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Buyer Beware: This Garage Door Repair Technician Is So Dishonest…It's Criminal.
If we told you that someone in your area had been convicted of nine counts residential burglary and nine counts of theft, you'd glad to know that person was sentenced to 10+ years in state prison…right? What if we told you that the person guilty …Read More
Consumer Alert Part 4: How To Detect A Scammer By Phone
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I called Overhead door of Albuquerque for a broken garage door spring. And to a very pleasant surprise they said they could have someone at my house today. I called them at 3p.m. and Their service technician was at my house just after 4. With the job being completed before 5. Myself and my wife are very satisfied customers. I also want to add that the service technician Justin Imhoff was very professional and got the job done quickly. Great job.read more
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I am very impressed with overhead door company. Our tech was fast courteous and professional. It was a pleasure having Tony Vega install our door THANK YOUread more
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J D Olague
05:01 11 May 18
Wednesday May 9th, our garage door frame pulled away from the wall on one side. This happened at 630am. Cables were hanging pulleys fell to the floor, what a mess. I called OHD at 650am, was told a technician would be here between 8am and noon. Was stressing out as I had to be at work at noon. Looking at the mess in my garage I figured this would be an all day and very expensive job. The technician Patrick, called at 715am said he would be here in 45 minutes. He arrived at 755pm. Took a look at the mess and assured me he had seen worse. He said "I'll have you ready to go in about 20 minutes". I said no way. He finished the job and was driving away by 825am. That included the 5 minutes it took to do the paperwork. He finished in 20 minutes!! Unbelievable!! He was very professional, knowledgeable and courteous. Not only did he make the nessesary repairs but also did some preventative maintenance to make sure this didn't happen again. Patrick is an asset to your company. I highly recommend Overhead Door.read more
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22:03 17 Apr 18
Excellent service! Easy to set up an appointment online. Justin, the technician, arrived promptly at 8 a.m. He installed a new motor and rail and serviced the garage door. His work was exceptional and thorough. He represented his company professionally and was very friendly and amiable. I highly recommend this company.read more
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22:13 20 Mar 18
We have used Overhead Door Company twice. Both times they have been EXCELLENT same day service. The technicians are knowledgable and fast. I highly recommend them!read more
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16:05 17 Mar 18
Called this morning concerning a broken spring got a call immediately and got put on the schedule iam very happy with the customer service Service Technician Trent came out was very professional explained everything to me did a great job I Will definitely recommend thanks allread more
Becca Peterson
15:37 02 Feb 18
Just had Justin out to check on a loud noise the door made upon lift. 30 minutes and a service fee and all is quiet and safe again! I love the customer service this company has from technicians to office staff. Thank you!read more
Pablo Gallegos
07:05 19 Jan 18
Very helpful they close at 5pm got there at 5:10 receptionist came to door said they were close they were open on Sat. Asked her if she could sell me a garage remote so I WOULDN'T have to come back. Sure come on in with out hesitation. Really appreciated HER. THANK YOU OVERHEAD!!!read more
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22:35 25 Dec 17
I called Overhead door for a garage door problem I was having. Appointment was set promptly, guys were here at the appointed time. They provided a decent service, but didn't fix it entirely correct the 1st go around. I called to voice my disappointment to management. In speaking with a manager he told me that he wanted to make it right. He scheduled an appointment for me the following day with Justin. The service provided by Justin was excellent, he fixed it correctly, and management extended me a discount for my troubles. I appreciate their willingness to make it right, and I give them 4 stars for making the correct repairs. My garage door is working perfectly.read more
Paul Sands
19:22 14 Dec 17
My father of 89 years had Overhead Door install a new door over 6 years ago. There had been an intermittent problem with the garage door opener. I made an appointment to have a tech diagnose the problem and he found an issue due to the original installation . He corrected the problem and then went even further to "fine tune" the whole operation. Very professional tech and reported to the office manager the situation. After a brief discussion , the decision to completely warranty the repairs and maintenance, even though it was not in the warranty period, was given. Bravo , my Dad was very impressed how beautiful and quiet his door operates now than ever! Thank you very much for having a professional and good business ethics, really hard to find that, and dealing with a senior citizen on a compassionate and professional way! Highly recommend this company, awesome job to their whole team.read more
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03:18 09 Oct 17
Best Custom garage doors in SF/Abq. Exceptional customer service and installation craftsmanship. Highly recommend!read more
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21:47 12 Aug 17
Had the Garage door opener I needed and service was excellent and very pleasant!
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01:07 22 Feb 17
2-21-17: Had called Precision, who I had worked with before. As before, I got the upsell (and some attitude) when all that was needed, according to Overhead Door Company was a replacement of my springs. Spent $280 versus well over $700 as quoted by Precision. So kudos to Overhead Door for just telling it like it was. The tech even offered to help me program my vehicle's on-board garage door opener. I'm sure Precision is competent, but I think I would certainly trust and recommend Overhad much more based on this experience.read more
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text: Alberto Rey looks at what the important ways we can consider our relationship to our region. Using the Scajacuada Creek from its beginning in Lancaster to the terminus at the Niagara River, he charts an important waterway with idyllic landscape paintings, video and sculptures. Originally, the creek was an open sewage system for Buffalo and has been covered with roadways, re-routed and generally abused. Its history and present condition reflect our relationship to the environment. At different points it is celebrated, like in Forest Lawn Cemetery, and other areas disregarded. Alberto's investigation is a starting point for a discussion for how we use and change our environment, mostly in negative ways.


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Interviewed by Andy Hirsch
LEWISBURG, Pa. — Scott Meinke, associate professor of political science, discusses what Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney achieved with his convention speech, and what to expect next in the race for the White House.
Question: What did Mitt Romney accomplish with his speech Thursday at the Republican National Convention?
Answer: The task for Mitt Romney last night was to make a case against President Obama's re-election to the small slice of the electorate that is undecided. Much of the electorate, and certainly everyone in the convention hall, is already firmly committed. The nominee's acceptance speech needs to send a message to uncommitted voters, and it needs to be a message that is clear enough to be transmitted in media coverage of the convention since many of those voters were not watching it live.
Based on that standard, I think he did fairly well. After some less-focused biographical material at the beginning, Romney made a strong appeal to what political scientists call "retrospective voting." He essentially asked undecided voters to consider whether they are better off than they were four years ago. The Romney speech put a memorable spin on that familiar theme in several places, particularly when he said, "You know there's something wrong with the job he's (Obama) done as president when the best feeling you had is the day you voted for him."
The speech then pivoted from the case for firing Obama to the case for hiring Romney, and Romney made the claim that his business experience made him uniquely suited to do what Obama has not. I didn't think the speech was as strong in backing up that claim. Romney offered a five-point plan for job creation, but the five points were fairly general and familiar Republican positions rather than a focused short-term plan for a quick turnaround. Although more policy specifics would have strengthened Romney's case, I think that the "retrospective" argument is the most important piece for his campaign, and the one that may well resonate with undecided voters.
Q: One line in Romney's speech that is getting a lot of attention is, "I wish that Obama had succeeded." What did you make of that?
A: Romney's speech seemed to go out of the way to appeal to voters who don't have an intense partisan disdain for Obama. There were a few partisan appeals, such as the mention of Obama "apologizing" for America, but most of the speech seemed to talk to voters who may have supported Obama and who recall the enthusiasm of 2008. Romney glossed over his party's immediate and very intense opposition to Obama, but he was obviously addressing those voters who did not share that opposition.
Q: Some have criticized Romney for not being able to connect with voters on a personal level. In his convention speech, Romney shared some anecdotes about his family and personal life, stories we haven't heard before. How important is it for Romney to make that connection with voters?
A: I think it's easy to place too much emphasis on likeability with presidential candidates. I suspect that few voters would choose to support Obama simply because they relate to him better than Romney. Partisanship and evaluations of the incumbent party's performance are far more important. To the extent that Romney's personal characteristics matter to some voters, the last night of the convention did offer a positive introduction to the candidate as an individual. The biographical film on Romney (a standard convention item) was one of the best I can recall, and the personal elements Romney offered in the speech built on the film and the evening's earlier speakers. Still, making a case against Obama was far more important for Romney than showing that he could relate to average Americans.
Q: What should we expect the impact of the Republican convention to be on the trajectory of the campaign?
A: The conventions aren't likely to be game-changers, but they do provide a block of mostly positive media coverage for the candidate at a time when many voters are just beginning to pay attention. This coverage could help bring wavering partisans home to their party and to focus the choice for the undecided. Some political science research has looked at the convention polling "bounce" effect, arguing that candidates get a strong bounce when they are under-rated in the polls relative to what the fundamentals of the race would predict. One analysis of the current race uses this trend to predict that Romney's bounce will be small but somewhat larger than Obama's. If that is the case, the Republican and Democratic conventions will leave this race even closer than it already is.
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This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch
A tax on soda would carry the greatest health benefits for black and Latino Californians, who face the highest risks of diabetes and heart disease, according to recent research findings.
The study found that if a penny-per-ounce tax was applied to soda, cuts in consumption would result in an 8 percent decline in diabetes cases among blacks and Latinos. The statewide reduction in new diabetes cases is projected at 3 to 5.6 percent, according to researchers from UC San Francisco, Columbia University and Oregon State University, who released their findings at last week's American Public Health Association annual meeting in San Francisco.
The study was unveiled as a sugar-sweetened beverage tax faces votes in El Monte, in Los Angeles County, and Richmond, in the Bay Area. A statewide excise tax was proposed but died in the California Legislature in 2010.
Harold Goldstein, executive director of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, said he has visited Richmond to urge support for the measure. He said he heard residents speak of loved ones who've been affected by diabetes complications – such as limb amputations and blindness – during a recent town hall meeting at a Richmond church.
Goldstein said residents of both cities, though, face the pressure of nearly $3 million in spending by the beverage industry, which opposes the measures.
The residents "are using the power of democracy to say we want to change this," Goldstein said. "But the beverage industry is using the enormous power of its pocketbook to try to crush it."
Karen Hanretty, a spokeswoman for the American Beverage Association, said the Richmond and El Monte taxes, if passed, would take a heavy toll on small-business owners who would see a new license fee that they could pass on to customers' grocery bills.
And, she said, "there's no real life evidence that would suggest that taxing soft drinks would do anything to improve health."
The populations of Richmond and El Monte are predominantly comprised of the groups that the recent study shows would benefit most from a soda tax. In Richmond, 63.5 percent of residents are black or Latino, according to city figures. About 70 percent of El Monte residents are Latino, according to U.S. Census data.
Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, the study's lead author, said researchers took a conservative stance, assuming that a penny-per-ounce tax would cut soda consumption by 10 to 20 percent.
Even so, she said the decline in consumption would eliminate 5 in 10,000 new diabetes cases for African Americans and 4 in 10,000 for Mexican-Americans. The decline for those groups is higher than the projected statewide reduction, which is 1 in 10,000, she said.
She said the study, which has been submitted for publication, was among the first to show that some groups that tend to drink more soda and face higher diabetes risks also stand to benefit most from a soda tax.
"It's pretty clear that what's necessary is some mechanism to increase price (enough) to curb consumption," said Bibbins-Domingo, who is a physician and epidemiologist.
The UCSF team's latest research builds on a study published in the journal Health Affairs in January. That study predicted that nationwide, a soda tax could reduce sugar-sweetened beverage consumption by 15 percent. And even if Americans replace 40 percent of the cut calories with juice or milk, it would lead to a weight loss of nearly 1 pound per year.
Researchers conclude that within 10 years, the lost weight would translate to 876,000 fewer obese Americans in the 25-to-64 age range. Over a decade, the change is projected to prevent 30,000 heart attacks, 8,000 strokes and 26,000 premature deaths, the study found. The changes would lead to $17 billion in health cost savings, the study says.
Hanretty, the beverage association spokeswoman, disputed the findings: "I am very confident that a1-pound weight loss per year will have no effect on the health of Americans."
At the conclusion of last week's meeting where the recent findings were presented, a council of 200 public health workers, including doctors and epidemiologists, passed a resolution supporting local, state and federal soda taxes, noting the toll of the nation's obesity epidemic.
Christina Jewett is an investigative reporter for California Watch, a project of the non-profit Center for Investigative reporting. Find more California Watch stories here.


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North Country Cruises Past U-32 With 5-1 Victory
JAY–With their overtime win against MMU in the rearview mirror, the North Country girls hockey team cruised to the 5-1 win over U-32 Friday night at the Ice Haus Arena.Said coach Claude Paul, "We talked before the game about that we have had a habit lately of playing two periods, or a period and a half, but never three, and that is what I wanted them to play tonight."Granted in the first we had our moments, but I think that is more a feeling out of your opponent at that time of the game."The Raiders were out shot sixteen to four in the first period, but they managed to grab the lead on an early power-play.Ashley Daigle barely had a chance to sit down in the box before Stacy Woolaver let loose a low slap shot that found the far corner of the Falcon net for the 1-0 lead.With memories of that 3-0 first period deficit still fresh in her mind, North Country's leading scorer Whitney Bernier took it upon her self to make sure that a repeat of Wednesday's first frame was not going to happen.In patented Bernier fashion, she grabbed the puck in the neutral zone, skated down the right side of the ice, cut to the middle and lifted the puck over Cheyene Smith to knot the game at one.Late in the first the Falcons had a much better effort on the penalty kill, successfully holding U-32 off of the score sheet as Adrianna Fournier did her time feeling shame.Building momentum after their excellent shorthanded play, Bernier struck again with 3:38 left to play on almost the exact same move that had netted her goal number one."It kind of just happens," said Bernier with a laugh on the way she scores a lot her goals.Entering the second, North Country clearly had all of the momentum. They were the better team on the ice, and even though they had not played a very strong first period, they were still in control of the game.Corrina Cota put the girls in white up by two just 1:48 into period number two on a rather fluky goal.She got the puck inside the Raiders' zone from Meghan Campbell, skated in between the tops of the circles and the blue line and flung the puck across her body.Whether the ice was still wet from the intermission soaking or not I don't know, but that little black disc did a hop, skip, and a jump past Smith and it was 3-1 North Country with a lot of hockey left to be played.Four minutes later while on the power-play, Taylor Morley snagged a rebound in, where else, the crease and lifted an easy backhand into the U-32 net, staking the Falcons to a three goal lead.North Country, although not scoring any more in the second, dictated play throughout the remainder of the period. They kept the Raiders at bay and headed off the ice up 4-1 after thirty minutes of play.Bernier completed the hat-trick 3:45 into the third as she went to the other side of her stick to beat Smith, capping off the scoring as the Falcons won with class 5-1.I asked the Whitney if scoring all these goals ever gets old, and she replied, "No. I like scoring goals. I like to get everyone motivated and get them into the game."Tara Langmaid continued her strong play for North Country, stopping eleven of twelve shots on the night, while Smith blocked twenty-eight.There will not be many more easy games the rest of the way for 10-4 North Country, but one of those games happens two days from now when they make the trek to Woodstock for a painfully late mid-week 8:00 showdown with the Wasps.


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Last year, Goodfellows assisted more than 2,700 families, providing more than $565,000 in emergency aid and 1,200 grocery vouchers for holiday meals for needy families.
Because of you, Goodfellows is able to not only provide the meals at Christmastime, but also clothing and emergency assistance year 'round.
CLICK HERE or mail your donations to:
World-Herald Goodfellows Charities, Inc.
1314 Douglas Street
Suite 125
Omaha, NE 68102
To contact Goodfellows, call 402-444-1388.
Goodfellows' emergency fund is designed to assist people with one-time, urgent needs that cannot be met through other sources. Goodfellows works with four agencies that screen applicants for the emergency assistance program.
To apply for assistance, please call:
United Way, 2-1-1 or 402-444-6666
Heartland Family Service (Douglas County), 402-457-7792
Heartland Family Service (Sarpy County), 402-291-6065
ENCAP (Eastern Nebraska Community Action Partnership – Douglas County):
402-453-5656 x200 ENCAP (South Omaha) 402-595-1122 ENCAP (Sarpy Co.) 402-292-2961
Together, Inc. 402-345-8047
The Omaha World-Herald's charitable involvement dates to the 1890s, when the generosity of readers helped area farmers overcome bad crops and widespread unemployment. The "Tow Line," as it was known then, became a symbol the newspaper used to stir public opinion and build support for a charity or an issue.
In 1910, The World-Herald renamed its charity Goodfellows. The program began as an effort to match 750 needy children with families who promised to provide them with a decent Christmas. In 1945, World-Herald Goodfellows Charities, Inc. was chartered as a nonprofit charitable corporation. Goodfellows has raised and distributed nearly $10 million since that date.
With The World-Herald paying all administrative costs, every dollar donated to Goodfellows goes directly to those in need.
Goodfellows assistance is diverse. First, year-round emergency funds are available to families with one-time urgent needs. This is done in partnership with the United Way of the Midlands, Heartland Family Services, ENCAP and Together Inc. Second, holiday meals are provided to about 1,200 families – more than 4,000 people — referred by area social service agencies. Lastly, in partnership with Holy Family Door Ministry and Omaha Public Schools' Project Help program, Goodfellows provides funds for clothing shoes and coats for thousands of underprivileged children.


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Chess for Children
Win Like the World's Young Champions!
Super Chess Kids tells you all you need to know about recognizing and exploiting weaknesses in your opponent's position. You will learn how to evaluate your position, develop a plan, and calculate moves of attack and defence. You will also see typical errors that even the best young players tend to make.
Super Chess Kids
A New, Easy Way to Learn the Game
Here is a new way to learn chess that beginners of any age will find easy and fun.
Chess for Children - Step by Step
You've just read a chess beginners' manual and learned the rules of the game, some simple tactics, maybe a few opening moves. What's next for the ambitious player? Everyone's Second Chess Book, of course! Acclaimed chess teacher Dan Heisman equips the not-quite-novice with the practical tools and knowledge needed to get started in competitive play, using examples from inexperienced players to provide a wealth of common-sense advice, topping it off with a collection of illustrative games and practice puzzles.
Everyone's Second Chess Book
99 Chess Puzzles - With Colorable Images
Beginner Chess Tactics for Kids is a workbook containing 99, one-move tactics puzzles covering hanging pieces, forks and pins for kids with a playing level of 1000 or less. Each chapter contains 33 different puzzles with the answers found on the following page in picture form. Also, to be more realistic, the puzzles are approximately a 50/50 mix of "white to play" and "black to play".
Beginner Chess Tactics for Kids
Finding Winning Moves
Learn Chess the Right Way is a five-volume chess puzzle book series aimed at the novice, beginner and intermediate level player, using the unique methods of the award-winning coach and former world champion Susan Polgar. It introduces the most important checkmate and material-winning tactics, as well as defensive techniques to the new chess player. Book 5 focuses on learning how to find the right continuation in critical positions of a chess game. In the first four books of this series, the reader was introduced to all the most important, basic elements of chess tactics to win material or to checkmate.
Learn Chess the Right Way - Book 5
Sacrifice to Win!
Learn Chess the Right Way is a five-volume chess puzzle book series aimed at the novice, beginner and intermediate level player, using the unique methods of the award-winning coach and former world champion Susan Polgar. Volume 4 is all about exercises where you have to make a "sacrifice" for a material gain or even checkmate.
Learn Chess the Right Way - Book 4
At last a beginners Resource for Learning Chess! This book is an excellent educational guide to understanding this magnificent game. It was written by the 2008 US Chess Champion and his student systematically laying out the foundation of their technical knowledge. Each chapter builds on previous knowledge helping the reader to advance the depth and scope of their understanding.
Chess! Lessons from a Grandmaster
From Vellotti's Chess School
It's beginning to look a lot like Holiday Checkmates! Grab a chessboard & put up the lights as you jingle-all-the-way to fun in Enchanted Chess Book 7! Students will enjoy testing their chess knowledge on a variety of key checkmate patterns.
Enchanted Chess - Holiday Checkmates!
Mastering Defensive Technique
Learn Chess the Right Way is a five-volume chess puzzle book series aimed at the novice, beginner and intermediate level player, using the unique methods of the award-winning coach and former world champion Susan Polgar. In Volume 3, you will be introduced to 500 must-know defensive techniques. Each chapter will start with a few introductory examples and explanation about to what to look for in the puzzles that follow
Learn Chess the Right Way - Book 3
Winning Material
Learn Chess the Right Way is a five-volume chess puzzle book series aimed at the novice, beginner and intermediate level player, using the unique methods of the award-winning coach and former world champion Susan Polgar. Volume 2 is all about "winning material" exercises. In each of the first six chapters a certain piece captures an enemy piece .
Learn Chess the Right Way - Book 2
Featuring 50 Smart Strategies
So you have learned how to play chess, studied tactics and know some basic endgames and openings. What's next? The glue that binds it all together is strategy. By forming a good plan, chess-players seize strong points on the board and target the opponent's weaknesses. The author explains how to identify the right strategy in a wide range of typical situations. With his guidance, you will soon be finding good plans on your own – and then it will be time to demonstrate your tactical mastery!
Chess Strategy for Kids
From Vellotti's Chess School
Get ready to find some Crafty Clues! Grab a magnifying glass & pack your bags; You've got a mystery to solve! In Enchanted Chess Book 5, students will learn to think and play like Bobby Fischer, one of the greatest chess players in history.
Enchanted Chess - Crafty Clues
From Vellotti's Chess School
Get ready for our Spooky Checkmates! Grab a chessboard & put on your costume as you trick-and-treat your way to fun in Enchanted Chess Book 4! Students will enjoy testing their chess knowledge on a variety of key checkmate patterns.
Enchanted Chess - Spooky Checkmates
From Vellotti's Chess School
Are you ready test your chess skills and checkmate your way to victory?! In the this book, Master Disaster, your chess pieces become the paint for your next project. You'll have fun creating chess "masterpieces" out of the masterful placement of your chess pieces!
Enchanted Chess - Master-Piece Disaster!
From Vellotti's Chess School
The author of this book, Luke Vellotti, wrote this book as a source of inspiration for scholastic chess players all around the country, especially those from smaller states like Idaho.
Enchanted Chess - Age 10 - I'm an Expert
Do you want to become a better chess player? A more proficient chess teacher? If so, then Dr. Alexey Root's Prepare With Chess Strategy is for you. Building on the Boy Scouts of America's Chess merit badge pamphlet, Dr. Root uses multiple examples to explain and reinforce the concepts introduced in that pamphlet.
Prepare with Chess Strategy
The Standard Chess Workbook: Beginner is a comprehensive scholastic workbook that teaches all of the rules of chess, including: piece movement, captures, check, checkmate, castling, stalemate, and en passant. Each chapter consists of several instructional pages, lots of illustrations, and a few exercise pages for students to test their skills. Written by USCF Expert Dylan Quercia, SCW: Beginner is suitable for use in after school chess programs and is a perfect introduction for children of all ages to the game of chess.
The Standard Chess Workbook - Beginner
Play Like a Winner from Move One
In his trademark humorous and kid-friendly way, Hertan teaches what you should actually be trying to achieve at the start of a game. Kids will love learning how to avoid The Five Most Common Opening Mistakes.
Basic Chess Openings for Kids
by GM Jesse Kraai and IM Bill Paschall
Learn the basics with chess terms, principles of opening play, basics of how to checkmate and more tips from our two well respected masters.
Chess Basics for Beginners - Chess Lecture - Volume 133
Build up your child's knowledge of, and interest in, chess through an imaginative, fun series of games and activities. This follow-up to The Batsford Book of Chess for Children features the same two cheeky chess-playing kids, Jess and Jamie, discussing the games in child-friendly language. The exercises include puzzles, crosswords, easy chess ''variants,'' and a guess-the-next-move section.
Chess for children activity book
From Vellotti's Chess School
it's time to cook up some fun in Enchanted Chess Book 2! Students will learn clever tricks, traps and sneak attacks - especially the "Fork".
Enchanted Chess - Cupcake Escape!
Featuring 50 Endgame Lessons
Starting with the basic mates and the simplest pawn endings, this book provides all the endgame knowledge that players need to take them through to club level and beyond. Müller carefully guides us step-by-step through a fascinating range of endgame tactics and manoeuvres, helping us understand the underlying logic.
Chess Endgames for Kids
A Beginner's Guide to the Royal Game
This short pamphlet is a beginner's guide to the royal game of chess. It was written to provide new chess players with basic information that will prepare them to play chess in any venue, whether it's a tournament or club or even just casual games with friends. It includes information on setting up the board and pieces, how the pieces move, understanding chess notation, and more.
Chess 101 for Kids
Designed for all levels of players... from advanced novice to master! You will improve your game after a single viewing. I guarantee it! - Yasser Seirawan, IGM & former US Champ "Simply the very best instructional chess product available on today's market." Dave Williams, VGOgamer.com Editor
Pro Chess DVD - Vol. 1
Designed for all levels of players... from advanced novice to master! You will improve your game after a single viewing. I guarantee it! - Yasser Seirawan, IGM & former US Champ "Simply the very best instructional chess product available on today's market." Dave Williams, VGOgamer.com Editor
Pro Chess DVD - Vol. 2
With Introductions to the Games by International Grandmaster Larry Evans
This is the infamous translation into Russian of the famous work by Bobby Fischer "My 60 Memorable Games". This translation is famous because it was denounced vehemently by Bobby Fischer in his radio broadcasts because this translation was not authorized by him. However, he even more vehemently objected to the revision by the English publisher Batsford, as he had not given them permission to reprint his work even though they had a contractual right to reprint his work by virtue of an agreement they had with the original publisher, Simon and Schuster. To make matters much worse, the Batsford edition translated all the moves from Descriptive Notation as in P-K4 into Algebraic Notation as in e4. Batsford hired English Grandmaster Nunn to go through the book and correct any mistakes in Fischer's analysis. Unfortunately, in the course of "correcting" Fischer's "mistakes", the English grandmaster made mistakes of his own, because one "correction" required an illegal move, as the piece was pinned, as otherwise the king would have been in check. So, in reality the correction was wrong and the original note by Fischer was correct.
Bobby Fischer: My 60 Memorable Games - RUSSIAN EDITION
This book is a lively result of a chess authority's attempts to help his teenage son improve his play. In writing this book, the author kept in mind the player who has little or no previous knowledge of chess. His aim has been to provide a useful practical technique for handling the game. In addition to basic information about the board, the chess men and notation, Dr. Fine in a special chapter on chess moves introduces the reader to some of the delights or more complex play. The last chapter is devoted to describing a study scheme which is bound to lead to steady improvement on one's play.
The Teenage Chess Book
Checkmates and Elements of Chess
On this first DVD in the Train Yourself in Chess series, International Master Andrew Martin breaks down the elements of chess so that the game becomes easier to understand. Players of all levels will find something of interest here, including many complete games from recent years.
CHESSDVDS.COM IN PORTUGUESE - FOXY OPENINGS #84 - The Basic Principles - VOLUME 1
It is Essential to know how to play and win your Endgames. In fact, the Endgames are more essential to learn than Openings. In Chapter 1 of this DVD, Susan will cover all the most important basic endgames for the novice player. She will teach you how to checkmate a lone King using a Queen, a Rook, two Bishops, a Knight and Bishop, or two Knights. In Chapter 2, Susan covers all the Basic Pawn Endgames, including the Square Rule, the Rook Pawn, Opposition, Geometry in chess, two extra Pawns, the Pawn Race, one side Queens first, King activity, and lots more!
CHESSDVDS.COM IN SPANISH - WINNING CHESS THE EASY WAY - #8 - Essential Basic Endgames - VOL. 5
Chess is great for developing a child's analytical skills, fostering the competitive instinct—and having fun. Nothing beats this cute, character-based guide for teaching youngsters how to play. Jess and Jamie—two rough-and-tumble, chess-obsessed kids—explain it all: what the pieces are and how they move; the opening, middlegame, and endgame; checkmate; and sneaky tricks that win. The book's friendly, entertaining, and essential to any child's bookshelf.
The Batsford Book of Chess for Children
More Ways to Think Ahead and Become One of the Best Players in Your School
For kids who love to amaze their friends with their chess skills, Charles Hertan presents new ways to find Power Moves, winning tactics that require thinking ahead. In Volume 2, the four special teachers get a new colleague! Knelly the Knight arrives on the scene and will assists Zort (a computer from outer space), the Dinosaurs, the Power Chess Kids and the Chess Professor. Together they will help you to become a very dangerous chess player.
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From Vellotti's Chess School
Grab a compass & pack your bags as you set sail for fun in Enchanted Chess Book 1! Students will learn clever tricks, traps and sneak attacks
Enchanted Chess - Island Adventure!
21st Century Edition
The Essence of Good Chess The incomparable Fred Reinfeld is back in print! This new 21st-century edition is presented in modern algebraic notation in a double-column format, with more diagrams and a refresher course for beginners. How to be a Winner at Chess is among the very best introductory chess books ever produced, bar none. In it Reinfeld manages to capture the essence of good chess in a most readable, enjoyable, easy-to-grasp format. How to be a Winner at Chess is designed for the average player who knows the moves and rules but not much more. Warning! - you have to be able to read! Let Fred Reinfeld, the master wordsmith and instructor take you to the next level - in short turn you into a winner.
How to be a Winner at Chess
Curious, But True Chess Stories & The Lessons We Learn From Them
Coach Jay Stallings takes coaches and players alike through some of the strangest and weirdest (yet true!) stories in Chess. From how Ossip Bernstein had to save his own life with a game of chess to Bobby Fischer's amazing winning streak to Harry Nelson Pillsbury's ability to play Chess, Checkers and cards at the same time, there is something in here for everyone, complete with Coach Stalling's insights on what you can learn from these stories to improve your own game!
Fried Liver & Burning Pants
100 Puzzles to Torment Your Brain Cells
This chess puzzle super-challenge contains 100 fun positions to solve, ranging from encouragingly easy to mind-numbingly hard.
Chess Puzzles for Kids
Opening Tactics
Chess Camp is a new training system for beginning chessplayers, and for the parents and coaches who teach them.
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SAN DIEGO -- Tiger Woods never looked so irritated winning a golf tournament so comfortably.
His record eighth victory at Torrey Pines was all but over when Woods ripped a 5-iron from 244 yards over the corner of a bunker and onto the green at the par-5 13th hole, setting up a two-putt birdie that gave him an eight shot lead in the Farmers Insurance Open.
Rory McIlroy is now in his 32nd week atop the world rankings, and has tied Vijay Singh for the eight-longest reign at No. 1. The seventh-longest holder of the top spot is Nick Price at 44 weeks.
1. Rory McIlroy
2. Tiger Woods
3. Luke Donald
4. Justin Rose
5. Louis Oosthuizen
6. Adam Scott
7. Brandt Snedeker
8. Lee Westwood
9. Bubba Watson
10. Jason Dufner
At least he had plenty of time to savor this victory. The final five holes felt like they took forever.
Woods twirled his club on the tee and leaned on it in the fairway as the final round dragged on. He lost rhythm and appeared to lose interest, and it showed. A bogey from the bunker on the 14th. A tee shot that caromed off a eucalyptus tree on the 15th hole that led to double bogey. A tee shot he popped up on the 17th hole that left him 50 yards behind the other players and led to another bogey.
''It got a little ugly at the end,'' Woods said. ''I started losing patience a little bit with the slow play.''
No matter. It only affected the margin, not the outcome. Woods had to settle for an even-par 72 that gave him a four-shot win over defending champion Brandt Snedeker and Josh Teater, who each had a 69.
The victory also helped the No. 2-ranked Woods take a sizeable chunk out of Rory McIlroy's lead at the top of the world rankings.
McIlroy has held the No. 1 spot since his PGA Championship victory last August, but his advantage is now down to 3.14 points with Woods having shaved 1.06 points off his deficit at Torrey Pines. Both Woods and McIlroy are next scheduled to play in the WGC-Accenture Match Play, which starts Feb. 20 in Arizona.
The top of the top 10 remained static as the top six continued to be McIlroy, Woods, No. 3 Luke Donald, No. 4 Justin Rose, No. 5 Louis Oosthuizen and No. 6 Adam Scott. But there was a lot of movement below them.
Snedeker moved from eighth up to seventh place, while Lee Westwood, who makes his season debut this week in Dubai, slipped from seventh to eighth. Bubba Watson remained in ninth place, while Jason Dufner advanced from 11th place up to 10th.
The second 10 includes No. 11 Steve Stricker (down from 10th), No. 12 Ian Poulter (up from 13th), No. 13 Keegan Bradley (down from 12th), No. 14 Sergio Garcia (up from 19th after tying for second in the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters), No. 15 Dustin Johnson (down from 14th), No. 16 Webb Simpson (down from 15th), No. 17 Charl Schwartzel (down from 16th), No. 18 Graeme McDowell (down from 17th), No. 19 Nick Watney (up from 21st) and No. 20 Peter Hanson (down from 18th).
Also this week, Chris Wood of England leaped up to 60th from his previous perch at No. 142 thanks to his victory in the Qatar Masters.
With the PGA Tour being criticized for slow play, Torrey Pines wasn't an ideal start to the network portion of its schedule. With Woods virtually a lock to win, CBS Sports wanted the final round to resume Monday later than normal so that it could be televised in late afternoon on the East Coast. Play was so slow that CBS went over its allotted time.
Woods, meanwhile, had the ideal start to his tour season.
Only a week earlier, he missed the cut in Abu Dhabi, in part because of a two-shot penalty assessed after his second round for taking an illegal drop. Woods had never missed the cut on the European Tour, and he had never started his season with the weekend off.
He might have been the only one who didn't panic.
Woods seized control with a 65 on the North Course at Torrey Pines, the spent the rest of the week pulling away from the field until no one could catch him.
''I don't know if anybody would have beaten him this week,'' said Nick Watney, who got within five shots of Woods when the tournament was still undecided until making three bogeys on his next five holes. ''He's definitely on his game.''
It's still too early to figure out the state of his game, especially in relation to McIlroy, who also missed the cut in Abu Dhabi.
Torrey Pines is a public course that Woods treats like his private domain. He won the tournament for the seventh time, one short of the PGA Tour record for most wins in a single event. Sam Snead won the Greater Greensboro Open eight times. Woods won for the eighth time at Torrey Pines, including the 2008 U.S. Open, and that's a PGA Tour record that Woods previously shared with ... himself. He also has won seven times at Firestone and Bay Hill.
''I think he wanted to send a message,'' said Hunter Mahan, who shares a swing coach with Woods. ''I think deep down he did. You play some games to try to motivate yourself. There's been so much talk about Rory. Rory is now with Nike. That would be my guess.''
And it was his 75th win on the PGA Tour, seven short of the record held by Snead. Woods has won 23 of those tournaments by at least four shots.
''I'm excited the way I played all week,'' Woods said. ''I hit the ball well - pretty much did everything well and built myself a nice little cushion. I had some mistakes at the end, but all my good play before that allowed me to afford those mistakes.''
Woods mostly had reason to be excited about his short game.
In the third round Sunday, he was furious with himself for going long on the par-3 eighth green, without much green between his ball and the hole. Woods hit a chip solidly, with just enough loft, to leave himself a tap-in par. In the conclusion of the final round Monday, he pulled his tee shot into a bad spot in the bunker on the par-3 11th. The lie was good, but he had to aim well left, meaning his legs were spread wide on the slope of the sand.
He blasted it out with his 60-degree wedge to a top shelf, and then watched it feed down a slope to the right. It lost pace at the end or it might have gone in.
It looked good for television. It was a difficult shot, but not impossible.
But Woods believes those are the shots he wasn't converting a year ago. And that's one reason his outlook was so bright on the rest of the year, even after having to cope with so much fog along the Pacific bluffs.
He played the par 5s in 12 under for the lead -- that alone would have been enough to win -- and attributed that to his short game.
''My short game was back to how I know it can be,'' Woods said. ''My shots that I hit, especially out of these nasty little lies, I hit some really good ones this week. And that allowed me to save some pars, make some birdies, and move my way up the board. And basically, that's what I did.''
Woods figures his swing change under Sean Foley took root at some point last year, but that he had devoted so much time to the swing that he neglected his wedges. Now that he is practicing more on his short game, he expects better results - turning a 74 into a 70, and not losing leads at the majors, like he did twice last year.
Still, the season is young. Any measure of Woods likely will have to wait until the road to the Masters gets going during the Florida Swing.


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Since I've started my journey through my innermost self I've noticed something unsettling to me
and I need advice.
When in the lucid dream I thought to myself if this isn't real what is?
The illusion of the dream started to fade into white mist starting with the material world than the ground around me and etc... (Ancients refer to this as passing the veil)
I found myself standing on a pearlescent pink ocean I looked up to a pink sky radiating purple with a blue sun
and orange clouds. surrounded by mountains overlooking a city in the distance.
I got the unsettling feeling i didn't belong here so I fell out of the realm into my regular dreamscape.
the next night I became lucid I decided to try it again and it happened again!
Then the next night and the night after that. Its a stationary realm thats always there but I've never had the balls to stay longer than 5 seconds. I find myself peeking in every night.
I know in the dreamscape nothing can harm me because it isn't real, but this place make me second guess my self.
Does anyone else experience this and if so is it safe???
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iPhone Android iOS instructions
How to enable remote viewing without Port-Forwarding
We offer our own WorldEyeCam mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets. Our mobile apps allow you to remotely view your DVR and cameras from anywhere on the world. In this guide we will show you how to setup P2P or QR Code Scanning setup. No Port-Forwarding Needed.
Make sure that your NVR/DVR is connected to your modem/router with a CAT5/Ethernet cable. Once P2P has been enabled please go to TCP/IP section inside of the network screen. Enable "DHCP" inside of the Network settings and save. Once DHCP has been enabled you will need to reboot the system.
Upon rebooting navigate back to the P2P setting to the system and scan the code with your mobile iMaxCam app and from this point you should be able to see the cameras.
How to setup the iPhone app with the P2P/QR Code
Step 1: Open the iMaxCam app and tap on Camera.
Step 2: Tap the menu icon on the top left corner to access the menu as shown in the picture.
Step 3: Tap the DEVICE MANAGER option to enter your DVR/NVR login information
Step 4: Once in device manager tap the plus sign button (+), in the top right corner to advance to the next screen.
Step 5: In the add device screen, select P2P
Step 6: In this Screen you need to tap the QR code icon on the right where the S/N field is.
Once you tap on QR Code icon the camera of your phone will start, go ahead and scan the code.
Name: DVR
S/N: Tap on the icon to scan the QR Code
User Name: admin (default)
Password: admin (default)
Step 7: Press the "Start Live Preview" button to start watching the cameras.
Viewing the live camera feed from your Integrator Series Network Video Recorder, or NVR, through a mobile device is simple, and can be done in less than five minutes. If you have used our iMaxCam App you will find it's very similar, but if you haven't, that's okay too. As in the tutorial for iMaxCam, In this short tutorial we'll be showing you how to setup your live security camera feed on your mobile device via the peer-to-peer, or P2P method, using a QR Code Scanning setup. Think of it as allowing your camera server and your mobile device to meet up and communicate together in the cloud, just by using a bar code your device can read. No Port-Forwarding or IT specialists needed. On your NVR, rick click to login to the main menu. Then select "System", then "Network", then click the box marked "Enable DHCP". This should allow all the forms to be automatic when you connect your device. If you would rather set your IP address manually, you can do that as well. Just leave the "Enable DHCP" box unchecked and you will be given an opportunity to set your IP address yourself. In the setting page you'll see the QR code. Leave that up on your screen, because you will need to scan it with your mobile momentarily. On your mobile device, download the "EZView" App from your preferred app store. Once downloaded, go ahead and open "EZView". Select the main menu icon in the top left hand corner. Then select "Devices". This is where you can add new devices and manage existing ones. Now that you have your device page open, you will need to add a new device. To do this, select the "+" in the top right corner. Select "Add By P2P" to change the registration mode. Be sure to name your device (any name that works for you), then tap on the QR code icon to scan the QR code displayed on your monitor. Once you've done this, all of the information for your NVR should appear on your mobile, with exception of your user name and password. Go ahead and enter your login details there if prompted. After Inputting the information above select "Start Live View" at the bottom of the page to complete the setup and begin viewing your camera's live feed! If you have any other issues or need further assistance, don't hesitate to contact us via phone, email, or live chat. We're here to help you. Because at World Eye Cam, we're not just about security cameras. We want you to feel secure.


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Install the Gentoo Image
Preparing for Install
Start by using any FTP client to upload EM_mode_binaries.tar.bz2 (you can download it from http://kurobox.com/downloads/gentoo to /tmp on the Kuro (hint: Windows may change the extension of the file when you download it from the internet). Then login to the kuro using a telnet client
Kroutoshikou KURO-BOX (IETSUNA) kernel 2.4.17-kuro-box on ppc KURO-BOX-EM login: root Password: kuro (kuroadmin on HG)
Lets see what we've got
# df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/ram0 9677 5102 4575 53% / # ls /tmp EM_mode_binaries.tar.gz
Install EM mode utilities
Change to the root and untar the binaries.
# cd / # tar xvzf /tmp/EM_mode_binaries.tar.gz bin/
bin/sfdisk bin/fdisk bin/bzip2 bin/date bin/chroot #
Check and set the date.
# date Fri Feb 1 12:37:03 JST 2006 # date 02032238 Thu Feb 3 22:38:00 JST 2006
Partitioning & Formating HDD
Note: The /etc/fstab file that comes with the Gentoo image is configured to work with this harddisk partitioning scheme. If you want to use a different partitioning scheme you must edit /etc/fstab accordingly.
We run fdisk and create partitions. I use four partitions: hda1 for /, hda2 for the swap space, hda3 for /var, and hda4 for data storage (/datafiles). This section from the Gentoo Handbook explains how to prepare your hard disk (create partitions). For most users, 10gb each for / on hda1 and /var on hda3 is adequate. 512mb is good for a swap space on hda2 and use the remainder for /datafiles on hda4. However, you can decide which way you want to break up your hard disk. Remember you need to mount all of the drives (except the swap and /datafiles) before you untar the image (More on that later).
# fdisk /dev/hda
Once the partitions are created we format the partitions. Here we format the first partition on /dev/hda (the hard drive is /dev/hda).
# mke2fs -j /dev/hda1 mke2fs 1.22, 22-Jun-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) 1251712 inodes, 2502115 blocks 125105 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 77 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 16256 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632 Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (8192 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done This filesystem will be automatically checked every 29 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override. #
We do this for all of the partitions we plan to use.
# mke2fs -j /dev/hda3 . . . # mke2fs -j /dev/hda4
# mkswap /dev/hda2 Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 518184960 bytes #
Install Gentoo Image
Mount new partitions
This will allow us to create the gentoo system on the hard drive instead of in the flash ram disk. We will create the directoy /gentoo mount /dev/hda1 there, then create /gentoo/var and mount /dev/hda3.
# mkdir /gentoo # mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /gentoo # mkdir /gentoo/var # mount -t ext3 /dev/hda3 /gentoo/var
Extracting the Image
We now use our FTP client to upload gentoo-image.tgz from http://www.kurobox.com/downloads/gentoo to the /gentoo directory on the kuro.
We then change directories to /gentoo and untar the image in what will be our root directory
# cd /gentoo # tar zxvf gentoo-image.tgz
Once the image is untarred we can delete the image from /gentoo.
# rm gentoo-image.tgz
Next we change the GENTOO_MIRRORS and SYNC lines in /etc/make.conf to suit your location. Pick the three nearest sites listed at http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml for your GENTOO_MIRRORS line. For Your SYNC line, your choices are namerica, samerica, europe, asia and au (australia) in place of namerica in my SYNC line.
KURO-BOX-EM gentoo # cd /gentoo/etc KURO-BOX-EM etc # nano make.conf
Configure Network
Next we configure the network. If you want to use DCHP, you can skip this step as the image is configured for DCHP.
KURO-BOX-EM etc # cd conf.d KURO-BOX-EM conf.d # nano net
If you want a static IP address you need to uncomment a couple of lines. Scroll down to the section INTERFACE HANDLERS and uncomment the following lines. In the example I have set the IP address to 192.168.0.9, the network mask to 255.255.255.0, and the gateway to 192.168.0.1. Do not uncomment the default via 4321:0:1:2:3:4:567:89ab". You will want to change the IP address, subnet mask, and gateway address to suit your network.
config_eth0=( 192.168.0.9 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 ) routes_eth0=( "default via 192.168.0.1" # "default via 4321:0:1:2:3:4:567:89ab" )
Clean up and Reboot
Unmount everything
# cd / # umount /gentoo/var # umount /gentoo
Set the box to boot to the new system
# echo -n "OKOK" > /dev/fl3
and then restart the system
# shutdown -r now
Wait a few minutes and then log onto your kuro with putty. The first time the system boots it will take a while as it needs to generate the certificates used by sshd. Login with user id root and password kurobox.
Post Installation Tasks
First we set the root password and create a new user who is a member of wheel so they can su to root.
kurobox ~ # cd / kurobox # passwd New UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully localhost # useradd dtaylor -m -G users,wheel -s /bin/bash kurobox # passwd dtaylor New UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully kurobox #
Now would be a good time to update everything. This shouldn't take too long as an emerge -uD world was run on the image prior to creating the tarball on 5/30/06.
kurobox / # emerge -uD world
Last, if anything was updated and portage says we need to update update our config files we run etc-update. Don't do this blindly as you can easily break your brand new system. You need to understand what the configuration files mean and choose what lines you want to edit.
kurobox / # etc-update
That's it. You're done.


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This year if you want to give a great gift to the biker on your list and you have either really deep pockets or you just love them a whole bunch and you want to really splurge, there are many gifts you can choose from. I've compiled a short list of some great gift ideas that are $100 or more. Check it out and find the perfect gift for your favorite biker.
1. Motorcycle Helmets. This one item is too important to not be at the top of any gift list. A good helmet is literally the difference between life and death. Helmets come in various styles and prices but make sure to get one that is DOT approved. Helmets can be as inexpensive as less than $100 all the way up to over $800.
2. Leathers. A set of leathers can consist of pants and a motorcycle jacket or it can be more racing oriented with protection sewn in at the most vulnerable spots like the elbows, shoulders, and knees. No matter which option you choose this is a great choice for anyone who is an avid rider. It will keep them safe and they can look cool at the same time!
3. Motorcycle luggage. You have quite a few choices when it comes to luggage for your bike. You can get saddlebags that hang over the back fender, these can be permanently attached or just slung under the back seat and easily taken off when you need to. Or you can get sissy bar bags that mount right on your sissy bar. And last, but not least, you can get tank bags…pretty self explanatory! They come in either leather or man made materials and the prices can vary significantly depending on what type you get, but for a whole set you will most likely spend over $100.
If you're making your list and checking it twice you might want to add some of these items to it. Of course, there are many other great gift ideas for the rider in your life, but hopefully you can use this list as a starting point. No matter what item (s) you choose, the biker in your life will love you for it!


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Press release 165/2017
26 September 2017
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs has commissioned an independent evaluation of the development cooperation of 22 Finnish civil society organisations. The evaluation praises the organisations for their cost-effective work at grassroots level, but urges them to further improve their long-term effectiveness and the work to strengthen civil societies in their target countries.
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs ordered an independent evaluation of the development cooperation programmes of 22 civil society organisations (CSOs) receiving programme-based support. Due to the scope of the work, the evaluation is published in three parts in 2016–2017. The third and last part of the evaluation has now been published. It summarises the observations on the development cooperation programmes of the CSOs and the programme-based support as a financing channel.
Programme-based support is the most important aid the Ministry grants to development cooperation programmes of CSOs. It accounts for some 75 per cent of the aid the Unit for Civil Society at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs grants to CSOs. Individual CSOs have received aid for EUR 1–53 million in 2010–2016.
The Finnish CSOs have delivered good results especially in providing services to people out of reach of other support, according to the evaluation. They are able to work in very difficult environments, including fragile states. However, there is only a little information on longer term outcomes. The CSOs are urged to pay more attention to efforts to strengthen local civil society. They should also be further improving the sustainability of their work.
The evaluation also assesses the efficiency of the programme-based support as a financing channel, and gives recommendations to both CSOs and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Programme-based support has made it easier to integrate the development cooperation by CSOs into the Finnish development policy. In future, the links between the CSOs and other Finnish development cooperation should be improved, according to the evaluation. It further recommends that CSOs collaborate with companies, for example.
Programme-based support is a flexible and predictable means of financing for CSOs. The evaluation recommends that programme-based support be granted for at least four years.
"The Ministry for Foreign Affairs has already addressed some of the evaluation's recommendations. For example, it has extended the term of the programme-based support from three years to four. Both CSOs and the Ministry will improve their effectiveness. We will discuss the recommendations for CSOs together with each organisation," says Jyrki Nissilä, Director of the Unit for Civil Society.
Sanna Pulkkinen, Desk Officer, Development Evaluation Unit, tel. + 358 29 535 1346, and Jyrki Nissilä, Director of the Unit for Civil Society, tel. + 358 29 535 1205


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About CoolHub
Aspiring to be the world's leading teaching and learning laboratory for imagination and inquiry, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy strives to develop innovation and entrepreneurial talent and capacity. This includes creating conditions to stimulate, support and conduct innovative pilots/prototypes that have the potential to transform STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) education.
IMSA joins J. Kao (Innovation Nation, 2007) in believing that "organizations need a place where specific opportunities and projects can be explored in a freewheeling, no-intellectual-holds-barred manner. They need spaces designed to elicit questioning, discovery, experimentation and, prototype development." IMSA is developing such a place.
Started with seed funding from the Abbott Fund, Tellabs Foundation and the State of Illinois, CoolHub.IMSA connects learners of all ages and gives them tools to explore their "What if?" questions, take creative risks, develop ideas and innovate together outside traditional organizational structures. Through physical and virtual meeting spaces, CoolHub.IMSA provides opportunities and resources that accelerate research, rapid prototyping and program development. Supported by a dynamic Web platform, collaborators anywhere can self-organize and seek solutions to a wide range of real-world problems, including innovative ways to address STEM teaching and learning.
CoolHub.IMSA DesignThe design of CoolHub.IMSA creates communities of innovators across Illinois, the country and the world. Traditional roles of teacher, parent, student, expert, business person, researcher and inventor blur as networks form around questions and problems of mutual interest. For example:
- Where can teachers go to collaborate with students who are developing games that teach science?
- How can we develop ethical leaders who find brilliant solutions to global challenges such as energy?
- How can students create and use Web 2.0 "personal learning networks" to enhance learning?
- What are the best ways to determine if a watershed is purifying water as it should?
Collaboration takes place online and face to face. CoolSpots—tech-enabled zones conducive for small group work—serve as pathways to a robust virtual network that supports innovation and learning through video conferencing, online forums, wikis, blogs, immersive online worlds and a searchable database of session recordings and published innovation projects. Currently, CoolSpots are located on IMSA's campus in Aurora and and several additional sites; however, anyone with access to the Web may participate in collaborative innovation. CoolSpots serve as a protoype for the new Innovation Hub designed to be built at IMSA.
Goals and Activities
Create Structures and Processes that Support and Evaluate Collaborative Innovation Networks
- Create an interactive Web platform (http://coolhub.imsa.edu/) with a design that aims to enhance innovation, creativity, communication, and collaboration and which builds a connected community with a vision of transforming STEM education. Through use of the Web platform, collaborative innovators post ideas, share knowledge, access resources and leverage the intellectual capital of the people in the network.
- Design guidelines and training that provide supportive structures for idea generation, development, collaboration and evaluation. Continually measure the quality, growth and impact of facilitation, participation, infrastructure and innovative ideas through the application of these guidelines.
- Design, equip and open CoolSpots starting at IMSA and its Field Offices.
Build Communities of Collaborators
- Establish an advisory board of STEM practitioners in education, business and government.
- Build networks of collaborators by recruiting students, educators, specialists, innovators and early adopters in fields such as education, energy, nanotechnology, software development and others.
Launch Collaborative STEM Projects That Address Societal Needs
- Students, parents, alumni, and professional engineers use CoolHub.IMSA to communicate, design, vet and create innovative robots as members of IMSA's FIRST Robotics team.
- IMSA's One Laptop Per Child Student Chapter uses CoolHub.IMSA resources to connect with people globally to support large-scale implementations in underdeveloped areas of the world. This collaborative effort connects with a strong existing network of like-minded individuals who are providing children with rugged, low-cost laptops so that they become connected "to the world and to a brighter future." (http://www.laptop.org/en/vision/index.shtml, retrieved 2/10/2009)
- The CoolHub.IMSA infrastructure and network of real world experts and practitioners enable IMSA students in the Energy Center to design and build prototypes of continuous flow biodiesel generators.
- Students involved in the TALENT (Total Applied Learning for ENTrepreneurs) program use CoolHub.IMSA resources to connect with research universities, national labs, state and federal government, and business groups globally in their pursuit of entrepreneurial applied science and technology projects and ideas for potential commercialization.
- The technical and social structure of CoolHub.IMSA, in conjunction with Abbott Laboratories, supports Environmental Chemistry related projects such as improving water quality in local wetlands.
Document and Disseminate New Models for STEM Teaching and Learning
- Showcase innovative projects and results on CoolHub.IMSA and at professional conferences and in publications.
- Secure the expertise of curriculum development and assessment specialists to document, evaluate and disseminate innovation-centered models of STEM teaching and learning developed through CoolHub.IMSA.
Selected References
- Gloor, P. and Cooper, C. Coolhunting, 2007.
- Christensen, C. Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns, 2008.
- Maxwell, I. Innovation Infrastructure, 2009.
- Kao, J. Innovation Nation, 2007.
Special thanks to our early thinking partners: IMSA alumni, students, faculty and staff, IMSA Trustees and IMSA Fund Directors, and leaders at the Thornburg Center, Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce and its related foundation. We especially wish to recognize Abbott Fund and Tellabs Foundation for their generous support of CoolHub.IMSA initiatives.
For more Information
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Costs mounting for snow removal
Roads in Catawba County were covered in ice Tuesday after freezing
rain blanketed snow already fallen across the region.
This layer of ice not only creates hazardous driving conditions, but
it also complicates cleanup procedures for area public works crews and creates additional costs for already-strained budgets.
The North Carolina Department of Transportation budgeted $30 million for snow and ice removal this fiscal year and spent $26.2 million so far. According to the NCDOT, any extra money required for winter-weather cleanup will be drawn from the general maintenance budget.
NCDOT crews work 12-hour shifts daily when necessary during a winter storm event. The department announced Monday it is in the first stages of cleanup, which means crews focus on interstates and primary roads.
Most secondary roads haven't been plowed, and the NCDOT will clear secondary roads once primary roads are cleared.
Adverse weather and driving conditions aren't finished in the Carolinas, increasing the likelihood of additional cleanup costs throughout the state.
The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory Tuesday, warning motorists in most North Carolina states about dangerous travel conditions. The NWS said drivers should expect "widespread black ice," refreezing roads and slippery conditions. The advisory remains in effect until noon Wednesday.
According to the North Carolina Department of Transportation, ice and freezing snow form a tighter bond with road surfaces than powdery snow, making it harder for plows to remove the accumulation.
Newton Public Works crews were out in the city Monday working to remove snow and ice from roadways.
Public Works Director Wilce Martin said the city and its workers were fortunate throughout the snow removal process, which went smoothly during the last several days.
City workers started spreading salt and sands on the roads prior to the storm. This preparation, Martin said, prevented the ice/snow mixture from turning into a solid sheet of ice.
This preparation and removal, however, isn't free. It costs money to pay employees for their work, as well as costs for supplies and wear-and-tear on equipment. Martin said the city is on track this winter for its snow removal-related expenses, but that could change if more major winter weather continues.
"If we get a few more (storms), we could have a problem," he said.
Billy Price, Maiden Public Works director, said the town doesn't anticipate any problems paying for snow cleanup for the remainder of the winter.
"We're good for this year," he said.
Snow removal continued Tuesday in Conover, with most of the city's primary roads, including N.C. 16 and U.S. 70, cleared. Public Works Director Jimmy Clark said crews are expected to start snow removal from secondary roads Tuesday afternoon as the temperatures increased.
"Right now, we're doing OK," Clark said. "We've been pretty fortunate in that the equipment held up pretty well."
The city, however, is using more materials for snow removal this year.
If the pattern of winter storms continues, Clark said the city could exceed its funding allotted for snow cleanup.
Officials continue to urge residents to stay off roadways, unless travel is necessary. This protects motorists from ice-related crashes, but it also aids in snow removal.
According to the NCDOT, increased traffic makes it more difficult for crews to clear roadways. Vehicles also pack down snow and ice into the roadway, making accumulation harder to remove.
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Mobile services company Synchronoss Technologies recently bought NewBay from Research In Motion for $55.5 million to expand its cloud-based services.
NewBay is headquartered in Ireland with U.S. offices in Seattle. Its cloud-based services allow customers to store, share and deliver content like photo albums, social networking and other data through smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices.
The deal provides Synchronoss access to NewBay's European customers, which include Vodafone Group, Orange and Swisscom. Its U.S. customers include AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and U.S. Cellular. NewBay also works with LG Electronics and Telstra in Asia.
Synchronoss expects the acquisition will be neutral to slightly accretive, on an adjusted basis, to its 2013 fiscal year results. The company said it would provide more details in February when it reports fourth-quarter and full-year financial results.


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Ex-Pfizer chief takes over at troubled Optimer
Remember Hank McKinnell? McKinnell was among the key architects of the griffin-like corporate behemoth that is the modern Pfizer, a massive—some would say unsustainably so—biopharma juggernaut born of a decade of super-duper-mega-mergers, with Warner-Lambert in 2000, Pharmacia in 2003 and Wyeth in 2009. McKinnell's ascension to CEO in 2001 came in the wake of the Warner-Lambert acquisition, and Pfizer had scarcely swallowed that one before McKinnell engineered the acquisition of Pharmacia. Shortly thereafter, he reportedly drifted away from day-to-day management of the company and stepped down as CEO in July 2006—or, if you prefer, floated down to 42nd Street on a $188 million golden parachute. Some shareholders, galled by the stock's poor performance under McKinnell, flew an airplane toting a banner reading "Give it back, Hank!" over the company's 2006 annual meeting.
So where is he now? Surely, sunning himself on his own private Caribbean island, as we might be this time of year were the wages of journalism so generous? No? Really? Oh, hey, there he is, taking the reins at Optimer, a troubled Jersey City firm whose sole in-line product, antibiotic Dificid, has not fared as well as hoped since its US commercial launch last year, and whose most recent CEO, Pedro Lichtinger, is departing amidst a compliance and conflict-of-interest scandal.
McKinnell's not new to the company—he took over as board chairman in April of last year. His predecessor in that role was shown the door in the wake of a dodgy stock deal, along with the then-CFO (meanwhile, the company's stock slid 25% as Dificid failed to gain much traction, in part because of its eye-popping price point).
Ironically, McKinnell's task may be to sell Optimer back to his old employer. The company announced plans to explore "strategic alternatives to maximize shareholder value," which analysts take to be a euphemism for a sale.
Pfizer seems a likely buyer, given its deep pockets and rich legacy in anti-infectives. Astellas, which holds marketing rights for Dificid in Europe and Japan, is another, and Cubist, whose two-year US co-marketing deal with Optimer expires in July, could be a third contender.Editor's note: McKinnell does not, to our knowledge, actually own his own Caribbean island. But with that kind of money, he really oughta.


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Now I Design My Topic Sentence
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This is the fifth lesson in the unit on standard W1.8 (Research Writing), writing about research, and this lesson focuses on the creation of a topic sentence. The students have selected important information in their paragraph, but now they need to design their own topic sentence. This is the next step in the process of creating a research based paragraph. But, creating a topic sentence is highly complex, because students have to look at their content and decide how to make a collective statement about it (without being too broad or too specific).
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I model creating a topic sentence based on my model from the previous day. Then we create a topic sentence about model set of information. Last, the students work with their partner to design their own topic sentence. I have a video on two important strategies I use, Peanut Butter Jelly Partner and Transitions, in the resources.
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No doubt that the general and business aviation associations were high-fiving each other last Friday when President Obama signed an appropriations bill containing language that reinstates the Block Aircraft Registration Request (Barr) program through the end of Fiscal Year 2012 (Sept. 30, 2012). The Department of Transportation (DOT), the FAA's parent agency, ended the tail-number blocking program in early August, citing the need for more transparency in government.
The reason was a fairly weak cover for what appears to be a political initiative pushed by DOT Secretary Ray La Hood, possibly even at the behest of his boss, President Obama. It didn't matter what the aircraft owners and operators thought about the proposed changes to Barr; the more than 850 negative comments they submitted to the agency didn't result in any changes to the original proposal. Basically, the DOT did what it wanted to do, damn everyone else.
But when the DOT actually dismantled Barr, NBAA and AOPA sued the FAA over the action. For some as-yet-unknown reason the case was expedited in the court system, and initial hearings were set for December 2–that's less than four months after the lawsuit was filed, which is warp speed in the courts.
And last Friday, Congress sent a clear message to the FAA/DOT to reinstate Barr, but the agencies have yet to do anything. My inquiries this week to the FAA about Barr reinstatement were referred to the DOT, a not-so-subtle reminder of which agency has been driving the Barr issue.
When I contacted the DOT yesterday, it took an agency spokesman more than two hours to tell me, "We're aware of the legislation and are reviewing it." I should hope so, since President Obama signed the bill four days earlier. The DOT has yet to answer AIN's specific questions about how and when the agency will restore the Barr program.
But there's not much to review when it comes to the bill amendment relating to Barr: "None of the funds made available…may be used to implement or to continue to implement any limitation on the ability of any owner or operator of a private aircraft to obtain, upon a request to the Administrator of the [FAA], a blocking of that owner's or operator's aircraft registration number from any display of the [FAA's] Aircraft Situational Display to Industry data." In short, Congress wants the FAA/DOT to put Barr back to the way it used to be.
It took the FAA/DOT only about five working days after the final rule was issued on August 2 to wind down Barr, so it really shouldn't take much more time to restore the program. Today marks working day number three after the legislation was signed, but who's counting?
The real question is how the DOT is reviewing the legislation. Is it looking at it and trying to figure out a plan for how and when it can stand up Barr again, or is it looking for some kind of loophole so it can continue to deny aircraft operators from blocking their tail numbers from the online flight trackers?
If it's the former, then why does the DOT appear to be dragging its feet? What's taking so long for the agency to review about 100 words and publicly announce a plan to comply with Congress's intent?
What I fear is that it's the latter: the agency is trying to wiggle its way out of this. The DOT has proved that it will do what it wants to do when it comes to Barr, so why should it change course now?
Thankfully, the Barr lawsuit court hearing is still on for next Friday. This puts NBAA and AOPA in a more powerful position than they would have been otherwise. Their lawyers will surely be whipping out the bill's Barr amendment as Exhibit A to the judge, and it will instantly be game over for the DOT. A judge could very well force the DOT to reinstate Barr within a specific time period. And then if it fails to do so, the agency could find itself in contempt of court. Let's hope it doesn't have to go there and that the DOT will do the right thing and just comply with the law.
While the business aviation community won this latest battle over Barr, the war really won't be over until the DOT/FAA says how and when they will restore Barr and then actually follows through on that plan. Your move, DOT…
David Wiegand (not verified)
November 28, 2011 - 10:50am
This whole thing is an exercise in silliness.
First, the DOT (every federal agency or department) will always what it wants. And what it wants should always be consistent with its statutory charter and the interests of the "public at large", even if that is contrary to the desires of the NBAA and other aviation special interest groups.
Second, "reinstatement of the BARR program" will be a pyrrhic victory for the BizAv interests. A little history is in order here:
You may recall the harangue back in late 2008, when automobile manufacturers and other corporations were showing up in Congress with their tin cups, begging for Government monies to help them out. A public interest group (Pro Publica) learned that many of these corporate honchos were travelling to DC in their expensive private jets (which cost a small fortune to operate), and thought it would be interersting to explore the claim of these corporate honchos begging for money while, at the same time, using their expensive corporate jets for transportation. The problem for Pro Publica was getting the documentary evidence of this use.
Under the then existing BARR program, the NBAA had agreements with subscribers (like Flight View) to the FAA's ASDI program that prohibited them from disclosing this information. They then found out that the NBAA had managed to finagle a separate agreement with the FAA, whereby the NBAA would submit directly to the FAA a list of aircraft registration numbers who's owners wished to have their aircraft blocked at the FAA source, so that subscribers like Flight View wouldn't even receive that information. This list became known as the "Block List." It is NOT part of the BARR program.
Pro Publica learned of the existence of this list, and submitted a FOIA request to the FAA in December 2008 to get their hands on it. When the NBAA learned that Pro Publica was trying to get the list from the FAA, they filed a "reverse FOIA lawsuit" against the FAA to prohibit the agency from disclosing it. See National Business Association, Inc. v. Federal Aviation Administration, Civ No. 09-1089 (D.C. DC). The NBAA tried to convince the court that divulging the "Block List" would result in the disclosure of confidential commerical or financial information that is prohibited under Expemtion 4 of the FOIA. In essence, the NBAA argued that concealing the whereabout of certain corporate aircraft gave those corporations an economic advantage over their competitors, and revealing the "Block List" thru the FOIA would provide those competitors with information from which they could piece together where corporate bigwigs were travelling for important meetings, etc., which would effectively CANCEL OUT that claimed economic advantages. In other words, the NBAA wanted to continue using the FAA (a public agency) as its shill for securing for some of its members some perceived economic advantage over others.
The court disagreed, and Pro Publica received the "Block List".
Having lost its reverse FOIA lawsuit, the NBAA and other similar BizAv interests then lobbied the FAA and Congress (under the guise of a need for personal privacy and personal security) in an attempt to "back door" the issue, . . . and they succeeded . . . somewhat.
With the new legislation, things will probably revert back to the way things were in the past, which means that hated "Block list" will still be discoverable under the FOIA, so folks like Pro Publica can find out (after the fact) which aircraft are being concealed by their owners from the public's view.
As they say, what goes around comes around.
bamdibedino (not verified)
March 8, 2012 - 6:31pm