the criticism of the new interface, which Microsoft now describes as a "modern" design, has centered on its presentation of a menu of tiles in place of the start display that has become second nature to veteran Windows users.
The desktop is not going away
"The Metro interface is not going to be the entire operating system," Lee told BusinessNewsDaily. "When people see the Metro interface, they think it's going to replace the desktop. That's not the case. It's similar to an Android device or iPhone where you have that initial first page before you get to any of the other landing pages. The Metro is not going away and neither is the desktop. You're one screen away from the desktop. It actually makes it easier for people to get at their own apps."
As time goes by and users become comfortable with the new interface, they'll begin to tailor to their own usage patterns and preferred apps since the interface is completely customizable, Lee said. The source of so much initial push back about the interface stems from fear of change, he said.
"People are really averse to change," Lee said. "In fact, people should be embracing this because it's the way they have been using Android and iPhones. It's what the consumer wants, but people are so afraid of change and they really associate Microsoft with the standard desktop."
Based on his extensive experience with the new operating system installed in all form factors — desktop, notebook and tablet — he believes that users will quickly adapt to Windows 8 and never look back.
Technologically savvy end users
"I think end users are just so much more technologically savvy than ever before," Lee said. "They've been using iPhones and iPads and Androids for so long, I don't think Windows 8 is going to be a hard adoption for them. What they're going to have to get used to is that they don't need to have two or three devices — one for work, one for home, one for play. They're going to have to get used to the idea that they can do everything from one device. And that will be — I don't want to call it a learning curve — a lifestyle curve."
Lee will be walking the walk himself in two weeks when he travels to Asia. In the past, he said, he would have carried both a tablet and a notebook. This time, he'll only pack one device.
"With Windows 8, I'll just be carrying one device," he said. "I can watch my movies, play my games and still get to work if I need to. It's going to be a lot more convenient."
Don't touch that
The biggest challenge for Windows 8 users will not be an operating system challenge, Lee said. It will be a device challenge as users make the move from keyboard-and-mouse to touch. That's where there will be a learning curve. Although touch is an intuitive interface for infants and children, it's counterintuitive to fingerprint averse "don't touch that" adults. It represents an imagination shift for adults.
"But that's a humongous shift," Lee said.
Because Windows 7 still has a lot of miles left in it, you won't see organizations that have already moved to that OS make a wholesale move to Windows 8, Lee said. More likely, desktop workers will continue with Windows 7 until their hardware needs replacement, at which point the enterprise will elect to migrate to Windows 8. Mobile workers, on the other hand, and those who want to take advantage of a touch interface will be migrated to Windows 8 sooner.
"The landscape has changed with Windows 8," he said. "It's going to run in a hybrid environment."
The economics are pretty compelling, Lee said. Windows 7 is only 45 percent of the marketplace. The old workhorse, Windows XP, still has half the pie.
"Windows 7 is working just fine," Lee said. "It's secure and able to do everything you need to do at work. There's not going to be a big push toward Windows 8 in an established Windows 7 environment."
A seamless system
For IT departments, the advent of Windows 8 as a corporate standard will let them retake some of the turf they ceded to consumerization. Because Windows 8 in its various flavors will encompass all devices from the immobile desktop to mobile tablets and even smart phones, IT will be able to offer devices with features that workers desire. It offers a seamless system.
"For IT departments, it's the whole concept of consumerization," Lee said. "It will be much easier to manage than when you had disparate consumer devices such as iPhones and Android."
The best way for IT departments to minimize maintenance and work and management is to simplify control, he said. By controlling that turf, they can hand out devices that are already customized the way they want so you don't have breeches of security. The adoption of Windows 8, he believes, can put the brakes on indiscriminate consumerization.
Bridging the gap
"We love the user having the luxury of bringing any device, but it's getting harder to manage," Lee said. "With that technology comes threats — viruses, malware. Windows 8 is going to simplify that. It bridges the gap between the enterprise and consumerization. It's a very fluid interface that allows IT to give a better user experience yet lock it in a way that they can still control of the system, the security and the maintenance."
This is not to say that moving to Windows 8 will be completely pain-free, Lee said. There's never been a seamless operating system migration; the next one will be the first one.
As with all things in the corporate calculus, it's not so much what you do as how you do it and how you communicate it. If you treat the migration to Windows 8 as an onerous exercise, that's what it will be.
Caveat, installer.


text:
© University of Kent - Contact | Feedback | Legal | FOI | Cookies
Former Staff
(You may have been redirected to this web page if you were trying to locate material published by a former member of the department.)Staff are asked to provide follow-on email address and web site details using this form so that they can be contacted once they have left the university. This information is listed below (where available). Former staff are encouraged to help us keep this information up-to-date. However we cannot guarantee that the information listed here is current.
Please email email@example.com if you wish to amend your details shown on this page.
At University of Kent
Follow-on contact details
|David Akehurst
|Research Fellow
Leaving Date: December 2004
Department of Electronics, University of Kent
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
|David Beckett
|Senior Computer Officer
Leaving Date: May 2000
Web: http://www.dajobe.org/
|Dr Edwina Bell
|Director of KNTI Leaving Date: December 2005
Director of Operations,
Rochester Cathedral
Email: email@example.com
|Dr Eerke Boiten
|Reader in Computer Science
Director of Cyber Security Centre
Leaving Date: April 2017
|Web: https://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-staff/technology/eerke-boiten/eerke-boiten.aspx
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
|Behzad Bordbar
|Lecturer in Computer Science Leaving Date: December 2002
|School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham
Email: email@example.com
Web: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~bxb/
|Nadia Boukhelifa
|Research Associate
Leaving Date: September 2006
|Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
|Professor Heather Brown
|Professor of Computing. Head of department 1998-2000.
Emeritus Professor from July 2000. Leaving Date: July 2000
|Exeter University
|Professor Peter Brown
|Professor of Computer Science.
Emeritus Professor from July 2000. Leaving Date: July 2000
Deceased 2007.
|Exeter University
|Ana Cavalcanti
|Lecturer Leaving Date: September 2004
Email: email@example.com
Web: http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/
|Liz Culmer
|Secretarial/Clerical Assistant Leaving Date: November 2004
|Hospitality Department, University of Kent
Email: email@example.com
|John Derrick
|Professor of Formal Methods Leaving Date: December 2004
|Professor of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
Email: email@example.com
Web: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~jd/
|Dr Rodolfo Gomez
|Research Associate
Leaving Date: Sep 2009
Now a Software Developer for Scivisum Ltd www.scivisum.co.uk
Email: email@example.com
|Martin Guy
|Tutorial Fellow
Leaving Date: July 1989
|Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
|Les Hatton
Professor of Software Reliability
Leaving Date: August 2004
Professor of Forensic Software Engineering, Kingston University
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Web: http://www.leshatton.org
|Dr Stuart Kent
|Senior Lecturer
Leaving Date: September 2002
| Taken up a position with Microsoft
Research Cambridge Ltd
Web: http://www.microsoft.com Sept 2002
|Zarine Kemp
|Senior Lecturer
Leaving Date: September 2011
Email: email@example.com
|Romain Laborde
|Research Associate
Leaving Date: September 2006
|Institut de Recherche, Informatique at Toulouse
|Dr Duncan Langford
Leaving Date: April 2008
|Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
|Yong Luo
|Research Associate Leaving Date: 2007
|Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
|Prof. Keith Mander
|Professor of Computer Science
Leaving Date: -
Deputy Vice-Chancellor
University of Kent
|Prof. Ian Marshall
|Professor of Distributed Systems
Leaving Date: April 2007
|Lancaster University
|Alistair McEwan
|Research Associate
Leaving Date: March 2005
Department of Computing
School of Engineering and Physical Sciences
University of Surrey
|Ralph Miarka
|Teaching Assistant
Leaving Date: August 2004
Independent Coach & Agile Consultant, Vienna
Email: email@example.com
Web: http://www.miarka.com
|Claire Osborne
|Computing Officer
Leaving Date: October 2008
Christ Church, Canterbury
Email: email@example.com
|Sassa Otenko
|Research Associate
Leaving Date: September 2006
|Oracle, Reading
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
|Octavian Patrascoiu
Research Associate
Leaving Date: February 2005
Senior Software Engineer/System Designer
The Retail Experience
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
|Jonathan Roberts
Senior Lecturer
Leaving Date: October 2007
Senior Lecturer
School of Computer Science, University of Bangor
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Web: www.cs.bangor.ac.uk/Staff/jonathan_roberts.php
|Reuben Rowe
Research Associate
Leaving Date: August 2019
Lecturer in Computer Science
Royal Holloway
Email: email@example.com
Web: https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/reuben-rowe(70354339-7bc5-475d-b8d5-7fa95114d851).html
|Adam Sampson
Research Associate
Leaving Date: July 2010
Institute for Arts, Media and Computer Games
University of Abertay Dundee
Email: - firstname.lastname@example.com
Web: http://offog.org/
|Michael Simmons
|Industrial Programme Manager
Development Manager, Centre for Scientific Computing, University of Cambridge
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Web: www.escience.cam.ac.uk/michael
|Axel Simon
Teaching assistant
Leaving Date: November 2007
PostDoc working at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris
Email: -
Web: www.di.ens.fr/~simona/
|Professor John Slater
|Director of Computing
Laboratory from 1995 - 1998. From 1998 - 2000 Professor of Computer
Science 21%, Co-ordinator of ESSU 20%, PVC 50%
Leaving Date: July 2000
E-Universities' Interim Director,
Business School, University of York
|Jonathan Timmis
|Senior Lecturer
Leaving Date: May 2005
Department of Computer Science and Electronics, University of York
Email: email@example.com
Web: http://www.elec.york.ac.uk/intsys/users/jt517/
|Jo Ueyama
Research Associate
Leaving Date: Jan 2007
|Email: email@example.com
|Vedhagiri Valliappan
|Research Associate
Leaving Date: June 2002
| Field Consulting Engineer
Cabot Communications Limited, Bristol
|Julia Wallace
|Research Support Administrator
Leaving Date: May 2005
|Oxford University
|Simon Weller
Clerical Assistant
Leaving Date: December 2006
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
|Jacqueline Whalley
|Research Assistant
Leaving Date: August 2004
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Email: email@example.com
Web: http://www.aut.ac.nz/research_showcase/research_activity_areas/serl/people/jacqui.shtml
|David Wood
Leaving Date: Autumn 2007
|Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
|Jim Woodcock
|Professor of Software Engineering
Leaving Date: September 2004
| Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Web: http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/
|Judith Wusteman
Leaving Date: 1990 - 1997
UCD School of Information and Library Studies,
University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Tel: +353 1 716 761
Web: http://www.ucd.ie/wusteman/


text:
A member of the International Olympic Committee said cycling could be dropped from the games if Armstrong implicates those who oversee the sport. NBC's Anne Thompson reports.
Oprah Winfrey says Lance Armstrong was "forthcoming" in their 2.5 hour interview, a session during which the disgraced cyclist admitted using performance enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France, NBC News has confirmed.
"I think the entire interview was difficult" for Armstrong, Winfrey said. "He was pretty forthcoming."
"It was surprising to me," she said of his approach to the interview, adding that "we were mesmerized and riveted by some of his answers."
Winfrey appeared on CBS Tuesday morning to discuss her sit-down with the disgraced cyclist. When asked if Armstrong was contrite, she demurred.
"I feel that he answered the questions in a way that he was ready," Winfrey said. "I choose not to characterize. I would rather people make their own decisions about whether he was contrite or not."
The interview will be aired in full over two nights, Winfrey said.
Armstrong, 41, had for more than a decade denied doping. He was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles in 2012, and was banned for life from competing in Olympic sports after a scathing 1,000-page report by the United States Anti-Doping Agency.
6 questions Lance Armstrong really needs to answer
"I have never doped," Armstrong said in a 2005 interview with Larry King. "I can say it again … but I've said it for seven years. It doesn't help."
Those years of denial followed him Monday to a Four Seasons hotel in Austin, Texas, where Armstrong, accompanied by friends and family, sat down for his revelatory interview with Winfrey.
Before the session, Armstrong shared a personal apology with staffers at the Livestrong charity he founded, Livestrong director of communications and external affairs Rae Bazzarre confirmed in a statement.
"Lance came to the Livestrong Foundation's headquarters today for a private conversation with our staff and offered a sincere and heartfelt apology for the stress they've endured because of him and urged them to keep up their great work fighting for people affected by cancer," Bazzarre said in the statement.
As news of Armstrong's admission emerged, critics blasted the one-time role model on Tuesday.
New York Daily News columnist Mike Lupica talks about Armstrong's revelation that he did take performance-enhancing drugs after years of denials, calling it a "giant athletic Ponzi scheme," and attorney Lisa Bloom discusses the legal implications.
"People just fell in love with the legend. They like that story better than the reality," columnist Mike Lupica said on TODAY. "Most reasonable people think that … this is like an announcement saying that the ocean is deep."
"I believe that he's completely insincere except for this," Lupica said. "He is starting to repair his own brand. People have overlooked the real story here – lives that had to be destroyed to keep the lie going. To me this is like some giant, athletic Ponzi scheme that went on and on and built and built."
Depending on the precise nature and scope of Armstrong's admissions, he could be subject to defamation charges as well as suits from former sponsors seeking to recoup some of his fortune, attorney Lisa Bloom told TODAY. Armstrong has been reported to be worth as much as $100 million.
"This could keep lawyers in business for many, many years," Bloom said. "I'm sure that all of his attorney were against it. Legally, confession is a bad thing to do. Morally, it's a fabulous thing to do."
Despite the controversy over his use of performance-enhancers, Armstrong's charity work is still drawing praise from some. ESPN anchor Stuart Scott tweeted on Monday that he remains "grateful" as "1 of millions of (cancer) survivors he's helped."
The full interview with Armstrong will air on Winfrey's OWN network starting on Thursday evening.
"Just wrapped up with @lancearmstrong More than 2 ½ hours. He came READY!" Winfrey tweeted after the taping. She said Tuesday morning that it was the "biggest" interview she has ever done in terms of exposure.
Joel Saget / AFP - Getty Images
The cyclist's historic run of Tour de France championships made headlines, as did his fall from grace after being stripped of the titles in 2012.


text:
Moderator: Community Team
koontz1973 wrote:The problem is with print quality. I can guarantee that after a year or two, the map printed like that would start to fade. Leave it on a table for a week if you are playing a large game, by a window and you will see a noticeable difference.
This is the biggest problem. How to get a board made of good enough quality that players will buy it, but not so expensive so as players say no to it. I printed up my map on A2 card to see how it would look and is it big enough to play on. That cost me 350 forints. A grand total of $1.62. But after 1 game, the board had a couple of scuffs on it. Would you pay, say 10 dollars for a good board to have that after 1 game?
agentcom wrote:Funkyterrance beat me to it, but I was thinking that you could laminate the thing. I have no idea how much that costs. But even if it's a few dollars, that still means that I could do this personally for under about $10 per board. It wouldn't be as professional looking as an actual board game, but it would do the trick.
I think we would just have to see who is willing. Maybe not every map would be available.koontz1973 wrote:
Problems to overcome.
- Persuade map makers to reproduce maps.
That's up to the powers that be, but I wouldn't think there would be too much of a problem with this. But I could be dead wrong. Figuring out whether and how to do this will probably hold this idea up for a long time.
Convince the site to allow us to make money of you lot.
If they could be produced cheaply enough, the quantity wouldn't matter so much. Higher quality ones, yeah, we'd have to probably significantly limit the options
Get players to buy the damn things in enough of a quantity to make it worth while.
I think the mapmakers would do it. I was thinking about this whole thing as being relatively informal. Basically, whoever wanted to create HQ versions of their own maps could and the site would facilitate the transaction. The site could contract out for it or even one of the users could run a small business (probably not very profitable) getting these things to the print shop and out to the users. In the latter case, the site (maybe as simply as through the forum) would just kind of be a store front or advertiser of this option. Is that kind of what you all were picturing or were you thinking something more official?
How should the maps be done, through the foundry as it is done now, or have a completely separate section for this to be done in. Who would do it?
Absolutely. It's my understanding that the mapmakers only gave the site the rights to use the map for online game play. The mapmakers who aren't around anymore ... well, I think their maps are dead for the purposes of this idea.Original map makers or someone new? Copyrights need to be addressed.
I did my one and gave it to CC players to see if it could be done but also as I enjoy doing it. But I very much doubt you would get many to do it. And what about old maps where the map maker is no longer available to ask?
jsnyder748 wrote:It couldn't be associated to risk or they would risk a big lawsuit.
Do you think they should just offer them to us through the cc store?
Funkyterrance wrote:So what did anyone figure the cost might be for one of these maps?
I just got a risk game at a second-hand shop the other day(my old board lives at my parent's house) and while the board is newish and pretty lame, the pieces are allright. I've got money sitting in paypal too so this would be the perfect time for me to get into this.
jsnyder748 wrote:Funkyterrance wrote:So what did anyone figure the cost might be for one of these maps?
I just got a risk game at a second-hand shop the other day(my old board lives at my parent's house) and while the board is newish and pretty lame, the pieces are allright. I've got money sitting in paypal too so this would be the perfect time for me to get into this.
new maps like these would definitely spark the interest of my friends who I play board games with. I bet you could just print them out in high def and place them on a peice of cardboard.
Users browsing this forum: Nut Shot Scott


text:
One of the first areas of pure mathematics to be computerised was group theory, as predicted in1945 by Alan Turing who wrote of his design for the NPL ACE computer, that
There will be positively no internal alterations to be made even if we wish suddenly to switch from calculating the energy levels of the neon atom to the enumeration of groups of order 720.
Why there was a need for a computer to enumerate groups of order 720? Even in Turing's times, published papers already contained all the ingredients for (admittedly, long and tedious) enumeration of groups of order 720 by hand. Although one ingredient that was missing was perhaps the Hall-Higman Theorem (not even the theorem itself, but the ideology of using linear algebra on "internal modules" in groups.


text:
Amy Freedman, wtop.com
WASHINGTON – Beginning Tuesday night, Dec. 11, and continuing nightly through Thursday, Dec. 13, the Maryland State Highway Administration will close three lanes of the Beltway Inner loop at Maryland Route 201/Kenilworth Avenue. The closures are needed for work on the Kenilworth Avenue overpass above the Beltway.
Weather permitting, closures will start at 9 p.m. each night and remain in place until 5 a.m. the following morning.
Follow @WTOPtraffic and @WTOP on Twitter.
(Copyright 2012 by WTOP. All Rights Reserved.)


text:
The PDF file you selected should load here if your Web browser has a PDF reader plug-in installed (for example, a recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader).
If you would like more information about how to print, save, and work with PDFs, Highwire Press provides a helpful Frequently Asked Questions about PDFs.
Alternatively, you can download the PDF file directly to your computer, from where it can be opened using a PDF reader. To download the PDF, click the Download link above.
Copyright (c) 2019 Curt Anderson
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Linguistic Society of America
Advancing the Scientific Study of Language since 1924
ISSN (online): 2473-8689
This publication is made available for free to readers and with no charge to authors thanks in part to your continuing LSA membership and your donations to the open access fund.


text:
Contributor(s): David Germano, Nathaniel Grove.
The secondary navigation buttons for THDL are done through CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) styles using a single jpeg image and element classes. There are two possible types of buttons: a disabled button (blue with white text) that does not change state and an active button (silver with blue text) that changes appearance (black with white text) when the cursor "rolls over" it. The image and the CSS styles are already up on the site. All that one has to do is to create the mark up to access the mechanism. This can be donw in either HTML or XML. Creating the Buttons in HTML
The key to the HTML mark up are the class attributes given to the elements that form the buttons. The primary elements used in creating the appearance of buttons are a link tag () and an enclosing
 element. These are enclosed within a table to effect the appropriate space, and the table itself is enclosed within a
 element whose id is set to "secondary-navitation". This latter element places the table containing the buttons at the appropriate distance down on the page to fall underneath the THDL banner.
Each cell in the table conatains a
 element. The div element can have one of two classes: disabled or outer.
 creates a disabled button with white text and a blue background.
 creates the active button with blue text and silver background that changes to white text on a black background upon rollover. The class of these divs is called outer because they contain an inner link element (), which has a class equal to "button". The  element also contains the href attribute that functions as the link.
Here is an example of the secondary markup:

 Home

1st Link Text

2nd link text

3rd link text

4th link text

5th link text

6th link text

To create the buttons in THDL XML essay one has to include in the header of the document a <bibl> with n attribute set to "nav2". This <bibl> then should contain a series of <xref> elements whose n attribute contains the link URL, if it represents an active button, and its content represents the text of the link. This is converted into the HTML described above by the essay.xsl XSLT stylesheet. If the n attribute of a <xref> is left blank, it creates a disabled button. An example is:
<bibl n="links">
<xref n="" type="url">Home (This page)</xref>
<xref n="http://…" type="url">1st Link</xref>
<xref n="http://…" type="url">2nd Link</xref>
<xref n="http://…" type="url">3rd Link</xref>
<xref n="http://…" type="url">4th Link</xref>
The stylesheets convert this into the HTML markup described above.
There are two parts to the mechanism for the creation of the buttons. An single image that contains the three different versions of the button in a vertical column and CSS instructions that display different parts of the image depending on the class or state of the element in question. The button image is located at http://www.thdl.org/images/nav2buttons.gif
The different element classes are associated with specific CSS styles that display only one part of this image. The class "outer" displays the black button with white text. The class "button" displays the silver button with blue text. In the HTML markup active buttons have a
 surrounding an . The
 has the background image of the black button, while the  has the background image of the silver button which in the normal state overrides the
 background, or the black button. When one mouses over such an active button, the CSS stylesheets set the  background to transparent, which allows the black button to show through. At the same time, the color of the text is changed from blue to white. This creates the effect of the changing buttons. Finally, a
 simply sets the background to the bottom blue button and sets the text to white.
The CSS styles are included at the bottom of the http://www.thdl.org/style/thdl-advanced.css, which are included in the http://www.thdl.org/style/thdl-styles.css. The actual CSS code looks like this:
/* 2nd navigation button styles */
div.outer { display: block; background-color: transparent; background: url(../images/nav2buttons.gif) 0 -25px no-repeat; width: 100px; height: 23px; } div.disabled { display: block; background-color: transparent; background: url(../images/nav2buttons.gif) 0 -49px no-repeat; width: 100px; height: 23px; text-align: center; padding: 1px; color: #ffffff; font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; } div.outer a.button { display: block; background-color: transparent; background: url(../images/nav2buttons.gif) 0 0 no-repeat; width: 100%; height: 100%; text-align: center; padding: 1px; font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; text-align: center; overflow: hidden; } a.button:link, a.button:visited { color: #006699!important; } div.outer a.button:hover, a.button:active { background-image: none; color: #ffffff!important; }


text:
What is the difference between Archiving and Backup?
We offer two data retention add-ons for your Office 365 email: Archiving and Backup. Find out the differences, and which is right for your business.
Archiving is the perfect solution for folks in industries that are required to comply with retention policies by state and/or federal laws; particularly finance, healthcare, legal, and real estate. Archiving will save you time and money in the event of an audit, or litigation. You can specify your data retention periods, and security protocols ensure absolutely no data loss.
How does it work?
Every single email and attachment that is sent and received is saved securely in the cloud. You have access to in-depth search, tagging, and legal hold capabilities for both email content, and attachments. Emails can be exported in a variety of file formats.
Backup is the perfect solution for business owners looking for a safeguard against accidental or malicious deletion, and continuity solutions in the event of employee turnover. If you are not within a regulated industry, but want the ability to recover any old email or entire mailbox, then Backup is the way to go.
How does it work?
A copy of your entire mailbox is taken at regular, configurable intervals. Your data can be restored by the individual email, or in bulk, and data can be restored back to the original location in a single click. You can even restore folders, contacts, notes, calendars, and task items.
|Appropriate for regulated industries requiring data retention for compliance purposes
|Search on email header (from, to, subject line, attachment name)
|Search on email body and attachment text
|Download retained emails in different file formats
|Restore single email at a time
|Restore data in bulk
|Restore back to original location
|Previous data backed up at set up for no additional cost
|Previous data requires an ingestion fee
|Required for all mailboxes
Next steps
- Find out more, and purchase Archiving, here.
- To purchase Backup, simply add the Office 365 user to your cart, and you have the option to add Backup to it, there. If you'd like to add Backup to an existing mailbox, please call a support agent at (480) 463-8846.


text:
This 24 page deluxe sized personalised children's book features your child's name, age, friends and more throughout the story! This book is 23cm x 15cm, made with a washable hardcover, and is beautifully illustrated in full colour.
Your child spends a special day with Minnie Mouse. There's plenty of fun in the sun and an exciting sand castle contest!
© Disney
Please note:
Your child's full name is used at the beginning of the book, and their first name is used throughout the story. If you choose to include a nickname, the child's full name will be used at the beginning of the book, and their nickname will be used throughout the story.
There are 35 characters available for your optional message (including punctuation and spaces). Your message might include Merry Christmas or Happy Birthday.
If you would like more details, please check the FAQs.


text:
My paternal 3rd-great grandaunt, Rebecca West CHEW, married on this date in 1831 to Charles LOCK. Rebecca was the daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (WEST) CHEW, and the older sister of my Ezekiel Cooper CHEW. Rebecca was born April 17, 1814. Rebecca died April 10, 1893. Nothing further is known at this time.
My paternal 4th-great granduncle, Elisha Dunham CHEW, married on this date in 1808 in Gloucester County, New Jersey to Elizabeth HERITAGE, daughter of Richard and Anna (STILES) HERITAGE. Elisha was the son of Nathaniel and Sarah (SPRINGER) CHEW, and the older brother of my Nathaniel CHEW. Elisha was born October 25, 1785 in Gloucester County, New Jersey. Elizabeth was born November 15, 1784 in Gloucester County, New Jersey. They had 6 children. Elisha was a farmer in Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa. Elizabeth died October 2, 1864 in Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa. Elisha died March 18, 1876 in Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa.
My paternal 3rd-great grandparents, Dr. Ezekiel Cooper CHEW and Caroline Bishop WOOLSTON, married on this date in 1842 in New Jersey, probably Gloucester County. Ezekiel was the son of Nathaniel and Mary (WEST) CHEW. Caroline was the daughter of Abel B. and Rachel (WOOLSTON) WOOLSTON. Ezekiel was born January 17, 1822 in Gloucester County, New Jersey. Caroline was born February 6, 1826 in Vincentown, Burlington County, New Jersey. They had 14 children. Caroline died February 27, 1869 in Rossburg, Stark County, Ohio. Ezekiel died August 27, 1888 in St. Joseph's County, Indiana.
My paternal 3rd-great grandaunt, Elizabeth MAXSON, was born on this date in 1803 in Harrison County, Virginia. Elizabeth was the daughter of Jesse and Sarah (SUTTON) MAXSON, and the older sister of my Prudence MAXSON. Elizabeth married April 1821 in Clark County, Ohio to William S. FURROW. They had 12 children. Elizabeth died March 3, 1892. Nothing further is known at this time.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Family Milestones: December 29th
at Tuesday, December 29, 2009 Posted by Travis LeMaster
3 comments:
- Barbara Poole said...
Hi Travis,
I like how you do your reports. What software program do you use? If it is FTM or RootsWeb, could you walk me through it?
Many thanks.
- Travis LeMaster said...
Hi Barb,
I use RootsMagic v.3 for my genealogy software.
To make these reports, I create a calendar of birthdays and anniversaries of the month.
I add these events to Google Calendar, which will give me a reminder annually.
I'm trying to stay a month or two ahead, and post-dating the blog posts to show up on the correct dates.
- Barbara Poole said...
Thanks Travis. I may play around with it. I have RM4, but haven't used it much. Haven't used google calendar either...I am so out of it, lots to learn. It will be a challenge some day to try your method. Thanks. Happy New Year.
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
- Undated pledge of moneys to be paid to Lysander Spooner for "a review of Judge Kane's late decision, that the U.S. Courts have no constitutional right to punish for contempt without trial by jury." Signed by several prominent abolitionists, including Ellis Gray Loring, Francis Jackson, and Samuel E. Sewall.
- Draft of an eight-page letter dated January 20, 1847, from [Lysander Spooner in Winchendon, Massachusetts] to George Bradburn discussing general news of the abolitionist movement and the progress of his writing of a work called "Poverty" and providing an article he hopes to have published "as the leading editorial in the American" in order to raise funds that will help publish and distribute his book.
- One-page letter dated January 5, 1855, from William Goodell on behalf of the American Abolition Society in New York, to Lysander Spooner in Boston, Massachusetts, ordering a supply of his book, The Unconstitutionality of Slavery, for distribution to all members of congress, as well as additional copies to sell and give away.
- Two-page letter from Gerrit Smith in Peterboro [New York] to Lysander Spooner in Boston, Massachusetts, dated November 6, 1855, in which he expresses his pleasure that Spooner is writing an argument "on the Wilhelm case" and discusses the distribution of 300 copies of Spooner's book, "the Unconstitutionality of Slavery."
- Two-page deposition of John Champneys describing the circumstances surrounding charges of financial support for William Binnie [Junior], the "negro wench Jenny" and her children. Champneys purchased Jenny at "St. Augustine's when the whole property of Wm. [William] Binnie the Elder was sold" by John Martin. He subsequently gave Jenny to the infant son, William Binnie [Junior], by deed of gift. He objects to monetary charges placed against him by Mr. Quinby, the second husband of Binne Sr.'s widow, for "the board and maintenance of the child," from the time of marriage to his mother until the time of her death, when William Binne [Junior] was sent along with Jenny to reside with his Aunt. Additional note on verso shows that Fleetwood Armstrong, "on account of the valuable qualifications of the wench" has released William Binnie of all other charges.
- Assorted advertisements for sale of slaves, rewards for return of runaway slaves, the slave trade, and slavery in general, most unattributable to particular newspapers. Includes three engravings (two duplicated) of slave forts in Africa with captions, "The North Prospect of James Fort in the River Gambia," and "A View of Cape Coast Castle, with part of the Negro Town." Several advertisements are in manuscript form, and appear to be submissions for printing.
- Two-page evaluation of the estate of Francis M. Hunt, prepared by appointed commissioners to determine the value and interest of his property, including "a negro slave named Willis worth $1,000." Signed by commissioners N. G. Tevis, Roy Stewart, and John S. Murphy. Note on back reads, "N. B. Collin, Guardian on Petition."


text:
10 Affordable Gift Ideas under $20
While you make the rounds of parties and dinners this month, treat each host or hostess to a thoughtful gift that won't break your holiday budget. Books are surefire pleasers. And homemade anything works well if you have the time. These simple yet thoughtful gifts work equally well for a loved one or trusted individual in your life (teacher, manicurist, neighbor).
Lemon Cypress Tree, $19.99, 1-800-Flowers
With festive packaging, bright green branches, and a sublime scent, this plant will set off any room or table. Order the set of three for $49.99 if you have several upcoming events. A hardy, fragrant rosemary tree— often found at your local nursery—makes a great alternative.
Wine Glass Tags, $9.99, Kitchen Kapers
Like a bottle of wine, this gift could be put to use immediately but is more fun. The set includes 12 tags, each featuring an irreverent wine "review," to help guests keep track of their glasses.
Assorted Blank Card Set, $14 for set of 8, Etsy.com
Save your hostess the trouble of running to Hallmark before the next birthday, holiday, or celebration. With "Oh Happy Day," "Howdy," Bravo," and "Thanks" messages (the set includes two of each) she'll be covered for almost any occasion.
Beeswax Candles, $17.50, Beeswax Candle Company
This stylish pillar candle is eco-friendly, to boot— beeswax candles serve as natural air purifiers, cleaning the air of odors, pollen, and other allergens.
"Small Gesture" Chocolates Gift Box, $15 for six pieces, La Maison du Chocolat
What could be more decadent than a box of Parisian chocolates? A bigger box, maybe. But these irresistible confections come at just the right price.
Owl Salt & Pepper Shakers, $9.95, Paper Source
We've seen owls everywhere lately, from tree ornaments to bookends to even necklaces, but nowhere do they look as cute as these useful table decorations.
Hand Cream with SPF 10, $16, Kiehl's
The "Unusually Rich-But-Not-Greasy-At-All" Hand Cream from Kiehl's is a classic for a reason: The packaging and scent are decidedly unisex, and the stuff really works. A great winter gift.
Republic Chai Tea, $9.50 for 50 bags, The Republic of Tea
Nothing beats a chai tea latte on a chilly day. Your recipient can whip up her own version by adding warm milk and honey to a cup of this aromatic tea.
Healthy Dog Treats, $15, Uncommongoods.com
Don't forget the dog! Available in two flavors (Eggnog Smoothie or Peppermint Melts) these treats are wheat-free, corn-free, and soy-free.
Two-Bottle Wine Tote, $19.99, World Market
In festive red, this stylish, insulated tote comes with a corkscrew. If you're staying as someone's house guest and want to express your gratitude in a bigger way, add two bottles of something special.


text:
You don't have any saved vehicles!
Look for this link on your favorites:
Once you've saved some vehicles, you can view them here at any time.
Gray 2003 Toyota 4Runner Limited 4WD 5-Speed Automatic with Overdrive 4.7L V8 SMPI DOHC 4.7L V8 SMPI DOHC, 4WD, Gray Leather.Call us at 423-855-5454 or take the short drive to 2131 Chapman Rd Chattanooga, TN 37421.
While great effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the information on this site, errors do occur so please verify information with a customer service rep. This is easily done by calling us at (423) 855-5454 or by visiting us at the dealership.
**With approved credit. Terms may vary. Monthly payments are only estimates derived from the vehicle price with a 72 month term, 5.9% interest and 20% downpayment.
*Prices shown do not include taxes or license. Prices shown include a destination & handling charge. The destination & handling charge for sedans/SUVs is $995 or $1025, NSX is $1800 or $1995, and TLX PMC edition is $1995. Actual vehicles/accessory costs, labor and installation vary. Please consult your selected dealer.
*Number of views in last 30 days
† Based on model year EPA mileage ratings. Use for comparison purposes only. Your actual mileage will vary, depending on how you drive and maintain your vehicle, driving conditions, battery pack age/condition (hybrid models only) and other factors.
You don't have any saved vehicles!
Look for this link on your favorites:
Once you've saved some vehicles, you can view them here at any time.
(423) 855-5454Call Now
2131 Chapman Rd • Chattanooga, TN 37421Get Directions
Open Today! Sales: 9am-6pm
Open Today! Service: 8am-4pm
Open Today! Parts: 8am-4pm


text:
Snoozer Premium Micro Suede Cozy Cave Pet Bed in Tempest Indigo
$94.79 $119.95
Snoozer Show Dog Collection - Our Premium Micro Suede Cozy Cave Pet Bed is now available in our most durable and fashionable micro suedes yet! Our Premium Micro Suede Cozy Cave is a one of a kind pet bed designed to give your pet a cozy place to stay warm and comfortable. This nesting pet bed features a micro suede exterior and is great for pets who enjoy staying under the covers. Some dog breeds prefer the extra feeling of security by wrapping themselves up in bed, thus making a cave like dog bed the perfect choice.
Browse all deals at Petco
See more in Dog Supplies
* This offer may contain time-sensitive information and offers. Please check with Petco to confirm actual price & availability.
Please enter your name
- Be the first to comment!
1 location
2170 North Perkins Rd
2170 North Perkins Rd
Stillwater, OK 74075