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This mashup uses Yahoo Maps which is superior for rural apps where high resolution satellite images are necessary for identification of land features.SD Bennnett http://www.runningmap.com/?id=42948Click to enlarge imageAs I was playing with the Map I moused over the point near the gate of the cemetery and low and behold the Lat Lon showed up on the left and I found by holding down the left

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Terra Firma Rammed Earth Builders: "integral"

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The January 3, 2008 edition of Dakota Life had a feature on the Family Barn.To watch the video, click here, then click on 'play media"

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xeriscape : Search Results : GoodSearch : Search the Internet with GoodSearch and support your favorite charity or school.

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Click the pic to make larger.once you have the document on the USB thumb drive, you can go anywhere with it, but it would be nice if you could reproduce it easily. I suggest you Take a Tour of AbiWord: if you don't already have it on your adult machine.I found that the best way to handle documents exported from the XO for printing, archiving, etc. was to download AbiWordThe word processor on the

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One Laptop per Child (OLPC), Getting StartedThe fun things the Fredricks Kids will be doing over the next few years.Activities they will be sharing with friends all over the globe.How exciting is that?

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OLPC News: Education is a Basic Need in the Developing World OLPC is About EducationAnd somebody needs to focus on education in order to break the cycle of poverty. That's us. We need more of us, too. It isn't either/or, it's both/and. It would cost billions of dollars to feed every undernourished child as soon as possible, and the money is not forthcoming from governments or private donors. I

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Here is the home screen Martin and Saela will see on their machines and 2 children in in as yet unknown developing country will be booting up their machines too.This screen shot was taken from Grampa's HP Pavillion Laptop. For more information aboutEmulating the XO/Quick Start/Windows - OLPC Informationdownload your own copy. It is Linux. It is free. That's how "open source" softwareworks. It is

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Just a bit tipsy but so fortunate to have such great friends.Thanks to John and Cindy

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Local poets all ready to rumbleConsider: In the current issue of the journal The American Scholar, poet Douglas Goetsch writes about being asked to lead a "drive-by poetry" field trip composed of New Jersey high school students.The concept "entails loading the students into a van, cruising around and pulling over near targeted pedestrians. One of the students sticks his or her head out the

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Software and interface: "GCompris"

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Creatings Solutions Home Page

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Hint: Don't tell your kids that they are. More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort—not on intelligence or ability—is key to success in school and in lifeScientific American: The Secret to Raising Smart KidsOur society worships talent, and many people assume that possessing superior intelligence or ability—along with confidence in that ability—is a recipe for success. In

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My son in law bought this book and all I got was this widget!

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This video is from BBC News article, Politics 'stifling $100 laptop'By Jonathan Fildes, Science and technology reporter, BBC News 27 Nov 2007

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We don't see these too often in our back yardSee if you can find him!

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Go to One Laptop Per Child web site, Please click here to find out more about this charitable project to build a better future.We are pretty excited about the applications and the child centered approach of the XO laptop.We think this is a fine way to carry out the tenets Nathan Dungan, a financial educator and president of Share-Save-Spend, an organization that helps people develop healthy

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Click on the pics to see full sizeAfter church a nice dinner with some fine wine, then off to take a ride in the country. The good South Dakota breeze in the Depot Parking Lot.Interactive Map of the Fairview Township Birthday Loop, Veterans Day 2007, Ed's 96th Birthday.A daughter-in-law's perspective"Had such a nice dinner, and Ed just so enjoyed it. Then we went for a drive out in the Fulton

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Scroll through the Urban Bicycle Tourist Photos To go to the full size pic, click on the thumbnail.by cariboupicsTo go to the album, click on the thumbnail.Join Webshots and download Desktop to show pics full screen + much more.Firefox users will want to add the extension CoolIris Preview to really make this a slick photo file manager.

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BBC NEWS | Technology | '$100 laptop' begins production: "Mass production of the so-called $100 laptop has begun, five years after the concept was first proposed. Computer manufacturer Quanta has started building the low-cost laptops at a factory in Changshu, China."Great set of links on the OLPC project.

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This is what one day of cookin' and pickin' produced. It looks like there are enough apples to make about 5 more barrels of hand made full bodied sauce that you have to taste to appreciate. The sauce is prepared from the best parts of organically grown apples hand picked from backyard trees in small town South Dakota after the full season texture and taste is at the optimum. The apples are hand

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Gramma in Minneapolis at the Lyndale GardensBicycle Fixation: Streetriders GallerySee the rest of the slide show on our bicycling blog

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Horse ScentsOat fields are in the conversion business.Farmers don’t think about it like thatThey simply worry about the lodgingHow the harvest will ever get doneWhether the rain will come in timeIf the hot summer temps will waitInterest on the land mortgage noteFuel for the tractor that pulls the loadPast the ornamental horse pasture gateWhere the straw bales are neatly

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WELCOME BACK TRAVELERS

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