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Developers manual
Developing user software
OLPC ships user-level software primarily produced by external communities. We do also contribute to their development, but our contributions go "upstream" through their community rather than our own.
If you're looking to get involved in development of anything that the user sees, you should consult the developer documentation for the upstream project in question. For example, if you want to develop Sugar or a Sugar activity, see the Sugar developer resources. For the GNOME platform or applications, refer to the GNOME developer community.
Developing at the system level
If you're interested in developing OLPC software at the system-level, the important backend stuff that the user doesn't really see, you can find documentation here.
OLPC builds upon Fedora as much as possible - meaning that many system-level developments would be more appropriately done within the Fedora developer community, which will then be automatically included in OLPC's software at a later date.
- See the Contributors program page.
- Get familiar with the Python language. Much OLPC development happens in Python.
- If you're familiar with other aspects of the Developers/Stack, then you can focus on those aspects
- Sign up for the devel mailing list, become a lurker
- If you do IRC, join #olpc on irc.freenode.net, and #olpc-devel on irc.oftc.net
- See Developers/Getting Started for some suggestions on how to find a project
- Developers/Getting Started
- First steps: developer keys, getting connected with the community, finding a project, reporting bugs.
- Developers/Setup
- Indicates how you should configure your workstation for system-level OLPC development.
- Test Config Notes
- If you have an XO, this page has many useful configuration tips for testing your application.
- Developers/Stack
- Describes the choices of programming languages and "software stacks" for developing code on the OLPC. It details the base stack of hardware, firmware, operating system and the Sugar environment. It then gives options for programming in Python, Squeak, C/C++ and other languages or activities.
- Developers/Issues
- Describes the special considerations required for working on the OLPC project, particularly those driven by our target hardware and deployment environments
- Developers/Projects
- Suggests ways to choose a particular project, whether one that already exists, or one of your own, and how to start working on the project once you have chosen it
- Developers/Communication
- Describes the various support and communications channels used by the project, including how to get help with problems, and how to set up your own per-project communications channels
- Developers/Documentation
- Collects pointers to the various sources of documentation available for the project. Helping us better document our code is always a welcome contribution.
- Developers/FAQ
- Collects and attempts to answer common questions that developers have when working on the Sugar platform
- Developers/Fedora
- Discusses how to join the Fedora development community on top of which OLPC is based.
Release Schedule
See Release Process Home for discussion of how OLPC presently makes releases.


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I am a professional, G. I make art for a living.
I am a professional, G. I make art for a living.
I used a picture stolen from the internet as reference. He had rock star hair at the time. Cuda, do you still have that glorious coif?
That's pretty much exactly how I look unless I've gotten a fresh haircut. Although I wouldn't call it rock star hair - more like borderline bum.
Funny story, a couple of times I asked my 'boss' at Nissan if I should cut my hair to look more professional. He'd say no - he liked the bad boy James Hunt look. [Not that I look like him]
Nice. I thought this was going to be Cam's new garage thread.
If not James Hunt, perhaps somewhat...
Great caricature, BTW. My brother only did a few caricatures, not a major thing for him. Not professional. Was thinking he did one of my father, but realized, no, that was by someone else. FWIW.
Let's see. Someone once stated they could not stand David Hobbs. But I believe I am recalling from c.2000 "Malkie".
Actually, it seems my brother did make and post a number of line-drawing caricatures of rock stars
All drawn fairly quickly in ~2003. Some of the images are logos, etc. Hmm... Actual caricatures vary from cartoon to more elaborate.
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Can you own an idea?
In the lastest issue of Voices, the IATEFL newsletter, in a page of teaching ideas, there appears the following activity:
1.Teacher borrows a notepad from a student and draws 2 big rectangles.
2. Teacher imagines these are family photos and describes the people and the event.
3. Students draw 2 big rectangles on their notepad page.
4. They do step 2 with a partner or small group.
5. Report back to group about their partners' photos.
(Gobel, 2011, p. 11)
Nice activity. Except that, apart from one or two small details (only one rectangle, not two, and the fact that the teacher doesn't describe the 'photo' so much as invites questions about it), this is my idea. I happen to know it's my idea because, unusually, it came to me in a dream. (I swear!) I've never written it up, but I've often done it in Dogme-style workshops.
So what? No one owns an idea. Moreover, there's such a thing as synchronicity, when several people think of the same good idea at the same time. Maybe that's what happened. So I'm not losing sleep about losing ownership of my idea. But it has got me thinking.
Several years back I was at the other end of a more serious breach of 'intellectual ownership'. In a methodology book I wrote, I used a term that had recently been coined and popularised by an American academic of considerable repute. Not only did I use the term, I used it in the context of describing a view of linguistics that this writer herself had recently developed and was busily promoting. I felt it was right, therefore, to acknowledge her influence by putting her name at the head of the list of the people I wished to thank.
Imagine my surprise, however, when – having received a complimentary copy – the writer in question emailed me to express her (barely concealed) anger that I had not credited her sufficiently, particularly with regard to the term she had coined. My response – that my book, not being an academic text, was deliberately thin on referencing – didn't wash. "We are nothing if not our ideas, Scott," she wrote. After a hastily convened conference-call with my series editor and publisher, the aggrieved academic was somewhat mollified by the promise that – in the next edition – the wrong would be righted (a promise that was fulfilled, I might add).
"We are nothing if not our ideas". At the time I thought this was somewhat pious, pretentious even, or just plain sad. Having since spent time on the fringes of the US academic community, I now understand better where she was coming from. There is a very different professional culture operating there than, say, in Britain or Europe. It is both more competitive and more proprietorial. Ideas matter.
But for how long? On yet another occasion, I was taken to task by a reviewer of another of my books for not acknowledging the fact that one of the practice activities in that book had been invented by (the late) Donn Byrne, way back in the 1970s. I honestly didn't know.
But be reasonable: how long does an idea have to be around before it enters the popular domain? Does anyone have a patent out on Alibis, for example, or on dictogloss? Who owns running dictations? At what point can you safely stop referencing Stephen Krashen when you talk about comprehensible input, or Jerome Bruner when you talk about scaffolding?
Nevertheless, ideas do matter – some ideas, at least. I'm not going to lose sleep – as I say – about the holiday photos activity. But I did tick off a fellow blogger, a few months back, when he mentioned 'teaching unplugged' without attribution. And this – from a post on the Dogme discussion list last week – caused a brief but sharp spasm of wounded pride: "The founders, the producers, actually don't "own" this story [i.e. Dogme], this story is time-old: it belongs to life and language learning itself".
So much for one's precious ideas.
Gobel. G. 2011. 'Practical Teaching Ideas'. Voices, 223. Pewsey: IATEFL. p. 11.


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24 April 2017
In 2016 UNESCO has published the Teachers' Guide on the Prevention of Violent Extremism to help educators address the issue of violent extremism in classrooms. Now, in 2017, in response to the decision of UNESCO's Executive Board at its 197th session (197 EX/Dec46), a new guide Preventing Violent Extremism through Education has come out.This publication demonstrates to education professionals (policy-makers, teachers and various education stakeholders) how to confront violent extremism in today's society.
The guide explains violent extremism and what role education can play in preventing it, provides examples of pedagogies, policies and other effective approaches that might be used in addressing the challenges of extremism, defines methods of educating trainers and informing community, as well as specifies possible ways of cooperation with like-minded partners.
This publication has been developed under the supervision of Soo-Hyang Choi, Director of the Division for Inclusion, Peace and Sustainable Development, and Alexander Leicht, Chief of the Section of Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship, Education Sector, at UNESCO Headquarters.
Original language: English
Other available languages: French
Author: Davies, Lynn
Collation: 75
Publication year: 2017
Bibliographic reference
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Permanent link: http://en.unesco.kz/preventing-violent-extremism-through-education-a-guide-for-policy-makers


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- The college offers more than 100 degree programs, majors, and minors, including interdisciplinary studies and individualized planned programs.
- The college has special expertise in academic and career development and provides students with advising services.
- Arts and sciences students earned nearly $1.2 million last year during co-ops and internships.
- $500,000 is awarded annually in college scholarships.
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Five charged with underage drinking in Mount Pocono
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Five young adults were charged with underage drinking at 4 a.m. on Friday at the Quality Inn in Mount Pocono, Pocono Mountain Regional Police Department said. One was also charged with drug offenses.
Police were called to the hotel where they found empty bottles of vodka, marijuana and drug paraphernalia, the report said.
Xavier Rodriguez, 18, of Pocono Summit, was charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, and underage drinking. Police charged four people with underage drinking. They are: Edwin Acevado, 19, of Tobyhanna; Sarah Heinemann, 18, of Blakeslee; Sebastian Correa, 19, of Pocono Summit; and Shane Stark, 20, of Tobyhanna. Laura Lucas, 23, of Tobyhanna, was charged with disorderly conduct, police said.


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Three of the four Forbes India editors, who were forced out of the fortnightly business magazine allegedly for demanding that the promoters fulfill their contractual commitments on employee stock options (ESOPs), have shot off legal notices to Network 18 and Forbes Media, demanding immediate reinstatement and settlement of dues and damages for loss of livelihood, reputation and mental harassment.
Steve Forbes, the chairman and CEO of Forbes Media, and William Adamopoulos, CEO Asia of Forbes Media, have been named among the eight respondents, since Forbes India is a title licensed by the American parent organisation, Forbes.
The others named in the legal notice are Network 18 chief operating officer Ajay Chacko, editor-in-chief web and publishing R. Jagannathan, group HR director Shampa Kochhar, group general counsel Kshipra Jatana, and group CEO B. Sai Kumar.
Interestingly, neither Raghav Bahl, the controlling shareholder and managing director of Network 18, nor Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani, whose name was drawn into the controversy by the Bombay Press Club, have been named in the June 18 legal notice.
(Update: The managing director of Digital 18 Media is the chief recipient of the legal notice, which at this current time happens to be Raghav Bahl.)
The "termination" of services of Forbes India editor Indrajit Gupta, the "resignation" of managing editor Charles Assisi, director photography Dinesh Krishnan, and executive editor Shishir Prasad, was slammed by the Editors Guild of India as a move that cuts at the "very root of editorial independence".
While the first three have sent the legal notices, the fourth has chosen not to contest the case.
The notices are seen as the first step before a full-blown court case which would test human resource practices at one of India's largest media organisations.
The silence of the Press Council of India, created to preserve the freedom of the press and to maintain and improve the standards of newspapers and news agencies in the country, has been defeaning, given the demonstrated propensity of its chairman Justice Markandey Katju to intervene in public debates.
Also read: How the Forbes India editors were forced out
Bombay Press Club blasts Forbes India purge
Forbes purge is a freedom issue: Editors' Guild
External reading: Forbes will stick to its DNA: R. Jagannathan


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Former voice of TV's Elmo faces abuse suit in Pa.
NEW YORK - A man who initially recanted sex abuse allegations against the former puppeteer of the "Sesame Street" character Elmo has sued him, alleging the entertainer lured him into drug-fueled sex when he was 16.
"I was taken advantage of by someone a lot older, and manipulated," Sheldon Stephens, who's now 24, told a Manhattan news conference on Tuesday.
He said he had met puppeteer Kevin Clash at a networking event for models and actors, and was later brought by limousine from his home in Pennsylvania to a New York apartment. There, Stephens said, Clash smoked crystal meth while giving the teenager another recreational drug.
In a federal lawsuit filed Monday in Pennsylvania, Stephens accused the 52-year-old Clash of sexual battery for childhood sexual abuse; travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct; and coercion and enticement to sexual activity. Stephens is asking for unspecified damages and coverage of his legal expenses.
Clash's attorney, Michael Berger, said in a statement Tuesday that his client denies any wrongdoing. He said Stephens already admitted he had had an adult consensual relationship with Clash.
Three other men also are suing Clash, alleging underage sex. Clash resigned from "Sesame Street" in November.
Stephens first made the allegations last year. His lawyer, Jeff Herman, said Stephens recanted over the possibility of a settlement, but none was ever reached. Herman said his client would not discuss details of any possible agreement.
Stephens said at the news conference that he was 22 when the relationship ended. He said he only took action after watching "Sesame Street" with his young nieces.
"When I started to realize my nieces were idolizing this character, it just disgusted me inside because I knew what had happened to me," Stephens said.


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By Julia Edwards Ainsley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has won the first major battle in his war on illegal immigration, and he did it without building his wall.
The victory was announced last week by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which released figures showing a 93 percent drop since December of parents and children caught trying to cross the Mexico border illegally.
In December, 16,000 parents and children were apprehended; in March, a month in which immigration typically increases because of temperate weather, the number was just over 1,100.
It was a remarkable decline - steeper than the 72 percent drop in overall apprehensions - but for eight DHS officials interviewed by Reuters it was not surprising.
Trump has spoken about the need to crack down broadly on all illegal immigrants. But, internally, according to the DHS officials familiar with the department's strategy, his administration has focused on one immigrant group more than others: women with children, the fastest growing demographic of illegal immigrants. This planning has not been previously reported.
In the months since Trump's inauguration, DHS has rolled out a range of policies aimed at discouraging women from attempting to cross the border, including tougher initial hurdles for asylum claims and the threat of prosecuting parents if they hire smugglers to get their families across the border.
The department has also floated proposals such as separating women and children at the border.
DHS Secretary John Kelly told a Senate hearing on April 5 that the sharp drop in illegal immigration, especially among women and children, was due to Trump's tough policies.
To date, it has been the threat of new policies rather than their implementation that has suppressed family migration.
Mothers and children aren't being separated - and DHS has shelved the plan; parents haven't been prosecuted, and there is no wall along most of the border. Yet the number of migrants trying to cross – especially women and children – has dropped drastically.
Asked to comment on the policy of targeting women with children, DHS spokesman Jonathan Hoffman referenced the March drop, saying, "Those were 15,000 women and children who did not put themselves at risk of death and assault from smugglers to make the trip north."
The White House declined to comment and referred Reuters to DHS.
For months, Central Americans had heard about Trump's get-tough policies. And public service announcements on radio and television presented bleak pictures of what awaited those who traveled north. Some of the ads were funded by the United States, others by United Nations agencies and regional governments.
One radio ad in Honduras featured a mother, saying, "It's been a year and I don't know if she is alive or dead. I'd do anything to have her here with me. Curse the day I sent her north."
The possibility that mothers and children might be separated at the border caused particular alarm, Honduran Deputy Foreign Minister Maria Andrea Matamoros told Reuters
"That worries any mother that wants to go to the United States with their kid, and being separated drastically changes their plans," she said.
The policies targeting women and children have their roots in a working group consisting of Capitol Hill staffers and others called together by Trump's transition team in the weeks after the Nov. 8 election.
The group was asked to develop policies to discourage illegal border crossings and more quickly expel illegal immigrants after they crossed the border, according to two of the DHS officials and a congressional aide.
One goal was to help Trump fulfill a major campaign promise: ending so-called "catch and release," the practice of apprehending illegal immigrants but then freeing them to live in the United States while their asylum or deportation cases were resolved.
The group quickly identified a major obstacle - the large numbers of women and children continuing to cross the border, said the DHS officials and the aide.
Because a federal court ruling bars prolonged immigration detention of juveniles, the Obama administration generally released mothers and children to live in the United States while awaiting resolution of their asylum or deportation cases.
The incoming Trump administration viewed that policy as providing encouragement for women to make the dangerous journey north with their children in tow. But the new administration was bound by the same court ruling.
After Kelly's confirmation as Homeland Security chief in late January, several members of the original working group stepped into key roles at DHS. Gene Hamilton, who had worked for then Republican Senator Jeff Sessions, became senior counselor to Kelly, and Dimple Shah, who had been staff director of the House National Security Subcommittee, became deputy general counsel.
Kathy Nuebel-Kovarik, formerly a staffer for Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, became policy chief at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Julie Kirchner left her position as executive director of the conservative Federation for American Immigration Reform to become a top policy adviser at U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
None of the group's members agreed to be interviewed by Reuters. Several DHS officials said that in their new roles they continued to focus on the issue of women and child migrants.
Soon, they had the bare bones of a plan: Since the court ruling on children was an obstacle to prolonged detention, why not separate them from their mothers, sending children into foster care or protective federal custody while their mothers remained in detention centers, the two DHS officials and congressional aide said.
The group also advocated two other policies directly affecting mothers and children: raising the bar for asylum and prosecuting parents as human traffickers if they hired human smugglers.
The thinking was that "if they can just implement tough policies for eight weeks - or even threaten to do that - they would see the numbers of families crossing just plummet," said one DHS official familiar with the planning.
On Jan. 25, five days after taking office, Trump issued an executive order ending "catch and release." (A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said the agency still releases most women and children in compliance with the federal court order.)
A week later, in a town hall with U.S. Customs and Immigration Services officers, Chief Asylum Officer John Lafferty outlined the possibility of separating women and children in a semi-public setting for the first time, according to notes of the meeting seen by Reuters.
For more than a month after that meeting, the proposal did not leak, but after Reuters broke news of it in early March, Kelly confirmed that it was under consideration. Democratic members of Congress blasted the proposal, and within days it had made headlines across Mexico and Central America.
That month, the number of children traveling with guardians apprehended at the border fell to one-third of what it had been in February.
When Kelly and his advisers saw the numbers dropping, they announced they were shelving the idea of separating women and children – at least for now.
Asked whether it may be revived, DHS spokeswoman Jenny Burke said, "Families caught crossing the border illegally, generally will not be separated unless the situation at the time requires it."
(Reporting by Julia Edwards Ainsley in Washington, Gabriel Stargardter and Sofia Menchu in Mexico City, Gustavo Palencia in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Nelson Renteria in San Salvador; Editing by Sue Horton and Ross Colvin)
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As the fifth episode of "The Ultimate Fighter: Live" opens, we get a quick recap of the previous week's episode, which included the first victory for Urijah Faber's team. We're also reminded of the journey of Team Faber's Mike Chiesa, who dealt with the loss of his father and now prepares to fight this week against Team Cruz's Jeremy Larsen.
Coach Dominick Cruz and UFC president Dana White each admit Myles Jury lost the previous week's fight by not pushing forward in a sudden-victory round, when the fight was truly on the line. Still, Faber is happy for Al Iaquinta, and the taped content shows a jubilant squad celebrating in the locker room.
Cruz's team takes the loss hard, especially Jury, but their head coach tries to keep the crew in good spirits. Looking to this week's fight, Cruz turns to Sam Sicilia, who trains with Chiesa outside of the house. Sicilia doesn't seem comfortable with that, even as Cruz says he and training partner Mike Easton would be happy to fight if they ever had to.
Back at the house, Chiesa says he doesn't think his friend will turn on him, and Sicilia confirms that he won't. Chiesa is angered that Cruz would even try to get intel, and both fighters insist their friendship comes first.
Back at training, Cruz is still pressing for information. Sicilia is still reluctant to talk, despite Cruz's pushing. Sicilia seems to come around a little bit, but he won't break.
Cruz decides to work hands on with Larsen to prepare for the fight. Larsen then gets a little coaching from Cruz as he preps for what he admits he wants to turn into a standup war.
After a commercial break, Chris Tickle reveals he has an injury, which could include gout. Tickle is receiving treatment for the injury, and Cruz pulls him into the locker room to ask whether it's going to be an issue that forced him out of the show. Tickle is upset that Cruz is questioning him and says he'll be fine. Cruz wants to make sure there's still no going less than 100 percent, despite his condition.
It's then back to training for Team Faber, and the coach reveals the key to Chiesa winning his fight is getting the action to the floor. His long frame is a key asset on the floor, according to Faber, and Chiesa insists he's moved past the loss of his father and now just wants to make him proud with a solid performance.
After another commercial, it's a quick look into the locker rooms, where the guys are getting taped up and ready for tonight's fight.
Back to taped content, and Tickle is again complaining. This time, it's his stomach. Cruz is quickly tiring of the constant complaints and says Tickle is holding himself back. Cruz thinks he has the talent to win the show but is not necessarily willing to make the sacrifices. But for now, it's on to Larsen, who looks focused and ready. Cruz reveals he's known Larsen since childhood and has all the toughness and durability needed to win. Assistant coach Ross Pearson confirms the assessment.
After a commercial, Tickle is at the doctor, and as it turns out, he doesn't have gout. His toe injury is apparently healing. After the quick update, it's time for weigh-ins, where Faber makes light of Cruz's new tennis shoes. Larsen makes weight at 154 pounds, and Chiesa is official at 155.5 pounds. Both fighters are confident and ready, and after a spirited staredown, it's time to fight.
Round 1 – Referee Steve Mazzagatti in charge. Stats reveal Chiesa has a six-and-a-half inch reach advantage. He stays outside early but dives in for a takedown at the first chance. Larsen defends early, but Chiesa brings it down with a second effort. Chiesa takes top position as Larsen scrambles underneath. Larsen makes it back to his feet and spins off the cage. Chiesa uses his height to score inside with knees to the jaw before they finally break away. Chiesa slips on the restart, but he's quickly back inside and working for a takedown. He wraps the body and lands a big slam, again getting top position. Larsen looks for options from his back, but Chiesa is smothering. Chiesa sets up a choke, and Larsen drops to a knee. Chiesa fires in an illegal knee. It costs him a point, which could be huge. Larsen looks to have recovered after a short break. The round ends shortly after, and with the deduction, MMAjunkie.com scores it even at 9-9.
Round 2 – Punches traded by both to open, but Chiesa again is quickly inside. Larsen defends well and stays upright. Larsen seems to have some momentum, and he breaks away and looks to trade. Chiesa continues to close the distance and look for a takedown. He finally gets it two minutes in. Larsen is right in front of his coaches, and the walk him through an escape to the feet. But Chiesa is relentless and gets the fight down again. He doesn't do much with the position, and Larsen finally escapes again. Both fighters look tired, but they swing away for a moment. Larsen is connecting better in the exchanges, but Chiesa has earned the takedown. Close fight going into final minute. Chiesa closes in a transitions to the back. He falls to the floor and pulls Larsen down. Chiesa immediately secures the back and looks for the choke. It doesn't com, but the final sequence may have won him the round and the fight. Larsen rises like he may have won, but MMAjunkie.com scores the final round for Chiesa, 10-9, giving him the fight 19-18. Judges agree.
Mike Chiesa def. Jermey Larsen via unanimous decision.
Chiesa expresses his love for his mom, and Team Faber is now back even at 2-2 through four fights. The next fight is up, and Faber takes his own Joe Proctor to face Team Cruz's Chris Tickle.
(Pictured: Mike Chiesa)
Catch new episodes of "The Ultimate Fighter: Live" every Friday at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT on FX. MMAjunkie.com recaps each episode of the reality series, and full series coverage can be found on "The Ultimate Fighter: Live" page.


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WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Black men living in U.S. areas where there is low sunlight are more than three times more likely than white men to have vitamin D deficiency, researchers say.
Dr. Adam Murphy, a clinical instructor in urology at Northwestern University Feinberg School in Chicago and a physician at Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, said vitamin D deficiency causes brittle bones and has been linked to prostate cancer, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis.
In African-American men, the increased melanin in darker skin blocks the ultraviolet rays necessary for the body to produce the vitamin and it might require as much as six times more sun exposure than Caucasian men need to produce adequate vitamin D levels.
The Institute of Medicine recommends adults and children take 600 International Units of vitamin D daily, but Murphy said that's way too low.
African-American men living in Chicago would need to take nearly 2,500 International Units of vitamin D to reach normal, healthy levels, Murphy said.
"It takes a dark-skinned male like myself 90 minutes three times a week to absorb enough sunlight to produce the recommended amount of vitamin D compared to just 15 minutes three times a week for a Caucasian male," he said.
The degrees to which African-American men need to increase their vitamin D supplementation likely varies depending on how sunny the area is and how long people spend outside.
The findings were presented at the American Association of Cancer Researchers Health Disparities Conference in Washington.


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PITTSBURGH -- Happy quarterback, happy team?
Somewhere between that ugly December day in Dallas and Tuesday morning, Ben Roethlisberger decided he liked the Pittsburgh Steelers' offense. The skepticism is gone, the sometimes-churlish remove has left and the Steelers, in their second week of organized team activities, can definitely sense it.
"You can tell out here in practice," center Maurkice Pouncey said. "With Ben taking that bigger role, it's going to be a lot of help to us."
By "bigger role," he means "ownership." Roethlisberger spoke last week about a collective, from coordinator Todd Haley to assistants and players, tweaking the offense. Tuesday, running back Jonathan Dwyer said it was No. 7 who had very real input, who met repeatedly with Haley, who talked through what could work that didn't last year and who now "has a lot more power." Roethlisberger, in typical fashion, said "No," when asked if he could detail his input or the changes -- but he smiled when he said it.
And he did offer this: "We're growing and we're learning and we're communicating. This year, more of us know what's going on, so we can coach each other up instead of always having questions, going to coaches to get answers."
For all of his crazy dynamism and all of his successes, Roethlisberger has never been a film-room rat in the mold of the Manning brothers or Tom Brady. When Haley came in last year, replacing Roethlisberger's buddy Bruce Arians, there was an obvious -- and occasionally cringe-worthy -- feeling-out period. Fast-forward a year, and there were Haley and Roethlisberger, after practice broke up, talking casually on the fields behind the Steelers' facility, loose and -- gasp -- smiling.
Dwyer said there's a better relationship there. Pouncey agreed. And for as much as receiver Emmanuel Sanders likes to maintain that the Haley-Roethlisberger disconnect was a media fabrication, even he acknowledged there's a different vibe this year.
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"They've grown to know each other, their families and things of that sort, so of course they've grown to get comfortable with each other," Sanders said.
The net result of that and of the time invested in meetings, Sanders said, is Haley giving Roethlisberger more control at the line of scrimmage. Roethlisberger won't be calling his own game, but he has more leeway in making check-downs and hot reads -- things he wasn't doing much of last year.
"Coach Haley came last year, and they were trying to get acclimated," Sanders said. "Coach Haley didn't know him and he didn't know Coach Haley. The more and more comfortable they get, the more and more control he's going to give Ben."
And so, there is a spring in the start of the Steelers' spring. A year after managing the 21st-best offense in the NFL, Pittsburgh is installing some outside zone, aiming to stretch the width of the field and open up those cutback lanes for backs. As for the length of the field, sure, the Steelers' biggest playmaker went off to join the Dolphins in Miami (where he's still speaking without thinking and then taking to Twitter to take it back). But for as blazingly fast as Mike Wallace is, these Steelers have speed, too. And Sanders, flush with confidence after the Steelers matched the Patriots' offer to him, was unapologetic about it.
"I ran a 4.3, Antonio Brown ran a 4.3, (rookie Markus) Wheaton ran a 4.3," Sanders said, ticking off 40-yard dash times. "We all can run, we all can stretch the field."
Roethlisberger lobbied to keep Sanders when the Patriots tried poaching him. And Tuesday, Plaxico Burress similarly threw his faith behind Brown, boldly saying the 24-year-old "can be one of the most feared receivers in the league this year."
Most everyone likes their team in May. Yet Burress was so convincing when he called tough veteran Jerricho Cotchery "Mr. Consistency" and then promised that the Steelers have everything they'll need on the receiving end in-house already.
Of course, sometimes a quarterback can make a superstar receiver. (See: Annual leading wideouts for Brady, Tom or Manning, Eli.) And a happy quarterback definitely can make happy teammates.


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Project Vapor Trail Gear Swap - Gear Drive
PVT Gains Ratio And Grip While Losing Reciprocating Mass
It's been popular to add gears to Mustangs since the dawn of time. Gears are usually one of the first performance modifications because they make an instant impact in the way the car feels. Sure the right gear makes the car quicker, but it's the seat of the pants that really makes the gear swap one of the most popular Mustang mods.
I really don't know why I waited so long. I guess I had some vague, silly concerns about noise and gas mileage. Could a 700-rwhp GT500 really need gears?
As it turns out, yes it does. Sure the car never had a problem getting out of its own way, but the addition of gears makes dealing with the GT500's naturally tricky clutch engagement much easier. Moreover, the 3.73s keep the car in the happy place of its powerband at all times, and the highway cruising speed is only up a couple hundred rpm. Ultimately, mileage seems to only have suffered marginally. Moreover, the car simply feels snappier and more responsive, and that's what it's all about.
While PVT was under the knife, it was a good time to add some complementary hardware. I opted for a diff girdle from FRPP, a Torsen T2 differential from FRPP, an aluminum driveshaft from Axle Exchange, and a driveshaft safety loop from BMR. To make it all happen, I carted the parts over to ProFab Performance, where renowned gear setup expert Dave Piercey worked his magic with a perfect, noise-free install.
Follow along with the captions to see how Dave brought PVT's driveline up to snuff with its other mods.
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Today we celebrated going live with IPV6 versions of many of our top rated sites. The work was done in advance of our participation in the IPV6 Launch Day. For the uninitiated, IPv6 Launch Day is the date where major sites will begin to have their websites publicly available in the new Internet numbering scheme and is currently set for June 6, 2012. As many of you likely know the IPv4 space which has served the Internet so well since its inception is running out of unique addresses. I am especially proud of the fact that we are the first of the largest Internet players to achieve this unique feat. In fact three of our sites occupy slots in the Top 25 Sites in the ranking including www.aol.com, www.engadget.com, and www.mapquest.com. As with all things there are some interesting caveats. For example – Google is IPv6 enabled for some ISPs, but not all. I am specifically highlighting global availability.
The journey has been an interesting one and there are many lessons learned going through these exercises. In many conversations on this topic with other large firms exploring making this move, I often hear how difficult this process appears to be and a general reluctance to even begin. Like the old saying goes even the longest journey begins with the first step.
This work was far from easy and our internal team had some great learnings in our efforts to take our sites live beginning with the World IPV6 day in 2011. Although our overall traffic levels remain pretty tiny (sustained about 4-5Mb/s) it is likely to grow as more ISPs convert their infrastructure to IPv6.
Perhaps the most significant thing I would like to share is that while migrating to the numbering system – I was very pleased to find the number of options available to companies in staging their moves to the IPv6. Companies have a host of options available to them outside of an outright full scale renumbering of their networks. There are IPv4 to IPv6 Gateways, capabilities already built into your existing routing and switching equipment that could ease the way, and even some capabilities in external service providers like Akamai that could help ease your adoption into the new space. Eventually everything will need to get migrated and you will need to have a comprehensive plan to get you there, but its nice to know that firms have a bunch of options available to assist in this technical journey.


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So you want to Join the Cavalry ?
Great !! We invite you to speak to or email our recruiting officer Lieutenant Kevin Wright, who will be more than glad to tell you about the 3rd Tennessee Cavalry Regiment.
One of the best ways to see if this exciting hobby is for you, is to come out to one our Re Enactments and meet all of us and our Mounts. This is a great opportunity to see what your getting into and to just sit around the fire after a good day and swap stories and dreams of Civil War Re enacting.
In this way you get to have a small taste of the reasons we are all involved and see first hand what is in store for you when you become a member.
Now before we get to far you should know that this hobby that we all cherish starts out with a bit of expense and a little hard work. The biggest expense is just getting started after that it is not bad at all. Now various members of our company do have some loaner gear to help get the serious recruit who is diligently acquiring their gear. (Please remember the adage" Bring it back in as good or better condition than when you got it"). Now don't get overwhelmed here for most people it takes a year or two to get equipped.. The good news is that once you are equipped (providing you bought good equipment) it will last for years and years. In this hobby before you buy ask one of our senior members, this will help you buy quality equipment, and keep you from buying things you do not need.
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Wood on Words: Do you recall the many meanings of 'recall'?
"I don't recall." "I do not recall." "I just don't recall."
Then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales wasn't the first government official to have severe memory problems, nor was he the last. But he certainly set the bar fairly high in an appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee in April 2007.
Illinois voters don't recall, either — yet. But they will be able to if enough of them vote in favor of a November 2010 ballot measure approved this year by the General Assembly.
As you may recall from your civics classes, that kind of "recall" is one of the three "direct democracy" procedures available to voters in some states. The other two are "initiative" (which allows the voters to introduce a law) and "referendum" (in which a proposed law goes before the voters for approval).
Webster's defines "recall" as "the process of removing, or right to remove, an official from office by popular vote."
Illinois would become only the 19th state to grant such a right. It could be used to remove governors only. And, of course, the process would be extremely complicated and open to abuse — just like government itself.
As a verb, this form of recall is the fourth of Webster's five definitions. It's also usually pronounced with the emphasis on the first syllable and giving it the "long e" sound.
The first definition is "to call back or order to return; specifically, to ask purchasers to return (an imperfect or dangerous product), often so that a manufacturing defect can be corrected." Such recalls happen rather frequently these days.
The third definition is a more general version of this idea: "to take back; cancel; annul; revoke; withdraw."
The other two apply to what Gonzales was having trouble with:
Definition No. 2 — "to bring back to mind; remember."
Definition No. 5 — "to bring (the mind, attention, etc.) back, as to the immediate situation."
So "recall" can be a synonym for "remember." So can "recollect," which Gonzales also used a number of times that day: "I have no recollection," "I don't have any recollection."
I don't mean to be picking on him. I have my share of memory problems, too; but I try to at least write things down when I know they're important. Of course, I'm not worried about someone
else seeing what I've written.
Anyway, "recollect" as a transitive verb has just two, similar definitions: "to call back to mind; recall; remember, especially with some effort" and "to recall to (oneself) something temporarily forgotten."
Language experts will focus on that phrase "especially with some effort" to insist on shades of difference between "recollect" and "remember." This distinction is explained by Bryan A. Garner in "Garner's Modern American Usage":
"To 'remember' is to retrieve what is ready at hand in one's memory.
"To 'recollect' is to find something stored further back in the mind."
I can relate. I seem to remember certain kinds of things — usually the trivial stuff — better than other kinds — often the really important stuff.
I can't recall an appropriate example at the moment — I'm sure I wrote it down somewhere.
Contact Barry Wood firstname.lastname@example.com or read his blog atblogs.e-rockford.com/woodonwords/.


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Last minute shoppers went to the wire in search of a deal
PANAMA CITY — Like students cramming for a test, parents hit the stores in the final hours before Christmas, snapping up last-minutes gifts.
Julie Morales, 20, was buying for her 18-month-old son — anything fun and age-appropriate would do. She'd already picked up several items including a toy vacuum that shot out plastic balls.
"He likes anything loud, messy and makes a lot of noise," Morales said.
She and her mother strolled through Target with their cart on part of a multi-part spree that included several stores. Walmart, Kmart and Toys 'R' Us were the others.
The Panama City resident picked out a batch of Santa specialties. She hadn't been shopping during the past few weeks, and the goal was to knock it all out in the final hours. She'd put it off hoping to find last-minute deals.
"Everything's marked down, and you get more spending less," the Panama City resident said.
Morales said the undertaking was nerve wracking, particularly with other shoppers around, scurrying to find their gifts, but she was holding it together.
Morales said this was the first Christmas her son would really be able to enjoy the holiday. Last year, at only six months, he didn't know what was going on, but this year he'll wake up and see his gifts.
"We're not even going to wrap anything; we're just going to put it under the tree that way when he gets up it's like — Bam," Morales said.
"Like Santa Claus has been there," said her mother Stepheine Lawrence, 43.
A few aisles over, Max Havel, 35, was shopping for his son. He too was trying to knock out his gift buying in one fell swoop. He'd already collected a Nerf gun, skateboard and basketball for his five-year-old boy, as well as the new Superman movie "Man of Steel." Asked why he waited until the Dec. 23 to do his shopping, he said, "I'm lazy."
He's also a school teacher, and Monday was his first day off.
"This is it; I'm here getting my toys and — go," the Panama City Beach resident said.
Liz Bennett, meanwhile, took the electronics route for her last-minute purchases. She'd loaded her arms with speakers and was standing in line at Best Buy. She too had her eye on deals and said she was holding off on shopping until the last minute to see what would happen to the prices.
"And they are on sale, so I got lucky here," the Panama City Beach resident said of the speakers.
She added: "It was on the Christmas list, so I knew I could find them, but … I just had to wait until the last minute to get the best price," she said.
Though the store was abuzz with shoppers, she had no problem locating the items and was thrilled by how easy how her gift-buying quest was on her shopping list was.
"It all worked out; it's been perfect," Bennett said.
Across the parking lot at the mall, a different sort of last-minute shopping was going on — one where the recipient would help make the choice in person. When Reveca Cornejo, 24, got married, she said her ring wasn't very nice, so now her husband, Wuilson Portillo, 34, wanted to give her an upgrade for Christmas.
Due to illness, they hadn't been able to get out, but now they were feeling better and she was ready — with kids in tow — to make her selection. The couple huddled over the glass case at Sears, talking with the sales associate, trying to settle on the right symbol for their love.
"He just said, 'Let's go ahead and get it," Cornejo said.


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Paula Vogel, Greg Pierce et al. Set for Vineyard's Paula Vogel Playwriting Award Luncheon with Linda Lavin 6/21
Best Actress Tony nominee Linda Lavin will be joined by an array of notable playwrights, directors and actors -- Vineyard Theatre artists all -- when she hosts The Vineyard's 5th annual luncheon presentation of the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award to emerging playwright Erika Sheffer (RUSSIAN TRANSPORT), on Thursday, June 21 (12 p.m. – 2 p.m.) at the National Arts Club (15 Gramercy Park South) in Manhattan.
Along with Ms. Lavin -- a 2012 Best Actress Tony Award nominee and Obie Award winner for Nicky Silver's comedy THE LYONS, which had its world-premiere at The Vineyard last fall -- luncheon attendees will include the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel along with playwrights Greg Pierce (THE LANDING) and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (NEIGHBORS), actors Judy Kuhn (ELI'S COMIN'), Colman Domingo and Sharon Washington (both of THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS) and Li Jun Li and Matt Dellapina (both of OUTSIDE PEOPLE), joined by directors Terry Kinney (AFTER ASHLEY) and Anne Kauffman (GOD'S EAR). Also attending will be Vineyard Theatre Artistic Director Douglas Aibel, Co-Artistic Director Sarah Stern, Executive Producer Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell and Managing Director Rebecca Habel.
Tickets ($250) are available to mingle and dine with Vineyard artists in the intimate and beautiful setting of the National Arts Club by contacting Veronica Bainbridge at 212 353 3366 ext. 242 or via email at email@example.com.
Named in honor of playwright and teacher Paula Vogel -- whose plays THE LONG CHRISTMAS RIDE HOME and HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE (Pulitzer Prize for Drama) debuted at the Vineyard -- the Paula Vogel Award is presented annually by The Vineyard to an emerging playwright of exceptional promise. The residency-based award comes with a cash prize and artistic development support over the 2012-13 season.
Proceeds from the luncheon benefit The Vineyard's artistic and education programs. The Paula Vogel Playwriting Award is made possible through the generosity of the Tournesol Project.
Erika Sheffer's first play, RUSSIAN TRANSPORT received its world premiere at The New Group in January 2012, directed by Scott Elliott. The play was nominated for the John Gassner Award by the Outer Critics Circle, which is presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright. Her work has been read at Naked Angels, Primary Stages, The Woodshed Collective and Personal Space Theatrics. She has performed original pieces at Upright Citizens Brigade and Dixon Place. Ms. Sheffer received a fellowship from SPACE on Ryder Farm to develop her newest play and is an alum of The Movement Theater Company's New Works/Moving Up Writers Group. Selected acting credits include RED LIGHT WINTER directed by Adam Rapp, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, directed by Mark Lamos, as well as several productions for The Folger and The American Shakespeare Center. Ms. Sheffer holds a B.F.A. in Drama from Syracuse University.
The Paula Vogel Award's first recipient was playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, whose play WIG OUT! was a popular and critical success when it debuted at The Vineyard in 2008. Rajiv Joseph, author of the play BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO last season on Broadway, was the Paula Vogel Award's second recipient, followed by Kara Lee Corthron in 2010, author of the play ETCHED IN SKIN ON A SUNLIT NIGHT and JULIUS BY DESIGN. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, author of the play NEIGHBORS and an adaptation of THE OCTAROON, was last year's recipient.
When the Paula Vogel Award was established, Ms. Vogel said, "They say a person is judged by the company he or she keeps, and I am so honored by my association with the Vineyard Theatre -- they are a company I always want to keep. I am doubly honored: honored by having the award in my name from The Vineyard, and honored to be blessing a new generation of rising playwrights. The Vineyard fulfills the promise of its name: in planting the seeds of new plays, we as audiences reap the harvest."
Paula Vogel's long and cherished relationship with the Vineyard began with the theatre's acclaimed production of HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE, directed by Mark Brokaw; the play won the Pulitzer Prize, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards for Best Play. THE LONG CHRISTMAS RIDE HOME, also directed by Mark Brokaw, premiered at The Vineyard in 2001. Ms. Vogel's other plays include THE BALTIMORE WALTZ, THE MINEOLA TWINS, THE OLDEST PROFESSION, HOT N THROBBING and A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS.
One of the nation's leading non-profit theatre companies dedicated to new plays and musicals and bold programming, The Vineyard has consistently premiered provocative, groundbreaking works including the Pulitzer Prize-winning production of Edward Albee's THREE TALL WOMEN, Nicky Silver's PTERODACTYLS and RAISED IN CAPTIVITY, the Laura Nyro musical ELI'S COMIN', Gina Gionfriddo's AFTER ASHLEY, Tarell Alvin McCraney´s WIG OUT!, The Civilians' THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY, A BOY AND HIS SOUL, written and performed by Colman Domingo, Adam Rapp´s THE METAL CHILDREN, Will Eno's MIDDLETOWN and Christopher Shinn's PICKED. This season, The Vineyard has premiered Nicky Silver's THE LYONS with Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa, Zayd Dohrn's OUTSIDE PEOPLE and NOW. HERE. THIS. by the cast/creators of [title of show]. Most recently, The Vineyard presented a developmental lab production of the new musical THE LANDING with music by John Kander and book and lyrics by Greg Pierce.
The Vineyard produced the world premiere of the musical THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS – with music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb, book by David Thompson, with direction and choreography Susan Stroman – in March 2010 at The Vineyard and then on Broadway. Vineyard Theatre is a recipient of the Tony Award for the musical AVENUE Q and continues as producer of the musical´s current production at New World Stages in New York. The Vineyard also produced the musical [title of show] both off and on Broadway and is represented on Broadway this season with its production of THE LYONS at the Cort Theatre.
In addition to its Tony Award nomination and the Obie Award for Ms. Lavin, THE LYONS received 3 Outer Critics Circle Award nominations, two Drama Desk Award nominations and two Drama League Award nominations, along with 5 Best of Off-Broadway TINA Awards: Vineyard Theatre Best Season (Non-Profit), Best Off-Broadway Play THE LYONS, Best Actress Play Linda Lavin, Best Lighting Design NOW. HERE. THIS. Jeff Croiter and Grant Yeager; Best Long-Running Off-Broadway Show AVENUE Q.
For more information, visit www.vineyardtheatre.org.


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Beer-lovers are finding a new way to explore the burgeoning craft-brewing world in the U.S.: On bicycles.
From Oregon to New Mexico to Vermont, beer aficionados can now hop on a bike and be led from one brewery to another. After sampling the latest microbrew, they can then pedal away all those extra calories.
The tours, which range from a few hours to several days, offer a chance to meet other travellers, learn about the local culture, and, of course, sample some great beer. And each tour has a different strategy for preventing biking under the influence, from limiting tastes to four ounces and providing a back-up van, to saving the swigs for the end of the trip.
Heather Wess Arnold and her husband Josh, owners of Routes Bicycle Rentals & Tours in Albuquerque, New Mexico, took their love for beer and biking and combined them in a tour in April.
"We were expecting it to be mostly tourists, but it's also been a lot of locals," she said.
Novice riders will appreciate the bicycle-friendly paths, lanes, roads with light traffic. Beer-lovers can enjoy visits to at least three breweries. The $45 tours, rental included, are offered the third Sunday of each month.
Every three months, the tour is changed, so people can learn about new neighbourhoods and new beers. The three-and-a-half to four-hour tours cover 10 to 15 miles.
Along the way, bikers learn about the history of brewing in Albuquerque, some local trivia and are given backroom tours of the breweries, led by the master brewers. Some of the spots even let bikers participate in the process; they can add the hops or stir the mash.
There are three to four tastings, of 4 ounces each, at the breweries. Plenty of water is served. Wess Arnold says the tour spreads out the drinking to keep bikers under the legal limits of driving — um, biking — while under the influence. A vehicle follows the group in case anyone becomes too impaired to bike.
"So far that hasn't had to happen," she said.
The vehicle also offers a way for bikers to transport any six-packs or growlers of beer, T-shirts and pint glasses without worrying about juggling the souvenirs on the bikes.
For those looking for a bit more of a challenge, Sojourn Bicycle Vacations offers a Vermont Bike & Brew tour. The six-day, five-night trip is geared toward more avid cyclists, who ride 50 miles a day, and it includes many hills.
"It just combines some great riding and some of the world's best craft breweries," said Susan Rand, president of the company. "We do more riding than drinking."
The group stops at seven breweries along the way, but also ends each day with some local beers out of a cooler. One night, there is a private chef's beer-pairing dinner led by the brewmaster from Otter Creek Brewing.
The 18-person trip, which goes for $2,195 per person, covers the rural back roads of Vermont.
Bob Gross, 63, and his wife Cyndy, 54, were on the first tour last summer. They've done wine bike tours, but thought it was time to learn more about beer. More than 20 years ago, she bought him a home brewers kit and he's been hooked ever since.
"I like specialty beers. love micro-brewers," he said. "All our bike trips gravitate toward alcohol."
She loves Michelob Ultra, but went along on the trip since they bike together two to three times a week.
"The cool thing about the trip: you got to meet the brew masters. You learn a lot about the business," he said.
As for getting drunk while biking, he said, "You're just really sipping a very small amount."
Most of the drinking happens at the end of the day.
Mount Major Adventures offers customized Vermont Bike and Brewery tours that visit more than a dozen breweries in the state over a four-to-eight-day period.
Too exhausted to think about that much biking? Well, there are plenty of other day trips out there including those offered since 2008 by Cycle Portland Bike Tours in Oregon.
Owner Evan Ross sums up the tours as a great way to "work off some calories and build up some thirst."
The group visits three breweries over three hours and then ends in the bike shop where there is a keg of beer from another local brewery. Like all of the tours, Ross tends to change the beers with the seasons and his tastes.
The $40-tour used to include alcohol, but Ross said "people got too wasted." Now, participants purchase drinks à la carte along the way. This way, no one feels like the need to finish every beer to get their money's worth.
Other companies around the U.S. offer similar trips. These include Beer & Bike Tours in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Motor City Bike & Brew Tours in Detroit, which focus on the city's brewing revitalization as well as sites from the Prohibition era.
Just the Facts
ROUTES BICYCLE RENTALS & TOURS: Albuquerque, N.M., Bikes & Brews, http://routesrentals.com/
SOJOURN BICYCLING VACATIONS: Vermont Bike & Brew, http://www.GoSojourn.com
MOUNT MAJOR ADVENTURES: Vermont Bike and Brewery, http://www.mountmajor.com/
CYCLE PORTLAND BIKE TOURS: Portland, Ore., Breweries by Bike, http://www.portlandbicycletours.com
BEER & BIKE TOURS: Fort Collins, Colo., http://beerandbiketours.com/
MOTOR CITY BIKE & BREW TOURS: Detroit, http://motorcitybrewtours.com/bike-tours.html


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Plant lovers who had some natural plants in their home may have experienced the seasonal change problem. During the transition of seasons, your plants may start to shed their leaves or change their appearance all-together. Naturally, this seasonal change has an impact on your interior too! Fortunately, you can easily eliminate the problem by replacing them with some artificial plants once your natural plants should be replaced.
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When you have some natural plants in your home, moving them is not always that evident. Moving natural plants could cause damage to the plant itself, so most people often find themselves leaving the plant as it is without being happy with it. Fortunately, an artificial plant does not provide you with this problem, since you can put it in a different plant pot or location whenever you please!
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Wrestling: 11 locals advance to Section 1 semifinals today
Eleven Dutchess County high school wrestlers advanced to today's Section 1 Division I semifinals at Clarkstown South High School.
The semifinals are scheduled for 9:30 a.m., with the finals to follow at 12:30 p.m.
John Jay had four wrestlers — Randy Earl (106 pounds), Jay Albis (113), Grant Frederick (138) and Brett Perry (182) — reach today's action by getting through the first two rounds at Arlington on Saturday.
Albis picked up his 100th career victory in the quarterfinals.
"We were expecting to see Jay, Grant and Brett in the semifinals,'' John Jay coach Jamie Weaver said.
"Randy was relentless and did not stop. His heart is so huge and he wanted to get through (to today).''
Arlington and Roy C. Ketcham each have three wrestlers competing at Clarkstown South. The Admirals had Alfredo Olmedo (99), Brady Robin (113) and Mike Peterson (160) advance.
"I think they all have a good chance (to win),'' Arlington coach Fred Perry said. "They've gotten better throughout the season, and they are peaking at the right time.''
Danny Murphy (145), Dom Emery (195) and Murphy Wilson (220) are representing Ketcham in the semifinals.
Beacon's Andrew Grella needed a combined 57 seconds to pin his two opponents to advance to the semifinals.
A year ago, 15 mid-Hudson Valley wrestlers reached the state tournament, including a pair of Section 1 Division I champions, Dale White (160) and Perry (170), and 10 Section 9 Division II champions.
White and Perry were John Jay's first sectional wrestling champions since 2007.
This year's Section 9 Division II tournament will be held today at Bard College in Annandale, with finals scheduled to begin at 6:45 p.m.


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Oct. 18, 2006 — -- Before dinosaurs and birds came on the scene, dragonflies were king, with wingspans of about two and a half feet. That was 300 million years ago, during the late Paleozoic period.
Despite all the changes that have taken place since then, dragonflies are still around. Fortunately, they're much smaller.
For more than a decade now, scientists have been trying to figure out why the giant insects that roamed the planet so long ago are all gone, replaced by the smaller ones we see today. Predation by the first birds? Perhaps.
But new research suggests that the answer lies in the air, and if we could somehow tweak the atmosphere and pump up the oxygen, those big babies could be back.
The late Paleozoic was a time of huge trees, and giant ferns, many of which became buried in the soil, forming future hydrocarbon deposits, says Jon Harrison, an environmental physiologist at Arizona State University in Tempe and the principal investigator in an experiment described recently during a meeting of the American Physiological Society.
Through photosynthesis, the lush flora changed the chemical composition of the air, boosting the level of oxygen to 35 percent compared to 21 percent now.
Scientists have speculated for a while that more oxygen led to larger insects, and Harrison and colleagues at Argonne National Laboratory and Midwestern University, Glendale, Ariz., wanted to find out if that was indeed the case.
They centered their research on a fundamental difference between humans and insects. We have one trachea, the breathing tube that extends down into the lungs, which allows oxygen to be absorbed into the blood steam and carried to other parts of the body. Insects have many tracheal tubes that carry oxygen directly to all areas of their bodies.
If oxygen plays a role in limiting the size of insects, the scientists reasoned, then larger insects must dedicate a greater proportion of their bodies to the tracheal system.
"We picked a nice range of beetles so we could get a good idea of what the tracheal system looks like inside of them," says Alexander Kaiser of Midwestern University, lead author of the report. The four species of beetles are all members of the same family, and range in size from about 1.5 inches to a tenth of an inch.
"We took the beetles to the Argonne National Lab and put the live animals under the x-ray beam," he says. "We took video sequences and x-ray images of the live beetles, then we went back to Tempe and sat down at a computer and measured the tracheal volume, the dimensions of the structures."
They found that the larger beetles had to devote a greater proportion of their body mass -- up to 20 percent more -- to the tracheal system than the smaller beetles. It's the proportion of tracheal system to body mass that matters because as the insect grows larger, it must devote more and more of its resources to maintain a tracheal system that is robust enough to deliver enough oxygen to the body's tissues.
What that means, the scientists say, is the size of the tracheal system makes it possible for some insects to get bigger, but it also limits the maximum size.
"The finding that larger insects have to invest more in their tracheal system as they get bigger is sort of a method to limit the maximum size of insects," Harrison says.
More time at the computer led to this conclusion. A beetle can get no bigger than about six inches. And as it turns out, that's about the size of the largest known beetle, the Titanic longhorn beetle, Titanus giganteus, of South America.
If oxygen is the key, does it determine the size of insects over succeeding generations?
To find out, the researchers studied about 10 generations of fruit flies, varying the level of oxygen over multiple generations.
"They get smaller in low oxygen and bigger in high oxygen," adds Harrison, noting that while that may not be a smoking gun, at least it's a "smoking fly."
It's rather unlikely that the oxygen in our air is likely to change dramatically anytime soon, so for now at least we're safe from giant dragonflies that, incidentally, dine on mosquitoes and mate in mid-air.


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- June 20, 2012
LAKEWOOD RANCH — Linda Nesselhauf has sat in the principal's office at Lakewood Ranch High School more times than she could count.
The first time was at the conference table, where she dodged the end seat to get one facing the window, where she could watch students as they wandered about campus.
Now, she's seated as the school's new principal.
Nesselhauf, an original member of Lakewood's administrative team and mother of two Lakewood graduates, officially started July 14. Nesselhauf returns to Lakewood after spending the last two years as an assistant principal at Manatee High.
"To be a principal at any school is an honor, but it's different (at Lakewood) because I do have so many memories here," Nesselhauf said. "It's kind of been a family involvement for us from the beginning."
Not only are Nesselhauf and her husband, James, East County residents, but her two sons and niece attended Lakewood during the eight years she served as assistant principal.
"I think she's going to be very good for the school," said longtime senior school secretary Sue Killian, who worked with Nesselhuaf at both Lakewood and Harllee Middle schools. "She knows the kids, the area and what the community needs."
A third generation Floridian, Nesselhauf grew up in Lake County and graduated with a teaching degree from the University of South Florida, where her youngest son now attends.
"I never thought about doing anything else," Nesselhauf said.
Upon graduation, she landed a student-teaching position in Manatee at Bayshore High. After her internship, Nesselhauf secured a position teaching English at Lincoln Middle School. It was the beginning of her 30-plus-year career in middle and high school education in Manatee County.
"I loved being in the classroom," she said. "I liked what I did in the classroom. When you love what you do, it's hard to turn it off."
That may have been part of the reason for Nesselhauf's transition toward administration in 1990. With a love for teaching and a natural ability to redirect difficult students, Nesselhauf was able to teach her fellow teachers how to better manage their classrooms, and she enjoyed sharing her experiences and ideas.
"One step led to another, and here I am today," she said.
Nesselhauf said she plans to address parental concerns about bullying and drugs on campus with increased staff patrols of bathrooms and other areas and that she is checking in to potential safety improvements, including a mechanism to help ensure that doors stay closed.
Nesselhauf said she plans to meet with teachers to solicit their ideas for improving the school, and will work hard to maintain an FCAT "A" grade.
Contact Pam McTeer at [email protected].


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The DEH-P470MP's Flap Face, the large multicolor display, and the rotary volume knob are what you notice first. But looks aren't everything. It plays both MP3 and WMA, and it's ready for the hot iPod Adapter shipping in Spring '05. Comes with a two-way crossover adjustment and the Premier two-year warranty.
Flap Face with Large Multicolor Display
With the DEH-P470MP's Flap Face, just press the "Open" button and the face moves out of the way to reveal the CD slot. Load the CD, push the face in, and let the music begin. With the CD slot behind the face rather than in it, the face has a cleaner look. And the big, multicolor display can show you more information. Plus, the CD slot itself is protected from dust. When you want to take the face with you, just press Open and pull it out.
Pop-up Rotary Volume Knob
Not just an ordinary knob, this "Pop-Up" Rotary Volume Knob gives you some extra advantages. It has a particularly satisfying feel to it when you turn it, especially to the right. And when you're done, press it in and it stays put, out of the way. Press it again and it pops up, ready for action. If you mainly use the provided card remote for controlling volume, you can keep the knob in the "in" position for a cleaner look.
Card Remote Included
The DEH-P470MP comes with a card remote, allowing you to control key functions without taking your eyes off the road. It fits easily in your hand, and it's small enough to stash in your console when not in use.
Two-Way Crossover with New Direct Subwoofer Key
The Two-Way Crossover Adjustment is a convenient tool for tailoring your sound — and your subwoofer's levels. Right from your headunit, you can adjust your High-Pass Filter, which will protect your front and rear speakers from power-robbing deep bass notes. Now, use the Subwoofer adjustments to make sure your bass performance has the kick you like. In fact, you can just hit the new Subwoofer Direct button to fine tune the settings at any time!
MP3/WMA Playback
Don't let your favorite music downloads languish on your computer hard drive. Burn them to a CD-R or CD-RW and play them on the DEH-P470MP. Each disc you burn has the capacity to hold up to ten complete albums of MP3 music and twenty for WMA discs. Trust us, that's a lot of music. And since these CDs hold so much data, you'll be happy to know that Pioneer MP3 headunits also include a random play mode. You'll also be pleasantly surprised to find that our players support ID3 Tags and WMA text, which display artist, title, track and album information, just like your computer. Best of all, Pioneer's Digital Speedread2 CD mechanism provides incredibly fast performance.
iPod Adapter Ready!
Attention current and future iPod owners: this deck can be your gateway to taking your iPod music collection on the road! This spring we'll begin shipping a new Pioneer CD-IB100 iPod Adapter, a small box that can hide almost anywhere. Once you connect this adapter, you can control your iPod through the headunit and even view album, artist, and other music info on its display. The Pioneer iPod adapter powers your iPod and even re-charges its internal battery. Just think: now you can play all of your iPod tunes via a powerful Pioneer mobile audio system!
Premier® Two-Year Warranty
The warranty on this model is two years — double the warranty period of most headunit models currently on the market.
iPod is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. registered in the U.S. and other countries.
Supertuner (AM/FM Radio)
- Supertuner IIID
CD Player
- 16-bit
- CD Text
Additional System Expandability
- CD-RB10 or CD-RB20 required
- 2
Display Features
- Large Multicolor LCD with LED Backlight
- Level Meters
Audio Features
- MOSFET 50W x 4
- 22W x 4
- EEQ (3-Band Parametric)
- 5
- 2
- 3 mode
- Two-Way Crossover
- 50/80/125Hz, -12dB/Oct.
- 50/80/125Hz, -18dB/Oct., +/-12dB
- 2 pair (Front, Sub/Non-Fading)
- 2.2V, 1k Ohm
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It all seemed very reasonable. Spaghetti and meatballs for a Tuesday night birthday dinner. One hour is all it takes to whip up the tastiest version of this dish and yet this hour was not to be had on May 31st when Talia turned 4. Facing a choice between a birthday meltdown over the cancellation of expected plans, or alternatively, serving dinner an hour late to a "hangry" preschooler, I opted for the latter. The risk was well worth it! Meatballs couldn't be served fast enough. Spaghetti was slithering all over the table, the floor, the shirt, on its way to the mouth. But the entire affair was sufficiently celebratory despite the inauspicious start to the afternoon.
Adapted from Chez Panisse Café Cookbook
Serves 6
Cooking time: 1 hour
(The sauce with cooked meatballs freezes nicely – double the recipe and have some on hand for a quick evening meal).
1. Take 1/4 cup of milk and add 1/4 cup of soft bread crumbs (I used half a slice of whole wheat bread and run it quickly through a small food processor) and mix gently. Soak until bread has softened, the drain through fine sieve, squeezing out most of the milk.
2. Sauteé 1 finely diced small yellow onion in olive oil until soft, about 5 minutes, in large pan (which you will also use to cook meatballs). Season with a bit of salt and set aside to cool.
3. In a medium-sized bowl, combine: 1 pound of fresh ground beef, bread crumbs, onion, 3 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese,1 beaten egg, 2 tbsp finely chopped parsley, 1 tsp finely chopped thyme, 1/8 tsp cayenne (the mild heat from the cayenne won't be an issue for kids but adds great flavor), black pepper to taste, and 1 tsp salt (use a bit more if working with kosher salt).
4. Sauteé 1 thinly sliced red onion in large pan until soft, about 5 minutes.
5. Boil water for spaghetti. Don't forget to add a generous helping of salt to water once it comes to a boil.
4. Mix ingredients gently but thoroughly until beef reaches an even consistency. Shape mixture into walnut sized balls with wet hands – this is a great kid task! If cooking meatballs immediately, add to pan with onions over medium heat. The uncooked meatballs can also be placed on a plate or baking sheet and refrigerated for a few hours before cooking.
5. Add spaghetti to boiling, salted water. It is should cook in 8-10 minutes, about the time it takes for the meatballs to finish cooking.
6. Cook meatballs with the red onion, over medium heat, shaking the pan to prevent sticking. Gently turn and toss the onions and meatballs so they brown slightly. Add 2-3 cloves chopped garlic and cook for a few seconds, making sure it doesn't burn.
7. Add 2 cups simple tomato sauce (look for one in a glass jar with few ingredients – tomatoes, onion, garlic, olive oil, basil perhaps), 1/2 tsp fresh (1 tsp dried) chopped oregano, 2 tbsp finely chopped parsley to sauce. Season with salt and pepper.
8. Simmer gently, uncovered, occasionally stirring the meatballs to coat them with sauce. Check for doneness in about 8-10 minutes.
Serve with grated Parmesan cheese and hot chili flakes if desired (and don't forget the birthday cake!).


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Eeyore's Birthday Party has been around for a good, long while and though the drumming and face painting continues a lot of things have changed. In years long past one saw lots of Nikon and Canon cameras over peoples' shoulders, now they've been replaced mostly by phones and new school videography. As the drummers get older they have started erecting tents to ward off the sun; unfortunately, they crowd together under the tents and this takes away any inner circle area for free spirited dancing. This year there were two drum tents and no dancers. First time ever.
There were still Austin hippies of various ages, smoking dope on the hills. There was still a Maypole with children spinning around underneath. Lots and lots of tie-dye, but the ever growing sea of vendor stalls (which sell food, beer and lemonade to raise funds for local charities) is spreading like tacky suburbs around a once hip city core, and trampling the inherent coolness of the festival.
All at once it felt like just an open field with a whole lot of disassociated people all trying to act as those they were doing something really, really fun, alone together. But mostly the crowd just spent time milling around with a beer in one hand and a phone in the other.
I guess it's the way of all city expansions. Something lost and, maybe, something gained...
Little more to photograph here. All done.


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as a rule our crazy geriatrics don't concern themselves with pregnancy though a high percentage of them still like to practise insemination especially after happy hour.
but one of our staff is currently attending a fertility clinic so we're all about the sperm today. men tend to be pretty cavalier about this stuff, spraying it around at any opportunity, but there are different factors that can affect its quality. emotional stress for instance can result in impaired mobility and sperm with stunted heads. the jury is still out on the tight underwear factor but try to keep your testes from overheating, it's not good for them. a current publication I consulted is advising you to avoid steam baths and hot showers also.
being overweight is undesirable. it not only diminishes your fertility, but also means you get laid less often. you don't want that do you?
so there you have it guys. look after your baby gravy, take care of your gentleman's relish. follow nursemyra's advice. we don't give any short head around here.


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The Most Important Meal of Your Myrtle Beach Vacation
It's a well-known fact that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. In fact, a recent survey involving four participants, 75% responded that their days went better with a great meal in the morning. We're not sure how scientifically accurate those results are, but three out of four can't be wrong, right?
And hey, you're on vacation! Skip the grapefruit or granola and splurge! Here are some of the best places around Myrtle Beach to indulge in some delicious morning treats.
Dino's House of Pancakes
North Myrtle Beach visitors have raved about Dino's for years, and you can't miss their retro 50's style sign at 2120 Highway 17 South. With a 4.5 out of 5 rating on Trip Advisor, guests consistently love the tall stacks of pancakes and full plates of French toast, with unique spins on classics like their Georgia Peach pancakes or Hawaiian waffles with pineapple and coconut. Their menu stretches far beyond that, and you'll discover a huge variety of omelettes and, for those waking up a bit late, a full lunch menu with options like quarter-pound burgers, salads or their delicious Monte Cristo sandwich. For their full menu, check out their website.
Spring House Restaurant
Located conveniently right across from Barefoot Resort in the Windy Hill section of North Myrtle Beach, Spring House Restaurant is open seven days a week and ready to serve up some of the best breakfast at the beach! Diners will enjoy the great atmosphere almost as much as the delicious menu choices like huge three-egg omelettes, their signature skillets (fresh meat and veggies over crisp hashbrowns with two eggs and their scrumptious cinnamon streusel coffee cake) or, of course, lots of decadent pancake or waffle options. Those with a sweet tooth have to try Spencer's Banana Split Waffle, covered in ice cream, bananas, strawberries, hot fudge and whipped cream! Visit their website for more information.
Eggs Up Grill
Featuring several locations along the Grand Strand, including Pawleys Island, Garden City and Myrtle Beach, visitors will never be too far from Eggs Up Grill. And no matter which one you choose, you'll be guaranteed a fresh and satisfying meal to kick off a fun day at the beach or on the golf course! Founder Chris Skrodas opened the first location in Pawleys Island in 1997, and guests have been coming back ever since. While open for lunch also, breakfast is what made Eggs Up Grill the popular spot it is today. As indicated by the name, eggs are the star of the show, but be sure to not miss out on other awesome choices like their savory pot roast hash or delectable Bananas Foster pancakes, topped with sauteed bananas, caramel sauce and whipped cream. Learn more about Eggs Up by visiting their website.
Bagel Factory
Maybe you're not craving something sugary or sweet. If that's the case, nothing beats a fresh bagel, and you'll find the best at 21st Avenue North on Kings Highway at Bagel Factory! Whether you like them with cream cheese, lox or maybe loaded up with bacon, eggs and cheese, you're sure to walk out glad you came. Their options spread out from there, also featuring omelettes, breakfast wraps, pancakes and French toast. If you're buying in bulk for your guests that elected to stay behind and sleep in, Bagel Factory offers bakers dozens (13) of their bagels (including poppy seed, everything, cinnamon raisin, blueberry and cheddar, among others) and large serving sizes of all sorts of spreads like cream cheese, lox, chive or strawberry. Take a look at their website for their full menu.
Remember, a long day of fun splashing at the beach requires a full tank of breakfast, and at these great morning eateries you're sure to get your vacation day off to a fantastic start!