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Summary: Harmonix independently publishes a digital download music game, ditches the instrument party for a solo controller setup, and reinvigorates Rock Band for the lean social age.
• I'm quite happy that Harmonix finally put out a Rock Band game that allowed the use of a controller. After I hit a plateau in Rock Band 3, it became less fun to pull instruments out of my living room closet. Blitz's exclusive reliance on the controller makes it much more accessible to casual players.
• Despite its simple concept, the game gives you a lot to manage. You have to hit enough notes on 4-5 instruments, switch between them enough times so that the point disparity between them isn't too great, watch for white notes (to build your overdrive meter for launching power-ups) and purple notes (to trigger other power-ups), and push your accuracy meter to enter Blitz mode (where the game speed seemingly doubles but you get more points for every note you hit.) I enjoyed the complexity.
• Part of the appeal of each new Rock Band game is its song list. For $15, you get 25 songs right out the (virtual) box. Before the game dropped I was looking forward to some of the songs, notably Tears For Fears' "Shout," Kool and the Gang's "Jungle Boogie," and Elton John's "I'm Still Standing." I thought those were fun to play, but I also had some surprisingly good times with Quiet Riot's "Metal Health (Bang Your Head)" and Avenged Sevenfold's "So Far Away,' both songs I had never heard of before this game. Heck, after playing through Foster The People's "Pumped Up Kicks" and Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)," I no longer think of them as horrible clunkers. For a $15 digital title, there's a decent mix of material right from the get-go.
• On top of that, any song that you have on your console's hard drive gets integrated into Blitz's gameplay system. If you were regularly buying DLC and/or exported the setlists of the other Rock Band games into Rock Band 3, then you'll have a lot of fresh levels to play and leaderboards to climb. It's a great nod to players who invested a lot of time and money into past games, as everything old is new again.
• Free export! When I bought other Rock Band games in the past, export was always an extra $5-$10 on top of the cost of the game. Even if you aren't feeling the gameplay, Blitz is a mega-cheap track pack at $.60 a song. Enjoy duets of "One Week," people.
• You can't fail out! While there is an incentive to play the game well and not just wail on the buttons (though on the guitar solo parts I might as well have been), you can still do ok by mashing when buffered by the right power-ups (gotta love that shockwave!)
• Remember what I said about the game's use of the standard controller making it more accessible to casual players? This is counterbalanced by the sheer speed and number of notes coming at you as you play. Each song's charting in Blitz is based on its expert mode charting in regular Rock Band so if you're unfamiliar with a song or your hand-eye coordination is a little slow, it can be easy to get discouraged. Toss in all the different stuff you have to be aware of while playing (see my second point in the Ups section) and things can get pretty overwhelming, especially if you're not in the right mindset for this kind of thing.
• There's nothing really connecting the levels of gameplay. There is no band onstage, no cutscenes between levels, and no changes in what the highway scenery looks like while playing the game. I liked Rock Band 3's use of story in its Tour Mode as a means to get me emotionally invested in my band of avatars. Similarly, the acquiring of character customization options through completing goals kept me coming back after I had heard all the songs in the game. The game looks the same each time you play it and there are no human faces on which you can project yourself while you play. It feels a little cold.
• Instead, there's a big focus on social networking with challenging friends and strangers to "Score Wars" and Facebook integration. While leaderboard rankings were present in Rock Band 3, they weren't the big prize for playing well (see previous point.) I'll admit that it was neat to see my run on Stevie Nicks's "Stand Back" placed in that song's top 10 (by the time you read this it's probably ranked #310 or lower), but leaderboard rankings are fleeting and so is the satisfaction I get from placing on them. I also don't buy into the Facebook integration thing because I'm not sure I want to share that part of me with distant relatives or work colleagues. I recognize that this may be a big thing for some people, but it isn't for me.
• Sadly, there is no way to play Rock Band 3 songs in Blitz at this time. Frankly, this isn't that big a deal to me. Kickass as that game's tracklist was, I did get a little tired of hearing the same songs as I was trying to complete many of the game's goals. I'd rather have Blitz's more open-ended goal system that encourages playing of lots of different songs.
• Blitz has a lot more value if you already have a bunch of songs on your console's hard drive. That might be a little discouraging to newcomers who plow through the base 25 songs in a weekend and then want to do something new but might not want to pony up $2 a song.
Conclusion: As I type this the game has been out for almost a month and I still feel the urge to go back to it. It's a testament to the game design prowess of Harmonix that they can make a game that's cold and a little cynical and overcome those shortcomings through deceptively complex gameplay, solid musicality, casual-friendly level structure, and a soundtrack that's fun at the start. Beyond that, I'm just happy this game exists and Harmonix hasn't totally focused their energies into Dance Central. I'll be honest, before this title launched I hadn't played a Rock Band game since 2011, which would have come as a shock to me circa when I launched this site. Then again, the way I felt about Rock Band in 2010 was the same way I felt about Dance Dance Revolution in 2003 – that it would be around forever and that I would love it forever. Nothing lasts forever, and while both series are still alive (though DDR is questionable) my enthusiasm for both series has waned considerably in the wake of other titles and interests. It's a little unsettling to consider this in an "ashes to ashes" sense. In the meantime I'm glad that there's a new way to connect with Rock Band and enjoy this fabulous series for a little bit longer. Blitz on!


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There have been a lot of comments asking about the "force reps" workout described in my last post about Base 1 training. And since many readers receive my blog as an RSS feed they may not have seen my replies to those questions. So I'll describe this workout in more detail here.
First of all—the name. If you've read one of my Training Bible books you know that I define workouts based on 6 abilities—aerobic endurance, muscular force, speed skills, muscular endurance, anaerobic endurance and muscular power. The first 3 are the "basic" abilities and are the focus of the Base period. The last 3 are "advanced" abilities and are developed in the Build period. (The only one that overlaps both periods is muscular endurance which is started at a low level in Base 2 since it is slow to develop.) All of the workouts I use fall into one of these categories.
I call them force "reps" but they could just as easily be called "intervals." This is just semantics, but I use the word "interval" to mean a workout in which the duration of the recovery interval (the rest or "off" time) is defined very precisely. An example would be anaerobic endurance intervals done as 5 x 3 minutes with 3-minute recoveries. The recovery period is quite open-ended in force reps, as you will shortly see. Hence, "reps" instead of "intervals."
To do a force reps workout on the bike (they may also be done for running which I'll get to shortly), after warming up go to a hill that is short (30-50 yards/meters is long enough) and relatively steep (5-8% grade). These may also be done on flat terrain but I find a hill helps exaggerate the resistance—which is always the key to force training. In this case the resistance is gravity. It's much like doing one-leg squats in the weight room, only it's done on a bike.
I need to warn you before doing this workout that there is a fair amount of risk associated with it. On the bike you will be putting a great deal of stress on the knees. If you are prone to knee injuries this workout is probably best avoided. For runners the areas of concern are the lower legs and feet. For swimmers it's the shoulder. As with most all high-risk workouts there is also a potential high reward. I've written here about this risk-reward element of training before.
I have riders do 1 to 3 sets of 3 reps each. That means a total of 3 to 9 reps within a workout. On the bike it is best done with a power meter so you can measure the result (power) of the "force" being generated on each rep. You can do this workout even if you don't have a power meter (shame on you!) but you just can't measure progress quite as precisely. A heart rate monitor is of no use here. Each rep is done as follows.
1. Select a high gear such as 53×14. This should be high enough that your highest cadence on each rep is lower than 50 rpm. The steepness of the hill will also play a role in gear selection. The first time you do this workout experiment with gearing.
2. Coast to the base of the hill so that speed is less than 10 mph (16 kph) at the start.
3. As you start up the hill, stay seated, drive the pedals down at a maximal effort for 6 revolutions. A rev is one complete pedal stroke, so, for example, just count your right foot driving the pedal down 6 times. (I once had an athlete interpret this as meaning pedal with one leg only. That's not the case. You will pedal with both legs but you're counting only one of them.) I'd recommend that you trade off the leg you count on subsequent reps as you will more than likely push harder with the "counted" leg.
4. After a rep, recover by pedaling easily for at least 3 to 5 minutes allowing your legs to recover. Some overly aggressive riders will try to make the recoveries a high effort thinking this will improve their fitness. It won't. You can't make a tired muscle stronger. The purpose of this workout is to increase muscular strength. You must allow the muscle to recover before doing the next rep.
5. Repeat steps 1 to 4 two more times for a total of 3 reps. That makes 1 set. If doing a second set (I'd recommend doing only 1 the first time you try this workout) pedal easily for 5 to 10 minutes to ensure full recovery. Be very aware of your knees on each rep. At the first sign of any tenderness stop the workout. Do not continue even if the tenderness is only slight. No amount of fitness is worth an injury.
Each set, with recoveries, will take 15 to 20 minutes. So 3 sets with a warm-up and cool down makes for at least one hour and as much as 90 minutes.
It's advisable to do an easy workout the following day. While doing the workout it may not seem all that challenging. It often shows up the next day in very tired leg muscles.
These are done the same as the bike force reps only, obviously, without gearing. You will need a steeper hill since you can't shift to a high gear to increase resistance. And the hill can be quite short—less than 10-15 yards/meters. I like to have runners do these on a grassy hill as the softer surface somewhat reduces leg stress.
Count one leg striking the ground 6 times. Use your arms vigorously while maintaining good form. Do not bend over at the waist. Head up. Back straight. Walk back down the hill and then walk and jog slowly for 2 to 3 minutes before doing the next rep.
This workout is even riskier for runners than for cyclists due to the extreme stress placed on all of the muscles and tendons that drive and stabilize the ankle, so be very cautious. The first time you do this workout hold back on each rep—perhaps 80% effort—to see how your body reacts. At the first sign of tenderness stop the workout.
The recovery can be somewhat shorter than on the bike (2-3 minutes between reps and 3-5 minutes between sets) with most of it being walking. Otherwise, the workout is done just as described above for the bike.
Whether doing bike or run force reps do this workout only one time per week for each sport. Within 6 weeks you should be aware of feeling much stronger during this session. If you have a power meter on your bike you'll be able to precisely measure the improvement as a max power increase. For running, if using the same hill and start point for each session, you should go farther up the hill in 6 revs indicating that you are getting stronger. This latter measurement method for gauging run progress also works on the bike if you don't have a power meter.
By the end of Base 3, if you started in Base 2, you should have accomplished nearly all of the benefits of this session so it's time to cut back. From this point on do only 1 set once every 1 or 2 weeks to maintain your strength gains. This can easily be built into other workouts. It's best to do force reps early in a workout just after the warm-up.
I'm going to say this one more time: If you are susceptible to knee (bike) or lower leg and/or foot injuries (running) do not do this workout. Otherwise, you are very likely to end up injured. Even if you don't have a history of such injuries, if you feel something that you might describe as being "uncomfortable" or "strange," stop the workout. Do not train through it. If you are new to the sport do not do this workout. It is for advanced athletes only. If you are tired or sore from a previous workout, do not do this workout. Do it only when fresh and well-rested. In other words, treat this workout with great respect. It's risky.


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Food shortages, water battles, growing population, and an emerging energy crisis. Ira talks with Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute about the environmental problems facing the globe, and what can be done to take action to fix them. Brown has just published 'Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization.' He has a plan to save the planet from global warming. But--with calls for a carbon tax, and more gasoline taxes--it's not going to be easy or cheap.


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Chinese journalists are questioning government propaganda due to conflicting reports of the death toll following Saturday's devastating flooding in Beijing. Like the Wenzhou train crash and the Sichuan earthquake, the tragedy has galvanized mainstream and online journalists--and the official narrative is crumbling under their scrutiny.
A report from The Associated Press today offers a fascinating glimpse of an empowered press corps:
The Changjiang Daily newspaper reported online that Beijing city officials at a news conference late Wednesday were swarmed afterward by reporters trying to get additional comments. It said one journalist with the official broadcaster China Central Television asked spokesmen why they didn't give the new death toll when she could see from the paper in their hands that the toll was 61 dead including five civil servants. The officials left quickly without responding, the report said. The journalist wasn't identified by name in the report. By Thursday afternoon the report had been deleted.
Readers would be forgiven for doubting this took place in China: Reporters "swarming" a news conference in the wake of a natural disaster? A state broadcast journalist challenging official figures? It's a description of a healthy, demanding watchdog press--at least until we learn the article describing it has been censored.
In a news alert this week, CPJ likened Beijing's flooding crisis to the Wenzhou train crash which took place a year ago Monday. Propaganda officials then exhorted journalists to "emphasize miracles" in the rescue effort, and avoid questioning the causes--just as they did this week. Compare our description of the media's response to the Wenzhou disaster with the AP excerpt above:
Journalists chased Ministry of Railways spokesman Wang Yongping and demanded a press conference. A propaganda "miracle," in the form of a 2-year-old rescued after survival was declared impossible, became a focal point of the encounter. Online accounts said a rescue worker defied orders in order to save her, casting the official search in a less flattering light. Asked for comment, Wang could only repeat that her discovery was miraculous. "It was not a miracle," one reporter yelled back.
It's heartening that this kind of pushback is becoming more routine.
The change, in large part, is due to the Internet. With microblog users exchanging information and reactions at high speed, many users are becoming media critics, pouncing on compliant news outlets for failing to hold officials accountable. In the wake of the Wenzhou crash, we reported, "Internet commentators were furious that state mouthpiece People's Daily and three other newspapers ran coverage of a military ceremony on front pages the day after the accident." Now look at the headline that six state newspapers chose to run this past Sunday, the day after the worst of the floods, as reported by the Berkeley-based China Digital Times: "The Whole Party and the People of Every Nationality in the Country Unite with Speed and Force, Forging Valiantly Down the Mighty Path of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics."
Journalists on the ground, and citizen microblog users, have learned from Wenzhou. They are talking back, sharing data, and have already defined Saturday's tragedy with a poignant sound bite, "China's Katrina," according to China Digital Times. Sunday's tone-deaf patriotic headlines prove that, by contrast, propaganda authorities guiding state media coverage have learned nothing at all.
Wenzhou coverage was not an unqualified success. Censors banned journalists from revisiting the site to commemorate the anniversary this year, according to the The Wall Street Journal. Though the Ministry of Railways promised to examine the causes of the disaster, victims complain they have yet to hear from any investigators, the Journal said. Despite the lack of public trust, China is plowing ahead with rail investment, Bloomberg reports.
When Shifang environmental protests were in the news earlier this month, CPJ expressed concern that public expressions of anger at the government, commonly perceived as victories at home and abroad, risk "perpetuating a cycle of protests that authorities can diffuse without the need for reform or redress for serious injustice." Journalists in Wenzhou had the power to challenge the state's narrative, but not to ensure full accountability after public attention waned. "Officials kowtowing to citizens' demands to quell protests has become routine in China, but the follow-through has not," we argued.
China's media could correct that imbalance. If AP's unnamed CCTV journalist kept asking her difficult questions a week, a month, a year from now, the shortcomings of the city's handling of the floods would remain visible. But you can't blame her for stepping back. One year ago today, CCTV producer Wang Qinglei broadcast a reflective episode of his news show "24 hours" on the Wenzhou train crash; he was suspended a week later. For freelancers, punitive measures are even harsher: We documented 27 journalists imprisoned for their work in China on December 1, 2011. One, Tan Zuoren, had challenged the official death toll following the 2009 Sichuan earthquake.
Fear of reprisals may quell news coverage in the short term, but the indignation that fuels independent reporting online, and motivates journalists to argue back at press conferences, accumulates over time. As the disgraced Wang Qinglei put it on his microblog last year: "Constantly restricting and blocking is a way to make things appear peaceful on the surface, but it's actually going to stir up an even bigger crisis." The flooding may not be the crisis that tips the balance. But it has caused another wave of reporters, professional and otherwise, to get involved and document what happened, in spite of restrictions. Propaganda officials, by failing to adapt to this reality, reveal themselves as the archaic, vindictive bureaucrats they are. They have no place in today's China. We hope the next generation of leaders thinks so too.


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Just because you turned off your phone doesn't mean the NSA isn't using it to spy on you.
Edward Snowden's latest revelation about the NSA's snooping inspired an extra dose of shock and disbelief when he said the agency's hackers can use a mobile phone as a bug even after it's been turned off. The whistleblower made that eye-opening claim when Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News, holding his iPhone aloft during last Wednesday's interview, asked, "What can the NSA do with this device if they want to get into my life? Can anyone turn it on remotely if it's off? Can they turn on apps?
"They can absolutely turn them on with the power turned off to the device," Snowden replied.
Snowden didn't offer any details on this seemingly magical feat. But a group of particularly cunning iPhone hackers say it's possible. They also say you can totally and completely turn off your iPhone so no one—not even the NSA—can use it to spy on you.
Your Phone Is Playing DeadLike any magic trick, the most plausible method of eavesdropping through a switched-off phone starts with an illusion. Security researchers posit that if an attacker has a chance to install malware before you shut down your phone, that software could make the phone look like it's shutting down—complete with a fake "slide to power off" screen. Instead of powering down, it enters a low-power mode that leaves its baseband chip—which controls communication with the carrier—on.
This "playing dead" state would allow the phone to receive commands, including one to activate its microphone, says Eric McDonald, a hardware engineer in Los Angeles. McDonald is also a member of the Evad3rs, a team of iPhone hackers who created jailbreaks for the two previous iPhone operating systems. If the NSA used an exploit like those McDonald's worked on to infect phone with malware that fakes a shutdown, "the screen would look black and nothing would happen if you pressed buttons," he says. "But it's conceivable that the baseband is still on, or turns on periodically. And it would be very difficult to know whether the phone has been compromised."
"If you're going to be paranoid, you might as well be super-paranoid."After Snowden told Williams his powered-down phone could be used as an eavesdropping tool, security consultant Robert David Graham immediately responded with a blog post arguing the trick is impossible. He soon amended the post to concede the NSA could, in fact, alter a phone ahead of time to enable that ultra-sneaky bugging. Its methods could range from a web exploit, like the 2011 Jailbreakme hack that disassembled the iPhone's security restrictions when users visited a carefully crafted webpage, to actually intercepting shipped phones before they reach users. That latter possibility might have sounded apocryphal until journalist Glenn Greenwald published photos last month showing the NSA opening boxes of Cisco routers to insert backdoors into the gear. "With physical access, they could change the chips, the memory, the ROMs, the power system, anything they want," Graham says.
But paranoid users seeking temporary privacy from NSA uber-hackers needn't resort to Snowden's famous precaution of putting phones in the fridge. Instead, McDonald suggests users turn off their iPhones by putting them into device firmware upgrade (DFU) mode, a kind of "panic" state designed to let the phone reinstall its firmware or recover from repeated operating system crashes. In DFU mode, says McDonald, all elements of the phone are entirely shut down except its USB port, which is designed to wait for a signal from iTunes to install new firmware. "It's like an innocent little kid in kindergarten," says McDonald. "It doesn't know how to turn on the lights or the sound, it only knows how to turn on the USB port."
Don't worry: It's easy to get your phone out of that state with no ill effects.
Total Radio SilenceTo enter DFU mode, plug your iPhone in any power outlet or computer USB port. Then hold the power button. After three seconds, start holding the home button, too. Keep both buttons pressed for 10 seconds, then release the power button while continuing to hold the home button for another ten to fifteen seconds.
That intermediate step of holding the power button and the home button together, McDonald says, sends a "hardware reset" to the phone's power management unit that overrides any running software, including any malware designed to fake a shutdown. "It's a feature burned into the hardware," says David Wang, another iPhone hacker and member of the Evad3rs. "As far as I know, there's nothing that can stop that hard power-off."
If you've successfully entered DFU mode, the phone won't turn on when someone holds the power button, nor will it power up when the phone is plugged into a power source. With your phone in this temporary undead state, you can go about your private conversation with the closest thing possible to full assurance that your phone isn't listening. To power the phone back on, hold the the power button and home button together until the Apple logo appears.
Here's a video tutorial on putting your iPhone into DFU mode:
An easier way of entering complete shutdown, says Wang, is a straightforward hardware power-off—simply hold the home and power buttons simultaneously for 10 seconds without the DFU button sequence. "If the phone is in such a low-level state, I don't see how it's possible for anything to interact with the baseband," he says.
But McDonald cautions that unless you go into DFU mode, the phone partially reboots before turning off, as shown by the Apple logo appearing before the screen goes dark. During that brief window, the bootloader—a portion of the iPhone's software that loads before the operating system—awakes for a second or so, long enough that any highly advanced malware might be able to take over, spoof that dark screen shutdown and leave your phone vulnerable. "If you're going to be paranoid, you might as well be super paranoid," McDonald reasons.
Of course, McDonald and Wang both caution that if you enter DFU mode incorrectly—say, by screwing up the timing of the shutdown procedure—it's possible for malware to detect your intention and fake even that obscure state of semi-death. But if the button sequence is performed correctly, no malware will be able to override it. And even imagining malware clever enough to anticipate and impersonate DFU mode starts to stretch credibility, says McDonald. "At that point" he says, "you're talking about a countermeasure to a countermeasure to a countermeasure."
Countermeasures against countermeasures are exactly the stock-in-trade of the world's best hackers. But even paranoia has its limits. At some point, it may best to give up the game and leave the phone at home—or in the nearest fridge.


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Source: The Lost DiggersIn one of the greatest Australian historical discoveries for many years, around 3000 images of Australian diggers have been found in a farmhouse in France.
The glass negatives have been lying in a dusty attic in Vignacourt, two hours north of Paris, for the past 95 years. They were taken in 1916 in a village a day's march from the Western Front. The discovery was aired exclusively by Channel Seven's Sunday Night program tonight. The wonderfully informal and candid photos show the diggers relaxing with their mates, and people from the local village, away from the unspeakable horror they were facing in the trenches. Sunday Night has secured 500 of the negatives and are on the lookout for descendants of the men photographed. To view the collection and to see if you may be able to identify one of the soldiers, visit The Lost Diggers.
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After the chanting you then join hands in pouring the holy water from a small bottle into a bronze bowl that you give to the head Monk and will receive the holy water sprinkled lightly all over your body.You will then give the Monks simple offerings to be blessed, and prayers will be said for you and all your family and friends.
The Thai Wedding Ceremony includes beautiful traditional costumes, the blessings of revered monks, elegant dancers, musicians, elephants and several important rituals during which family members or friends will have an opportunity to take part (if it's just the two of you, no problem, our smiling staff will help out!). As you go through each step of the ceremony, our experienced Master of Ceremony will explain the symbolism behind the different rituals.
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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / NANY 2009 Release: Tree List« on: December 03, 2008, 07:42 AM »
NANY 2009 Entry Information
|Application Name
|Tree List
|Short Description
|Easily create hierarchical (tree-like) lists.
|Supported OSes
|Web Page
|Download Link
|Tree List.zip
Tree List is a minimalistic application for easily creating hierarchical (tree-like) lists. I find it's a good idea to break down tasks into manageable steps and sometimes break those steps down further. I wanted a quick and easy way to do this on my computer. Tree List is what I came up with.
- Create multiple lists.
- Quickly and easily access each list.
- Add items and sub-items to a list. Delete items.
- Plenty of Keyboard shortcuts.
- Tree List will always remember:
- The text of all items.
- The status (to do/done) of all items.
- The expanded/collapsed state of all items.
- The last selected item.
- Fully expand or collapse the tree.
- Filename validation
- Remember Maximized state
- Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste etc...
- Keyboard Shortcuts:
- Ctrl+Z: Undo
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01) Place Tree List.exe in its own folder. For example: C:\Program Files\Tree List\Tree List.exe
02) Create a shortcut to Tree List.exe on your Desktop, Quick Launch, Start Menu etc...
Using the Application
- Adding lists:
- Type a name, then press Enter or click Add List.
- Click Add List, type a name, then press Enter or click Add List again.
- Keyboard shortcuts:
- When the List is focused:
- Shift+Down - new Item.
- Shift+Right - new Sub-Item
- F2 - Edit the selected item.
- Shift+Delete: Delete the selected item.
- Ctrl+Arrow Keys: Move the selected Item and its Sub-Items.
- Space: Toggle the selected item's status.
- Tab: Focus the List Selector.
- When List Selector is focused:
- Up or Down: Load the next List.
- Enter:
- If it contains the name of an existing List: Load that list and focus the List.
- If it doesn't contain the name of an existing list: Create a List with that name and focus the List.
- When the List is focused:
Tree List doesn't add anything to your registry or create anything outside the folder it's in. If you want to get rid of everything, including your lists and settings, just delete the application's folder. Otherwise, you can choose to delete the application (Tree List.exe), your lists (*.xml files) and/or settings (Tree List.ini).
Known Issues
- Doesn't save properly occasionally.
Fixed Issues
- When you start typing a filename and an existing file is matched, the existing file is loaded and focus is switched to the list immediately. Unfortunately this sometimes gets in the way of specifying a name for a new file.
- Sometimes the wrong item is edited. - When using the keyboard shortcut Shift-Down to add an item, the item below the new item is changed to the text of the new item
- Probably accesses the hard disk a little too much, so you may experience performance problems if another application is accessing the hard disk at the same time.


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Rude awakening: 'Dad, Lethal wants $150 in cash'
Talk about a rude awakening: At 4am on May 23, Thomas Adkins' 19-year-old son woke him with a mixture of good, bad, and alarming news.
The good news was that although he had driven his pickup into a ditch, he hadn't been hurt, and AAA had sent a wrecker to extricate the truck. The bad news was that the driver had then demanded $150 in cash, which the son didn't have. The alarming news was that the driver, who was none too happy, was outside the house in his truck– in his Lethal Wrecker truck– and vowing to keep the pickup until payment was rendered.
Adkins told his son to go to bed, and, armed with his son's AAA card, went outside. There, he claims, he told the Lethal Driver that because his son had called AAA, he shouldn't have to pay. But the driver became "belligerent," according to Adkins, who then called the Albemarle County Police.
Adkins also called Lethal and claims that the dispatcher, Donielle Messner, told him he was "crazy" and that the son had called Lethal, not AAA.
When the police arrived, one of the officers, according to Adkins, stated that she "couldn't keep [the driver] from taking your vehicle." And so, because the Adkinses didn't have $150 in cash at 4:00 in the morning, the Lethal driver drove off with their pickup in tow.
Although Adkins claims the driver told him that he would be able to use a credit card when he went to Lethal's Avon Street office the next day, he says that when he got there, Messner declared, "We'll only take cash from you." He paid the $150 and left– and, later that day, gave me a call.
This is far from the first time I've received a complaint about Lethal. Because I've had trouble communicating with Messner and her boss, George Morris, in the past (the last time I tried to speak to Morris, Messner refused to let me and then threatened to sue if I didn't stop writing about them), I decided to send a fax. I asked two questions: "Did your driver in fact demand $150 from the Adkinses?" and "If so, since it was an AAA call, why?"
Messner called almost immediately and left a message saying that since Morris hadn't been "directly involved"– but she had– she would discuss the situation with me. Before I returned her call, I faxed a copy of a letter from AAA to Adkins in which they verified that the call had indeed been made to AAA and not to Lethal.
Messner told me that the only reason the driver had asked for the $150 was that Adkins' son had insisted that the driver tell him how much it would cost.
I asked why, when Adkins produced his son's AAA card and showed it to the driver– who remained in his truck– the driver continued to insist on payment. Messner's reply was that since the son wasn't present, there was no way for the driver to verify that the son was really the AAA member listed on the card.
Messner defends Lethal's handling of this situation in particular and her company's record of customer service in general: "We're in business to help people."
Last spring I wrote about a similar situation ["The drivable car: Lethal raises AAA eyebrows," May 9, 2003], in which Locust Avenue resident Downing Smith called AAA to have his ailing but drivable car towed to Herb Brown. When the driver demanded $80 and Smith refused to pay, pointing out that he had called AAA, the driver unloaded his car and drove off. Smith, like Adkins, called the police, but there was nothing they could do.
At the time, Randy Green, public relations manager for Mid-Atlantic AAA, stated unequivocally that Lethal was wrong to demand payment from a member– and yet, more than a year later, they're clearly still at it. AAA, meanwhile, has refunded Adkins his $150.
Green told me that AAA is now "in discussions" with Lethal as to their future as business partners. I won't have the results by press time– so watch this space next week.
Do you have a consumer problem or question? Email the Fearless Consumer, write her at 100 Second Street NW, 22902, or call 295-8700 ext. 406.


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I am a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM).
This means that I have met the academic and clinical requirements set forth by the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM).
At this time, NARM is the only recognized credentialing agency that requires training in out-of-hospital settings.
The NARM written exam is the requisite verification of knowledge recognized by the Medical Board of California for the midwifery license applicant.
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DAC Collection Artist Information
Giulio Romano
Italian painter and architect
Brief biography, in most instances from the Union List of Artist Names® Online:
Giulio Romano was probably apprenticed to Raphael when quite young, and by 1514 he is recorded as Raphael's assistant in the Vatican. His greatest achievements were monumental fresco cycles and architectural projects, which he conceived and oversaw. Giulio's contemporaries particularly praised the facility and inventiveness of his drawing. Most of his career was spent in Mantua, as court artist for Federico II Gonzaga.
Artist ID number in the Union List of Artist Names®: ULAN 500115304.
The ULAN link above leads to a cataloging authority record at the Getty Research Institute.
Objects related to Giulio Romano:
|Giorgio Ghisi, possibly after Giulio Romano
|Victory, 16th century (possibly restrike printed later)
|Engraving and etching on possibly 18th–19th century paper
|Master of the Die after Giulio Romano
|Apollo Killing the Python, 16th century
|Diana Scultori after a design by Giulio Romano after Raphael
|The Virgin and Child with the Archangels, Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael, ca. 1575-1577
|Master of the Die after a design by Raphael or Giulio Romano
|Sacrifice to Priapus, 16th century
|Anonymous after Giulio Romano
|The Prison, ca. 1535-1550
|Philip Galle after Giulio Romano
|The Death of Niobe's Children, 1557
|Master of the Die after Giulio Romano
|Cybele on her Chariot, 16th century
|Monogrammist L. D. after Giulio Romano
|Jupiter's Eagle Bringing Psyche Water from the River Styx, possibly 1540
|Etching on laid paper
|Giovanni Battista Scultori after Giulio Romano
|The Sea Battle, 1538
|Giorgio Ghisi after Giulio Romano
|The Wedding of Cupid and Psyche, ca. 1573-1574
|Engraving on laid paper
|Elisha Kirkall after Giulio Romano
|Christ and the Adulterous Woman, 1722
|Etching, mezzotint, and chiaroscuro tone block, printed in light brown ink on laid paper
|Marcantonio Raimondi after Giulio Romano
|Martha Leading Mary Magdalen to Christ, 1520-1525
|Engraving on laid paper
|Master of the Die after a design by Raphael or Giulio Romano
|Sacrifice to Priapus, 16th century
|Anonymous after Master of the Die, after a design by Raphael or Giulio Romano
|Sacrifice to Priapus, 16th century
ULAN biographical content is displayed with permission of the Getty Research Institute. Some ULAN content in some DAC artist records has been lightly edited. Content from the Getty Research Institute is © 2020 The J. Paul Getty Trust. All rights reserved.


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U.S. Army's 'Iron Man' Suit Coming Soon
The U.S. Military has recruited Hollywood prop makers and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. Their mission: Build a real Iron Man suit to protect America's elite fighting men and women.
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Remember when EAI vendors talked about the single EAI product that you'd need, the "central" broker that ruled everything? Remember when 3 years later you had three of these products in your system, sometimes from multiple vendors sometimes just different versions that don't play well together, and the toughest job was bridging the gaps between them? Now we have the "Enterprise" Service Bus, and yet again the vendors, including the old EAI vendors, are talking about how you only need "one" ESB which means the proprietary extensions they have and the lack of active process sharing and service definition standardisations don't matter either. This is another great example of an IT salami fraud where they are able to continually "tax" your future projects because they "own" the information. As with the EAI plan however this is just plain wrong and bonkers for companies to sign up for as it will never actually materialise.
Enterprise wide software always assumes that you've chosen the right product for today and tomorrow and that you will never have a merger or acquisition who has chosen something else. The only sensible strategy is to work on a federated model for ESB which means while you have a product that works today you should work on the assumtion that other products will be consuming its services in future. Enterprise wide single product standards in EAI didn't work, and they aren't going to work in ESB either.


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"No one can guarantee that your book will become a bestseller, but having Michael Drew as your promotional partner is like having Tiger Woods as your golf partner. Your chances of winning increase dramatically. There's no question in my mind that without Michael Drew I would never have become a Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestselling author. My advice to you is to sit up straight, steel your nerves, take a deep breath and call Michael Drew."
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"I asked Michael Drew to help me with promoting my book, Masters of Networking, and he comes up with a world record in book marketing! Because of Michael, we broke the world record for most book signings in more than one city on the same day (56 cities). He can out-brainstorm, he can out-manage, he can out-plan, and he can out-do anybody I know in book marketing.."
~ Ivan R. Misner
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"If you've authored a great book that deserves to be a bestseller, put Michael Drew on your team! What makes me so sure? My most recent book, Secrets of VITO: Think and Sell Like a CEO, was promoted to bestseller status with the help of his ideas his ideas, system and work!"
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"I've learned from my own experience with Michael Drew that he knows what he's doing in book marketing. He can show you how to promote your business book so it generates significant new action for your business, not to mention selling a trainload full of books in the process. Don't be stupid-call Michael up right now and get that bestseller status you've always wanted."
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"You can dream all you'd like about seeing your book and your name at the top of a bestseller list. You can write a fantastic book. You can scramble, bleed and beat yourself up marketing that book. None of that guarantees you'll make any bestseller list. Neither does hiring Michael Drew. But Secrets of the Millionaire Mind made it because of his help, as have dozens of his other authors. No amount of hard work or literary brilliance can replace Michael's insider's knowledge, connections and simple blood and sweat commitment. There seems to be a way to make a book successful, and evidently Michael Drew is one of the few who know the secret. Thank you Michael."
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A Swiss motorcyclist traveling through the countryside hoped to avoid a license suspension by slamming on the brakes as he approached a speed camera at over 68 mph. It worked... sort of. He was only traveling 66 mph when the device captured his body scraping across the asphalt.
Police think 38-year-old Boris Maier was aware of the driving ban that would follow if he was clocked doing over 68 mph in a 50 mph zone, and therefore "lost control as he tried to slow down."
When the camera did finally click his body — not the bike — was registered doing 66.49 mph. Meier only suffered a little road rash and a few bruises. The camera did catch his license plate so he was also fined.
Was it worth it, Boris?
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Remember Mo Farah? He won gold for Great Britain in the men's 5000m and 10000m races at the London Olympics, everyone in the UK totally freaked out, and then he ran away from some stuff.
Apparently, while doing all that, Farah found time to take an ice bath. eBay user rklassman had the good entrepreneurial sense to snap up water bottle full of what was left over, or pretend he did:
Buy at own risk.This is only water that I hope to have been scooped out of Mo Farah's ice bath and placed into this water bottle after his 2012 olympic win. Impossible to authenticate buy at own risk. Their was ice in the bottle but it has melted. My apologizes :(
The water bottle is all yours for only $1000. Luckily, the end of the bidding is 9 days away, so you have time to apply for a loan.
Water from Mo Farah's Ice Bath [eBay]
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THEY are the Capital's unsung heroes, who work tirelessly behind the scenes, often without the recognition they deserve.
But now, the Evening News has whittled down the city's bravest and best to just a few, from hundreds of inspirational entries nominated by the public.
Judges have today announced their shortlist for this year's Local Hero Awards and the finalists have been picked from 13 categories – including Inspirational Young Adult, Carer of the Year and School of the year.
Winners will be announced at a glittering awards ceremony in the Assembly Rooms on George Street, on Friday, May 27 – where more than 300 people will be in attendance.
Forth 1's Grant Stott will be hosting the event and guests will see performances from a variety of entertainment acts including choir Soul Nation and former Bay City Roller Alan Longmuir. Among those nominated are heroes who appeared in the Evening News earlier this year.
Just weeks ago, we told how Heather Duff, 29, ran the London Marathon after a gruelling battle with a rare form of cervical cancer. Doctors told the Edinburgh Leisure employee to prepare for the worst but Heather remained positive and beat the odds. She is now participating in fundraising activities to raise money for Cancer Research and has been nominated for our Bravery Award.
Heather said: "It's a huge honour to be shortlisted and completely unexpected – to be honest I don't even feel like I'm worthy of it.
"I do what I do because I enjoy it but it's absolutely wonderful to have been recognised."
Evening News deputy editor Euan McGrory said: "Being involved in the judging process for the Local Heroes awards has been a humbling experience.
"Everyone who was nominated deserves an award so those who have made our final shortlist should be very proud. Their achievements deserve to be shouted from the rooftops and I am delighted we can give these true local heroes a little of the recognition they so richly deserve."
TERRI SMITH: Dedicates her time to working with the city's most vulnerable people. In recent years she has taken time to befriend the elderly, feed the homeless and work with young immigrants and asylum seekers to help them fit into the city's communities.
EMMA SUTHERLAND: When her mum was diagnosed with breast cancer, Emma wrote a book about her experience to help other teenagers who were going through the same thing. She also volunteers for Its Good to Give and her local youth club. PAIGE PATERSON: After giving birth at a young age and experiencing difficulty, Paige has now turned her life around and is almost finished her first year at college. She has now been given a conditional offer to return for a more advanced course.
HEATHER DUFF: At the age of 27 Heather was diagnosed with a rare form of cervical cancer and was told by doctors to prepare for the worst. After beating the odds, Heather is now using her experience to help others by taking part in fundraising activities all over the country for Cancer Research.
ERIN GILBERTSON: At the age of 11 Erin was diagnosed with Hyper Mobility Syndrome after she underwent heart surgery. Despite her condition, Erin enjoys fundraising for charity.
LESLEY STEPHEN: Lesley was diagnosed with incurable breast cancer in 2014. Since then, she has been tirelessly campaigning for breast cancer research in Scotland to give women hope of a better future.
BATHGATE COMMUNITY FIRST RESPONDERS: A local group of volunteers who respond to 999 calls on behalf of the ambulance service in West Lothian. They fundraise to purchase their own equipment and dedicate their spare time to responding to life threatening calls.
EDINBURGH STREET ASSIST: Recently set up by volunteers of the local community, this group aims to look after people across the city on Friday and Saturday nights to ease the pressure on the ambulance service and A&E at the Royal infirmary.
JACQUELINE LAWSON: Jacqueline has put on the gala day in Wallyford for the last four years and runs the local playgroup. She keeps both going while having a full time job.
LOUISE WILSON and EMMA JAMIESON: The pair set up a young parents group in south Edinburgh but had to close it down due to a lack of funding. It was a group that was greatly appreciated by parents in the local area.
JUNO PERINATAL MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT: A group of volunteers who all have personal experience of perinatal mental health difficulties. They support mums through a counselling service.
BRYAN PATERSON: Headteacher at Trinity Academy. Nominated for his leadership of the school.
LYNSEY STEVENSON: Lasswade Primary School. Nominated for going above and beyond her call of duty to help pupils.
ABBY CHATHAM: Cornbank St James Primary School. Nominated for going above and beyond her call of duty to help pupils.
PETER ROBINSON: Since the death of his 14-year-old son in 2011, Peter has campaigned tirelessly to raise awareness of concussion in sport. He has met with politicians, sports executives and professional athletes.
ANGELA McCRIMMON: After battling with mental health problems and self harm for years, Angela has now transformed her life and is using her experience to help others.
JOHN MACAULAY: Dedicates hours of his time to volunteering for the Sick Kids Friends Foundation and runs local cancer charity FACE.
SHERYL STEWART: Both of her sons suffer from the same muscle wasting disease – Duchenne muscular dystrophy – and she cares for them full time. Despite having to watch her boys deteriorate on a daily basis, she always has a smile on her face and shows bravery.
JULIE WRIGHT: Julie has worked as a carer at Drummond Grange since 2004. She goes above and beyond her call of duty to get to know the people she is caring for and make them happy.
LYNN ATCHISON: Works in hospitals looking after the elderly and works in the community as a care worker for JB Agency. She was nominated for being a favourite of many of her patients.
IAN BROWNLEE: The founder of the City of Edinburgh Volleyball club which is now Scotland's largest club of this kind.
SPARTANS FOOTBALL ACADEMY: Spartans offer a range of free clubs for local children. Some of the kids go there instead of hanging around on the streets, and lots of the kids get extra education, meals and social education there.
PAUL MacGREGOR: Paul is a founder and the chairman of the Tranent and District community football club and Tranent and District community sports club.
LOVE OLIVER: Andy and Jennifer Gill's first son was born with a very rare and aggressive form of cancer and passed away on Christmas Day 2010. Since then, the couple have set up the charity and raised thousands for research into childhood cancer.
CRAIG CAMERON: Craig has dedicated a lot of his time to fundraising for Type 1 diabetes since his daughter was diagnosed with the condition.
LUKE ROBERTSON: Trekked to the South Pole on his own for charity.
FRAN GLEN: Gone above and beyond his call of duty to help his neighbour.
ELIZABETH MACLEOD: Helped out a neighbour significantly who suffers from dementia.
JIM LAING: Always willing to help out with neighbours' emergencies.
BROOKLYNE RANKINE: Taken part in various fundraising activities in aid of the CCLASP and Kai Laidlaw.
AMY DONALD: Amy is a pupil at Leith Academy and recently competed in the Youth & Philanthropy Initiative, working tirelessly with North Edinburgh Dementia care and won the competition.
GRACE WARNOCK: Grace is ten years old and suffers from Crohn's disease. She came up with the Grace's Sign initiative to help people with hidden conditions.
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Women's History Month Feature 2013
Elizabeth C. Quinlan House, Minneapolis, Minnesota
The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation's historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America's historic and archeological resources.
Elizabeth C. Quinlan House
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Completed in 1925, the Elizabeth C. Quinlan residence at 1711 Emerson Avenue South is located in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The house was created for Elizabeth C. Quinlan, who was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Company, which, in 1894, was the first woman's ready-to-wear shop west of the Mississippi River. Her highly successful department store, innovative practices and entrepreneurial work led her to become a leader of national recognition in the apparel industry and a pioneering business woman. Quinlan lived in the house from 1925 until her death in 1947. The house itself, designed by architect Frederick Lee Ackerman in the Renaissance Revival style, contains two living units, is three stories tall and built in an L-shaped plan (50 by 59.5 feet). Exhibiting many characteristics of the Renaissance Revival (or Mediterranean Revival) sub-genre of the Eclectic architectural styles, including stucco walls, terra cotta tile hipped roof, stone window trim, string courses, and quoins, classical embellishments, wrought iron interior and exterior details, and a courtyard patio with fountain, the Elizabeth C. Quinlan House was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on July 25, 2012.
Elizabeth C. Quinlan House
Photograph courtesy of the Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office
Elizabeth Quinlan was born in 1863, the daughter of working-class pioneers who settled on the banks of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. To help support her family, she began her 51-year career in the clothing industry in 1879 at the age of 16. Employed as a clerk by Goodfellow's Dry Goods Store in downtown Minneapolis, her starting salary was only $10 a week. By 1894, she became one of the company's top salespeople, earning a higher salary than any man working there.
With fellow employee Fred V. Young, Elizabeth Quinlan left Goodfellow's to form the first women's specialty store in Minneapolis. Before this time, women either made their dresses themselves or paid someone to make them. Despite the fact that she could not sew and had never made a dress in her life, Quinlan and her business partner opened their first store in the back of Vrooman's Glove Company (located at 514 Nicollet Avenue). At a luncheon in her honor years later, the Minneapolis Times (December 17, 1940) reported her saying, "in 1894 the Young-Quinlan store opened. It was not very large and in a few hours we were practically sold out. For a while we thought we might have to close, because of too much success."
Elizabeth C. Quinlan House
Photograph courtesy of the Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office
The popularity of the store among upper-middle class women quickly propelled the expansion of the store to larger quarters in the Syndicate Block Building. After her partner, Young, died in 1911, Quinlan bought her interest in the company and became the sole owner and president of the Young-Quinlan Company (Elizabeth Quinlan's sister, Annie Quinlan, ran the Young-Quinlan corset shop). For the next several years, the store and Elizabeth Quinlan flourished. AS the store's principal buyer, she traveled all over the world to keep current with fashions, particularly those in Paris, Florence and New York City. Despite her growing national reputation, she remained fiercely proud of Minneapolis. She received an offer to work in New York City for a salary of $50,000 annually-nearly double what Young-Quinlan Co. grossed. According to the December 14, 1937 edition of the Washington Post in a story titled "Elizabeth Quinlan's Career Stirs Admiration from East," Elizabeth Quinlan said that her decision to remain in Minneapolis was "the best day's work I ever did."
In 1926, Quinlan moved from her store site at 513 Nicollet Avenue to a five-story emporium for the Young-Quinlan Company at 901 Nicollet Avenue. The new building would advance both her business objectives and reflect her personal tastes---it was designed by Frederick L. Ackerman, the architect who had designed her home just two years before. The $1.25 million building was considered the largest women's specialty shop in the country. The Renaissance Revival style building featured limestone trim, buff brick, brass framed display windows, and an underground parking garage with direct elevator access to each shopping floor.
Throughout her life, Quinlan was an important player in national and local civic work and a supporter of charities and cultural groups. She founded the Business Women's Club in 1919, was an advisory board member for the Salvation Army, and served on the advisory board of the National Recovery Administration, a New Deal program that advocated raising the minimum wage, among other policies. As a side business, she became the director of a taxicab company because she wanted a safe taxi system for women and children.
Elizabeth C. Quinlan House
Photograph courtesy of the Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office
Quinlan retired in 1945 from her noteworthy career, selling the store to Chicago's Henry C. Lytton & Co. Through her career, her top professional tributes included a feature called "The Most Distinguished Business Women in the United States" in the March of Time documentary series sponsored by the Times Corporation (1927), and in 1935 she was described by Fortune magazine as one of the top 16 businesswomen in the United States.
Elizabeth Quinlan lived in her house with her sister Annie, who ran the corset department at her store. Elizabeth C. Quinlan died in 1947, leaving her assets to her nephew, William Lahiff, and eventually to the Elizabeth C. Quinlan Foundation, which continues as a legacy as her success. . Lahiff lived in the house until 1979, when he donated it to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. The Institute returned it to private ownership in 1981.
Excerpted from William E. Stark , William C. Quinlan House, NRHP Nomination, Minnesota SHPO, July 25, 2012.
NR documentation link http://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/weekly_features/2012/Quinlan.pdf


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Homemade chicken noodle soup is perfect on a cold day or when you're feeling a little under the weather. We have had a lot of appropriate days for it, so I put some together in a freezer bag meal. It is all ready to pull out of the freezer and throw in the slow cooker, but you do have one dry ingredient to add later in the day. Check out the recipe below.
- 1.5 lbs boneless skinless chicken thighs
- 1 medium onion chopped
- 2 cups carrots cut in bite size pieces
- 1 cup celery chopped
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 1 cup water
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp rosemary
- 1 tsp ginger
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 cups egg noodles
Tear apart the chicken thighs into smaller pieces.
Mix everything except the egg noodles into a doubled freezer bag.
Defrost in fridge for 24 hours before cooking.
Place in slow cooker and set to low for 8-10 hours cooking.
Add more chicken broth for a more "brothy" soup.
Add the egg noodles to the soup 30 minutes before serving.
We enjoyed this soup so much that we forgot to snap a picture, but I'm getting ready to make another batch so I will add a picture ASAP. Let me know if you try my recipe. I love to hear thoughts from my readers!


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The Most Quotable Movies of All Time
List Rules Quantity, not so much quality!
The most quotable movies of all time certainly rank among the best movies ever, but there's more than just cinematic excellence to take into account when picking the movies with the best quotes ever. The best quotable movies have one-liners that can be dropped in a variety of situations as well as thoughtful sentiments that relate to life in general. But one-liners, man, they sure do make a movie quote worthy.
"We're not worthy!"
"Stupid is as stupid does."
"I love lamp."
"I've got a beverage here!"
Many of these memorable movie quotes can be dropped into casual conversation and be immediately recognizable as coming from a popular film. Others like "they can't all be winners, kid" (it's on the greatest movie quotes list if you're stuck) are tougher to figure out, but come from movies as quotable as favorites like Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction.
What movies have the best quotes? What are the top quotable films? Where do the greatest film quotes come from? There are many films with a single movie quote that belongs among the most recognizable among pop culture while others are quotable throughout the movie's entire running time. This list of the most quotable movies has a mix of both. If your favorite movie with the greatest quotes is missing, make sure to add it to the greatest quotable movies list. To check out myriad other films with great quotes, visit Ranker's Movie Quotes section.


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Service learning is a type of experiential learning that engages students in service within the community as an integrated aspect of a course. Students participate in an organized service activity and reflect on that activity to gain further understanding of course content, a broader appreciation of the discipline, and an enhanced sense of personal values and civic responsibility. Within service learning, classroom studies complement service within the community and enable students to reflect upon and address local and national social problems. Service learning engages students in active, collaborative, and inquiry-based learning experiences that meet identified community needs. Service learning classes are offered in many departments and demonstrate the creative expertise of faculty committed to extending disciplinary work into local communities. Service learning not only changes the way students learn, but it changes society's view of education and service. In this sense, service learning is a philosophy of education and service to the community.
Service Learning is an academic program which enables students to perform meaningful community service related to their courses. Each semester, many professors at Marquette University offer their students a service option as a means to learn in practice what they are learning in theory in the classroom. Agencies and schools in the community benefit from the services provided by the students and become partners in their education as well. Service learning classes are offered in many departments and demonstrate the creative expertise of faculty committed to extending disciplinary work into local communities. Currently, approximately 1,200-1,300 students from 55-65 university courses are placed at 100-125 community agencies each semester.
Service Learning has been found to enhance the following (according to the accumulated research of Astin, Vogelgesang, Ikeda, & Yee, 2000; Eyler & Giles, 1999)


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Calvary Chapel is a non-denominational church that welcomes people from all backgrounds. We held our first Sunday morning service on December 26, 1999. We believe and teach that the Bible is God's Word and should be taken seriously. Calvary Chapel Aurora is a part of the Calvary Chapel family of churches.
Our Vision is Evangelism with a responsibility to...
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