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You little food snob doesn't have to survive on pasta and bread. Check out these ideas that will pass his test and get him a boost of nutrition (and variety!)
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Finger Sandwiches
If your kid hates crusts, chop them off or use cookie cutters to turn sandwiches into cool shapes.
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Potato Cakes
Turn leftover mashed potatoes into a yummy, kid-friendly food.
View Leftover Potato Cakes Recipe
More leftovers you're wondering what to do with? Here's a few ideas for Leftover Dinners
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Chicken Salad
Pasta and chicken are super kid-friendly. Don't sweat it if your kid won't eat all the veggies.
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Takes the Cake
This treat has the flavor of freshly harvested corn. Pop it into the toaster, then drizzle it with honey. (Thomas' Toast-R-Cakes, $2.99)
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Who can just eat alphabet soup? Call out a letter, and when your child finds it, he can slurp up the hearty reward. (Campbell's Chicken Alphabet soup, $1.69)
Play it safe: Check out our age-by-age anti-choking guide!
Anytime Nosh
These satisfying bites—fortified with vitamins, fiber and minerals—will stave off before-dinner grumbles. (Barbara's Bakery Organic Wild Puffs in Fruit Medley, $4.50)
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Cheese sticks always make a great nibble; these are packed with brain-boosting, heart-healthy omega-3's. (Sorrento Plus Omega 3 String Cheese, $4)
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Homemade Potato Chips
If you're still telling your kids to not eat potato chips, it's probably because you didn't know you could make them in your microwave without a smidgen of grease. For real. I could tell you more, but I suspect you're already in the kitchen trying this out.
- One Russet potato sliced paper thin
- Salt (optional)
- Parchment paper
Cut a sheet of parchment paper to fit a plate. Lay discs of potato on top in a flat layer, none touching. Sprinkle layer with salt, if desired. Cover with another sheet of parchment paper. Microwave for 5-6 minutes. Discs will have become lightly browned potato chips.
Kids can help: Cut paper to shape, lay out slices of potato
Extras:Season with some salt, paprika, garlic or onion powder
Recipe from Deb Perelman at Smitten Kitchen.
- Photo by Jennifer (jspatchwork) (CC Licensed)
Mini Pizzas
This kid-favorite gets a healthy makeover to fuel your child's busy body all day long. Make these the night before to save time in the morning. Top English muffin halves with jarred marinara sauce (if your child won't object, add chopped steamed broccoli or spinach to the sauce.) Sprinkle pre-shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese on top. Bake at 350 degrees for 5 minutes. Let cool, then wrap up.
Serve with:
One half cup of blueberries
Individual chocolate pudding


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February 14, 2017
On Wednesday, Feb. 8, the vigil for Amilcar Perez-Lopez amped it up. Usually held weekly from 6-7 p.m. at the Mission District Police Station – where his killers still work – this time we went directly to the home of San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón. Feb. 26 will mark two years since Amilcar was murdered in the Mission District, right outside his residence. Locals know six shots cut him down, fired by undercover cops Craig Tiffe and Eric Riboli.

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Custom-built in 2002, the Mediterranean has an open floor plan, formal living and dining rooms, a family room with a hand-carved wet bar, three stone fireplaces, an office and a three-car garage. A round window brings light into the top of the two-story foyer. The house has five bedrooms -- some of which Odom used as closet space -- and five bathrooms in 4,181 square feet.
In the resort-like backyard, a stepped terrace off the back of the house leads to a built-in barbecue area, a gas fire pit and a swimming pool and spa. There are views of downtown L.A., the Hollywood sign and the mountains.
Odom, who turned 30 on Friday, bought the house in 2006 as a place to entertain his teammates, according to reports at the time. The location is convenient to the Lakers' practice center and the airport.
He recently married actress Khloé Kardashian, 25. Her "Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami" series, which started in August, is a spinoff of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" (2007-present), on which she costars.
Odom, who started his NBA career with the Clippers in 1999, came to the Lakers in 2004 after a year with the Miami Heat. In July, he signed a four-year deal with the Lakers worth up to $33 million. Soon he can add reality-show star to his résumé. "Keeping Up With Karashians: The Wedding" will air Sunday on E!
Ed Kaminsky and Wendy Davis of SportsStar Relocation, Manhattan Beach, have the listing.
Crawford classic back on market
Talk-show host Leeza Gibbons has put her longtime Hollywood Hills compound on the market at $6.85 million.
The 11,137-square-foot Mediterranean is set behind gates on more than an acre of landscaped grounds. It was built in 1926 and was owned in the '40s by actress Joan Crawford. The main house has seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms in three stories.
Gibbons, 52, remodeled and renovated the home, which has carved moldings, intricate wood-panel ceilings and extensive terraces. A detached guesthouse was added in 2000.
She hosts the nationally syndicated radio show "Hollywood Confidential" and had her own the daytime talk show "Leeza" from 1994 to 2000.
The property, which Gibbons has owned since the early '90s, had been on and off the market since 2005. She is selling because she would like to relocate to Beverly Hills, according to her listing agents.
Drew Mandile and Brooke Knapp of Sotheby's International Realty, Beverly Hills, have the listing.
Silent star first owned this estate
A 1929 Spanish-style estate in Bel-Air that traces its Hollywood history back to silent film star Colleen Moore is for sale at $15.95 million or for lease at $39,000 a month.
The gated compound sits on less than three-quarters of an acre. Three structures contain seven bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, two guest apartments, a projection room, an art studio and a gym in about 13,000 square feet. A two-story entry leads to public rooms, including a formal dining room, den and media room.
Moore, whose bobbed hairstyle would become a fad, frequently played comic roles on the silver screen. She starred as Annie in "Little Orphant Annie" (1918) while in her teens and gained fame as a young adult for her role as a flapper in "Flaming Youth" (1923).
As sound films caught on, Moore took a break from acting and frequently entertained at her Bel-Air home. A garden tea for educators was among the events held on the grounds in 1930, according to Los Angeles Times archives. Another reminder of her time in residence is a 1931 lost-and-found ad giving the home's address and stating: "Dog lost, Great Dane, male, light brown, small scar on forehead."
Moore made the move to talkies and starred opposite Spencer Tracy in "The Power and the Glory" (1933). Her final film was "The Scarlet Letter" (1934). She died in 1988 at age 87.
Sally Forster Jones of Coldwell Banker's Beverly Hills East office and Linda May of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills, have the listing.
Designer remakes Spanish Colonial
Designer Stephan Basil Yacobian has listed his hip Spanish Colonial in the Hancock Park area at $1,595,000.
The walled compound has a courtyard with an Andalusian fountain, tile steps leading to a heavy wooden entry door, a terra-cotta fireplace with accent tiles in the living room and a Spanish-tile fire pit with barbecue in the patio area. Interior finishes reflect the 1920s origins of the three-bedroom, 3 1/2 -bathroom, 2,506-square-foot home.
Yacobian's focus on color, flow and function is evident in the remodel.
The designer bought the home a year ago as his personal residence. He has worked on spec projects for more than eight years in Los Angeles, New York and abroad, and he has a celebrity client list that includes actors, singers and songwriters.
Diana Knox of Coldwell Banker's Hancock Park North office is the listing agent.
DJ AM's house in the hills is for sale
The Beverly Hills home of the late Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein has come on the market at $3,795,000.
The gated midcentury one-story has four bedrooms and 4 1/2 bathrooms in 3,375 square feet.
There are mahogany floors, a built-in theater, a two-sided fireplace and a backyard with a swimming pool and spa.
Built in 1961, the house sits on more than three-quarters of an acre on a cul-de-sac with views encompassing canyon, city and ocean.
Goldstein, who worked as a turntablist on albums for stars including Madonna and Will Smith and often collaborated with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, was known for his electrifying performances. He appeared on TV in "The Simple Life" (2005) and "Entourage" (2006).
He currently can be seen in MTV's "Gone Too Far," a seven-part documentary series he created and hosted in hopes of helping families and friends of drug addicts stage interventions.
Anthony Stellini of Nourmand & Associates, Beverly Hills, has the listing.


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Chasing Dreams Mall Extravaganza
Sunday, June 15 – Father's Day FREE - All Day 10:00 am The Museum opens — FREE all day and open until 8:30 pm 2:00 pm The outdoor festivities begin 9:00 pm Field of Dreams outdoor screening We're taking it outside for this fun family day on Independence Mall featuring games, arts and crafts, meet-and-greets with MLB personalities, music, and more! Check back often for exciting updates and additional details. At the Museum – come on in! The Museum and Chasing Dreams will be FREE and open late — explore our groundbreaking special exhibition through a self-guided family tour, share your favorite baseball memories in the Museum's It's Your Story recording booths, interact with Koufax on the Koncourse, and more!
Date & Time
June 15, 2014
More Info
(215) 923-3811


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Google Drones Lift Industry Hopes
Internet Giant's Entry Brings Financial and Lobbying Clout to Fledging Field
When Amazon.com Inc. CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled a plan in December to deliver packages by drones, it was widely viewed as a public-relations stunt during the holiday shopping season. Less than nine months later, Google Inc.'s similar drone initiative is landing in a different climate.
The changed atmosphere reflects Google's financial and lobbying heft, which should help overcome technical and regulatory obstacles. But it also reflects growing confidence in technology until now more often associated with missiles than packages,...


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Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Enforcement Division agents today recovered the body of a teenaged girl who has been missing since entering the water in Lake Palourde this past weekend.
LDWF recovered the body of Theresa Hidalgo, 18, of Gramercy, near the west shore in Lake Palourde. Hidalgo was in a 16-foot bass boat along with husband and wife Michael, 39, and Andrea St. Amant, of Donaldsonville on Sunday, June 20 in Lake Palourde. Search teams recovered the body of Michael St. Amant on Monday, June 21.
According to Andrea St. Amant, Michael and Theresa fell overboard from Michael's boat around 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 20. Andrea said that she did not know how to operate the boat and did not have cell phone service. After drifting for a few minutes, Andrea said she was able to flag down some nearby jet skiers who then were able to get to an area with cell phone service to call 911.
LDWF Enforcement Division agents received the 911 call and arrived on the scene within minutes and began searching for the missing boaters until nightfall. Other agencies that participated in the search for Michael and Theresa were the St. Mary's and St. Martin's Parish Sheriff's Offices, the Patterson Police Department, Stephensville Fire Department and Morgan City Fire Department.
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Boker Plus Knives
Boker Plus is one of the most exciting and innovative brands on the market. Boker has done an incredible job of creating the Boker Plus brand which incorporates the great designs and engineering of some of the best knife makers in the world. Boker Plus products are manufactured in Asia at the very best facilities possible and we feel the quality is extraordinary. The designs are world class and the value is the best in the market.


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Now that two months have passed since the 2012 election, what does Rep. Paul Ryan think the voters' message was?
It wasn't a rejection of the Romney-Ryan platform or of the "Ryan Budget" that would have turned Medicare into a voucher plan, Ryan told reporters on Wednesday.
"I don't see this [election result] as a rejection of our principles," Ryan said at a Wall Street Journal breakfast.
Instead, the message Ryan heard was that Republicans need to make it clear that they're not the party of the rich -- that they're as intent on ending poverty and increasing opportunity as Democrats.
Meanwhile, though, Ryan has a daunting new assignment that may make that message even more difficult to sell. He's been charged by House Speaker John A. Boehner with drawing up a new budget that will erase the federal deficit within 10 years (the first Ryan budget, written in 2011, needed 30 years) solely through spending cuts -- no new tax revenues allowed.


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Often times, many confuse a personal trainer, athletic trainer and physical therapist because the three professionals have many similar qualities and characteristics. However, there are some very distinct differences between the three.
Certified personal trainers (CPT) are fitness professionals who have met the requirements established by a national certifying organization, e.g. American Council on Exercise, to develop and implement fitness programs for clients who have no apparent physical limitations or who have received medical clearance to exercise.
Personal training is a customer service- based industry focused on helping people enhance their fitness and modify risk factors to improve their health, prevent disease, and enhance function following the completion of a physical or cardiac rehabilitation program.
CPT Scope of Practice
- Conducting interviews
- Conducting assessments to facilitate program design
- Identifying the need for referral, developing and implementing safe and effective exercise programs to improve fitness and function with individuals and small groups
- Coaching clients through fitness-related behavior changes
- Educating clients on fitness-related topics to enhance program adherence and success
- Providing services that complement medical treatments or rehabilitation as part of an allied healthcare team
- Referring clients to other healthcare professionals when appropriate
Education Requirements:
- 4 year degree in kinesiology, exercise physiology, or exercise-related fields (optional)
- Personal Trainer Certification (required); ideally one which is NCCA-accredited (now required by many clubs and facilities)
- Personal trainers are not currently licensed in the U.S. or Canada. Licensure in other areas of allied healthcare has often required candidates to hold the appropriate NCCA-accredited certification in that particular industry to obtain the license. This is an important reason for professionals looking to enter the fitness industry to earn a NCCA Accredited certification, such as the ACE Personal Trainer Certification.
Work Environment:
- Gym facilities
- Rehabilitation facilities
- Private practice
- Hospitals (in-patient/out-patient)
- Private business
- CPTs can have quite a bit of flexibility with their schedule depending on their clientele, though the average CPT works early morning, lunch time and evenings to accommodate clients' work schedules.
Certified athletic trainers (ATC) are professionals who help prevent and treat injuries for people of all ages. Their clientele includes everyone from professional athletes to industrial workers.
ATCs are recognized by the American Medical Association as allied health professionals who may work under the direction of a licensed physician, and in cooperation with other healthcare providers.
ATC Scope of Practice
- Specialize in the prevention, diagnosis, assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation of muscle and bone injuries and illnesses
- Recognize, evaluate, and assess injuries and provide immediate care when needed
- Side note: specifics of ATC Scope of Practice can vary from state to state
Educational Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Athletic Training (required for BOC)
- Currently 47 States required athletic trainers to be licensed or registered and this requires certification from the Board of Certification (BOC).
- For BOC certification, athletic trainers need a bachelor's or master's degree from an accredited athletic training program in addition to passing a rigorous examination.
- In Alaska, California, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia where licensure is not required, certification is voluntary but may be helpful for those seeking jobs and advancement.
Work Environment:
- High school, college and professional sports teams
- When working with a sports team, an ATC may log upwards of 50-70 hours (including nights and weekends) per week when in season while traveling with the team.
- Hospitals and clinics
- An ATC not working with a team may have a more established schedule of 40-50 hours per week with nights and weekends off.
Physical therapists are healthcare professionals who diagnose and treat individuals of all ages who have medical problems or other health-related conditions, illnesses, or injuries that limits their abilities to move and perform functional activities as well as they would like in their daily lives. Physical therapists often consult and practice with a variety of other professionals, such as physicians, dentists, nurses, educators, social workers, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, and audiologists.
PT Scope of Practice:
- Examining (history, system review and tests and measures) individuals with impairment, functional limitation, and disability or other health-related conditions in order to determine a diagnosis, prognosis, and intervention.
- Alleviating impairment and functional limitation by designing, implementing, and modifying therapeutic interventions.
- Preventing injury, impairment, functional limitation, and disability, including the promotion and maintenance of health, wellness, fitness, and quality of life in all age populations.
- Engaging in consultation, education, and research.
Educational Requirements:
- Post-baccalaureate degree from an accredited physical therapy program (required)
- Side note: many programs require volunteer experience in the physical therapy department of a hospital or clinic
- All States regulate the practice of physical therapy and eligibility requirements vary by State.
- Typical requirements for physical therapists include:
- Graduation from an accredited physical therapy education program
- Passing the National Physical Therapy Examination
- Fulfilling State requirements such as jurisprudence exams.
- Side note: A number of States require continuing education as a condition of maintaining licensure.
Work Environment:
- Hospitals,
- Private practices,
- Outpatient clinics,
- Home health agencies,
- Schools
- Sports and fitness facilities
- Work settings
- Nursing homes
In summary, these professions are similar in that they are customer service- based and customer care-based. However, they differ in their scopes of practice, educational requirements, licensure and work environments.
Be sure to review each of these professions in-depth when deciding which path you want to choose for yourself and your future career.


text: The cross country season kicks off for several area teams with the IMS Early Bird Meet today. It's a pretty big field and IMS Head Coach Marty Gingerich says the field can vary from season to season. He says last season they hosted the conference meet so several conference schools ran in it to see the course. He says this year some of them are back. He also says Cedar Rapids Jefferson and Muscatine have been coming and this year Iowa City High asked to run in it. Gingerich says having three 4A schools running at a small school's meet is kind of unique. IMS won the boys' state in 1A last season, this season they enter ranked #2 in the preseason poll, Wapello a conference school is ranked #3 they will also be at the meet and Lone Tree is there, the Lions are ranked #10.


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25 Years Ago: Judas Priest's 'Ram It Down' Album Released
When Judas Priest released their 11th album, 'Ram It Down,' 25 years ago today, few people outside of the band's inner circle had an inkling that the storied British heavy-metal institution was standing at a crossroads.
The band's previous record, 1986's 'Turbo,' was as successful as it was divisive, simultaneously broadening Judas Priest's audience and alienating fans of the band's older, heavier style with its wholesale adoption of synth guitars and other pop-metal trappings.
So imagine how those unhappy fans would have reacted had Priest gone with its original inclinations of making 'Turbo' a double album and then using some of the leftover songs on 'Ram It Down.'
Fortunately, many of those unused songs reflected Judas Priest's tougher and more aggressive side. So naturally they were left off 'Turbo.' Old-school fans were relieved to hear 'Ram It Down's' potent title track opening the new album and quickly achieving speed-metal velocity, ignited by a paint-peeling scream by frontman Rob Halford.
The album's second song, 'Heavy Metal,' launched by Glenn Tipton's blistering shred solo, lacks imaginative lyrics, but the rest of 'Ram It Down's' first half bristles with muscular metallic anthems onto which the band welds catchy choruses (see 'Love Zone' and 'Come and Get It') on their way to the astonishingly vicious 'Hard As Iron.'
Unfortunately, the album's second half doesn't maintain this consistency, dipping sharply into a needless cover of Chuck Berry's 'Johnny B. Goode' (originally recorded for a movie soundtrack), a forgettable 'Love You to Death' (sheer tedium) and the ponderous closer, 'Monsters of Rock' (how about "monsters of clichés"?) after a strong start behind 'Blood Red Skies' (a brooding, sinister epic) and 'I'm a Rocker' (a simple bur effective head-banger).
In other words, 'Ram It Down' was clearly a patchwork collection of songs -- old and new, good and bad. And yet, for all its inconsistent songwriting and inspiration, the LP's general revival of Judas Priest's heavier side was music to purists' ears.
In any case, major changes were coming, as Halford, Tipton, co-lead guitarist KK Downing and bassist Ian Hill readied themselves to dismiss long-serving drummer Dave Holland and producer Tom Allom in order to escalate their metallic renaissance on 1990's absolutely jaw-dropping 'Painkiller.' If nothing else, 'Ram It Down' marks the end of an era with class and dignity.


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The Eco-Certified Composite (ECC) Sustainability Standard is the voluntary industry standard developed by the Composite Panel Association (CPA) for manufacturers of composite wood or agrifiber-based panels made with particleboard, medium density fiberboard (MDF), hardboard, engineered wood siding and engineered wood trim. The standard focuses on life cycle inventory and other verifiable environmental practices and highlights the responsible use of wood fiber by composite panel manufacturers. The basis of the standard includes the CPA Carbon Calculator, a tool developed by a third party expert to assess the life cycle and carbon footprint of composite panels made at a particular manufacturing plant.
The ECC Sustainability Standard is the more rigorous successor to CPA's Environmentally Preferable Product (EPP) specification and voluntary certification program, established in 2002. The EPP certification for unfinished panels was sunset on March 31, 2012.
The North American composite panel industry is predicated on the optimal use of forestry byproducts and residuals — turning this recycled and reclaimed material into higher value products so it's not wasted. By their very nature, composite wood panels—along with agrifiber-based panels—are among the greenest products available for architectural, construction and consumer products. Architects, designers, retailers and consumers expect verifiable evidence of greenness, and the ECC Sustainability Standard and Certification Program delivers that assurance. Only products carrying the ECC-certified logo and/or other identifying mark are produced in a manufacturing plant or facility that is audited and certified by CPA.
ECC Certification is available to individual manufacturing plants and requires an on-site qualification audit and subsequent annual audits. Unfinished composite panel products must first comply with the stringent California Air Resources Board (CARB) formaldehyde emissions regulation before being considered for other ECC criteria. Qualified plants must then meet at least three of the following requirements:
Non-wood fiber is defined as a by-product of an agricultural crop where the cellulose is other than woody biomass and may also be considered to meet the requirements above.
ECC Panel Products may help achieve LEED credit for:
The ECC Certification program is the successor to the most widely specified environmental certification program for composite wood products in the world—CPA's Environmentally Preferable Product (EPP) Certification Program, the first such program accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Similarly, CPA will administer the ECC Certification Program as a third party certification agency accredited to ISO/IEC Guide 65 by ANSI.
ECC certification and audits are conducted by experience professionals based on ISO/IEC 17065 and ISO/IEC 17020 standards. CPA is accredited by ANSI and ANAB as a certification and inspection body, respectively.
Look for the ECC-certified logo and/or other identifying mark on packaging, panel unit bundles, commercial documents, or other informational materials when purchasing composite panels.
The Composite Panel Association (CPA), a nonprofit 501(c)(6) organization founded in 1960, represents the North American composite wood panel and decorative surfaces industries on technical, standards, regulatory, quality assurance and product acceptance matters. CPA also operates the Grademark Certification Program, an accredited Third Party Certifier (TPC), and the first in the world to be approved by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for formaldehyde emissions testing and certification of composite panels.
The Composite Panel Association is committed to advancing and certifying the sustainability of industry products for residential, commercial and industrial uses.
For more information about the ECC Program, contact Gary Heroux.
CPA Eco-CertifiedTM Composite (ECC) Sustainability Standard CPA 4-11 [PDF]
ECC Sustainability Standard & Certification Program Brochure [PDF]


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Provide fresh, moving water with minimal maintenance using this attractive fountain! Pets are attracted by fresh, flowing water, and this award-winning, raindrop-shaped fountain is the ideal way to provide it. Dishwasher-safe, stainless-steel model is easy-to-assemble, fill, and keep clean. The fountain circulates 60 oz (approx. 1/2 gallon) of water through a replaceable charcoal filter that removes impurities. Water cascades down from the top spout; pets can drink right from the cascade or directly from the reservoir, thanks to a generous opening in the cover.
The pump housing is the only internal part, so you can remove the cover and clean it in a matter of seconds. Pump runs whisper quietly, and the ingeniously-designed pump housing holds the replaceable charcoal filter to make filter changes a breeze. The ever-moving, oxygenated water, paired with the bacteria-resistant, stainless-steel construction, help keep water fresher and safer for your pet. Stainless steel construction also adds durability; unlike plastic fountains, it resists breakage if knocked around by your pet or dropped. Raindrop design adds intrigue and beauty to any room. For indoor use only. 6 ft power cord with easy-click disconnect for simple cleaning. Dishwasher safe. Filter lasts 30 days. 11" x 9" x 4.5" high.
Downloadable Stainless Steel Pet Fountain Instruction Manual PDF.
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Style # 194774
Festive and girly, this bebe bridesmaid dress features a dramatically ruffled halter design with a flowing A-line skirt that is flattering on any figure. The neckline shows off the shoulders and elongates the neck. Perfect for a spring wedding! Made from polyester satin face chiffon, a fabric that offers a lightweight drape with a beautifully subtle shine and a lot of movement. Hidden zipper. Available in both a classic and bold tone.
- Poly satin chiffon.
- Center back to hem: 34" (86 cm).
- Dry clean only.
- Imported.
- Model is 5'9" and is wearing a size S.
Rated 4.5 out of 5�by 2 reviewers.
Rated 5 out of 5�by MrsPinkney Great fit and the color is beautiful I am so excited to wear this as my Maid of Honor dress for my friend's upcoming wedding in LA. Thanks!! January 3, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5�by Milenah Flowery I've been eying this dress forever, but wasn't able to try it on in stores since they were being discontinued. When I saw they had it on sale during Black Friday, I snatched it up in purple. As someone that's slim on top, it's not very tight - but the flowery halter top keeps it up, and helps keep from showing too much skin. It's a great spring/summer dress, and I'm looking forward to wearing it when it's warmer! December 4, 2012
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Stuart Haygarth's Chandeliers From Found Objects
We've seen some of Stuart Haygarth's work before but these inspiring chandeliers made from found materials demonstrate that repurposable materials can be found in the most unlikely places.
1. Optical Chandelier: This chandelier is created from over 4500 prescription spectacle lenses.
2.Millennium: Created from party poppers the chandelier 'sways and moves in the breeze'
3. Shadey Family: This linear chandelier is a collection of found glass lampshades.
(image source: Stuart Haygarth)


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When I woke up this morning, there were a few really convincing reasons not to ride my bike to the bus stop. I drove to the bus stop instead of driving downtown, but still...
First, rain was in the forecast. A look outside verified that it had not in fact rained, but the sky was somewhat ominous.
Next, my wife really wanted me to go straight to the movie theater after I got off work. This isn't a big deal, it's less than half a mile from the bus stop, but I didn't feel like showing up to the movies in sopping wet clothes.
Well, it was really nice and clear out today. Not so much as a sprinkle on my way to work. If it rained while I was working, I totally missed it and it must have dried up before I got out. This would have been an awesome day to be on my bike. To top it off, the movie that my wife wanted to check out doesn't actually come out this weekend, so I didn't go to the theater. I went straight home.
This is lame, and I'm pretty sad that I missed out on a really nice ride.
Friday, February 23, 2007
Kicking myself
When I woke up this morning, there were a few really convincing reasons not to ride my bike to the bus stop. I drove to the bus stop instead of driving downtown, but still...
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- Warren T said...
Yep, you missed a nice one. Boy, it rained overnight though; looks like it's going to keep it up today too which messes up our plans. My 19 year old came home this weekend and wanted to do another ride...
One thing I'm thankful for is that the heavy rain in the middle of the night must have washed off some of the left over salt and sand. I hope.
- February 24, 2007 7:40 AM
- A Midnight Rider said...
I'll bet the guy who invented tomorrow was a bike rider who missed a day. *>)
- February 24, 2007 7:51 AM
I feel your pain! Usually when the weather is nice I cyclocommute to my "fun" weekend job. This morning it was looking forbidding so I drove. Then around noon the clouds cleared out and it would up being an awesome day.
- February 24, 2007 10:48 PM
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Indianapolis, IN – The Brooklyn Nets opened up a sizeable lead and saw it completely disappear, but fought back and was able to hold on for a 117-109 win over the Indiana Pacers to sweep the season series.
Deron Williams had 33 points -- with 25 in the first half -- and dished out 14 assists, but appeared to injure his knee with 25 seconds left in the game when he collided with Paul George. He exited and was seen laboring on the bench.
Brooklyn, winners of four in a row and victors in all three of its regular- season meetings with Indiana, kept its hopes alive for the No. 3 seed and secured home-court advantage in the first round with Chicago's lost to Toronto. The Nets trail the Pacers by two games with three left to play.
Brook Lopez had 24 points and five blocks. Joe Johnson had 24 as well and Jerry Stackhouse added 13 points off the bench for the Nets, who were without Gerald Wallace. The veteran forward suffered a left heel contusion in Wednesday's win over Boston.
The Pacers trailed by as many as 24 points in the third quarter, rallied to take the lead in the fourth, but couldn't hold on to the advantage as they lost for the third time in four games.
David West had a team-leading 26 points with nine rebounds, George scored 21 and Roy Hibbert had 18 points and 10 boards in the setback.
The Nets came out firing on all cylinders, connecting on 13 of their first 17 shots. Lopez made his first six from the field and the Nets led by as many as 10 before taking a 34-27 lead into the second.
Williams then became the headache for Indiana, with the Nets All-Star guard spearheading an impressive 26-8 run with 18 points. In the last 4 1/2 minutes of the half, he sank all four of his 3-pointers as Brooklyn built a 21-point lead.
Indiana, which allows the second fewest points per game at 90.2, surrendered a season-high 69 points in the half and over 100 in game for the fourth time in its last six. They went into the locker room trailing by 19.
A four-point play from Williams and a tough fadeaway from Johnson pushed Brooklyn's lead to 76-52, but it lost Reggie Evans for the game when the forward was tossed for picking up two technicals.
The Pacers seemed inspired off the Nets' loss and an ensuing 17-4 surge had them within four, 85-81, following a 3-pointer from George. Brooklyn finally cooled down, making just 36.8 percent of its shots in the period, and held only a seven-point lead heading into the final stanza.
The comeback came full circle with five minutes left in the game, when the Pacers took their first lead at 101-99 on a Lance Stephenson 3-pointer, but it wouldn't last.
Brooklyn, as it did all game, buried the Pacers from beyond the arc, as Johnson and Stackhouse went back-to-back from distance. The Nets were 12- for-25 on 3-pointers for the game and layups from Lopez and Andray Blatche created a safe seven-point cushion with 1:09 to play to seal the win.
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The Nets have won four in a row overall against the Pacers since losing 10 consecutive in the series ... Stephenson had 13 points for Indiana, which outscored Brooklyn in the paint, 58-28 ... The Pacers shot 50 percent (40- for-80) from the field, while the Nets made 51.2 percent (42-for-82) of their shots.


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Bio Nils Haugen is an agile developer and coach with Objectnet in Norway. He's worked with large distributed o-o apps in various industries since 1998. Nils worked with with XP/Agile teams at ThoughtWorks, and is an experienced conference speaker on topics in Java and Agile software development. He holds a MEng degree in Computer Science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
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1. This is Floyd Marinescu from INFOQ at the Java Conference. We are here with Nils Haugen who is known to be quite a poker player and has a system for planning a perfect poker game. Nils, can you tell us a bit about yourself and about your system?
Sure. The best thing about this is that you can actually play poker at work and the poker I play is an agile technique used by agile teams to allow a group of people or a whole team to estimate the functionality they are to deliver together. And estimating with a group of people is beneficial compared to having just an individual person estimate because the expert or the individual estimating always estimates with his background and his abilities to solve the task, and thinking terms of how he would be able to solve the task and how long that would take; whereas when you do it as a group of people you can get the team's average ability to solve the task, which is much better.
Planning poker is sort of a semi-structured way of a deciding on the estimate together as a team and the term was coined by James Grenning in a white paper in 2002, but the technique has also been used other places, and is described in Mike Cohn's books on User Stories and Agile Estimating and Planning.
2. So how does planning poker work?
The way it works is that you have a customer present to the team each piece of functionality, each user story, and talk about why the business needs this, the background, how they expect the system to behave and then the developers can ask questions and start discussing together what they need to do to the system in order to change it to solve that functionality. While they are doing that, each individual developer knows that when they have all the information they need, they will all be asked to estimate how long this will take and they will estimate individually at first, and the way they do that is they have a stack of cards with fixed estimates written on them, so there would be one card saying one for one day and then two for two days and three for three days and maybe they will decide that if the task is greater than three days it is too big and it needs to be split up. Each developer will decide on their card and then they will reveal their cards simultaneously, and that has certain benefits.
There will always be some diversity, different numbers, so the person with the lowest estimate and the person with the highest estimate will each be asked to justify their estimate. The whole point with that is just to bring up more information: could be that the person with the low estimate has thought of some way we could do this more easily, maybe by reusing some functionality in the system that he/she knows the others had forgotten about; and maybe the person with the high estimate remembers some additional tasks that need to be done in order to accomplish it. And then they can do multiple rounds of poker in order to get consensus for an estimate, where they will see that they quickly will narrow down to a team estimate. Compared to more unstructured group estimation, one of the good things is that by revealing the individual estimates simultaneously there is no "anchoring effect," and anchoring effect has been shown to be present in many different circumstances.
3. And what is an "anchoring effect"?
So an anchoring effect is some person giving an estimate or an expectation on how long something will take; then that has an effect on all the people trying to come up with their own estimate for how long it will take. So if somebody says: "This is probably five days", then the others will seldom go a long way from five days. It will be like four days, four and a half days but not one day or two days. And that effect is there, even though it is stated or the person putting out the anchor has no background and no authority as to how long it should take. It could be the customer, for instance, saying that: "This should be an easy one. You could do that in one day, right?" And by doing that he affects all the estimates given by the developers. So by revealing the estimates simultaneously you avoid that effect and that should make the estimates more accurate.
4. You have described how to plan one user story, so how do you put all this together into a wider planning session?
We can typically do this at the start of the release, in the release planning. And we will go through each user story and do the discussions and planning poker to come up with the estimate, so that the customer can pick which stories to do for this release; but we could also use it for iteration planning and do it at start of each iteration, and what I have seen in the teams where I've introduced it in iteration planning is that the actual number that the team comes up with is not really that important. The really beneficial thing is that the team gets to have this discussion about how they are going to solve the task and decide how it should be implemented and it doesn't matter who actually does it because the whole team is able to contribute with their ideas of how to do it and they sort of define the scope of the task better than they would with individual estimates, and also can agree in some overall quality of the solution to the task.
5. Anything else to say about planning poker?
It is a great technique; teams really seem to love it. An extra benefit is that it's a very efficient way of doing your estimates and the team likes it because they all get to contribute, they feel more ownership of the estimates, which is really good; project managers love it because it doesn't take as long as doing a more unstructured approach to estimating. There might be side effects that we are not really aware of yet, so we are doing more research in order to discover those. We have seen some indications that the scope tends to increase after the team discussion, so the members of the team will bring up different issues and the estimate will cater for all those issues and solve the bits and pieces of that. Maybe initially you wouldn't have thought of putting those things into the task but we have to do more research in order to see how that technique affects the estimates in other ways. From the research that I have been doing it seems like planning poker estimates are more accurate than the unstructured group estimates which is really good for planning, makes better plans.
6. How do you deal with the "alpha male" developer, the one who is far more experienced , and people tend to want to do whatever he says because it's safer to believe and on the other hand how do you deal with the beginner, who might tend to over-budget everything?
That's interesting because other research has shown that the experts will often be overly optimistic about an estimate, so they will think it will take a lot less time than it really will take, whereas beginners or people who don't' know that much about how to actually solve the task will actually do better estimates because they are using a different technique for arriving at that estimate; they are trying to compare this task with tasks they know they have done in the past and try to see if there are some similarities or if they should be roughly the same size, and then apply those historic data about how long those other task took to do, to maketheir estimate; whereas an expert would do more a bottom-up approach and think about all the things that need to be done: adding a new database table, adding some persistence logic, some change to the UI - and how long each bit will take and just add it up to a new estimate. So, the combination is good when you get both perspectives on the team, and it is actually good that we all contribute to the estimate not just the person that feels like he knows the most about that particular task and how to solve it.
7. What existing agile techniques does this replace?
I think most teams either use expert estimates or individual estimates where maybe the lead developer or the architect will do the estimating. That is probably the most common sort, overall in software engineering.
I have also seen a lot of agile teams doing more unstructured group estimation, where they bring the group of developers together to do the estimates, but someone has to come up with a suggestion for an estimate and then they ask for consensus, and when one person comes with an estimate first that puts up the anchor. There are also models you can use for arriving at your estimates, which I don't think is commonly used in agile projects. I guess planning poker might have been inspired by techniques like "wide-band delphi", where you also estimate individually, but the estimates are anonymous and you need software in order to do the whole estimation process. Individual or expert estimates, unstructured group estimates, are probably the most common, so I would recommend trying out planning poker and see how the team likes it and also keeping an eye on what happens to the estimates, if the accuracy improves or not.
8. What is your favorite agile methodology and why is that the best one?
I tend to do a lot of the XP practices, but also Scrum, but to me personally the important thing with agile are the values, we have to all the time focus on: "Is this actually delivering value to the customer?" and trying to minimize the things I would do that do not add value and do more of the things that actually bring value to the customer; once you are sharing those values it is easier to pick up which techniques and which practices to use in your context, in your project for your customer because every project has their own sort of challenges in terms of how they can interact with the customers and which development techniques they can use, so understanding the values, I think, is the key thing to agile.
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Is poker a team sport?
Steven Devijver
I think this planning game is not for shy people.
Re: Is poker a team sport?
Deborah Hartmann
I can see why you'd say that - similarly, you could say Agile itself is not for shy people. However, I've seen shy people happily embrace Agile... the key is to remove judgement from the process.
So, in planning poker, if everyone says "4" and the shy person says "2" they will be invited to share what they know. Perhaps it turns out they see a different way to do it, which is great!. Without freedom to speak freely, this person may not have contributed this idea. But with planning poker, there is a way for them to do so without having to "butt in" to the conversation. There is an explicit invitation to speak in planning poler, which I think helps shy people learn to trust their team mates. Conversely, it teaches more outgoing team members to listen to this quiet person, to value their input.
It is important that the person with the different estimate is valued for bringing different information to the team, rather than ridiculed for "not getting it". If, in fact, it turns out they didn't "get it", they will realize it naturally as the team discusses their idea, there is no blame involved. The discussion is about ideas, not individuals - this builds trust, which is essential to the function of an Agile team.
Without trust, yes, the shy people on a team will remain silent and real teamwork is thwarted. But many Agile disciplines are specifically designed to build trust.
Is this confusing estimating with planning?
Jim Leonardo
Estimating and Planning are different. This is estimating.
To be hideously short about it: Estimate= How Much; Plan= How Long.
I think its critical to know which you are doing when for the same reasons that we care about abstraction in code.
Re: Is this confusing estimating with planning?
Amr Elssamadisy
Re: Is this confusing estimating with planning?
Barre Dijkstra
I totally agree that it is about estimating (complexity) but I disagree that it is not planning.
The way I see planning poker is that it is for estimating complexity and thus in the end iteration planning.
When you know your teams velocity, in terms of complexity points per iteration, you can get a clear view what can be done in an iteration; thus the iteration planning.
My personal experience is that, after a baseline on complexity and velocity, estimations get more and more accurate and the in the end the estimations are way more accurate then any kind of "expert opinion estimations".
Re: Is this confusing estimating with planning?
Deborah Hartmann
I agree. Estimates are a key factor in iteration planning.
Teams typically also go into iteration planning knowing a) their real-to-ideal ratio (ex: takes real two days to do one ideal day's work) and b) their availability (who's on vacation, taking training, etc.). So when the team reaches the iteration planning meeting, the only thing missing to create a plan is the estimate. That's where planning poker provides the "ideal time" estimates to complete the equation.
In addition, there is a need for longer-term planning (done with a high degree of uncertainty, in Agile). I call this "release planning" and it's a different thing from iteration planning.
Re: Is this confusing estimating with planning?
Michael James
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Re: Is this confusing estimating with planning?
Manfred Lange
Planning poker (we call it Agile Auction) is a tool or technique. It's outcome is a relative size for a task (can also be for a non-software project) in comparison to other known tasks.
A release (= 3 months) consists of a set of iterations. Before we start a release we do a release planning. It is based on high-level stories and high-level estimates. We know that we need to adapt as we go but we still spend enough effort to get a full backlog to which the team can commit. And the team is cross-functional so there are more than just developers.
At the beginning of each iteration (= 1 week) we use Agile Auction (aka Planning Poker) to confirm the estimates of the stories in the release backlog.
By monitoring how many stories are completed in each week we can track the progress of the project. We can also determine the actual velocity of the team and we gain an indication of how much of the desired scope will actually get delivered.
So estimating with cards is more about 'size' while the actual planning is more about the 'when'. Planning should also consider factors such as availability of specialists, change in size of stories if they are done in specific orders, business value of each story from a market or customer perspective, marketing value, and many more.
In summary we found that Agile Auction (aka Planning Poker) substantially helps to improve the accuracy of the estimate (still not predictions, though!), collaboration and team learning.
One question we are often asked is where to get the cards from. In the article one source is already mentioned. If you are looking for a free template to print and create the cards yourself you can also download it at no cost from www.agileutilities.com/products/AgileAuction
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Syrian warplanes flattened a building next to a hospital in Aleppo, killing at least 15 people and damaging one of the last remaining sources of medical help for civilians in the northern city, activists said Thursday.
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StormWhisper Titan Wise Men Distracted Thursday 24/08/2006, 21:32
Really.. having played both.. the Java version of the game is far superior to the Flash version, except for all the damn confirmations. Is it possible to streamline that so it's not always confirming you want to do things.
Also can you fix the message system so that it's more in line with the flash (Ie I don't have to keep erasing Go?, as opposed to sending a stupid message every time)


text: Ceide Fields +353 98 28088 email@example.com The Céide Fields, the largest Neolithic (Stone-Age) monument in the world, with field systems, dwelling areas and megalithic tombs almost 6,000 years old are located on the dramatic north Mayo coast. Covered in blanket bog, with its unique vegetation and wildlife, the area has been selectively and sensitively excavated since its discovery in the 1930′s by a local schoolteacher while cutting turf for fuel. It is the oldest known Stone Age field system in the world. Visit the multi-award winning Visitor Centre, take a guided tour and discover a buried wall yourself using a centuries old method of probing. In the centre of the building is a magnificent 4,300 year old Scots Pine tree, excavated from the fields. A viewing platform gives dramatic views of nearby sea and land. Experience the unique ecology of the bogland and look down over the edge of a 110m high cliff from our viewing platform. The Visitor Centre provides exhibits (Translations of exhibits in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch and Polish), film, & a tearoom and guided walking tours. Guided tours from the centre, lasting about an hour, tell the fascinating story of not only the history and structure of the ancient field system and its inhabitants, but also the local ecology and how it has changed over the past 5,000-plus years. Because the weather can vary widely and the terrain is uneven, visitors are advised to wear sturdy walking shoes, and have a raincoat just in case! Opening Hours: · April, May & October: Daily, 10am to 5pm · June - Sept: Daily, 10am to 6pm Admission charges: Adult - €4 Seniors - €3 Students - €2 Family - €10 ***Free admission for all on the First Wednesday of every month***. Contact: Address: Céide Fields Visitor Information Centre, Ballycastle, Co. Mayo Telephone: (096) 43325 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Website: www.heritageireland.ie


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Keselowski Keeps It Cool for Bristol Repeat
NASCAR racing has a new Ice Man.
As he completed the final lap of his victory in Sunday's Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, Brad Keseloswki needled Paul Wolfe, his crew chief.
"Paul, are you nervous?" Keselowski radioed to Wolfe, his voice exuding of confidence. As he crossed the finish line six car-lengths in front of runner-up Matt Kenseth, Keselowski allowed himself an excited whoop.
The driver of the No. 2 Penske Racing Dodge scored his second consecutive win at the .533-mile short track and the fifth of his Sprint Cup career.
Martin Truex Jr. came home third, followed by Clint Bowyer and Brian Vickers, as Michael Waltrip Racing drivers claimed positions three through five. Vickers scored the top-five in his first Cup action since his contract with Red Bull Racing ended last year.
Jeff Burton, Jamie McMurray, Juan Montoya, Jimmie Johnson and Paul Menard completed the top 10.
If Keselowski remained cool on the race track, criticism for his victory last August definitely made him hot and provided additional motivation for Sunday's victory.
In last year's August race, Wolfe picked a pit stall that would allow Keselowski to accelerate out of his pit and gain time and positions before the next timing line. To offset that advantage, NASCAR added two timing lines on each side of pit road for Sunday's race, shortening the segments between lines.
When Keselowski heard critics say he won the race because of the timing line advantage, it irked him.
"I got on Twitter, and I got kind of PO'd at some people that said I won it because of the timing line," Keselowski said. "I knew this Blue Deuce was fast enough to win the race last fall with or without timing lines. It feels so good just to prove it here in the spring race.
"This car here, this brand-new car that Penske Racing built -- everybody back at the shop did a phenomenal job. The last few races have been really good, and I knew we had a shot at winning one if we closed the deal. Matt didn't make it easy."
Keselowski and Kenseth had run away from the rest of the field and were battling for the lead when Tony Stewart's Chevrolet smacked the Turn 3 wall on Lap 478 to bring out the fifth caution of the race.
Unlike a restart earlier in the race, Keselowksi chose the outside lane for a restart on Lap 484 -- after considerable discussion with Wolfe -- and cleared Kenseth off the second corner. From there on, it was smooth sailing.
"Yeah, he screwed that up," Kenseth joked about the lane choice. "He should have started on the bottom for me. Unfortunately, he didn't. I don't know. I couldn't run on the bottom, and Brad was really strong on the bottom of [Turns] 1 and 2.
"I was thinking I could run outside of him [after the restart], but he would roll through there so fast you could never get a run on him. I think he liked the bottom of [Turns] 1 and 2, but I could never get around on the bottom of [Turns] 1 and 2, so that was the right thing to do, to start on the top and leave me on the bottom -- for him."
An early wreck wiped out several strong cars, including those of Kasey Kahne, Carl Edwards, Marcos Ambrose and Kyle Busch. Contact between the Chevrolets of Regan Smith and Kahne -- after Kahne's spotter and cousin Kole Kahne had told the driver he was clear -- sent Kahne spinning and triggered the chain-reaction.
The Chevrolets of Kevin Harvick and Smith also sustained damage. Even Keselowski's Dodge was nicked in the wreck -- but obviously not to his detriment.


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TR tops Cardinals, Centreville 2-1
It was just another day at the office for the comeback kids.
The Three Rivers volleyball team spotted Coldwater a 2-0, then took the final three games for a non conference win Monday night.
The Lady Cats dropped the first two games, 25-20, 25-22.
"We weren't ourselves in game one and two," coach Brandy Stalhood said. "We struggled passing and with serve/receive. The kids decided that enough of that, they shook it off."
Three Rivers won the third game 25-19, then dominated the third, winning 25-8.
The Lady Cats took the fifth game 15-12.
"We played better in the third and fourth game and in the fifth game we got rolling and finished strong," Stalhood said. "Pressure doesn't make us crack as a team, these kids don't point fingers thats why we can comeback in matches."
Teagan Reeves had 22 kills, 12 digs, eight blocks and five aces, Carly Nichols 10 kills, two blocks and nine digs and Morgan Roderick had nine kills, three blocks and one ace.
Hannah Landis added 11 kills, one ace, four blocks and nine digs, Kalie Cole led with 52 assists, Molly Hawkins had nine digs and Taylor Shultz recorded two aces.
Centreville 2-1
The Centreville volleyball squad hosted a quad with Howardsville Christian, Eau Claire and Athens on Monday night.
Melissa Gales' team finished with a 2-1 record on the night.
"The girls had a lot of energy tonight and it showed on the court," Gales said. "We still need to be consistent in our serve receive and learn to adjust to each server."
Centreville swept Eau Claire 25-21, 25-19 and Howardsville Christian 25-12, 25-11. The Lady Bulldogs fell to Athens 11-25 and 23-25.
Bailee May led with 21 kills, 28 digs, two blocks and six aces.
"Bailee May did an excellent job finding open spots on the court and did well at the net making other hitters make adjustments," Gales said.
Mattie Kirby had 11 kills, 20 digs and two aces, Madison Hunter added seven kills, 17 digs and handed out 18 assists.
Jenna Beeker had eight aces and nine digs, Sam Lewis had two kills, 14 digs and four aces, Annmarie Reed added two kills and three digs, Charity Yeager had nine digs and one kill while Nellie Pence had two kills.
Bronson sweeps
The Bronson junior high volleyball teams swept White Pigeon on Monday.
In eighth grade action the Lady Vikes won 25-20, 25-10, 26-24, 25-8 and 25-14.
Kiana Mayer led with 22 kills, seven aces and thee blocks while Kaitlyn Czajkowski had six kills.
Adding three kills and 17 aces was Adyson Lasky, Emma Roussey had five aces, Alyssa Hagen had four aces and five kills, Payton Robinson had nine aces and three kills while Gracie Shortridge had three aces.
The Bronson seventh grade team won 25-4, 25-12, 25-4, 25-8 and 25-7.
Jolie Smoker led with five kills and seven aces while Kiera Lasky had 22 aces, two kills and three assists.
Scyler Cary had eight aces, Leia Guernsey had seven aces, two assist and a kill, McCully Kyle had two aces and two kills, Paris Outwater had seven aces, two kills and three assists, Brianna Seekman had 10 aces and two kills, Madeline Thompson had four aces and Ashton Wronikowski had 10 aces, one kill and five assists.


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Eminem, Rihanna's Monster MTV duet
Eminem and Rihanna are to reunite at the 2014 MTV Movie Awards.
The pop stars will take to the stage to perform their chart-topping hit, The Monster, at the ceremony on April 13.
They join Ellie Goulding, Zedd and Twenty One Pilots as the previously announced musical acts on the line-up.
This would be the first time that Eminem and Rihanna will sing the track together in a live performance, but it is not their first award show collaboration. The dynamic duo previously sang their past hit, Love The Way You Lie, at the 2010 MTV Music Awards and 2011's Grammy Awards.
The 8 Mile rapper also performed a medley of We Made You/Crack A Bottle in 2009, while Rihanna's performance with Jay Z on Umbrella in 2007 was one of the most talked about moments of the ceremony.
Channing Tatum will receive the Trailblazer Award, which will be presented by his Jupiter Ascending co-star Mila Kunis, while Mark Wahlberg will be honoured with the Generation Award.
Voting for the awards categories is open at www.MovieAwards.MTV.com until April 12.
The 2014 MTV Movie Awards, which will be hosted by comedian Conan O'Brien, will air on MTV on April 14 at 9pm.


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Throughout the year, the Office of Admissions receives
notices of scholarships that are offered through external
organizations. Information about the scholarship awards
that are currently available is listed below. Award
notices are listed in the order in which they were received.
You may also find information on other outside scholarship
awards on the Internet. The following sites are useful
for finding scholarship and financial aid information:
NEW! The Darleen J. and Robert L. Walker Scholarship Fund
Application Deadline: June 21 , 2013
The Darleen J. and Robert L. Walker Scholarship Fund is accepting applications for the 2013-2014 academic year. Interested applicants must submit an online application and supply their Student Aid Report or FAFSA documentation. The Walker Scholarship Fund was established to provide assistance to law students in Illinois, Milwaukee, and St. Louis. Any student enrolled at Chicago-Kent College of Law for all or part of the 2013-2014 academic year is eligible and welcome to apply on the Walker website: www.walkerscholarship.org.
While scholarships are open to any current or incoming student, preference is given to sons and daughters of members of Masonic Lodge 1098 in Lombard, Illinois, and to former residents of the Masonic Children's Home in La Grange, Illinois. Relatives of members of other Masonic Lodges in Illinois and elsewhere will also receive strong consideration. The deadline to apply is June 21, 2013.
NEW! The Michigan Auto Law Diversity Scholarship
Application Deadline: May 1, 2013
Michigan Auto Law is pleased to announce the firm's second annual scholarship program open to students currently in their first or second year of law school. The recipient must be a member of an ethnic or racial minority or demonstrate a defined commitment to issues of diversity within their academic career. One $2,000 scholarship is awarded each year. For more information visit the Opportunities section in the Michigan Auto Law website at www.michiganautolaw.com.
NEW! ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship
Application Deadline: March 1, 2013
The ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund will award $5,000 of financial assistance annually to each scholarship recipient attending an ABA-accredited law school. An award made to an entering first-year student may be renewable for two additional years, resulting in financial assistance totaling $15,000 during his or her time in law school. Recipients will be selected based on their qualifications for the scholarship and not on the law school they plan to attend. Therefore law students applying to any and all-ABA accredited law schools may benefit from these scholarships. The application is available online at www.ambar.org/DiversityScholarship. Completed scholarship applications must be postmarked no later than March 1, 2013.
NEW! The Finnegan Diversity Scholarship
Application Deadline: February 6, 2013
The Finnegan Diversity Scholarship Program is accepting applications. The scholarship provides financial support to law students who have demonstrated a commitment to pursuing a career in IP law and enhancing diversity in the legal profession. The scholarship award of $15,000 may be applied to costs associated with normal tuition and fees (such as, but not limited to, student activity fees: law school or university fees, and administrative fees). The scholarship recipient will also accept an offer to join the firm as a 2014 Summer Associate in one of the firm's domestic offices (Atlanta, Boston, Palo Alto, Reston or Washington). Students currently completing their first year full-time (or second year part-time) are invited to apply.
The award will be applied to education costs the following academic year, and may be renewed for one additional year if the scholar accepts an associate offer upon successful completion of the Finnegan summer associate program, maintains a GPA of 3.0 or better in law school, and is otherwise in good standing. Additional information about the scholarship and application form are posted online at www.finnegan.com. The deadline for applications is February 6, 2013.
Kegler Brown's Minority Merit Scholarship
Application Deadline: January 7, 2013
The law firm of Kegler, Brown, Hill & Ritter is currently seeking applicants for its minority student merit scholarship. This spring, the firm will award up to two (2) scholarships to two deserving first year minority law students.
Each $5,000 Kegler, Brown, Hill & Ritter Minority Merit Scholarship includes a paid summer clerkship position with the firm�s first-year summer associate class. All first-year law students of minority descent are eligible to apply for the scholarship.
Scholarship application materials are due to Kegler Brown no later than January 7, 2013. Interested students should submit a resume, application, undergraduate transcripts and first semester law school transcripts (when available) to Cara M. Tammaro, Kegler Brown�s human resources manager. The application, submission details and additional information about the scholarship are available online at www.keglerbrown.com. 2013 marks the tenth year for the KeglerBrown Minority Merit Scholarship, which is awarded annually to a minority student based on academic performance, accomplishments, activities andpotential contributions to the legal community. Minority students from all law schools will be considered for the scholarship.
Illinois Judges Foundation Scholarship
Application Deadline: January 28, 2013
The Illinois Judges Foundation announces its 2013 scholarship in honor of the late Harold Sullivan. The Foundation annually awards scholarship money to one or more Illinois law students. First and second year law students at all of the Illinois law schools are eligible to apply. The 2013 application sets forth the eligibility criteria as well as what is required of the applicant. The application is due on January 28, 2013.
Asian American Bar Association for the Greater Chicago Area Law Foundation Scholarship
Application Deadline: March 1, 2013
The board members of the Asian American Bar Association for the Greater Chicago Area�Law Foundation (�AABA Law Foundation�) and members of its scholarship committee, announce the AABA Law Foundation's scholarship program.� The AABA Law Foundation�was established in February 2009, and is a non-profit, charitable and educational affiliate of Asian American Bar Association ("AABA") that is tax-exempt under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3).�
One of the goals of the AABA Law Foundation�is to�provide financial assistance to Asian Pacific American law students who have demonstrated academic excellence and social leadership.��The AABA Law Foundation will award annual scholarships to law students who have demonstrated a commitment to serving the needs of the Chicago-area Asian Pacific American community, and who will continue to serve the needs of the Chicago-area Asian Pacific American communities through pro bono, public interest, and/or public service legal work in the future.� This year, the AABA Law Foundation intends to award one scholarship of $5,000 and one scholarship of $2,500 to law students who have exemplified that commitment. Click here for the 2013 application form.
The �South Suburban Bar Association's, Henry A. Gentile Memorial Scholarship
Application Deadline: November 28, 2012
The South Suburban Bar Association has a $1,500 scholarship available to students who meet the criteria set by the South Suburban Bar Association. To apply, students must meet the following criteria: attending an accredited local law school; be a resident of the South Suburbs of Cook County and must have a present interest to practice law in the South Suburbs; and demonstrated financial need. Students interested in applying must submit a brief resume and a cover letter (200 word maximum) indicating why they want to practice on the Southside. Cover letters and resumes must be forwarded directly to South Suburban Bar Association Scholarship Committee, attn: Daniel D. Hinich, 17926 S. Halsted St., Suite 3S. Homewood, IL 60430. Interviews will be conducted on Saturday, December 1, 2012. In order to receive the scholarship award, the student must attend the South Suburban Association Installation Dinner to be held Friday, December 7, 2012.
Apply now for the College Prowler Chicago Student Scholarship
Application deadline: December 31, 2012
College Prowler has introduced a $1,000 Chicago Student Scholarship for Chicago area students. Since 2002, College Prowler has been a leading resource for assisting students in their college search as well as finding scholarships to help finance their education. With over $50,000 awarded annually in College Prowler scholarships, we could be a great, free resource for your students – especially with this new scholarship just for them.
To apply for the $1,000 Chicago Student Scholarship, students need to log in or register for a free account at CollegeProwler.com and answer why they think Chicago is a great city for students and young adults. The winner will be determined based on the quality of his or her response. The application can be found here - https://collegeprowler.com/scholarship/chicago.
Donald W. Banner Diversity Scholarship
Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. is pleased to offer the Donald W. Banner Diversity Scholarship for law students. This scholarship is part of Banner & Witcofis continuing commitment to fostering the development of intellectual property lawyers from diverse backgrounds.
The Donald W. Banner Diversity Scholarship is open to all students currently enrolled in an American Bar Association accredited law school and pursuing a career in intellectual property law. The applicant must be a member of a historically under represented group (including race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability) and must have exemplary Writing and oral communication skills. To apply, submit the scholarship application by January 7, 2013.
CustomMade.com Scholarship Opportunities
Application deadline: varies
CustomMade.com announces two new scholarships available to students. CustomMade is a marketplace that allows you to commission custom projects from over 3,000 talented, independent makers. Following are the links to the scholarships:
Custom Furniture Scholarship
Custom Jewelry Scholarship
Fredrikson & Byron Foundation Minority Scholarship
Application deadline: March 13, 2013
NerdWallet Law Scholarships
NerdWallet is a free search engine which allows students to search through over 10,000 scholarship and financial aid resources.� Interested students should check out their law school scholarships at http://www.nerdwallet.com/education/scholarships/scholarship-for-Law%20School#/scholarship-for-Law%20School.
For a complete list of the awards that have been posted
in the 2012-13 Record, click
here. Although the application deadlines for these awards
have already passed, this information can aid you in planning
for next year by assisting you in determining the time of
year that certain awards are typically offered. You
may also access a complete list of the 2011-12 scholarship
notices by clicking here.
If you have been awarded a Chicago-Kent scholarship for
the 2012-13 academic year, please refer to the Scholarship
Policies from the current Student Handbook for important
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Florida hospitals that treat the state's neediest patients say the Senate is taking the wrong approach in how it plans to pay for Medicaid services.
The Senate and the House have come up with different formulas for reimbursing hospitals under a new system called diagnosis-related groups, or DRG. This system is similar to how the federal government pays hospitals for Medicare. It pays according to services patients receive instead of the old way that was based on hospital costs and length of patient stays.
Safety net hospitals panned the Senate budget committee's proposal, and the business community has come to the Senate's defense.
Teaching hospitals such as Miami's Jackson Memorial and Tampa General would collectively lose nearly $70 million under the Senate proposal, according to a preliminary analysis by the Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida. All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg is projected to lose $7 million compared to what it currently receives.
For-profit hospital would benefit from the Senate proposal, the alliance said, to the tune of $74 million.
"Our state's teaching, public and children's hospitals are alarmed that the Senate's plan would result in such deep funding cuts to facilities that educate our next generation of doctors and provide specialized care to some of our state's sickest children," said alliance president Tony Carvalho. "The Senate's plan is starkly different from the House, which is guided by fairness and recognizes the critical importance of safety net hospitals."
Carvalho believes the House proposal is fairer.
The alliance also prefers the House's plan for distributing money to hospitals for medical residency positions.
Overall, safety net hospitals would receive $108 million more under the House plan compared to the Senate's, according to the alliance's projections. For-profit hospitals would earn $26 million less in the House plan compared to the Senate's.
A spokeswoman for Senate President Don Gaetz told the Times/Herald that the Senate was not aware of the alliance's criticism of its DRG proposal. The Senate is still finalizing it's official hospital-by-hospital report of how funding will be distributed.
Associated Industries of Florida President Tom Feeney came to the support of the Senate plan, saying it helps end disparities between hospitals.
"Contrary to what some naysayers are saying, the for-profit hospitals have taken severe cuts over the last three years in the tens of millions of dollars, while tax district hospitals have taken little to no cuts as they have bought back their rates by utilizing taxpayer dollars," Feeney said via a press release. "... We strongly support the Senate plan that rewards efficiency – why should taxpayers have to pay more for a procedure at one hospital than another?"


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An Army Corps of Engineers official said a critical study of the proposed deepening of Charleston Harbor remains on track but that it could be affected by federal budget cuts.
Lt. Col. Ed Chamberlayne told the State Ports Authority's board of directors today that agency employees could see their work weeks cut to four days from five starting the week of April 22 under the so-called sequestration cutbacks.
The Army Corps' feasibility report is one of the first steps in the lengthy process of dredging the local shipping channel to 50 feet from 45.
The draft of the report should be completed by the summer of 2014, and a final version is expected to be submitted to Congress in summer 2015.
Chamberlayne and U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham were updating the SPA board today on the dredging project.
The deepening is scheduled to be completed by 2020 and cost an estimated $300 million, which will be shared by the state and federal governments.
Several ports along the East and Gulf coasts are jockeying for federal dollars to deepen their shipping channels to accommodate larger ships once the Panama Canal is expanded in 2015.
The S.C. General Assembly already set aside $300 million for the project, in case the federal government doesn't add its share.


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McHale passes on soccer replay
Houston Rockets coach Kevin McHale doesn't look like a prospective member of the Timbers Army.
Just 22 minutes before the Rockets' 123-120 overtime loss to the Trail Blazers on Sunday, McHale walked into the media room and saw a replay of the Portland Timbers-Houston Dynamo match on the television.
I cant believe you guys are watching soccer in here, McHale said, laughing and shaking his head. Soccer?
Both the Rockets and Blazers seemed to have their issues with the referees throughout Game 4 of their NBA first-round playoff series. On practically every call that went against them, that team spent a good chunk of time discussing and/or whining about the decision.
By the end of the night, though, the calls looked fairly even on the stat sheet. The Rockets had 27 fouls, the Blazers 24. Houston shot 38 free throws, Portland 30. Each teams got two technical fouls (Terrence Jones and Dwight Howard for the Rockets; Wesley Matthews and Mo Williams for the Blazers).
Toward the end of the third quarter, the Moda Center faithful became so disgusted, though, that they began a chant of These refs suck."
Houston point guard Patrick Beverley, however, said the referees have not had an impact on the best-of-seven Western Conference series which Portland leads 3-1 and he defended both the officials and the job they have done.
The refs are doing a great job, Beverley said. Their job is not easy. Theyre making the best calls they see.
Rockets small forward Chandler Parsons had a good night and a solid start in Game 4. Parsons finished with 26 points, after being held to 15 in both Games 2 and 3. He was 11 of 17 from the field on Sunday and made 4 of his 5 shots from 3-point range.
"I have to continue to stay aggressive. I cant sit back," he said. "I have to be a part of the offense, especially when I have it going like that.
Houston reserve guard Troy Daniels continued to have an impact on the series.
After not playing in the first two games, Daniels who was in the NBA Development League less than three weeks ago gave the Rockets the Game 3-win when he hit a 3-pointer with 11.8 seconds left in overtime.
On Sunday, Daniels went 4 of 5 from beyond the arc and finished with 17 points.
Confidence is building, Daniels said. Its my job to make shots, and my number got called again. I was able to go out there and help my teammates.


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I have an arduino board being powered through the USB port, that periodically streams data through the usb-serial connection to the olpc. The olpc however cuts the USB power after several minutes, I guess for power saving reasons, until I press a key etc. to wake it up again.
Where can I adjust the corresponding setting, so the USB port does keep powering the arduino?
Can anyone give a hint?