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Affordable home improvements that yield value
In addition to filling practical needs, home improvement projects often can increase the value of a home with minimal investment. Some projects add more value than others, however.
Knowing which ones will yield a nice return can be tricky. To help, the home improvement experts at Linear, a manufacturer of wireless residential systems and products, are advising homeowners on affordable modernization projects that add instant value to a home:
— Security Systems: When considering the cost versus return on investment, security systems offer instant value, since they increase a home's market value, reduce homeowners insurance and install quickly and easily. Security system technology has really adapted to the modern lifestyle, so homeowners can now monitor and manage systems 24/7 from smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices.
— Garage Door Operator: An updated garage door operator offers built-in safety features, ultra-quiet operation and other improvements that add significant value over an erratic and noisy older model. Often ignored, battery backup units on garage doors grant access during black-out conditions, something to appreciate during adverse weather conditions.
— Central Vacuum System: Homeowners with a central vacuum system enjoy more convenient cleaning and better air quality, but because it's considered by many to be a luxury item, homes with a centralized vacuum system can see an increase in value by as much as two or three times the cost of the system. And installing a system can be practical, even on a budget, as systems come at a range of price points. For example, Linear offers both disposable bag and bagless central vacuums that vary in their cleaning capacity based on the size of a home.
— Whole-house/multi-room audio: Although a bit more expensive than other improvements, a distributed audio system is great for turning your home into an entertainment venue for hosting parties or supreme personal use.
— Video Intercoms: Especially useful for larger houses or work-from-home offices that get frequent deliveries, a video intercom is great for security and convenience to let homeowners know who's at the door before revealing whether anyone is home. New models like Linear's VMC-1 also send email or text alerts with pictures when a homeowner is away, giving snapshot views of who has come and gone. They also make a great first impression for people considering a home purchase and are affordable to install and operate.
More home improvement ideas, and a network of skilled installers who can finish your project quickly and affordably, can be found at http://www.LinearCorp.com/locator.
There are many different ways to affordably make your home stand out from a crowd and boost its value.
— StatePoint Media


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If you grew up in the 1980s and owned a Nintendo—which might be redundant—this likely captures your childhood than any laser-backdropped middle school photo ever could.
From artist Mike Mitchell, who in painting "1985" as a self-portrait ended up painting an entire bleep bloop generation. [Mike Mitchell via The Daily What]

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The auto hardware scan on my laptop returned a fail result and the error code was
What does this mean, and what should I do?
The WHD01V01I-BK7Z1F error is a result code from the Lenovo Solutions Center which may indicate a failing HDD (hard disk drive)
- LSC Error Code Breakdown
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You can verify errors found on the drive by running another HDD utility (e,g., HDTune) to verify its health.
- http://www.hdtune.com/faq_1.html
If you get errors on HDTune then you will need to contact support (for warranty service) or you can try and replace it yourself and get a replacement drive as it'll definitely fail sooner or later.
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I am not sure if this is the place but i purchased a new computer last week and have today run a hardware scan which i was told i needed to do by Lenovo. The result of scan was that hardware passed every test except the Mathematics Operations Test. Other than telling me that, there was no information about if this is serious and needs to be resolved or indeed any indication as to to resolve it.
Is there anyone who can offer advice regarding this issue?
I have exactly the same problem. I hope someone can comment on this.
Hi I have the same issue, failed at (Mathematical Operations Test of video card).My model is i7 6th generation CPU, model Y700-14isk. The code
Device: Intel(R) HD Graphics 520.
Hope there is someone can comment on this.
This maybe interesting for the issue: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-IdeaPad-100-305-500-Edge/FLex-3-Video-card-Mathematical-Operatio...
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John Mayer Delivers Acoustic Cover of Beyonce's 'XO' [Video]
Sure, we'd love to hear John Mayer cover his ex Katy Perry's 'Dark Horse' or 'Unconditionally.' But that's not likely to happen, so we'll "settle" for being blown away by his acoustic cover of Beyonce's 'XO.'
Footage of Mayer, accompanied by his trusty guitar and belting out the song, has landed online and we are glad it has.
Mayer performed the song while on tour in Australia, and he really offered up his unique version of Bey's jam. He also played a little harmonica while he strummed his guitar –multi-taskin'! — but it was super powerful. This live version certainly displays the full complement of Mayer's talents.
But it's not just about J. Mayer here. Let's tip the hat to the Queen, since it's her song and it lends itself to being stripped down and showed its construction to be really bendable to this rendition. Plus, the song and Bey's delivery of her vocals caught Mayer's attention in the first place. So there's that.
Mayer also tweeted about the part he loved most about Bey's version of the song.
He is totally loving Bey and her song.
Nice work, Mr. Mayer.
Now let's see if Perry can cover the same song and best her ex. That would be fun, right? We kid, we kid.
Mayer's tweet about lovin' Bey's vocal patterns is below.
The best thing about Beyoncé? The break in her voice on the first "baby, love me lights out" in XO. Real and raw.
— John Mayer (@JohnMayer) April 13, 2014


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Pro Day Round-Up: Packers Check Out Cody Latimer Among Indiana Receivers
Packers director of college scouting Brian Gutekunst was reportedly at the Indiana pro day workout.
What follows is specific mention by the media of the Green Bay Packers at pro day workouts from around the nation that have taken place in March.
According to Aaron Wilson of the Baltimore Sun, Packers director of college scouting Brian Gutekunst was in attendance at the Hoosiers pro day that featured several notable pass-receiving threats.
The best among them was wide receiver Cody Latimer, who was the only Indiana player invited to the NFL Combine but only did the bench press after having hernia surgery.
Having a few extra weeks to recover, Latimer impressed during his pro day workout. He reportedly ran as fast as 4.39 seconds in the 40-yard dash, which is exceedingly impressive considering his 6' 3" and 215 lb. frame. Latimer also had a 39-inch vertical.
Latimer declared for the NFL Draft after his junior season in 2013 in which he caught 72 passes for 1,096 yards and nine touchdowns on his way to being named second-team All-Big Ten Conference.
"Meanwhile, Indiana wide receiver Kofi Hughes, a later-round prospect, ran the 40-yard dash between 4.49 and 4.52 seconds with a 35.5-inch vertical leap and a 10-6 broad jump and bench pressed 225 pounds 24 times," writes Wilson.
Also on display was tight end Ted Bolser, who was invited to the East-West Shrine Game.
Packers scout Chad Brinker returned to his alma mater to check out the Ohio Bobcats pro day, where the star attraction was cornerback Travis Carrie, the only player from the university invited to the Combine.
Like Latimer, Carrie was limited to only the bench press at the Combine because of a knee issue. He missed two full seasons because of hip and shoulder injuries in college.
"Travis Carrie was invited to the Combine and he was unable to work out at the combine, so a lot of scouts came down here to workout." Brinker is quoted as saying by The Post, a university publication. "We needed him to run the 40 and do position drills and all those things. He did a nice job. ... Overall it's a good crop of guys."
According to Gil Brandt of NFL.com, Carrie ran as fast as 4.45 seconds in the 40 and had a 41-inch vertical. In addition to being a defensive back, Carrie was also a first-team All-MAC selection as a punt returner in 2013.
Others working out included wide receiver Donte Foster and running back Beau Blankenship.
A representative of the Packers reportedly spoke with Bethune-Cookman wide receiver Eddie Poole while at the University of Florida pro day, according to a report from the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
Poole is 6-3 and 180 lbs. and originally enrolled at Rutgers before suffering a knee injury and transferring to Bethune-Cookman. He reportedly had a 35-inch vertical and a 10-foot, 5-inch broad jump, although his 40 time was not revealed.
Over the course of his college career, Poole caught 145 passes for 2,092 yards and 20 touchdowns at the FCS level.
Cal Poly
The Packers didn't attend the Cal Poly pro day but apparently were trying to set up an individual workout with Cole Stanford, according to The Tribune of San Luis Obispo.
A slotback in a triple-option offense his senior season, Stanford would appear to translate best to a fullback or H-back in the NFL at 6' 1" and 225 lbs.
Stanford was a honorable mention All-Big Sky Conference selection in 2013 after catching 25 passes for 354 yards and four touchdowns.
Ball State
The Packers were one of 21 teams represented at Ball State's pro day, according to reporter Christina Aguayo of WFFT of Fort Wayne, Ind.
It's important to note that just because the Packers were in attendance at a pro day doesn't necessarily mean they're going to draft a particular player. They and all NFL teams do their due diligence on almost every NFL-caliber player.
But it is interesting to sometimes see the connections the Packers make with prospects on the pro day circuit.
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April 01, 2014 at 07:32 am
I've read that prospects tend to run faster at their Pro Days than they do at the combine. Is this true in general for all prospects or did I read this in regard to a specific situation or player? I seem to recall the article stating that the type of surface at the combine tended to result in somewhat slower 40 times than the track at some colleges.


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Read Raj Mathai's full interview with Khan Academy founder Sal Khan. His book, "The One World School House," comes out next week.
Raj: "Has it snowballed or is it just slow snowball, the success and the exposure?"
Sal "Back when it was just me operating in a closet in 2006, it was already beginning to snowball, you know the user traffic was growing 30 percent a month but it was going from 10 to 13 people, but you keep doing that and it goes from 10,000 to 13,000 or 100,000 to 130,000 now it's at millions, but yeah it's been crazy."
Raj "Aside from the education part of it, aside from the politics, the praise, the controversy, whatever, are you surprised at the success that you're having."
Sal "Yes, I'm definitely surprised at the speed at which all this has happened. I think when a lot of people anyone when you're working on a project, it takes awhile for traction to happen, even for me, when I was in my closet, I was like a lot of people seem to be getting value from this but the world hasn't't really noticed, and then all of a sudden, it happened, and once it started to happen, it started to happen really really fast . We've been shocked at just the number of users worldwide using it, the number of teachers worldwide that are using it, kind of our ability to at least be part of the conversation of even what a classroom should be."
Raj: "What did you want to be when you grew up as a kid?"
Sal: "When I was a kid depending at what stage a kid I was, I wanted to be an animator at one point, an architect, and them um, and then later and I think for all students whenever you get a lot of positive feed back, I started thinking of maybe an engineer or physicist, and then computer science came into existence. I was always fascinated with making things."
Raj: "Bill Gates I love this story in the book, the first meeting with Bill how was it? Describe it."
Sal "Bill Gates is like an icon, especially for me, and so for the first time even his team invited me to come visit with him. Just the first time I caught wind that he was using the site was a surreal experience, because I joke those videos were for Nadia not for Bill Gates and so it just elevated what was going on, the whole world seemed to be connected in some way. Then when they asked if I could fly up, if I had some free time, you know my calendar was completely blank so I said sure I can come up for that. Meeting him was the kind of the memory in my life that will always be burned in my brain. I think for me it's meeting an icon, meeting a hero, and then on top of that one of the most intelligent people on the planet. When I was meeting him, 20 percent of my brain was engaged in the conversation and then the other 80 percent was saying you're talking to Bill Gates right now. You realize that's Bill Gates right across the table? I kind of had to keep suppressing that part."
Raj "After you met with him, what was that first phone call or the email or the text to say hey thumbs up we're going to give you millions of dollars?"
Sal "I first heard in the summer of 2010 that Bill Gates did this as a conference at the Aspen ideas festival. I had never had any idea, in front of everybody he just starts talking about how he uses Khan Academy himself, how he uses it with his kids, and the next two weeks were a bit awkward for me because I didn't know what to do, do I call him up? What's the protocol? I suspected he wasn't listed. Then they reached out shortly afterward, and this was the phone call where they asked if I'd like to fly up and talk to Bill about how we could work together. By the time I flew up, there was a strong indication that something was likely to happen. At the end of the meeting, Bill and the rest of the team from the Foundation said well where do you see this going? I said, look, I want to keep doing this, I want to translate this into the world languages, I want to turn this into a true virtual school where you can have exercises, where you can have feedback, there's software, and in that meeting, we talked about what that would take, and at the time I said a 5 person team and some office space. So there was some indication that something was going to happen. By October of 2010 we sort of had the green light, and we were up and running and that's when we got this space."
Raj "You're a non-profit, you could make a lot of money doing what you do, knowing what you know. Why not make it a for profit, like so many people around you in the Silicon Valley make a bunch of money?"
Sal "There's nothing wrong with a for-profit. I come from a very for-profit industry. But when I started with Khan Academy, I started it as a hobby, and I would get all these letters from people, and 'wow this really helped me' or 'this really helped my children,' or 'this helped me go to back to college,' or 'this helped me pass Algebra or stay in high school,' and I was getting all this psychic reward, emotional reward from all these letters, and so when it became clear that this was a real thing, and it could be a real entity of some kind, there was a lot temptation of some kind. I lived in the middle of Silicon Valley and some VC's were talking to me about funding it and we can still give the content away for free, and figure out some way eventually to monetize it, there was an appeal to that. But then I started thinking about how many people it could reach, and not only how much it could reach right now but, how many people it could reach over time, maybe over the next 10, 50, 100 years, and when I thought about it that way, there were very few, in fact there were no for-profit companies that kind of get that institutional status over that a large period of time can continue to deliver on their mission. The only entities that have done this is institutions like Stanford or Berkeley. They transcend any one owner. Their mission is always first, and for me the thought experiment was well and keep in mind I was literally operating out of a closet so it was delusional either way but if I were to be very successful as a for-profit, sure grow fast, get a lot of revenue, maybe we IPO, you know I can become fairly well off, buy some new clothing, and that would be nice. There's nothing wrong with that. That's great. But then the other option especially for this organization was well maybe we could reach a billion people in my lifetime, and maybe after I'm gone if this organization keeps doing this mission, we can make education like clean drinking water electricity, something people just expect to have. We could reach tens of billions of people over the next 200, (I read a lot of science fiction) or 500 years. So for me when I thought I'm 80 years old or 90 years old and looking back on my life, the later is what I would want to do and so that's why I set it up as not for profit."
Raj: "Do you consider yourself as someone who is revolutionizing education in a modern way?"
Sal: "I try and stay away from any hyperbole. I mean you see from well basically from looking at me, and where we are, that things are still in their humble beginnings. I'm excited about the potential. Raj "But you are changing things you do know that?"
Sal: "Yeah, I'm excited. The conversation has changed and I don't know if we're kind of growing at the right time, and kind of capturing people's imagination, or maybe we are the catalyst. I don't know the answer to that but the reality is there is a change in the conversation as to what is the role of technology, how can it be used to supercharge classrooms, should teachers be giving lectures anymore? Can we move to a model where students move at their own pace as opposed to you know one piece fits all? In that way hopefully we've already moved the dial, but I don't think we're no where near our potential. I stay up at night fearing that in two, three, four years, oh that Khan Academy thing was a good idea. Whatever happened, I don't want that and I hope in 10 years we're doing another interview and we look back at 2012 and we say oh that was just the beginning.
Raj: "Are you surprised by the controversy that you've elicited in terms of you're changing the way education is in a dangerous direction?"
Sal: "Yeah you know the controversy I mean there's different kinds of tacts on the controversy. I think most of the controversy comes from people misperceiving what we are. You know when people see any kind of online tool, they imagine it as it's going to be Amazon vs. Barnes and Noble. It's going to be virtual vs. physical. The one thing I've always been clear and everyone on our team has always been clear about, it's not an either or proposition. We think it's about both. We think it's about using tools like the Khan Academy to supercharge a classroom, we think it's about making classtime more active, more human. I have a 3 ½ year old and a 14 month old, and I want both of them to go to very interactive physical experiences. And I want them to have amazing teachers and amazing peers around them for most of the day and so in that reality we see khan academy as just supercharging the teacher and empowering them. I think viewed that way it addresses some of the fears out there."
Raj: "You said you don't really know what you're going to say before a video. If you need to refresh you'll Google for a couple of minutes. You said that but I think you insulted a lot of teachers by saying that. Do you regret it?"
Sal: "I think I'm learning things can be interpreted in multiple ways. When I say I don't script videos, when I say yeah, I've used Wikipedia, I'm not saying I look at Wikipedia for two seconds and then make a video. What I'm saying is yeah, that's my starting point, and when I say I don't script videos, I'm saying I think deeply about what I want to do, so I am prepared in that sense, but I don't read a script. A lot of the great teachers I talk to say that's their methodology too. They don't read their lecture notes. They internalize the information, so it gives them more of a chance to be real time, but by no means is there the intent to offend anybody, or to make anything look easy or anything like that. The other thing I want to emphasize is I don't view myself, I mean people can call me anything they want, whether it's a virtual tutor or a web teacher or anything, but people should not equate me with the in the trenches kind of work real teachers have to do. You know it's very easy for me to sit and record a lesson. I do prepare a lot for them, and I do a lot of research, but I still don't have to you know. That's only a small fraction of the work a teacher has to do. A teacher has to deal with the human element. What's going on in the student's mind? What's going on in their life? How do we connect them? What I'm hoping the tools at Khan Academy to do is taking that one piece you know here's a small explanation, here's some exercises you can do, it frees the teacher to focus on the higher value things."
Raj "Are you learning now though that whatever you say because you're such a high profile person is that whatever you do say teachers are listening and even little soundbites can be taken in the wrong way?"
Sal: "Oh yeah, oh yeah, I completely appreciate now and what I emphasize now is the intention was never to downplay the art of giving lessons or whatever else, it's really a conversation human to human, that's why I said some of that stuff."
Raj : "At some point, do you need to have a virtual town hall with teachers? And just say hey this is what I'm all about because there's probably a lot of misunderstanding out there."
Sal "Yeah there is a lot of misunderstanding. That's one of the things I hope this book helps solve. The book is all about empowering teachers. And the other thing is we and I don't think there's enough about this is that a lot of the work we're doing is with teachers. You know we started famously in Los Altos. It was those teachers who spaced out a lot of what Khan Academy is and then we started working with all the teachers in the district, and now there's 14,000, 15,000 teachers nationwide that are using Khan Academy. A lot of the places where I speak the audiences are teachers and I think the teachers who understand what we're doing and understand our mission, they're fully supportive especially the ones that have used us. I think it's sometimes and you learn, upon coming out of the closet, you learn there's this broader world out there and people will misinterpret or view things with a certain lens but I do agree we do have to get the message out better."
Raj: "Your dream scenario, let's talk locally here even though you act globally abut your dream scenario for a local situation is about a kid in a certain school district, tell me about it. The kid who isn't getting the proper instruction and how can he get it?"
Sal: "Any student here in the Bay Area has a free tutor. It's Khan Academy, and they have exercises and get feedback, and they can use it tomorrow. That's a minimum case. The next layer is ok, you're in a classroom, um how do we make that classroom more interactive, and that's where we're seeing a lot of these pilots, all over the Bay Area where they're saying let's take a lecture out of class time, let's do more interactive things, so it can be one-on-one time with the teacher, it can be peers teaching each other, and the next level I think that's getting closer to your question, the dream is I imagine in the Bay Area and hopefully the rest of the world, schools of all sorts, public, private, charter, where students are allowed to work at their own pace, master concepts, before moving on. There's no use having a C understanding of algebra, a C understanding of geometry, and the best you can do with calculus is get a D. We want you to get a very high level of mastery throughout. It will be all at your own pace, and then really pushing the envelope at what a classroom can be. There's a school, Summit Prep, here in San Jose that is starting to experiment with some of these things, saying hey let's break down these walls between classrooms, let's have teachers teaching together, and let's make it all interactive."
Raj: "Ok, nuts and bolts, obviously your time is getting pulled in a lot of directions, and ways. How often are you in this office doing your videos?"
Sal: "Depending on the week, but most days I'm here for essentially the entire morning, I'm here from 3 to 5 hours days making stuff."
Raj "Garggle, tea, exercises, how do you keep your voice going?"
Sal: "You know I used to do more of that but now I don't. I just come in, hot water. A lot of hot water."
Raj: "Will you ever make an on-camera appearance?"
Sal: "I've inadvertently made where we have these medal videos and stuff like that, but yeah most of the time I'm not there, and that's good because I think my unibrow might be distracting. The form factor we use is you hear the voice and you see the writing, and that's really good for a lot of the stuff we have right now, but there is a need I think for academic interviews. Let's understand a neutron better, and maybe a face could be interesting there. I think there could be interesting things where we visit someplace but even there, even if I inadvertently show up, it's all about focusing on the content. You might see faces, but our core idea is always be 100% focused on the content."
Raj: "You're a kid at heart." Sal: "I am a kid at heart, yes."
Raj: "You brought up it up. Where will we be in 10 years? I won't be interviewing you, but where will you be?"
Sal: "Probably on our canes. You're aging better than me. So In ten years, I hope the site is reaching hundreds of millions if not billions of people. The experience isn't just videos. It isn't just problem sets. It's projects that work with the other 100 million or 200 million learners out there so you can learn from each other that you can teach each other. It's ways to create portfolios to share creative work, it's way to get credentials to show to employers all over the world, and they'll take that seriously, and then on top of that, we hope it's being used to supercharge what's actually happening in the physical classroom. So in ten years I hope that we've somewhat reached a consensus that it makes no sense where one person gives a lecture to 30 people. It should be a time where we go deep with students, to form human connections, human bonds, for students to connect with each other. I kind of have to wear two hats, one I love making these videos. I love learning and teaching, and on the other side we have this organization where we're growing, we're raising money, we're doing all these type of things, I hope in ten years some of the later stuff, is literally on auto-pilot but I feel like I can invest even more time on creating the content."
Raj: "So you still love just doing the videos?"
Sal: "Oh yeah when I'm 60 years old, 70 years old, whenever, there's a far more competent person than me that is doing, running the operations of Khan Academy, and there will be a whole team of people who are also making content, but I can just sort of sit on a hill someplace and make videos on quantum physics."
Raj: "The most interesting or one of the most interesting calls you've received from some high profile people, out of the blue?"
Sal: "Out of the blue? Ah, we got a call from Lebron James that that... Raj: Do you play basketball? Can you help with his shot?" Sal: "Yeah despite my physic, you might be surprised that I don't play basketball. Yeah he reached out because he's a superstar, and this is pretty close to his exact words. He said, 'look, when I was a kid, if Michael Jordan told me to work more on my math, I'd work more on my math.' So now he's in that same position, that same reach, and so he wanted to help us in some ways. So we've been doing some videos where he asks a question about why does sweat cool you down? or what muscles do I use when I use a jump shot and I answer them."
Raj: "White house reach out to you?"
Sal: "We've had conversations with the dept. of ed, with we've had, I won't go into all the depth, but yes, we've had interesting conversations." Raj "Maybe I should say, has the Oval Office reached out to you?" Sal: "I Have not spoken to President Obama as of yet, but I wouldn't mind. I'd pick up the phone if he were to call."
Raj: "Final question for our Bollywood fans. Who's the most famous Salman Khan in the world?"
Sal: "The most famous Salman Khan um is not me." Raj: Just like him you reach a lot of people. Sal: "I reach a lot of people. So ok, I take it back, amongst non south Asians, I might be edging him out. Amongst south Asians, as long as he's still playing 18 year olds who's helplessly in love, as long as he's in those roles, yes I think he's got a leg up on me."


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- 1/4 cup canola oil
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- Dash of black pepper
- Dash of Tabasco sauce
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- 1 package (12 ounces) fresh washed spinach
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Combine oil, vinegar, sugar, onion, pepper, and Tabasco sauce in a tightly covered container. Shake until sugar is dissolved. Refrigerate dressing at least 4 hours to blend flavors. Preheat oven to 350°F. Toast sesame seeds on a cookie sheet or pie plate for about 10 minutes, stirring once or twice until golden brown. Remove from oven and cool. When ready to serve, tear spinach into bite-size pieces and place in a large salad bowl. Add toasted sesame seeds. Toss with chilled dressing. Gently stir in sliced strawberries.
Yield: 8 cups.
Serving size: 1 cup.
Nutrition Facts Per Serving:
Calories: 48 calories, Carbohydrates: 7 g, Protein: 2 g, Fat: 2 g, Saturated Fat: <1 g, Sodium: 36 mg, Fiber: 2 g
Exchanges per serving: 1 vegetable, 1/2 fat.
This recipe was developed by Angie Sharp, a Diabetes Nutrition Specialist at the International Diabetes Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.


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Henry Grabar
Henry Grabar is a staff writer for Slate's Moneybox and a former fellow at CityLab. He lives in New York.
While American cities spend millions erasing graffiti, one Paris neighborhood is busy embracing it. In recent years, the city's 20th arrondissement has been deliberately positioning itself as a graffiti mecca. A traditionally working-class district whose population has more recently included immigrants and artists, the 20th is now a few years into a campaign that aims to "develop urban culture at the heart of the neighborhood," meaning graffiti, or as they call it in Paris, le graff.
For graffiti aficionados, the art form represents something of a cultural bridge in a city where tensions between the government and racial minorities have sometimes erupted into high-profile incidents, like the riots of 2005. "Our cultural choices are evidently political choices," said Frédérique Calandra, the mayor of the 20th arrondissement, in a video released last year to celebrate a Europa Graffiti showcase at a local museum. "In France, it's an art that is often disowned. We want to take it into account, and in doing so, take into account the people who are interested in it, who express themselves through it."
To do so, the 20th has turned an old bus station into a graffiti open-house, coordinated murals on empty walls around the neighborhood, and commissioned a map to help visitors find their way between noteworthy works. They even released a video called "The 20th loves graffiti." (To compare: the Brooklyn Museum was absolutely pummeled for planning to host an exhibit of graffiti last summer. They eventually backed out.) By 2014, the arrondissement will have a community center dedicated to graffiti and music.
Here's some municipally sanctioned graff from across the pond:
Seize Happywallmaker et le mur du square Karcher... by mairiedeparis
Top image: Flickr user Castorp Republic.
As a controversy over vacancy in the Bay Area and Los Angeles reveals, advocates disagree about what kind of housing should be built, and where.
A Marin County lawsuit has conservatives and housing advocates preparing to face off over the constitutionality of a powerful affordable housing tool.
For some kids, the weekly trash pickup is a must-see spectacle. Parents, children, waste-management professionals, and experts on childhood all offer theories as to why.
The Western New York city possesses a distinct mix of weather, geography, and infrastructure that could make it a potential climate haven. But for whom?
While many cities are using incarceration alternatives, some smaller cities and rural areas are building—and filling—costly new jails, new research shows.


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Remembering 9/11
Ten years after the tragic events of September 11, there are lessons to be learned about war, terrorism and the remarkable resilience of Americans everywhere. These organizations are testament to the enduring belief that good can come out of tragedy.
New York Says Thank You
Jeff Parness, then a corporate finance consultant, still remembers the shock and pain he felt upon learning that his business partner, Hagay Shefi, had died in the attack on the World Trade Center. He struggled to find a way to honor the memory of his friend and the others who perished that day. In 2003 an idea finally came to him—courtesy of his 5-year-old son, Evan. When the boy heard about the devastating wildfires that swept through southern California that October, he suggested sending his old toys to kids who had lost their homes. Four days and hundreds of e-mails later, Jeff set off across country in a U-Haul truck filled with kid-friendly donations from neighbors and friends. "I put a huge banner on the truck that read 'New York Says Thank You,'" he says. "I wanted to make a statement that New Yorkers had not forgotten the love and support we received from America after 9/11."
Jeff decided to organize the New York Says Thank You Foundation (NYSTYF), a service project that would send hundreds of people from New York City each September to help other communities affected by disaster. Since then some 10,000 people—including firefighters, family members of 9/11 victims, survivors and ordinary citizens—have stepped up via newyorksaysthankyou.org to plant trees, and rebuild homes, churches and even a Boy Scout ranch in tornado-ravaged towns in Illinois, Indiana, Texas, Kansas and Iowa. After Hurricane Katrina, NYSTYF volunteers made 27 trips to the Gulf Coast, and later this year will assist the Build an Ark Animal Rescue Foundation of Ellijay, Georgia, in repairing a badly damaged barn housing companion animals for seniors and the disabled.
Jeff draws upon his vast business connections to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in corporate and individual contributions, which pay for supplies as well as the volunteers' airfare and housing. But NYSTYF is also a family business that involves his wife, Sandy Hauser, and sons Josh, 9, and Evan, now 12. "The boys have grown up banging nails next to New York City firefighters in towns across the country," Jeff says. "As a parent, I want to use 9/11 to teach kids that by being kind, they can transform tragedy into something hopeful. If you can inspire a generation this way, the impact of what our kids will do will be immeasurable."
Homefront Hugs
As the former wife of an Air Force pilot, Alessandra Kellermann, 45, knows how hard it is when a loved one is deployed overseas—the loneliness, the constant fear and worry, the deep sense of isolation. She also remembers the great comfort that sending a care package can bring. That's why the Ann Arbor, Michigan, mom founded Homefront Hugs USA shortly after American troops were deployed to the Mideast in the wake of 9/11. Soldiers can sign themselves up—along with their families—at homefronthugs.org, specifying what they need, and the group matches them with volunteers who will mail them the items every month. "Whether they have families or not, our troops need to feel that there is widespread support," Alessandra says. "They just want to be in touch with somebody and are happy to know others are thinking of them."
And many are. More than 10,000 members have pitched in so far. In some cases they "adopt" servicemen who have been enrolled in Homefront by caring commanders. Military wives and moms-to-be sign up, requesting baby shower items, a magazine subscription or small gift card, stickers and comics for the kids, or DVDs for the family to watch together. Alessandra, who puts in 40-plus-hour weeks for the organization, also refers soldiers to agencies that can provide other services they might need, including mental health counseling, financial support or assistance filing military paperwork. And with her 12-year-old son, Ed, she created the Homefront Hugs Kids Club, which has now expanded to several chapters across the country, encouraging children to get involved, by wrapping packages, sending cards to soldiers and participating in local volunteer projects alongside kids whose parents are deployed. "When they can give back in their own community and come face-to-face with the people they're helping, that makes a big difference," Alessandra says. "And we hope they're learning what our soldiers are fighting for—freedom—and that it's their gift to all of us."
My Good Deed
Glenn Winuk was an attorney by profession, a caregiver by nature. When the volunteer EMT technician learned that the Twin Towers had been hit, he ran from his downtown law office to the South Tower, medical bag in hand. He perished when the building collapsed, but his heroism and lifelong devotion to community service inspired his brother, Jay Winuk, 53, to cofound My Good Deed, a group that spearheaded the move to have September 11 officially designated as a National Day of Service and Remembrance. After members waged a long, eight-year campaign on Capitol Hill, their wish finally came true in 2009. That year more than 5 million people from all 50 states and 165 countries stepped up to volunteer and commemorate the anniversary.
Since then the organization has launched mygooddeed.org, a website that lists more than 850,000 local, national and international groups, making it easy for people to find charitable causes that match their interests, see what kind of support is needed and pledge their services. "It's a way to move forward while honoring those who perished and rose in service," Jay says. "It's the answer to the question around the country that many people have, which is, what am I supposed to do on 9/11? They want to mark the date somehow and be respectful."
For the upcoming 10th anniversary, My Good Deed is staging service events in 20 cities across the country with the goal of getting 10 million Americans to volunteer. To inspire students, the website includes lesson plans on 9/11 as well as downloadable toolkits to help classrooms organize their own projects. Jay and his wife, Carolyn, make sure kids Justin, 14, and Melanie, 8, participate in annual events in New York City, such as school beautification programs. "The events surrounding 9/11 are a tricky thing to teach," he says. "These are heavy issues, and we believe that history books shouldn't reflect just the attacks and terrorism—they have to include the other side of the story. Future generations should learn about how good people of the world responded."
Groups at a Glance
Voices of September 11
Sharing memories, no matter how painful, can be cathartic. That's why Mary Fetchet, who lost her 24-year-old son, Brad, at the World Trade Center, founded a program to provide support services for victims' families, rescue workers and survivors (voicesofseptember11.org). In 2006 it launched the Living Memorial project, an online tribute where friends and relatives of the dead tell stories and share keepsakes like photos, artwork and quilts, all of which are scanned and stored in a digital archive. More than 10,000 individuals have participated and 60,000 images have been collected. The material will eventually be transferred to the museum at Ground Zero. "We focus on the person's life, not death," says Mary, 50, who lives in New Canaan, Connecticut. "Ultimately, this is a testament to resilience and survival."
Remember Me Rose Garden
Sue Casey, 60, of Portland, Oregon, had never been to the East Coast, but was deeply touched by the events of 9/11. Inspired by her hometown's nickname, the City of Roses, she founded a nonprofit with the goal of creating three gardens—in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. To raise funds, Remember Me has selected 11 rose varieties and named each for a group of people who perished ("Firefighter" is a red hybrid tea rose, and "Soaring Spirits" a pink and yellow striped variety that honors the victims who worked in the towers). Visitors can go to remember-me-rose.org and purchase the blooms, and a portion of sales is donated to the group. The first garden, at Shanksville, will be completed in 2015. "These places will be a kind of sanctuary," says Sue. "We hope that by seeing the beauty of the roses, people will feel uplifted and renewed."
Michael Lynch Memorial Foundation
To his nine siblings, firefighter Michael Lynch was a brave, beloved brother—and a genuine hero who sacrificed his life trying to save others at the World Trade Center. "We thought scholarships for children of firefighters and other victims of the attacks would be a good way to preserve his memory," says his brother John. Raising funds though donations, golf tournaments, dinners and corporate grants, the group (mlynch.org) has given over $1.6 million to 75 students.
Paying Tribute
A few of the commemorative events happening across the country:
New York City Dedication Ceremony for the National Memorial at the World Trade Center on 9/11. The site opens to the public the next day; free concert at St. Patrick's Cathedral celebrating peace.
9/11 WTC Memorial Floating Lantern Ceremony on the Hudson River. (911memorial.org, septemberconcert.org, prepareny.com)
Arlington, Virginia, Police, Fire & Sheriff Memorial 5K Race on September 10; all age groups are welcome to run the flat course, which includes parts of the Pentagon. (arlington911race.com)
Boston, Massachusetts, Day of Remembrance Blood Drive at Fenway Park. (redcrossblood.org)
Morrison, Colorado, Stair Climb along a route equal to the 110 stories of the Twin Towers; not a race, but a challenge meant to encourage reflection. (911stairclimb.org)
Clements, California, Memorial Rodeo, hosted by the Clements Buckaroos, an all-volunteer nonprofit. A portion of admissions fees will go toward programs that benefit injured firefighters, policemen and their families. (clementsbuckaroos.com)
Call of Duty
The 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance was created to commemorate the victims—and heroes—of the attacks, while giving back to communities across the country. By volunteering on the 10th anniversary, you and your family can help create a positive new legacy. For more information visit 911day.org, where visitors can also post a tribute and dedicate their service to 9/11 victims or first responders.
Check out a few of the events scheduled across the nation, organized by the HandsOn Network, the Points of Light Institute and 9/11 Day:
- Boston: Boston Cares will spearhead blood drives, prepare care packages for active duty service members and their families, and assemble cots and other supplies for use at emergency evacuation shelters.
- Birmingham: Participants will help rebuild homes, read to children and host a family festival for veterans.
- Central Ohio: Volunteers can assemble care packages for active military members.
- Charlotte, North Carolina: Help build a new park in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood.
- Chicago: More than 400 White Sox Volunteer Corps and Chicago Cares volunteers will refurbish low-income public schools, plus additional projects are scheduled that week around town.
- Fort Lauderdale: Volunteer Broward is hosting an event at MLK Elementary School, where participants will clean up the neighborhood, manage a food drive, paint a 9/11 tribute mural, plant a garden and more.
- New York City: A group of volunteers will help revitalize a public school on the Lower East Side. People can also help assemble care packages for soldiers, create emergency preparedness kits, and pitch in with environmental projects around the neighborhood. Additionally, events are scheduled throughout the city in the days leading up to 9/11.
- Orange County, California: Renovate veterans' homes with the local nonprofit OneOC.
- Phoenix: A week of service projects throughout the city culminates in building a new playground in a low-income neighborhood. Disaster and emergency preparedness activities will also be offered to the community.
- St. Louis: United Way is spearheading improvements to a local veterans' hospital.
- Twin Cities: The HandsOn Network is leading a group to rehabilitate homes owned by veterans and active military members.
- Washington, DC: Three days of service and tribute activities are planned, including a major citywide volunteer recruitment event in Freedom Park, where participants can register for everything ranging from mobile service projects to ongoing local efforts.
There are additional opportunities scheduled in:
Broward County, Florida
Cleveland, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
Frederick County, Maryland
Frederick County, Virginia
Greensboro, North Carolina
Los Angeles
Macon, Georgia
Mobile, Alabama
Montgomery, Alabama
Newark, New Jersey
San Francisco
St. Louis
Originally published in the September 2011 issue of Family Circle magazine.


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Tahoe crayfish aren't exposed to pesticides as are crayfish from other places. And, they are fresh, says Allread. "Out of the lake, on to the boat, drove to our back dock and bam, we are here!"
He knows serving up the invasive species helps protect the lake's clarity too. But there are problems. The harvest is a mixed bag that includes tiny crawfish and that is not a problem that comes with imported crayfish.
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Family Values
Family values play vital roles in our social interco--uh, interaction. For instance, many Javanese families share one similar tradition with the Italians: reporting every major occurences to the elder(s).
The difference is there's no Godfather. We do need to touch the elder's hand or cheek to show respect. But failure to do so doesn't result in dramatic consequences. It's pure social relationship. We do it because we think it's natural. Sometimes the situation is far lighter than we expect.
Like the story of a friend of mine, Arga. He had recently got his postgraduate title. They attended a family gathering at his uncle's house. The eldest one present was his grandfather, 93 year old of age. So his parents urged him, "You must convey the good news to your grandfather."
Arga was reluctant. "I don't think it's necessary," he said. "Grandpa won't even remember it."
Yet his parents insisted. "Don't be silly," they said.
Knowing he couldn't convince them otherwise, Arga approached the elder, who was sitting in a comfy chair, "Grandpa?"
"Yes?" his grandfather answered. Suddenly, he looked around in amazement. "What hotel am I at?"
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan commandos killed 22 insurgents on Monday during an operation to capture a Taliban commander in eastern Afghanistan, police and the U.S. military said.
The raid was carried out in the Bati Kot district of Nangarhar when a team of commandos raided a village looking for the Taliban leader, the U.S.-led Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force said in an announcement.
During the raid, insurgents opened fire on the soldiers and 22 of the Taliban were killed, the task forces said.
Masoum Khan Hashimi, the deputy police chief of Nangarhar province, said there were no casualties among the security forces or civilians. He said the Taliban commander, Jamal Faroqi, was killed in the pre-dawn raid and 10 insurgents were captured.
In another operation, NATO said a team of Afghan and coalition special forces captured a senior leader of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba. The group, which is banned in Pakistan, is blamed for the November 2008 rampage in Mumbai, India, that killed 166 people. It said he was captured in the Anadar district of eastern Ghazni province - a lawless area that is a major infiltration point for insurgents travelling into Afghanistan from Pakistan.
"The leader is alleged to have planned and participated in multiple attacks against Afghan and coalition forces throughout Kunar, Kandahar and Ghazni provinces. He is known to have links to multiple foreign fighters, and was actively planning a high-profile attack at the time of his arrest," NATO said in an announcement. It did not provide further details.
There have been increasing reports that insurgents from Pakistan, including members of the Pakistani Taliban, have joined Afghan insurgents in the fight against government and foreign forces. Many Afghan Taliban take sanctuary in Pakistan's lawless tribal areas over the harsh winter months and come across the frontier during the spring thaw. Violence has increased in recent weeks as more and more Taliban join the fighting.
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Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi also said Afghanistan was investigating the participation of Pakistani Taliban in an attack last week that killed 13 Afghan soldiers at a small base in eastern Kunar province.
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A spokesman for the provincial governor, Shareef Nasari, says the death toll could be as high as eight. He says all the dead are members of the same family.
A roadside bomb also killed four Afghan police and wounded three overnight in southern Helmand province, Musa Qala district chief Enayamatullah Khan said.
Another two policemen were killed and six kidnapped during a Taliban attack on an outpost in northern Zawzjan province, according to Gen. Abdul Aziz Ghairat, the police chief.
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U.S. 71 Highway to become I-49 on Wednesday
Long-term plan calls for extension into Louisiana
Thanks to a decision made decades ago to make U.S. 71 a four-lane highway, Missouri has been able to complete most of its section of an interstate that eventually will run from New Orleans to the Canadian border.
A 180-mile stretch of U.S. 71 from Kansas City to Joplin on Wednesday will be renamed Interstate 49, the culmination of a project that started five years ago to upgrade the existing four-lane expressway to interstate standards. All that's left of Missouri's part of Interstate 49 is a five-mile strip south of Pineville to the state line, where it will connect to a bypass around Bella Vista, Ark.
"This is a big deal," said Gard Wayt, executive director of the Interstate 49 International Coalition, formed a decade ago to push for the nonstop, 1,700-mile north-south route across the nation's midsection. "It's a significant portion of the mileage, and even more importantly it's going to add a lot of momentum to the project."
Wayt, of Shreveport, La., said Louisiana is expected to finish a portion of I-49 connecting to the Arkansas border in the next six to seven months.
Progress in Arkansas is expected to be much slower, even after voters last month approved a half-cent sales tax to pay for highway construction, including two lanes of the Bella Vista bypass.
Sean Matlock, the Missouri Department of Transportation's manager of the I-49 project, said Missouri has the money to finish its five-mile portion of the bypass, but the state is waiting until Arkansas gets the funds to pay for its 13-mile section.
"We've told Arkansas that whatever schedule it sets, we will meet them at the state line," Matlock said. "It made no sense to build a four-lane highway that just dead ends in the middle of nowhere."
I-49 is mainly new construction in Arkansas, with the cost to complete a stretch between Interstates 30 and 40 through the Ouachita mountains estimated at $2 billion, said Randy Ort, spokesman for the Arkansas Department of Transportation. Even with the state's new highway sales tax, he said Arkansas doesn't have much to put toward the I-49 projects because of other transportation needs.
"There's about $2.8 billion needed to complete I-49 in Arkansas," Ort said. "Basically we've identified $23 billion in needs over the next 10 years, but only $4 billion to address those needs. So money is a big issue."
Ort said Arkansas has the nation's 12th-largest highway system but ranks 43rd in revenue to pay for it.
"It's a priority and we want to get it done," Ort said. "We understand there are advantages, not just for Arkansas but for the whole region."
When finished, the northern part of I-49 will end at the ramp to Interstate 435 and Interstate 470, or what is known as Three Trails Crossing, in southern Kansas City. From there, drivers heading north can get to Interstate 29, which will take them to the U.S. border with Manitoba, Canada, or Interstate 35, which goes as far north as Duluth, Minn., on Lake Superior.
The southern part of I-49 ends at the Gulf of Mexico, in New Orleans.
"This is extremely important to the economy of our country," Wayt said. "That route will intersect with nine existing east-west interstates and will create a transportation grid that will allow us to move goods and people to and from anywhere in the world."
Missouri's cost for its part of the interstate was estimated at $400 million, far less than the billions of dollars Louisiana and Arkansas are paying for theirs. Because U.S. 71 already was a four-lane highway between Kansas City and Joplin, all the state had to do on that section was remove at-grade intersections by building new interchanges.
Matlock said the portion being renamed Wednesday cost about $63 million. Work to transform it began in 2007.
It has cost about $205 million to build a new interstate highway over the roughly 45-mile stretch from Interstate 44 at Joplin to the Arkansas border, he said. Missouri still has $40 million available for its portion of the Bella Vista bypass. Work on the state's southern part of the project began in the mid-1990s.


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March 7, 2011
Dr. Stephanie Davidson
Third candidate for Sr. VP for Academic Affairs, Dr. Stephanie Davidson, is on campus today and tomorrow. See the schedule here. Please fill out the Feedback Form, found online on the candidate site, after attending a forum.
Spring is coming – bike to campus!
Spring is around the corner, gas prices are going up, and parking can be hard to find. Sounds like a good time to start bicycling!
If you want to join Columbus State employees and students in biking for commuting, errands, fitness and fun, join the Cougar Cranks for a planning meeting March 15 at 10 a.m.. The location is to be determined so register your interest here to receive a follow-up email with room number and additional information.
Columbus State is a charter member of 2by2012, a regional initiative of more than 75 organizations committed to encouraging employees, clients and customers to bike two errands or commutes a month by the City Bicentennial in 2012. Learn about upcoming educational events, rides and bike partnerships with our Discovery District neighbors. For more information contact Rich James.
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Employee Service Awards to be awarded at Spring In-Service Day!
This year's Service Awards recognition will be held during the Spring In-Service day program, April 22.
A list of those employees eligible for Service Awards this year is now available on the Human Resources home page under "HR Updates." You will find a list for full-time employees and part-time employees eligible for an award for their service through December 31, 2010. Please review the Employee Service Awards list and email any corrections or questions you may have to email@example.com.
HR reviewed previous years of service to calculate number of pays and reviewed past service award listings. For an employee to be eligible for an award, the following criteria must be met:
Employee must be consistently employed with the College;
No more than a 30-day break in service;
The employee has received 120 or more pays;
The employee must be currently employed and working for the College; and
Last pay date considered was December 31, 2010.
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Take your Mavic to 11.
SRAM's refreshing update to the archaic mountain bike drivetrain is undeniable, but it does require one specific part in order to be compatible with traditional hubs -- the freehub body itself. This Mavic XD Driver will convert 2012 and newer Crossmax and Deemax wheels for use with SRAM XX1 cassettes.
All you have to do is remove the end caps and traditional freehub, and then swap the pawls and springs to the XD Driver. The Mavic XD Driver includes new XD end caps, as well as the driver itself.
- Compatible with SRAM's 10-42t 11-speed cassette
- For use with Mavic Crossroc, Crossride, Crossmax, and Deemax wheels (2012 and newer)
- Two different options: XD TS-2 (Crossroc, Crossride), XD ITS-4 (Crossmax, Deemax)
- Includes XD end caps and driver
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Great find
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
Happy to have found this. Made it possible to get an SRAM eagle setup on my Mavic crossRoc rims. Installation instructions for DIYers were sketchy. If doing DIY you will need freehub oil so order along with this.
If you need to switch from Shimano
It's great to know Mavic allows you to convert the hub, and saves you the money from buying a complete new set of hubs. Works great.
This XD Driver works with Mavic Crossmax Elite 29er, 2017 and Sram GX 12 Speed cassette 10-50
Hi will it work on xl crossmax29
Mavic XD Freebody
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
Easy to install and the directions are very clear.
I'm pretty sure if I get this I'll be able to run the newer 1 x 12 sram cassette on my Cannonade Lefty FSi, not sure what Mavic rims I have exactly... but they're carbon. I thought I was going to have to get a new hub until I saw this option. Hopefully this works...
Mavic XD Driver
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I use the ITS4 to run XO1 on my crossmax enduro wheelset. High quality and the swap was super easy. Great product for running 1x11 on your Mavic wheelset.
Switch a roo
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
It's really nice that Mavic offers such a simple swap so you can keep the second most expensive part of your bike while upgrading parts. The instructions not very clear but I was able to get the job done. Here's the only complaint, making this 4 instead of 5 start. When swapping there are four TINY springs you must move from the old freehub body to this one. If you loose even one on the garage floor you are screwed. I doubt local bike shops would have any stocked, you might get lucky in their junk drawer though. So -- execution is simple but go into your "clean room so you don't loose a spring.
Good tip
I bought the ts2 version for my crossride wheels it there are no instructions included or seemingly clear resources online. I am not clear on how to remove the current freehub in order to replace. I'm sure it's simple but I don't want to damage the assembly. Any guidance?
TS2 vs. ITS4 variants.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
The TS2 variant only works with the CrossRoc wheels from Mavic, while the ITS4 works with the Crossmax wheel line.
What size axle does this work with?
This will work with the 12x142mm and the standard 135mm QR set up. Different endcaps are used on Mavic wheels between the various axle configurations.
Will this work with an XO1 set up?
Yes it will.
will this work on 29" mavic crossride wheels?
Hey there, this will work on your 29" Mavic Crossride Wheels allowing you to run a SRAM 11 speed mountain cassette.
Only if you get the TS-2 driver body.
Easy to Install
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I followed the instructions provided and had it on my Mavic Crossmax SLR in less than 5 minutes. It holds my XX1 cassette securely and without any issues.
Easy installation
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
The xx1 conversion is very simple with this hub. It also sounds fantastic.


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So, if you missed it in the comments thread from yesterday, I did indeed have that wisdom tooth yanked. It was neither horrible nor a cakewalk. I didn't even get to choose between nitrous and the big K.O., 'cause he just went with novocaine — it was, apparently, "an easy one," although it sure didn't feel like that when he was wresting my tooth from my head, while I was completely awake and not even slightly stoned. The whole procedure took less than a minute, and I stopped him and asked for more anesthetic in the middle. Did I mention I'm a big baby?
Aaanyway. It seems to be healing well already, and I've even traded Vicodin for Advil today, so I'm reasonably lucid. Still cranky and owie, though, so I may not post anything of interest.
Which is fine, because A) I see a draft by one of my co-bloggers sitting in the dashboard here, and B) I think you all should go read Natalie's post at Not a Pretty Girl in response to The Rotund's and my rants yesterday. She was taking us to task, which is never fun, but she made a lot of great points — especially about where fatter fatties fit into fat acceptance.


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Obese Unlikely to Get Heart Transplants
Obese patients rarely lose enough weight to qualify for heart transplants.
Morbidly obese patients with advanced heart failure rarely lose enough weight to qualify for heart transplantation, making ventricular assist devices destination therapy for many of them, researchers said.
Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) provided adequate circulatory support as obese patients tried to qualify for heart transplants. The patients had a mean body mass index (BMI) of 39, which fell below that value in only a few cases during a year of follow-up, Dr. Jerry Estep reported here at the Heart Failure Society of America meeting.
Among patients who survived to one year, the mean BMI exceeded the baseline value.
Read this story on www.medpagetoday.com.
"Providing obese patients with [circulatory] support did not lead to weight loss," Estep, who practices at the Methodist Hospital in Houston told MedPage Today. "It's pretty obvious that long-term strategies for weight loss are needed to help obese patients with advanced heart failure lose weight and qualify for transplants."
Obesity increases the risk of heart failure and leads to worse outcomes after heart transplantation. As a result, many transplant centers have established a BMI cutoff of 35, said Estep. Patients whose BMI exceeds that level must lose sufficient weight to make the cutoff, even if they otherwise would qualify for transplantation.
Obese heart failure patients often receive LVADs during the period when they try to lose weight, but their impact on weight loss had not been studied extensively, and Estep and colleagues sought to fill some of the data gap.
Their review showed that 13 of 108 LVAD implantations over a six-year period involved morbidly obese patients (BMI =35). Of those 13 -- whose BMI averaged 38.8 -- eight received devices that provided continuous support and five got devices that provided pulsatile support. All 13 had New York Heart Association (NYHA) class IV heart failure at implantation.
The LVADs achieved the desired circulatory support, as the patients' mean functional class improved to NYHA class II at six months.
Mean BMI declined slightly during the first month after LVAD implantation but increased thereafter.
Subsequently, three patients underwent heart transplants after six months of LVAD support. They had BMI values of 37.6, 32.1, and 35.4 at transplantation.
Seven patients remained alive on LVAD support, and the remaining three patients died while awaiting transplantation.
"Morbidly obese patients can be adequately supported by LVADs, but a more specific weight-loss strategy is needed to help more patients lose enough weight to qualify for transplantation," said Estep.
A proposal has been developed to evaluate the coupling of LVAD placement with gastric bypass surgery as a means to increase the proportion of patients with advanced heart failure who can qualify for heart transplants, he added.


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The reports that Iran launched a monkey into space Monday has sparked concern among U.S. officials and missile watchdog groups who cite that the same technology could be used to extend the reach of Iran's military weapons.
According to Iranian news reports, the country's space agency launched a monkey into space and returned it to Earth in a mission using the Iranian-built Kavoshgar 5 rocket. The launch, while unconfirmed by Western monitoring groups, has raised eyebrows because the rockets developed for such missions could also be used to fire weapons across continents.
Space news from NBCNews.com
Teen's space mission fueled by social media
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: "Astronaut Abby" is at the controls of a social-media machine that is launching the 15-year-old from Minnesota to Kazakhstan this month for the liftoff of the International Space Station's next crew.
- Buzz Aldrin's vision for journey to Mars
- Giant black hole may be cooking up meals
- Watch a 'ring of fire' solar eclipse online
- Teen's space mission fueled by social media
"We don't have any way to confirm this one way or the other with regard to the primate," U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said during a press briefing in Washington Monday, though she added that she "saw the pictures of the poor little monkey preparing to go to space."
"Our concern with Iran's development of space-launch vehicle technologies are obviously well known," Nuland said. "Any space-launch vehicle capable of placing an object in orbit is directly relevant to the development of long-range ballistic missiles." [Photos: Iran in Space: Rockets & Monkeys]
However, some scientist have said that the details so far on the Iranian rocket launch suggest the flight would do little to enhance the Islamic republic's ability to develop a long-range ballistic missile.
Though Iran has denied military ambitions for its space program, Western critics have long expressed concern over the potential applications of Iran's rockets. Nuland said the launch, if confirmed, would violate a 1929 U.N. Security Council resolution that "prohibits Iran from undertaking any act related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons."
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) said the launch, if it occurred, likely used a Kavoshgar rocket, which would do little to advance Iran's missile capabilities.
Laura Grego, a senior scientist with UCS, wrote in a blog post that "some concern has been expressed that Iran will improve its abilities to produce heat shielding (important both for protecting a monkey and a warhead as they return through the atmosphere)." But a biocapsule returning from a 75-mile (120 kilometers) altitude, such as Iran's monkey-carrying Pishgam capsule, would travel through the atmosphere significantly slower than an intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM.
According to Grego, "a warhead would require shielding against more than 40 times greater heat load than the Pishgam."
Iran has reported progress in spaceflight technology in recent years. The country sent its first domestically built satellite into space in February 2009 and launched a Kavoshagar-3 rocket in 2010 that delivered a rat, two turtles and a worm into space. Iran also launched Earth-observing satellites into orbit in 2011 and 2012.
Space officials in the country have said that a successful launch of a monkey would pave the way for them to send a human into space by 2020 and put an astronaut on the moon by 2025.
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We get hundreds and hundreds of these requests through WR3A. I just wanted to share a sample correspondence, received in the past 10 minutes.
Dear Mr. Ingenthron,
"The Know-Nothing movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1840s and 1850s. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish Catholic immigrants, who were often regarded as hostile to Anglo-Saxon Protestant values and controlled by the pope in Rome. Mainly active from 1854 to 1856, it strove to curb immigration and naturalization, though its efforts met with little success. Membership was limited to Protestant males of British lineage over the age of twenty-one. There were few prominent leaders, and the largely middle-class and entirely Protestant membership fragmented over the issue of slavery." -wikipedia
I wrote a long post yesterday (Sac Bee Finds Guys). It took awhile to land on the theme of exactly what intrigued/bugged me about the Sacramento Bee article.
"We don't know how they dispose of it,
but we don't agree with it."
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"A Strategic Analysis of the Role of Uncertainty in Electric Waste Recovery Systems Economics: An Investigation of the IT and Appliance Industries"I haven't finished reading it. I see a lot of people accessing it through the blog, hope it's generating good discussion. It appears to make the case that uncertainty tends to be bad, and cites interviews with people in the end-of-life (big shred) business for background.
|Mexico, Egypt, USA negotiate over Sushi outside UN
1) Africans get dolls made of virgin material, or
2) African children get nothing for Christmas.


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A Charming recently restored 15th Century cottage in a village conservation area, offering an ideal base for a relaxing break away from the hustle and bustle of city life.
Feering is very near to the yachting centres of Mersea Island and Maldon. Britain's Oldest Recorded Town, Colchester is only 7miles away, offering many historical features and varied shopping experiences.
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SHOW DESCRIPTION: It tells the story of twins Crisanta and Criselda. Unfortunately, Criselda dies because of a rare disease and remains a spirit that only appears to Crisanta. However, their close bond will start to fall apart when they both fall in love with Diego. The rivalry between them builds up when their mother's affections are focused on Crisanta. Eventually, Criselda's emotions finally consume her and her soul finds another person's body to inhabit. Now that she is "alive", she is stopping at nothing to take both her mother's affection and Diego's love.
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Events Around the World
Celebrating Photography at the National Gallery of Art: Recent Gifts
This exhibition highlights a selection of photographs donated in honor of the 25th anniversary of the National Gallery's photography's collection. The exhibition is accompanied by a major publication celebrating 25 years of photography at the National Gallery of Art.
Grantee: Leo Rubinfien
Takashi Murakami: The 500 Arhats
Murakami's 100-meter-long painting, The 500 Arhats, one of the largest paintings ever produced in global art history, will be shown in Japan for the first time. The work was created as a token of gratitude to the nation of Qatar, one of the first to offer assistance in the wake of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, and was unveiled in Doha in 2012. The exhibition will comprise The 500 Arhats and a number of new works in which he continues to offer up new challenges to the history of contemporary art.
Grantee: Murakami Takashi
Yayoi Kusama: IN INFINITY
IN INFINITY is a presentation of Yayoi Kusama's works from more than six decades and features a variety of the many artistic media in which she has worked: from visual art to performance, film, literature and design. A special feature of this exhibition is the involvement of Kusama's work with fashion and design including the artist's earliest, unique fashion design from the 1960s. In addition to this the exhibition displays a selection of Kusama's youth works from Japan, which has never been exhibited before.
Grantee: Kusama Yayoi
The EY Exhibition: The World Goes Pop
This explosive exhibition connects the dots between art produced around the world during the 1960s and 1970s, showing how different cultures and countries responded to the movement. The exhibition reveals how pop was never just a celebration of western consumer culture, but was often a subversive international language of protest – a language that is more relevant today than ever.
Politics, the body, domestic revolution, consumption, public protest, and folk – all are explored and laid bare in eye-popping Technicolor and across many media, from canvas to car bonnets and pinball machines.
Grantees: Yokoo Tadanori, Shinohara Ushio
Cosmos \ Intime - The Takahashi Collection is the first time that forty works of this incomparable collection will be presented outside Japan. Among the 22 artists in this selection made in collaboration with Ryûtarô Takahashi include international stars of contemporary art such as ACC grantees Yayoi Kusama, Makato Aida, Kohei Nawa, Aiko Miyanaga, Motohiko Odani, and Hiraku Suzuki, among many other contemporary artists.
Grantees: Miyanaga Aiko, Suzuki Hiraku, Nawa Kohei, Aida Makoto, Odani Motohiko, Kusama Yayoi
Time Present - Photography from the Deutsche Bank
This exhibition presents a panorama of photographic art made between 1970 and 2010 from the Deutsche Bank Collection. The show features some 40 artists (and a total of approx. 60 works) who are active within their respective cultural and social milieus. The artists are from Germany, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe.Through their works, the show hopes to cast a spotlight on contemporary photographic expression as it exists within the ever accelerating wave of globalization.
Grantees: Cai Guo-Qiang, Yanagi Miwa
A Man, A Village, A Museum
In the video installation and book A Man, A Village, A Museum, the Chinese artist Li Mu brings the inhabitants of Qiuzhuang, his hometown, in contact with modernist artworks from the collection of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.A Man, A Village, A Museum has been acquired by the Van Abbemuseum and is on show as part of the collection exhibition The Collection Now.
Grantee: Li Mu
Philippine Gold: Treasures of Forgotten Kingdoms
This exhibition of more than 100 gold objects focuses on the wealth of the golden age of Butuan (pronounced boot' wan), a polity on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao that rose to commercial prominence in the tenth century and declined in the thirteenth century.
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Grantee: Florina Capistrano-Baker
Jean Shin, Celadon Landscape
As an immigrant from Seoul who was raised in America, Shin views the celadon fragments as a metaphor of the Korean diaspora, vibrant artifacts of the Korean people, their history and culture that are scattered all over the world to form new identities elsewhere.
Grantee: Jean Shin
56th International Art Exhibitions of La Biennale di Venezia
The Biennale is now 120 years old, and year after year it moves forward and builds on its own history, everything here is exhibited against the backdrop of the Biennale's 120-year history. Fragments of the past of various kinds may be found in every corner, given also the fact that the Biennale is active in Art, Architecture, Dance, Theatre, Music, and Cinema.
Grantees: Asmudjo Jono Irianto, Wen Hui, Patrick Duarte Flores, Restu Imansari Kusumaningrum, Wu Wenguang, Lu Yang


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Mango Smoothie
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Easy Peasy...
I've got these oh-so ripe Chukanan Mangoes in the fridge...... and these oh-so ripe mangoes taste fabulous in smoothies.. but not eaten in its raw form.
500gm mango flesh
250gm ice
2 Tbsp sugar
Just whizz them up in a blender/liquidizer or a food processor.
If u can't finish it, just freeze it (b4 they have totally melted away) to make easy mango sorbet, no cranking needed.
I just love this.... yum yum


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City politicians already have voted themselves the richest pension benefits of any city employees, but under a new proposal by Mayor Bob Filner, city politicians will have even more to look forward to once they leave office.
Mayor Filner is asking the City Council to pass an extraordinary law this month to allow former city politicians to "double dip" by collecting full city pensions while being eligible to be rehired by the city with full salaries simultaneously.
In a Feb. 21 interview with U-T San Diego, Filner noted the exclusive nature of his proposal by saying "What we essentially want to do is confine it to a very small class of people: ex-City Council people."
A very small class of people indeed.
Filner's proposal for ex-City Council people is not the only effort to expand pension "double dipping" at City Hall.
In December 2012, the city's pension system announced that city employees could retire, start collecting a full pension, and return to work at City Hall on a full salary – provided that they simply wait six months.
The city's pension system formulated this policy to help retired city employees thwart IRS efforts to impose a pension penalty tax of 10 percent on government employees who retire and then return to work at the same government agency.
"Double dipping" first came to public light with the city's notorious Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP) program that allows rank-and-file city employees to "retire-in-place" at age 50 or 55 and start receiving full city pensions while still collecting full city salaries simultaneously.
The DROP program cost taxpayers dearly – at least $149 million for the next 30 years under the city's own admission and possibly several hundreds of millions more when using more conservative estimates.
DROP is also largely responsible for some of the most bloated pension payouts at City Hall. Since its creation in 1997, several city employees have cashed out DROP accounts worth more than $1 million each.
While the lump-sum payouts are eye catching, the vast majority of DROP pension payouts are added over the next 25 years to regular pension payouts through an annuity program.
The result? Hundreds of city employees now draw total annual pension payouts that are actually higher than the final base salary of the position from which they retired.
The top 10 city pensioners in 2011 cashed pension checks ranging from $214,007 to the highest at $307,758. Of those big pension checks, the DROP payments accounted for $55,000-$113,000. A 2010 review of DROP payouts showed some spiked total pension payouts individual city employees by as much as 65 percent.
The taxpayer outrage over the DROP program led to the program being eliminated for any city employee hired after FY 2006. That was a good start, but nearly 1000 city employees were still enrolled in DROP this past year and thousands of other city employees hired before FY 2006 are still eligible to join them.
Instead of expanding ways for "double dipping" for themselves, our city leaders should be enacting reforms to end the DROP program that allows "double dipping" for the thousands of city employees not covered by the FY 2006 reform package.
In May 2012, I unveiled a reform package that would eliminate DROP altogether using options outlined by City Attorney Jan Goldsmith. The City Council could close other routes for "double dipping" by prohibiting "provisional" rehiring or awarding lucrative consulting contracts to individuals who are already drawing pensions courtesy of city taxpayers.
By rejecting Mayor Filner's proposal to create a special DROP-like program reserved exclusively for city politicians, the City Council can lead by example and take an important first step to end "double dipping" at City Hall.


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There was an interesting question posted on a forum recently, asking how can you tell which sqlservr.exe process (shown in task manager) is mapped to which specific instance of SQL Server running on a server, if you have a multi-instance server and the account running each separate SQL Service is the same. I won't go into the details of the post, but I thought the answer worth of a post of my own. As with most things in SQL Server there is more than one way to obtain this information.
Let's assume that you, like me, have two instances running on you server: when you go to task manager you will see two sqlservr.exe processes listed under the processes tab
The first thing that I would do is add a column called PID to this view. Select <View> <Select Columns…> from the toolbar menu. Select the PID (Process Identifier) column checkbox and select <OK>
This will give you the process ID of each process running on your machine and displayed in task manager including your two sqlservr.exe processes.
Now you have the process id of each process you can either:
- Open up SQL Configuration Manager
- On the SQL Services tab right click on the SQL instance that you want to match up to a process
- Select <Properties> and click the <Services> tab
- On the general tab you should see a process id property
The other alternative, is to connect to each instance in SSMS (Management Studio) and open the SQL Server log. When the service starts up it writes the process ID to the SQL Server log. So if you go to the start of your log file you should see an entry similar to the following:


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From: Tuesday 31 December 2019
At: 10 - 11am Tuesday
Where: Atlee House, Communal Lounge, Lansbury Road, Broadfield, Crawley, RH11 9JA
Phone: 01293 585317
Keep fit while you sit with our free seated exercise sessions.
The classes are designed to strengthen the whole body even though you remain seated for the whole class.
Just turn up to the class that suits you, there is no need to book.
Cancellation policy.
On occasions classes do have to be cancelled at short notice. You can find out if your chosen class is cancelled by calling 01293 438160 before you leave home. The automated message will let you know if any of our Crawley Wellbeing classes are cancelled for that day.
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