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My story: I got married in 2002. It should have been a happy time, but a year before, my mother was assaulted by a man she'd been seeing. In the course of an argument, he'd shoved her and broken her neck, leaving her paralyzed from the chest down. I hadn't wanted her to visit him that day, and although I was pleased she was able to come to my wedding — making her wheelchair debut — I was filled with anger and fear and worry. Although the attack may not have been the direct cause of my weight gain, I'm sure, deep down, it led me to eat. The pounds piled on, especially after I had my daughters in 2005 and 2006, and my mother came to live with us. My weight climbed to 187 pounds.
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Click! As Christmas 2007 approached, I was making a family calendar when I came across a photo of me in a bathing suit taken on summer vacation. I was horrified and promptly deleted it. (Thank God for digital!) But I couldn't forget the image, so in January, when my best friend, Lindsay, invited me to a Weight Watchers meeting, I went. At first, I thought I wasn't going to go crazy trying to lose weight, but the meeting leader, Jan, was amazingly motivating, and I thought, I'm going to do this. I set my goal at 168, started counting points, and lost my first five pounds in three weeks. When I hit my target, I decided to keep going, and lost a total of 44 pounds. By September, when my husband brought my fall clothes up from the basement, nothing fit, and I had to buy all new outfits. It was fabulous!
The turnaround: As I got fit, my mother and I began to get along much better. Exercise eased my anger about the assault, and soon I was helping her work out, too, using resistance bands and weights to strengthen her upper body. My girls join us now, blasting music and dancing. In fact, it's changed how the whole family interacts. We used to watch TV together. Now my husband and I take the girls on hikes. I exercise eight to 10 hours a week, combining weights and cardio. I even ran a 10K race to celebrate my 30th birthday last July. When I'm training, and get tired and feel like quitting, I remember my mom in her wheelchair. I think how much she'd like to be able to run. It pushes me through that last mile.
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Courtney Dawson, 34, Shreveport, LA
Lbs. lost: 188
Current weight: 157 lbs.
Height: 5'8"
My story: Everyone in my family is heavy. We love our Southern cooking, junk food, and sweets — and we'll fry anything. As a result, I ballooned through my teens. I was over 300 pounds when I gave birth to my first son in 2002. After my second son was born in 2006, I weighed an unbelievable 345 pounds! My blood pressure spiked to 146/101, and my doctor wanted to put me on medication. I'm a single mother. I needed to take care of my boys, see them grow, but I just didn't want to take drugs. I begged the doctor to let me try to lower my pressure myself. He gave me a couple of weeks to start losing weight or, he warned, I'd have to take blood pressure pills.
The fight of my life: I started my diet by eating Lean Cuisine, drinking only water, and walking an hour a day. After two weeks, I'd lost six pounds, and a month later, I was down 20, and my blood pressure dropped to normal — 120/80. The doctor said OK, but if my blood pressure went back up, I'd have to take pills. At that point, I joined LA Weight Loss, which provided some variety in my meals and also helped me learn to eat in moderation. And I kept walking every day.
Health — and a new career: It took 18 months to lose all my weight. It was hard, but I feel great. I weigh less now than I did in sixth grade! My blood pressure is 110/74, and I never took medication. I love jeans and I feel great in them. More amazing, I feel I can do anything. I've been a blackjack dealer at the Boomtown Casino for 12 years, but since losing weight, I've been inspired to do more with my life, so I've gone back to school to study elementary education. My dream is to be a second grade teacher. Along with math and reading, I want to teach kids about a healthy lifestyle, so they don't end up like me. I'm already doing that with my sons, going to the park to practice soccer and basketball or play on the swings and slides. Being in school with two kids and working is daunting. I used to not follow through on things. But now I know if I lost all that weight, I can do this, too.
"I left an unfulfilling marriage"
Cathy Cox, 34, Delray Beach, FL
Lbs. lost: 118
Current weight: 135 lbs.
Height: 5'6"
My story: I was only 24 when the scale hit 253 pounds. As a graduate student in Atlanta, studying — ironically — public health, I tried fad diets, fat-burning pills, everything. Finally, I discovered eDiets, an online diet network. Following the group's low-fat, low-cal meal plan, I shaved off 30 pounds over the next couple of years. In 2003, I married a quiet, intense man, and for a while, I thought I was happy with our life. But my husband had terrible eating habits — he liked fried and processed foods — and wanted no part of the healthy dishes I'd try to serve. I became less conscientious about my own diet and, in a few months, was back up to 237. Panicked, I returned to eDiets and, in seven months, lost 27 pounds. Then I started hitting the gym, and slowly, I dropped more weight.
Breaking out: As I was getting thinner, I began to feel more confident. That's when my marriage went downhill. I wanted to do things, but my husband liked the little life we had created. Once, when we were visiting friends in California, I was eager to go to the beach — I'd never seen the Pacific. But my husband had no interest. He came along for 10 minutes, then returned to the hotel to watch TV. My life was changing physically and emotionally. In three years, I'd lost 100 pounds. But my husband and I had grown apart. I tried to get him to go to therapy, but he wouldn't, so eventually, I just packed a bag and left. I decided that as soon as we sold the house, I'd move to Florida. I'd always felt comfortable there when I visited, and I wanted a fresh start.
Life: part two: That's what I call my new existence. I bought a townhouse, have been dating, and have even changed careers. I no longer do research. Now I work for eDiets, the very company that helped me reinvent myself. I'm the success-story coordinator in Florida. I continued to lose weight and am also certified as a personal trainer. Me! Before, I couldn't run a mile. Now I've run five half marathons. And my new true love is power lifting. In January I deadlifted 303 pounds, and last year I set a record for my weight class. Sometimes I think, Who am I? How did I get here? But I know I've become the person I was always meant to be.
"I got out of a midlife slump"
Maria Kussmaul, 52, Weston, MA
Lbs. lost: 31
Current weight: 103 lbs.
Height: 5'1"
My story: Running has always been an essential part of my life. In 1996, I entered the Boston Marathon as a tribute to my first husband, a runner who had died. But running was also how I kept my sanity — and how I kept the pounds at bay. I never went above a size 6, even through three pregnancies. That ended in April 2006, when I developed severe hip pain, and an MRI seemed to indicate I'd worn away the cartilage in my hip. The doctors said, "Your running days are over." At the same time, my older son, who was in seventh grade, had to be hospitalized three times (he's fine now). Plus, I had two other children — a daughter, 15, and another son, 9. My business — a boutique investment bank I'd cofounded — picked up, requiring longer hours and more travel. My husband (I'd remarried in 1996) took over much of the grocery shopping, choosing a lot of packaged meals. Add the fact that I was entering menopause, and the combo was deadly: I gained 30 pounds in two years.
The aha! moment: I hated the way I looked and felt. None of my clothes fit, so I bought cheap replacements, thinking I'd only be that size temporarily. When the seasons rolled around and I was still that size, I thought I'd have to resign myself to being a "frumpy 50-something suburban mom." Then I met Susan Roberts, a nutrition professor from Tufts University, at a dinner. When she mentioned she'd written The Instinct Diet [now called The "I" Diet] and wanted to work with people who would try the plan, I thought, Here's my shot. On February 7, 2009, my birthday, I started.
Back on (the) track: I loaded up on high-fiber cereals, low-carb pitas. Once I settled into the program, I wasn't hungry, and I lost weight quickly. By summer, I'd dropped 31 pounds. Then I got the urge to try running again. My hip didn't flare up, so I stepped it up. Pretty soon, I was running 10 to 15 miles a week. I got that old feeling: "Oh, yeah, this is me." Doctors aren't sure why my hip healed — it might be it simply couldn't take the double burden of my weight and running, but once I was lighter, the pain disappeared. In September, I began training for my second Boston Marathon. Fourteen years ago, I ran it as a goodbye to my first husband. This time, it was about celebrating, giving thanks that I have my life back.
"I launched a new business"
Alicia Hunter, 42, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Lbs. lost: 56
Current weight: 104 lbs.
Height: 5'2"
My story: My weight began to creep up during my battle with infertility in my early 30s. I had a series of miscarriages, unsuccessful fertility treatments, and then — a miracle baby. He was a preemie, but healthy. At four weeks, though, he developed an infection, and on November 11, 2003, he died. As I mourned, I turned to food. I didn't care. I was in a fog. I was just going to wear big, high-waisted mom jeans. Who was going to criticize me? I'm only 5'2", but I got up to 160.
Turning point:After the baby's death, my husband and I adopted a son, Hayden, and then, two years later, I got pregnant and we were blessed with a daughter, Ashley. I finally had the family I always wanted. But I was still mourning the baby I'd lost, and my weight was making me miserable. One Sunday we were out on a boat with friends, and I felt like a whale next to the other wives in their bathing suits. I was fed up with the way I looked. More important, I felt I owed it to my son's memory to get past my grief and be a more alive mom, more confident, for Hayden and Ashley. The next day, I began a strict regimen, eating a healthy 100- to 200-calorie mini-meal (yogurt, turkey roll-up, salad) every two hours. And I ran on the treadmill. The weight came off steadily, and a little over a year later, I had dropped 56 pounds.
The beautiful payoff: In 2004, I'd taken a big risk and started my own business, a skin-care salon. I loved it, but I was self-conscious. You should look good when you're offering beauty services. As I lost weight, I felt better, and was so energized by my transformation that in March 2009 I became a certified weight-loss coach and added a diet-counseling component to my business. I've already had over 100 clients. I love it — I help them lose weight and I give them a makeover. I now guard my own weight loss like it's a newborn. I weigh myself every day. I keep a food journal. If I lick the knife while making my kid a peanut butter sandwich, I add that. I do Pilates three times a week. Losing weight brought me out of a very dark place, and I never want to go back there.
Annie Daly is a fourth-generation freelance journalist based in New York City. A former editor at SELF, Cosmopolitan, BuzzFeed Travel, Yahoo! Travel and Good Housekeeping, she has also written about wellness and travel for AFAR, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, Lonely Planet, Women's Health, and more. Destination Wellness is her first book.


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Proposed Modification of Class E Airspace; Chamberlain, SD, 36725-36726 [06-5732]Download as PDF
[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 124 (Wednesday, June 28, 2006)] [Proposed Rules] [Pages 36725-36726] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 06-5732] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 71 [Docket No. FAA-2006-24450; Airspace Docket No. 06-AGL-04] Proposed Modification of Class E Airspace; Chamberlain, SD AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT. ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: This document proposes to modify Class E airspace at Chamberlain, SD. Standard Instrument Approach Procedures have been developed for Chamberlain Municipal Airport, Chamberlain, SD. Controlled airspace extending upward from 700 feet or more above the surface of the earth is needed to contain aircraft executing these approaches. This action would increase the area of the existing controlled airspace for Chamberlain, SD. DATES: Comments must be received on or before August 20, 2006. ADDRESSES: Send comments on the proposal to the Docket Management System, U.S. Department of Transportation, Room Plaza 401, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590-0001. You must identify the docket Number FAA-2006-24450/Airspace Docket No. 06-AGL-04, at the beginning of your comments. You may also submit comments on the Internet at https://dms.dot.gov. You may review the public docket containing the proposal, any comments received, and any final disposition in person in the Dockets Office between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. The Docket Office (telephone 1-800-647-5527) is on the plaza level of the Department of Transportation NASSIF Building at the above address. An informal docket may also be examined during normal business hours at FAA Terminal Operations, Central Service Office, 2300 East Devon Avenue, Des Plaines, Illinois 60018. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steve Davis, FAA Terminal Operations, Central Service Office, Airspace and Procedures Branch, AGL-530, Federal Aviation Administration, 2300 East Devon Avenue, Des Plaines, Illinois 60018, telephone (847) 294-7131. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Comments Invited Interested parties are invited to participate in this proposed rulemaking by submitting such written data, views, or arguments as they may desire. Comments that provide the factual basis supporting the views and suggestions presented are particularly helpful in developing reasoned regulatory decisions on the proposal. Comments are specifically invited on the overall regulatory, aeronautical, economic, environmental, and energy-related aspects of the proposal. Communications should identify both docket numbers and be submitted in triplicate to the address listed above. Commenters wishing the FAA to acknowledge receipt of their comments on this document must submit with those comments a self-addressed, stamped postcard on which the following statement is made: ``Comments to Docket No. FAA-2006-24450/ Airspace Docket No. 06-AGL-04''. The postcard will be date/time stamped and returned to the commenter. All communications received on or before the specified closing date for comments will be considered before taking action on the proposed rule. The proposal contained in this action may be changed in light of comments received. All comments submitted will be available for examination in the Rules Docket, FAA, Great Lakes Region, Office of the Regional Counsel, 2300 East Devon Avenue, Des Plaines, Illinois, both before and after the closing date for comments. A report summarizing each substantive public contact with FAA personnel concerned with this rulemaking will be filed in the docket. Availability of NPRM's An electronic copy of this document may be downloaded through the Internet at https://dms.dot.gov. Recently published rulemaking documents can also be accessed through the FAA's Web page at https://www.faa.gov or the Superintendent of Document's Web page at https:// www.access.gpo.gov/nara. Additionally, any person may obtain a copy of this notice by submitting a request to the Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Air Traffic Airspace Management, ATA-400, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591, or by calling (202) 267-8783. Communications must identify both docket numbers for this notice. Persons interested in being placed on a mailing list for future NPRM's should contact the FAA's Office of Rulemaking, (202) 267-9677, to request a copy of Advisory Circular No. 11-2A, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Distribution System, which describes the application procedure. [[Page 36726]] The Proposal The FAA is considering an amendment to 14 CFR part 71 to modify Class E airspace at Chamberlain, SD, for Chamberlain Municipal Airport. Controlled airspace extending upward from 700 feet above the surface of the earth is needed to contain aircraft executing instrument approach procedures. Class E airspace areas extending upward from 700 feet above the surface of the earth are published in paragraph 6005 of FAA Order 7400.9N dated September 1, 2005, and effective September 16, 2005, which is incorporated by reference in 14 CFR 71.1. The Class E designations listed in this document would be removed subsequently in the Order. The FAA has determined that this proposed regulation only involves an establishment body of technical regulations for which frequent and routine amendments are necessary to keep them operationally current. Therefore this, proposed regulation--(1) Is not a ``significant regulatory action'' under Executive Order 12866; (2) is not a ``significant rule'' under DOT Regulatory Policies and Procedures (44 FR 11034; February 26, 1979); and (3) does not warrant preparation of a Regulatory Evaluation as the anticipated impact is so minimal. Since this is a routine matter that will only affect air traffic procedures and air navigation, it is certified that this proposed rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities under the criteria of the Regulatory Flexibility Act. List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 71 Airspace, Incorporation by reference, Navigation (air). The Proposed Amendment Accordingly, pursuant to the authority delegated to me, the Federal Aviation Administration proposes to amend 14 CFR part 71 as follows: PART 71--DESIGNATION OF CLASS A, CLASS B, CLASS C, CLASS D, AND CLASS E AIRSPACE AREAS; AIRWAYS; ROUTES; AND REPORTING POINTS 1. The authority citation for part 71 continues to read as follows: Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40103, 40113, 40120; E.O. 10854, 24 FR 9565, 3 CFR, 1959-1963 Comp., p. 389. Sec. 71.l [Amended] 2. The incorporation by reference in 14 CFR 71.1 of the Federal Aviation Administration Order 7400.9N, Airspace Designations and Reporting Points, dated September 1, 2005, and effective September 15, 2005, is amended as follows: Paragraph 6005 Class E airspace areas extending upward from 700 feet or more above the surface of the earth. * * * * * AGL SD E5 Chamberlain, SD [Revised] Chamberlain Municipal Airport, SD (Lat. 43[deg]45'58'' N., long. 99[deg]19'17'' W.) That airspace extending upward from 700 feet above the surface within a 6.4-mile radius of Chamberlain Municipal Airport. * * * * * Issued in Des Plaines, Illinois on June 8, 2006. John A. Clayborn, Acting Area Director, Central Terminal Operations. [FR Doc. 06-5732 Filed 6-27-06; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910-13-M
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Competency-based education focuses on learning, not teaching, and its approach is a fundamental tool in our model of integral formation, since it promotes knowledge, self-learning, formation of intellectual abilities and, above all, the formation of virtues and values.
The aim of the educational approach by competencies is that the student applies his knowledge, skills and attitudes in different learning contexts or environments. To accomplish this, different methodologies for learning are used, for example projects, problem-based learning, design of learning environments, case resolution, among others. In all of them, the active and proactive participation of the student is indispensable, because he must show the integration of intellectual, social, personal and emotional skills.
When we speak of competency-based education, we refer to the type of teaching that helps students think, in order for them to be people of good and consequently act not only in their own profit but also in the profit of others. We assume that learning is the main responsibility of the student. We focus on projecting the student as the main protagonist and as responsible for his own learning process, guided and motivated by a trainer who may impel him to give his maximum effort to develop his potential.
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EASTON, MD — We Are D3, a feature-length documentary produced and directed by independent filmmaker Kurt Kolaja and featuring the Washington College men's basketball team, premiered Saturday afternoon, September 21, at the Avalon Theatre in Easton as part of the 2013 Chesapeake Film Festival.
We Are D3 captures the essence of intercollegiate athletics at the Division III level while it follows the Washington College men's basketball team through its season. The film focuses heavily on Coach Rob Nugent and the seniors on the team, but also includes interviews with many others, including Director of Athletics Bryan Matthews, NCAA officials, a referee, parents of players, and the team's student manager.
In text that accompanies the film's trailer, Kolaja, who lives in Queen Anne's County, writes, "These student-athletes are not going to turn pro, they don't get on TV, they receive no scholarship money to play the game. They do it simply because they want to … After it is all said and done, they leave college with a diploma and enough memories to fill an arena."
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Dubai's police force is said to be the most progressive amongst the Arab countries, with officers getting the proper education in law during training and women making up over half the force.
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Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announces that it has filed lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey against Roxane Laboratories, Inc., ("Roxane"), and in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against Watson Laboratories, Inc., ("Watson"), respectively, for infringement of certain of Shire's VYVANSE patents.
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Under the Hatch-Waxman Act, the FDA must refrain from approving the Roxane and Watson ANDAs before August 23, 2014, or until a district court decision finding that the patents are invalid or not infringed, whichever occurs earlier.
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I will declare a conflict of interest here. During the first summer of my newspaper reporting life, I embarked on a project centred on writing about the challenges facing small-town Alberta, an eight-week "camping" trip in a VW van that produced a six-part series that I am proud of to this day. A good part of that research was spent in the near-desert of south-eastern Alberta — Cool Water is set just across the border in the near-desert country of Saskatchewan, between Swift Current and the Alberta border. And its central focus is the town of Juliet, a struggling settlement (much like so many of those that I visited more than 40 years ago), with its own problems, social hierarchy and cast of characters who could be found in equal measure at more than a dozen places along the Alberta-Saskatchewan border.
Consider, for example, Lee Torgeson, left as a foundling on a dryland farm doorstep, adopted as a "nephew" by Astrid and Lester, now dead, and, by default, heir to their land:
At the age of twenty-six, Lee knows he is capable, in theory at least, of managing the land he's inherited. The knowledge of his legacy is one he grew up with, and Lester prepared him well. But as darkness falls each night and bedtime looms, uneasiness settles over him, grows stronger as he climbs the stairs to the second storey where the bedrooms are. Astrid and Lester's room across the hall from his, their clothing removed from the dresser drawers with the help of neighbour women but their possessions still ordered with care on the closet shelves. The photographs still on the walls. The bed neatly made as though Astrid herself had tucked in the sheets. Their bedroom reminds him more than any other part of the house that he's alone.
Or how about Willard Shoenfield, operator of the Juliet movie drive-in. He has lived with his brother all his life, then with his brother's wife as well, and now he and Marian are what is left.
Okay, that sounds weird but remember in real life not so far up the road we have a landing pad for extra-terrastrial visitors (St. Paul), the world's largest Ukrainian easter egg (Vegreville) and countless other (equally non-successful) tourist attractions. Economic life in Juliet is tough: There isn't just the climate (drought and drifting sand), there are the day-to-day disasters (an escaped horse, a wandering herd of cattle, desecration of the "big rock" by teenagers with paint cans) and the need to find something different (the Oasis cafe owner is trying out a version of key lime pie, with some success).
Willard's most famous exploit was buying Antoinette the camel so he could sell camel rides to tourists passing through on the Number One Highway. He came up with the idea after he heard the provincial minister of tourism talk about the uniqueness of the Saskatchewan landscape and about how Americans were generally better than Canadians at recognizing potential gold mines in the tourist industry. Willard looked around. He saw sand. He bought a camel from a wild animal park in Alberta and painted a huge sign in the shape of a cactus, saying, SNAKE HILLS CAMEL RIDES: SEE THE DESERT THE WAY GOD MEANT YOU TO.
And contrasted to all this is history — not centuries, like in the United Kingdom, but rather decades. In Juliet's case, a horse race — a 100-mile challenge between the young buck, Ivan Dodge, and the old veteran, Henry Merchant. That was back before Juliet was founded (it was cattle country then) but is a foundation of the area history to this day. A version of that ride is one of the threads of the book.
I have only provided background on two of the central characters. Warren tells her story through alternating updates on a half-dozen — the town bank manager (with pregnant unmarried daughter), a near bankrupt farmer (with six kids), the local hairdresser and a passing-through divorcee who loses her horse are among the others.
The result is an entirely convincing picture of what is involved in a rural Western North American community, even at this point in the 21st century. Nothing dramatic (except of course for the individuals involved) happens in this book — for the individuals involved, everything that happens is dramatic.
I suspect that you might have to know this part of the world for this novel to succeed (Americans who know Montana, Idaho, Utah and Colorado, among other western states, will find familiar themes here). I do know and love this part of the world and the novel does succeed — it will not be to everyone's taste, but it is a valuable addition to my shelves. And if your curisoity is sparked at all, check out Hungry Like the Woolf's review of Who Has Seen The Wind for a similar novel written a half-century ago — not much has changed in the rural West, you will discover. And I am delighted that talented authors are still writing about it.


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Eggs Benedict relies on two tricky egg-based components—poached eggs and hollandaise sauce. If you follow our method for poaching eggs, the first part is easy. Adding vinegar to the water helps to set the whites and prevents feathery whites. Cracking the eggs into the teacups and gently sliding the eggs into the salted, acidulated water ensures they all go into the water at the same time—so they all are done at the same time.
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I can't believe this actually happened. The folks at Auto Buds can eat their heart out because we have a photograph of the rare example of two identical cars crashing into each other. And it happened in Dallas. You don't say...
According to our tipster Greg, who took this photo, the accident occurred last night. Here's his explanation for what happened:
Yes, the two women were the drivers. I thought it was pretty funny as I had never seen two of the same car hit each other). The Camaro on the left ran / didn't stop in time for the red light.
This photo might finally be proof that people who drive new yellow V6 Chevy Camaros in Dallas are the worst drivers in the world.


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KSP Update
Maui, Hawaii — February 1, 2012: Following a groundbreaking and highly successful inaugural season, which pushed competitive kite surfing to epic new heights, the KSP is pleased to announce its widely anticipated 2012 World Championship Kite Surfing Tour schedule.
Featuring world-class venues, the KSP Tour once again promises nothing short of the most phenomenal surf conditions for the world's kite surfing elite to battle it out over the coveted IKA-sanctioned World Championship title. All four Kite Surf Pro events will feature a 10-day holding period and a €15,000 prize purse.
The KSP Tour will kick off at Europe's kite surfing mecca, Guincho Beach in Cascais, Portugal, from June 1 to 10. The side-onshore wind conditions at Guincho's right-hand beach break will surely expose the progressive new school aerial movement, bringing it to the forefront of competitive kitesurfing for the world to witness.
Stop two will take the KSP back to 2011's kickoff location, Le Morne, Mauritius for the One Eye Pro, scheduled September 7 to 16. A long, left-hand reef break famous for its strong side-offshore winds and barreling, near-perfect, head-high to quadruple-overhead surf, One Eye will keep this year's crowd on edge, waiting to see what conditions it dishes up — especially after last year's jaw-dropping spectacle.
Next up, Europe's secret kite surfing jewel and home to one of the planet's biggest waves, Ireland. Running from October 19 to 28, Ireland's Kite Surf Pro will incorporate a unique mobile format, capable of showcasing each day's action at the choicest of locations on the country's wild and swell-abundant west coast.
Bringing the KSP's 2012 tour to a close, Maui's legendary North Shore will host the pinnacle of the Kite Surfing World Championship Tour — the Ho'okipa Kite Surf Pro — running November 29 to December 8. One of the world's most highly regarded wind and wave locations, Ho'okipa is generally reserved as a surfing and windsurfing only venue. The Ho'okipa Kite Surf Pro will mark the first-ever World Championship kite surf competition at the infamous Hawaiian reef break.
"I really don't think we could have wished for a better and more well-rounded tour for the 2012 season," says Tour President Kristin Boese. "It is going to be exciting to see which riders will do best in all the different conditions. We managed to meet the demand of the riders to add a side-onshore beach break to the calendar with the event in Guincho. We are just as excited about the Ireland event that is going to be a total box of chocolates with amazing potential. And Ho'okipa and One Eye are without a question two of the places that we had on our wish list from the very first talks about the tour."
"I am also really looking forward to working with our amazing group of local organizers that have already become such a strong part of the KSP," Boese continues. "We are all so excited to see what incredible treasures await us in 2012."
As reigning World Champions Airton Cozzolino (Italy/North Kiteboarding) and Ines Correia (Portugal) defend their titles amidst a field of 24 men and 12 women at each Kite Surf Pro event, an International Surfing Association-accredited panel of judges will once again score the year's next-level riding. With 20 countries represented on tour last year, 2012 will surely draw a wide range of talent from across the globe.
Featuring a live webcast with live scoring, 2012's Kite Surf Pro events will broadcast the heat-by-heat action around the world in real time. Additionally, the new season will also bring another round of Fantasy League, with some major prizes up for grabs.
For more information about the KSP World Championship Tour, please visit KSPworldtour.com or email [email protected] Follow the KSP on Facebook at facebook.com/KSPworldtour or on Twitter at twitter.com/KSPworldtour.
2012 KSP World Championship Tour Schedule
June 1 to 10 — Cascais, Portugal
September 7 to 16 — Le Morne, Mauritius
October 19 to 28 — West Coast, Ireland
November 29 to December 8 — Maui, Hawaii, USA
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Rare B-17 bomber makes appearance at Martin State Airport
Public able to tour aircraft starting on Saturday
The B-17 bomber and the crews that flew them are a part of American history. More than 67 years after World War II ended, only a few of these aircraft are still flying.
One of those aircraft that was in the movie "Memphis Belle" was at Martin State Airport on Monday as part of the Liberty Foundation Salute to Veterans.
"We're here to spread the history and the lessons that we learned from World War II and just to remind the public that this is what made this country great; all the things that came together to unify this county and in World War II and also to honor the veterans, especially those who are still living," pilot David Lyon said.
A radio operator during the war, 89-year-old Ken Hutcherson, who flew 26 missions over Germany, joined other members of the press during a flight.
"Planes got shot up," Hutcherson said. "We were extremely lucky. No one was injured."
Restoring the aircraft and flying them around the country is one way to keep American history alive and to honor men, like Hutcherson, who risked their lives for their country.
"On one mission on Feb. 10, 1944, there were 24 in our barracks when we left, and only six of us came back," Hutcherson remembered.
The public will be able to tour the B-17 starting Saturday.


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For almost 50 years Woody Allen has been making films that explore the existential despair that there is no greater meaning to life beyond immediate human experience and how we define ourselves. Another key theme running throughout Allen's films is how the management of this fragile state of despair can very easily result in comedy or tragedy depending on the circumstances and outcomes. In Blue Jasmine Allen once again explores these ideas, but with a rigor, sophistication and conviction that has not been present in his career since 2005's Match Point or even 1997's Deconstructing Harry. Added to the mix is a post-Global Financial Crisis exploration of class conflict, and notions of privilege and entitlement.
The film begins with a gag about Jasmine Francis (Cate Blanchett) who had been unloading intimate details of her life story to a complete stranger who had mistaken Jasmine's talking to herself as an invitation for a conversation. Through the awkward social encounter and following scenes it becomes apparent that Jasmine has left a privileged life in New York to move in with her sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins) who lives in San Francisco with her two children. A modern day incarnation of Blanche DuBois from Tennessee Williams's 1947 play A Streetcar Named Desire, Jasmine is a fading former socialite who is desperately clinging onto a sense of herself that no longer exists. She is both reliant on and resentful of Ginger's hospitality and attempts to help her.
Jasmine is so accustomed to wealth that she is indifferent to being waited on and has no concept of the value of money. Ginger, on the other hand, has lived a poor lifestyle throughout her adult life, where money is a constant concern. Neither Jasmine nor Ginger are happy with their current situation and both look for ways to become somebody else, but the results are mixed to the extent that by the time the film is coming to a conclusion, the scenario where Jasmine talks to herself in front of complete strangers becomes a moment of tragedy.
In his 2004 film Melinda and Melinda, Allen contrasts a comic telling of a story with a tragic telling of a story by showing two versions of the same story, but one to emphasise comedy and the other to emphasise tragedy. The thin line between comedy and tragedy has been an ongoing fascination for Allen and in Blue Jasmine he depicts this fragile line far more successfully and subtly than he did in Melinda and Melinda. Instead of the approach of defining specific scenes and characters as comic and others being tragic, Blue Jasmine shifts back and forth with impressive ease within scenes. Movements of genuine pathos transition into funny exchanges, without the pathos being compromised, and then back again. These smooth tonal shifts are a remarkable achievement and displays Allen's mastery over his material. It also significantly helps that all his actors, especially Blanchett and Hawkins, are similarly able to execute the delicate balancing act that is required.
Blue Jasmine also displays Allen's ongoing development as a filmmaker who for almost a decade has been making films in Europe, away from his beloved New York, the setting of so many of his most significant films. Blue Jasmine brings Allen back to the USA, but setting the film in San Francisco is a notable statement that distances Allen stylistically from his previous American New York-set films. Blue Jasmine even begins with a majestic shot of an airplane flying Jasmine from New York to San Francisco, visually affirming the transition. And while New York is still used as a setting in Blue Jasmine, it is a setting that only exists in the flashback scenes that depict Jasmine's previous life married to Hal Francis (Alec Baldwin) whose wealth was generated through crooked financial deals. New York is a city of the past and the setting of a lifestyle and version of reality built on fraud.
On the other hand, San Francisco is shot with far more long takes and camera movements than that which are typically used in Allen's films. There is also a lot of warm light and red tones, giving San Francisco the sensuality of the European cities of Allen's recent films, including Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), which like Blue Jasmine was shot by Spanish cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe. The San Francisco setting is also important since it is also the setting of Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo, which like Blue Jasmine is a film about a woman being rebuilt to conform to a romanticised ideal. Of course, the key difference is that in Vertigo the female reconstruction is done by the obsessive male protagonist, while in Blue Jasmine it is done by Jasmine to herself.
The sensual red and orange colour scheme used in so many of the San Francisco shots also allows for some interesting costume choices for Jasmine. In the New York flashbacks she predominantly wears white, suggesting a sense of emptiness or lack of passion. When in San Francisco she begins to wear more earthy colours to suggest at the least the potential for some kind of grounding. However, as her unrealistic ambitions start to crumble, she is drawn back into a world of white. First she reluctantly takes a job as a receptionist at a dentist office, where the colour scheme is clinical white, and then as she pretends to be an interior designer the spaces she is associated with are similarly characterised by white or dull colours.
The other key colour is the colour referenced in the title: blue. The absence of blue in the film indicates the full extent of Jasmine's self-delusion. She frequently mentions the song 'Blue Moon' being her and Hal's song. However, the audience never get any sense of the significance of this song other than Jasmine's increasingly unreliable statements, and the song appears in the film as if it is only something Jasmine hears. The constructed mythology of the song as integral to her sense of self ties in with her overall delusion, which includes turning a blind eye to Hal's criminal activities; like a gangster's wife she preferred to enjoy the benefits of his behaviour without any moral burden. And finally, not only is the 'blue' of the title absent within the film's production design, but the second element of the title – her name Jasmine – is also something she has constructed and not her real name.
The idea that the world of the film, as presented to the audience as Jasmine's idealised world, is built on absent foundations, then fuels the film's depiction of class differences. Like the couples in Roman Polanski's Carnage (2011), Jasmine and Ginger's arguments reflect class based resentments and conflict. However, the aspects that define the class differences are exposed as falsities. One of the falsities the film presents for why Jasmine enjoyed a life of privilege while Ginger remained poor includes Jasmine being genetically superior as they are both adopted so not birth sisters. Another suggestion, cruelly made by Jasmine, is that Ginger never worked hard enough, reflecting a popular piece of rhetoric used to justify social inequality.
The explanation for social inequality that Blue Jasmine ultimately presents is that it all comes down to luck, with a bit of ruthless opportunism to push things along. Jasmine's comfortable lifestyle in New York was the result of marrying Hal, with the opportunistic element being her blind eye to his fraudulent business dealings. An early irony from early in the film is the revelation that Ginger and her previous husband Augie (Andrew Dice Clay) also came into some money through the luck of winning the lottery. However, rather than using the money for Augie to start his own business, he and Ginger were convinced by Jasmine and Hal to let Hal invest it and therefore Augie and Ginger lose all the money when Hal is arrested and charged.
The arrogant belief in privileged entitlement and the naïve concept of the 'noble poor' are both exposed as forms of self-delusion that rely on tenuous concepts of class and wealth to define who we are. However, Blue Jasmine also suggests these forms of self-delusion are appealing because, in true Allen fashion, life is presented as essentially meaningless. Without the delusion of happiness for what we have got, we will fall into catatonic despair. This is both hilarious and deeply upsetting, and over the duration of Blue Jasmine the audience feels both sets of emotion, even within the same scenes. And while Jasmine is in so many ways an unlikeable character, Allen's writing and direction along with Blanchett performance make her continually sympathetic. Blue Jasmine is one of Allen's cleverest and most compassionate films, making it also one of his greatest.


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Mantis shrimp, the psychedelic reef-dwellers that can wallop their prey with an astounding 200 pounds of force, have a large collection of unique qualities. One is an unusually large number of photoreceptors, the light-sensing proteins that contribute to color vision. Humans have three types of color receptors, birds and reptiles have four, and mantis shrimp have an astounding 12 different kinds.
Each type of photoreceptor samples a small set of wavelengths in the color spectrum, but our vision demonstrates that just three or four channels are sufficient to distinguish between different hues even on a very fine scale. Why, then, would these creatures need 12 types of photoreceptors?
According to a new study in Science, mantis shrimp may use a vision system previously unknown to science. This key to this realization was the finding that despite having so many different photoreceptors, the animals have trouble distinguishing between similar colors.
If you're wondering how to determine whether an animal can discriminate between, say, burnt orange and dark yellow, you probably aren't alone. But it's surprisingly simple to test animals' color vision: just teach a bee, dog, or mantis shrimp that a specific color delivers a food reward, then offer that animal an array of colors to choose from. If the animal is capable of distinguishing between certain colors, it will approach the rewarding hue more often than would be expected by random chance.
The authors of the study used this time-tested method to determine the limits of mantis shrimps' color discrimination abilities. The shrimp were able to accurately distinguish between different colors of light when the wavelengths were between 50 and 100 nanometers apart. But when the colors were more similar—the wavelengths differed by just 12 to 25 nanometers—the shrimp's accuracy dropped to about 50 percent, or what would be expected if they were choosing randomly.
As a comparison, humans can distinguish between colors with wavelengths less than five nanometers apart. So the mantis shrimp's complex visual system clearly doesn't provide enhanced color discrimination abilities. Instead, its many photoreceptors may facilitate a completely different color vision system based on recognition rather than discrimination. Almost every animal on Earth—including humans—identifies colors by comparing the output of its various photoreceptors sequentially. The study's results suggest that mantis shrimp don't seem to be seeing color in the same way; instead, they appear to skip this time-consuming comparison step completely.
While the researchers aren't sure exactly what the shrimp are doing instead, it's possible that their visual system functions somewhat like a satellite sensor. The eyes of a mantis shrimp move independently—like chameleons' eyes—and are perched atop stalks on their heads. To see, the shrimp move their eyes across whatever they are looking at, scanning it sequentially with their visual cells.
The pattern created by this scan may allow shrimp to recognize color without a lengthy comparison process, cutting down on the time and the neural processing required by other systems. It's a process that could improve our own technology: think quicker CDs and DVDs or super-efficient bioinspired satellites.
So far, mantis shrimp are the only animals known to use this type of color vision, and the researchers believe that it may help these colorful crustaceans respond quickly to challenges they face in the vibrant coral reefs where they live. Mantis shrimp are ferocious fighters that rely on visual cues to figure out their next move; having a lightning-fast color recognition system with minimal neural processing might make the difference between giving and receiving that 200-pound wallop.
Science, 2014. DOI: 10.1126/science.1245824 (About DOIs).


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The iPad empowers students to create products within any subject context, physical space and even on the move. This is why the iPad is so important in transforming education into a genuine learning experience, not a knowledge absorption space. This well known Ken Robinson video has, for a while, indicated the importance of creative process in learning. Creating is important because during the process of creating something new, a student is:
- the owner of that process
- fully immersed in the experience
- genuinely engaged
- driven by and personally connected to the learning objectives
Under these four circumstances, you create truly life-long learners, who are intrinsically motivated by their own demands and ideas.
(picture via @gcouros)
Common misconception 1:
"My subject's not creative"
Many teachers do not see creative process as part of their subject. The factory based education system used throughout the 20th century, isolated subjects as disconnected silos of information and creativity was removed from most of these study areas and confined specifically to the arts subjects only. This is not how the real world operates and creative thoughts and processes are demanded in most, if not all industries. All subject areas within schools (while those areas still exist), must harness both the students' genuine will to create and the iPads power to enable this in so many forms and under so many circumstances.
Common misconception 2:
"I can't grade & compare different creative output styles"
What exactly does grading do for a student? It gives them a record of how they compare with their classmates or even national year-group. What does this positioning mean? … nothing! The minute you leave school you will be working and competing with different groups of people of various ages and your grade comparison becomes meaningless immediately. Yes, you looked amazing in your school when up against your fellow students performing standardised tests, but now you're suddenly struggling against people from different backgrounds and may even look quiet incompetent.
Students also become distracted from their learning when focusing purely on their grade comparison with their friends. This removes any interest in learning for the sake of bettering oneself and even engagement with the objective of the tasks. Students take shortcuts and do anything that would increase the grade regardless of the impact it might have on truly understanding concepts or not. Students also find it very difficult, if they can do it at all, to articulate what an A or a B means. The grades themselves are arbitrary and mean nothing in terms of personal achievement and only make the lower grade achievers give up on learning anything.
This UK BBC documentary, The Classroom Experiment, covered many common traditional teaching habits that actually do harm rather than good in education, including grades:
A shifting agenda
An increasing number of educators are agreeing that:
- Personal creative processes should replace fixed content delivery and
- meaningful comments from both peers and teachers should replace meaningless grades
The iPad is both a personal creative device and a great tool for collaboration and documenting discussion. This is the basis on why and roughly how schools should push forward with 1-to-1 iPad integration.


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Werner, Anton Alexander von
Werner, Anton Alexander von än´tôn älĕksän´dər fən vĕr´nər [key], 1843–1915, German historical painter, portraitist, and illustrator. He was director (1875–1915) of the Berlin Academy. In the Franco-Prussian War he accompanied the 3d Army Corps in an unofficial capacity as painter. Of this period are his portrait of von Moltke, In Quarters before Paris and Episode of War. His best-known illustrations are those for Scheffel's poems.
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