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The 57-room Hotel Cacique Inacayal is perfectly situated on the banks of beautiful Lake Nahuel Huapi, 3 blocks from downtown Bariloche. It offers stunning lake views, restaurant and bar, wine bar, games room and pool table area.
Offering warm and comfortable studios, suites and residences, the Galileo Boutique Apart Hotel is conveniently located 330 yards from "Cerro Catedral" in Bariloche and just off the main resort access road. Accommodations are designed with every detail planned. Room options include a deluxe suite, which accommodates up to six guests, a mountain residence which sleeps up to eight guests and a luxury residence which accommodates up to 10 guests. All rooms come with fully equipped kitchens as well as with wood-burning fireplaces, Jacuzzis, DVDs and a television.The Galileo Boutique Apart Hotel staff is eager to help with your special needs and requests. Guests can opt for en suite breakfast delivery service every morning or utilize the village grocery store and prepare their own breakfasts. Guests are spoiled with a fine selection of Argentine smoked specialties and cheeses from the onsite Wine and Tapas Bar as well as a selection of wines from the Sommelier's premier collection. An Executive Chef is on hand to cater with a menu that ranges from savory ski comfort foods to high-end Patagonian cuisine. Guests should not miss experiencing the onsite observatory for star-gazing opportunities.
The Llao Llao Hotel and Resort is spectacularly set within the Nahuel Huapi National Park, amidst an extraordinary setting of crystal blue lakes, snow-capped mountains and unesplored forests. The hotel was built in 1940 by the well known architect Ezequiel Bustillo and was extensively renovated in 1993. The lobby bar features two fireplaces and majestic views to the lake. Located 22 miles from the Bariloche airport and 17 miles from the main ski center Cerro Catedral.
The Hotel Edelweiss, renown for it's committed and attentive professional staff. Centrally located in downtown Bariloche, within walking distance of beautiful Lake Nahuel Huapi. The spacious and comfortable lobby is ideal for relaxing by the fireplace during the winter months. Unwind and enjoy the springtime and summer flower bouquets rich with native color and fragrances. The 100 guestrooms are each fully equipped with every amenity and necessity a vacation or business traveler would expect.
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You can't name something after the wind and not expect it to blow.
From the outside, the Wind U115 looks like your average 10in Small, Cheap Computer - which makes the fact that MSI has managed to squeeze in not one but two storage systems all the more impressive. MSI Wind U115 MSI's Wind U115: old styling, new approach to storage With most netbooks, you face the choice between either a …
If they dumped the HDD, used the 16GB SSD as standard and ran it on Linux. I'd buy one in a heartbeat. 8 Hours battery life! Finally, I can go out in the morning and know I will be able to use the thing all day without needing the power block, which is the entire point of a mobile computer in my opinion.
Seriously? The mechanical disk's still fragile even if switched off, and who uses a netbook in a non-mobile situation anyway? Maybe if you paid that much for it, you couldn't afford to own a proper computer too.
Having said that, I'm still very happy with my 701 which I upgraded by fitting a pair of 16gig pendrives internally, software RAIDed don't you know :-) Proper SSD for the OS, cheap pendrives for bulk storage, /var, swap, etc. Lovely and fast too. Oh, and I got a 9 cell battery. Never actually had it run out of juice yet.
Should be bottom left... it really irritates me when they move the CTRL key to bottom left...
I guess it all depends on what you're used to, but having a Mac as my main computer it bloody irritates me moving to other systems... and the " (speech marks) key shouldn't be above the number 2 either as that's just a bit gay.
Four flippin' hundred and flippin' fifty flippin' quid? That's what I was quoted for a brand new Thinkpad X31 on Tottenham Court Road a week or two ago. Or two perfectly good laptops from Morgan.
The point of the Eee 701 - and I love mine - was that you put up with the low spec for the sake of the low price. How we seem to be expected to pay extra for the low spec.
£450 ain't cheap. Really anything above £300 is not really an SCC. I was really interested right up until the price...
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Hmm, just checked my Mac keyboard and no Fn key in the bottom left - Ctrl just like every other (non-laptop, 'English') keyboard.
And as for the position of " & @, are you suggesting that the rest of the world should bow down to the US as the superior race? Oh, wait...
Saying that I prefer the US layout, being a righty and prefering a proper sized left shift key. Rather than the crappy little one on UK keyboards, just so they can move \ to make a weird shaped Return/Enter that looks like it belongs on a cash register...
Actually, I reckon that the idea is *really* to be "Readyboost", er, ready for the Win 7 netbook edition launch.
ISTR that Win 7 will use yer actual small SSD as a Readyboost device rather than refusing to countenance anything other than a USB connected device for such, as with its more brain-dead predecessor.
With this setup, they'll have something that can get Win 7 up and running in a sensible time on the otherwise sclerotic hardware.


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I'm sure I've mentioned before how I nearly died and went to heaven when I saw the 2012 line of dolls by Integrity Toys for the first time. What I really meant to say was that I nearly died and went to heaven when I saw all the delicious-looking Poppy Parker dolls in the 2012 line. So far, IT has delivered in terms of quality and the almost exact likeness of the prototype dolls with the real thing. That makes me a very very happy collector. Taking my Poppy Parker Sabrina out of her box was no exception to this overflowing happiness for this hobby at the moment. She's so gorgeous and I was too excited to click, click, click the camera that I forgot to put her elbow-length black gloves on her.
As it is, a sophisticated doll like Poppy deserves only the best, which is why she is posing next to a beautiful miniature painting by Henri Lobo. I had snagged it at a local miniature show last year. The details on this painting is so amazing; I wish I had gotten another one. I'm sure Poppy would agree!
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Christian Hedonism in 155 Words
How do you explain "glorify" to a small child? Biblical concepts like this pose a particular problem for parents, and author Sally Lloyd-Jones provides us with some help. I included her book Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing in my list of top 12 books of 2012, largely for how well she translates complex and abstract theological categories (like glory), through story, for young children (particularly mine).
One story from her book is titled "Glorify!" There she introduces the heart of what we call "Christian Hedonism" around here, but in language suited for a young child. And she does it in a mere 155 words. Recently we asked her to read the story for us on camera, which she does in this 2-minute video (see the full text below):
Sally Lloyd-Jones tweets (@sallylloydjones) and maintains a website (here).
God tells us to glorify him. "Glorify" means "to make a big deal of." When someone makes a big deal of you, it fills up your heart with joy.
But why does God need us to make a big deal of him? Why does he need us to get joy?
He doesn't. In the beginning God the Father and Jesus, his Son, together with the Holy Spirit, were already there — a loving family, glorifying each other in this wonderful Dance of Joy.
No. God didn't create us so he could get joy — he already had it.
He created us so he could share it.
He knows it's the thing your heart most needs to be happy. When God says, "Glorify me!", he's really saying, "Be filled with Joy!"
He's inviting us into his Forever Happiness.
"His secret purpose framed from the very beginning is to bring us to our full glory" (1 Corinthians 2:7 NEB).
To learn more about Christian Hedonism see these resources from John Piper —
- 2-minute interview, "What Is Christian Hedonism?"
- 900-word article, "We Want You to Be a Christian Hedonist!"
- 52-minute sermon, "God Is Most Glorified in Us When We Are Most Satisfied in Him"
- 92-page book, The Dangerous Duty of Delight: Daring to Make God Your Greatest Desire
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i have a project which i want to archieve.
I have my sequenced which have clips in different part, some in one disk, other in a different disk
Some clips are ama linked, some are already transcoded
I want to put the whole maerial in a new folder that i can set archieved somewhere
Don't know how to proceed, tried to transcode or consolidate..but then how to relink the new sequence to the new created files?
any help for this?
thank you
I can tell you the way I do it and it may not be the right way. I have an internal raid 5 drive I use for current projects and backup that drive nightly. When the project is finished I use MDV media database viewer to collect all of the files used for the project and store them in an AvidMediaFiles folder on an external drive. I also store the project files on that same drive.
Hope this helps you.
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you do all manually then?
also if you move the position of the media, how do you reconnect the media to the new position when you reopen the project?
Yes I do, there may be other ways to do it but I'm fairly sure manually is the only way. There isn't a collect files function like the one I use in After Effects if that is what your looking for.
Using MDV is much easier IMHO to use than using the media tool in Avid.
i have tried now mdv
it tells me different thing than media tool in avid
mainly because i cannot select the sequence i want to rely on in think
it gives all the files used in the project, the transcoded one(which i don t want to use), for example
i should be able which sequence i am referring to
stefanocps:also if you move the position of the media, how do you reconnect the media to the new position when you reopen the project?
When I'm finished moving the media to an external drive I let Avid database the files on that drive, after Avid is done I open the project using the newely copied project files on the external drive and make sure all the files are there, basically just check the sequence. If you want you can also clean up the project before moving it using the Media Relatives and Reverse functions for the final sequence.
i fear can t use this tool properly
I have a mess in my project, sequences not used, different bins with same clip, some transcoded, some not
i am really concerned for a proper archive of the materail i need, I have also on my disk, a lot which is not used, so a clean up and the archieve of what is evffectively being used would be apreciated
The biggest problem you'll face is if material was brought into your project from another project. It will be harder to track some of the media files.
What you can do is open the Console, and type RenameMediaFiles. It will give all the media files on the drives a "human readable" name, and each one will start with the first 5 letters (or 3, I'm having doubts) of the project. It will make it way easier to regroup stuff at the hard drive level.
It won't help with AMA files though, only transcoded/imported/captured/rendered files.
anyway should be something that i do manually, right?
one thing i cannot understand
once i am able to group all transcoded and ama linked files
hod do i tell the project to point to those clip, that are moved in a different folder from the original stored iwth the project/sequence?
the fact is that the pic i posted is the cleanest possbilbe situation
the sequence with almost all ama and few transcoded
inside the project i have much more clips related to other sequences, as i have done few transcoding for export and this things
so i want to get rid of all these transcoded related clips which i don t use anymore
and save all is in the pics. transcoding again (to another disk) could be a solution also, but i tried and when i open again, i have all missing files in the sequence
you have to do it in two steps:
First transcode all linked media (you can select that in the transcode settings tab) and then consolidate all to the drive you want to store the project.
When transcoding be aware of the framerate and the rastersize of your source footage. I would suggest you select source raster dimension and keep source's framerate.
If your linked clips are already in a format that is supported by mc natively then you can skip the transcode step.
if i do the final consolidate to the disk drive D
thei may move the molder to may be another disk, or an external disk, or another computer
the day i want to pen it again
will i have to put the avid media folder in a disk called D ?
i have finished the transocidng and the consolidating
Now seems everything ok..almost all the clips are set in the new drive
But very few not(4). They are still in the original position
i can see the clip linked using the show reference clips
they still set at the drive F
but the sequence seems all right, none of these clips seems included in the sequence
why this??
may i safely go on like this?
Did you consolidate your sequence or the source clips?
You can check if you got all stuff together by temporarily renaming your Avid MediaFiles folders on your orginal HDDs. If they are renamed Avid MC won't see them and so you can check if you have all your media is still online and on the new drive.
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After hearing all of the reports (and reading this thread), I drove to my local Target last night with my daughter, and the shelves were just busting out with this set. They were six-deep. I was able to examine each one of them in order to find the best paint apps on Maul. (He's the only one I want from this set. I have no interest in the Night Sister; and I already have Opress). And I was pleasantly surprised to see that this set rang up at $19.99, not at the $22.99 price that was advertised on the shelf. All in all, it was a good weekend for collecting toys, since my local trading buddy was able to get me the new TRU-exclusive Speeder Bike. So, I have plenty of new stuff to hold me over until the holiday shopping season sets in.
LMK if you want to part with that Nightsister.
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The Candyman Strings & Things of Santa Fe, N.M., is the 2014 'Dealer of the Year,' awarded by the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) at the fourth annual Top 100 Dealer Awards.
Held Thursday – Saturday at the annual Show (January 24-27, 2019) and under the guidance of the team from Live Sound International magazine, the systems showcase will take place inside the Anaheim Convention Center arena, giving participants the opportunity to demonstrate both their flown and portable systems in a real-world setting to a mix of industry professionals.
The Coalition on Coalitions at Summer NAMM addressed state-level music education advocacy efforts as part of the SupportMusic Coalition.
The Intellectual Property Forum brought together music product creators, innovators, fabricators, business owners and managers concerned about securing and protecting their intellectual property.
The Recreational Music Making Forum during Summer NAMM addressed opportunities in local communities and the best ways to reach out to customers to engage them in the joys of making music.
The Import/Export Forum during Summer NAMM addressed updates on current import/export regulations and how they affect industry businesses. Jim Goldberg of Goldberg Associates and Mary Luehrsen, NAMM Director of Public Affairs, hosted officials from the U.S.
The SupportMusic Coalition Webinar "Live from Summer NAMM" gathering highlighted NAMM Members who are ramping up music education advocacy in their states and local communities, and their strategies for success.
Summer NAMM was filled with exciting exhibits, lively entertainment and powerful education. Check out the photo gallery to see it all!
On Saturday, July 19, Summer NAMM opens its doors to musicians, music lovers and pro-light, audio and staging professionals in Music City.
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I was being introduced to the notion of cocktail geeking today (specifically, people who research and revive historical cocktails and of LUPEC), and so, why not? Let's talk cocktail geeking. What do you imbibe that you think deserves a wider audience? Are you working on a recipe that you could use some feedback on?
If you aren't an alcohol drinker or cocktail lover, feel free to share a loose equivalent: microbrewery recommendations, obscure grape variants, virgin cocktails, cupcake recipes, or favourite treats of other kinds all welcome.
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Something savory and something sweet: Audrina Patridge and boyfriend Corey Bohan enjoyed dinner with friends at Las Vegas's Sugar Factory American Brasserie, where the reality star dined on Pacific salmon and sipped a blow pop martini.
The two were there to celebrate the grand opening of the restaurant's new location inside the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino, and Patridge was all smiles as she greeted a packed house of partygoers. Patridge also explored the retail shop and picked up a hot pink cupcake-shaped bank. And, before leaving, she loaded up on sweets – including gummy candies and a red velvet cake pop.
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Sumner Redstone had a good day on Wednesday as his two companies Viacom Inc and CBS Corp reported quarterly results that beat Wall Street estimates on the back of unexpectedly strong TV advertising revenue.
Viacom reversed a long ad revenue slide, surprising analysts by posting growth in the first quarter. CBS reported a profit that easily beat the most optimistic of Wall Street estimates, as special events helped its broadcast network increase ad revenue by 8 percent.
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Viacom shares touched a new multiyear high before closing up 2.6 percent on the Nasdaq, while CBS shares rose 1 percent in after-hours trading.
"Viacom had ratings pressure for a long time, so it's significant that they have turned the corner in terms of ad growth, which is now positive instead of negative," said Brett Harriss, an analyst with Gabelli & Co.
Redstone is executive chairman of the two companies, which used to be a single entity. Over the last four years, CBS shares have risen more than 1,100 percent, while Viacom shares are up around 280 percent, both exceeding peers.
Their results come against the backdrop of a relatively weak advertising market in the first quarter. Unlike last year, there are no national elections or Olympics this year, putting a bit of a damper on the business.
At Time Warner Inc, weakness at CNN dragged on results, while Comcast was hurt by the struggles of its broadcast network, NBC. Both companies beat Wall Street's earnings expectations, however, though that was driven by strength in other segments of the media business.
While ad spending is growing globally, expectations have fallen recently. Zenith Optimedia recently cut its 2013 spending growth forecast to 3.9 percent from 4.1 percent. Within that forecast, North America is one of the laggards, growing much more slowly than Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.
CBS reported its highest-ever revenue and operating income, as advertising revenue rose 8 percent in the period. The company benefited from a number of special events during the quarter, including the Super Bowl.
The network has also dominated broadcast ratings this season, with five of the top-10 prime time shows in the most recent week, according to Nielsen ratings.
Viacom reported a 6 percent drop in revenue because of a weak slate of movies from its studio, Paramount Pictures, but advertising sales turned positive during the quarter.
At its cable network properties, including MTV and Nickelodeon, advertising revenue rose 2 percent in the United States. On a call with analysts, Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman said the improvement in ad sales correlated to rising ratings, with Nickelodeon posting its strongest growth in two years.
"The importance of original programming driving ratings and ultimately driving ad sales is pretty clear," said Tim Nollen, an analyst at Macquarie.
Viacom has been struggling with a decline in ratings, which are the currency for commercials. The children's network Nickelodeon in particular was a drag.
For Time Warner, first-quarter ad revenue at cable properties including TNT and news channel CNN fell 1 percent.
UBS analyst John Janedis said in a note to clients he thinks it had to do with weak ad rates and what he characterized as "slow demand."
But ratings also fell, with Evercore Partners estimating a decline of 4 percent for Time Warner's cable networks in the quarter.
The company said second-quarter ad revenue at its networks will be up in the high single digits in percentage terms.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Finding Solutions
Recently, parenting has felt a bit like the ocean - continually changing and rolling. Every week new challenges get churned up, gently pushed into the surf and ultimately coughed up onto the shore (i.e. into my awareness.) I pray for this - a more acute awareness of what my children need - so I am thankful for the continual revelation. But sometimes it can be a little daunting to come up with solutions. I think we should use each other more in coming up with parenting solutions; surely we're dealing with similar issues. So I hope Bloom can once again be a forum for sharing insight and suggestion, especially on the tricky matters of parenthood.
For my contribution this week I thought I'd share the most recent problem we've confronted as parents, and the solution we came up with. I'd also love to hear your thoughts and suggestions on the matter.
I hope that the comment thread might be a place for you to share the challenges you're facing in your parenting and that other readers will have wisdom to share. This is also something we'd love to hear about via e.mail - the issues that are arising as your parenting sea changes and churns. We could post them and solicit wisdom and advice from this fertile little community of parents. Kind of like Ann Landers, except we all get to be Ann.
So. This week's dilemma at our home:
Since reading Clayton Christensen's book, "How Will You Measure Your Life" **(see footnote) Nate and I have been very mindful of helping our children develop processes and skills to solve their own problems. Henry's morning tendencies have become a glaring instance of where we've enabled bad habits and sluggish behavior. We realized we needed to make some changes that would foster more autonomy. For all his many talents and abilities, Henry is not much of a hustler and he is terribly distractable. Getting ready for school in the morning was pretty much just a steady stream of my reminders/doting and Nate's frustration. "C'mon Henry! It's time to be downstairs eating breakfast. Hurry up, Henry! Where are your shoes? Is your backpack packed? Comb your hair please, Henry." Every single thing that needed to get done required a prompt from us. And every single morning, Henry and Nate were rushing out the door in a huff, usually five minutes behind schedule. We all felt flustered and frazzled. And poor Henry was leaving the house feeling hen-pecked and half-hearted.
A few nights ago, Nate and I had a pow wow about it. What can we do to help him manage himself better? What consequence can we impose if he isn't ready to walk out the door at 7:35 that will motivate him to be more mindful the next morning? It is really hard to impose a consequence on Henry...he is so mellow and easy going, there aren't many things that ruffle his feathers. And he doesn't have a lot of easily-revokable privileges - he doesn't play video games, doesn't watch hardly any tv, doesn't play on the computer...and if we take away a beloved plaything, he'll just choose another, or go outside and split wood or something similarly mundane and enjoy himself immensely in the process.
But he loves to be read to. LOVES it. It's part of our nightly ritual that both of my kids just adore. So we decided that if Henry couldn't self-manage in the mornings, he would have to read by himself for a half hour in the afternoon (which would cut into his free time AND remove the beloved nightly ritual of reading together). I hate to impose that as a consequence because it feels like a punishment to me, too; I love our nightly reading as much as the children...but I have a feeling we won't be missing many nights. I have noticed that wisely-chosen consequences are extremely effective in changing behavior. Nate is a master at choosing consequences; I am so thankful for his insight in this aspect of parenting.
Last night we sat down with Henry and talked about the problems with our morning shuffle. He agreed that mornings are really stressful and rushed and that he hates being nagged all the way to the door. We talked about being a self-manager and brainstormed ways to help him be more successful and efficient in the mornings. I bought a little whiteboard to list the things he needs to do, always helpful to have a visual reminder. And we talked about things he could do the night before to make the morning less hectic (lay out clothes, find his shoes, pack his lunch, etc.) And then we told him that if he had trouble staying on task in the morning, he would have to do his reading independently in the afternoon. But if he was ready to go on time, we would read together at bedtime.
This morning was a success. Henry was ready to walk out the door at 7:30...it was Nate we were waiting for :) Henry felt good about being a self-manager and his last words to me were, "do we get to read together tonight?!"
I told him that we could and he walked out the back door with a big, "Yessssss!"
Do you have any additional advice for our mornings? How do you help your children be more efficient self-managers?
What issues are you confronting in your parenting right now? Let's talk about strategies & solutions!
(**I cannot recommend that book heartily enough. Seriously. Read it. Nate and I both read it just before Christmas - it was so enjoyable to read and discuss. Clayton Christensen is so incredibly insightful; you will reexamine every aspect of your life).
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Hello! This is my first time commenting and I can totally relate. I think what you are doing sounds really great. How do we feel about rewards? I feel like they are very motivating, yet I also worry that my children will not do anything unless they get something for it. At the moment I feel like I'm bearly surviving motherhood. I want to give my children so much, but what do you do when you lack the energy to do it? I am basically just doing the essentials here, meals, baths, laundry, keeping up on the house, etc...and it makes me sad. I'm just exhausted after all is said and done caring for 3 small children and a household day after day. Does anyone else feel like they are drowning??? Sorry so depressing, I would love some advice or tips from all you amazing mothers!
- March 19, 2013 at 12:25 PM
- Rachael said...
We've really been focusing on independence and autonomy lately. Like you, Em, I have one child (my kindergardener) who totally drags her feet in the morning and it's awful sending her out feeling like I've been hounding her all day. And with a new baby coming to join our home in another few weeks, I REALLY need everyone to be doing things on their own rather than being nagged by me.
So my husband and I sat down and brainstormed some goals for our oldest 3 children (our two-year-old escaped this one). All were focused on fostering autonomous good habits, and all were things that we could easily measure, like completing homework, getting dressed before breakfast, or packing one's own lunch (i.e. I'd love for my three-year-old to stop blinking at me in his complicated code whenever I ask him a question, because he thinks it's hilarious, and it drives me insane, BUT it's not something that I can easily check off a list, because it's happening multiple times a day). Anyway.
We implemented a star chart where each child is responsible for awarding him/herself their own star after a task is completed, and then instituted "Sunday Sundaes," where each level of star completion correlated to a ice-cream goody...so 50% of your stars earned ice cream, 65% earned syrups, 80% earned sprinkles, and 95% earned candy/nuts. Totally exciting because we NEVER do this, and such a hit for the kids. It's been going really well, and the kids have really stepped up in terms of completing their tasks without being constantly reminded.
What I like most about this is that a) the kids are much more self-motivated b) we don't have to reward them every single day (they put stickers on each day for the completed items, but the sundaes are only once a week) and c) I'm distributing positive rewards rather than punishments. And rather than saying 100 times "Please go practice the piano NOW!" all I have to say is, "Please go practice the piano so you can put a star on your chart" and then the kid scampers off because it will earn them some peanuts on their ice cream at the end of the week.
- March 19, 2013 at 1:19 PM
- Rachael said...
And Anonymous--I am still a pretty young mother (my oldest is 8), so I'm not speaking with the voice of a wealth of experience here, but one thing I've found is incredibly important for me is to do things for myself too. It's so easy to drown when you ARE doing the same things every day...is there anything that you do just because you love it, and you get to do it by yourself?
Some things that I find are really energizing for me are exercise (I love to run so I train for a lot of long-distance races, especially with my husband; I also like to do yoga), taking a class or learning a new skill (knitting, quilting, canning food, gardening, etc.), or something as simple as going to the library or Target by myself and just wandering around. I've also found it really energizing to get together with other women; I don't do it as much as I used to during the day just because I'm busier, but occasionally I'll invite a good friend over for lunch and we talk while our kids play, or I go to a book club meeting or meet a friend at a restaurant for dessert after our kids are in bed. I find that when I do things like this, I can come back and be supercharged and enthusiastic and exciting about tackling my mothering life, because I have more energy, ideas, creativity, etc.--I feel like ME again.
(This is totally tooting my own horn, but I wrote a post that deals a bit with this for Bloom a few years back...http://placetobloom.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-bet-this-crossed-your-resolution.html).
- March 19, 2013 at 1:30 PM
- Jon and Laura said...
I love your post and the comments- thank you! I have 3 boys 5 and under, and I have done a lot of thinking about consequences and rewards. My oldest in particular is VERY motivated by any type of reward (stickers, food, etc) but I have worried about him only having good behavior because he "gets" or "doesn't get" something. However, I have come to a conclusion lately that those reward systems are to motivate the child to raise their level of functioning to appropriate behavior, and then we can work with sustaining it; I think they are most effective when they are somewhat short-term and help the child realize that they are capable of that behavior, and then the next step is keeping the expectation with less or no rewards attached. I have found that to be really helpful for me to look at reward systems that way.
Also- I have to say that this winter I have felt just like the mother in the first anonymous post- I had a baby in July and had post partum bleeding- very severe- then while I was healing up from that, winter set in, and we have been sick 90% of the winter- I think there are some seasons of life where it's ok to just survive! I have to remind myself that I don't have to be constant wonder woman- God expects the best we can give TODAY- not our best on our best possible day! That brings me a lot of comfort.
When I feel really low, I read this quote which reminds me of that idea:
"Nature doesn't work with on-off switches, or a continuous motor. Nature is organic. It cycles. It flows. There is an ebb for every tide, a time of retreat and gathering of strength for every time of flowering. This continuous ebb and flow is vital in order to renew the energy required for a continuing cycle of life...I have trouble accepting the need for down time. I want to be a continuous switch, a peak producer with no valleys. I want relationships that get better continuously. I want to make continuous improvement myself with no temporary backsliding. I want to be able to jump up the minute after I am kicked in the stomach. I just don't want to allow time to recover and take in strength. I want to be a non-stop flowering wonder...could we allow time for our children to learn the lessons of life? Could we allow ourselves time to recover from periods of difficulty- time to grieve, time to heal, time to gather strength? Could we allow individuals to change and grow, relationships time to change and grow?...~Virginia Hinckley Pearce
There's much to teach, but much time to do it as well. Many of us don't give ourselves enough credit for what we are doing. I love bloom- thank you for what I learn from all of you!!
- March 19, 2013 at 2:00 PM
Well, I haven't read the book. And it sounds like you've come up with a solution that works for you. I'm just going to chime in here and say, things flow a little easier when we reward the good more than punishing the bad. (ie my kids get privileges for getting done on time in the morning). I don't know why it works better, there's just less frustration.
But like I said, what works for one maybe totally different than what works for another! good for you for searching for solutions! :)
- March 19, 2013 at 3:44 PM
I just want you to know that you're not alone. I too feel like I'm drowning in the daily tasks of motherhood. I feel like my entire life is spent taking care of my children, my husband, our house, my church responsibilities, etc. The essentials feel overwhelming, and adding more to that list almost brings me to tears. I too want to devote more of my time and energy to more than survival. I just don't feel like I have the energy. The saddest part for me is watching the years slip away and feeling so overwhelmed at all I still need to teach my children. Maybe I'm just too much of a perfectionist. Maybe I just need to let go of whatever image I have in my head of what a perfect mom should be and just be me and see where that gets me...
I just wanted you to know that you're not alone.
- March 19, 2013 at 9:54 PM
- Sandra Carson said...
Great post....i appreciate you...No one can take an mothers place...:)
- March 19, 2013 at 11:09 PM
Good food for thought. A couple things I'm wondering- if the goal is to help him solve his own problems, could he be more involved in brainstorming solutions together with you? Or perhaps feel the natural consequences of arriving late to his class? (Some kids might not care but many hate to miss out or naturally feel bad walking in late, etc). Sometimes we have to let go of what people think of us as parents because we don't want them to think we are irresponsible and not getting them places on time! Just an idea. It sounds like what you're doing worked great. I just wonder how our kids will become more competent at solving their own problems if we're the ones sitting down with our spouses to decide on a consequence (that may or may not be related at all to the problem). I hope that makes sense. This is something I think about a lot because I have the same questions. Thanks for sharing!
- March 21, 2013 at 7:15 AM
- Sally said...
Speaking from experience as not only a person that tends to be slow in getting out the door and easily distracted and also having a child just like me, the worst thing you can ever do is to say hurry up. It only causes more stress and problems. The best approach I've found with my daughter is to periodically say " you have this many minutes left, what do you need to do to make it to the bus on time?" It's a simple reminder that gets her back on task and doesn't cause her to get tense and frustrated. And I usually only have to say it once if at all these days.
- March 21, 2013 at 6:28 PM
- Emily Anne said...
I really appreciate the feedback you guys have offered. Especially been thinking about Anonymous #4's comment. Great points. We did involve Henry in the brainstorming process when we were trying to find solutions - we wanted to him to come up with ideas and suggestions. It wasn't just my husband and I saying, "here's what we're going to do..." it was more of "here's the problem we see, what do you think we can do...?"
As far as natural consequences...yes. And no.
He has been tardy plenty of times! Doesn't seem to bother him a bit :) So we've kind of had to impose some artificial/contrived incentive for punctuality.
But I'm admittedly too much of a marshmallow on certain natural consequences -- like if he's running behind, I should probably just send him out the door hungry...but I haven't been able to do that! I feel like he'll be so distracted and uncomfortable all morning in class...and that makes me sad. I guess I'm kind of a waffler when it comes to natural consequences -- sometimes I have too strong of an instinct to protect my kids from pain, I think. When, in reality, maybe it would be good for them to suffer a little? I don't know...
And Sally, I really appreciated your comment, too. Great insight.
Thank you all for what you've shared. To you who are feeling overwhelmed...we want to talk more about this. You are not alone. And we hope we can explore this issue more to find some constructive feedback/suggestions.
- March 21, 2013 at 9:52 PM
- Megan said...
I love all this insight. I honestly haven't thought too much about this stuff- I have a special needs son who is 6 and a fun loving son who is 4. I'm just beginning to understand some of this. For me, it is more about what I'm doing that causes problems in the home than what they are doing. It's hard to think about how to help them find solutions, when I'm struggling with solutions for myself. Ideally, I hope to become this type of mother-who can see a problem and be able to work out a solution with my husband and children. There is always hope. thanks to you brilliant women.
- March 23, 2013 at 4:58 PM
- Melissa said...
Emily, I'm kind of late to the discussion. I keep forgetting that you guys are back! I will add you back to my blog roll so I don't miss anymore. My girls are 11 and 13, and we did many fun things to motivate them when they were little. In fact, that motivation doesn't go away, and we have altered our management style as they've gotten older and become more independent. The very first thing I ever did for my 4-year-old was to take a picture of her doing each of four tasks that were her responsibility. We laminated the photos and put them on a little ring so she could flip through the pictures as a reminder each morning. There was no motivator yet, just the introduction of chores that she thought were fun. Every child has a motivator, and the trick is to find out what that is. Even since they were young, my kids have been highly motivated by money for some reason, but we make it work. I used to use the sticker charts you find at the teacher's supply that are in a block of squares with a cute picture on it. We called it our 'busy bee' chart, and the girls would get a bee sticker for doing the little jobs they had (most were personal care items). When the chart was full, they would get two dollars. It took about a week or a little longer to fill it up, and the wait time was appropriate for their ages. On kind of a similar thread, I do want to share something I've learned about that changed the way I approach teaching some of the skills our kids need to learn. Have you heard about executive skills? They are the skills one possesses that enable them to execute a task from start to finish. We have strengths and weaknesses in our skill set. For example, my strengths are working memory and organization, and my weaknesses are task initiation and time management. It has been life-changing to understand where I am strong and where I am weak with these skills, but it was pivotal to find out where my daughter was with her skills. She struggles with organization and working memory which is why the poor thing cannot keep her room clean or remember where she puts things. Understanding where our children's weaknesses are helps us have compassion for them and operate with an extra measure of love when we are teaching them. And it has been HUGE to be able to work with her teachers to understand her limitations as they relate to the teeny tiny box public school children are required to operate in. The icing on the cake is that my daughter, who believed for a long time that she wasn't very smart because of these weaknesses, has STRENGTHS! We celebrate her flexibility, emotional control and response inhibition which means that she is super easy-going and has appropriate emotional control and responses to the world around her. I think the more we strive to be in tune with our kids and understand them, the more powerful our teaching and the more successful their learning. The book that I learned about executive skills from is called "Smart But Scattered." It might be too soon for moms with young children to use because you do need to know a little more about your child to take the initial survey, but the knowledge is powerful and has helped me with my own issues too. I'd love to chat more about this anytime. Can you tell I'm a little passionate about it? :D
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- April 2, 2013 at 10:09 PM
- Mary said...
i love this simple solution. check list to help redirect him when he gets distracted, and a consequence to motivate! seems like it's working too!! simple and clear expectation help so much......why are we always trying to complicate everything (i'm so guilty of this).
I feel like my kids are gone so much and home time is my time to build. those mornings when i'm reminding and impatiently barking at my kids leave us all feeling down. what a bummer way to start the day and usually all because of me!!
my husband and i have tried really hard to not say a thing about what they have to do in the am (they also have a check list just in case). we sit back calmly and let them choose how they will spend their time. sometimes it's no breakfast and sometimes they have a pretty skimpy lunch or messy hair. They know we have scripture study at 7:30 so that the deadline. If they are not ready they have an early bedtime that night....no reading and lights out EARLY! if they can't get up and be ready on time then they must need more sleep, right? it's working for now. when it's time to go, I say "i take boys in the car that are ready on time otherwise you are one your own." something like that! if they aren't ready they can walk or ride their bike (which is not all that bad since we live super close). i love our mornings so much more.
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Recently, I went to a lecture about women, aging and self-esteem. It was disconcerting.
The lecturer, a therapist in her mid-50s, deals frequently with women who are unhappy with how they look, and who feel unprepared for the changes that they are seeing as they get older. The lecturer acknowledged that women in their 50s (and over) are in a "beauty bind." In the past, women (like our grandmothers) aged together. The playing field was level. Very few of them had the option to have any kind of plastic surgery (that was the domain of Hollywood movie stars), so they all aged together.
The problem is when a woman feels that she must look younger to compete for a man, a job, a place in the world without feeling invisible; it's then that she does things that she may not want to do, like plastic surgery. The therapist also pointed out that if a woman feels that she is aging and losing the battle to compete, she can get depressed and engage in unhealthy and counter-productive behaviors like drinking too much, using drugs, and developing eating disorders that are normally associated with much younger women. The statistics were dramatic.
The lecture got me thinking about all the ways the media makes us feel like aging is such a horrible thing, and one to be avoided at all costs. Magazine covers and ads with perfect, young bodies and faces just perpetuate the belief that younger is better. True, it's always been like this, but the means to achieve a more youthful look have never been more accessible than they are now. All you have to do is go to a Botox Party, and voilí , you've turned back the clock (at least for four months).
I decided that this was a kind of wake-up call for all of us, no matter what our ages. In other words: it's time to re-frame how we look at how we look. We can't look 20 when we're 40, and we can't look 30 when we're 50. It simply isn't possible. And, if "looking younger" is your goal, then you may be in for a lot of heartache.
I'm not saying to give up and give in. Far from it! Nor am I telling women to forgo having plastic surgery or other kinds of procedures. But before you start to think about trying to make yourself look younger, ask yourself first whether you've taken steps to make yourself be the most healthy, fit and engaged version of yourself at whatever age you are.
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- Stopped sitting in the sun and started using sunscreen?
- Stopped smoking?
- Started a good skin care program?
- Gotten and kept your weight down to where it should be?
- Started an exercise program where you walk (or run) every day?
- Begun a sustainable strength-training program to your body toned and fight osteoporosis?
- Done an honest assessment of hair, clothes and makeup?
- Made a commitment to improve your health by eating the right foods and staying away from the wrong ones?
When I turned 50, I stepped back and assessed every part of my life and saw that I was heading in the wrong direction. The post-menopausal weight was piling on, my muscle tone was gone, and I was starting to look, for lack of a better word, frumpy. Not wanting to continue along that path, I put myself on simple, uncomplicated programs (including what's listed above), which helped me lose the weight, get strong and lean, improve my skin and "fight the frump."
The real message, from one "woman over 50″³ to another is this: Embrace, engage, take control, and live your life. Take care of your body, exercise your mind, be a part of the world, stay connected with people who are supportive, and you'll discover a secret that many women over 50 who are doing these things already know: if you feel good, you look good. And if you feel and look good, age will be the furthest thing from your mind.
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text: Welcome to the Drunk Driving Defense blog! My intention in creating this blog is to begin a dialogue. We will be discussing issues around Massachusetts drunk driving laws. Who should be here? Everyone! This is a blog for attorneys to discuss the issue and for layman to learn about this issue. All points of view are encouraged and welcomed Looking forward to chatting with you!!


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- Jul 31:
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Barbara Abraham
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Yanneth Bermudez Camp
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Crocker Family
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Ellen DiGeronimo
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Frances Drake
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Mary Chapin Durling
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Jennifer Jones
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Doris Kirkpatrick
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Neddy Latimer
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Donata Martin
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Marion Stoddart Thanks to her, Nashua River flows clean and clear
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Ginny White
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Mary Whitney
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Rev. Susan Shuchocki Brown
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Janet Cragin
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Joanne DiNardo
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Joana Dos Santos
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Louise Doyle
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Jennifer Flanagan
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Elaine Fluet
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Karen Koller
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Kathleen McDermott
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Eleanor Norcross Artist leaves enduring legacy in Fitchburg museum
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Nurses at Simonds-Sinon Regional Cancer Center
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Tina Sbrega
- SALUTE TO WOMEN: Gina Wironen
Three Olympians have emerged from Fitchburg since the 1896 revival of the Olympic Games.
And as the lone female Olympian from Fitchburg, ice hockey dynamo Erika Lawler has become quite the role model for females in the area. Approachable and far from intimidating, the speedy Lawler joins the well-known Arthur Longsjo Jr. (speed skating and cycling in 1956) and Ray Leblanc (ice hockey in 1992) as the three Fitchburg natives to represent the United States in an Olympiad.
Just a hair over 5 feet tall, Lawler has put together a huge list of accomplishments in addition to snagging a silver medal in Vancouver in 2010. And though Lawler wasn't selected out of the National Training Camp for the next Olympics -- coming in 2014to Russia -- her achievement is one that few in the region can match.
"Winning the medal at the Olympics didn't just represent a 60-minute game," Lawler said. "It represented my whole life. It represented the city of Fitchburg. It was a truly humbling experience."
Those Olympic Games weren't her only international experience. Lawler represented the United States in the Four Nations Cup -- winning gold in 2008, as well as four silvers -- and in the World Championships, in which she claimed gold in 2008 and 2009 to go with a pair of second-place finishes.
Lawler had a solid 2011-12 season for the Boston Blades of the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) but played just one game for the team last season as the Blades went on to win CWHL title.
The 26-year-old spent four years at the University of Wisconsin after an impressive career at Cushing Academy, winning three NCAA national championships on the ice with the Badgers and starring in 163 career games, the most in program history.
Lawler finished her career at Wisconsin second in both goals (55) and assists (119), giving her the third most points by any woman in the team's history. This came after graduating from Cushing in 2005, finishing her hockey career with 210 goals and 185 assists and being named team MVP twice.
To anyone familiar with the Lawlers, it's not a surprise that Erika ended up with skates and a stick. Her father, Kevin, grew up playing the game and her aunt, Kathy, led all women in scoring in her freshman year at Potsdam State College in 1980, potting 74 goals and 45 assists. Her brother, Trevor, played four seasons at Fitchburg State University and her youngest brother, Nevin, currently plays at Norwich University.


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Over more than a century, Dorothea Tanning collided and consorted with artistic titans of the 20th century who included Pablo Picasso, John Cage and Joseph Cornell. She designed sets for George Balanchine ballets, played romantic matchmaker for poet Andre Breton and appeared in Hans Richter's avant-garde films — but she remained best known as the wife of Surrealist Max Ernst, to whom she was married for nearly 30 years
Tanning, who was also a celebrated American artist and poet, and came to be known as "the last living Surrealist," died Tuesday at her New York City home, according to the Dorothea Tanning Collection and Archive, a foundation she established in 1995 to preserve her work. She was 101.
Several of her best-known paintings are on display through May at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art show "In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States." The "most riveting portrait" in the exhibition's introductory gallery is "Birthday," Tanning's hyper-realist 1942 self-portrait, Times art critic Christopher Knight wrote last month. He called it "an image of awakening power."
In "Birthday," the artist presents herself as bare-breasted and bare-footed, grasping roots emerging from her skirt. Lurking at her feet is a mythical beast, a basilisk, "which could kill with just a puff of its poison breath," Knight wrote. "Tanning seems capable of accomplishing the same with just a glance."
She began her extraordinary life as Dorothea Margaret Tanning in Galesburg, Ill., on Aug. 25, 1910, the child of Swedish immigrants.
Determined to escape small-town conservatism, Tanning moved to Chicago in 1934 after dropping out of Knox College in Galesburg. She briefly attended the Chicago Academy of Art and embarked on big-city adventures that must have made her parents blanch — Tanning later claimed a liaison with a Chicago gangster who was murdered during their date and a job interview in which she was persuaded to shed her clothes.
Tanning soon moved to New York City and eventually settled into commercial illustration until a 1936 show, "Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism," at the Museum of Modern Art inspired her to become a serious painter. She set off for France in the summer of 1939 hoping to meet some of her heroes, but the advent of World War II led her to return home.
Back in New York, Tanning's art career received a boost when gallery owner Julien Levy took her under his wing and another boost when art patron Peggy Guggenheim sent her then-husband, Max Ernst, to Tanning's studio to choose a painting for inclusion in "Exhibition by 31 Women," an important 1943 show at Guggenheim's New York gallery.
Ernst was entranced by Tanning's unfinished self-portrait — later dubbed "Birthday" — and equally taken with the beautiful artist.
Within two years, Tanning had her first solo exhibition, at Levy's gallery. Within four, she became Ernst's fourth wife (in a double ceremony with photographer-filmmaker Man Ray and Juliet Browner) and moved to Sedona, Ariz., where they built a house with their own hands.
Tanning collaborated on Balanchine ballets and painted some of her best-known canvases in the late 1940s and early '50s, including such theatrical tableaux as "Interior With Sudden Joy" and "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik."
Living and working alongside Ernst until his death in 1976, Tanning continued to make paintings and sculptures in the shadow of an art world legend. She created many of her stunning works despite being regularly interrupted by such visiting luminaries as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Marcel Duchamp and Dylan Thomas.
"I even made a note one summer in my notebooks: 44 days, 47 visits," she once said. "I would have painted three times as many pictures otherwise."
The couple moved to France in 1949 and spent more than two decades there. Tanning's paintings grew increasingly abstract, her figures becoming so fluid that bodies dissolved altogether. By the late 1960s she had turned to soft fabric sculptures, fantastical furniture in which tweed torsos burst through walls and furry limbs mingle.
After returning to New York in 1980 and recovering from a stroke, Tanning focused her creative energy on another childhood pleasure: writing. She wrote a novel, "Chasm," and a 1986 memoir, "Birthday," which she expanded into the 2001 book "Between Lives."
In her late 80s, Tanning found a new outlet in poetry. She jokingly referred to herself as "the oldest living emerging poet."
By 90, she had published poems in the Paris Review and won a place in "Best American Poems of 2000." She later wrote two well-reviewed volumes of poetry, "A Table of Content" (2004) and "Coming to That," which the New Yorker called one of the best books of 2011.
In 1994, Tanning created and endowed the Wallace Stevens Award, which each year grants $100,000 to an American poet.
She is survived by three nieces and a nephew.
When asked a decade ago how her life might have been different if she had not thrown in her lot with Ernst, Tanning said she had no regrets. But "Stain," a poem she wrote in the 1990s, was more revealing:
Many years ago today
I took a husband tenderly
This simple human gentle act
Seen as a hard decisive fact
By all who dote on category
Did stain my work indelibly
I don't know why that is
For it has not stained his.


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Do you already have an Apple ID?
You only need one Apple ID to access all Apple services. Before you create a new Apple ID, consider whether it might be better to continue using one you already have. Remember that you might not be able to move data or purchases from an old Apple ID to a new one.
If you aren't sure if you already have an Apple ID, we can help you find it. Even if the email address1 that you use to sign in to Apple ID has changed, you can keep the same Apple ID.
Create your Apple ID
You can create your Apple ID when you set up a new device or sign in to iTunes or iCloud for the first time. You can also go to the Apple ID site and select Create Your Apple ID.
Here's what you need:
- A valid email address to use as your Apple ID user name.2
- A strong password.
- Your date of birth.
- Three security questions and answers to verify your identity. You can also use this information to reset your password.
If you use two-factor authentication, you're all set. You're now the only person who can access your account, even if someone knows your password. If you don't use two-factor authentication, you also need to provide a rescue email address.
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Use the same Apple ID and password every time you're asked to sign in to an Apple device or service. With your Apple ID, you can:
- Sign in to iCloud to keep your personal content up to date on all your devices.
- Sign in to the iTunes, Books, and App Store to make purchases and access previous purchases.
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See a complete list of features and services that use your Apple ID.
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Because your Apple ID is used across all your devices and services, it's important to keep your account information up to date. Simply sign in to your Apple ID account page at any time to manage your account:
- Update your Apple ID email address* to make sure it's an address that you use frequently.
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The security and privacy of your Apple ID is very important to us. Here are some things you can do to make sure your account remains private and secure:
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- Add a rescue email address. If you forget your password or the answers to your security questions, your rescue email address will help you regain access to your account.
- If you haven't already, set up two-factor authentication to add an extra layer of security to your account. Depending on when you created your Apple ID, it might already be protected by two-factor authentication. Some Apple IDs created in iCloud on iOS 10.3 or macOS 10.12.4 and later automatically turn on this feature.
- Read more about Apple's commitment to privacy and security.
- In China mainland and India, you can use your phone number as your Apple ID.
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KTM mountain bikes 2013 launch
Austrian company put their weight behind 650B
At the first briefing at the 2013 KTM bikes press launch in Austria, it's quickly become clear that innovation in the bike industry has been the main focus for KTM in their new line up – particularly in wheel size – with the 29er Scarp, a 650B Lycan along with Race and Ultra aluminium hardtails being the highlights.
In adapting existing models such as the Phinx 26in to create the Scarp 29in travel, and pushing the 650B concept with the all new Lycan 125mm trail bike, KTM are not only with the game but arguably ahead of much of the field in this sector of the upcoming mountain bike market.
Frame design differentiation has also stood as a central focus in creating stiffer more responsive bikes to meet consumer demand, a key development factor in KTM's Research and Development department, headed up by Thomas Pressl. In keeping with these demands KTM has made what they identify as the key bike updates – press-fit bottom brackets, tapered steerers, 12mm bolt through rear axles and KTM's own Pro Damping System (PDS).
It's worth noting that the key updates in the 2012 hardtail 29er range paved the way to a 400% increase in the sale of the Myroon according to KTM's Leo Schmid, Marketing Manager for KTM. "We plan to continue this growth with our 2013 range of bikes," he added.
KTM are proving their worth with the likes of Alex Gehbauer, the current leader of the U23 UCI XC World Cup aboard the Myroon hardtail 29er stock frame with custom build. Fionn Griffith consolidates the high performance of the KTM bikes range aboard the Aphex DH, blasting a high proportion of the field in the UCI downhill World Cup.
KTM's constant push for continual improvement in performance and design of their bikes has led to Fli Distribution taking on the sole UK distribution back in February 2012, the UK is going to see much more of the iconic orange Euro bikes.
Lycan 650B
The Lycan 651 650B had some unquestionable positives
KTM have pushed their innovation and bike development to the most current designs in the industry. With the 26in Lycan a huge success story for KTM over the past four years – their largest selling bike – and the exceptional growth in sales of 29er mountain bikes for the Mattighofen, Austria-based company, the plan for a 29in Lycan was growing… that was until research suggested that the new Lycan would benefit more from the 650B wheel. 650B is still a little under the radar, but according to KTM's Owner, Carol Urkauf-Chen, "They offer significant advantages while limiting potential disadvantages to both the bike and rider."
This is in terms of the over rolling angle (the angle between the tyre and floor), weight and gyroscopic force as compared to the 26in and 29in counterparts; for these reasons, "The Lycan 650B is KTM's most important full suspension mountain bike for KTM," says Thomas Pressl.
KTM's research suggests that compared to a 26in wheel the 650B wheel is only 3% heavier while the 29in wheel is 11% heavier; 650B is further strengthened by the significantly lower gyroscopic force and better over rolling angle than the 26in wheel.
The target audience for the Lycan 650B remains the same with the appearance of the frame and many components relatively similar. Changes made are the slight increase in rear wheel travel from 120mm to 125mm retaining the PDS suspension design (minimising radial forces to the shock) and a RockShox 650B specific fork (130mm). Alloy only frames will keep the cost down and combined with KTM's design features they hope to also retain the overall aim of, "high performance and quality at good value to the customer," says Stefan Limbrunner, Head of Sales at KTM.
At 2990g, KTM have accepted that frame isn't the lightest on the market, but also insist that their aim of 'performance and capability' outweighs this factor. The 650B Lycan will be released in the models using the same frame:
651 (€3,499) – Shimano 30sp XTR groupset, XT brakes, Fox Float CTD Large Volume shock, RockShox 650B Revelation RCT3 (130mm) 15mm axle and DT Swiss M 1700 Spline wheelset.
652 (€2,899) – Shimano 30sp XT groupset, XT brakes, FOX Float CTD Large Volume shock, RockShox 650B Revelation RLT (130mm) 15mm axle and DT Swiss 465-D wheelset.
653 (€2,399) – Shimano 30sp XT, SLX brakes, RockShox Monarch RT3 shock, RockShox 650B Revelation RL (130mm) 15mm axle and DT Swiss 465-D wheelset.
Highlights of the other key features of the Lycan 650B include direct mount front and rear derailleurs and rear disk brake on all models, tapered head tube and fork, smooth welding and integrated cables for a clean finish.
Scarp 29er
Another highlight of KTM's 2013 range is the Scarp 29er. Grown from the Phinx – KTM's 26in brother – the Scarp hopes to bridge the gap to a high end full suspension 100mm travel XC race bike. Just like the Lycan the Scarp will encompass all that is new and innovative in 2013 to ensure KTM is "leading the way in the way of design and practice," as Stefan Limbrunner claims. Designers at KTM have certainly created a sense of character in the Scarp carbon frame.
"The tapered headtube is designed to maximise stiffness and control and to be recognisable to KTM throughout the range," Thomas Pressl explains.
The Scarp 29er will be built in four models: the Prestige and Prime with fully carbon frames, while the Master and Elite are to feature carbon front triangles and aluminium rear triangle and linkage. Here's the Scarp range:
KTM Scarp 29er
Scarp Prestige (€6,499) Shimano XTR groupset and brakes, Fox Float CTD shock, Fox 32 Float 29 FIT CTD RR 100mm, 15mm axle, DT Swiss X 1450 Spline wheelset.
Scarp Prime (€4,799) Shimano XT groupset and brakes, Fox Float CTD shock, Fox 32 Float 29 FIT CTD RR 100mm, 15mm axle, DT Swiss M1700 Spline wheelset.
Scarp Master (€3,899) Shimano XT groupset and brakes, Fox Float CTD shock, Fox 32 Float 29 CTD RR 100mm, 15mm axle, DT Swiss M1700 Spline wheelset.
Scarp Elite (€3,299) Shimano XT groupset and SLX brakes, Fox Float CTD shock, RockShox Reba 29 RL 100mm, DT Swiss X-470 wheelset.
In matching the key frame and component upgrades for 2013 the Scarp, like the Lycan, will also feature direct mount front and rear derailleurs and rear disk brake on all models, tapered head tube and fork, along with integrated cables for a clean finish. Seeing the frame in person is the only way to appreciate the design and precision engineering undergone to make what is one of the most stunning pieces of carbon around, period. The Scarp's head tube integration to the rest of the frame is the pinnacle of the design for KTM, "stiffness and style" remarked Thomas Pressl. With all the attributes this frame boasts, encompassed in 2250g of carbon, this is a race bike that could even surpass the KTM team's expectations.
Race and Ultra aluminium hardtails
KTM have increased their hardtail range to provide the consumer with "varying options, with a focus on performance at a price to suit budgets," according to Leo Schmidt.
The 29er hardtail range will feature six models in all: two high end bikes in the 'Race' category (€1,999 and €2,199) and four low to medium range bikes bearing the 'Ultra' name (€649-€1,499).
In 26in wheels, KTM have covered all bases, creating eight options to choose from including a women specific design, the Baggy Sue. Prices ranging from €649 in the 'Ultra' models to €2,199 in the triple butted aluminium Race models.
The main difference in the line up is the addition of the 650B Race Action 651 with Shimano XT all round for €2,199.
Additionally to the new 650B bike the Race frames in all three wheel sizes have undergone the key 2013 upgrades including, tapered head tubes and fork, direct mount derailleurs, direct mount rear brake and 12mm bolt through rear axle.
KTM have an impressive line-up by anyone's standards. We're looking forward to getting these bikes out for some rigorous testing in the near future. Watch out for first rides on BikeRadar and in MBUK and What Mountain Bike magazine.


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User:HistoricAccount Commander I. Heartly Noah
Race: Men
Tribe: Poleaxe
Faction: AdMen
Class: Warlord
Level: 3
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Combat: 2
Defense: 3
Special: Light, Forester, Dance Fighter: 1, Leadership: 2
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- Nearly 10,000 individual edits large, small, and minor
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Commander I. Heartly Noah is a warlord of the wandering Poleaxe tribe. He's a popular figure but an uninspiring combat leader. His dance fighting abilities are rudimentary at best. He is, however, quick & agile and can navigate various terrain.
Noah is a thinker; a ponderer, a philosopher, a wonderer, a deducer, a fool. He is a diligent helper for the community, one as likely to posit his own opinion as to ask for others' or simply to get stuck in with the prevailing effort. His greatest nemesis is the Spammers, and he hunts them down with great vengeance. He was blessed by the Titans with special powers, and was a founding member of the AdMen, who are tasked with the defense of the Erfwiki.
Noah wields the dual tools of the Banhammer and Deletionism.
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The Poleaxe tribe is a play on the term "Polacks" for Polish people. Noah's actual surname is Polish.
Commander I. Heartly Noah sounds like "Commander? I hardly know her!" which is a take on a classic joke.
Noah auditioned for every male character in the Book 1 Motion Comic.


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With the cost of college on a steady rise with no end in sight, many students are wondering if the price tag is worth it. Well, a new test might be able to show just how much (or little) students learned during their time on campus.
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Starting this year, more than 200 colleges and universities will be offering a new standardized test called the CLA +, (Collegiate Learning Assessment) that is designed to cut through grade inflation and provide both students and employers tangible evidence of what grads learned in college, particularly, critical-thinking skills.
In the past, the original CLA was administered by universities to assess how much value they had provided to students, according to Roger Benjamin, president of the Council for Aid to Education (CAE), which developed the test. This standardized measure is for the benefit of students, he says.
"The mean GPA for college students is a 3.3, or an A-minus or B-plus. That means for most students, a huge number of students don't really have anything they can use to distinguish their skill levels when they graduate. That wasn't the case in the past, for someone over 50 or 60, the GPA [back then] was more of a bell-shaped curve."
If a student attends a highly-selective Ivy League school, employers may assume he or she has learned advanced skills, says Benjamin, but for those who attend other state and local colleges and universities in the U.S., the CLA+ is a way to stand and showcase their skills to future employers.
"They may have extremely strong analytic critical thinking and writing skills, and by taking this test they have some additional information to show to employers," he says.
The test has been beta-tested with 20 participating schools this past spring, and is rolling out this fall on a wider scale. The fee for taking the test is $35, and Benjamin expects many schools to pay the fee for students. Schools that will be participating include the State University of New York (SUNY) school system and the University of Texas, he says.
The value of a college education is becoming more difficult to assess, says Judah Bellin, assistant editor at the Manhattan Institute, which is why a test like the CLA+ can benefit students.
"This is good for future employers to understand what a particular student has gotten out of college, and for parents to obtain that understanding as well," Bellin says. "If institutions published the average CLA+ score of students, it could give insight to prospective students to learn what they would get out of attending a particular institution."
That being said, Bellin doesn't think the test will become mainstream anytime soon.
"Colleges are terrified of having the public discover that much of what they are offering is not valuable, and a lot of what goes on in colleges is not education, but is instead credentialing," he says.
Benjamin says that while CLA+ scores may not be included on resumes, he envisions a future with enhanced transcripts post-graduation that include the test.
"We used to assume that if you got a bachelors' degree, you were ready for work and citizenship, but that is not the case anymore," he says. "The quality of student learning outcomes it he dog that hasn't barked yet."