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Chart stars mark Beatles landmark
Chart stars past and present are attempting to recapture 10 hours which shook the world as they emulate the recording of the Beatles Please Please Me to mark its 50th anniversary.
In one mammoth recording session - the productivity of which would put some sluggish or perfectionist bands to shame - the Fab Four recorded almost their entire debut album.
In the space of just 585 minutes, which some bands may take to perfect the sound of a snare drum, the group recorded 10 tracks for the LP, as well as a leftover which was revamped for their next album.
BBC Radio 2 is celebrating the historic breakneck workrate which took place on February 11, 1963, by inviting a group of stars to work on one track each during a live broadcast throughout the day from Abbey Road's Studio 2 today.
Figures such as Mick Hucknall, Stereophonics, Gabrielle Aplin and I Am Kloot will be putting their own spin on the songs the Beatles recorded.
The original recording saw the band playing live renditions - save for a few false starts and mistakes - of the songs which formed the core of their shows, with little in the way of overdubs in the way bands record layers of instruments today.
The final track of the day Twist And Shout - held back to the end because of fears that John Lennon's already ailing voice could be wrecked if it was played any earlier - was captured in one take. When Lennon, singing topless at the climax of the session, had tried again he could barely sing so they stuck with what they had.
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Sophomore Whitney Kropp was an unpopular outsider with few friends when her classmates nominated her for the school Homecoming court.
She was elated -- until she realized it was all a cruel prank.
After the boy who was picked with her withdrew, "I thought I wasn't worthy," said Kropp, 16. "I was this big old joke."
But then word of the prank spread and residents of her small Michigan town pledged their support -- and she decided to stand up to the bullying and embrace her new role.
"Going to homecoming to show them that I'm not a joke," she wrote on Facebook. "Im a beautiful person and you shouldn't mess with me!"
At Friday night's Homecoming football game, residents turned out in droves to see her introduced at halftime, all wearing orange, Kropp's favorite color.
For the Homecoming dance the next evening, local businesses made sure her expenses were covered, including dinner, photos, hair and nails, and gown and shoes.
How did it all turn out?
"I'm overwhelmed," Kropp said. "I'm so happy -- this is so much right now for me."

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EATONTON, Ga. - Cuscowilla on Lake Oconee will once again serve as the backdrop for this year's Bobcat Invitational, as the No. 8 Georgia College & State University golf team will host the annual 18-team three-round tournament from March 23-24. Teams will play two rounds Monday and finish up with the final round Tuesday.
The tournament has quickly become a who's who of top Division II golf programs in the southeast, as 12 of the teams are listed in the latest Golf Coaches Association of America/Nike Golf Division II Top 25. The tournament features the top four teams on the list, and eight of the top-10.
Five of the top 10 teams in the most recent GolfStat Head-to-Head Rankings will take to the links in Eatonton. The GolfStat rankings are a much more quantitative measure of success on the golf course, taking into effect stroke averages and number of teams beaten in tournaments.
Along with No. 8 GCSU, No. 1 USC Aiken, No. 2 Columbus State University, No. 3 Florida Southern College and No. 4 Lander University will tee it up Monday morning. Rounding out the field's top-10 teams are No. 6 Nova Southeastern University, No. 9 University of North Alabama and No. 10 Clayton State University.
Last year's team champions, No. 12 University of West Florida returns to defend its title this year, and is ranked No. 18 by GolfStat. No. 15 Valdosta State University has the 14th slot with GolfStat, while No. 20 Barry University is placed No. 17. Rounding out the top-25 schools in the tournament is Coker College at No. 21, owning a No. 16 slot in the GolfStat rankings.
Outside the top-25 is Armstrong Atlantic State University, positioned No. 36 by GolfStat, Belmont Abbey College with a No. 31 slot, Carson-Newman College at No. 56, Queens University (N.C.) at No. 59, Rollins College at No. 33 and UNC Pembroke at 52nd.
Visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame. The GCSU Department of Athletics sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement.


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Surname Saturday: Robertson in Scotland
June 5, 2010 by © Joan Miller - Luxegen Genealogy.
Filed under Family History
Back to my Scottish roots and my g-grandmother Mary Metcalf ROBERTSON born November 20, 1853 daughter of James ROBERTSON and Mary WEBSTER.
She married my g-grandfather Martin Watson WILSON 24 June 1876 at New Blyth, Aberdeen Scotland.
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The hepatitis A IG is given by injection into a muscle (intramuscular
Immunoglobulin (IG) contains
antibodies that destroy the hepatitis A virus (HAV),
preventing infection.
IG should be given to unvaccinated people at risk of infection with
HAV, including:
If given within 2 weeks of exposure to the virus, immunoglobulin
(IG) is more than 85% effective in preventing hepatitis A virus (HAV)
Immunoglobulin has been effective in controlling some outbreaks
of HAV.
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
Call your doctor if you have:
Common side effects of this medicine include:
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference
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Immunoglobulin (IG) is a safe, inexpensive, and effective means of
preventing the spread of hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection.
The sooner you get a shot of IG after being exposed to HAV, the
greater the likelihood that infection will be prevented.
IG protection is only temporary, lasting about 3 months. If you are
planning to stay longer than 3 months in an area where hepatitis A is a
problem, you should receive a higher initial dose of IG. You should
receive the same higher dose of IG every 3 to 5 months while you are still at
risk. Or you could get the
hepatitis A vaccine and then would not need to get hepatitis A IG.
IG is prepared from blood products obtained from paid donors. In
the United States, no cases of transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV) or hepatitis B virus (HBV) through IG have been reported. The safety of
IG prepared in countries other than the U.S. cannot be guaranteed.
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
If you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant, do not use any medicines unless your doctor tells you to. Some medicines can harm your baby. This includes prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, herbs, and supplements. And make sure that all your doctors know that you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
CitationsAmerican Academy of Pediatrics (2006). Hepatitis A. In
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I'm advancing my java knowledge, and as each day goes by I know more than what I did. I find Java really interesting, and most things can be made with it.


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Your analysis of your local problem should give you a better understanding of the factors contributing to it. Once you have analyzed your local problem and established a baseline for measuring effectiveness, you should consider possible responses to address the problem.
The following response strategies provide a foundation of ideas for addressing your particular problem. These strategies are drawn from a variety of research studies and police reports. Several of these strategies may apply to your community's problem. It is critical that you tailor responses to local circumstances, and that you can justify each response based on reliable analysis. In most cases, an effective strategy will involve implementing several different responses. Law enforcement responses alone are seldom effective in reducing or solving the problem. Do not limit yourself to considering what police can do: give careful consideration to who else in your community shares responsibility for the problem and can help police better respond to it.
The responses that follow are useful for addressing the problems of both fraud and financial exploitation. Strategies targeting the specific elements of each type of financial crime are discussed separately below.
Creating multiagency task forces. Elder fraud and financial exploitation cases are complex and require expertise in multiple areas, including
It is unlikely that a single agency will have the necessary skills and resources for a multidisciplinary approach. Thus, multiagency efforts are required, should include agencies and individuals with knowledge in the key areas, and should be tailored to the characteristics of the local problem.
In Canada , the Deceptive Telemarketing Prevention Forum included representatives from government, private, and nonprofit organizations to gather and share intelligence, formulate response strategies, and develop public education efforts. Participants included credit card companies, telephone companies, retired persons associations, marketing associations, police, bankers, the postal service, consumer groups, and the Better Business Bureau. For more information, see the Royal Canadian Mounted Police web site, www.phonebusters.com .
In the United States , many state and local jurisdictions have developed area TRIADs, which are partnerships between local and state police agencies, sheriffs associations, and retired persons associations, such as the AARP. Some jurisdictions also include agencies on aging, senior centers, health departments, and adult protective services.
A number of jurisdictions (e.g., Los Angeles ; Orange County , Calif. ; Ventura , Calif. ) have also developed multiagency teams of specialists to investigate and intervene in elder fraud and financial exploitation cases. For example, Fiduciary Abuse Specialist Teams (FASTs) often include police, the district attorney, the city attorney, private conservatorship agencies, health and mental health providers, probate judges, trust attorneys, insurance agents, real estate agents, escrow officers, stockbrokers, and estate planners. The National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse has created specific guidelines for establishing and coordinating a local FAST, which can be accessed at www.preventelderabuse.org/communities/fast.html . For more information, see also Allen (2000)Abstract only]; Aziz (2000)Abstract only]; and Velasco (2000). Abstract only]
Creating easy-to-access reporting mechanisms for victims, concerned family and friends, and professionals will help not only with identifying problems, but also with developing effective responses. Perhaps most importantly, improved reporting mechanisms will help in prosecuting offenders and providing needed victim services. Education campaigns should provide telephone numbers for reporting incidents of victimization. It is also useful to include a short description of what the elder can expect to be asked, what the typical response time is, and what the procedures are.
Once a multiagency effort is established, it is important to create clear and efficient pathways for cross-agency reporting for police, adult protective services, and other agencies. Because each agency serves a different need, it is critical that each agency be deployed to offer relevant services to victims. Cross-agency reporting procedures should ensure that each agency mobilizes its resources without impeding other agencies' work.
First, although certainly not the case for all seniors, many elderly victims have physical, sensory, memory, or other cognitive impairments that can interfere with an officer's attempt to gather information. It is therefore critical that officers are trained to identify such impairments and to respond with effective interviewing techniques. Improving officers' skills with elderly victims has been shown to improve the quality of investigations and to positively affect victims' subsequent attitudes, behaviors, and perceptions toward the police. 38
The Office for Victims of Crime published a handbook for law enforcement officers that includes specific techniques for interviewing elderly victims and witnesses. It is available at [Full text]; see also National White Collar Crime Center (1998); Shibley (1995) Full text]; Kohl, Brensilber, and Holmes (1995); and Forst (2000).
Second, given the complexity of fraud and financial exploitation cases, investigators need to cover all of the relevant domains of inquiry. These should include victim characteristics (e.g., relationship to the offender, mental capacity, etc.), offense characteristics (e.g., telemarketing scam versus financial exploitation by a caregiver), and offender characteristics (e.g., relationship, frequency of contact), as well as detailed information about the elder's estate, financial arrangements, and relevant legal documents. Several investigation checklists are available to guide the development of a comprehensive inquiry. 39
The list is available at www.usps.com/postalinspectors/fraud/seniorwk.htm.
Live-in caregivers who exploit seniors often isolate them to avoid being detected. Periodic contact by family, friends, and other concerned parties improves the likelihood of early detection.
Adopt-a-Senior programs-in which volunteers regularly check on the well-being of seniors in their neighborhoods and inquire about unusual mail, phone calls, and financial transactions-have been effective in combating the isolation that places the elderly at risk, and in identifying potentially abusive situations. 41
The strategies above apply broadly to both fraud and financial exploitation of the elderly. However, given that these two types of crime are different in several important ways, there are several responses that are more relevant to one type of crime than to the other.
The Direct Marketing Association provides clear procedures for removing personal information from national and state marketing lists, available at www.dmaconsumers.org/consumerassistance.html#mail and www.the-dma.org/government/donotcalllists.shtml .
The AARP provides a concise list of "Do's and Don'ts," a review of relevant statutes, and tactics for preventing fraud, available at www.aarp.org/fraud/home.htm.
Source: National Fraud Information Center (n.d.).
Some jurisdictions have found it useful to present these topics in concert with financial planning workshops. In addition, television stations can be useful partners in this endeavor. Many local stations assign reporters to consumer fraud issues and regularly air segments on the problem. Reports about local scams and general prevention measures have the potential to reach a large audience.
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"You are eligible to win a valuable prize!"
"You can win a car worth $35,000; $10,000 in cash; a European vacation; or a diamond necklace worth $2,000. Your purchase today of our fabulous vitamins will automatically enter you into this amazing sweepstakes."
A prize is free . You need not pay any money or buy anything to enter a sweepstakes or win a prize. The caller must tell you the "no-payment, no-purchase" method of entering. If the caller says you have already won a prize, the caller must also tell you all the costs associated with claiming it. This is important because the costs may be high and may substantially reduce the prize's value.
"We can get your money back!"
"I was sorry to hear that you lost money in a telemarketing scam. It's really a shame that people will call you offering you a great deal and then steal your money. But my company will get your money back for you. All you have to do is give me your credit card number to cover our low service charge."
You do not have to pay in advance . These so-called "recovery rooms" are just a way to take advantage of you a second time. A caller who promises to recover or help you get back money you lost, or to obtain an item of value you were promised in a prior telemarketing call, cannot ask for or receive money from you until seven business days after you actually receive the promised money or item.
"Great loans at great rates. Bad credit, no problem!"
"Today is your lucky day. I'm going to help you qualify for the loan you never thought you'd get. For only a small fee, I will get those late payments removed from your credit records. I'll send a courier to pick up your payment, because the sooner you pay the fee, the sooner I can get started."
You need not pay until you see proof that your credit record has been fixed. A caller is prohibited from asking for payment to remove negative information, or otherwise improve your credit report, until after 1) the period for providing you with all promised goods and services has expired; and 2) you receive documentation that the promised results have been achieved, in the form of a report from a credit reporting agency issued more than six months after the promised results were achieved. Remember that you can, on your own and at no cost, get inaccurate negative information removed from your credit report.
"Magazines at fantastic low prices. Give me your bank account number, and they're in the mail!"
"We've extended this amazing offer one more day, and we have to receive your money by midnight tonight. But don't worry-you can meet the deadline. Just give me your bank account number, and I can process your order right away."
Callers must get specific authorization from you to take money from your bank account. The caller must get your written authorization or tape record your verbal authorization to withdraw a specified amount from your account, or send you a written confirmation of the transaction before attempting to withdraw money from your account. The caller must provide the written or taped authorization to the bank upon request.
|Source: American Association of Retired Persons (n.d.), "Telemarketing Fraud."
For more information, see Aziz et al. (2000)Abstract only]; Chatelin (1994); and U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs (2000). [Full text]
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|Source: Adapted from Friedman (1998).
For more information, see Kaye and Darling (2000). Abstract only]
The FBI's Operation Disconnect, Operation Senior Sentinel, and Operation Double Barrel have resulted in thousands of indictments and the recovery of thousands of dollars. See also U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs (2000). [Full text]
For more information, see Slotter (1998). [Full text]
As discussed previously, the characteristics, warning signs, and perpetrators of financial exploitation differ significantly from those of fraud. While some of the methods may be similar, preventing financial exploitation by relatives and caregivers requires specific responses.
Because of their ongoing involvement in elders' financial affairs, banks and other financial institutions are uniquely positioned to help prevent and detect financial exploitation, and are therefore an essential partner in combating the problem. Several states have developed and implemented training curricula for bank tellers to recognize the warning signs of abuse, and these curricula are widely available for replication or adaptation. 45
Similarly, attorneys and certified public accountants who prepare wills, tax returns, estate planning documents, and other legal documents are uniquely suited to serve as an early warning system to prevent financial exploitation. Particularly if trained to identify the warning signs of undue influence and diminished mental capacity, attorneys and accountants can work with a multidisciplinary team to make sure that all legal documents are executed with the elder's voluntary and informed consent, and will serve the elder's best interest. 46
Focused training can encourage doctors to ask specific questions when assessing elders' physical and emotional well-being. During private consultations, doctors can explore the quality of elders' interactions with caregivers, increasing the likelihood of detecting financial exploitation. 47
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Evernote and the posting of scripts.
I heard of EverNote sporadically in the Twitter community and from my boss. I had checked it out and it seemed like another place to store notes/tips/ideas. I thought to myself 'What could I possibly use this for?" I've read some articles where a restaurant chef uses this to store all of his recipes. Another passion of mine (aside from being a dba) is baking. I have dozens (maybe hundreds) of recipes that I have strewn about. Some are in old hand written cards from my great-grandmother, others are earmarked in some of my favorite books, with still others are pulled from magazines,laminated, and put in boxes. I thought to myself "I don't have a computer in the kitchen, I prefer a piece of paper or recipe card." Then it hit me. I have a few c# scripts that I use in many of my SSIS packages. A script to calculate the SHA-1 fingerprint of incoming binary files, a script that converts ISBN10/13, and so on. What if I posted the scripts I want to share in a public EverNote notebook! That's exactly what I did! I created a c# public notebook where I will be putting various scripts I create. I might put other things up there like presentations, not sure. I did find out that Twitter and EverNote can be linked so now I can push tweets directly to my EverNote account. I haven't found a way to announce when I make entries in my notebook, so check back every so often and if you are looking for a script and don't see it, ask me and I post it if I have it, or if it's something I myself my need, I'll build it and post it. I have also put a link to my EverNote notebook in the Links section of my blog.


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Crewmember Pete Bouquet paints the Rainbow Warrior, 1978
It took Greenpeace eight months to raise enough money for a 10 percent down-payment on the rusting ship in 1978. The balance was due within 60 days. As time ran out, hopes of purchasing the ship waned. But when the Netherlands branch of the World Wildlife Fund agreed to help finance a campaign to save the whales, Greenpeace had acquired its first vessel in Europe.
It was renamed 'Rainbow Warrior' after the Warriors in a North American Cree Indian prophecy: 'When the world is sick and dying, the people will rise up like Warriors of the Rainbow...
Kwakiutl symbol of harmony with nature.
Fresh paint, in striking rainbow patterns, was applied to the super-structure and on the bow a dove of peace carrying an olive branch symbolised the vessel's mission.
On the stack of the ship, the crew painted a motif of two whales forming the infinite cycle of nature, which symbolized harmony with the natural world to the sea-faring Kwakiutl people of North America. The symbol had been offered to Greenpeace campaigners during Greenpeace's first campaign to stop nuclear weapons testing in the Aleutian Islands.
Crew of Rainbow Warrior on their way to Iceland in 1978
First voyage
On 29 April 1978, as the Rainbow Warrior steamed proudly from the London docks, the Greenpeace and United Nations flags flew together to reflect not only the international composition of the 24-member crew from 10 countries, but global concern for the plight of the whales. Her first mission was to Iceland, to oppose the commercial whaling programme there.
The entire operation was beset by almost insurmountable problems again and again: lack of money to buy fuel, legal wrangles, shortage of equipment and sheer exhaustion. But despite the odds, the Rainbow Warrior proved to be a truly seaworthy ship.
In the autumn of 1981, the diesel electric propulsion engine system that had been lovingly rebuilt on many occasions had to be replaced. Greenpeace volunteers took out 45 tons of equipment from the engine room and installed new Detroit engines. Ironically, it was discovered during the refit that the hydraulic system had been built to use whale oil, the dominant lubricant for this purpose in 1955.
Wreck of the Rainbow Warrior.
In 1985, the Rainbow Warrior again underwent major conversion to a sail-assist system. The Marconi ketch rig made the Rainbow Warrior the largest yacht fitted with this type of sail rig.
After the bombing of the ship in 1985 in New Zealand, the Rainbow Warrior was towed north from Auckland on 2 December 1987.
Ten days later, a crowd of well-wishers looked on as it was given a traditional Maori burial.
The Rainbow Warrior's final resting place is at Matauri Bay, in New Zealand's Cavalli Islands. It has become a living reef, attracting marine life and recreational divers.
The idea was first proposed by the New Zealand Underwater Association. It seemed a fitting end for a ship that had spent its time protecting the marine environment.
Now home to a complex ecosystem, the Rainbow Warrior has become a popular dive destination.
SV RAINBOW WARRIOR in full sail between Majuro and Ebeye in the Marshall Islands.
The ship was sunk: not the Rainbow
The current Rainbow Warrior was built in 1957 in Yorkshire, UK. Originally called the Grampian Fame, it was a steam-powered fishing vessel. Now the ship is classified as a motor-assisted three-masted schooner rig with horizontal gaffs. (A gaff is an unusual rectangular sail.)
It is 55.2 metres long, having been lengthened from 44 metres in 1966. Its sailing speed is 5-7 knots with a maximum speed under engine power being 12 knots. The Rainbow Warrior's maximum range is 30 days. The ship is registered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which is why it sails under a Dutch flag.
The Rainbow Warrior has a number of interesting features. A 1.8-metre dolphin, carved from oak, is fixed to the foredeck. It was donated by a local support group in Germany and is affectionately known as "Dave." The ship also features the wheel from the original Rainbow Warrior in front of the bridge, while the original bell hangs in the ship's mess.
The Rainbow Warrior doesn't just campaign for the environment. It is also a showcase of environmentally friendly technologies including solar panels for hot water, a specially designed fuel-saving wind/motor propulsion system, and a recycling system for engine heat.
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Saffron Lemonade
This is actually saffron limeade. I got this recipe from my husband. His family has been making this drink for many years. Lemonades and limeades provide a wonderful canvas upon which other flavors can be layered.
The addition of saffron to the drink imparts a luxurious fragrance and flavor, as well as an exotic orange-yellow tint. Saffron is a spice derived from the saffron crocus. Saffron is comprised of the stigma and style (stalk) of the plant, and it's the most expensive spice in the world.
If you're looking for something special to serve at a summer lunch or barbeque, saffron limeade would be the perfect choice. Consider pairing it with Spanish paella, where saffron is also used in the preparation of the rice.
Yields: 86 cups water, + extra for saffron
3-1/2 cups superfine sugar, to taste
2 cups lime juice, freshly squeezed
2 quarts ice cubes
1 teaspoon saffron threads
In a deep pan, bring the water to a full boil. Set aside.
In a sauce pan, melt the sugar without any water over high heat. It's important to carefully watch the sugar; as soon as the edges of the pan start caramelizing, immediately lower the heat to medium-low. Gently jiggle the saucepan in circles. Do not use a spoon! Lower the heat to the lowest setting when there are only a few remaining non-caramelized pieces. Don't let the sugar get dark brown or you'll get a burnt taste.
When all the sugar is an amber color, remove from the heat, pause for about a minute (be careful of splattering when the water is added), then slowly add the boiling water. Simmer the liquid until all the caramel is dissolved.
In a mortar and pestle, grind 3/4 teaspoon of saffron threads into a fine powder. Add the saffron to the sweetened liquid. Add about 1/2 cup of water into the mortar and pestle to gather the possible remaining of saffron powder. (Saffron is quite pricey, don't waste it!). Pour the saffron liquid to the sweetened liquid. Let it cool completely. Add the lime juice. Garnish with the remaining saffron threads. Stir well.
Serve over ice in pretty glasses.
It's so refreshing!
I prefer using superfine sugar. It's a fine-grained sugar and it dissolves much more quickly than the regular kind.
Saffron is quite expensive; I usually get it at a more reasonable price at the Indian market. Indian cuisine often calls for the use of saffron.
I like making the caramel first to give a nice amber color to the drink. If you don't mind a lighter color, just make simple syrup by dissolving the sugar in about 2-1/2 cups of water; bring to a boil and simmer for about 2 minutes. It will have the consistency of syrup but with a clear color.Published By: on September 2, 2009.


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(2008)My research methods were to get as much info from current students as from alumni. I wanted to ask them questions that would prompt emotional responses. I asked them all the same questions. I also wanted to do it in a ...
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(2009)In this research report, I talked about texting as a tool for miscommunication among college students. The first reason I found for miscommunication was vagueness in texts which leaves the reader's imagination up to ...
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(2008)As a non-traditional student myself, I wanted to explore the struggles of other non-traditional students, especially those also falling into minority groups. This paper intends to explore the programs in place at the ...
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(2011-08)My Research surveyed and observed Parkland students in order to determine if online learning was comparable or preferable to traditional learning. After numerous survey responses, it became clear that online learning is ...
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(2006-05-15)This project investigates the live subject research at the University of Illinois in the cognitive sciences field and focuses on the role of this research in furthering the development of artificial intelligence. The authors ...
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(2008)in this paper, I will explain the issue of interracial relationships in the context of conflicts and difficulties, advantages and disadvantages, interviews with different races of students in UIUC and most importantly, why ...
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(2010)This project is to examine: the segregation between Chinese international students and Chinese Americans in UIUC, how each of them would label themselves and what it means to be one of the other. All the data was collected ...
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The Student Soldier Athlete: Representations of athletes at the University of Illinois in the 1940s (2006-05-15)This project investigates the photographic representation of student athletes and references to their service in the military in the 1940s, specifically during World War II. On the basis of archival, literature, and internet ...
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(2011-12)My research question explores the effect of web systems and e-learning websites of courses at the University of Illinois on the learning process and educational experiences of the students. I explains how the inclusion of ...
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(2013)Our research project sought to discover how the ARC at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has become a model building on campus for sustainability. We interviewed Erik Riha who is the lead Assistant Director of ...
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Transportation Methods of University of Illinois Students Under Weather, Cost, and Policy Influences (2016-05)When it comes to transportation at the University of Illinois, there are many options for getting from point A to point B. The options include the transit system, cars, bicycles, mopeds/motorcycles, and more. The purpose ...
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(2012)In this project we explore the fight between student's rights versus school rights. It is exemplified by the fight of the University of Illinois Meme's page and the University of Illinois's Student Senate. We explore the ...
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(2011-12)To effectively answer the main thesis question the author conducted a survey, an interview, and found several articles from which he could pull information that would be able to support his argument. The initial question ...
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When Technology Meets the Classroom: Multiple Technologies and the Development of a Rhet 105 Learning Environment (2012)A look into Rhet 105 at The University of Illinois and its uses of social media in the classroom. Results show that these technologies establish a community within the classroom that helps aid student learning.
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(2007-05-15)This project explores Women's Tennis at the University of Illinois prior to 1975. The author is interested in media coverage of Women's Collegiate tennis and focuses on an inquiry into finding information on the 1975 U.S. ...
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"In the last few months, I, Spencer Pratt, have discovered a new passion and new purpose to my life. With this in mind, I have decided to take a break from my obligations to MTVs 'The Hills' and discontinue filming any more episodes for this current season," Spencer said in a statement to Access Hollywood.
The reality star, known for his flesh beard and love of new age crystals, said President Obama inspired his new career choice as a founding member of American Defense Enterprises's Cyber-Secuity Division.
"Upon learning of President Obama's declaration that the 'cyber threat is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation' I have decided to refocus my energy and devote my full resources to helping America face this and other unprecedented challenges," Spencer continued. "With this in mind, I've founded the Cyber-Secuity Divsion at American Defense Enterprises."
Spencer has even announced that he has a new mission in life.
"My new mission is this: To do my part in maintaining the technological superiority of the U.S. military and prevent emerging technologies from threatening our nation's security," he continued. "I am saddened to take this break from filming MTV's 'The Hills,' a show that has afforded me the opportunity to pursue my mission to keep our country secure. At this time, however I feel I would not be honoring my country or myself if I were to continue this endeavor when I have the opportunity and the ability to assist our nation against these prevalent threats. God Bless America."
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Early in Genesis, the text mentions that God made "the firmament" (1:6-8). What was the "firmament"? I have heard it said by Bible critics that the Hebrews believed there was some kind of solid "dome" or "vault" above the sky. Does the Bible teach such erroneous concepts?
Several words within the Genesis creation narrative have caused considerable controversy through the years. On the one hand, unbelievers have suggested that Moses' writings are flavored with terms that document beyond reasonable doubt the Hebrews' dependence upon, and belief in, "pre-scientific" (read that as "unscientific") concepts. On the other hand, liberal theologians have argued that Moses instilled into the Genesis record ancient, mythological teachings and ideas whose presence militates against the possibility of Genesis being accepted at face value as a literal, historical account of God's creative activity. One such word is the "firmament" mentioned in Genesis 1: 6ff. Unbelievers have seized upon this singular term in order to depict Genesis as unworthy of acceptance by modern, well-informed, "intelligent" people. For example, the late atheist Isaac Asimov frequently expressed his views on the "scientific absurdity" of the Mosaic record of origins. In volume one (on the Old Testament) of his two-volume set, Asimov's Guide to the Bible, he denied that Moses wrote the Pentateuch and opted instead for the position known in theological circles as the Documentary Hypothesis (often referred to as the Graf-Wellhausen theory), which suggests that editors (called "redactors"—designated individually as J,D, E, and P) produced the Pentateuch. [For an up-to-date explanation and refutation of the various aspects of the Documentary Hypothesis, see McDowell, 1999, pp. 402-477.] Asimov wrote:
The first book was named "Genesis," which means, literally, "coming into being." It implies a concern with births and beginnings, which is appropriate for a book that begins with the creation of heaven and earth. By ancient tradition, the first five books of the Bible were written by Moses, the folk hero who, according to the account given in the second through fifth books, rescued the Israelites from Egyptian slavery. Modern scholars are convinced that this theory of authorship is not tenable and that the early books of the Bible are not the single work of any man. Rather, they are the combined and carefully edited version of a number of sources (1968, p. 17).
He repeated, and expanded, this viewpoint in his book, In the Beginning (1981, p. 5), and then commented:
First comes the creation of the firmament. The first syllable of the word "firmament" is "firm," and that gives an accurate idea of what the writers of the P-document had in mind. The firmament is the semi- spherical arc of the sky (it looks flattened on top and rather semi-ellipsoidal, but that is an optical illusion), and it was considered a hard and firm covering of the flat earth. It was considered very much like the lid of a pot and was assumed to be of much the same material as an ordinary lid would be.... From the scientific view, however, there is no firmament; no sky to be viewed as a material dome (p. 33, parenthetical comment in orig.).
Robert Schadewald, an atheistic science writer, not only accused the Bible writers of harboring an incorrect view regarding the firmament, but also of believing in a flat Earth. He phrased his arguments against the Bible as follows.
The ancient Hebrews, like their older and more powerful neighbors ...were flat-earthers. The Hebrew cosmology is never actually spelled out in the Bible but, even without knowledge of the Babylonian system upon which it is patterned, it can be read between the lines of the Old Testament. The Genesis creation story itself suggests the relative size and importance of the earth and the celestial bodies by specifying their order of creation. The earth was created on the first day, and it was "without form and void" (Genesis 1:2). On the second day a vault—the "firmament" of the King James Bible—was created to divide the waters, some above, and some being below the vault....
Other passages complete the picture. God "sits throned on the vaulted roof of earth, whose inhabitants are like grasshoppers" (Isaiah 40:21-22). He also "walks to and fro on the vault of heaven" (Job 22: 14), which vault is "hard as a mirror of cast metal" (Job 37:18). The roof of the sky has "windows" (Genesis 7:12) that God can open to let the waters above fall to the surface as rain. The topography...isn't specified, but Daniel "saw a tree of great height at the centre of the earth...reaching with its top to the sky and visible to the earth's farthest bounds" (Daniel 4:10-11). Such visibility would not be possible on a spherical earth, but might be expected if the earth were flat (1983, p. 290, emp. added).
Even prominent Hollywood stars have joined the attack upon Moses and his fellow writers. The late, well-known comedian Steve Allen was a devout humanist who was one of the Bible's severest critics. Two of his books, Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion & Morality (1990) and More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality (1993), were frontal assaults upon the Good Book. In both of his tomes, Allen parroted the same hackneyed charges against the Genesis record of creation as his atheistic colleagues. For example, he wrote disapprovingly of "the scientific nonsense with which the first chapters of Genesis abound—as, for example, the view that the firmament is a solid platform in space containing reservoirs of water, the valves of which open to produce rain" (1990, p. 92). He then went on to state: "There can be no serious question, surely, that the original author(s) firmly believed the view of the natural universe just as they explained it" (p. 93).
Modern-day religious liberalism frequently has employed this same type of argument as an indicator of the Bible writers' alleged "unscientific view" of the Universe. In their withering critique of the biblical doctrine of origins, Creationism and Evolution, Murray and Buffaloe suggested:
When consistently applied, the literalist approach to Biblical interpretation leads to a maze of difficulties. One of the best ways to demonstrate this is to examine the "blueprint," or "model," of the universe that is found in Genesis 1 and throughout the Bible. This concept of how the universe is built was common to all ancient peoples and was simply taken for granted by the Hebrews, who undoubtedly adopted it from their Middle Eastern cultural environment. In fact, it was the standard way of viewing the universe in Western culture until Copernicus and Galileo challenged it in the 16th century. It is quite clearly outlined in verses 6-10 of Chapter 1....
Here we see plainly set forth the basic structure of the pre-scientific view of the universe: the earth is essentially a flat plain, partly covered by water, and over the earth is a great dome, the sky or "heavens." The Genesis account explains that there is a vast reservoir of water collected above the dome ("firmament"), which of course is how ancient people accounted for rainfall. This picture of the universe is presupposed throughout the Bible....
The ancient Biblical picture of the world is commonly termed the "three- story" or "three-tiered" view of the universe.... According to this model, the universe consists essentially of the sky-dome or "heavens" above; the flat earth stretched out beneath; and the underworld, pictured something like underground caverns. The ancients envisioned this whole world-structure, finally, as floating in a vast ocean. An added touch was that the heavenly bodies—sun, moon, and stars—rolled across the underside of the sky-dome, being attached to it in some fashion (1981, pp. 12-15).
What response should the Bible believer offer to such accusations? Does the Bible imbibe ancient mythological misrepresentations? Is its information on origins "unscientific"? What is the truth of the matter?
The Hebrew raqia (the "firmament" of the KJV, ASV, RSV, et al.) means an "expanse" (Davidson, 1963, p. DCXCII; Wilson, n.d., p. 166), or "something stretched, spread or beaten out" (Maunder, 1939, p. 315; Speiser, 1964, p. 6). Keil and Delitzsch offered this definition in their monumental commentary on the Pentateuch: "to stretch, to spread out, then beat or tread out...the spreading out of air, which surrounds the earth as an atmosphere" (1980, 1:52). In an article discussing the firmament of Genesis 1:6-8, Gary Workman observed that this word is an "unfortunate translation" because it "not only is inaccurate but also has fostered unjust criticism that the Bible erroneously and naively pictures the sky above the earth as a solid dome" (1991, 11[4]:14). Strictly speaking, of course, "firmament" is not actually a translation of raqia at all, but rather, more accurately, a transliteration (i.e., the substitution of a letter in one language for the equivalent letter in another language) of an "unfortunate translation." Allow me to explain.
The Septuagint (a translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek produced by Jewish scholars in the third centuy B.C. at the behest of the Egyptian pharaoh, Ptolemy Philadelphus, for inclusion in his world-famous library in Alexandria) translated raqia into the Greek as stereoma, which connotes a "solid structure" (Arndt and Gingrich, 1967, p. 774). Apparently, the translators of the Septuagint were influenced by the then-popular Egyptian view of cosmology and astronomy [they were, after all, doing their translating in Egypt for an Egyptian pharaoh] that embraced the notion of the heavens being a stone vault. Unfortunately, those Hebrew scholars therefore chose to render raqia via the Greek word stereoma—in order to suggest a firm, solid structure. The Greek connotation thus influenced Jerome to the extent that, when he produced his Latin Vulgate, he used the word firmamentum (meaning a strong or steadfast support—from which the word "firmament" is transliterated) to reflect this pagan concept (McKechinie, 1978, p. 691). In his Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, Old Testament scholar W.E. Vine stressed:
While this English word is derived from the Latin firmamentum which signifies firmness or strengthening,...the Hebrew word, raqia, has no such meaning, but denoted the "expanse," that which was stretched out. Certainly the sky was not regarded as a hard vault in which the heavenly orbs were fixed.... There is therefore nothing in the language of the original to suggest that the writers [of the Old Testament—BT] were influenced by the imaginative ideas of heathen nations (1981, p. 67).
Raqia denotes simply an expanse, not a solid structure (see Harris, et al., 1980, 2:2218). Furthermore, the actual substance of the expanse is not inherent in the word. Numbers 16:38 juxtaposes raqia and pahim (plates), suggesting literally an "expanse of plates." Here, "plates" specifies the actual material involved in the expansion. In Genesis, "heavens," not solid matter, is given as the nature of the expanse (Genesis 1:8,14,15,17,20). The original context in which raqia is used does not imply any kind of solid dome above the Earth. The Bible equates "firmament" with the "heavens" (Psalm 19:1), even using the compound "firmament of heaven" (Genesis 1:14-15,17). God provided the correct definition on the second day of creation when He "called the firmament Heaven" (Genesis 1:8). It was described further when Isaiah said that the Lord "stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in" (Isaiah 40:22). "Heavens" always is dual in the Hebrew and, in general, refers to the "heights" above the Earth. As such, there are three particular applications of the word in Scripture. There are the atmospheric heavens (Jeremiah 4:25), the sidereal heavens (outer space) where the planetary bodies reside (Isaiah 13:10), and the heaven of God's own dwelling place (Hebrews 9:24). As the context requires, "firmament" may be used in reference to any one of these. Birds are said to fly in "the open firmament of heaven" (the atmospheric heavens, Genesis 1:20). The Sun, Moon, and stars are set in "the firmament of heaven" (the sidereal heavens, Genesis 1:17). And the psalmist spoke of God's "sanctuary" as being "in the firmament" (Psalm 150:1). R.K. Harrison, writing on the word "firmament" in the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, observed:
The relationship of the firmament to the concept of heaven can be clarified if the firmament is identified with the troposphere, and then by thinking of the celestial heavens either as a topographic dimension beyond the firmament itself, or as the designated abode of God (1982, 2:307).
The context of Genesis 1:6-8,14-22 makes it clear that Moses intended his readers to understand raqia simply as the sky above the Earth.
When a word has more than one meaning (as firmament obviously does), the context in which the word is used in the passage under consideration is critical to a proper understanding of the meaning of the word. Steve Allen suggested: "There can be no serious question, surely, that the original author(s) firmly believed the view of the natural universe just as they explained it." I could not agree more! The context in which "firmament" is employed explains quite clearly that view. Furthermore, the accusation of Murray and Buffaloe that "this concept of how the universe is built was common to all ancient peoples and was simply taken for granted by the Hebrews, who undoubtedly adopted it from their Middle Eastern cultural environment" is a mere assertion that is without any foundation in fact. William White commented:
Numerous authors have assumed that the use of this term indicated a specific system of cosmology involving a hollow concavity of the celestial sphere. There is no evidence for this in the literature of the Near East or in the occurrences of this rare term (1976, 2: 540, emp. added).
And lastly, the suggestion that the Bible writers thought the Earth to be flat hardly deserves comment. Rather than teaching a flat Earth, those writers actually depicted our planet as a circular sphere. Isaiah said, in speaking of God, "It is He who sitteth upon the circle [Hebrew chuwg] of the Earth" (40: 22). William Wilson suggested these meanings for the word chuwg: "circle, sphere, the arch or vault of the heavens; the circle of the earth, orbis terrarum" (n.d., p. 77). All of these renderings share a common thought—that of roundness, not flatness. The charge that the Bible gives credence to the concept of a flat Earth is baseless, and represents little more than wishful thinking on the part of the Good Book's critics.
Allen, Steve (1990), Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion & Morality (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus).
Allen, Steve (1993), More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion & Morality (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus).
Arndt, William and F.W. Gingrich (1967), A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press).
Asimov, Isaac (1968), Asimov's Guide to the Bible: Volume One—The Old Testament (New York: Avon).
Asimov, Isaac (1981), In the Beginning (New York: Crown).
Davidson, B. (1963), The Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon (NY: Harper & Brothers).
Harris, R. Laird, Gleason Archer, Jr. and Bruce Waltke, eds. (1980), Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (Chicago, IL: Moody).
Harrison, R.K. (1982), "Firmament," International Standard Bible Encyclopedia , ed. Geoffrey W. Bromiley (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans).
Keil, C.F. and Franz Delitzsch (1949), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans).
Maunder, E.W. (1939), "Astronomy," International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans).
McDowell, Josh (1999), The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson).
McKechinie, Jean L., ed. (1978), Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language (New York: Collins World).
Murray, N. Patrick and Neal D. Buffaloe (1981), Creationism and Evolution (Little Rock, AR: The Bookmark).
Schadewald, Robert J. (1983), "The Evolution of Bible-science," Scientists Confront Creationism, ed. Laurie R. Godfrey (New York: W.W. Norton).
Speiser, E.A. (1964),"Genesis," The Anchor Bible Commentary (Garden City, NY: Doubleday).
Vine, W.E. (1981), Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (Old Tappan, NJ: Revell).
White, William (1976), "Firmament," The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, ed. Merrill C. Tenney (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan).
Wilson, William (n.d.), Wilson's Old Testament Word Studies (McLean, VA: MacDonald).
Workman, Gary (1991), "What is the 'Firmament' Spoken of in the Bible?," The Restorer, 11[4]:14, May/June.


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Thoughts on DC work and environment
I have a few anthropological musings. When I arrived in D.C., it was a record-setting 110 degrees (with the heat index). I was both overwhelmed by the heat, and struck by how much time everybody spent in air conditioning. In the past few weeks, I have been wondering about the effect of climate upon work culture. In my daily travels from apartment to metro to work, and occasionally to stores and restaurants in between, I estimate I spend 1 hour or less per day in un-air conditioned environments.
Washington DC is oppressed by humidity. Up on Capitol Hill the frantic politicos and desperate interns look suffocated and resentful in their tight gray suits. We race from one climate-controlled space to another, resenting the dampness that builds under our fitted synthetic outfits when we must walk from the car to the metro, the metro to the office. DC's verdant parks and shaded nooks look nice in guidebooks, but we clutch our briefcases and slump under the thick yellowish- gray haze that hangs low breathes hotly on the back of our necks. In public transit, men scowl and re-check the heat index on their phones, women frantically smooth their frizzing hairstyles. Safely in our cool, dry, bright offices, we return to the professional life dressed for. We straighten up and our suits fall into place, moisture evaporates from our composed brow, and we are once again masters of our busy schedules. Professionalism and efficiency require bright lights and controlled climates; dim humidity just saps our energy and motivation. In a culture of air conditioning, we love our big cubic man-made ecosystems.
Having just moved from the San Francisco Bay Area, I am not accustomed to this indoor living. Californians smugly flaunt their "California cool"– it's a fashion, a work style, a design process, a business model, a persona, a philosophy. Their arid, sunshine-drenched, nouveau-Mediterranean climate of the Bay Area is more than the perfect backdrop for the image young, fit entrepreneur. The perpetually pleasant weather enables a fantasy which the Californians themselves consume. They are flippantly anti-business suit, anti- cubicle, anti – centralized air. Top Silicon Valley entrepreneurs drop out of school to start their dream companies. They forego the 9 to 5 workday to program on laptops in coffee shops, then go for a 50 mile bike ride on the coast. Outdoor fitness is integrated into the work day because healthy living increases work efficiency and creativity (and keeps you thin and tanned). This is the cult of youthful ingenuity: seventeen year old tech nerds make millions overnight, then go surfing the next morning. And somehow the lack of seasons erodes the sense of time passing. Aging seems unnatural in this paradise. And though they work round the clock in their boundless workspace, the Californians are always smiley.
Forgive my overgeneralizations – I do not justly portray the individuals who live and work in either locale, and my descriptions are imaginative. But, at the risk of exaggeration, I hope to convey a few, very partial observations.
Frankly, I don't know which culture I prefer. I grew up in Massachusetts, and as a somewhat stubborn New Englander I was distrustful of the California ideology. I defend the value of a winter, which halts our self-centered busyness. The snow storm comes, we're ploughed in, the power goes out, and everything just stops. We make stews from vegetables stored in our cold basement, light candles, and take care of our home. The harshness of our environment is humbling, and people become weathered, so to speak. People say that New Englanders are harsher, blunter, "realer" – but I suspect these characteristics have become equally constructed, so that, in our pride and romanticism, we become caricatures of ourselves.
California entrepreneurs seem too shiny and happy to be real, and D.C. politicos seem to be held hostage in their big white buildings and gray suits. Both embrace artificiality in their own way. I feel compelled to return to Boston with a more critical eye, and question the "sensibility" I attribute to our seasonal trials.


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Business Math at CSUN Achieves 20 point Rise in Exam Grades
Congratulations to Katherine Stevenson, leader of the Transforming Course Design project for Math 103 ( Mathematical Methods for Business), who received a CSU Northridge 2008 Honored Faculty Award for Distinguished Teaching. Kate recently reported outstanding final exam results from the project:
"Our average score across 12 sections of math 103 on the common final was 70%. There were 428 students taking the exam, and it was commonly graded on Saturday May 10th. The average this term represents a more than a 20 point improvement over last term. The exams over the last three terms have been similar, but of course not identical. However, even assuming the usual variations on exam difficulty, instructors, and spring/fall student differences, this is a significant improvement."
You can learn more about the methods used in the course redesign in the podcast on the left side of this page.


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- Writers: Middle-class incomes have been fast losing ground for more than a decade
- They say hard work no longer brings security and pensions, let alone a living wage
- They urge minimum wage be raised; its erosion lowers pay and working standards for all
- Writers: Six in 10 jobs expected to be added over next decade are in low-wage fields
For the first time since the Great Depression, the U.S. Census Bureau tells us, middle-class family incomes have lost ground for more than a decade.
The sad truth is that the rewards for productivity and hard work such as health care coverage, retirement security, opportunity -- rewards that used to make America's workers "middle class" -- are on the rocks.
All the wage increases over the past 15 years have gone to the wealthiest 10%, according to the Economic Policy Institute. All of them. And almost all, 95%, of the income gains from 2009 to 2012, the first three years of recovery from the Great Recession, went to the very richest 1%.
Something else has happened, too. The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us.
An increase in the minimum wage -- which hasn't risen since 2009 -- is long overdue. If the minimum wage had just kept pace with inflation since 1968, it would be $10.77 an hour today instead of $7.25. For tipped workers, the rate's been stuck at a scandalous $2.13 for 20 years.
Congress is considering a proposal, called the Fair Minimum Wage Act, from Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa and Rep. George Miller of California, supported by President Barack Obama. The act would raise the minimum wage over two years to $10.10 an hour and let it grow with inflation.
The Senate is expected to consider the proposal the week after Thanksgiving.
If the minimum wage had kept up with the growth of workers' productivity, it would be $18.67. And if it had matched the wage growth of the wealthiest 1%, it would be more than $28.
The share of workers in "good jobs" -- paying more than $37,000 a year and providing health care and retirement benefits -- has fallen, even though workers' average age and education level have grown. And today, most job growth -- and six in 10 jobs expected to be added over the next decade -- are in low-wage fields.
A raise in the minimum wage would give 30 million workers a little more money to pay for rent, food and other needs. But from other quarters, a different suggestion is on the table.
Publishing executive Steve Forbes, in a column appearing in the November 18 print edition of Forbes magazine, recommends that congressional Republicans go on offense about the minimum wage. He casts the issue as a partisan attempt to "put the GOP in the worst possible light" and advises a spin campaign to defeat a minimum wage increase.
Fortunately for America's working people, the public has a less cynical view.
A recent national survey conducted for the National Employment Law Project by Hart Research Associates finds that 80% of the public -- including 62% of Republicans -- support a minimum wage increase. Just 25% think that raising America's wage floor would cost jobs, a view that's also falling out of favor with economists. Raising the minimum wage does not result in job losses, respected academic research shows, even during bad economic times.
Ironically, Forbes' own magazine in July interviewed Carman Iverson, a 28-year-old minimum-wage McDonald's worker in Kansas City, Missouri, who has four children. The article detailed the utter impossibility of making ends meet on the wage, especially in an industry that limits workers' hours:
Iverson said she started working in 2012 at $7.25 an hour, and makes $7.35 an hour now after Missouri adjusted the minimum wage. She makes between $400 and $600 a month. Her rent is $650 a month.
When asked how she could pay her rent on those wages, she said she had a landlord who works with her. "I'm kind of on my last little leg, because I've been late on rent. I'm actually behind three months in rent.
"Sometimes I can pay it, sometimes I can't. I get paid twice a month, and both checks go to rent and the rest of it goes to utilities to the point where I don't have any money left to buy anything for my kids -- to buy them clothes, shoes or anything they need."
She said she manages to feed her four children on $543 worth of food stamps a month.
There's a lot Congress could do for Iverson and other low-wage workers to stop the erosion of wages and working standards for America's hard-working families -- from ending the job-killing budget cuts of the sequester to investing in the creation of good jobs.
But one choice is clear and easy and can make a difference right now: Raise the minimum wage, including the outrageous rate for tipped workers, and index it to inflation. Let's not allow America's lowest-wage workers to keep on falling further behind.


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The aroma of warm cinnamon rolls is always enticing. I learned to make this simple homemade version when I was a child, and it has been a favorite Sunday morning breakfast sandwich ever since.
2 whole-grain English muffins, split horizontally
2 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
1 tablespoon light brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 tablespoons sliced almonds
Preheat the broiler. Place the English muffins on a baking sheet. Broil 4 to 5 inches from the heat source for about 2 minutes per side, or until they are lightly toasted. Or toast in a toaster.
Combine the butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon in a small bowl. Spread half of the butter mixture on the cut side of each of 2 English muffin halves; sprinkle each with half of the almonds.
Broil for about 2 minutes, or until the spread is bubbly and the almonds are lightly browned. Serve hot.
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DETROIT — The Blue Jays could run into a dicey situation if a save situation presents itself here in Motown tonight. Toronto is still sticking to the whole "B.J. Ryan won't pitch in three consecutive games" deal, meaning the big lefty isn't available.
Ryan shrugged and walked away when we tried to ask if he knew if that ban might be lifted before the end of the year.
"You're talking to the wrong people, boss," Ryan said. "They haven't told me anything, either."
Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston said that for "right now" there will be no using Ryan in three straight games. The club has been extra cautious with the closer's schedule, considering he's roughly 16 months removed from that Tommy John surgery on his left elbow.
Gaston noted that Ryan threw some in the bullpen to stay sharp on Sunday, before appearing in games on Monday and Tuesday. So, unofficially, Ryan has thrown three days in a row. As for tonight, Gaston said he could use Jason Frasor, Jesse Carlson, Shawn Camp, or even Scott Downs, even though he's pitched in the past two games.
"Downs could probably go again," Gaston said. "And, pretty much, we've got Jesse out there. We might have to go back with, I don't know, Frasor or Camp. I don't want to use Ryan tonight, for sure. So, Downs is the only guy I've got out there, really."
One guy not out there, in the field that is, is Vernon Wells. He's back in the lineup as the DH. Wells, who is fresh off the disabled list after hurting his left hamstring, said he'll probably DH on days that Toronto is facing a left-hander starter. Makes sense, since Matt Stairs rides the pine against southpaws.
Today's lineups:
TORONTO (61-59) at DETROIT (58-61)
at 7:05 p.m. ET at Comerica Park
Marco Scutaro, 3B
David Eckstein, 2B
Alex Rios, RF
Vernon Wells, DH
Rod Barajas, C
Adam Lind, LF
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Kevin Mench, RF
John McDonald, SS
PITCHING: LHP David Purcey (1-3, 7.40)
Curtis Granderson, CF
Placio Polanco, 2B
Magglio Ordonez, RF
Miguel Cabrera, 1B
Gary Sheffield, DH
Ryan Raburn, LF
Edgar Renteria, SS
Brandon Inge, C
Ramon Santiago, 3B
PITCHING: LHP Kenny Rogers (8-9, 4.92)
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Vernon Wells is the man! It's a shame that he hasnt been with us for the whole season. Because he sure is earning his big paycheck when he is playing.
Thank you Vernon
Barajas had better start mixing it up, so far of the 43 pitches thrown by Purcey, only 5-6 have either been sliders or changeups. As good as his fastball is, they need to mix it up the 2nd time through the lineup or someones gonna pound him.
There goes Purcey's no hitter. But he wouldnt have made it anyway, his pitch count is too high. He is still having a great outing though!
So where are you, did you get stomped by the Jolly Green Giants of Regina or are you still mopping about their first loss of the season? lol
Quality outing from Purcey. With 99 pitches thrown, I expect and hpe Cito takes him out. This game has to be great for his confidence.
Wow-Bradley Mills, another quality left hander, started his 4th game in New Hampshire AA tonight, went 7 innings, gave up 4 hits, 1 walk, no runs and struck out 9 to lower his era to .44.
It would be nice if they call the game with the rain delay


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Emmaus Medical, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of innovative and cost-effective treatments and therapies primarily for rare and orphan diseases, today announced it has completed all patient visits for its Phase 3 clinical trial for the treatment of sickle cell disease. Emmaus expects top-line data from the Phase 3 clinical trial to be available in the first quarter of 2014.
The Phase 3 trial, which completed enrollment in December 2012, was a prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, multi-center study designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of L-glutamine as a therapy for sickle cell anemia and sickle β0-thalassemia. Study enrollment totaled 230 patients across 31 sites in the United States.
"We are very proud to have completed the last patient visit of our Phase 3 clinical trial," said Dr. Yutaka Niihara, M.D., M.P.H., founder and CEO of Emmaus Medical. "As a physician and researcher, I have dedicated much of my life to treating patients with sickle cell disease and to finding a widely available, safe and effective treatment to help them. With the completion of our patient visits for this trial, we are now potentially one step closer to bringing the first new treatment to patients in more than 20 years."
L-glutamine treatment for sickle cell anemia and sickle β0-thalassemia is a patent protected treatment, for which research has been led by Dr. Niihara and investigators at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. L-glutamine for the treatment of sickle cell disease has received Fast Track designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as well as Orphan Drug designation from both the FDA and the European Commission.
About Emmaus Medical, Inc.
Founded in 2000, Emmaus Medical, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of innovative and cost-effective treatments and therapies primarily for rare and orphan diseases, and subsidiary of Emmaus Life Sciences, Inc. The company has completed all patient visits for its Phase 3 clinical trial for a treatment for sickle cell disease and has entered into a collaborative agreement for the research, development and commercialization of regenerative medicine products.
For more information, please visit www.emmausmedical.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, regarding the research, development and potential commercialization of pharmaceutical products. Such forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and involve inherent risks and uncertainties, including factors that could delay, divert or change any of them, and could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially from current expectations.
Additional risks and uncertainties are described in reports filed by Emmaus Life Sciences, Inc. with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012 and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q the quarters ended March 31, 2013, June 30, 2013 and September 30, 2013. Emmaus is providing this information as of the date of this press release and does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.


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When pulling 100A fuses supplying an air-compressor motor, it's important to line your adjustable pliers up on the middle of the fuse cartridge and pull quickly. This is false for multiple reasons.
To safely change fuses:
- Use your DMM to measure voltage (to ground) at the fuse input and then at the output.
- Open the disconnect to remove power to the fuse clips. Yanking out a fuse that's under load is a good way to cause an arc flash or even an arc blast.
- Use your DMM to measure across the (now de-energized) fuses.
- Use a fuse puller appropriate to this size fuse. Don't use adjustable pliers to remove a fuse.
- Don't jerk the fuse out; doing so may shatter the fuse cartridge. If you can't remove the fuse by using reasonable force and steady pressure, something's wrong. Check the fuse clips. If they are corroded, you'll probably need to replace the fuseholder assembly.
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The remains interred were removed in 1974 from the greater part of the Nuevo Cemetery of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews at Mile End, London where they had originally been buried mainly between 1734 and 1876. (from the plaque at the entrance of the cemetery).
Originally there were plaques on the railings surrounding the mass graves in memory of those buried there. However, they are no longer there.
It is believed that 7,500 remains were moved here from The Nuevo Cemetery
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As Bravo continues its march across tech land, it looks north to our own lovely Seattle and Cheezburger, the creators of the Daily What, FAIL blog, Memebase and more. Yes, the lolcat creators have landed on the network known for housewives, love gurus and house flippers.
"LOLWork" debuts Wednesday, but it is already available on Hulu. Can Cheezburger's brand of captioning precious kitten photos make for an entertaining reality TV show?
They may be able to bring the funny in future episodes, but this debut just falls flat. Here's a recap of the action.
"LOLWork" is sandwiched in the half-hour 11 p.m. spot on Wednesdays, after "Top Chef Seattle" and before "Watch What Happens Live," making that 10-11:30 p.m. slot so Seattle-y! (Full disclosure: I once applied for a job with Cheezburger. But, like that elusive OK Cupid wink shot into the dark, never to return and forgotten about, I am now happily engaged elsewhere, lest you think this has negatively affected my review. Or you can. I really don't give a crap).
As with all new reality shows, this first one's purpose is to introduce us to its cast of characters. When CEO Ben Huh pulls them all into the conference room to announce their next project—working together on a web series video pitch—we get the real dirt on who's who in the "LOLWork" world.
Please follow along as I introduce and paraphrase (these quotes are pretty right on, but God forbid I was going to sit through more Truvia commercials on Hulu to get them exactly right):
There's content moderator "I am fluent in cat lady" Ali. Cat Man Will Buzzkill, content supervisor or "the censor"—this is the guy you've seen on promos leading his cat around on a leash. Forest, content editor and resident uptight white guy with something to prove. Newbie assistant Monda looking to impress; nice girl/art director Sarah; and production manager Tori. And content editor Paul. Oh, where to begin with Paul. I'm just going to refer to him as Hair from here on out. Just hope you don't ever get stuck next to this dude at the bar. Oh, and there's Ben's wife, Emily, but she really doesn't do anything in this episode. Ever.
In other words, this is the kind of crew I moved across the country to get away from in Brooklyn.
Ben pairs them up, which really pisses them off. Apparently, they do not like working on I Can Haz missions in pairs. Mitt Romney, er, Forest, gets paired with Tori. Tori is not looking forward to working with Forest because he basically steam-rolls over everyone with his asinine ideas. Oh, can you taste the foreshadowing? Buzzkill Will is paired with Monda, and already we know who's going to rule the roost here. And last, we have Sarah and Hair.
Yadda, yadda, yadda. They brainstorm in the office. They run around downtown Seattle doing man-on-the-street stuff. They film two idiot girls acting like cats in front of a green screen. (One thing that really irked me about this assignment was that all three guys in the pairs dominated the challenges. The women on the Cheezburger crew give the impression that they may have funny ideas, yet they were subjected to the stupid whims of their male co-workers. I'm hoping they step it up a notch going forward.)
Back to the contest: The projects are complete, and the creatives are pulled back into the conference room for the judging, which introduces us to recently departed chief revenue officer Todd Sawicki.
Hair and Sarah basically do voiceovers on animal videos, one an elephant they make Republican, which doesn't go down too well because it's considered too divisive for Cheezburger's audience. Buzzkill Will and Monda's Cat Man on the Street concept, titled "Cat Talk with Will," ("That's a terrible title," Ben says while cuing it up, which is the funniest moment in the whole damn show), surprisingly has its moments of charm. Then there's Forest and Tori's project—two cute girls dancing in front of a screen saying variations of "Cats! Kitties!" while making annoying clawing gestures. "That seems very offensive," Sarah says under her breath as the video rolls, but she's the only person in the room who calls that out.
The winner? The "so bad it was good" video? Yep, Cat Sluts. "Ironically, that's the kind of stuff that works on the Internet," Ben says. And…the end.
Of the many problems I have with adding "LOLWork" to my Reality Roster of Dysfunction, which is already chock full of "Extreme Cheapskates" and "Honey Boo Boo," is this: I did not laugh or have one WTF? moment throughout the show.
And to be successful in reality TV you need one, if not all three, of the following things:
- A drama-filled backdrop! You get a bunch of batshit-crazy folks together, run the film and let them have at it. Work reality shows only work if there's some high-energy, high-drama stuff at stake, aka our nice friends over at "Top Chef." Sitting around an office, cooing at computer screens of cats? Drama it is not.
- There always needs to be a BIG character to fuel a show. And while there are a couple lame efforts, no one here is a NeNe Leakes or a Patti Stanger or Jeff Lewis or the insane Ramona Singer. Shows that don't have strong lead characters who exhibit high levels of neurosis are often no-gos.
- You need the WTF factor. The audience needs to sit there and be shocked and amazed that this shit is actually going down. Like grown-ups giving toddlers go juice. And hillbillies handfishin' in swamps. And stupid people having 19 stupid babies.
The other thing that I finally put my finger on about why I find Cheezburger's brand of humor mildly amusing and not much else was summed up in the clip about talking about the elephant voiceover being "too political." It's quite innocuous and Jay Leno-like, no teeth to it of any kind, mass-produced for mass consumption by a mass audience—i.e. Shit I Would Show My Mother.
I just don't see "LOLWork" having the chops to translate into TV-speak for a bitchy Bravo audience.
Molly Brown has spent over a decade writing about arts, entertainment and pop culture. An admitted lover of crap TV, she blogs at evilmolly.com.


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During pregnancy, your membranes break (rupture) when a hole or tear
develops in the fluid-filled bag (amniotic sac)
that surrounds and protects the fetus. The rupture of the membranes is also
called "breaking of the waters."
Your membranes can break by themselves (spontaneous rupture of the
membranes), or they may be ruptured by the doctor or nurse-midwife to start or
speed up labor (artificial rupture of the membranes). The spontaneous rupture
of the membranes most often happens after active labor has started.
Your contractions may get stronger after your membranes
A large gush of fluid usually follows the rupture of the membranes.
The uterus continues to produce amniotic fluid until the baby's birth, so you
may continue to feel some leaking, especially right after a hard contraction
(tightening of the muscles of the
Sometimes it is hard to tell if your membranes have ruptured. As
you approach your due date, your uterus puts increasing pressure on your
bladder. A strong Braxton Hicks contraction or sneeze can cause some leakage of
urine. This is sometimes mistaken for a rupture of the membranes.
If you are lying down when your membranes break, you are more
likely to experience the rupture as a gush of liquid. If it happens when you
are standing up, it's more likely to be just a trickle because the baby's head
gets pushed down against the cervix and acts like a cork when you stand.
If you believe your membranes have ruptured:
You can also go to the place you have selected for the delivery of
your baby. The health professionals there will test the drainage to determine
if it is amniotic fluid.
Amniotic fluid is normally a cloudy-white to an amber-straw color.
Let your health professional know if the leaking fluid is:
To start (induce) or speed up labor, the doctor may
rupture your membranes. This should only be done after your
cervix has started to open (dilate) and the baby's
head is firmly descended (engaged) in your pelvis. If the membranes are
ruptured too early, there is a risk of the umbilical cord slipping down around
or below the baby's head (cord prolapse). If the cord gets squeezed between the
baby's head and the pelvis bones, the blood supply to the baby may be decreased
or stopped.
To rupture your amniotic sac (amniotomy), your doctor
inserts a sterile plastic device into your
vagina. The device may look like a long crochet hook,
or it may be a smaller hook attached to the finger of a sterile glove. The hook
is used to pull gently on the amniotic sac until the sac breaks. This procedure
is usually not painful. A large gush of fluid usually follows the rupture of
the amniotic sac. The uterus continues to produce amniotic fluid until the
baby's birth. So you may continue to feel some leaking, especially right after
a hard contraction.
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