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ACP - Association of Contingency PlannersCreated on: Tuesday, 05 June 2012ACP is the premier organization for business continuity professionals providing a powerful networking and learning environment for its members. Known for its progressive programs, workshops and symposiums, the organization has become a unifying force in defining and leading the continuously evolving fields of business continuity, disaster recovery, and emergency response (the "profession"). The Organization is strategically aligned with...0 Discussion0 Wall Post
BCI Canada Chapter and ForumsCreated on: Sunday, 14 July 2013With active members across Canada and various regional forums, the BCI Canada Chapter is your local voice for all things related to the Business Continuity (BC) profession and discipline. To learn more about a Canadian member's forum near you go to http://www.thebci.org/index.php/home/canada-chapter-home The Business Continuity Institute (BCI) is the world's leading institute for business continuity. Established in 1994, the BCI has...
Business & Industry Council for Emergency Planning & PreparednessCreated on: Thursday, 12 May 2011BICEPP was established as a private sector, self- help association funded by annual sponsorship donations. BICEPP later evolved into a non-profit corporation, lead by an Executive Committee and a Board of Directors. The goal remains the same: To provide a forum for information exchange to enhance emergency preparedness and contingency planning within the business community. The first priority was to establish a central location where...0 Discussion0 Wall Post
Business Continuity Planners AssociationCreated on: Thursday, 12 May 2011Since 1994, the Business Continuity Planners Association (BCPA), based in Minneapolis-St. Paul, has supported business professionals with a non-profit, mutual benefit association for those participating in business recovery, crisis management, emergency management, contingency planning, disaster preparedness planning, or a related professional vocation.0 Discussion0 Wall Post
Business Continuity softwareCreated on: Sunday, 31 October 2010Discuss and share experience regarding software tools used for supporting BCM life-cycle0 Discussion0 Wall Post
Business Recovery Managers Association (BRMA)Created on: Thursday, 12 May 2011BRMA is a non-profit association founded in 1993. Activities of the association are directed by the elected officers to help the members stay informed about trends in the business continuity profession. The San Francisco Bay Area is home to most BRMA members, but we do have a small number of members in other areas of the world.1 Discussions0 Wall Post
Business Recovery Planners Association of SE WisconsinCreated on: Thursday, 12 May 2011The Business Recovery Planners Association of Southeastern Wisconsin (BRPASW) is an organization for professionals with interest in disaster recovery, business continuity, contingency planning, emergency management, or related fields. BRPASW provides benefits to its members and acts as a resource to organizations and communities. BRPASW does this by offering educational presentations, sharing information and real life experiences, promoting...0 Discussion0 Wall Post
Business Resumption Planners Association of ChicagoCreated on: Thursday, 12 May 2011Established in 1989, the Business Resumption Planners Association (BRPA) is an independent professional association of people employed in all aspects of disaster recovery, contingency and business continuity planning. Located in the greater Chicago area, we are a not-for-profit association dedicated to education and information exchange. Membership is open to all professionals interested in contingency planning, disaster recovery, crisis...
Business Resumption Planners AssoicationCreated on: Tuesday, 14 December 2010Established in 1989, the Business Resumption Planners Association (BRPA) is an independent professional association of people employed in all aspects of disaster recovery, contingency and business continuity planning. Located in the greater Chicago area, we are a not-for-profit association dedicated to education and information exchange.
Contingency Planners of OhioCreated on: Thursday, 12 May 2011Contingency Planners of OHIO (CPO) is a not-for-profit association with a focus on continuity of operations, disaster recovery, information security, and resiliency. We share our knowledge and experiences to proactively prepare for interruptions that affect our corporations, customers, and communities. CPO has been in existence since 1986.0 Discussion1 Wall Posts
Contingency Planning Association of the CarolinasCreated on: Thursday, 12 May 2011The Contingency Planning Association of the Carolinas (CPAC) is a professional peer group, which shares information, education and resources in contingency planning in North and South Carolina. CPAC supports proactive preparation for the resumption of business in the event of a unplanned interruption that adversely affects the operation of the organization is a direct benefit of CPAC meetings and activities.
Great Lakes Business Recovery GroupCreated on: Thursday, 12 May 2011Great Lakes Business Recovery Group (GLBRG) is a non-profit association of Midwestern area individuals responsible for contingency, business continuity, emergency, and disaster recovery planning. GLBRG provides members an excellent information exchange experience and alliances with public and private partners.
Great Plains Contingency PlannersCreated on: Thursday, 12 May 2011The Great Plains Contingency Planners, Inc. was created in 1992 by a group of local area corporate and public professionals dedicated to enhancing the business continuity and disaster recovery planning process. GPCP is a non-profit organization incorporated in the state of Nebraska. We encourage anyone with an interest in business continuity/disaster recovery planning to join our organization.
Iowa Contingency PlannersCreated on: Thursday, 12 May 2011Who we are . . . The Iowa Contingency Planners is an association of Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Emergency Management professionals from both the public and private sectors. What we do . . . Our mission is to provide business continuity, disaster recovery and emergency management related educational and networking opportunities and to provide these opportunities in a professional setting at a reasonable cost to our members.
Kentuckiana Contingency Planners GroupCreated on: Thursday, 12 May 2011Kentuckiana Contingency Planners (KCP) is a group of business continuity, emergency management, IT professionals and supporting vendors, from government, independent business and non-profit sectors. KCP's mission is to advance the professionalism of its members and to educate and support each other in our efforts to protect our organizations and communities from disruptions caused by adverse events.
Mid-Atlantic Disaster Recovery AssociationCreated on: Thursday, 12 May 2011MADRA was formed to foster communications among individuals, groups and the community working in the areas of Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Continuity Of Operations Planning (COOP) and Disaster Recovery (DR) Planning. By BCP, COOP and DR, we mean those disciplines required to recover an organization which has suffered a catastrophic event, seriously impairing its ability to perform its normal operations. In a simple word, "a disaster."0 Discussion0 Wall Post
MidAmerica Contingency Planning Forum (MCPF)Created on: Wednesday, 09 March 2011Please visit our website at https://mcpf.us/ The FORUM established to facilitate the exchange and dissemination of information regarding all aspects of contingency planning in both the private and public sectors, including business interruption avoidance, business resumption planning, contingency operations, and disaster recovery planning.2 Discussions1 Wall Posts
Midwest Contingency PlannersCreated on: Thursday, 12 May 2011Midwest Contingency Planners, Inc. (MCP) was founded and established by Samuel J. Brummett, CBCP, on July 26, 1993. It is incorprorated in the state of Indiana as an independent not for profit corporation. The organization serves as a forum for business professionals working in the areas of business continuity, business resumption, contingency planning, disaster recovery and other related emergency recovery functions. Membership in MCP...0 Discussion0 Wall Post


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We can offer individual solutions or deliver partial or complete packages. These may include planning, forecasting and carrying out water management projects. We can provide everything from expert technical studies to comprehensive ground water management and even well-researched projections of environmental impacts. In so doing we use not only geochemical reaction models but also special numerical models to simulate water flows. These can be linked with the more conventional models used in assessing ground and surface water.
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If one restarts MathLM on a Linux server, will that restart mathkernel as well? In other words, will restarting MathLM affect the current jobs running that use MathKernels?
I found that yes, it does affect the current jobs. One has to restart the jobs. The jobs just lose "connection" with the license manager. One would expect it to run as an independent process and get finished despite losing the communication with license manager. However, MathKernel does not execute the jobs and neither does it throw an error. Finally, the processes need to be killed.


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I have not made any improvements to my property since the last reval. Why does my house have to be inspected?
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BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – It's here; iPhone 4 on the Verizon Wireless network makes its debut for the general population this week. Beginning at 6:00am Topeka time on Thursday, February 10th, iPhone 4 will be available at more than 2,000 Verizon Wireless Communications Stores nationwide and Apple's retail stores.
"We know people across America have been waiting for the day when they can experience iPhone 4 on the nation's most reliable network," said Dan Mead, chief executive officer for Verizon Wireless. "Our store employees nationwide are poised and ready to help customers purchase their iPhone 4s and get them activated as quickly as possible."
iPhone 4 is available for a suggested retail price of $199.99 for the 16 GB model and $299.99 for the 32 GB model with a new two-year customer agreement. To enjoy all the features of their new iPhone 4s, customers can subscribe to a Nationwide Talk plan (beginning at $39.99 for 450 minutes) or a Nationwide Talk and Text plan (beginning at $59.99 for 450 minutes and includes unlimited text, picture and video messaging), as well as an unlimited Email and Web data plan for $29.99 per month.
Customers will also enjoy the new Personal Hotspot capability paired with a 3G Mobile Hotspot plan to use iPhone 4 to connect up to five Wi-Fi-enabled devices. The 3G Mobile Hotspot plan is $20 per month for 2 GB.
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Wireless users who want to move their mobile numbers to the nation's most reliable network can take advantage of the Verizon Wireless Trade-In Program and receive value for their used phones. For example, a wireless user could trade in a smartphone in good condition and receive a Verizon Wireless gift card worth more than $200.
The Verizon Wireless gift card will arrive within two weeks of receipt of the smartphone and can be used online at www.verizonwireless.com
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For more information about iPhone 4 on the nation's most reliable network, visit www.verizonwireless.com/iphone


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I have been told that Wishes work differently in Commander than in normal casual Free-For-All (FFA) mtg. Do the comprehensive rules cover how wishes work in Commander? Do the rules for wishes differ from normal FFA multiplayer?
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Wishes are non-functional in Commander, unless your group specifically allows them and defines where they work.
The comp rules define the basics of the format but mostly point you to mtgcommander.net for the up-to-date official definition. Per mtgcommander.net,
Basically the Rules Committee's reasoning was that using wishes in their original, casual-play way (searching your entire collection) wastes too much time in play1. So they used to restrict you to searching your sideboard, which is how wishes work in competitive MTG. However, Commander's sideboards are "optional" and Sheldon has generally come out against them, so the default is that wish cards don't work at all.
Sideboards still have to follow all the normal deck-construction limitations, like in any other format; for Commander, this means you can't have break the one-of restriction or violate color identity just because a card is in the sideboard. Thus, if you group agrees to play with wishboards, you'll still be limited to your commander's color identity.
(Note also that the official sideboard size is 10 cards, not 15 like 60-card constructed.)
1 – Which is also why Shahrazad was finally banned after some time as the only Vintage-banned card legal in Commander.
I have done a search for all Commander references in the CompRules and have found nothing specific. There are several points to consider when determining this question in particular:


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The DNS configuration on my website is periodically dropping visitors and I have no idea why.
Most of my website's visitors are seeing it fine, but in the last weeks more and more visitors report that the website isn't loading for them, like the website is down.
My website is
www.2mp3.co.il which points to
ns1.hosty.co.il and
ns2.hosty.co.il (that I've pointed to 22.214.171.124 and 188.8.131.52, and additionally configured it to itself as
My server is working with DirectAdmin and centOS - in the DA the NS records for the hosty.co.il domain points to ns1/2.worldstream.nl
What could the problem be?


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i am considering buying the XPS 13 developer edition, but i need a program a program there is only available on windows. So i wanna hear if anyone knows if it's possbile to install windows along side ubuntu on it, now when it comes pre isntalled with ubuntu?
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text: Here is a classic char character from the Star Wars films and stories. I can't tell you how many times I was asked to make a simple tutorial on "how to draw Boba Fett", step by step. Boba Fett has got to be one of the more popular characters from the Star Wars series even though he isn't seen as much as other villains like Darth Vader or Jabba the Hutt. This lesson is going to be supper simple because I made sure that it was created that way. If you have any other requests for some of your favorite figures from Star Wars, just let me know and I will be sure to make tuts on them. Have fun people and remember to keep those pencils moving.


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25 Oct 2012 7:58 AM #1
Answered: Best app sample for MVC architecture ?
Hi !
I want to use the MVC structure. I've seen good tutorials out there (on Sencha websites among others), but I'd like to see the whole picture within a project. What existing sample (in Sencha Touch 2 samples or somewhere else) would you recommend me as a good start ? With a store, model, controllers, views, etc...
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I used the following tutorial to learn the basics:
This tutorial consists of 5 parts.
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28 Oct 2012 12:08 PM #3
I was thinking about a small one with almost nothing in it. In the existing samples maybe. Or if anyone has a good complete tutorial (with quite some code samples), I'm interested.
28 Oct 2012 1:40 PM #4
sample app
Hey, i believe this is a really good example http://miamicoder.com/2012/how-to-cr...-2-app-part-1/
28 Oct 2012 10:35 PM #5
1. download ST2.
2. decompress the zip file you have downloaded.
3. go folder '/where_you_decompress/examples'I write English by translator.
29 Oct 2012 2:41 AM #6
I already know where the samples are located, thanks. All I want to know is which one would be a good one to rely on for MVC architecture reference. A kind of "best practices".
29 Oct 2012 3:46 AM #7
I used the following tutorial to learn the basics:
This tutorial consists of 5 parts.


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The Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at Columbia Law School devoted its fourth annual symposium to analyzing the issue of secondary liability in intellectual property law—a particularly timely topic in light of the $1 billion copyright infringement suit Viacom filed against Google.
The conference featured both academics and professionals who discussed the evolution of secondary liability in copyright, the merits and flaws of Section 512 of U.S. copyright law, and the legal and practical implications of filtering infringing content.
A highlight of the event came when keynote speaker Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals discussed his dissent in Perfect 10 v. Visa, a case involving the credit card company's facilitation of payment for pirated online pornography. Kozinski noted that the law should not be afraid of technology. Instead, he said, the two should operate together.


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A jury has awarded $1.6 million to a man who sustained a severe head injury when a Lansing-area police officer crashed into his vehicle.
The Ingham County Circuit Court jury in Mason reached the verdict Tuesday in a suit that Carl Mennare brought against the Lansing Township police Department.
The Lansing State Journal (http://on.lsj.com/QFOl6Y ) says Mennare was driving down a street in march 2009 when Officer Brett Ramsden pulled his police cruiser out of the driveway of his home.
Mennare lawyer Larry Nolan says his client sustained a permanent traumatic brain injury and lost his job. The ruling followed a five-day trial before Judge William Collette.
The Associated Press left a phone message after business hours Tuesday seeking comment.
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April 27, 2010
Contacts: Oliver Bernstein, Sierra Club, 512-477-2152
Dianne Bady, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, 304-360-2072
Cindy Rank, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, 304-924-5802
Judy Bonds, Coal River Mountain Watch, 304-854-2182
Massey Energy Faces Legal Challenge for Clean Water Act Violations
Over 3,000 Days of Permit Violations in 21 Months Reflect Pattern of Illegal Pollution
Charleston, WV -- The Sierra Club, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Coal River Mountain Watch, and the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy took legal action today with representation from Earthjustice to hold five coal companies -- all subsidiaries of Massey Energy -- accountable for thousands of violations of the Clean Water Act and surface mining laws associated with the mining operations of its subsidiaries in West Virginia.
"Massey puts profits before people in communities," said Judy Bonds of Coal River Mountain Watch. "Massey is an outlaw company that continues to show contempt for the people of Appalachia."
The groups are pursuing Massey (America's fourth largest coal company) and its subsidiaries in court in the Southern District of West Virginia for allegedly violating permit limits by dumping toxic aluminum into waterways from as many as 16 mines covered by seven Clean Water Act permits in West Virginia. Very high aluminum levels can be toxic to fish and other aquatic life and have been linked to bone and brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, and studies show that high aluminum levels pose high risks for people living with kidney disease.
The Massey subsidiaries involved are the Elk Run Coal Company, Independence Coal Company, Marfork Coal Company, Peerless Eagle Coal Company, and Power Mountain Coal Company. Some of the mines are also violating permit limits for other pollutants including iron, pH, and suspended solids. In total, these mines racked up approximately 3,300 days of permit violations in the period from April 2008 through December 2009. All of these violations appear to be ongoing.
"Massey's water violations seem as widespread as their safety violations," said Dianne Bady, Co-Director of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition in Huntington, West Virginia. "This lawsuit is a part of our larger efforts to protect human health in the coalfields."
In January 2008, Massey agreed to pay $20 million in penalties to settle claims brought by the federal government over pollution from its coal mines in West Virginia and Kentucky. The government had identified over 60,000 days of violation during the period from January of 2000 through March of 2006.
"It's high time Massey started paying the costs of its coal operations," said Jim Sconyers, Chair of the Sierra Club's West Virginia Chapter. "Our streams and communities are sick of having Massey pass the costs of coal mining on as toxic pollution."
"It appears even previous large fines have done little to deter Massey from its ongoing reprehensible violations of the Clean Water Act," said Cindy Rank of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy. "If it weren't so outrageous we all could sit back and let the children of tomorrow deal with the problems and live with the polluted waters that this company will leave in its wake. But it is outrageous and illegal to boot."
A copy of the filing can be found here.


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The growth of information centric businesses has put a lot of pressure on Datacenter, which happens to be the nerve center or some even call it as production floors of these businesses. Increasing efforts to meet customer expectations have made these Datacenters as one of the most strategically important business units.
Datacenter is about managing People, Resource and Environment. Datacenter managers need to make informed decisions, as today's Datacenters are hyper-connected and are equipped with devices that are interdependent to each other. This raises a need for holistic management of entire Datacenter without having any silos between IT and Facilities infrastructure that keeps the Datacenter available all the time.
DCIM allows enterprises to monitor and manage all critical infrastructures (IT and Facilities) from a central location. This ensures that Datacenter teams have a comprehensive visibility into various modules within the datacenter, adding a business context to run these Datacenters efficiently while managing the costs and ensuring the skills of people are effectively utilized.
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6 Elaborate Forms of Suicide Passed Off as Extreme Sports
#3. Game Fishing + Wrestling = Noodling
Deep in America's heartland, intrepid fishermen are wrastling catfish to a standstill using their bare hands. And lest you think that they're merely fish tickling, know that A) these catfish can weigh upwards of 60-pounds, and B) these fishermen are using their hands... as bait. Welcome to the wacky world of "catfisting" or (as it's more widely and less disgustingly known) "noodling."
Noodling is simple in theory and terrifying in practice. The noodler dives underwater to a flathead catfish hole and rams his fist inside. The catfish, understandably upset that a hillbilly is trying to punch him in the face, instinctively swallows the noodler's meaty paw. At this point, the noodler hooks his hand through the fish's gills and lugs the leviathan to the surface.
Naturally, allowing yourself to be eaten by a pissed-off catfish does have its dangers. Here's a clip of some real-life noodling - skip ahead to 2:30 to see what the fish did to these good ol' boys' forearms:
Your mother's advice applies in noodling as it does in life: Poking your appendages around strange holes isn't great for your health. Vacant catfish holes can house snakes, snapping turtles and even the occasional alligator. Also, flatheads are tenacious fighters and have drowned even the most precautious noodlers.
On the list of the embarrassing ways to kick it, "death by catfish" falls somewhere between "autoerotic asphyxiation" and "moonshine enema."
#2. Tightrope + Trampolining = Slacklining
Slacklining is the art of walking along a dynamic (i.e. dangerously unstable) length of one inch-wide nylon webbing. Unlike a tightrope--which remains relatively static when you walk across it--the slackline will buck and bounce under your weight. In other words, it's as if your tightrope has become sentient and is revolting against its human oppressors.
"DON'T TREAD ON ME." - Slackline
Slacklining has the dubious distinction of a sport that's dangerous at all heights. There's low altitude tricklining, in which practitioners risk their noses and dignity backflipping on the slackline. And then there's highlining, which resembles rodeo-riding a giant millipede at 3,000 feet:
For those readers thinking about giving the highline a whirl, may we suggest instead jumping off your roof wearing moon shoes? It'll save you years of practice, and the outcome will be the same.
"Don't jump of your roof wearing moon shoes." - Our lawyer
#1. Human Cannon + The Middle Ages = Human Trebuchet
We fully anticipate that some luminary in the comments section will opine, "WTF mehz. the middel ages isn't an extream sprut." To that faceless interlocutor we preemptively say, "Touche. You got us good."
To the rest of you, enjoy this video of a man joyriding a medieval siege weapon:
Human trebuchet launching was pioneered by David "Captain" Kirke, founder of the aptly named Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club (DSC). Kirke was also the first man to ever attempt a modern bungee jump, thereby demonstrating that either A) he has a predilection for death-defying stunts, or B) the man has a vendetta against the laws of gravity for sleeping with his wife.
From the looks of things, the sole goal of human trebuchet appears to be "land in the safety net," which is easier said than done. Since its creation, the trebuchet has fractured a user's pelvis and was finally put out of commission in 2002, when a miscalculation killed an Oxford student.
So remember, if your friends try to peer pressure into using 12th century counterweight anti-fortress engines, they're not your real friends.
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Chartering success The Children's Community School in Waterbury is a small-scale success story — just 150 students in grades K-5 attend classes there — that soon might get the attention it deserves. The Wolcott Street school's management hopes to convert it into a charter school serving grades K-8, possibly in the former St. Lucy's parochial school now owned by the Police Activity League. The Children's Community School, which would become Waterbury's first charter school since the Ancestors high school failed in 2001, emphasizes parental and community involvement. Serving an urban, mainly minority student body for less than $7,000 per pupil, it produces students who "have excelled at every level," Mayor Neil M. O'Leary said. Charter-school status for this institution not only would be good for the children who would be able to attend, but would increase exposure of a teaching model that other private and public schools would do well to follow.
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The situation goes like so: big deadline one month from now. So I make some plan. But it gets too easy to procrastinate early on, to put one thing off, to allow a distraction here & there.
How can I really tackle it gradually>?
The situation goes like so: big deadline one month from now. So I make some plan. But it gets too easy to procrastinate early on, to put one thing off, to allow a distraction here & there.
How can I really tackle it gradually>?
A couple ways I would do it:
1 way is to set intermediate deadlines. So in 1 week, you need to be 25% done, and in 2 weeks you need to be 50% done. You set the milestones depending on what kind of project is. So if it's a research paper, by week 1 you need to have the outline done. By week 2, you need to have a rough draft done, etc. When the first week comes around, you can evaluate what needs to be done in the coming weeks. To make it more interesting, you could make it a competition with colleagues who are working on the same project.
Another way is to just intensively focus 100% of your energy/available time as soon as you can, and try to finish as quickly as possible. This is something I realized in college. If I'm going to procrastinate and kill myself 3 days before it's due to try to finish it in the last minute; why not do the same thing in the beginning when it's first assigned? There's a few benefits from this:
I am trying to adapt this method described here. Simple idea, do something every day, don't break the chain, all the way until the project is due.
If the weeks are uneventful - then I try and solve the problem by doing the work for the deadline in the uneventful weeks before it arrives - that way you are never really working up against (and worrying about) a deadline because you already did everything, for me that's what good time management is all about.
(obviously doesn't apply quite as well if the deadline is, for example, a big event you are putting on)
I have a checklist of things that I want to get done for the day and I find there is something psychologically pleasing about checking the items off a list. You want to do the item just so you can get to check it off. If I have something that doesn't need to be done for a long time I will stack my items so that I cannot fail to complete the task of the day. Like if I have to write a report, my task for the day will be 'Write one sentence in the report'. It is so simple that you cannot fail to do it. Even if you stumble in the door drunk at some ungodly hour, you still have to write one sentence. What I find actually happens is that most days my one sentence turns into many more and the report is completed well before the deadline. The best part is that it never fells forced, the maximum I ever had to force myself to do was one sentence. If I really don't want to write more, just leaving it at the one sentence is fine. If you find that you never fall into writing more than one sentence, you really should question why you're doing the report in the first place. If you really hate it so much it might be time to get a different job or study something else.
Another technique I like to use is where I'll say that if I don't get my task done for the day I have to donate money to a charity that I don't agree with. This is a much more powerful motivator as I don't want to lose the money, and I really don't want to end up supporting those guys. http://www.stickk.com is a nice website that provides a framework for this kind of thing. Interestingly I also find that making it about giving money away is much more powerful than making it about buying yourself a treat. The only downside of this is that you end up feeling quite forced to do something against your will, and this can be quite zapping. It is almost as though you only have a finite amount of 'will' that you can use to force yourself into completing tasks you don't want to, and once this is used up it is extremely hard to focus. I'd try the first suggestion of a minimum daily effort before the more elaborate and forced options.
This would be a good time to review Covey's Four Quadrants:
Seems you are in the sweet spot of Q2 and it could be helpful to understand what that means and why it's good, so perhaps you could do it more often.
In case you're into the concept of commitment devices...
The deadline itself is a commitment device but, as you've noticed, it doesn't commit you to making steady progress throughout the month. If you're a procrastinator by nature then you'll end up pulling all-nighters as the deadline nears. The idea of Beeminder is to turn a long-term commitment like the deadline in a month into a daily commitment: stay on this yellow brick road every day. Here's an example with weight loss but most Beeminder goals are actually for doing more of something, like spending time on a work project:


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Parents have been inventing stories about monsters to scare their children into obedience for centuries. It make sense, short of being held at gunpoint, a bloodthirsty demon is just about the only thing that's going to convince a six-year-old to brush his teeth and go to bed before midnight.
Some cultures, however, took this idea a bit too far and invented creatures that would make any grown man shit his pants. Like...
#7. The Australian Furry Frog Tentacle Demon
We all know that Australia is home to the vast majority of Earth's deadliest creatures. Seriously, it's like the headquarters for the Justice League of Poisonous Animals. Even the goddamn snails can kill you. Had most of us lived here before Steve Irwin tamed the fuck out of it, we would have been petrified to even look out the window for fear of some horrible cyanide butterfly gunning right for our eyeballs.
He's got a black belt, too. And a knife.
Not so for indigenous Aboriginal children. After growing up in the nightmare kingdom that is the Land Down Under, these kids had such big-ass balls of steel that their parents had to invent something utterly insane just to keep them from wandering off into the outback. Enter the Yara-ma-yha-who, a child-sized, frog-man covered in red fur with octopus arms and a gaping, toothless mouth.
This Seussian demon lived in the branches of fig trees--presumably because that's the last place anyone would expect to see it--and would swoop down on unsuspecting children, using its sucker-laden arms to drain their blood until they were too weak to move. For reasons the legend chooses not to explain, the creature would then leave for a while, possibly to help a friend move a desk.
Before the poor kid can recuperate and run home, though, the monster would return and swallow them whole, puking them back up as a shorter version of themselves covered in red hair.
This is a fate worse than death.
The idea is that bad children or ones that ran away too often would be caught by the Yara-ma-yha-who over and over again until they eventually turned into a little, red, fig tree haunting monster themselves. For some reason this is viewed as worse than staying at home and growing up to land a job in the paint department of the Brisbane Home Depot.
#6. Namahage (a.k.a. Japanese Home Invasion Demons)
Most parents find that terrifying stories are usually enough to keep their kids in line.
"Now remember to eat all your peas, Jessica, or else Rumpelstiltskin will come steal your fallopian tubes under the next full moon."
But some Japanese villages really get into the spirit of childhood trauma and take boogeymannery to a whole new level with the Namahage festival.
On the night of December 31 (while the western world gets drunk off its ass without any productive purpose), a band of adult volunteers--parents, teachers, clowns, whoever may be craving the sweet taste of a child's fear--dress themselves as shaggy, knife-wielding ogres and visit families door to door. It's sort of like grown-up trick-or-treating, except instead of yelling "trick or treat!" they're threatening the lives of little kids for all their disobedience over the past year.
"I heard there's a little boy here who doesn't like to brush his teeth!"
Anything goes, really, so long as it strikes terror into gullible little hearts. During each visit, parents get to gleefully play along as far as they're willing to go, stopping the devils just short of dragging the kids away by mercifully promising (wink, wink) that the kids will behave themselves and offering the monsters free alcohol instead (so it is like trick-or-treating, only child endangerment is the point).
We like to think that the worst kids are visited later in the night, since by that point there stands an increasingly greater chance of them being vomited and/or urinated upon. If that doesn't squeeze a solid year of angelic behavior out of the snot-nosed punks, we don't know what will.
#5. Cuco the Child Eater
Most famous in Hispanic countries, the Cuco is a mysterious being name-dropped in various traditional lullabies as a horrible, unknowable whatsit with an appetite for the restless. A Latino version of "Rock-a-Bye Baby," for instance, can be translated as "sleep little child, sleep now, or the Cuco will come and eat you." You know, because nothing soothes a baby like threats of cannibalistic murder.
Better than a glass of warm milk.
Though best known for his appearance in lullabies, El Cuco's usefulness is really only limited by a parent's sadism. You're already threatening your child to sleep using a hideous monster, so why stop there? Kid won't eat? Send in the Cuco. Flunked a math test? It's Cuco time. We're betting the Cuco is also a prominent figure in discouraging teenage pregnancy.
"Remember C.J., if you get Becky pregnant, the Cuco will tear your penis out through your asshole."
By the time you kick them out at 30, you'll have molded yourself a successful, productive, serial killing member of society. And really, that's what parenting is all about.
#4. Black Annis, Baba Yaga and Other Creepy Old People
Few things made us more uncomfortable as children than being introduced to old people. They offered us candy and jokes left over from Reconstruction, and their houses smelled like outlawed insulation materials. Twist these unsettling undertones into the most godawful horror stories imaginable and you have the perfect boogeymen, because getting gummed to death is the slowest and most nauseating fate we can imagine.
Really, anything involving this face is more than we care to think about.
In England they have Black Annis, who lived in a cave dug out with her own iron claws and wore the tanned hides of naughty children as a goddamn skirt. The Slavic Baba Yaga lived in a dancing chicken-leg hut and rode a magic cauldron when she ventured out to go hunting for kids. There was also that cookie-house witch from Germany's Hanzel and Gretel, though she might not really count since she got her ass kicked into a fucking oven (the last thing we want to do here is empower little children).
All of these monsters have two things in common: they're ugly, old, women and they love the sweet taste of child flesh. Evidently the inventors of these stories were looking for an ironclad way to avoid having their kids come bugging them for money later in life, and we have to admit the "cannibal granny" seems like a pretty solid deterrent.
"I just need a couple of bucks to make it to next month. I'd ask Mom but, you know, she might eat me."


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Some "Under the Hood" star power has made its way to the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green.
The exhibit "Country Music Stars and Cars" opened Tuesday. It features 11 different Chevy vehicles owned by various country music celebrities like Tim McGraw and Brad Paisley.
It was all brought to the museum thanks to a founding members country connections.
"A founding member of the Corvette Museum is Lon Helton and those who listen to country music probably hear him on the "Country Music USA Countdown." Lon has been a great friend to work on this. He has a lot of connections within the country music industry," says Marketing and Communications Manager Katie Frassinelli.
The museum plans to build a small stage at the exhibit so up and coming country bands can play music for tips.
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I have thought a bit about procrastination. My conclusion is that I believe there are evolutionary reasons for this phenomenon. My thinking is that a small society will be more efficient if the people there procrastinate if they are set to do a task for which they are poorly qualified or unmotivated. This means that others, who are more motivated or better qualified will do the task instead and the person who procrastinated, will do things which he/she will be more efficient at.
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I've reserved seats for Carolina Homeschooler members for the Freedom Train play at several locations in February.
Freedom Train tells the story of Harriet Tubman, the Moses of her people, in a series of highly theatrical scenes that use dance, dialogue, and music of the period. Songs include "Follow the Drinking Gourd," "Steal Away," "Wade in the Water," "Good News, the Chariot's A-comin'," and many others still sung today. It's the story of self-sacrifice, dedication, and survival, laced with warmth and a sense of humor that celebrates the human spirit.
This play lasts approximately one hour and is most appropriate for grades 2-8. Younger and older students are also welcome to attend. However, parents of younger children are asked to remove children from the auditorium if they become disruptive during the performance.
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Reading Canonical Design's post 4 months ago made me really intrigued using 11.04.. yet, we're already in Beta 1, feature freeze and all, and no fonts.
Is this still due to be implemented in this version?
Reading Canonical Design's post 4 months ago made me really intrigued using 11.04.. yet, we're already in Beta 1, feature freeze and all, and no fonts.
Is this still due to be implemented in this version?
The only expansions of the fonts have been ready to go in for the Ubuntu 11.04 release are Light (+Italic) and Medium (+Italic). It is unlikely that any of the other expansions will make the release. Remember that Ubuntu the operation system uses time-based releases, but Ubuntu the font family uses quality-based releases. Yet like (in theory) all of the other components in Ubuntu, it is about taking the best that is available at the time of the freeze and polishing that.
Proportional Light and Medium (four fonts) work fine on MS Windows, Mac OS X and via Google Webfonts we have an issue that somewhere, probably in FontConfig/Qt is not parsing the weight of Medium correctly on Ubuntu. Medium is between is between Regular and Bold, and Light is lighter than all of the rest.
The Ubuntu Monospace consists of a further four fonts. There are currently blocked on deciding whether they should be the same height as the proportional fonts:
The Semitic fonts (Arabic/Hebrew) are expansions of the main four fonts (not be separate
Although the Semitic fonts were originally scheduled/hoped to come out at the same time, it's possible that the Arabic additions may be earlier if they end up being ready first.
One of the hardest part is knowing who can provide feedback on a given script/language. One of the most useful things you could do is assemble a contact list of people who have the skills to test the fonts and are definitely willing to give feedback (positive or negative) after doing so to improve the final result.
It would be useful up to the mailing list or beta team so that it's easy to keep in contact and know when new parts are available, or proceeding through the phased testing process:
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Hope that helps. Making a typeface and its fonts takes a really long time! Is there any specific that you had in mind which I've missed above, or which I can try and get answers for? Please do let me know!
According to the blueprint, it is expected on the 31. of may, similar to mono, condensed, arabic etc. See Milestones: Ubuntu font family for the full list.


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When I was a child, I learned basic mathematics (addition, subtraction) through practice and memorization of basics (6 + 7 = 13). However, while I was visiting a child (5 yrs. old) over New Year's, I found that she was unable to perform even simple addition (11+7) without the aid of a number line. Is there any way to prevent these aids from turning into crutches?
It is my belief that facts are only memorized when there is a motivation to do so, and that by far the best motivation is relevance to something the individual cares about. Thus memorizing facts on their own is hard, but doing interesting problems which require those facts will lead to natural memorization through repetition.
Therefore I would recommend activities that require math but are not rote practice. For instance, dice games such as backgammon, yahtzee, and board games require the numbers up to 6 to be repeatedly added. Under this approach the child should progress from using the number line, to mentally visualizing a number line, to simply memorizing the sums and differences through natural repetition.
As a final comment, I would rather that a child laboriously compute solutions from first principles rather than progress too rapidly to memorization of results without understanding how they were obtained. In the first case they are much better equipped to handle problems that go beyond what they have previously encountered.
When I was 3 year old, my dad gave me a calculator and taught me to use it for addition and multiplication. I started playing with it and memorising the results, so at 4 I was already able not to use the calculator. So the calculation aids are not necessarily evil. Sometimes they help. Why don't you just play with the kid, so that the kid asks you question like what is 6 + 7, you answer, say, 15, and the kid corrects you? This way, they memorise the answers joyfully. My 4-year-old daughter is now using a wall calendar as a calculation aid, also it helps her to memorise the order of numbers up to 31. And I am trying not to hide the aid from her but to exploit her curiosity on the calendar. Whatever tool kids use, the goal, as I see it, is to encourage them to do math! Good luck!
There are loads of tools which act as aids to memorisation, but that is exactly what they are - aids to memorisation
I have never met a child of older age (say, 7 or older) who had learned to use a number line, and who required it to do any sort of addition. Besides chance meetings with children over the years, for a while I tutored grade-schoolers in math. I've never heard of over-reliance on number lines being an issue, either. Thus I don't think there is much risk at all of that particular aid turning into a requirement long-term. Number lines are useful aids in developing number sense, and are not to be feared. (Calculators may be another matter when used improperly; for instance, promotion of calculator use is an oft-criticized feature of the Everyday Math curriculum.)
Many math curriculums for young children promote heavy use of manipulatives, with a good example being Cuisenaire and similar rods. Miquon Math is a well-regarded curriculum based heavily on use of such tools, and there is no indication that it leads to dependence on them later on. Singapore Math is an excellent primary math curriculum that features plenty of work with number lines across multiple years. Common Core math standards even show a guideline requirement that children must be able to represent addition on a number line-- by second grade.
Taking a step back, I wonder why you are worried over the math learning of a child who's so young, and whom you were merely visiting and presumably see only rarely. I think that you may not understand the wide variance in learning milestones among young children, based on physical cognitive development, family coaching/stimulation of learning in various areas and attitude towards learning in general, and prior learning environments outside the home.
For example, Waldorf teaching often results in delaying mathematics instruction significantly, and in some developed countries it is not abnormal to start kindergarten until age six or even seven. Here in the U.S., "redshirting", or holding children back in the hopes of fostering more maturity and perceived academic excellence compared to grade peers, results in many children entering kindergarten at age six.
PBS developmental milestones show that the child you mentioned is not doing badly when generally compared against age peers, and would not be out of place in a room with six-year-old children. At such ages, it is not unusual for simple math to be counting-based for many children, where a number line makes a lot more sense, and is certainly better suited as an aid than counting on fingers. (Elimination of counting on fingers is one of the potential benefits of using other aids such as rods, but it's not the end of the world when a kindergartner does teens arithmetic in this way, especially as many kindergartners cannot.)
In summary, there is no significant chance that any child will over-rely on number lines to do basic math as they get older, and there are significant benefits to using them in developing number sense. The particular five-year-old you visited is doing just fine.
A website that I use a lot is Beestar. I really enjoy how I am able to follow the Common Core standards while providing my daughter the incentive she needs to achieve better on her own pace. Beestar provides an honor roll system that she really enjoys. She gets to see her name on the honor roll compared to other kids across the country and it really gives her that boost of confidence she has been lacking! The overall program is concise, easy to pace, and definitely very helpful with the ability to analyze her strengths and weaknesses.


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Thanks very much, this was a useful series of screencasts for me. Yes, it would be useful if you were to make a further video on branches, although myself I will probably have found out about them another way by then. Thanks again.
Thanks Chris, The journey through this tutorial was easy and simple, honestly learnt more than reading the book in a short period of time, wish I had found this earlier.
Thanks for your detailed explain about SVN basics. I enjoyed learning it. It is great stuff for new commers. I love it. Please also post the advanced content also (branching, mergeing branch, tagging and other stuffs.)
Thanks always,
Thanks for the the course on insight Chris It gave me lots of insights into version control in general and subversion in particular.
Best Regards
David Spiess
Awesome. Thanks for making it so simple to understand.
Thank You very much for these videos. They are really helpful and informative
Just learned of Subversion. Looking for Linux GUI. Initially my interest is single user but later will include cohorts. I'm thinking now that the command line interface you demoed may well be sufficient. Thanks for providing it. It helps much. I'm not yet clewed in on trunks and branches and would be tickled to see a similar presentation on them. Thanks for your contributions.
GREAT! svn tutorial. Thanks for your screencast.
Though I am using svn for a year, this gives me insight and encourage to work from command line. esp, when working in linux and mac without tortoiseSVN.
Thanks a lot! awesome!
Thanks for the svn screencasts. They are awesome and taught me quite a few things. I use svn at work, but haven't used anything other then co, ci, update, and stat. Your screencasts taught me a lot more.
Thanks for the videos. They are very informative and the command are good enough to get started on using SVN.
Great Job again by posting the videos.
great tutorial. thanks
Great, this was just what I was looking for. I find it so much easier learning from videos.
Thank you a lot for creating this series!
i m window os user can i see the tutorial of subversion but example is based on linux i want windows based example.
Great work. They give a great overview of all the basic functions.
I really appreciate your efforts. As an amateur programmer, I've been trying to break out into the "real world" lately by expanding my skills. I think you're right in saying that the use of these ancillary tools is a necessity among both amateurs and professionals.
Once again, I realize the incredible amount of time and energy that creating even a "basic introduction" can take. Thank you so much for stepping up. I enjoyed it.
Chris Lasher :
Thank you very much for taking the time to help others.
It was really interesting seeing VIM for the first time. I am fortunate to work in OS X and use BBEdit as the editor of choice. It is several thousand light years ahead,
I recently got SVNserve going on my OS X Server, and am able to access the repository using SSH and http on the local lan, and via the web, I have tried CornerStone, Versions, and SynchroSVNClient and have pretty much decided on the latter for my client GUI.
The next leap will be getting TRAC working with SVN.
If you ever get a Mac there is a great site 'MacPorts' that provides simple installs for anything 'UNIX' for the Mac.
Enough of boring you with what I am interested in.
THANKS a million for the great tutorial, and for sharing your efforts.
Best Regards,
Bill Hernandez
Plano, Texas
Yes, a branching and merging showmedo screencast series would be nice. Also nice (but not as applicable to a general audience) would be a series on subversion administration.
thanks again,
Hi Chris please give some time on windows, Our aim should be to show the capability of Subversion to windows users.
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you made a great job, I really felt a kind of need to say Thank you.. thanks for your effort and sharing it with us... take care chris...
Thank you, again, for the great screen casts. I recently created a googlecode project and had no idea how to use subversion. I now have a the knowledge to manage my code.
This series and your series on working with the shell are a couple of the best ones I've seen. I am almost embarrassed to admit that I've never used any kind of version control application. My method has been to create a script that will backup all my code to a new folder. If I am about to make big changes to my code or have just finished making changes I double-click the script so I'll at least have a backup of the code that I can look for in case I mess things up. This series and this comment thread talking about the GUI frontend available for SNV has convinced me to give it a try. Thanks!
Review of Version Control with Subversion 8
Excellent job chris !!
Love it, thanks!
Chris Lasher, Ian
Thanks for the replies. I look forward for the mysteriou 9th vedio.
I did like Subversion very much and used it about 2 yrs back, then not much of the GUI clients were there.
The windows folks invaribly go to VSS, aka, SOURCESAFE. Yes, we can not do away with a configuration managent system, tool or a manual labrios system. Apprecate your poin there.
It is a good idea, but I'm not the one really using Tortoise on Windows - that's Kyran. Might try to have a crack at this in our next two weeks on ShowMeDo...do remind me!
Hey Ian, would you be interested in actually creating the mysterious "Episode 9" (even better than the "Fifth Beatle"!) to this series--a brief companion demoing where all these commands are in TortoiseSVN?
(BTW, "Episode 9" would make a great name for a rock band.)
Chris, Murty - just to say that I'm a happy SVN-Windows user through TortoiseSVN. We use it as the source-control system for ShowMeDo, sync'd via a server running on linux (which I access through the command line via ssh).
We use 2 dev machines and have 2 deployments (1 beta and this live one) and svn+Tortoise does a great job...couldn't live without it in fact. Add in unit-tests and you've a winning combination.
Re. the series saying '9' videos, looks like we have a bug, I'll mail Kyran to take a look.
Hi Murty,
Thanks for watching and for your kind comments. As of right now I do not plan to cover Subversion on Windows. Thanks to point-and-click-friendly TortoiseSVN client, I think it's pretty easy to apply these screencasts to the fenestrated OS. All the commands apply in the same manner, but are instead accessed in a GUI fashion.
That said, it would always help to have a demonstration. Hopefully someone more familiar with TortoiseSVN or another GUI client can step up and get a screencast for ShowMeDo to accompany this series for the benefit of our fellow Windows users.
I am sad to hear that, in your experience, Windows developers shy away from Subversion. Hopefully they use *some* form of SCM. If not, at least make sure you do. When your colleagues lose valuable work due to a foolish delete or can't roll back code to a previously working state while refactoring, point them to this series and say, "This will help you next time." And when they see the ease with which you manage your own code and documents, they will get the hint.
Also, worry not: the total number of videos in this series is indeed 8, not 9 as the site currently indicates.
Hi CY,
Thank you very much for your kind comments. I always underestimate the time and effort it takes to create a series like this, so when I finish one, I'm really relieved someone actually watches it, and very grateful when he/she actually finds it helpful!
I targeted you and others who have not previously used Subversion (or any version control system) to encourage them to make use of this great tool. I'm glad to know that you could easily follow the series. =-D


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Reigate's Gatton Park's clutch of open days (From Redhill And Reigate Life)
Reigate's Gatton Park's clutch of open days
1:50pm Thursday 16th January 2014 in
Reigate's picturesque Gatton Park will begin its calendar of open days for the year next month.
The gardens and grounds in Rocky Lane will be open to visitors to enjoy and take in the features, including a bird hide, a restored Victorian parterre at the centre of the estate, and restored rock and Japanese gardens, on Sunday, February 2, from 1pm to 5pm.
Gatton Park's scenic features are situated in 250 acres of 'Capability' Brown-designed parkland. There will be guided tours available during the afternoon and refreshments will be available in Gatton Hall. Admission is £4 per adult, with children free, and dogs welcome on a lead. Gatton Park is open on the first Sunday of the month from February to October. The gardens and park will be open again on Sunday, February 9, from noon to 4pm, when visitors will be able to enjoy seeing the snowdrops there.
Gatton Park will be open again on Sunday, February 16, from 11am to 4pm, as part of the National Gardens Scheme, and it will be open for Snowdrop Week from Monday, February 17, to Friday, February 21, from noon to 4pm.
It will hold another gardens and park open day on Sunday, February 23, from noon to 4pm.
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ALL 5 EZs in ONE class?
05/07/2011 1:43 pm
I?ve gotta share this one with you! Wow ? this was a G.O.O.D class! First of all, it was my Saturday 7:30-9 a.m. class, so we had the time to do it. Second, it was a group of informed, fit and dedicated Spinning® participants. And, third, it was, as I said, Saturday, so there?s always a celebratory feel to this particular class. The structure of the class was uncomplicated: take each of the 5 Energy Zones, spend some clearly defined time in each, add some great music and kick start our weekend. I divided up the class into four segments of about 20 minutes each with one less than 10 minute block that would be RDEZ. We began with a gradual warm-up and total of 20 minutes in the Endurance Energy Zone using the pure parameters of 65-75% mhr and a long seated flat that gradually increased in intensity with varied rpms. There was no doubt that we were ready to boogie after that. The Strength Energy Zone was spent in one long climb ? a significant effort. I later learned that most participants maxed this one at about 85% mhr for as much of the climb as they could. A theme began to emerge: hey, it?s only 20 minutes. We can do anything for 20 minutes?. We began our Interval Energy Zone with a recovery that segued into 4x5 minute blocks of 2 minutes recovery and 3 minutes upper end IEZ intensity with a variety of appropriate core movements. Once again, the notion that we were only talking 20 minutes encouraged each to really reach. OK, so we had to include a taste of Race Day so, after a 3 minute recovery, we ?hit it? at a steady 85% mhr seated flat chase to the finish. (As usual, we all finished together and we didn?t lose anyone ? my favorite quip when the going gets tough.) Trust me, we were ready to settle into a meaningful Recovery Energy Zone segment for about 15 minutes followed by a good stretch. Now I realize that there are plenty of really tough rides that make this one look less challenging. But for this class, it kicked butt. During our recovery, I offered the following: we seemed to agree that the class as a whole was very challenging. We also seemed to agree that when we broke the class down into manageable components, we were able to work each one to the very best of our ability ? to give it all that we had ? yet still find each one achievable. Might this also be true of life? When we seem overwhelmed with challenges, might a good strategy be to reduce a challenge to smaller, do-able segments and then use our strength and skills to deal with each one? I love the mind/body connection of the Spinning® technique and try to share it with others when it is fitting to do so. Sometimes I get really tired. Sometimes I want to quit. Sometimes I totally ?bash? away frantically trying to solve a dilemma, but, if I?ll just remember to cut it up into small, little digestible pieces, I?ll find a way to solve the problem. Might this work for you? In Spinning® class? On a hilly trail run? In a marathon or a century? With a 2-year-old?s tantrum or in a meeting of the board of directors? Balancing your personal checkbook or making payroll? It might. Blog posted by Linda Freeman 5/7/2011 www.spinning.com.Share


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Meet the artists in The Gallery at Green Hill Center during the Public opening of Independents: Paintings by Brett Baker, Mark Brown, Ashlynn Browning, Philip Thomas Lopez & Bonnie Melton. Live music will be played by Sourwood Sweet Acoustic, whose sound is swinging, soulful and sweet; a Gypsy jamboree. First Friday at Green Hill Center is free and open to the public. Refreshments and light hors d'oeuvres provided by The Fresh Market. Cash Bar. Sourwood Sweet Acoustic will play two sets starting at 7PM and 8PM.


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LeBron James proving to be a winner in business, too
MIAMI — Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett and LeBron James seem like an odd couple. But James' friendship with the second richest man in the United States tells the story of another side of the Miami Heat superstar. As focused as James has been on his goal of winning NBA championships, he's just as driven off the court about building a business empire and breaking the billion-dollar mark, an accomplishment golfer Tiger Woods was the first athlete to achieve.


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Kids' Under Armour Chaos Jacket
Serious action calls for tough gear, like the Under Armour Kids' Chaos Jacket. This lightweight warm-up jacket is still sturdy enough to pack a powerful punch against chilly weather and can stand up to even the toughest games and practices.
Made of lightweight, textured mesh fabric that offers plenty of ventilation for active kids, this jacket is designed for maximum performance. Mesh hand pockets hold his stuff, while the signature Moisture Transport System wicks away sweat so he stays dry on the field.
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Which properties are sufficient evidence for a material to be not superconducting? I am looking for a set of statements like
If the material is semiconducting, it is not superconducting
Edit: I am not looking for a definition of superconductivity, or for introductional literature like the famous W. Buckel.
I am looking for properties, that would forbid superconductivity. If you have a source for it i would be very glad. As far I remember magnetic atoms will forbid superconductivity too, but i could not find a source yet.


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I has come to my attention during a PM chat here in AA that the jaguar indeed have an s-video cable. I never saw one to sell, to be honest, and I'm very happy with the composite quality but better is better, if it's real better.
Can anyone comment on that? the s-video is worth it?
Is there a video component cable?
Is it possible to alter the composite cable to get s-video? maybe adding a plug?


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Today in Tweet Beat, Shannon Elizabeth is having difficulty with a simple task. Plus, Eva Longoria touched Teri Hatcher's boob, and Teri liked it.
I tripped this morning and the only thing I held onto was teri's boob! Thank God they're real and they're... http://fb.me/tFOO3OsM
@EvaLongoria Thanks so much Eva for graciously welcoming me into Twitter world. Work was fun this morning. My boob is still tingling. Ha!
Anybody figure out how to lose weight without losing your tits and your ass?
Jsut wanna make 1 thing clear-the cleanse is not for weight loss. Its for health..and I feel great!
Where do I buy a rain coat??
Just cause you got a stylist don't mean they got style #BESTTWEETOFALLTIME!!!
Just cause you got a stylist don't mean you got style #BETTERTWEETOFALLTIME!!!
@kanyewest I just listened to Wu Tang with a suit on, too! JINX!
Why do people say something is "as cute as a button"? Why not as cute as a zipper?
Just watched a best of Whitney Houston and I can't believe they forgot her best line ever: "I am NOT dealin' with this todaaaaayyyy"
Last night I was explaining to my girlfriend what Teddy Ruxpin was and she started laughing and said "That's you!" #talkingbearfail
The resemblance is uncanny @eliroth... http://twitpic.com/2d6mij
Happy Birthday to my Hoda Woman!!!!!!!!
thank you for all of the bday tweets—so sweet—old am i again????
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text: Well look who we have here, it's a face that has been around for decades. Here is "how to draw Goofy easy", step by step. How can you not love Goofy and his wonderful goofiness? His personality is awesome, and if you get him mad enough he will blow his top. I like how aloof Goofy is because he sort of reminds me of a rebel or hippy at times. Whenever I see him on screen I have to stop and watch what he is going to do next. This lesson will show you how easy it can be when it comes to drawing Goofy. The steps are simple to follow as well as easy to understand. Peace out folks and enjoy.


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I currently work in three places. How can I choose which job appears in my timeline? In my info I have three current jobs and I want to switch the one appearing in the timeline with another one from the remaining two. How can I do that?
Without explicitly changing privacy settings for the jobs you don't want to appear, it seems Facebook will choose the most recent job.
Facebook will always choose Job 2
In the case where a user does not fill out the start date
Facebook will still choose Job 2
If one were to change this to 2012 to present
Facebook will choose Job 3.
Let me sum it up: Facebook will choose the job with the smallest time period. You must add a date to have your most recent job appear featured. In other words the job must appear on the timeline to be your featured job.
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