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Welcome to 2012 and a new list of New Year's resolutions — a list that likely includes some variation on adopting a healthier lifestyle. Thanks to the acceleration of technology, fulfilling your resolutions this time around may be easier than it was in 2011.
The combination of diet, exercise and sleep, according to my Singularity University colleague Daniel Kraft, are keys to good health. Kraft, a physician-scientist who chairs the medicine track and runs the FutureMed program at Singularity, believes that we can end the obesity epidemic and reduce the incidence of "non-communicable" diseases (such as heart disease) through technology. Kraft helped me put together an assessment of the technologies available today that can help you fulfill your New Year's resolutions for good health.
1. The Digital Mirror: A written commitment is a powerful tool when it comes to motivation. That power is enhanced when the commitment, and our failure or success in achieving it, is shared with others. Today, we can broadcast our weight, whereabouts, current song selections, and our latest meal over social media. You're more likely to maintain your motivation to lose weight when you know your friends can see your gains and losses on an easy-to-read graph.
There more than 17,000 health and fitness applications in the Android and iTunes marketplaces. Exercise applications such as RunKeeper enable seamless pacing, tracking and scoring of workouts. My favorite when I go hiking is MotionX GPS—in addition to keeping track of how much and how fast I've walked, it remembers where I've been. Others like Skimble provide tracking and virtual coaches from a large library of workouts. There are apps for tracking your dietary indiscretions or to brag about your veggie intake. For example, The Eatery, enables you to crowd-source the healthiness of your meals. And for helping you count calories, there's LoseIt—which claims that the average user loses 12 pounds.
2. Self-Tracking Devices: Logging in and recording data points have long been a barrier to self-tracking. Consider this barrier all but eliminated.
Web-connected scales like Withings, and blood pressure cuffs like iHealth, communicate with your smartphone and Web browser, recording your data with every use. They can also be configured to share your vital stats via e-mail or Twitter. For those who need to track blood sugars, the FDA just approved iBGStar, a glucometer integrated with the iPhone.
3. Move it or Lose it: The most effective therapy for depression, poor sleep, arthritic knees, heart disease, prevention of Alzheimer's and many other disorders is exercise. As little as 30 minutes of active walking per day can make a massive difference in your health and longevity.
Wearable devices like the 'FitBit', which I use and which constantly motivates me to walk more, JawBone's 'Up', and the pending 'Basis' heart rate and motion monitor, track the number of steps you take, calories you burn, and miles you walk. These devices provide dashboards, connect to your social networks and allow you to set goals and targets. Company divisions or work groups can leverage the social component to foster friendly competition. Meanwhile, new start-ups are emergingto engage and reward those who do.
4. Enhance the power of sleep: The power of a good night's sleep is often under-appreciated. It's all about quality and duration. Applications, resting under your pillow, can track your motion at night and help you develop better habits. By using the Zeo Sleep Manager, I was able to notice a significant difference in the quality of my sleep on days that I was checking e-mails after 9 PM, and when I turned my computer off early. Devices like Zeo and Lark bring much of the power of an expensive sleep lab to your home, and can help identify signs of diseases such as sleep apnea.
5. Genomes come home: We have seen the pricing of genomic sequencing continue to plummet at more than double the rate of Moore's Law. It doesn't take a complete DNA sequence to make use of one's own genetic makeup. Consumer-focused companies such as 23andMe, Navigenics, and Pathway Genomics now offer partial genomic analysis (not a full sequence) for about $200—the cost of a high end pair of shoes.
While the "fun" side of ancestry and family background can be illuminating, several aspects of genetic predisposition can be actionable. Knowing, for example, that a relative has twice the risk of developing Type-II diabetes or a significantly higher propensity of developing cardiovascular disease may provide the necessary encouragement to stay in shape, modify your diet, or engage in earlier screening and prevention.
6. In Case of Emergency: Quick reference tools such as iTriage help enable rapid response, whether it's finding and obtaining guidance on treating a minor burn or directions to the nearest hospital. They can, ultimately, be the difference between life and death. And in-case-of-emergency applications are improving on the traditional medical bracelet. These applications store essential information about you and provide emergency contact numbers.
7. Gamification: Anyone who has been addicted to a video game, or knows someone who has, can appreciate the power of immersion and interaction. Video-game developers are marrying physical and social activity, giving players an opportunity to exercise and socialize while they play. And web-based applications like HealthMonth are getting in on the game as well.
8. Mindfulness: Our attention spans have been keeping pace with technology in that they are getting shorter as technology is getting faster. The benefits of almost any form of mindfulness or meditation practice are well documented. And, as with nearly everything else, there's more than one app to help you through it.
Hopefully, with a bit of help from technology, you will fare better at keeping your New Year's resolutions than in previous years. The really good news is that this is just the beginning. Over the next few years, we will see thousands of new devices and technologies that will help you monitor and improve your health.


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A POPULAR country pub near Pershore has new owners and is getting a bright, new look.
Thought to date back around 500 years, the Swan at Birlingham has been bought by the Russon family – well known in the area after running a number of local pubs and restaurants in and around Stratford-on-Avon.
Peter Brunt from Colliers International said the 'roses around the door' pub - which sold off an asking price of £439,950 freehold – would hopefully re-open later in July.
He said: "The Swan Inn was rightly renowned and regulars can be assured it will be in very safe hands now the Russons have taken over the reins.
"This is an idyllic country pub with thatched roof and roses around the door in the tourist hotspot of the Wychavon between Worcester and Cheltenham. In terms of archetypal English pub it's truly got the lot."
Zoe Haines said the family had big plans for the Swan Inn – but were determined to preserve its traditional country character.
She said: "We are aiming to beautify the building, moving the bar and creating a more contemporary interior, refurbishing the conservatory as well as updating the gardens and restoring the property to what it should be - a traditional black and white thatched inn."
The Russon family has operated many pubs in the area including the Howard Arms in Illmington, the Ferry Inn in Alveston and the Russons fish restaurant in Stratford, but it is the first time Zoe and husband Will have taken over day to day responsibility.
Zoe said she was excited by the prospect of having the entire family lending a hand.
"At the moment it is very much a drinkers' pub but we want to add classy food alongside traditional pub favourities. There will also be lots of fish dishes!"
Peter Brunt – who specialises in finding new owners for pubs and hotels in the greater Cotswolds region – said being in close proximity to Worcester, Cheltenham, Tewkesbury and Evesham gave the Swan a rich catchment area as well as thriving visitor trade.


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LETTERS: Pipeline and taxes
This is an update concerning property tax being promised to the six Kansas counties the Keystone Pipeline passes through.
Legislators and Keystone have repeatedly told the counties just to be patient, and after 10 years they will start receiving taxes from the pipeline.
The reality is far different, and I feel the counties involved are being systematically misled about this issue. For tax determination, the value for the pipeline is based on a state-appraised value provided to the counties. The county appraisers have no role in this determination.
The appraised value of the pipeline has declined precipitously in just two years. Marion County just received the valuation for 2013.
- 2011: $21,171,668.
- 2012: $17,784,097.
- 2013: $13,875,655.
As you will note, the pipeline has lost 34 percent of its original state assessed value due to accelerated depreciation after only three years. After 10 years, there will be little if any tax value remaining.
Keystone also has said this is a 100-year pipeline and the counties will be paid property taxes for up to 90 years. If you do the math — 90 x 0 = 0 — you will note that hopes for the future are nothing but a pipe dream.
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I had a meeting with the Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Programs.
Are you set on an accelerated program? I think you can get into Cooley with those numbers, but like a PP said, you should do a cost/benefit analysis. Cooley applicants chart - http://cooley.lawschoolnumbers.com/statsCooley employment statistics - http://www.lawschooltransparency.com/clearinghouse/?school=cooleyI would suggest taking the LSAT again if possible.
The only information she had suggested to me in regards to the LSAT, is that a 155 LSAT Score would make it so I would not need to take a GMAT. This was for the prospect of doing the dual JD/MBA program through SCALE.


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The Smurfs
Kids' movies may be the most difficult cinematic mountains to climb. The filmmakers must cater to two perspectives at constant odds with one another: young ones, who find amusement in simplistic stories and broadly painted humor, and their parents, who need enough of a grounded hook, emotional core and clever jokes to keep them from nodding off. Not an easy task.
To see this winning combination pulled off by a 3-D, animation/live-action hybrid adaptation of a rather irritatingly sweet cartoon from the '80s well, it's both a shocking and welcome surprise. The Smurfs transcends recent property-grabs like Garfield, Alvin and the Chipmunks and Marmaduke by embracing the cartooniness, relishing in the fact that it can get away with anything with the help of adorable little blue people.
Smurfs takes the model employed by 2007's Enchanted, kicking things off in the colorful, fantasy world of Smurf Village and quickly bringing its cheery, clueless characters to the terrifying metropolis of New York. After Clumsy Smurf accidentally leads the Smurf-obsessive Gargamel (Hank Azaria) to the hidden mushroom haven of his brethren, the bumbling black sheep of the Smurf family finds himself and a few clan members, Papa, Brainy, Grumpy, Gutsy, Smurfette at the wrong end of a Blue Moon-induced worm hole. The group (along with Gargamel and his cat) find themselves face-planted in NYC's Central Park, where they meet Patrick Winslow (Neil Patrick Harris), yes man to the cosmetic titan Odile. This sets the race in motionthe Smurfs enlisting the help of Patrick to find a way back home, Patrick seeking the perfect ad campaign for Odile's new make-up line and Gargamel questing hungrily for a few drops of Smurf essence.
If Smurfs was simply a barrage of fart jokes and pop culture references the movie wouldn't click, but by giving each of his characters something to do (seems obvious, no?), director Raja Gosnell injects the film with a helpful dose of heart. Along with Clumsy's quest to be more than his name insists, Harris' Patrick also has his own problems to overcome. Namely, preparing to be a Papa Smurf to the kid he's about to have with his wife Grace (Glee's Jayma Mays). Harris and Mays take their roles here seriously, going all out when they need to chase the adventurous Smurfs around town in one slapsticky sequence after another, but they put just as much into their smaller scenes. One moment where Papa Smurf sits Patrick down for a ''Dad talk'' even has weighta near impossible task for a ''kids'' movie.
But let's not get too sappy: the movie is funny, plain and simple. Azaria makes a living bringing cartoon characters to lifehe's a reason why The Simpsons has been on for more than 20 yearsand his goofy Gargamel antics are inspired. A recurring gag where the evil wizard continually steps through ventilation steam grates probably read fine on paper, but Azaria knows how to play big and doesn't allow any moment of physical comedy to lazily fall through the cracks. On the flip side, Harris nails the straight man role and acknowledges that hanging out with Smurfs is just as bizarre as you'd imagine. Think The Brady Bunch Movie for the world of animation.
With solid kids' flicks becoming a rare occurrence, Smurfs is a breath of fresh air, a film that believes in its own simple message while simultaneously being self-aware of its cartoonish heritage. The movie's a smurfy good time, but it takes a particularly smurfy Smurf to let go of cynical baggage and smurf it.
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MANHATTAN -- Kirk Schulz, president of Kansas State University, has been appointed to the NCAA executive committee.
The university said in a release Wednesday that Schulz has served on the NCAA board of directors since July and was unanimously appointed to the executive committee, which is the NCAA's highest governance body.
Schulz will also continue in his current four-year term on the Division I NCAA board of directors, which is made up of presidents or chancellors from institutions in each of the association's 11 conferences. That term ends in 2016.


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When Lucas arrives at Sami's, she confronts him about shooting EJ and covering for Will. She tells him EJ blackmailed Will with the information and quickly forgives Lucas because he sacrificed himself for their son. She hugs him and Lucas admits he already knew about EJ's blackmailing scheme. He explains the details and Sami goes ballistic.
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Will comes out to Sami and Lucas, Gabi lies about her stalker, and Shane comes up with a plan.
Will rushes to Gabi at the Coffee Bean and lets her know he learned she has a stalker. She confirms it so he grabs her arm, ready to take her somewhere safe. Gabi refuses. He's acting like a... "What? A drama queen?" Will asks. Gabi thinks the stalker is getting off on frightening her. She's trying to get her modelling contract sorted and that won't work if she's out of sight.
Melanie comforts Chad at the square. Maggie stops them with news that she bought the spa. She hopes to see more of Melanie and get to know Chad better. Chad apologizes for his outburst at the wake and they discuss how Kate was replaced by Sami at CW, so Chad's not sure he still has a job. Maggie offers Chad a job modelling for her own ad campaign for the spa. Gabi overhears. Mel and Maggie head into the spa and Gabi strolls by, trying to look nervous. Chad stops her and she tells him she was being followed. He holds her and chastises her for being out alone. Melanie returns and hears the latest and calls the cops. Gabi hangs up and makes something up about Will and the Mayor's office helping her with this.
John's pacing annoys Marlena at the safe house. He complains and Shane turns up. John worries that someone will find Bo and Hope at the ISA offices.
Harmon hears something at the ISA offices. He takes out his gun and moves toward the adjoining room, where Bo and Hope are hiding. He's distracted by the safe, and opens it, finding the coin. "Like stealing candy from a baby," he smirks. He takes the coin and leaves just as Shane calls Bo's cell. Bo leaves his cell in the other room before Harmon returns and picks up. Shane covers. He was wondering where he left his phone. Harmon agrees to leave it with the front desk.
Harmon walks in on Stefano at home, going over his arms deal. Harmon hands over the coin, saying it came from ISA Headquarters. Stefano examines it intently. "At last, it's mine."
Hope and Bo return to the safe house and the group discusses Harmon taking the coin to Stefano. John wonders what Stefano's next move is. Shane makes a call to the ISA to rant about them letting Harmon walk out of headquarters with the coin. They didn't want to alert Harmon that they were on to him but this only makes Shane crazy and he yells at them to watch the DiMera house, the train stations and if they have to put sand in gas tank of the DiMera jet to keep it parked where it is, they should! Shane takes another call and learns that one of the biggest illegal arms traffickers is arriving in Salem. They've no time to arrange a proper warrant. John suggests they position themselves in the middle of the deal. Later, Shane finds out the arms dealer's name is Vladimir Nevsky. Shane makes a call to Harmon, planting a seed about Nevsky.
Back at Sami's, Lucas thinks a lie is okay if you've good reason and Sami retorts that if he's going to lie, he should own up to it. Will walks in and overhears. He thinks Sami should take her own advice. Sami tells Will what they've been discussing and Will asks if she thinks she has a right to know everything about him. They should be careful of what they wish for. This puzzles Sami. They bring up the grief sex and Sami is sorry for that. She has to live with it and move on and is worried he's not moving on from it. She worries it'll turn Will into someone he doesn't want to be. Sami hopes one day he realizes her back was against the wall. One day he'll have to decide for himself if a truth is worth telling. Will is already enlightened. "Maybe that day is today." He's been hiding a part of him from them and doesn't want to anymore. Will doesn't think they want to know the truth. "What truth?" Sami asks. "I'm gay," Will blurts out.
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Nevsky is suspicious.
Sami and Lucas respond to Will's admission.
Sami runs out on Will.
Lucas is disappointed.
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inbar is an element from the Khuzdul name Barazinbar and is translated as "horn".
The actual word is not known, but perhaps it was *nibar or *mibar since words of three radical vowels such this (look below) don't begin with a vowel.
The word derives from the Root M-B-R[1] but it is possible that it is perhaps a mistype for *N-B-R.[2]
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) - Franklin County Sheriff's Deputies made two arrests after finding what they call an elaborate marijuana growing operation.
A Franklin County Sheriff's Deputy received a call from Dispatch advising him of a reckless driver in the area of Creekside Lane.
A vehicle matching that description was found parked at 200 Creekside Lane. The deputy detected a strong order of marijuana coming from the house when he approached.
Upon further investigation, the deputy discovered an active marijuana grow operation in the home's basement.
Now, one room is filled with marijuana, equipment to grow it, and other drug paraphernalia all adding up to more than 100,000 dollars according to Sheriff Pat Melton.
"He had a real good exhaust system. He had a thermostat inside the grow room to regulate the temperature and then the fans would kick on automatically and everything was on timers. So this wasn't just your average indoor grow," said Sheriff Melton.
Two suspects were arrested. 38-year-old Kevin Barnett is charged with cultivating marijuana and trafficking 39 pounds of marijuana.
"He knew what he was doing and had been doing this awhile," said Sheriff Melton.
Also, 18-year-old William Barnett is charged with cultivating marijuana.
Both were lodged in the Franklin County Regional Jail.
Sheriff Melton says he is proud of this bust knowing they got more marijuana, which he calls a gateway drug, off the streets.
"At the end of the day, marijuana is illegal in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and this is a win for us," said Sheriff Melton. "It's a win for the good guys."
If you have any tips on most wanted, drugs, or other criminal activity, then you are asked to call the Franklin County Sheriff's Office at (502) 320-3306.


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Update: 'Chicago Stronger' T-shirts pulled from site; company responds
UPDATE @ 10:27 a.m. Friday: Cubby Tees has pulled the shirts. Here's a portion of the company's response:
"Had our initial message pierced the knee-jerk reaction and gotten through to more online folk, they might have recognized the design's satirical nature that targeted the tasteless exploiters in Boston's midst rather than any innocent victims. Though we: (a) are loathe to take any action that appears to bow to bullying, and; (b) had hoped that residents of the "Cradle Of Liberty" held a greater appreciation for the freedom of expression (we support you venting your opinions, not so much your threats and insistence on censorship)…we've nevertheless pulled the shirt in the interest of harmony between two great cities.
"We post this for posterity: judging by the tone/ignorance/froth/grammar contained in most of the notes received, we realize that a majority of the correspondents lack an open mind, earnest desire for discourse or an ability to comprehend complex concepts like parody...let alone polysyllabic words (though some sent thoughtful, well-reasoned messages which we appreciated).
"Anyone who believes that the shirt mocked those injured in the horrible events of Patriots' Day regrettably missed our point and did not read/process our accompanying commentary; nowhere on the shirt's face (or within its subtext or motivation) did we take aim at the victims or make light of the incident -- nor would we ever. The design poked fun at the embarrassing self-congratulatory branding of the tragedy, and its inappropriate adoption by SOME BOSTON FANS AS A MINIMIZING SPORTS ANTHEM, not the sad reality of that day's mayhem."
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POSTED THURSDAY: After many expressed outrage over the appearance of a "Toronto Stronger" banner during the Bruins' first-round playoff series against the Maple Leafs, you probably didn't think anyone would go there again.
You were wrong.
A Chicago firm named Cubby Tees was selling "Chicago Stronger" shirts at $19.95 a pop, and that sparked a new round of outrage inside 495. (We'll assume that The One Fund wasn't getting a cut.)
We've excerpted part of the firm's sales pitch here:
"Following the tragedy of the Boston Marathon bombing, the nation rallied around Beantown and its "Boston Strong" motto, which has since been appropriated by its sports teams. We love Boston and support/admire its people, but don't believe that the homicidal lunacy of two disturbed locals has rendered its teams invincible. This is about hockey, this is about O-6 pride, this is about the Cup.
"Chicago is the City of Broad Shoulders – our town burned down, our winters are legendary, our Cubs have floundered for a century, yet we endure. Other cities may be strong, we're stronger. The Bruins are strong, our Blackhawks are stronger."
As you'd expect, the Twitter reaction is ... interesting. We've posted some family friendly tweets below, to offer you a taste of what people are saying.
Cubby Tees launches "Chicago Stronger" shirts accompanied with lame reason for selling them. http://t.co/MjsvjK1Mli— Steve Annear (@steveannear) June 14, 2013
Seriously, people are using #ChicagoStronger? That's really classless and disrespectful IMO. Chicago fans are better than that.— Cara (@Caraw88) June 14, 2013
"Chicago stronger" shirts make me sick. #bostonstrong united a city after a tragic incident. It's nothing to mock— Laura Thayer (@lauramichelle08) June 14, 2013
It's disgusting enough to make and sell "Chicago Stronger" shirts, but the write up may be worse. http://t.co/W74Zt14QB0— Lauren Azevedo (@Lauren_Az) June 14, 2013
It is completely outrageous that Cubby Tees is selling "Chicago Stronger" shirts. How dare they rip off that Toronto Maple Leafs fan?— Duncan Idunno (@DuncanIdunno) June 14, 2013
Tweeting #chicagostronger is mocking Officer Collier who died for his COUNTRY & the countless others maimed! pic.twitter.com/wdf98AN71m— #BostonStrong Bruins (@BigBadBruins88) June 14, 2013
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Lirik Lagu Stars – Greyson Chance
[Verse One]
I started to cry as the doctor told me.
She was going to leave us tonight
So I stifled my tears now and went to her room
To my surprise she had a twinkle in her eyes
She said:
"You know that I am leaving you behind but don't worry I'll be fine, I'll be behind the blue skies, among those beautiful stars".
Cause in the sky
You're so high
There are beautiful stars which shine the night
She'll be dancing in the clouds.
She'll be singing in the rain
Among those beautiful stars
[Verse Two]
She held her hand out as she went
She took her last breath
And the tears starting flowing out again
And I went to the window
And I opened it.
There she was she was shining the sky
Amongst the beautiful sky
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[Verse Three]
Five years have past
The cancer was spreading
I wouldn't last.
So I took my last breath
[Chorus 2x]
We were dancing in the clouds
We were singing in the rain
Among those beautiful stars
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Crock Pot Lasagna
I'm always looking for new ways to use my Crock Pot (a.k.a. slow cooker.) It really is one of the most used items in my kitchen. I think one of the things I love most about it is it can be used year round.
Don't want to heat up your kitchen in the summertime by turning on your oven? Use your Crock Pot. Want to save on your electric bill when you've had your electric heat cranking all winter? Use your Crock Pot.
Slow Cooker recipes
And not only that, foods still come out tasting great. It can take a tough, inexpensive cut of meat and turn it into a moist and juicy meal. Plus, you can make pasta dishes in it and they turn out perfect!
Crock Pot Lasagna
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 small onion, finely diced
- 1 tbsp garlic, minced
- 1 (26 oz) jar spaghetti sauce
- 1 cup water
- 1 (15 oz) container small curd cottage cheese (or ricotta cheese)
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese, divided use
- 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese, divided use
- 1 egg
- 2 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped (optional)
- 4-6 lasagna noodles, uncooked
- Brown and crumble ground beef in a large skillet.
- Then add in onion and garlic and cook for additional 1-2 minutes.
- Drain excess grease from beef and put back into skillet.
- Pour in spaghetti sauce and water.
- Give it all a good stir.
- In a separate bowl, mix together cottage cheese, 1 1/2 cups mozzarella cheese, 2 tbsp. parmesan cheese, egg, pepper and chopped parsley. (Put your remaining cheeses back in the fridge, you'll be using those as a topping later)
- Spray crock pot with no-stick cooking spray.
- Scoop approximately 1 cup of meat sauce into bottom of slow cooker.
- Top with one layer of uncooked lasagna noodles.
- Just do your best to break them up to fit into your crock pot.
- Next top with a layer of cheese mixture.
- Keep adding layers, ending with meat sauce. I was able to get 3 layers in my 5-quart slow cooker.
- Put the lid on and cook on low for 4-6 hours. You want most of the liquid to be absorbed and noodles should be soft.
- When it is finished cooking, add remaining cheeses and sprinkle with parsley.
- Put the lid back on for about 10-15 more minutes until cheese is melted.
Easy Baked Spaghetti (a.k.a. Spasagna)
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Friday, September 10, 2010
So since Adam is constantly gone or studying, I decided to take the plunge ... I BOUGHT A BOOK! Has anyone read it?I just love the TV Show Castle and so I hope the book will be just as great. I just got it today and have a few items I need to complete before starting it, but I am pretty excited. Hopefully it doesn't end up like Twilight for me. (That is : don't ever finish it ... sorry Twilight fanatics ... it just wasn't my thing :)
So here's for crossing fingers.
Also, any advice on potty training books :) Yes, we are getting to that stage with Bryce and I am SO not excited. I found this website called thepottytrainer.com ... it was a pretty convincing story to the book, but I am a little reluctant! Any advice would be great too!
I will be picking a winner of supplies tomorrow ... good luck to my great blog friends!
5 comments:
- Josh said...
I hate reading too. I have been carrying this "book" around that I got at the library. I read like 50 pages and then the college football season started...
- September 11, 2010 at 6:21 PM
- Jennifer Slaugh said...
Let us know if it's a good book! I am not much of a twilight fan either I never finished :) I have just started reading the hunger games series.
- September 11, 2010 at 8:19 PM
- Eric & Jodi Eames said...
I obviously have not come to this point in my life yet...I still need to have kids first!!
Fortunatly I'm privy to many conversations involving this potty training subject so I'm sure I will be AMAZING at it someday :)
Anyway I heard a good idea at work yesterday from a few of my female co workers. They purchased a vinyl cutout of a bulls eye target, completely drained their toilet and dried the area in the toilet bowl where they desired their little one
(or daddy) to aim at and then applied. They made sure it was dry and they say that it stays in place and they just replace it every few years or so. I'm curious to try!!
Anyway good luck Duds miss ya!
- September 12, 2010 at 9:30 AM
- sarahw said...
I just finished potty trainer my 3 year old. I have to say the biggest thing is waiting until they are ready. We pushed my now 6 year old and it took forever. With Elias he said he wanted big boy underwear and the next day he was wearing them. I just did a scrapbook page on potty training. Good luck.
- September 12, 2010 at 11:04 AM
- Linda E said...
My kids loved the Sesame Street characters so I Have To Go was a big hit. Here's the link: http://www.amazon.com/Have-Sesame-Street-Toddler-Books/dp/0394860519/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1284738654&sr=8-2 My dauhter also loved watching Baby Songs so we used this http://www.amazon.com/Baby-Songs-Hap-Palmer-Music/dp/B00008WJDK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1284739031&sr=8-1(It was in VHS at the time.) The song "Today I Took My Diaper Off" was a big hit in my house. LOL! I also gave my kids a penny every time they went. We stacked the pennies on their dresser and when my husband came home from work, he got to see just how successful the day was. Then the sat with their Dad and put the pennies into their bank. My daughter's bank played a song every time you dropped a coin in so that was an added bonus! Good luck.
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If your desired destination is a little too far away to find your way to on foot, Reider also recommends the Deuce a popular double-decker bus to travelers looking to save money. This bus services the Vegas strip around the clock, with 24-hour passes ringing in an only $7. For affordable site-to-site transportation without all of the stops and starts that come along with bus travel, consider the Las Vegas Monorail. The $12 one-day pass allows unlimited transportation between all of the major stations along the strip, with climate-controlled cars that are clean and comfortable.
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It is often said of England that it is just a football nation. By that, it is meant that England comes together as a nation, and has national institutions of its own, only when it comes to football competitions and to other sports where England has its own team or league, such as rugby union or cricket. There is some justification for this, in that England clearly is not a civic nation – either a sovereign state or a self-governing part of a larger state – but nonetheless has the footballing status of one. Indeed, it has superior status to other nation states' football associations, in that the FA still has a veto on any rule changes to the beautiful game. England is a football nation, then, in part because it is the home of football.
The same could be said of Great Britain and the Olympics. The Olympics are now arguably the only occasion when 'Great Britain' unites as a nation. For a little while, albeit imperfectly, we forget that we are in fact three nations (or four, or five, if you include Northern Ireland and / or Cornwall – but that's a different story) and get together behind 'Team GB', with the mandatory Union Flags being draped around the shoulders of our Olympic heroes (whether they want it or not – and how could they refuse?): all differences cloaked in the colours of a rediscovered British patriotism.
And just like England, Great Britain is not a civic nation. The civic nation, the sovereign state, is the United Kingdom (informally known as 'Britain', rather than Great Britain). But we choose to compete as Great Britain. Why? In part, this is so that Northern Irish athletes have the freedom to choose whether to represent Britain or the Republic of Ireland. In part, also, this is because 'Great Britain' can arguably claim to have originated the present Olympic movement, in that the first modern Olympic Games of any sort were held in England (in the Shropshire town of Much Wenlock from 1850 onwards), while Great Britain was an inaugural participant in the first international Games in 1896, and has taken part – as Great Britain – in every summer and winter Olympics since. The IOC president Jacques Rogge paid tribute to Great Britain's Olympic heritage in his speech at the 2012 Olympics' opening ceremony, when he referred to the fact that Great Britain had in effect originated modern sport as such by codifying its rules: just as England is the home of football, the Olympics were in effect coming home by taking place in Great Britain in 2012.
So football and the Olympics are two global sporting institutions with which our nationhood – whether as England or Great Britain – is bound up as originator and 'owner'. It's almost as if those particular games – football and Olympic – are not just an incidental part of our national heritage and of our contribution to global culture, but are an integral part of what constitutes us as nations: we are not so much nations that rediscover our sense of nationhood through international sports competitions, but are nations who experience ourselves truly as nations only when playing the games that properly speaking are ours to begin with, and which we have given to the world. Temporarily, the existential void that exists where a secure sense of nationhood should be is filled with the passion of the game and the excitement of 'representing' the nation under the colours of the flag – be they red and white, or red, white and blue.
But who in fact are the 'we' who lack the grounded experience of nationhood that comes from national civic institutions, and from sovereign, national self-rule? Who are the 'we' who so lack 'internal' recognition as a nation, and the ability to feel pride about ourselves as a nation, that we feel validated only when we are able to stand as the first among equals amid the international community of nations which, in a sense, we have brought into existence in the particular form in which that community has come together, e.g. through football or the Olympics? Our fragile national egos stand poised perilously between non-existence – non-particularity – and internationality: perfectly reflected in the international world that England or Great Britain can claim to have created, insofar as our very internationality is said by some commentators to be the quintessence of our 'British nationhood' and of the new, confident Britishness that Team GB's successes is helping to cement. Hence, 'we' see ourselves as a nation – and see ourselves only when – perfectly mirrored and validated by the admiring international community of nations: as being a 'nation of nations' – effectively, an international community of nations ourselves; Great Britain.
The 'we' who escape in this way from our everyday nationless state to the ludic, spectacular, imaginary and international nationhood of the Games that seem to define us as a nation are the English people. Whether the sporting team concerned is England or Great Britain, it is we the English people that lose ourselves in the short-lived high of imagining ourselves as a great nation, once more, on the international stage – reasserting our ownership of and identification with the global community by beating them at, literally, our own game, so that the international community has no choice other than to recognise us as truly a unique nation in their midst.
Looking only at the surface of things, it would be easy to conclude that the English patriotic fervour that accompanied the nation's football team's progress through international competitions, up until its dismal performance in the 2010 World Cup, was a radically different phenomenon from the outbreak of British patriotic fervour that has accompanied Team GB's glittering successes at London 2012. But they are fundamentally the same: they are expressions of English people's need to have a proud sense of nationhood, which is 'fulfilled' temporarily through sport. This is the case, not only because those sports 'belong to us' but because those feelings are denied in day-to-day life, where we live in a nationless state in the other sense: a state – the UK – that is not a nation and denies nationhood to the English. The blossoming of the Union Flag, sprouting in bunting and branding over shops, pubs and homes across England, is a continuation not a break from the similar sprouting of the Cross of St. George that has accompanied football tournaments in the past. The England team has let us down and dashed our pride; but now Team GB seems to be restoring it. Great Britain is an Olympic nation just as England is a football nation; and fundamentally, this is because the nation, the people, who identify with and rave about those countries' respective sporting feats are in both cases the English.
Of course, on another level, England and Great Britain are completely different entities. But they are also non-entities – non-civic nations – and so are ironically perfect, interchangeable channels for our unfulfilled desire for replete nationhood. 'Team UK' or 'Team Britain' wouldn't do the job, a) because they're names for the state, not 'the nation', and b) because they are too difficult for English people to identify with – too neutral and un-English. 'Great Britain' can function as 'the nation' only because English people identify with it as their nation: as effectively a proxy for, and a more grandiose way of saying, 'England'. This may seem counter-intuitive, because the outbreak of unionflagitis across England would tend to suggest the opposite: that English people are espousing a British-not-English identity. But in fact, it's a British-because-English identity, and ordinary people across the land are, once again, failing to make the kind of categorical distinction between Britishness and Englishness that the promoters of those two brands might wish they did.
Take the woman in my local corner shop, who said "the whole of England" would have been cheering on Mo Farah to win the 5000m race on Saturday night; or my partner – a university-educated woman who's just turned 50 – who persists unself-consciously in referring to 'Team GB' as 'England', to the extent that I've given up correcting her. This sort of attitude, and habit of thought and speech, is replicated up and down the land: Team GB is simply viewed as an 'English' team, and all distinction between England and Britain is swept away in a tide of Union Flags.
This is the opposite effect from that which the political and media establishment, along with the liberal promoters of a self-sufficient Britishness, believe has been achieved. For them, saying 'Great Britain' is a way to avoid saying 'England' and invoking English nationhood; but for the English people, supporting Team GB is just another way of being patriotically English. This has been obvious from the extent to which the BBC, in its Olympics coverage, has been desperate to prevent any mention of Team GB athletes' English identity, and to correct them whenever they referred to 'England' or 'English' competitors. Ironically, of course, the sheer fact of imposing an exclusively British identity on English sportsmen and -women only – while allowing 'non-English' British athletes to celebrate a dual identity (Scottish and British, or Somali and British) – reinforces the very Englishness of Britishness: the fact that Britishness, and the British patriotism of the Games, is at root just an expression of Englishness. English athletes who carelessly let the word 'England' slip from their mouths are in effect giving the Game away, in both senses: the Olympic Games being by definition an opportunity to celebrate a supposedly inclusive Britishness.
Liberal commentators have played along with this establishment game, observing how Team GB's supposedly multicultural (by which is really meant multi-ethnic) composition, and the support the Team received across the social spectrum, illustrate and consolidate a new inclusive, civic Britishness. It achieves this, however, only if all reference to England and Englishness is systematically eliminated. Britishness is an inclusive identity only on the basis of England's exclusion. The inclusive, civic Britishness is predicated on the idea that no nationality has any claim to being a pre-eminent or core element of British identity or culture. England is that core, and so it must be eradicated; and English people are only allowed to be British – or, as I said above, only English people must be British-only.
And this illustrates what the Olympic nation that is Great Britain – Team GB – actually is at root: it's a flight from English nationhood, mostly by English people themselves, into the idealised, international nationhood that is 'Britain'. But it needs to tap into English patriotism to gain the loyalty and support of the masses. So rather than succeeding in cancelling out English nationality, 'Great Britain' is nothing without it.
Great Britain, in other words, is merely an Olympic nation; but the real nation that underlies it, and will outlive the four-yearly enthusiasm for Team GB, is England.


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Faacebook has agreed to acquire Oculus VR, maker of the Oculus Rift virtual reality gaming hardware.
By Kris Holt
E-Commerce Times
The announcement that Facebook has cut a deal to purchase Oculus VR has dismayed some fans of the virtual reality startup. Among them are the developer of the popular Minecraft game, who reportedly has ceased work on a version for Oculus Rift in light of the acquisition. Also, some Kickstarter supporters are demanding refunds of the pledges they made to Oculus.
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Faacebook has agreed to acquire Oculus VR, maker of the Oculus Rift virtual reality gaming hardware.
Facebook will pay around US$2 billion for the company. That figure includes $400 million in cash and 23.1 million shares of Facebook common stock, valued at $1.6 billion based on recent average trading price. There is a provision for an additional $300 million earnout based on performance. The acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of 2014.
Since its origins as a Kickstarter project in 2012, the Oculus Rift headset has generated strong interest from developers, with more than 75,000 development kit orders. However, Facebook plans to expand Oculus Rift's reach beyond games into verticals such as education, media and communications.
The versatility of virtual reality gives it a strong chance of being the next major social and communications platform after mobile, suggested Facebook.
Staying Independent
Facebook will operate Oculus as an independent company, similar to the way it runs Instagram and WhatsApp. The company will continue development on the Oculus Rift out of its Irvine, Calif., headquarters.
This marks Facebook's second major acquisition of 2014. It paid $19 billion for WhatsApp earlier this year.
The move also comes on the heels of Sony's announcement earlier this month that it was developing its own virtual reality hardware, Project Morpheus, for the PlayStation 4.
The deal could have positive implications for all parties.
"Facebook gets to position itself as being ahead of the curve, and this is especially useful as it almost fell dangerously behind the curve where mobile was concerned," said Steve Bailey, senior games analyst at IHS.
"Oculus Rift has potential access to the resources and userbase of Facebook now -- however they choose to progress this, it's a very vague road map indeed," he told the E-Commerce Times.
"Oculus investors will have seen an enormous return on their venture -- with the exception of Kickstarter backers, of course, who were never involved in equity purchase in the first place, but who may still feel that a certain unspoken understanding has been invalidated," Bailey noted.
"Facebook investors are likely to see little from this in the short term, as it's a dizzyingly long-term play from Facebook," he said.
'Exit Strategy'
"For Oculus, it's a wonderful exit strategy -- probably the best they could hope for," said Lewis Ward, gaming research director at IDC.
"It's positioned Facebook to keep moving up the quality ladder, the experience ladder, in terms of the types of technologies they can deploy their services and games on," he told the E-Commerce Times.
Facebook's move has not been met with favor in all quarters.
Markus "Notch" Persson, the developer whose company Mojang created the phenomenally successful Minecraft, claimed that he was in talks to create a version of his game for Oculus Rift, but pulled the plug because "Facebook creeps me out."
Meanwhile, some of those who backed the Oculus Rift project on Kickstarter are demanding refunds of their pledges.
"Facebook is taking a gamble that VR headsets will be the next major paradigm where consumer devices are concerned," IHS' Bailey said. There are no guarantees that this will be the case, of course."
'Wild Card'
"Half the reason the acquisition is such a wild card is because it centers on a confluence that's a fair stretch into the future," Bailey continued.
"The other half is thanks to Facebook having no history in hardware, nor the specialist side gaming. It has been the operator of a device-agnostic service," he pointed out.
Facebook is not a content developer, publisher or operator, Bailey pointed out. It's "a platform owner whose priorities straddle multiple verticals. Facebook's duty is to users first and gamers second."
While the deal has caused a great deal of interest among onlookers, it seems that there is still quite some way to go before virtual reality, whether as gaming or a multipurpose platform, breaks out of the niche market.
"I think this lends less validity to the VR market than is perhaps being generally attributed," Bailey said.
"We have had cycles of enthusiasm, tangible promise and colorful future-think before in VR -- and other prospectively disruptive hardware lines. I'd agree that the concept feels better-fleshed than it has before, but precedents in this marketplace make me feel that we've a distance to go before we can break free of the proof-of-concept stage," he cautioned.
'Niche Product'
"For the foreseeable future, for at least the next five years, I envision virtual reality as a niche product," IDC's Ward suggested.
"My understanding is that the building materials for Oculus Rift and Morpheus is somewhere between $750 to $1,000. Even if they can shave a good chunk of that off in the next two years, once it finally gets commercialized it's still very unlikely to be less than $500," he said.
"Facebook, from my perspective, wants to be global, on as many platforms as possible,and deeply social and deeply personalized," Ward continued. "Oculus is almost the virtual opposite. It is a niche product that is expensive, and I have not seen one piece of social software on it."
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West Woolwich Mennonite Meetinghouse (Elmira, Ontario, Canada)
The Elmira Old Order Mennonite Meetinghouse is located on Church Street West in Elmira (part lot 104 of the German Company Tract), in Woolwich Township, in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario.
The meetinghouse, 10.7 x 12.2 metres (35' x 40'), was built in 1854, when 0.8 hectares (2 acres) of land was purchased for 5 shillings. At that time, the congregation was known as West Woolwich. Peter Martin was ordained in 1854 as the congregation's first minister. David Good from the Martins congregation served as deacon when the meetinghouse was first built, and then Moses W. Martin was ordained as deacon in 1867.
In 1888, the frame building was extended 3.7 metres (12'), and in 1908 another 5.5 metres (18') was added so that the building comfortably seated 450 adults. A completely new building, 14.6 x 23.2 metres (48' x 76'), was constructed in 1976. Around this time (1975), the name of the meetinghouse was changed from West Woolwich to Elmira in the Old Order Mennonite Church calendar. The meetinghouse has been shared with a Markham Mennonite group since 1939, when the Markham and Old Order groups divided from each other.
The cemetery has also been expanded over the years. In 1962, it was extended by 0.4 hectares (1 acre). In 1989, another 1.1 hectares (2.71 acres) of land was purchased to expand the parking lot and the cemetery before the town of Elmira developed the land. The Elmira Old Order congregation shares the cemetery with three other Mennonite churches: the Markham Mennonite group, the Elmira Mennonite Church and the Zion Mennonite Church. Cemetery maintenance is shared among the four congregations.
World War I touched this Elmira congregation as it did the rest of Canadian society. In 1918, 84 boys and 27 girls applied for church baptism, making up an unusually large baptismal class. One day, a military officer came to the meetinghouse to investigate the class. The young men were called outside and the officer asked them for their exemption papers. He left when he was satisfied that the young Mennonite men were not trying to avoid conscription.
In 2003 there were approximately 78 families in the Elmira church district. No accurate count of members is available for most of the history of the congregation because Old Order Mennonites think of themselves as members of the church at large and not just the immediate congregation. The Old Order also do not see the quantity of members as indicative of the congregation's importance. When people move from one geographical area to another, they automatically "belong to" the congregation whose meetinghouse is closest to their home. No membership transfer takes place from the former location.
Mennonite Reporter (23 June 1975): 1.
Information from the church.
Additional Information
Table 1: Elmira Old Order Meetinghouse Ordained Leaders*
|Peter Martin
|Moses W. Martin
|David B. Martin1
|David Cressman4
|Amos Gingrich
|Aaron Brubacher
|Jesse Bauman2
|Clarence B. Martin5
|Edward G. Martin
|Joseph Martin
|Daniel R. Martin
|Urias W. Martin
- Unless otherwise noted, the dates of service span date of ordination to date of death.
1David B. Martin transferred to the Peel Old Order Mennonite congregation when that meetinghouse was built in 1901.
2Jesse Bauman was ordained to the office of Bishop in 1933, in which he served until 1939 when he accompanied the Markham group that left the Old Order Mennonites.
3Edward G. Martin served as minister until 1969, and he came back as a member in 1980.
4David Cressman was ordained in 1872 for the Biehn church and then moved to West Woowich and become part of the Old Order Mennonites.
5Clarence B. Martin was ordained transferred to Winterbourne in 1966.
Table 2: Elmira Old Order Mennonite Meetinghouse Membership
(counted as households)
|Anita Streicher
|Date Published
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Deshong Family
The story of the Deshong family in Chester, Pennsylvania, begins in the middle of the eighteenth century, generations before collector Alfred O. Deshong was born. Peter Deshong, grandfather of Alfred O. Deshong, was born in 1781 to a French immigrant and miller named Pierre deShaw and his wife, Susanna Gilman deShaw. During his 46 years of life, Peter not only anglicized the family name but also moved his household from Philadelphia to Chester. A tall, slender man with a very pale complexion and long, dark braided hair, Peter owned the Lapidea Grist Mill on Crum Creek until 1808. Toward the end of his short life, he was the owner of the packet sloop "Mary and Louise" (named for his wife and daughter) which plied the Delaware River twice each week, carrying cargo between Chester and Philadelphia.
Peter's wife, Mary Odenheimer Deshong, from whom Alfred O. Deshong's middle name was derived, was the daughter of a German who had settled in Philadelphia prior to 1750. Mary was raised on her father's farm, "Ridley," to which the family had moved after the devastating yellow fever epidemic of 1793.
That farm played the first significant role in the history of Widener University. Purchased by Mary's father, John, in 1771 it was composed of 177 acres of land beginning roughly a mile from Chester along Ridley Creek. Twenty acres of the property became "the site of Col. Hyatt's Military Academy" (now Widener University). And the stone quarry that we know to have been on Odenheimer's farm is very likely the quarry in which the University's Hansell Track and Field is set.
Peter and Mary Deshong were well known in Chester. Mary was the postmistress from 1824 to 1835 and remained in the city until her death in 1869 at the age of 90. Peter was one of the incorporators of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, where he served as a vestryman for 20 years, and a founder of the Delaware County National Bank, which he served as a director from 1815 to 1825. The eldest of the three Deshong children, John, successively operated a dry goods/grocery store and a very successful lumberyard, both in Chester. In addition, he had inherited the Odenheimer quarry at "Ridley" and also owned a quarry on Crum Creek called "Island Field."
Wealthy and respected, John was director of the Delaware County National Bank for nearly 50 years and one of the largest stockholders in Chester Gas Company. He and his wife, Emmeline (nee Terrill), built and occupied a large home at the corner of Ninth St. and Edgmont Ave., Chester. Known as the Deshong Mansion, the house was home to John and Emmeline, the surviving five of their seven children, and John's unmarried sister.
Alfred Odenheimer Deshong was born to John and Emmeline on September 30, 1837. Educated in the public schools of Chester and Bolmar Academy, West Chester, he maintained the Deshong Mansion as his residence throughout his life, living there after his parents' death with his younger brother John. After service as a Union private at Antietam and Gettysburg during the Civil War, Alfred returned to Chester where he and young John operated the Deshong stone quarries. The partnership ended with John's death in 1895 at the age of 54. Of Alfred's other siblings who survived childhood – Howard (1839-1861), Louise (1848-1925) and Clarence (1849-1927) – only Louise and Clarence lived to old age. Louise lived with her husband, Jonathan Edwards Woodbridge, in a large brick home at 14th and Potter Streets, about two blocks from University Center. Today, the building is a University residence hall known as the Manor House.
The Gallery has a small collection of photographs showing interiors of the Manor House and of Alfred's Deshong Mansion which are copies of originals taken by Louise, a pioneer among women photographers. The youngest brother, Clarence, became an authority on the breeding of horses and cattle and was well known as the breeder and owner of a number of famous trotting and saddle horses. Clarence lived on the southwest corner of Broad and Madison Streets, Chester, and owned about 100 acres called "Island Farm" in Crum Lynne, Middletown Township.
The story of the Deshong family and its recurring association with Widener does not end with Clarence's death in 1927. Our efforts to reconstruct the family history, to gather Louise's photographs and other family memorabilia were undertaken with the assistance of Mrs. Jane Deshong Felix, widow of Dr. Howard C. Deshong. Additional information on the Deshong family is available from the Gallery office.
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2014 Volkswagen Passat TDI SEL: Real World Review
The Volkswagen Passat has been getting a lot of attention lately. Not only is it the first U.S.-built Volkswagen in a decade, it's also one of the brand's first serious attempts at a mainstream car designed to challenge rivals like the Toyota Camry, Honda Accord and Ford Fusion. So how does it stack up? To find out, we spent a week with a diesel-powered 2014 Volkswagen Passat TDI SEL.
Solid, Stylish Family Car
One piece of feedback we heard from nearly everyone who drove our 2014 Passat is that it feels like a very solid car. Of course, many of today's midsize cars feel solid in the sense that you don't expect them to crumple in an accident, but most staffers who drove the Passat thought the sedan went even beyond that feeling, giving drivers the sense that they were in a much more expensive car like the BMW 5 Series or Audi A6.
One reason for this is the Passat's materials. Fit and finish is excellent, and Volkswagen uses high-quality materials throughout the cabin to give drivers the feeling that they're in a proper German car, even if it's one that was built in the States. Volkswagen also contributes to the solid feel with overengineered touches like auto-down windows in the front and back. That's a feature that few other cars have, and it's one you'll notice quickly.
Another aspect that everyone agreed on was the sedan's styling: We like it. Everyone who drove the car felt that its proportions were right, its look was subdued without being boring and its lines will age well in the coming months and years. That's something we wouldn't necessarily say about certain rival models like the Hyundai Sonata or Honda Accord, which use very modern design cues that may not look so fresh in a few years.
Good, Not Great, Gas Mileage
We have mixed feelings on the Passat's fuel economy. In combined city and highway driving, we were able to easily reach 30 to 35 miles per gallon, an excellent number reserved for the smallest cars only a few short years ago. Of course, this is courtesy of the Passat's 140-horsepower turbodiesel 4-cylinder engine, which is rated at 30 mpg in the city and 40 mpg on the highway by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The only problem: A Passat TDI starts around $27,500, while our SEL model pushed that figure to more than $34,000. By comparison, a Ford Fusion Hybrid starts at $28,000 and a well-equipped Fusion Hybrid Titanium is $33,000. The numbers are comparable until you realize that the Fusion Hybrid returns an EPA-rated 47 mpg city/47 mpg hwy, which soundly trumps the Passat's figures. Same goes for the Honda Accord Hybrid, which starts around $30,000 and returns 50 mpg city/45 mpg hwy.
Engine Only Adequate
Unfortunately, the Passat's powertrain troubles don't stop with its fuel economy. We're not entirely impressed with its 2-liter engine, which can be a little noisy and slow to respond, even though it's mated to Volkswagen's usually excellent dual-clutch automatic transmission. We're also not sold on the Passat's acceleration, which has a 0-to-60 miles per hour time of nine seconds, making it slower than both the Accord Hybrid and the Fusion Hybrid despite having worse gas mileage.
Easy to Live With, Especially for Audiophiles
Fortunately, the Passat is full of traits that make it easy to live with. Bluetooth, for example, is surprisingly clear, although we're not sure why phone pairing isn't done on the large, center-mounted touchscreen. Also, the Passat's trunk is huge, which makes it especially practical. And while fuel economy might not beat some hybrid rivals, its range will: The Passat comes with an 18.5-gallon tank, which means it's theoretically possible to drive the sedan more than 700 miles on a single tank. That's good if you spend a lot of time on the highway.
More importantly for drivers who like music, however, is the Passat's Fender sound system. Although it takes a while to boot up, it's excellent once it has. The music clarity is fantastic and the sound quality is nearly perfect. In all, we're surprised to see a system like this on a midsize sedan.
Our Conclusion: Solid Choice
The 2014 Volkswagen Passat TDI SEL certainly has its shortcomings, especially when you consider fuel economy and engine power, but that doesn't mean we wouldn't recommend it. On the contrary, there are enough features we like about the Passat to suggest it to our friends, but we'd also strongly recommend that they check out the Ford Fusion Hybrid and Honda Accord Hybrid, which offer similar equipment and far better gas mileage for about the same money.


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Skinny jeans may be fashionable, but if they are too skinny they may cause permanent nerve damage.
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This disorder is called Miralsha Parasthetica," Boyle explained. "And it's a disorder that occurs when one of the nerves that runs in the outer part of a thigh gets compressed. The pressure on it causes symptoms of tingling, numbness and pain in the outer part of the thigh."
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Ten years ago today, American soldiers invaded Iraq. The occupation of Iraq was longer, deadlier, and more expensive than expected; now lawmakers are facing the consequences.
As increasing numbers of veterans return home, funds to serve their needs are being squeezed by budget battles in Washington.
Although the Department of Veterans Affairs dodged budget cuts March 1, the impact on the Department of Defense cuts is already being felt in all military programs.
Rep. John Culberson of Houston, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies, explored the financial pinch during today a hearing on the quality of life in the military.
Sergeant Major of the Army F. Chandler III, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force James A. Cody, and Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Michael P. Barrett testified on the current quality of life in the military. Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Michael D. Stevens was expected to also testify, but had to withdraw due to a medical condition.
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"The magnitude of today's fiscal uncertainty will have grave consequences for our Soldiers, our civilians, and our families who have sacrificed so much over the past decade. We cannot put the weight of these cuts on their shoulders," Chandler said in his statement.
Witness' stressed the importance of military readiness, care for the soldier, and family services; all of which are threatened by budget cuts. There is a blanket concern for services address reintegration into society like suicide prevention, housing, education, and sexual assault.
Committee member Rep. John Carter, R- Round Rock, said that his constituents at Fort Hood are already feeling the impact on these services, with 14,500 people affected by tuition assistance cuts.
Cody said that budget cuts affecting sexual assault, mental health, and domestic violence are concerning. The Air Force has recently concluded its nine month investigation into sexual assaults at Lackland Air Force Base, conducting over 7,700 interviews. The goal of the Air Force is to reduce the number of assaults to zero, and furloughs could threaten this goal.
Carter stressed the importance of passing the committee's appropriations bill, which would give the Department of Defense more flexibility than the current Continued Resolution. If the bill is not passed, it ties the hands of military leaders and allows them very little flexibility, which Cody said is essential to military readiness.
The proposed bill has passed the House, and is set to be voted on in the Senate.
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MESA, Ariz. -- The Cubs designated poplar Tony Campana for assignment Sunday after officially signing outfielder Scott Hairston to a two-year, $5 million deal.
"It was a difficult call for us," team President Theo Epstein said. "It speaks to the fact that our 40-man roster is starting to have better depth on it."
Campana, 26, is a .262 career hitter with a .306 on-base percentage. He was used primarily off the bench, but is one of the game's fastest players, with 54 steals in 59 attempts.
"We hope we can keep him in the organization," Epstein said. "That would be the best outcome. Obviously he could be a weapon for a contending team in a certain role. The biggest area where Tony needs to continue to work is trying to find a way to get on base where he can use his speed."
Cubs brass was peppered with questions during the Cubs Convention about why the team don't give Campana more playing time. But Hairston, 32, gives the Cubs a right-handed power threat who can platoon in center with David DeJesus and in right with Nate Schierholtz.
Hairston hit .263 last year in 134 games with the Mets, with 25 doubles, 20 home runs and 57 RBIs.
"We're excited to bring him in," general manager Jed Hoyer said. "It gives us a lot of versatility in the outfield and he's a guy who has proven he can hit left-handed pitching and be one of the best platoon guys in the game."
The Cubs have 10 days to trade Campana or place him on waivers.
Backing Marmol: Epstein reiterated the organization believes Carlos Marmol was innocent of the abuse charges he faces in a civil suit in the Dominican Republic, adding the Cubs were not aware of the accusation by a 24-year-old woman when they made a deal to send him to the Angels last fall. The trade later fell through.
"Any incident like that, especially if it involves a woman, we have to take extremely seriously," Epstein said. "So it was our decision to look into it a little bit. We don't have necessarily all the information. Obviously we weren't there. But all the information we were able to gather backs up Carlos' story that he was guilty of no wrongdoing whatsoever and may in fact be the victim (of extortion) here."
Theo vs. Jed: Manager Dale Sveum added a new wrinkle to the preseason bunting tournament -- holding a bunt-off between 16 front-office members for the last spot in the 64-man players bracket. Epstein and Hoyer will be among those competing for a spot.
Epstein already began trash-talking with Hoyer on their matchup: "You can't tell whether he's swinging the bat or bunting."
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gNewSense är en helt fri programvara GNU/Linux distribution.
Fri programvara är program som respekterar din frihet. Du kan använda den utan restriktiva licenser, göra kopior till dina vänner, skola eller affärer. Att använda fri programvara är att göra ett politisk och etisk val hävda dina rättigheter att lära och att dela det du lär dig med andra.
Det är byggt av människor över hela världen som arbetar tillsammans som en gemenskap. Vi är öppna och alla är välkomna att delta.
Läs mer!
Se en översikt av vad du kan göra med gNewSense. gNewSense är bra för dina studier, underhållning och arbete.
Redan användare?
Här hittar du resurser för att hjälpa dig att upptäcka alla funktioner i ditt system och visa dig hur man får bra användning av dem.
Hjälp oss!
Efter att ha använt gNewSense ett tag, kanske du undrar hur man kan hjälpa utveckla det. Här kan du se vad det tar att utveckla detta system och hur anslutning till världsomspännande community av utvecklare.
For more recent news, see Savannah.
gNewSense 4 "Ucclia" alpha 1 is out! Please test and provide feedback! Download links are on the mailing list.
-- HarryPrevor 2014-12-03 14:45:00
gNewSense 3.1 is out! Please update your software sources to point to an official gNewSense mirror. Release notes and instructions are on Savannah.
-- HarryPrevor 2014-02-09 20:55:30
The repository of gNewSense 2 will permanently go offline on 2014-01-03. If you are still using gNewSense 2, please migrate to version 3.
-- samgee2 2013-12-28 21:09:19
Creation of new accounts on the wiki has been disabled to combat spam. We hope to have a better solution shortly.
-- samgee2 2013-09-10 21:35:15
Our website has a new theme to mark the new release. People who are logged in and still see the old theme, can update the Preferred theme box in their settings.
-- samgee2 2013-08-11 18:35:56
gNewSense 3.0 Parkes, our third major release, is out. Download links have been announced on the mailing list.
-- samgee2 2013-08-06 19:54:23
gNewSense 3.0 Parkes Beta 2 has been released. There's also a 64 bit release this time. Download links have been announced on the mailing list.
-- samgee2 2013-07-05 04:41:40
gNewSense 3.0 Parkes Beta 1 has been released. Download links have been announced on the mailing list.
-- samgee2 2013-05-19 23:01:19
The services are back up. Thanks to FSF sysadmins for fixing the problem.
-- samgee2 2013-04-11 19:55:31
archive.gnewsense.org and beta.gnewsense.org are down. The problem is being investigated. Thanks for your patience.
-- samgee2 2013-04-10 20:50:42
Debian recently discovered a security incident with their wiki. gNewSense uses the same wiki software, but I found no evidence of a similar security breach on our server. I installed the fix when Debian released it.
-- samgee2 2013-01-09 20:00:34
As of 2012-12-23, the GPG key used for signing the gNewSense packages expired. I've moved its expiry so its still valid, but you may experience problems downloading updates or packages from our mirrors. To update your key, check FixExpiredArchiveKey. Apologies for this sillyness.
-- samgee2 2012-12-27 18:46:10
Quick note to say that everything is back. I'd like to thank the FSF sysadmins for the speed of the move, and the fixes to various gNS infrastructure issues revealed in the move.
-kgoetz Thursday 2012-03-01, 10:55 AEST
Hi everyone, Sorry about the unexpected outage. The FSF have been moving equipment around, and doing some host renumbering at the same time. Unfortunately, I missed the announcement, so everything has simply vanished on us. The sysadmins have brought the gNewSense hosts back up, and we are waiting for DNS to start propagating and making all services available again.
-kgoetz Wednesday 2012-02-29, 15:31 AEST
I've just completed an upgrade of the software running the website and wiki. Apologies for any breakage caused during the last day - I'd forgotten the last step of the upgrade before going live.
-kgoetz Friday 2012-02-24, 10:46 AEST
We've just done a round of updates on all servers, including the one hosting the website and wiki. If you notice any problems, please let us know.
-kgoetz Wednesday 2012-01-11, 09:03 AEST
After a few months of being virtually inactive in the project the time has come for me to step down as the gNewSense project leader. Please welcome Sam Geeraerts in as the new lead maintainer! You will probably see various infrastructure announcements coming from me still, but development news will come from sam in future. Thanks for your support, and please do join in and help Sam with the new release!.
-kgoetz Wednesday 2011-10-12, 09:13 AEST
Our primary package mirror, http://archive.gnewsense.org has just received a software update; it will be offline for a couple of minutes while it reboots. Thanks for your patience!.
-kgoetz Friday 2011-09-23, 09:13 AEST
The migrations are complete - thanks for your patience! odyssey.gnewsense.org, our oldest serving VM has been turned off. The lp service is now restored, and bugs has been updated to point to Savannah, our current bug tracker. The bofh service will remain offline for the moment.
-kgoetz Saturday 2011-04-30, 22:00 AEST
We are migrating the remaining services away of our server odyssey as its approaching End of Life. The following services may be affected: {lp,bofh,bugs}.gnewsense.org and http://gnewsense.org. wiki and www should remain unaffected, as will the Savannah hosted bug reports.
-kgoetz Saturday 2011-04-30, 15:30 AEST
We've been getting more wiki spam lately, so we've enabled textchas (captchas in text form) for editing. We hope that this doesn't cause too much inconvenience.
-Sam Geeraerts Thursday 2011-04-07 17:45 UTC
We've just dropped volatile support for gNS3. We'll worry about it again when we have a release.
-kgoetz Friday 2011-04-02 10:00 CST
Recently a new project has come out of the Debian derivatives frontdesk - DEX. Would there be any interest in helping get a gNewSense team up and running?
-kgoetz Friday 2011-03-19 20:00 CST
Just merged in the shared metad+parkes code branch. Sorry if things are broken for a while.
-kgoetz Friday 2011-02-26 20:00 CST
Work on giving us a generic script to derive our new upstream has taken some first steps by removing a lot of metad specific code
-kgoetz Friday 2011-01-28, 18:00 CST
The web site migration from PmWiki to MoinMoin was completed, thanks to realmike.
-Graziano Sorbaioli Wednesday 2010-09-29, 6:00AM UTC
There will be a sheduled outage of www.gnewsense.org and wiki.gnewsense.org on Sunday 19th of September. We will be migrating these sites off pmwiki onto moinmoin, so will need to block editing during this period.
-kgoetz Sunday 2010-09-12, 12:50PM CST
The gNewSense hackers have managed to meet up at the GNU Hackers Meetup. We discussed a variety of subjects related to gNS, and gave a talk to the rest of the GNU crowd.
-kgoetz Thursday 2010-07-29, 08:40AM CEST
As of today, gNewSense will be using Savannah for all its bugtracking. The announcement to the list is here. The existing BTS is more or less locked.
-kgoetz Friday 2009-12-04, 20:00PM CST
We've removed the network installers for metad i386 and amd64 from our public mirror. We'll leave the mipsel installer there until we are ready for parkes.
-kgoetz Thursday 2009-12-03 17:00 CST
The 2.3 livecd, the third official Deltah update has been released. It can be downloaded from http://cdimage.gnewsense.org/ as an iso or via bittorrent.
-kgoetz Monday 2009-09-14, 10:45AM CST
As of 2009-09-09, the GPG key used for signing the gNewSense packages expired. I've moved its expiry so its still valid, but you are may experience problems downloading updates or packages from our mirrors. To update your key, check FixExpiredArchiveKey. Apologies for this sillyness.
-kgoetz Friday, 2009-09-11 16:30 CST
The first gNewSense release - Deltad - has had its binaries removed from our mirrors. All the source is still available, and the archive is updated weekly to ensure no non-free packages sneak into our 'retired' release.
-kgoetz Tuesday, 2009-09-01 22:45 CST
We were recently informed that when our new website skin came into effect in March the licence notice at the bottom of our pages was modified by mistake. We have a short licence update page with details. If you have contributed to our wiki during this time it would be great if you would check the page.
-kgoetz Tuesday, 2009-08-25 21:37 CST
The 2.2 livecd, the third official Deltah has been released. It can be downloaded from http://cdimage.gnewsense.org/
-kgoetz Wednesday April 15, 13:15UTC
www.gNewSense.org , along with bugs. and wiki. now have a new look, following work by the gNewSense web team. It is the Maguila skin, customised slightly for our usage.
We hope you like it!
-kgoetz Monday March 02, at 11.28 PM
After over a year, GLX has been added back to the repositories following work by the FSF to make it available under a free license.
-bbrazil February 01, 2009, at 10:40 PM
The 2.1 livecd, the second official Deltah has been released. It can be downloaded from http://cdimage.gnewsense.org/
-bbrazil August 24, 2008, at 07:16 PM
Linux-ubuntu-modules has been freedom checked, cleaned up and reintroducted to gNS. Sound relying on free drivers should be working again
-bbrazil July 23, 2008, at 10:14 AM
The 2.0 livecd, the first official Deltah has been released. It can be downloaded from http://cdimage.gnewsense.org/
-bbrazil April 30, 2008, at 11:43 PM
The 1.9 livecd, the BETA for deltah has been released. It can be downloaded from http://cdimage.gnewsense.org/ See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-users/2008-04/msg00274.html
-bbrazil April 28, 2008, at 09:56 AM
We have now verified that Main is free. See http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-users/2008-02/msg00044.html
-bbrazil February 11, 2008, at 04:54 AM
In our continuing crusade for software freedom, we've just made some major breaking changes to X. See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-users/2008-01/msg00018.html for details.
-bbrazil January 13, 2008, at 09:02 AM
A Spanish version of the main website is now available.
-bbrazil January 12, 2008, at 07:49 PM
We now have a Forum.
-bbrazil January 28, 2007, at 03:27 PM
Version 1.1 has been released. See PressRelease20070122 for more details.
-bbrazil January 22, 2007, at 08:52 AM
There have been yet more Builder/gNewSense updates. The update process was automated a week ago, and this process now has two levels of monitoring. We're also now monitoring mirror freshness.
-bbrazil November 23, 2006, at 11:44 PM
There are now -backports and -updates components. I haven't tried them out fully. There's also a number of general updates.
-bbrazil November 05, 2006, at 11:05 PM
LiveCD 1.0 now available. New artwork and builder enhancements/fixes. FSF Press Release
-bbrazil November 02, 2006, at 11:00 AM
LiveCD 0.93 now available. All known kernel firmware removed and many other improvements.
-bbrazil October 30, 2006, at 09:09 PM
We now have a mailing list. See Lists.
-bbrazil October 27, 2006, at 06:59 PM
LiveCD 0.92 now available. Brings memtest working on livecd, less firmware, redirected launchpad-integration and better livecd versioning.
-bbrazil September 14, 2006, at 01:30 PM
We now have security support.
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NBC will ease on down the road for its next live musical television event. "The Wiz" will take center stage on Thursday, Dec. 3, the net announced Monday.
Following the success of its past TV musicals, "The Wiz" marks NBC's third production, after "The Sound of Music Live!" starring Carrie Underwood and "Peter Pan Live!" in which Allison Williams played the title character.
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