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My daughter is just about ready to start to ride a proper bike.
I am loathe to get her a bike with training wheels/stabilisers, as just about every kid I see with them just relies on them and doesn't learn to balance properly.
What is the best method to get her riding properly?
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My dad taught me, my two sisters, my neices and nephews the same basic way.
On grass. Get them on a two wheeler, no training wheels, but with helmet on, and start em up on the grass. Find a field that is smooth (maybe a slight downhill to start on) and push them and let them go.
Grass is harder to ride on, but soft enough to fall on without damage that will get Mommy mad.
You're absolutely right--children's bicycles with training wheels are good for exercise and entertainment, but they do little to nothing for balance.
In my experience, the best way to teach anyone--children included--to ride a bicycle is to take the pedals off, lower the seat, and let them scoot & coast around until they develop the proper balance. Then, add the pedals, and let them coast, pedal, etc.
For children, there are several popular brand that makes 'run bikes', which are usually made out of wood, and have neither training wheels nor pedals. They are low enough that the child can sit in the saddle and place both feet on the ground, but high enough that they can still propel themselves & lift their feet to coast.
These bikes allow the child to quickly and safely develop good bicycle balance.
(See http://www.earlyrider.com/, http://www.runbikes.com/, and http://www.likeabikeusa.com/)
Well, I was raised "old school". My dad put me on my first huffy - got behind me and pushed me down the driveway. Well, after 10 to 15 times busting my tail, I got the hang of staying up and was riding on my own in about 2 hours. Afterwards, as I rode through the yard (I grew up on a four acre yard) I crashed, got up and kept going.
I have taught two nephews and one niece to ride – my sisters tried but always babied them letting them quit trying after one crash… which you should never do no matter how much you think you are being mean. Letting them quit will only make it harder for them to learn later. Riding a bicycle is REALLY easy as long as you are willing to try and somethings parents should make their child learn because it allows them to have a tangible achievment in their life and teaches them a skill they can enjoy the rest of their life - like we do!
Learning to ride a bike on a traditional pedal bike can be a scary experience for both parent and child. We've all been there. The initial excitement of chosing the brightly colored princess bike or the bike adorned with the latest comic book superhero quickly fades when reality sets in. That reality is that a standard pedal bike is the wrong tool for teaching a child to ride.
The traditional pedal bike is too tall for most young riders. Training wheels create a false sense of security that prevents children from testing and mastering their balance skills. Training wheels can also create wobble and cause the bike to tip over, making your little guy or girl fearful. Many children will take one look at the metal contraption with the pedals, chain and jagged sprocket and decide they are not interested.
Balance bikes have a low profile that puts the child close to the ground. Their feet rest firmly on the ground, putting them in total control. With no scary sprockets, chains or pedals, the balance bike makes kids more comfortable and enthusiastic about learning to ride.
With a balance bike, kids learn at their own pace. They can start by just walking the bike around on the sidewalk or grass. Once they've gained a little confidence, they start to pump their feet more vigorously and test out their balance and steering. In no time at all, most kids will be propelling themselves around the neighborhood under their own power and cruising along as they lift their feet and let their newfound sense of balance take over.
Children as young as two are able to ride a balance bike, so why wait? Skip the training wheels and let your child begin to build their balance skills with a balance bike.
If your child is late in taking on the challenge of learning to ride, lower the seat, remove the pedals and find a small incline for them to coast down. Let them build the confidence in their balance then add the pedals back on the bike.
My wife bought a Stryder bike, which is a two wheeler, with no pedals/crank/chain/etc.
My son sits on it, pushes and brakes with his feet.
He rode about 40 miles this summer on it. (The pool is about a 3 mile round trip from our house, and we rode there a fair bit).
Now he glides and balances very well. We have to get him a real bike this summer, to save money on worn out shoes from breaking with his feet.
I am not sure this would work with an adult/non-child but it seems to be working well on my son. (Started at 2.5 and still riding it now as a 4 year old). We plan on skipping training wheels altogether.
The best thing about training wheels is that it get them on the bike and fast. They get a feel for what it takes to peddle, wear a helmet, etc...
The other thing I found is that my kids had little or no problem making the transition to a riding without training wheels. Yeah it took some time the first day but they were used to the mechanics of riding if not the true feel of two wheels.
The first time I successfully learned to balance was on a grassy slope in a park. The slope was pronounced but not large: a total height/drop of maybe 3 or 4 feet, and maybe 10 degrees of slope.
The point of a slope is that, before I tried it, when I was trying to learn to cycle on the flat I found it to difficult/impossible to learn to balance, steer, and peddle all at the same time: because peddling pushed my weight from side to side ... whereas free-wheeling down a slope, I could learn about just steering: steering into the direction I was falling over into.
And the point of its being grassy, as opposed to paved, is probably obvious.
Our children learned first to balance using a 2-wheeled push scooter, next step to a bike was easy.
I taught my kids the same way I learned - running alongside them with a firm grip on the back of the saddle, and sometimes on the handlebars, over and over again, trying not to wrench my shoulder too hard when preventing them from falling over. First on grass, later on the sidewalk, and at last just jogging alongside and not letting them notice that I wasn't holding on any more.
I believe it worked because they were fully supported by someone they trusted at all times when they needed it, and that support was gradually replaced with their own ability, whether they initially realized it or not.
Our kid is a wimp when it comes to bumps and I'm overprotective, so just sticking some pads on her and letting her go wasn't an option - the scrapes and bruises would've turned her off.
We tried riding on grass but couldn't find any place with enough of a gentle slope to overcome the extra resistance from the soft ground. But right next to one of the grass fields we tried was a small basketball court with new, smooth asphalt, so I spent about half an hour jogging along next to her, holding the seat of the bike and one of her arms to steady her while she got used to the feel.
I found that she got used to the feel of balancing much faster when I had her turn - she'd lean into the turn, I'd make sure she didn't lean too far or turn the bars too sharply and she quickly got to the point that I could mostly let her go. (Also, I'd be on the inside of the turn so I didn't have to run as much - less of an issue for people who aren't as out of shape!)
We did that first half-hour session, did another one the next day, then the third session she rode around a track-and-field track a few times and I only trailed along with her the first couple times. She wasn't fast, the turns were gentle, but that got her some time on the bike. Since then, we've done a couple rides, and some make-shift obstacle courses around light poles on a nearby plaza and she's progressing fine.
The biggest issue for us is that it rains a lot here (Vancouver) and I don't like to ride in the rain and I'm not prepared to buy good gear for her to ride in a downpour, so we pretty much parked the bikes over the winter and are only getting back into it now.
However you proceed, get a bike that fits the child. None of this "(s)he'll grow into it."
Our then 4 yr old son had a bike and he was somewhat wobbly on it and I took great pains to supervise closely when he rode. One day we borrowed a neighbor's small bike (no training wheels), smaller than I'd ever seen before. It fit our son beautifully. And to our utter amazement he just started riding like he'd been doing this for years. No training wheels - for the first time. He was steady, turned with confidence, and fast.
Well the answer that I found worked well for my youngest and some of my friends kids was:
Good luck! and it does help you get in shape!
I've never tried them out, so I can't vouch for them personally, but these wheels with a gyroscope look like a really good idea. I've heard good reports about them as well.
I taught all four of my kids in a nearby park that had tall and nice grass .. i found that the grass made them pedal harder and it seemed easier for them to maintain their balance.
Be patient, try to have fun.
Then practice as much as you can, on any surface (kids don't hurt themselves the way adults do), any bike (that fits), any time. Just mind the traffic.
Did I say: have fun?
(And get your camera ready).
First make sure the child has some protection gear like helmet, knee/elbow guards (in my childhood I dit not have these, but the world has changed since :)
Then find a small slope so that the child does not have to pedal very hard, but can concentrate on balancing.
Get your kid a Gyrobike. They are actually really amazing. Training wheels just hinder the learning process.
Based only on my personal experience with my first son I would suggest to use a Balance Bike starting from age of 2/3 depending on how tall the kid is (you're daughter in this case).
I blogged about my experience here:
Taught my four year old daughter to ride a two wheeler using training wheels. Wanted to try a balance bike, but a free bike fell in my lap that was perfect for her so I couldn't justify the expense of a balance bike. The key with training wheels that so many people don't do is that you need to raise them up slightly as the child gets used to riding on them so that they are resting on them less and less. We did small rides around the block rides for about a week after I would get home from work and I would shift the training wheels up each night(I din't tell her btw). I announced to her that we would go to the park on the weekend and see if she could ride on the grass without the training wheels. On the ride to the park she rode and the training wheels never touched the ground. I popped them off once we got there and she was off and riding with just a slight push to get her started. She already understood about pedaling and braking so it was pretty simple at that point. The next step was to raise the seat little by little so that she could maximize power. A lower seat helps in the beginning but becomes a hinderance as they get better at mounting from a stop.
I really feel you're very wrong by painful methods such as "let 'em fall" to learn.
If you want them to learn without training wheels, run beside them and grab the handlebars when the look like they're going to fall over.
You have to be fit and fast to do this, but it can be done (I did it twice for 2 kids).
Just a note, if they use the training wheels for a couple of months, they will learn to ride. In my experience I have nothing against training wheels, and I learned that rushing to take them off early actually causes more pain than it's worth.
To repeat my answer at the other site, basically to sum they started with training wheels, when the older one (who was 3 at the time) looked ready, I thought it was time to take them off, so we did, and I trained him by running beside the bike and grabbing the handlebars whenever he looked as though he was going to fall over. (You have to have a lot of endurance to do this, and as you'll see it was an ineffective strategy).
For the second one, I realized that I kind of rushed it for the first one. When the second one turned 3, after about a month into the summer this year (20 minute bike rides almost every day), I noticed he didn't rely on the wheels as much. So I removed the training wheels, and ran alongside him like I did for the first one the previous year, but the difference was, he didn't need my help after the first 20 minutes. He was riding on his own without a need for help after that.
So, basically it's practice. I realized I actually overexhausted myself by rushing the first one. There's no rush. Keep the training wheels until he's comfortable with them on. I think the 2 seasons of practice with training wheels is what made the 2nd 3 year old able to ride without training wheels so easily.
Start with a balance bike if the child is vary small (under 2 yo). If older, take any bike, remove the pedals and use it as a balance bike and once the child masters the balance, screw in back the pedals.
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A kill is the event of decreasing an enemy champion's health to zero while the enemy has no abilities or items to prevent death. Death may be prevented by certain effects, such as those granted by the item and friendly abilities like Zilean's Chrono Shift, or delayed by passive abilities like Anivia's Rebirth, Zac's Cell Division and Aatrox's Blood Well.
The last player to strike the target champion is awarded with the kill, and all contributors within the last 10 seconds are awarded with an assist. If the champion killed has any transferable buffs ( Crest of Insight or Crest of Cinders), the killer champion gains all of these buffs and the duration of each buff is reset. When a champion is killed, the player who scored the final hit receives gold (50-500g) (on Howling Abyss maximum gold for a kill exceeds 500g) and experience. To reduce the effectiveness of feeders and snowballing lanes, less gold is awarded when a champion has a lower level than the killers. Additionally, a champion with many consecutive deaths will award a significantly reduced bounty, eventually reaching a bounty floor of 50 gold, nearly the gold value of a minion. The bounty will reset to 300 if said champion kills an enemy champion, or resets more gradually with assists or farming (refer to Bounty values Notes below for details). In gameplay, kills may be sacrificed in favor of securing a map objective, or due to other situational circumstances, such as the low health champion retreating into high risk enemy territory.
If a champion dies and hasn't been damaged or debuffed by another champion in the last 13 seconds, they are executed. Otherwise, the kill is awarded to the enemy champion who last dealt damage. Executions are caused by a turret, minion, or monster. An execution offers no gold but still grants experience to nearby champions on the opposite team when it is caused by a turret or minion.
In some cases it could be strategically advantageous for a player to purposefully be executed as an alternative to dying from an enemy champion; in doing so, the enemy receives no gold. Doing this on ARAM allows you to visit the shop without granting kills to the enemy team.
Note that executions do not end your killing spree.
The act of killing several champions within 10 seconds of each other (30 seconds to Penta Kill after a Quadra Kill if no enemy respawns). The following comments are shown: "Summoner" has slain "(slain name) Summoner" for a [...]!'
- Double Kill (2)
- Triple Kill (3)
- Quadra Kill (4)
- Penta Kill (5)
- Hexakill (6)
- Legendary Kill (8)
An ace is defined as killing the last living champion of the enemy team. Scoring an ace is far easier than scoring a pentakill, since the only requisite is for the entire allied team to kill the enemy team, rather than one person killing the entire enemy team. There is no gold bonus associated with aces.
Gold reward
The standard gain per kill is 300 gold. Every kill (in a row) by a champion increases their value (the reward gained for killing that champion) by 16.5%, up to a maximum of 500 gold. Each death (in a row) of a champion reduces its value, by 8.5% for the first death and 20% for every death afterwards, to a minimum of 50 gold. The bounty will reset to 300 if said champion kills an enemy champion, or resets more gradually with assists. Assists remove one stage of the death penalty each (if a champion was on his third death (220 gold), an assist would raise the value to that of two deaths (275 gold)). Every kill a champion achieves without dying (called a killing spree) increases that champion's bounty to a maximum of 500 gold as stated before. The gold bounty is not reset when the champion is executed without any enemy champion contributing to it. Being on a killing spree only affects the gold gained upon your death. First Blood (the first kill of the match) gives an additional 100 gold (400 total) beyond the basic amount for the kill.
Bounty values
|First Blood: +100 gold
|1st kill: 300 gold
|1st death: 300 gold
|2nd kill: 350 gold
|2nd death: 275 gold
|3rd kill: 408 gold (Killing spree)
|3rd death: 220 gold
|4th kill: 475 gold (Rampage)
|4th death: 176 gold
|5th kill: 500 gold (Unstoppable)
|5th death: 141 gold
|6th kill: 500 gold (Dominating)
|6th death: 112 gold
|7th kill: 500 gold (Godlike)
|7th death: 90 gold
|8th kill: 500 gold (Legendary)
|8th death: 72 gold
|9+ kills: 500 gold (Legendary)
|9th death: 58 gold
Notes :
- That gold values will continue to drop past the 9th death, eventually stopping at 50 gold. Also, with lower killing spree bounty cap and increased bounty gain, there is no additional gold for a shut down beyond the 5th kill.
- Every 1000 gold earned from minions / monsters reduces the death spree by 1 death.
Items benefiting from kills
- assist. - Restores 30% of your max mana on kill or
- - Restores 4 mana when you kill an enemy unit.
- champion kill and 1 Glory for an assist. - Grants 2 Glory for a
- champion kill and 2 Glory for an assist. - Grants 4 Glory for a
- movement speed for 2 seconds. The movement speed bonus is halved for ranged champions. , and - Minion, monster, and champion kills grant 60
- assist '''will grant 1 Devourer stack. - Scoring a champion kill or
Skills benefiting from kills
- Akali's Shadow Dance (Active): Akali moves through the shadows to quickly strike her target and deal magic damage. Akali gains an Essence of Shadow once every few seconds up to a total of 3, affected by cooldown reduction. The time to gain a charge doesn't count when at maximum charges. Additionally, Akali gains an Essence of Shadow for a kill or an assist.
- Annie's Disintegrate (Active): Annie shoots a mana infused fireball, dealing magic damage to her target. The mana cost is refunded and cooldown halved if it kills the target.
- Cho'Gath's Carnivore (Passive): Whenever Cho'Gath kills a unit, he recovers health and mana. The values restored increase with Cho'Gath's level.
- Cho'Gath's Feast (Active): Target enemy takes true damage. If Feast kills the target, Cho'Gath grows larger and gains extra health and basic attack range, stacking up to six times. Cho'Gath loses half of these stacks, rounded up (Lost stacks being rounded up, thus, kept stacks rounded down), whenever he dies.
- Darius's Noxian Guillotine (Active): Darius leaps to target enemy champion and strikes a lethal blow, dealing true damage. For each stack of Hemorrhage on the target, Noxian Guillotine deals an additional 20% damage. Darius may recast Noxian Guillotine within 20 seconds if it kills the target.
- Draven's League of Draven (Innate passive): When Draven catches a Spinning Axe, or kills a minion or monster, he gains one stack of Adoration. When Draven kills an enemy champion, he consumes all of his Adoration stacks and gains 50 + (2 × per stack consumed) gold. Draven loses half of his Adoration stacks upon death.
- Evelynn's Dark Frenzy (Active): Evelynn removes all slows affecting her, gains bonus movement speed for 3 seconds and ignores unit collision. Champion kills and assists refresh Dark Frenzy's cooldown.
- Gangplank's Parrrley (Active): Gangplank shoots a target enemy with his pistol, dealing physical damage. If it is killed with this ability, he gains extra gold and refunds half the mana cost. This ability can critically strike and applies on-hit effects, including his passive.
- Irelia's Bladesurge (Active): Irelia dashes forward to strike her target, dealing physical damage. This applies on-hit effects. If it kills the target, Bladesurge's cooldown refreshes and refunds 35 mana.
- Jinx's Get Excited! (Innate passive): Whenever a champion or structure that Jinx has dealt damage to within the last 3 seconds is killed or destroyed, she gains 175% movement speed that decays over 4 seconds.
- Katarina's Voracity (Innate passive): Whenever an enemy champion dies within 3 seconds of Katarina dealing damage to them, her cooldowns will be reduced by 15 seconds.
- Karthus's Defile (Toggle Off): When Karthus kills a unit, he restores mana.
- Kha'Zix's Evolved Wings (Active): Kha'Zix leaps to an area, dealing physical damage to enemies in the area. Kills and assists refreshes Leap's cooldown.
- Malzahar's Malefic Visions (Active): Malzahar infects his target's mind, dealing magic damage every half seconds for 4 seconds. If the target dies while afflicted by the visions, they pass the curse on to a nearby enemy unit, refreshing the duration and restoring mana to Malzahar.
- Master Yi's Highlander (Active): For 10 seconds, Master Yi gains increased movement speed and attack speed, and becomes immune to slows. While active, champion kills and assists extend the duration of Highlander by 4 seconds.
- Mordekaiser's Children of the Grave (Active): Mordekaiser deals damage to the target and curses it for 10 seconds, stealing life. Damage is equal to a percentage of the target's maximum health. If the target dies while under the effect of the curse, their soul is enslaved and will follow Mordekaiser for 30 seconds. During this time, Mordekaiser gains 20% of their ability power and attack damage. The spirit gains 75% of Mordekaiser's adjusted damage, ability power, and health totals.
- Nasus's Siphoning Strike (Active): Nasus's next attack will deal additional damage. Siphoning Strike permanently gains 3 damage whenever it kills an enemy. The bonus is doubled to 6 stacked damage if the enemy killed by Siphoning Strike is a champion, large monster or large minion.
- Rengar's Bonetooth Necklace (Passive): Rengar collects trophies when killing Champions and gain bonus effects based on how many trophies he has. Kills and assist grants 1 trophy.
- Sion's Soul Furnace health bonus can be triggered by killing an enemy unit with any of Sion's damage sources, including autoattacks, champion abilities, summoner spells and item actives.
- Swain's Carrion Renewal (Innate Passive): Whenever Swain kills an enemy unit, he restores 9 (+1 per level) mana. On a champion kill or assist, he regains an additional 9% of his maximum mana pool.
- Tristana's Rocket Jump (Active): Tristana fires at the ground to propel herself to a target location, dealing magic damage and slowing surrounding units by 60% for 2.5 seconds when she lands. On kills or assists, Rocket Jump's cooldown resets.
- Trundle's King's Tribute (Innate passive): Whenever an enemy unit nearby to Trundle dies, he heals for 2/3/4/5/6% of its maximum health.
- Twisted Fate's Loaded Dice (Innate passive): Upon killing a unit, Twisted Fate rolls his dice, gaining from 1 to 6 bonus gold.
- Varus's Living Vengeance (Innate passive): On champion kill or assist, Varus gains 40% attack speed for 6 seconds. On minion kill, Varus gains 20% attack speed for 3 seconds
- Veigar's Baleful Strike (Passive): Veigar gains 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 bonus ability power for each champion takedown from any damage source and 1 bonus ability power for each minion kill with Baleful Strike. The bonus is doubled to 2 AP if the enemy killed by Baleful Strike is a champion, large monster or large minion.
Masteries benefiting from kills
- Dangerous Game: Champion kills and assists restore 5% of your missing health and mana.
- Feast: Each time you kill a unit, you regain 3 health and 1 mana.


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Productivity soars whenever I find the right side project to work on. However, as soon as the project is finished or whenever I'm working on something that feels boring to me, productivity goes right back down to nothing.
How do you find side projects to work on? I try to combine as much areas of my life as possible with software but mostly to no avail. For example, I just can't see a way to make my love life better with software.
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This guy has very unclear pronounciation, I can hardly understand him.
I don't agree. For me (Czech) he was one of the best understandable speakers.
Great session and great presenter. The WebMatrix end-to-end development experience continues to go from strength to strength.
I'm swedish and was playing back the talk at 1.4x speed and still had no problems understanding. Good session.
I agree great session and presenter. WebMatrix is indeed looks like a great product. Will surely give it a try.
Great job showing off all of our stuff, Vishal!
Very inspiring. Especially the possibilty to integrate open source content. Thank you.
Thanks again Microsoft for everything you've done for us, mostly for free since Dos version 1. Thanks for helping prevent a true tower of Babel in the computing world had you not become the standard. Thanks for your commitment to making the world a better place and not just saying so. Thanks for ploughing so much back and you deserve everything you've been given in return.
Hi Vishal, great vid. Thanks.
I'm doing a lot of MVC/Razor/EF/SQLServer stuf for a client. Same client looking at Dynamics AX for worldwide deployment. How useful would WebMatrix be interfacing to AX for bespoke web based presentation (tailored accounting, costing, energy usage type tools etc). Any pointers as to where to look?
Hi Dave,
Could you send me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com and we can try to have a further discussion on the exact scenario and where there might be some information around it.
Thanks, Vishal
Great session Vishal. I've only just got around to watching it as i had it at the bottom of the build sessions i wanted to watch. However i found it one of my favourites and i learnt alot. Thanks
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Dakota Wesleyan's Carena Jarding, assistant professor of nursing, received the South Dakota District 7 Nurse of the Year Award at the South Dakota Nurse Association State Convention in Aberdeen.
She has demonstrated a sincere desire to create a learning environment and served in a mentor role for nurses, especially those new to the profession," stated her nomination.
Jarding serves as a faculty member in the RN program at DWU. She is also an active member in District 7 as an event planner and served as the site coordinator for the first ever Certified Nursing Assistant Institute held at Dakota Wesleyan University in July of this year. She also served as an instructor and a course coordinator for the 10-day event. Ten high school women attended the training days, and all successfully completed the course.
Jarding serves as a mentor to nursing students through the work of their Student Nurse Association. She encourages the students' participation in charitable events such as a food drive, assistance with the Mitchell Snack Pack Program and volunteering at the annual Community Health Fair held in Mitchell. At the health fair, the students are actively involved in screenings and assisting medical professionals throughout the full day event.


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Published: Thursday, December 27, 2012, 12:01 a.m.
Historic planes' interior parts sport shocking colors
The interior components of a plane like the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt glow with greenish yellow panels and plates. The strange stuff is zinc chromate -- a semi-translucent covering used for corrosion control. Model builders have always had trouble accurately replicating zinc chromate because its exact shade didn't much matter to airplane builders during the war. As long as the protective coating was slathered all over nearly everything, it could be shocking yellow, apple green, or anything in between. (Some Vought planes even have "electric pink" zinc chromate in their wheel wells and gun bays.) All that counted was good coverage. The bright colors allowed a factory worker to efficiently see which areas had been coated (and which hadn't) in an instant.
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Public Rights Of Way - in Birmingham
Public Rights Of Way are open to everyone at all times to allow you to walk, horse ride and cycle around Birmingham. There are over 3000 of these routes in the City.
What is a public right of way?
A public right of way is a right by which any member of the public may travel across land. There are several kinds of 'way' over which the public have a right to pass and they are collectively known as highways. The nature of the right depends on the nature of the highway.
- Footpath - right of way on foot only.
- Bridleway - right of way on foot, horseback and on pedal cycle.
- Restricted Byway – right of way on foot, horseback and non-mechanically propelled vehicles which, includes such things as pushbikes and horse and carriage but not motor vehicles.
Byway open to all traffic (BOAT) - right of way on foot, horseback, pedal cycle and wheeled vehicles of all kinds including horse drawn vehicles. (These are generally used by the public for walking and riding)
Public rights of way form an important recreational resource for members of the public but also provide a means of access to local facilities such as shops and bus stops.
How can I find out where public rights of way exist?
Birmingham City Council keeps a record of Public Rights of Way known to exist within its area and also Registers of Applications for additions to and deletions of existing Public Rights of Way. We are also responsible for preparing the Definitive Map and Statement. If you have any queries relating to public rights of way, contact the Public Rights of Way Team on the details below.
What if there is a way that I think is public not shown on the records?
If you believe a public right of way exists but records held by us do not show this; you can apply to us for an order to be made to register it. This is controlled by statutory procedures and will require you to provide evidence to show that the route has been used by the general public for at least 20 years.
How can I get a public right of way diverted or closed?
It is not common for public rights of way to be diverted or extinguished. However, under special circumstances it may be possible to do so. Diversion can take place in the interest of the landowner, or for a development to take place but these necessities do have to be demonstrated and the process is not quick or easy. There is also a cost attached to the application which is open to challenge.
Closure due to Crime.
Prior to the introduction of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (CROW Act), the only way to close public rights of ways was to demonstrate that the route is no longer needed for public use. The Crow Act introduced legislation that allows for the extinguishment of public rights of ways due to high levels of crime. The process requires evidence that intervention methods have failed and crime statistics related directly to the path are high before closure can be considered. It also requires for the Secretary of State to designate the area as one of 'high crime'. The flow diagram for this process is laid out in the Rights of Way Improvement Plan.
Gating orders (Temporary)
In 2005, the Clean Neighborhoods Act introduced 'Gating Orders'. These are non-permanent methods to temporarily gate off a public path in order to disperse or diffuse the crime at that location. The orders are reviewed periodically along with crime statistics and the route will ultimately be re-opened. The flow diagram for this process is laid out in the Rights of Way Improvement Plan.
Maintenance of public footpaths
In 2010, all public highways, including most of the public rights of ways were transferred to Amey LG on a 25 year Maintenance contract as a Private Finance Initiative (PFI). As such, they are inspected every 6 months and any defects are made safe. A limited number of public rights of ways are privately maintainable. In this case, Amey will inspect the path for defects and notify the landowner. To report a defect on a public path, use the online reporting form to submit a request for repair to Amey.
Fences or hedges adjacent to public rights of way do not form part of the highway and are usually there to prevent entry onto private land. If a fence has fallen down or a hedge is overhanging a public right of way causing and obstruction, you should report this to Highways (Tel: 0121 303 6644) who will arrange for appropriate action to be taken.
Contact Information:
If you would like more information about the Forum or how you can get more involved please contact the public rights of way team:
- e-mail - email@example.com
- telephone - 0121 464 6846
- Closure Procedure of Right of Way for Crime Prevention
- Gating Orders
- How to obtain a Gating Order
- Local Access Forum
- Register of Applications
- Public Footpaths, Bridleways and Roads
- Public Rights of Way Improvement Plan
- Public Rights of Way in Birmingham
- Walking in Birmingham
- Natural England
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14 Dec 2011 2:24 PM #1
Automatically load additional rows
Hi all,
Is it possible to automatically load additional row in grid if user scrolls down for more and more elements?
You can find an example of this behavior here: http://demo.vaadin.com/sampler#TableRowHeaders
I know I can use paging but my I'm afraid that summary information for the whole grid with paging is somewhat ambiguous for a user.
14 Dec 2011 2:30 PM #2
Sorry for disturbing, found live grid.
Dunno how to delete this topic.
15 Dec 2011 10:42 AM #3
We actually like to leave answered questions around for the benefit of those who find them later, but it helps if your self-reply gives the answer instead of telling them that you figured it out, but not how it was solved.
For future forum searchers, this functionality is usually referred to as the live grid, and can currently be found at http://www.sencha.com/examples-dev/#...Place:livegrid in the beta1 build.


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The 5 Most Mind-Blowing Things That Can Be Found Underwater
#2. Forests Complete With a Logging Industry
Some underwater kelp forests are so tall and dense that they resemble tree cover. These kelp forests exist all over the world and host a vast array of life. They can grow at depths up to 150 feet and still reach the surface. This giant kelp can grow up to two feet in a day, which would be the most terrifying thing in the world if it happened on land.
Timothy G. Laman, National Geographic
Just imagine these guys wrapping around your ankles and sucking you down into the depths.
But kelp forests are still just underwater plants doing what underwater plants do. What would be really cool is if there were a normal forest that was underwater. But that could never happen because trees need oxygen, and therefore can't grow underwater.
Triton Logging
Not pictured: Fish chaining themselves to tree trunks.
But, sometimes when hydroelectric dams are built, entire forests are plunged underwater. That robot, named Sawfish, has been made to harvest cedar, pine, spruce and Douglas fir from water 200 feet deep. It's an unmanned submarine that is controlled remotely from the surface. It attaches airbags to the trunk of the tree, chainsaws it and then releases the trunk so it can float to the surface. Before you say "Look at the cute little robot cutting saplings," know that those are full-size trees and that robot is pretty damn big.
And it thinks you look a lot like a fir tree.
#1. Birds
There are a few birds that decided flying up and snatching their prey out of the air was too easy, and began dining on fish and other aquatic creatures. Take the gannet, for example. When it sees a tasty fish in the water below, it's all "What water?" turns itself into a ballistic missile and dives after that fish:
Hauke Steinberg, Trek Nature
But you knew that. You've seen birds dive into the ocean before, at which point you assume that they bob back to the surface, shake the water off their feathers and get back to flying. They're not spiders after all, right?
Paul Osmond
Wrong. Well, right about the spider part, but after that you were wrong. Stupid.
See, the gannet has a couple adaptations that allow it to dive from heights up to 100 feet: It has bubble-wrap-like air sacs in its chest that allow it to survive impacts that bridge jumpers count on being the quick and easy way out, and it has no external nostrils. You might think that's a weird feature for a bird to need, but that's because you never dropped a cool buck fifty on nostril pincher things that swimmers use. Gannets can be found 72 feet under the surface of the ocean, swimming with their wings and feet and confusing the hell out of some sharks.
Jason Heller/Barcroft Media, Telegraph
That's one confused shark.
Then there's the dipper, which gets its name for the way it sticks its head into shallow water and scans for prey. Aw, just like a duck or a goose! And then it "dips" the rest of its top half into the water and starts swimming around for a couple of minutes like it ain't no thang. Nothing dramatic. One second, it's flying through the air, the next it's bobbing around on the surface, then it spots something and plunges in and swims by flapping its wings like it is flying again, but this time underwater.
Seeing them in action makes you almost want to accuse them of cheating at evolution. Y'know, if that didn't sound retarded.
National Geographic, via YouTube
Who did you blow, huh dipper?
You can find more from Kier at makeshiftcoma.blogspot.com
For more insane finds, check out 6 Insane Discoveries That Science Can't Explain and 6 Mind-Blowing Discoveries Made Using Google Earth.


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The North Face Impulse Women's Pants
The North Face Impulse Women's Pants are designed for warmth and mobility. The sleek women's running pants feature VaporWick moisture-management that moves sweat and moisture away from skin so you stay cool and dry from start to finish. The North Face pants have a performance fit with slight boot cut that's flattering for most figures. 88% polyester, 12% elastane.


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Engaging Care for HIV-Infected Adolescent Females.
Recruitment status was Active, not recruiting
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HIV Infection
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Defined Population
Primary Purpose: Screening
Time Perspective: Longitudinal
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Drug Use and HIV-Infected Female Adolescents' Care Use
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|July 2003
The primary outcome examined in the proposed study is engagement in care, operationalized as the number of clinical visits attended. Clinic visits will be monitored on a weekly basis. Secondary outcomes of interest include medication adherence, sexual risk behaviors, and substance use. For the quantitative study, formal psychological testing will be conducted with index adolescent females, and biological specimens will be collected to validate self-reported drug use. CD-4 counts and viral load will be monitored every three months via chart review.
Index adolescents will be interviewed every six months (with phone interviews focused on service utilization at each six month interval midpoint) for eighteen months while network members will be interviewed at baseline and one year.
Qualitative interviews in the Ethnographic Study will be conducted with a small sub-sample of index and identified network participants from each site at least monthly for a period of at least 18 months. Qualitative interviews will be ethnographic in nature and will rely on participants' life stories and narratives of social experience to supply their content and to guide their progression.
Qualitative Interviews in the Gender Substudy will be conducted with a subsample of index participants. These qualitative interviews will focus on issues of gender related vulnerabilities and will be used to develop a survey to be administered to all index participants from sites participating in this substudy.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 23 Years (Adult)
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Study Eligibility: In-depth Interviews
• Index Participants
- Approximately 10 index participants between the ages of 18 years, 0 months and 23 years, 11 months will be recruited for in-depth interviews at the substudy sites.
- Their selection need not be random; however, they should be participants who are enrolled already in the quantitative study.
- Index participants who are involved in the ethnographic study are eligible to participate in the gender substudy interviews also, if they wish.
Inclusion/ Exclusion Criteria: Inclusion
- Age 18 years, 0 months - 23 years, 11 months
- Enrolled in quantitative study
- English-speaking
Following initial development supported by in-depth interviews, the survey assessing gender vulnerability will be introduced as an additional instrument to be administered to all index participants in the quantitative study during the 12-month or 18-month quantitative study visit for index participants at New York, Miami, and Chicago, and at the 6-month or 12-month quantitative study visit for index participants at New Orleans.
Study Eligibility: Survey
• Index Participants
Index participants who are between the ages of 18 years, 0 months and 23 years, 11 months and who are enrolled in the quantitative study will be eligible to complete the gender survey. The survey will be introduced at the 12-month or 18-month study visit of the quantitative study in New York, Miami, and Chicago, and at the 6-month or 12-month quantitative study visit for index participants at New Orleans.
Inclusion/ Exclusion Criteria: Inclusion
- Age 18 years, 0 months - 23 years, 11 months
- Enrolled in quantitative study
- English-speaking
- Female
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00489034
|United States, California
|Universtiy of Southern California
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90033
|United States, Florida
|University of Miami, School of Medicine
|Miami, Florida, United States, 33101
|United States, Illinois
|Stroger Hospital of Cook County
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
|United States, Louisiana
|Tulane Medical Center
|New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 70112
|United States, New York
|Montefiore Medical Center
|Bronx, New York, United States, 10467
|Study Director:
|Lori Perez, Ph.D
Additional Information:
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00489034 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|June 19, 2007
|Last Updated:
|June 19, 2007
|Health Authority:
|United States: Federal Government
Keywords provided by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD):
adolescent females
clinical care
risk behaviors
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on July 28, 2016


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The good cloud attract and switch: Agility instead of cost
As craving cloud adoption usually mounts, for both public
cloud services and a private
cloud paradigm, it's apropos transparent that vendors are perplexing to change their balance to improved suit
their ambitions. The new scapegoat is "agility"; a sell-siders would fain have we forget about that
earlier golden calf, "operating losses (opex) contra collateral losses (capex)."
At Interop final week, there was a two-day Enterprise Cloud Summit that trotted
out each cloud computing trope and moldy aged straw male from a final 3 years…except
that one. Based on a businessman panels, that these days during slightest have association names you've listened of
instead of flavor-of-the-week startups, a sorcery bottom-line advantages aren't a rallying cry
anymore. And Microsoft, during Interop and again this week during TechEd, put cloud in many every
tag line though accompanied it with "agility, agility, agility."
"Use Azure to be some-more agile, use Hyper-V to be some-more agile," and so on. The usually time Microsoft
mentioned cloud's vaunted economies of scale and betrothed hyper-efficiency was to tell us all about
its new Chicago information center, that will horde 700,000 servers and give Microsoft "unprecedented"
levels of potency and using costs. Of course, they're not obscure prices anywhere that I
could see, so that was an unsubtle approach to tell your business that they'll be focussed over a barrel
like never before. Did Larry Ellison start giving Redmond PR tips?
The good ol' days of cloud
Remember when "the cloud" was all about transfer those annoying collateral investment dollars for slimmer,
trimmer opex costs? It was a ensign underneath that rode hosts of cloud providers, startups and
independent program vendors. IT shops were ostensible to dump all and group to a thought of
never owning infrastructure again, or branch their crummy aged information centers into sparkly new
systems but rebuilding all from scratch.
That was, of course, since cloud incited out to be a viable business indication for a serious
business craving (Amazon), and half a IT universe got whiplash examination it happen. The whole
point was that we could take cheap, simple things (white box servers and tough drives) and prepare adult a
working, scalable IT infrastructure that delivered what companies like CA and IBM were promising
for umpteen jillions of dollars. "Cheap and it works like crazy" is a really compelling
Even today, Amazon Web Services' margins could substantially make Croesus weep. However, like all
marketing, there's some law to a fact that lively — that we'll report as a ability to
deliver, change and urge IT services faster than differently — is as critical to enterprises as
the operational potency to be gained from using a cloud computing model. By and large, users I
talk to aren't terribly confused: Cloud computing gives them a ability to do more, with a same
amount of budget, than they could before. That's since it's popular. But that's pristine poison to the
sales and selling departments during a likes of IBM, Microsoft, and so on. They'll finish adult selling
you a same volume of things and you'll do 5 times what we used to, or worse, you'll buy less
It's apropos increasingly transparent that to scrupulously take advantage of cloud computing — inside,
outside and in between — enterprises are looking during a long-term, elemental change in how they do
IT. Amazon did it fundamentally for giveaway (open source software, mind persperate and amortized commodity
hardware). Is that what got we meddlesome in cloud, or was it a awaiting of opening your wallet
even wider to Microsoft, IBM, CA, BMC and all a rest?
There are 0 viable, attractive, salubrious examples of cloud computing or enterprises using
cloud computing that can't be finished a same approach and comprehend a same strange economies; many IT
shops will collect a businessman since it's easier and some-more arguable than doing it themselves. But when
the vendors are perplexing to downplay a cost benefit, it's a pointer of trouble. Watch out for
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Winona's Swellow
this wiki
This Swellow is a shiny Swellow that was the last Pokémon she used during her Gym battle with Ash.
It is unknown when or where Winona got this unusual specimen, but color wasn't the only special thing about Swellow. It was also a formidable opponent in battle and although its endurance wasn't great it made up for this with its impressive speed and powerful attacks. During her battle with Ash, Winona's Swellow easily defeated Ash's Grovyle and hit his Swellow many times, exhausting the normal coloured Pokémon. However Ash's Swellow eventually defeated it by using Wing Attack on the ground, blinding the shiny Swellow with sand before finishing it with a second Wing Attack.
Winona's Swellow influenced Ash's Swellow to learn Aerial Ace, having almost defeated it by using this move along with its other attacks.
Known moves
|Aerial Ace
|Sky High Gym Battle!
|Hyper Beam
|Sky High Gym Battle!
|Sky High Gym Battle!
|+ indicates this Pokémon used this move recently.*
- indicates this Pokémon normally can't use this move.
Voice actors
- Kōichi Sakaguchi (Japanese)
- Darren Dunstan (English)
- Winona's Swellow was the first shiny Pokémon to be owned by a Gym Leader, the second being Clair's Druddigon.
- Winona's Swellow used Hyper Beam several times and never needed to recharge.
- Winona's Swellow is a shade of dark blue where a regular Swellow is blue, while in the games, this area on a shiny Swellow is green.


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Accounting Scholarships
The Ernst & Young Fund for Excellence in Accounting Education was established by Ernst & Young LLP to promote educational excellence in accounting at Pace University. The Fund provides scholarship awards of $5,000 each to outstanding students who are enrolled in the Lubin School of Business in a qualified accounting program and maintain a 3.30 GPA. Students eligible for these awards must demonstrate involvement and leadership in either co-curricular activities at Pace or service organizations in their local community or high school.
For more information: www.pace.edu/lubin/wfo/files/EYScholarshipApplication.pdf
Deloitte Endowed Scholarship
Established in 2006 by Pace alumni, this scholarship rewarding academic excellence (need-based) is funded by Deloitte LLP, a firm that provides audit, financial advisory, tax and consulting services to selected clients. The award is made to full-time undergraduate students who have at least a 3.5 GPA based on completion of at least 45 credits in a four-year college or community college, are majoring in Accounting, and are currently in or transferring to the Accounting Program, Lubin School of Business, Pace University, Pleasantville. Applicants are required to file a FAFSA application. For more information, contact Dean Eileen Murphy, firstname.lastname@example.com, 914-773 -3531.
The Joseph A. and Mary DiBenedetto Memorial Fund for Service Excellence in Accounting
$2,500 scholarships will be awarded to Junior year accounting majors at the Lubin School of Business who have demonstrated outstanding service to the profession of accounting. The award may be used by any eligible student for tuition and/or related costs. The Dean and faculty members in the accounting department make the selection of the award recipients.
For more information: Contact Jennifer W. Bernstein, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Federal Cyber Service Scholarship for Service
The Scholarship for Service Program (SFS) in Information Assurances is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Scholarship for Service (SFS) is a unique program designed to increase and strengthen the cadre of federal information assurance professionals that protect the government's critical information infrastructure. The scholarship will support students with two-year full scholarships. A scholarship recipient will be required to take series of courses in computer security in the Seidenberg School, which may be considered as his/her curriculum minor.
- Must be a U.S. citizen.
- Must pursue or intend to pursue a course of study in Information Assurance as approved by the Principal Investigator of the SFS Program at Pace University. Although there will be flexibility in meeting individual student interests and goals, there will be a list of required courses a student must take.
- Must be within two years of graduation.
- Must have a GPA of at least 3.0.
- Successful applicants must work for two years at a federal agency upon graduation.
For more information: Contact Dr. Picheng Lee, firstname.lastname@example.com, 212-618-6424. Visit www.pace.edu/pace/seidenberg//research/labs/information- assurance-education-and-research-center/scholarship-for-service/ for full eligibility requirements and other details.
Accountemps/AICPA Student Scholarship
$2,500 scholarships will be awarded to two outstanding AICPA student affiliate members majoring in accounting, finance, or information systems with 3.0 QPA or better both overall and in major. Must have completed at least 30 credit hours (6 in accounting), and be enrolled full-time.
For more information : Applications are available on the AICPA Web site: www.aicpa.org or you can contact them at (212) 596-6224.
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
Ritchie-Jennings Memorial Scholarship: 30 scholarships of $1,000 each will be awarded for full-time, undergraduate students with a declared major in accounting or criminal justice. Must attend a four-year accredited college or university.
For more information : Applications are available on the Web site: www.CFEnet.com, by e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.com or by calling (800) 245-3321.
Institute of Management Accountants National Scholarship Program
The IMA National Scholarship Program was created to encourage and assist IMA student members who demonstrate outstanding potential to pursue a career in Management Accounting, Financial Management, or Information Technology. Selected individuals will be awarded scholarships ranging in amount from $1,000 to $2,500 and an award of the first year associate membership dues post graduation. Applicants must be IMA student members.
For more information: Contact (800) 638-4427 ext. 1543 or e-mail email@example.com for more information.
The Government Finance Officers Association Frank L. Greathouse Accounting Scholarship
$3,500 will be awarded to one or more senior undergraduate students enrolled in full-time study preparing for a career in state and local government finance. Qualified candidates must be U.S. or Canadian citizens or permanent residents.
For more information: Applications are available on their Web site: www.gfoa.org .
National Society of Accountants
$500-$2000 scholarships will be awarded to undergraduate accounting majors. Must have a minimum QPA of 3.0, and must also be a U.S. or Canadian citizen.
For more information: www.nsacct.org
NYSSCPA Excellence in Accounting Scholarship
$1500 scholarships will be awarded per academic year for full-time students ($750 part-time) in a 4- year or 5-year accounting program. Applicants must be entering their third or fourth year, maintain a 3.0 QPA or better, must be residents of New York State, and must be either U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
For more information: Applications are available on their Web site: www.nysscpa.org .
Thomas G. Labrecque Smart Start Scholarship Program
Eligibility: Each year 20 high school graduating seniors across New York City become part of the Thomas G. Labrecque Smart Start Scholarship Program. Since 1992 the Scholarship program has had an impact on 220 students throughout the five boroughs of New York City by providing education, work-related and financial benefits. Scholarship recipients receive a full-tuition scholarship to participating colleges. Candidates must meet the following criteria:
- graduating seniors from New York City high schools who are New York City residents
- students with legal authorization to work in the United States
- students accepted to one of the participation colleges
- students planning to major in one of the following fields of study: business, communications, computer science, engineering, liberal arts or social science (life science majors are not eligible)
National Society of Accountants Scholarship Program
Scholarship applicant must meet the following requirements:
- Undergraduate students, majoring in accounting at a United States (U.S.) accredited 2- or 4-year college;
- Applicants must have a "B" or better overall grade point average;
- Applicants must be U.S. or Canadian citizens attending a U.S. accredited school.
For more information: www.nsacct.org/uploadedFiles/foundation/scholarshipNSACC_guidelines_06%20final.pdf
The American Woman's Society of CPAs Scholarships
Eligibility: The AWSCPA offers a national scholarship to individuals aspiring to become a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). The recipient of the scholarship will receive funding for a CPA review course conducted by a recognized CPA review provider. The scholarship will be paid directly to the provider and is valued at approximately $2200. Needs and scholastic aptitude will be considered for the recipient(s). Candidates must meet the following criteria:
- Applicant must meet the minimum education requirements to sit for the CPA exam within one year of scholarship awarding.
- Applicant must either be an entering Senior, 5th year student, graduate student or a graduate AND eligible to take a review course within one year of scholarship awarding.
- Applicant must have a 3.0 GPA in accounting and a 3.0 GPA overall.
- Due date of application is March 15. Applicants will be notified of acceptance on June 30.
- Applicants must provide a validated transcript from their college to verify grades, major and classes taken.
- Applicant must submit an essay no longer than 1,000 words explaining why they are deserving of the scholarship.
- Applicant must either be a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident of the United States.
For more information: www.nsacct.org/uploadedFiles/foundation/Application2005.pdf
AICPA Scholarships for Minority Accounting Students Program
Up to $5,000 will be awarded to outstanding minority students in accounting majors. Must have completed at least 30 credit hours (6 in accounting), have a 3.3 QPA or better, and be enrolled full-time.
For more information : Applications are available on their Web site: www.aicpa.org or calling (212) 596-6270.
Minorities in Government Finance Scholarship
Eligibility: The GFOA's Minorities in Government Finance Scholarship of $5,000 is available for award to an upper-division undergraduate or graduate student of public administration, (governmental) accounting, finance, political science, economics, or business administration (with a specific focus on government or nonprofit management). The purpose of the Minorities in Government Finance Scholarship is to recognize outstanding performance by minority students preparing for careers in state and local government finance. Candidates must meet the following criteria:
- Currently a full- or part-time upper-division undergraduate or graduate student in public administration, (governmental) accounting, finance, political science, economics or business administration (with a specific focus on government or nonprofit management).
- Belong to one of the following groups (as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau): Black or African American, American Indian or Alaskan native, Asian native, Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, Hispanic or Latino.
- Citizen or permanent resident of the United States or Canada.
- Recommendation by student's academic advisor, department chair (undergraduate students), or dean of the graduate program (graduate students).
- Student has not been a past winner of a scholarship administered by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada are not eligible to apply.
Urban Financial Services Coalition New York Chapter Scholarships
Eligibility: Scholarship Candidates will be selected based on ranking in the following areas: Leadership - Candidates should be able to demonstrate character and leadership skills through their involvement in community organizations and/or through their place of employment; Career Goals - Preference will be given to those candidates electing to pursue a career in business, financial services or a related industry. The candidate's curriculum should reflect the stated career goal; Essay & GPA - Candidates will be judged on written communications skills and overall grade point average. Candidates must meet the following criteria:
- Currently attending an accredited two or four-year college or university
- Minimum GPA: 3.0
- Financial Services related degree (i.e., finance, accounting, economics, business, management, business administration, marketing, law, technology, etc.)
- Demonstrate leadership abilities and/or school and community involvement
- 2 Letters of Recommendation - All applicants are required to provide a letter of reference from a teacher or school official, community representative or current/previous employer. This letter should expound on the applicant's demonstrated ability in academics, extracurricular activities, character and leadership (on letterhead, one page maximum).
- Proof of registration for the next semester with minimum of 12-credit course load
- Official Transcript
- Completed Essay
- Completed Application
The George A. Nielsen Public Investor Scholarship
Eligibility: $5,000 (may be two awards of $2,500 each) will be awarded to an employee of a local government or other public entity who is enrolled or plans to enroll in an undergraduate or graduate program in public administration, finance, business administration, or related field. You must have been employed at least one year by a state, local, government or other public entity, you must also be citizen or permanent resident of the United States or Canada. You will need to get a recommendation by your employer, and never have been a past winner of a scholarship administered by the Government The purpose of the Public Investor Scholarship is to support the studies of full- or part-time undergraduate or graduate students with career interests in the efficient and productive investment of public funds.
For more information: www.gfoa.org
Fieri National Scholarship, Bronx Chapter
Eligibility: The FIERI Scholarship Fund was established in 1985 to enable and encourage gifted students to pursue their educational goals. In the past several years, FIERI has offered several scholarships to a number of talented young men and women. This year, FIERI will offer one scholarship in the amount of $5,000.00 to help defray the increasing costs and expenses of a college education. In order to be eligible to apply for the scholarship, applicants must meet the following criteria:
- Must be of Italian American origin;
- Must already be attending college or a University (HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS ARE NOT ELIGIBLE); and
- Must reside in the Bronx or Westchester County OR attend a college or University located in the Bronx or Westchester OR be an active member of a chapter of Fieri National.
Gates Millennium Scholars Program
Eligibility: The Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS), funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was established in 1999 to provide outstanding African American, American Indian/Alaska Natives, Asian Pacific Islander Americans, and Hispanic American students with an opportunity to complete an undergraduate college education, in all discipline areas and a graduate education for those students pursuing studies in mathematics, science, engineering, education, or library science. Candidates must meet the following criteria:
- Are African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian Pacific Islander American or Hispanic American,
- Are a citizen/legal permanent resident or national of the United States,
- Have attained a cumulative GPA of 3.3 on a 4.00 scale (unweighted) at the time of nomination,
- Will be entering a U.S. accredited college or university as full-time, degree seeking freshmen in the Fall of 2005,
- Have demonstrated leadership abilities through participation in community service, extracurricular or other activities, and
- Meet the Federal Pell Grant eligibility criteria.
Target All-Around Scholarships
Eligibility: The Target All-Around Scholarship program is unique as it recognizes volunteer work as well as academic achievement. We're proud to be able to thank and reward any student who makes the grade at such a high level in the community. Target awards over six hundred $1,000 All-Around Scholarships each year, including one $25,000 scholarship to a high school senior and college student age 24 or younger. Target All–Around Scholarship recipients are selected by an independent organization, not by Target Corporation employees. Candidates must be high school seniors, high school graduates and current undergraduate college students (age 24 and under) who are legal U.S. residents and meet the following criteria:
- Applicants must enroll in a full–time undergraduate course of study no later than the fall term of the 2005–2006 school year at an accredited two–or four–year college, university or vocational–technical school in the U.S.
- Employees of Target Corporation and past recipients of Target All–Around Scholarships are not eligible to apply. Program is not offered in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or outside the United States.
Chela Gateway to Success Scholarship Program
Eligibility: Chela Education Financing is proud to offer scholarships to students throughout the year. Through this year's Money Matters Scholarship Contest, we will award a total of U.S. $75,000 in scholarships to current undergraduate and graduate students. Fifteen (15) scholarships of up to $5,000 each will be awarded.
For more information: www.chelastudentloans.org/Scholarships/GatewayToSuccess.asp
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Eligibility: The purpose of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans is to provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields. Candidates must meet the following criteria:
- If you are a "Green Card" holder. Please provide a copy of your card.
- If you are a naturalized citizen. Please provide the eight-digit number on your Citizenship Certificate and the date of naturalization. A photocopy of the name page of your United States passport can substitute as evidence of citizenship.
- If you have two parents who are naturalized citizens as of the date of your application. Please provide the eight-digit numbers on their Citizenship Certificates and the dates of their naturalization. A
photocopy of the name page of their United States passport can substitute as evidence of citizenship.
Note: These will be independently verified with the Immigration and Naturalization Service. If you do not meet the eligibility requirements under 1), 2), or 3) above, you are not eligible for consideration in the current competition of the Fellowship Program. Perhaps you will be next year.
- You may not be older than 30 as of November 1, 2004.
- You must be a senior in college or a holder of a bachelor's degree or at present enrolled in a graduate program. Individuals who are in the third, or subsequent, year of study in the same graduate program are not, however, eligible for this competition. Students who have received a master's degree in a program and are continuing for a doctoral degree in the same program are considered to have been in the same program from the time they began their work on their master's degree.
All-Ink.com College Scholarship Program
Eligibility : All-Ink.com is offering up to $10,000 in scholarships to qualified students who are enrolled or planning to participate in an accredited college or university program. Students who apply must be a United States citizen or permanent resident with a minimum 2.5 Grade Point Average. In addition, students applying are required to write a 50 to 200 word essay on who has had the greatest impact on your life, and a 50 to 200 word essay on what you hope to achieve in your personal and professional life after completing college.
For more information: www.all-ink.com/scholarship.html
Women's Forum Education Award
Eligibility: Candidates must meet the following criteria:
- women over 35, returning to complete a college education
- Resident of New York
- Attended college in NYC, during the 2002-2003 academic year
- Currently enrolled for at least six (6) credits
- Need at least one semester to complete the 2005-2006 graduation requirements
- 500-word essay describing leadership, motivation, financial need, goals and interests
A.Patrick Charnon Memorial Scholarship
Eligibility: Recipients must be admitted or enrolled in a full-time undergraduate program of study in an accredited four-year college or university in the United States. They must maintain good academic standing and make progress toward a degree. The Charnon Scholarship Review Committee will decide whether applicants fulfill the requirements of the award. The selection committee looks for candidates who value tolerance, compassion and respect for all people in their communities, and who have demonstrated their commitments to these values by their actions.
For more information: www.cesresources.org/charnon.html
The Ronald Reagan Future Leaders Scholarship Program
Eligibility: The Ronald Reagan Future Leaders Scholarship Program seeks to recognize outstanding young people who are promoting American values on college campuses. The scholarships are designed to alleviate the financial burdens associated with higher education, permitting the winners to devote more time both to pursuing their academic goals and advancing their leadership initiatives. Applicants must be U.S. citizens enrolled full-time in good standing at any accredited, four-year degree-granting institution in the United States or its territories. Applicants may apply for the Ronald Reagan Future Leaders Scholarship Program during their sophomore year. Winners will receive the scholarship for their junior year and may apply for renewal before their senior year. While sophomores are preferred, juniors may also apply for a one-time award for the senior year.
For more information: www.thephillipsfoundation.org/futureleaders.htm
Talbots Women's Scholarship Fund
Eligibility: All applicants must be women residing in the United States who are seeking an undergraduate degree from an accredited two- or four-year college or university, or vocational-technical school. Only applicants seeking a bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university are eligible to receive a $10,000 award. Scholarship awards are based primarily on financial need and previous achievements for women who earned their high school diploma or GED at least 10 years ago.
For more information: www1.talbots.com/about/scholar/scholar.asp
Hispanic College Fund Scholarships
The Hispanic College Fund Scholarships range from $500 - $10,000.
- be of Hispanic background
- maintain a 3.0 Grade Point Average (on a 4.0 scale)
- be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or have graduated from high school in the U.S. after attending at least 3 years (by June 2011)
- reside in the U.S. or Puerto Rico
- plan to enroll in a full-time undergraduate, and in some cases graduate, program at an accredited college or university in the U.S. or Puerto Rico.
- demonstrate financial need
- Some programs will have additional requirements
Undergraduate Scholarships
- Lubin Alumni Achievement Scholarship Award
- Field Study and Study Abroad Scholarships
- Transfer Student Scholarships
- The Joseph A. and Mary DiBenedetto Memorial Fund for Service Excellence in Accounting
- Ernst & Young Fund for Excellence in Accounting Education
- Federal Cyber Service Scholarship for Service
- Accounting Scholarships
- General Business Scholarships
- Finance and Economics Scholarships
- Information Systems Scholarships
- International Management Scholarships
- Management and Management Science Scholarships
- Marketing Scholarships
- Graduation Awards for Lubin Undergraduate Students
- Undergraduate Financial Aid Office
- Undergraduate Scholarships and Grants


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WACO (December 5, 2012)--The Arthritis Foundation is looking for runners and walkers to be there with bells on for the 23rd annual Waco Jingle Bell Run/Walk for Arthritis.
The 5k run and 1-mile walk will get started at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the Cameron Park Zoo.
Registration begins at 4:30 p.m.
This year's event will also include the 6/10 of a mile Snowman Shuffle for children under 13 and costume contests.
The wheelchair division will begin at 5:30 p.m. as well.
Each year the event honors a hero with arthritis and this year's honoree is 2-year-old Julia Mills Kehlenbach.
"Mills" was diagnosed with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis) after she refused to go down the stairs. Her left knee and both ankles are infected with the disease.
So far, $28,211 of the $65,000 goal has been reached to fight arthritis.
Online registration ends Friday.


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Surgeon makes new ear with tissue from other body parts
|Dr. Patrick Byrne, left, chats with Sherrie Walker before one of her last major surgeries at Johns Hopkins Hospital, September 25, 2012, in Baltimore, Maryland. It's one of a series of surgeries to reconstruct her ear, which she lost to skin cancer. (Doug Kapustin/Baltimore Sun/MCT)
It's a big step for Walter, whose life was turned upside down when doctors finally figured out the persistent sore in her ear was actually basal cell carcinoma, the most common form of cancer. By then it had spread so much that the Bel Air, Md., mother of two had to have part of her skull and most of her left ear removed.
But surgeons at Johns Hopkins Hospital have constructed a new ear for the 42-year-old Macy's manager and, feeling like her old self, Walter is again enjoying ponytails and other simple things in life. On Tuesday doctors performed the last major surgery in a series of procedures spanning 20 months to finish the ear.
The rebuilding is believed to be the most complicated ear reconstruction in North America. The new ear is made from cartilage, skin and arteries from other parts of Walter's body. The ear spent four months implanted in her forearm so skin could grow around it.
The ear had been attached in a January surgery, but looked more like an ear-shaped blob sealed against Walter's head. On Tuesday, a group of surgeons led by Dr. Patrick Byrne created an earlobe and shaped it to look more like a real ear
Dressed in a hospital gown before the surgery, Walter was a ball of jitters, both anxious and grateful to soon have her own ear again. Byrne reassured Walter and calmly answered her questions.
"The whole goal is to get you two ears to match," he said.
Walter calmed a bit and joked that he also might stretch the other side of her face and get rid of some of the wrinkles.
"You won't need that for another 15 years," Byrne said.
As doctors prepared to wheel Walter to the operating room, she sighed: "I am one step closer to the end, to looking normal again."
Walter didn't think much about it when in 2008 a scab on her ear wouldn't go away.
"I kept breaking it," she said. "I thought it was something I was doing that wasn't allowing it to heal."
Her primary care physician prescribed antibiotics but the sore persisted. Eight months later with no change, Walter made an appointment with a dermatologist.
"She looked at it for less than five minutes and she said, 'You have cancer,'" Walter remembered. "I looked at my mother and I looked at myself and it was too much to comprehend."
Walter assumed treating the cancer would be simple. "You remove it and you're good," she said.
It turned out to be anything but easy.
The doctor cut away seven layers of skin, which left the inside of her earlobe fragile and delicate but still intact. All seemed fine until Walter discovered blood in her ear in October 2010 and went to the doctor to discover that the cancer had spread into the ear canal.
An aggressive treatment was needed because the cancer also had spread beyond her ear. Doctors removed Walter's ear canal, ear drum and most of the outside of her ear in a 16-hour procedure done around Christmas. They also had to remove neck, gland and lymph node tissues and part of her skull around her ear where the cancer had spread. She then went through weeks of radiation.
Life seemed bleak. Although Walter was glad to be alive, living without an ear had its difficult moments. She could no longer hear on her left side and worried about how she looked. She started wearing her hair long and in a way that concealed her face.
Byrne, an associate professor of otolaryngology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, assured Walter that she had options.
She could get a prosthetic ear that could be attached each day. Most people with prosthetics attach it with clips to a titanium rod, but Walter's skull bone had been removed and could not support the rod.
"She would have had to deal with tape and glue and it would have been a royal pain in the butt," Byrne said of a prosthetic. "It just didn't sound appealing to her. And I agreed."
He suggested Hopkins doctors could give her an entirely new ear. The thought gave her hope.
"It seemed a little strange, but I was willing to try it," Walter said.
Byrne and his team of surgeons used cartilage from Walter's ribs to construct and carve an ear, a procedure that takes hours because cartilage is hard and not easy to work with.
Facial and neck skin is usually used in ear reconstruction, but Walter didn't have enough because of her previous surgeries. Doctors chose to use the skin of the forearm as an alternative.
Because the forearm skin doesn't stretch well, Walter's had to be expanded using a balloon filled with saline - a process that took several weeks. The tissue expander then was removed and the new ear placed in the arm so that skin would grow around it.
"We implanted the ear near the wrist and just let it live there so all the skin could grow into the ear," Byrne said.
Walter called the stretching process painful and having an ear in her arm strange. People saw it and gawked. She didn't use her arm much during those months because she worried about hitting and damaging it.
But Walter said she and her family learned to joke about the ear and even used it as a coping mechanism. When she got tired of her children's whining she'd stick her arm in the air and say, "I can't hear you."
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December 13, 2011
World's first Polaris Climate Change Observatory to be built in Cape Town
South Africa's oldest working harbour, the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, will soon be home to the world's first Polaris Climate Change Observatory (PCCO), a research and science centre dedicated to educating the public about the dire effects of climate change.
The concept was launched on 8 December, 2011 at the Clock Tower, where the International Polar Foundation (IPF) also presented its plan to develop the observatory.
The building site for the observatory has been earmarked as the renowned Collier Jetty, which forms part of the V&A Waterfront's commercial harbour facilities. Built at the turn of the 20th century, it will now be revitalised with the construction of the observatory, which will resemble a giant iceberg that's melting, as a result of climate change, surrounded by water on all sides.
Permanent exhibitions will be held at the centre to give visitors insight into the climatic history of our planet, the rapidly changing polar regions, the disruption of climatic equilibrium due to mankind's dependence on fossil fuels and what we can do to manage climate change. Interactive performances, conferences, film festivals and more are also on the cards.
Completion of the observatory is set for 2014, the same year that Cape Town, one of five Southern Rim Gateway Cities to Antarctica, will be the World Design Capital.
The launch was attended by leading Climate Smart champions, including His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco, the official patron of the Polaris Climate Change Observatory, and Her Serene Highness Princess Charlene of Monaco.
Alderman Belinda Walker, the City of Cape Town's mayoral committee member for Economic, Environmental and Spatial Planning, represented by Alderman Felicity Purchase on the evening, welcomed the PCCO. "We are extremely privileged to have been identified as the host city for this groundbreaking international initiative. The Polaris Climate Change Observatory at the heart of the V&A Waterfront will further entrench Cape Town's growing status as an iconic destination and international business centre and design hub."
For more information about the Polaris Climate Change Observatory, please visit www.polarfoundation.org/projects/project_detail/polaris_climate_change_observatory


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How do I make my game fullscreen? It's always in windowed mode. I'm using Eclipse on a Mac.
At one place in your code, you create your game container. If you followed the tutorials, that part will look something like this:
Now you can call setDisplayMode on the container object:
The first two parameter define the window resolution, the third if slick should be opened in windowed or fullscreen mode (true for fullscreen mode).
You should head to the slick2d wiki, as it has some beginner tutorials explaining such things. For example in this tutorial the basic things are explained step by step (also your question is answered there): Creating a Basic Game tutorial
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I am trying to verify whether the category of bialgebras and then the category of weak bialgebras are cocomplete.
We know that algebraic categories are cocomplete (Thm. 4.5 of this book), so I have been trying to show that these two categories are algebraic.
I suppose that this is something known for bialgebras at least, but I am not able to find any reference about that (or a proof for the matter). Does anyone know a reference or a proof?


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Easy questions get the most votes. I think that's undeniable. More people know the answer so vote. It seems clear to me that when people don't know they answer they don't vote.
Should we encourage answering harder questions by making votes for such questions proportionally worth more?
Edit: I should've been clearer. The idea I'm floating is that the value of each vote could be inversely proportional to the total number of votes for the question.


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Pianist Pei-Shan Lee's active concert career has taken her to the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Cleveland's Severance Hall, Taiwan's National Concert Hall, and tours of France, Germany, Belgium, and Israel. Her many summer festival appearances include The Mostly Mozart Festival, Caramoor Festival, Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Chautauqua Institute, Music Academy of the West, Heifetz International Music Institute, the International Piano Festival in Spain, the International Piano Festival at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, ProQuartet in France, and the Great Wall International Music Academy in China.
Lee's most recording of the Strauss and Szymanowski Sonatas for Violin and Piano with violinist Grzegorz Kotow will soon be released on the ArchiMusic label.
Since coming to the United States from Taiwan, Lee has collaborated with some of America's most important musicians: violinists Donald Weilerstein, Ani Kavafian, Jacques Israelievitch, Joseph Silverstein, Ryu Goto, and Stefan Jackiw; violists Kim Kashkashian and Dimitri Murrath; cellists Paul Katz and Andres Diaz; flutist Jeanne Baxtresser; and pianist James Tocco. Her chamber music partners have included the Jupiter and Harlem String Quartets, members of the Bavarian Radio, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, San Diego Symphony Orchestras and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
In her hometown of Boston, Lee has performed at NEC, MIT, Boston Ballet, and in recitals with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She also works with BSO's guest conductors and soloists, and was the Boston pianist seen in rehearsal with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter in her documentary "The Portrait." Her live performances can also be heard on WQXR, WGBH, and WRCJ.
In 2006, she was appointed pianist for Itzhak Perlman's violin studio at the Perlman Music Program and has since joined its faculty in the Sarasota Winter Residency. She also served on the faculty of the Chautauqua School of Music, as staff pianist at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the famed Meadowmount School for Strings. Lee's comprehensive knowledge of the chamber music and collaborative literature have made her a highly sought after partner to many up-and-coming young artists, especially string and woodwind players.
Lee came to the U.S. for piano study after winning the Youth Division of Taiwan's National Piano Competition. The Cleveland Institute awarded her the Rosa Lobe Memorial Award in recognition of the highest level of artistic achievement in Collaborative Piano. Her doctoral thesis "The Collaborative Pianist: Balancing Roles in Partnership," has become an important resource for schools wishing to begin/develop a Collaborative Piano program, and is available at ProQuest. Frequently invited to China and Taiwan for masterclasses and residencies, her dissertation is currently in the process of being translated into Chinese.
B.M., piano, Manhattan School of Music. M.M., The Juilliard School. A.D., Cleveland Institute of Music. D.M.A., New England Conservatory. Studies with Irma Vallecillo, Anne Epperson, Jonathan Feldman, Samuel Sanders,Solomon Mikowsky, and Yu-Yun Chen; and in Taiwan, 陳玉芸, 徐頌仁, 郭素梣, 及林淑真教授. Also faculty of the Perlman Music Program. Former faculty of Chautauqua School of Music. Also faculty of California State University Northridge, where she is creating a new M.M. in Collaborative Keyboard.