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- England: 50 runs in 12.6 overs (83 balls), Extras 9
- Drinks: England - 60/3 in 16.0 overs (IR Bell 28, PD Collingwood 3)
- Power Play 3: Overs 16.1 - 21.0
- IR Bell: 50 off 71 balls (9 x 4)
- England: 100 runs in 25.5 overs (164 balls), Extras 14
- Drinks: England - 131/4 in 35.0 overs (IR Bell 68, JWM Dalrymple 13)
- 5th Wicket: 50 runs in 75 balls (IR Bell 32, JWM Dalrymple 16, Ex 2)
- England: 150 runs in 37.2 overs (235 balls), Extras 16
- England: 200 runs in 48.6 overs (308 balls), Extras 19
- Rain: Pakistan - 46/1 in 7.0 overs (Mohammad Hafeez 18, Younis Khan 12)
- One Day International Scorer: Satish Kumar
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Strauss urges England to get their act together
Andrew Strauss, the England captain, has said that the England one-day side will need to re-group quickly if they are to be a force to reckon with in next year's World Cup in the West Indies
We believe we can beat Pakistan - Bell
Though the series opener at Sophia Gardens was washed out, Ian Bell believes England are capable of defeating Pakistan in the five-match contest
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Pakistan were denied the chance to press home a match-winning position when rain arrived at Sophia Gardens
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England's Twenty20 defeat to Pakistan at Bristol, on Monday, means they have yet to win a limited overs match against serious opposition this summer
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What is Your Time Worth?
Today we chat with Anjali Kundra, co-founder of Partender, a company that asks the question: "How much is your time worth?"
Its the Bartender Journey Podcast Number 177.
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Anjali combines her hospitality experience and entrepreneurial attitude to give us tips on empowering yourself & your team members, while staying focused at work.
As mentioned in the Podcast, you can access the companion material here:*Cocktail Hacker - A Lesson from Tech Startups: Finding your entrepreneurial spirit & ultimate success behind the bar (and beyond).
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In this dissertation, we develop and analyze algorithms for scheduling in input-buffered switch fabrics. We have introduced new deterministic and randomized scheduling algorithms that are capable of rate provisioning, achieves 100% throughput and have lower complexity than other proposed solutions. We consider QoS provisioning in general and rate provisioning in particular as the basic requirements for the next generation switch fabrics. To do rate provisioning, we extend the concept of packetized tracking policies for fluid policies to the input-buffered switches. It is considered that the speed up of the switch is one and the fluid policy is feasible, i.e., utilization of all ports is less than one. For the 2x2 switches, we show that ideal non-anticipative tracking policies always exist. By ideal, we mean a tracking policy that is at most one cell behind the corresponding fluid policy. Using a 3x3 counter example, we show that non-anticipative policies do not generally exist. For the NxN switches, a heuristic tracking policy is provided. The encouraging results for the heuristic policy motivated us to explore for analytical result for its performance. This effort leads us to the introduction of maximum node contained matching (MNCM) a new class of deterministic maximal size matching algorithms. We use fluid model techniques to prove that these algorithms achieve 100% throughput with no speedup. The only assumption on the arrival pattern is that it satisfies strong law of large numbers. We also introduce a new weighted matching algorithm in MNCM, maximum first matching (MFM) with complexity O(N^{2.5}). MFM, to the best of our knowledge, is the lowest complexity deterministic algorithm that delivers 100% throughput. We extend the concept of MNCM schedulers and introduce the Maximum Size Unit Interval Matching (MSUIM) algorithm for rate provisioning. MSUIM is at most N cells behind the corresponding fluid policy. Finally, we propose a general parallel architecture for self-randomized algorithms that is appropriate for practical applications. We introduce the concept of max-min fair self-randomized scheduling algorithms for rate provisioning. Using fluid model technique, we provide analytical results for the performance of the self-randomized schedulers.


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Thanks to a generous grant from The Daniel and Susan Pfau Foundation, we are piloting a program designed to integrate students with developmental disabilities into a traditional theatre camp environment. Please visit our Launch Pad page for more information about this exciting new program!Learn More
Summer Theatre Full-Day Camp and Performance Academy
Students arrive at camp between 8:45 and 9 a.m. and sign in with the counselors before joining their group. After morning assembly and warm-ups, campers and their counselors go to class sessions taught by our theatre education professionals.
We have one snack break throughout the day and a one-hour lunch break. Snacks and lunch are not provided. Younger groups may take two breaks during the day as needed. The camp day concludes with an all-camp assembly and dismissal at 4:30 p.m.
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The morning group arrives between 8:45 and 9 a.m. Parents must walk students in and sign in with a counselor before students join their group. Campers will enjoy guided activities and an open play period. We will provide one snack. Parents must pick students up at a designated area between 11:45 a.m. and 12 p.m.
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Before Care and After Care are only available at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and Mason Community Center locations.
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Before Care and After Care must be purchased separately online or through the Box Office. The cost of each is $30 per week/session. Pro-rating is not available for individual day usage.
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Due to location availability, we are unable to take campers before 8:45 a.m. or keep them past 5 p.m. Drop-off will occur between 8:45 and 9 a.m. Pick-up will occur between 4:30 and 5 p.m. All campers must be picked up by 5 p.m.
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Here's our winner who had the winning ticket at the TYCOP Information booth at this years little NHL. Sandy Porter walked away with a $100 gift card from SportChek!
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This must be one of my all time favourite cake. The basic recipe was given to me by a Greek lady who used to work in my studio many moons ago and I recently came across it among the pages of an old cook book while on the look out for another recipe altogether. The Greeks particularly enjoy their sweet treats and their cakes always feature seasonal produce such as fruits and nuts, and many are topped with a honey or citrus fruit syrup that creates an irresistibly soft and moist texture. I have tweaked this recipe many times over the years, using various combination of fruits & spices. So use this as a basic recipe and change the flavours to go with moods and fashions and it's gluten free too ....
With value in mind , I have sourced all ingredients from LIDL.
Prices are as of 19.01.2014 from Lidl. Ireland.
- 1 pkt of Dairy Manor unsalted butter, 227 grms @ €1.49
- 220 grms of Fair trade Caster Sugar, 1kg pkt @ €1.09
- 200 grms of Ground almonds, @ €1.99
- 100 grms of pistachios,1 kg @€10.99
- 3 large eggs, 10@ €1.7
- juice of 1 orange
- grated zest of 2 oranges, 1kg@ €1.79
- 200 grms of Polenta
- 1/2 tsp of ground cardamon or cinnamon or nutmeg or cloves
- 1 tsp of baking powder
- 50 grms of sugar or greek honey
- juice of 1 lemon, 3 @ €.99
- juice of 1 orange
- 50 ml of water
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Pre - heat your oven to 180 c & Line a loose based 20 cm round cake tin with parchment paper.
Place the pistachio in a bag and crush coarsely with a rolling pin.
Using a hand -held electric whisk,cream the soft butter and sugar until soft and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time . Add the juice and grated zest of the oranges, followed by the ground almonds, baking powder, pistachios and polenta . Mix well.
Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 40 - 45 mins, until well risen and golden brown.
Test with a skewer , which should come out clean when inserted in the centre.
Prick the top of the cake all over with the skewer and spoon over the hot syrup.Allow the cake to stand in the tin for 5 mins. Place on a cooling rack and carefully remove the outer ring and allow to cool before serving.
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In a bowl, mix 100 grms of icing sugar with 1 tsp of lemon juice and 2-3 tsp of water to make a soft icing. Drizzle over the cake and sprinkle over with some whole pistachios and candied orange peel and a dusting of icing sugar...........
kalí̱ ygeía ... Good Health !
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use Apricots,Figs, Pears, Blueberry,Lemons, Limes
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New York Pre-K Tops Out At Over 68,500 Children
New York City's universal prekindergarten program has topped out at 68,547 4-year-olds, more than 3,000 of whom enrolled after the official start of the school year—an increase that the city attributes to a strong push to enroll children who live in underserved parts of the city.
New York had about 20,000 full-day, full-year preschool seats in the 2013-14 school year. To handle the influx of thousands more children, New York converted many half-day seats to full-day, created prekindergarten centers around the city, and partnered with community-based organizations to offer more seats.
Mayor Bill de Blasio campaigned on a promise of universal preschool and convinced the state legislature to provide $300 million to help launch it.
"Parents have voted with their feet. Pre-K for All is now part of the lives of tens of thousands of children," said de Blasio in a statement. "It will only get bigger and better from here."
In October, enrollment stood at about 65,000, as I wrote in this article examining New York's preschool expansion effort. But city employees were still actively recruiting families, with multilingual outreach specialists working the phones and the computers, directing families to conveniently-located centers. The city said that nearly 90 percent of the increase in enrollments since the first day of school is in ZIP codes with household incomes below the city's median of about $51,000 per year.
The city is stressing the point of its outreach to poorer neighborhoods in response to one of its persistent critics, Bruce Fuller, a professor of education and public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Fuller has said that the new preschool seats have been spread evenly around the city, but in his view, children from less-affluent families should have been first in line.
The city has said that its goal has always been for a universal program, and that it has come very close to meeting that goal: The number of children enrolled in prekindergarten as of December is about 5,000 shy of the 74,000 kindergarten students that were enrolled as of December.
The latest numbers haven't changed Fuller's view: "The enrollment rates [among income levels] are pretty even—like any good non-progressive entitlement," he said in an e-mail (emphasis Fuller's).
New York Plans Early Start for Prekindergarten Enrollment
The city has moved up the application timeline for families who want to start enroll their children in prekindergarten in 2016. They will be able to apply starting Jan. 25, more than a month earlier than the application launch in 2015. Families will receive their offer letters at the beginning of May, also more than a month earlier than last year.
Photo: Preschoolers Liezel, 4, left, and Ryan, 4, walk the hall at a prekindergarten center in the Windsor Terrace neighborhood in Brooklyn. To accommodate expanded enrollment, New York City places children in new pre-K centers, traditional schools, and community-based organizations.—Mark Abramson for Education Week.
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When Act4Africa needed a fresh web presence they turned to Electrode to put together a cohesive face of the organisation. An important part of the brief was to carefully balance static and fresh information on the site. We used the space on the homepage to start that balance, with an uncluttered and simple Twitter feed, a stream on latest articles alongside details of all their activities past and present. The end result is an informative and engaging site that embodies the stature and reach of the organisation.


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Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.
A couple's lives are dramatically transformed after the husband enters into a pact with the devil - he has since found buried treasure and appears to be able to defy death.
Audrey Panguitch, a 73 year-old widow, appears to be able to predict death through her vivid dreams when an international businessman is murdered in a way in which she foresaw. Further confounding Jonathan and Maddy, there is then another death which she also appears to have foreseen.
Professor Lance Graumann - a leading authority on extra terrestrial phenomena invites Maddy to see his latest discovery: a perfectly preserved alien skeleton. Although the American military have other plans and arrive to retrieve the skeleton. However, when they open the case at their military base, it's nowhere to be found...
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What is PTECH?
The Hamilton-Fulton-Montgomery Pathways in Technology Early College High School, or PTECH, is a new model for high school education that includes college-level, credit-bearing coursework in the curriculum and allows students to choose their own "pathways" to high-skill jobs.
A consortium of HFM BOCES, its component school districts, Fulton-Montgomery Community College and regional business partners was one of 16 winners in a statewide competition in 2013 for funding a PTECH program that targets students who might not otherwise consider a college pathway, using a variety of demographic, academic and social indicators. The school launched in the 2014-15 school year with 50 ninth-grade students from the component school districts.
PTECH seeks to redefine secondary education with a curriculum that centers on project-based learning that will focus on skills in four career clusters — business management and administration, advanced manufacturing and clean technology, information technology and health sciences. Through the program, selected students can earn one of 10 different associate degrees at no cost to their families and will be considered for jobs with participating companies when they graduate.
How is PTECH paid for?
A consortium of HFM BOCES, its component school districts, Fulton-Montgomery Community College and 16 regional businesses applied for and received a statewide grant for $2.4 million in August of 2013 to launch HFM PTECH. Gloversville Enlarged School District is handling the financial administration duties. School districts pay a tuition fee for students they send to PTECH, for which they can be reimbursed through BOCES aid. The grant covers the rest of the costs associated with the school.
What college costs are covered for students enrolled in PTECH?
All tuition for credits, labs and books are covered, and PTECH students are granted the same privileges as other FMCC students. However, room and board are not included.
What kind of students are good candidates for PTECH?
A student who will succeed in PTECH is motivated to learn in new and exciting ways and thrives in a non-traditional classroom setting. Other important qualities include being creative, being a hands-on learner and having a positive attitude. Potential PTECH students should be interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math and have the desire to build strong skills in communications, critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration and time management. They also should have a vision of using their individual talents and skills to impact their local and global communities.
Where is the PTECH school?
A portion of the Jansen Avenue School in Johnstown houses the PTECH school. Students will spend their ninth- and 10th-grade years at Jansen Avenue. Most of their 11th- and 12th-grade years will be spent on the FMCC campus. Years 13-14 (if needed) take place at FMCC.
Is transportation provided to PTECH students?
Yes, home school districts transport students from their home school to PTECH (and FMCC) in the morning, as well as from PTECH back to their home school in the afternoon. A late bus also is provided from PTECH two days a week.
Can I play sports or do other extra-curricular activities?
Yes, PTECH students are bused back to their home schools in time to participate in sports or other after-school activities. PTECH also offers after-school clubs and activities that include late-bus transportation.
Which school districts participate?
- Greater Amsterdam School District
- Canajoharie Central School District
- Edinburg Common School District
- Fonda-Fultonville Central School District
- Fort Plain Central School District
- Gloversville Enlarged School District
- Greater Johnstown School District
- Lake Pleasant Central District
- Mayfield Central School District
- Northville Central School District
- Oppenheim-Ephratah-St. Johnsville Central School
- Wells Central School District
- Wheelerville Union Free School District
Each school district has slots reserved at PTECH based on their student enrollment.
What degrees can students earn?
There are 10 associate's degrees offered by FMCC that students can earn through PTECH. They are:
- Business Accounting
- Business Administration
- Business Technology and Applications
- Electrical Technology
- Computer Information Systems
- Computer Networking
- Computer Technology
- Medical Administrative Studies (New Visions)
- Health Studies
- Radiologic Technology
When and how do students apply?
Eighth-graders in the participating districts can apply once the current year's online application has opened, which is usually in mid-December. Deadlines are typically in the beginning of February. The application process is done completely online and involves getting recommendations from teachers and guidance counselors, along with completing all parts of application, including a written statement. There is also a form parents fill out. Applicants will visit the school and participate in an interview session at that time.
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Completed applications that are received by the deadline will be evaluated by the Application and Recruitment Team.
Selected students are required to attend a "Summer Bridge" program for incoming freshmen.
What if a student who applies is not selected?
Students who meet the requirements but who are not selected will be placed on a waiting list for their school. Should a slot become available before the start of the school year, it will be offered to a student from the waiting list for that school. If all the available slots for a particular school are not filled, a lottery will be held among students on the waiting lists for all the component school districts.
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Yes. Because of the way the curriculum is structured to allow for acceleration into college courses, only current eighth-graders are eligible to apply to PTECH, and students must enter the program their freshman year of high school.
Do PTECH students take part in their home high school graduation?
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An education at PTECH is highly individualized to each student. Students' curriculum will be adjusted to reflect the appropriate level of subject mastery.
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Google wins digital library legal battle
Google has defeated a legal action mounted to stop it scanning and uploading millions of books.
In 2005, the US Authors Guild sued Google alleging that its plans to create a digital library amounted to massive copyright infringement.
In its defence, Google said its plans constituted "fair use" because it was only putting excerpts of texts online.
US judge Denny Chin has now sided with Google and dismissed the case brought by the Guild.
Long fight
Judge Chin accepted Google's argument that its scanning project was "fair use" adding that the project provides "significant public benefits".
The decision could be a significant milestone for the long-running legal battle between Google, the Authors Guild and US publishers. Both the publishers and authors started legal action over the scanning project in 2005.
Initially, authors and publishers negotiated with Google together. This led to a settlement agreement in 2008 that would have involved Google paying $125m (£78m) into a fund that would be used to compensate the writers of copyrighted works that appeared in the online library. The agreement also placed restrictions on how much of a book Google could make searchable.
In March 2011, the settlement agreement was thrown out by a US court which said it gave Google a "de facto monopoly" to copy books.
This led US publishers to negotiate separately and they reached an agreement with Google in October 2012. Financial terms of that deal have not been released.
The latest decision denies the copyright claim brought by US authors. Neither Google nor the Authors Guild have commented on the decision.
In April 2013, Google said it had scanned more than 30 million works ready for inclusion in its digital library.


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Happy Modays with streams of coffee. The very best way to start a week. And a month actually. We won't have time to watch the days go by as new faces keep coming from everywhere in the world and we stay excited by the invasion. Spanish magazine NEO2 is quite specialized in introducing newbies with our perennial favorite feature from it: Model Talking. Talking in the July-August issue is Loora, Estonian 17-years-old from Top Models in Tallinn (but scouted in Tartu) and sigend with Group Models in Madrid. She already had another experience abroad with Donna Models in Tokyo and gets more and more confident in front of the camera (you can tell it when you've been following her right from the start). This trained ballerina who could be a photographer or a doctor in the future copes with stress by talking with everyone on stage. Helpful and relaxing. Another thing we learnt about Loora (5'9 by the way) is that she doesn't like plastic surgery because natural people are hundred percent more beautiful. And you can check it on her two shots by Javier Moran that she's 100% natural and 100% beautiful.


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ASHEBORO — The Ledford High School varsity boys basketball team must have decided if it could use the 3-point shot to top Asheboro the first time, it can do it again.
ASHEBORO — The Ledford High School varsity boys basketball team must have decided if it could use the 3-point shot to top Asheboro the first time, it can do it again.
So it did.
The Panthers, who hit 10 3-pointers the first time these two teams met, hit 10 3-pointers in the game Monday night as Ledford recorded a 79-67 Mid-Piedmont Conference victory over AHS. The loss, coming in AHS' final regular-season game, leaves the Blue Comets 7-5 in league play and 13-11 overall. AHS must wait now until the other teams finish the regular season to see what seed they will have for the upcoming league tournament.
Ledford improves to 9-2 and 16-7.
In the opener, the AHS girls jumped out to a nice first-half lead, just like they did the first time they met Ledford. And just like the first time, the Panthers came storming back for a 45-34 win. The AHS girls, who led by 16 in the first half, scored just two points in the third quarter, hit just one field goal in the final two quarters and were outscored 28-6 in the final two frames.
The AHS boys led 39-38 in the third quarter, but the Panthers went on a 9-0 run to grab a lead they would never relinquish. LHS led by as many as 11 in the final quarter and AHS could never get any closer than nine points.
"We never could overcome that run," AHS coach Brian Nance said. "The third quarter, we just couldn't hit a basket. We missed inside shots and shots from the perimeter."
The Blue Comets used a strong second quarter, including a 3-pointer from Jalen Ettson at the buzzer, for a 32-30 lead at halftime. AHS outscored Ledford 21-10 in the second half.
But the Panthers, led by Skyler McGee, who scored 33 points in the contest, grabbed a 47-41 lead heading into the final quarter.
"He is a matchup problem for us," Nance said. "We don't have a big guy who can guard him on the perimeter."
The Blue Comets shot just 39 percent from the floor and Ledford was 27 of 33 from the charity stripe. AHS was 8 of 19 from the free-throw line.
Robert Bittle had 24 points and Emannuel Jones 11 for the Blue Comets.
The AHS girls looked strong in the first half, leading 11-2 early on, 14-6 after one quarter and 28-17 at the break. But the final two quarters belonged to the visitors as Julia Carroll scored 10 points and the Panthers' defense stymied the Blue Comets. The Panthers turned an 11-point deficit into a 37-30 lead after outscoring the Blue Comets 20-2 in the first 12 minutes of the second half.
"I do not have an explanation," said AHS coach Terry Allmon after his girls ended the regular season 7-5 in MPC play and 17-7 overall. "We haven't done this in five weeks. We had been playing so well. I just don't have an answer."
Ledford coach Chris Doby did.
"We put ourselves in a tough situation in the first half," Doby said after the Panthers improved to 10-1 and 18-5, setting up Friday night's championship game with Southwestern Randolph, which is also 10-1 in league play. "We were gambling and that got us into foul trouble. At halftime we talked about staying in front and not taking chances. Asheboro has a good team. They just had a letdown at the same time our defense turned it up."
Ledford took its first lead of the game when Courtney Callicutt scored to make it 32-30 with 6:05 left to play in the game. Carroll followed with a 3-pointer and two free throws and the Blue Comets never got closer than four the rest of the way.
Carroll finished with 16 points for LHS, while Callicutt and Mackenzie Cranford had nine each.
Laycee Baughman had 11 points for the Blue Comets and Mikayla Trogdon had nine.


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On the upswing: Hitters changing with the times
Baseball is changing right before our eyes, and will continue to do so, as more and more hitters begin to understand that a once-seemingly dumb idea is now the smart way to go.
Hit the ball in the air.
Don't swing down or necessarily even level, as we were all taught when we first picked up a bat, but instead, develop a slightly upward swing that will increase the chances of elevating the ball.
If a hitter wanted to do that 20 years ago?
"They probably would have laughed at you," said Curve manager Michael Ryan, who played parts of five seasons in the major leagues. "But the way defense is lined up nowadays and all the defenders playing on one side of the field, if you do hit the ball on the ground, you're going to be out most of the time.
"So why would I try to hit a ball on the ground when I'm going to be out?"
The following statistics are eye popping, and are the basis for the new-age way of thinking about hitting.
In the major leagues last season, balls on the ground produced a .239 batting average, compared to a staggering .411 mark for balls hit in the air — line drives or fly balls. Those numbers are from a recent Associated Press story on the subject.
Baseball has become increasingly enamored with and, frankly, controlled by an enormous reliance on statistical data. The difference between .411 and .239 is so crazy that it begs the question of why any hitter would ever decide not to swing up on the ball.
But old habits die hard, especially for something players have been taught since they were 5 years old.
One of the poster boys for the new hitting philosophy is Blue Jays star Josh Donaldson, who's adamant about not hitting balls on the ground. As the recent AP story pointed out, Toronto's Jose Bautista and the Cubs' Kris Bryant also are believers in the strategy and have upward swings to take advantage of it.
The trend has begun to make its way to the minor leagues, and again, with such a gigantic disparity in the stats, it's impossible to believe it won't become more and more prevalent.
Curve second baseman Kevin Kramer said he's made a slight mechanical change in his swing in order to elevate the ball more. Kramer is a second baseman and not a prototypical power hitter, but it's easy for him to see the advantages.
"It's just about driving the ball more," Kramer said, "and when you get good pitches, honestly for all of us as we graduate levels, trying to do more damage."
Coincidence or not, Kramer hit two homers in a game last week for the first time since Little League. He's 23 years old, and like pretty much everyone who's ever played the game, he was always dissuaded from hitting the ball in the air.
"I come from west coast baseball, and from the college that I played at (UCLA), hitting the ball in the air was not a good thing, and you get in trouble," Kramer said. "You're trying to hit line drives. Obviously I'm very happy that I had that experience, but hitting the ball on the ground, especially in the big leagues like Donaldson and those guys talked about it, you're out."
As Ryan noted, "The game has changed because of the extreme shifts." There's advanced data to tell defenders exactly where a guy is most likely to hit a ball, and in recent years, more and more teams have taken to dramatic shifts, with the Pirates being one of the forerunners several years ago.
Hitters have to do something to shift the balance somewhat back in their favor, and more of them are figuring out that the upward swing can help do just that.
Everything in baseball is about percentages, even small ones, so anyone who's not trying to do everything he can to take advantage of the numbers is only hurting himself.
"Everyone's just trying to go gap to gap, drive something, try to get on second base with nobody out," Ryan said. "I know the way we play defense with our extreme shifts, you hit that ball on the ground, you're going to be out probably 90 percent of the time."
One important thing for any young ballplayer — or parent of a young player — to understand is that the trying to hit the ball in the air more is not something that should be done until higher levels of baseball. Swinging level or down at younger ages does help put the ball in play and cut down on strikeouts, and let's face it, most kids under the age of 12 aren't great at fielding hot groundballs.
As a player advances into his teenage years and playing high school or legion ball, he has far more experience in the game, so learning how to adapt to more of an upward swing should come easier.
"The big thing about it is trying to do that the right way and not dropping the back shoulder and dipping," Kramer said of the adjustment.
It might look cool to take a huge Ken Griffey Jr. uppercut swing, but that's not for every hitter. A batter's swing is full of subtle nuances, so elevating the ball the right amount versus hitting a bunch of popups comes down to minor adjustments.
"The flight of the ball will let you know if you're on or not," Ryan said. "If you're popping everything up and it's not leaving the infield, there's that adjustment you have to make. Maybe you'll go back to going down through the baseball to maybe even that out a little bit.
"But if you're driving some stuff and outfielders are tracking it down, you know you're OK, and it's a little bit less of an adjustment to hit some line drives in the gap."
Cory Giger is the host of "Sports Central" weekdays from 4 to 6 p.m. on ESPN Radio 1430 WVAM.


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(Lincoln City, Oregon) – The central Oregon coast town of Lincoln City is gearing up for one of the year's largest festivals, but with an added twist. A huge array of glass floats will be appearing on the beaches as well. (Photo above courtesy Lincoln City Visitors Bureau).
Uncover hidden treasures of all kinds during Antique Week, an eleven-day antique store sale extravaganza running February 5th through the 15th. Participating antique retailers will have special deals and discounts during the citywide event.
Antique Week features over 100 antique dealers from nearly a dozen retailers in Lincoln City. One of the retailers, Rocking Horse Mall, recalls the history of the event.
"Antique Week began back in the 1980s when my mother, Judy Miner, was approached by the Visitor and Convention Bureau to hold a shopping promotion in the winter," said Rick Miner, owner of Rocking Horse Mall. "Back then February was a slow month for retailers, so the idea was to bring visitors into town and boost their sales. The event has evolved since then, and has become very successful for not just the antique stores, but all of the businesses in Lincoln City."
Another antique retailer in Lincoln City, The Little Antique Mall, has over 85 dealers and concurs with Miner on the importance of Antique Week.
"February is our biggest sales month because of Antique Week," said owner Dan Beck. "We have visitors that call us wanting to know the dates for the event so they can book their hotels. Antique Week has really taken on a life of its own."
Both Rocking Horse Mall and The Little Antique Mall will have special discounts during Antique Week.
"Generally, most of our dealers will offer at least 20 percent off," said Beck. "But some have gone as high as 50 percent, so it really depends on the dealer."
With a plethora of items to choose from, Beck recommends that collectors coming to Antique Week should plan a long stay.
"Take your time," said Beck. "Plan on having enough time to browse through each antique store. Many of the stores in town will extend their hours to accommodate."
Collectors can take advantage of deals and discounts during Antique Week while discovering treasures of all types. From art to books and furniture, Lincoln City has a variety of items to adorn your home. It is no wonder that Country Home Magazine once declared Lincoln City to be one the "Ten Best Undiscovered Antique Destinations in the Country."
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In February 2014, over 100 geeky women gathered at our satellite event in downtown Minneapolis for networking and inspiration. Below you will find links to blog posts associated with the event.
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Sometimes, when I get to thinking, I think about the making of the world. Of what's under the hood and what can be designed and planned for and what can't.
Like planning cities, for example. It sounds so very interesting, and then it makes my head hurt too badly, and I have to stop thinking about it. As a little aside at the end of the last class, my physics teacher threw something out there about a Mexico City earthquake and how the mid-range height buildings (like hospitals) were completely devastated, worse than the tallest buildings or the shortest buildings; he explained the physical reason behind it (which made my head hurt), but mostly cautioned that you have to plan about these things. How confounding. So many things to plan for.
I categorize peoples' styles. I step into their house or apartment, and I take a visual snapshot of the inside of their head. I look around my living space and wonder if I'm representing who I am, and if I'm not, what should I do instead? We build ourselves by accident, mostly. I walk through stores, and I look for people. Abby needs that mug; Marianne would love that clock. The cake platter would be in my kitchen, if I had my own kitchen. I don't see things, because things break and wear out. I see stories, and pictures of homes, growing up around objects.
We talk about technology, and what is changing and what is not. I say technology is just a tool to get you where you want to go; and then people ask me where I want to go. It's a good question, but I don't see where it could take me that I want to go. I want to work with my hands. I want feel things–sound deep inside my chest, taste every ingredient in my food, colors without the luminous glow of a screen. Technology can do my laundry, maybe.
I think about genres, about scenes and setting throughout time. Some people decide they don't like the scene and setting they're in, and they mimic a different one–a different time, a different style. Why? What do they not like about their current setting that they think they've found a solution to in their pretend world? If I made an alter ego, who would she be and why?
I hear a lot of people say we need to live more simply, or it was a more simple time. I wonder what they think changed, or what feels complicated to them–but I know what they mean, too, when I make simple food. It's more satisfying. But what would you get rid of, to make it simple? I heard another story–I'm sure there are many–of a woman who sold almost all of her belongings and spent a year living out of her car, driving around the nation. She wanted to see what she really needed, I guess. I'm no good at playing those games, because there's so little you really need. What would you want the most to keep with you is a different question than what you need.
Somebody else talked about how in his writing class, he makes everyone go through their pockets and bags and wallets, or if they're so horrible as to not carry things around with them, their memories of the things they have on windowsills and desks. Then he makes them choose the most irreplaceable thing, and write about it and what it means to them. I thought about it briefly and felt very odd that I couldn't answer it. I don't carry anything around with me, except for replaceable things. The irreplaceable things–family photos, projects I spent years working on–can't be carried with me. If you got rid of those things and I never knew it, would I notice? So many things tucked away for safe keeping; but it is it bad I don't have meaning in the small things?
I went down for an almost week long trip, and I took a plane. I packed everything in a carry on bag and an over-head piece of luggage. It was plenty livable; I would miss having my own kitchen and my own bed, and if I was going to do it for long, I would have to find some way of bringing along my creativity. My sewing machine and my keyboard were investments for me that I hoped would last me a huge portion of my life. I paid more for my car, of course, and it will need to be replaced sooner.
I've started a stone wall out by my garden. I love stone walls. I don't know how meaningful that stone wall will be for me, but I need to build it, so I can build other stone walls–more and more. I need to put making stone walls inside of me, so I can always make them wherever I go. I feel sad when I see good architecture, old architecture–falling away to time. Who will make the beautiful things now? Are we loosing them all? How do you make beautiful things? I want to make the beautiful things that people want to hold onto.
Staring around my grandmothers house, I see her hand everywhere. I don't agree with her style or her taste, but I see her hands. I think about houses, and I wonder how many people live in them, and I wonder what that means. What is living? Is it worth the time it takes to have your fingerprints on everything? If you're living, will you have something meaningful crammed into your purse? Someone once said that she always carried around a little bottle of bubble soap in her purse, to blow bubbles with. I loved the whimsy of that; I almost wanted to go out and buy bubbles for my purse. But I would never use them, and I know that, and it makes me kind of sad. I put band-aids and safety pins in my purse, but I never use them, either. Just my wallet, phone and keys, mostly. And a pen and a piece of paper and a small tape measure.
There's a tree that's fallen down, just across the road, and I wonder why. God started a tree and then smote it. He destroyed the Moabites, and it grieved Him. He loves His creation, even the tree that fell across the road. The world and the history it contains–He planned it all. All of it. He created a hole in this history and creation shaped just like me, and made me to fill it, and I don't understand that, either, any more than the tree.
In our makings and shapings, we do reveal ourselves and what we value. God did, too, and we're a testimony to his presence as much as the fake flower wrapped around my grandmother's curtains reveals her. Sometimes it seems like an impossible burden; how could God ever be reflected in me? The only answer I've found so far is to delight in His creative vision, in the hole in history He shaped for me.
To stop walking by when the old lady by the side of the road wants to talk. To wear striped shoes, and to sit in front of the physics class, making eye contact with the teacher and trying to understand. To paint bad paintings and take pictures of broccoli. To let a duckling hide in my hair, and to sing songs about the Moon River, and to drink water out of a glass pitcher. To paint my bedroom green and the bathroom yellow and forget to make my bed. To write, even when no one is listening, and smile at the people who walk by you in the library, even when you don't know them. To feel silent and invisible and to leave your mark on every thing you touch.
"We are, we are the visible invisible
We are the flesh and bone
Of Your redeeming love
We are, we are Your kingdom unshakeable
Jesus Christ alive in us
The visible invisible. . ."
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Date of most recent changes: March 28, 2016
I. Policy Statement
policy sets forth the requirements for the development, adoption, acceptance
and amendment of Onondaga Community College's Capital Budget.
II. Reason for Policy
policy facilitates compliance with the New York State Education Law and the
corresponding Education Department regulations governing community college
capital budgets.
III. Applicability of the Policy
members of the College community should be familiar with this policy.
IV. Related Documents
V. Contacts
VI. Definitions
State Assistance for Capital Costs and Form of the Capital Budget
College administration will prepare a proposed Capital Budget in accordance
with the procedures set forth in Article 8 of the New York Code of Rules and
Regulations. The form of the Capital Budget will be in accordance with the
requirements of SUNY and Onondaga County. The administration will present the
proposed Capital Budget to the College's Board of Trustees for review and
approval. The College's Board of Trustees will then submit the approved Capital
Budget to Onondaga County.
receiving the approval of Onondaga County, the College's Board of Trustees will
submit the Capital Budget to the SUNY Board of Trustees. Once approved, the
SUNY Board of Trustees will submit the Capital Budget to the Governor for
inclusion in the Executive Budget.
Capital Budget Items
Capital Budget will include, but is not limited to, the following items:
Issuance of Bonds or Notes
County may authorize the issuance of bonds or notes pursuant to applicable law
to fund all or any portion of its requisite share of the College's Capital
Architectural Fees
College will budget funds for architectural service fees in accordance with a
schedule of fees established by the President or his or her designee.
Management Services shall be responsible for ensuring that the College does not
incur expenses for duplicate fees.
Real Property Acquisition
Real Property Title
County shall acquire and hold the College's real property in trust for the
College. In the event that the College's Board of Trustees and the SUNY Board of Trustees have passed resolutions declaring that real
property is no longer useful or required for the College's purposes, the real
property may be disposed of in accordance with New York Code Rules and
Regulations Part 603.5.
Capital Budget Amendment
The College
administration will initiate amendments to the approved Capital Budget. All
amendments to the approved Capital Budget are subject to approval by the
College's Board of Trustees, Onondaga County, and the SUNY Board of Trustees.
Capital Cost Chargeback for Nonresident Students
The College shall
deposit into its segregated funds those monies received from the Chargeback.
These funds shall be separately accounted for and used for the limited purposes outlined in 8 New York Code of Rules and
Regulations § 603.7.
by OCC Board of Trustees April 3, 2006
Updated and approved by the President March 28, 2016
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Associate Producer
Posted by Nexstar Media
Indianapolis, IN
Posted: 2019-08-02
WXIN/WTTV, a Tribune Broadcasting station, has an opening for an Associate Producer to work in our Indianapolis location.
The Associate Producer must be a strong storyteller who brings energy and is ready to take on a challenging new opportunity! This role will excel under tight deadlines and bring bold, creative ideas for developing the newscast.
- Write, research and provide news content for air
- Collaborate with Producers, Executive Producers, Editors and the assignment desk to develop news stories
- Evaluate local, state and national/international stories using websites, Twitter, FOX/CBS/CNN/Tribune news services and wires
- Learn to fill-in produce
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Bachelor's degree in Journalism or related field preferred; equivalent experience required
- 1 year of experience in a newsroom strongly preferred
- Must be able to work well under deadline pressure
- Must exhibit solid news judgment
- Must be accurate and consistent in writing ability
- Must be proactive and work well in a team environment
- Strong organizational skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Must be able to work flexible schedule including early mornings, evenings, holidays and/or weekends
Equal Employment Opportunity
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I spent most of my teenage school years looking a lot fatter than I was. My skinny legs poked out of my skirt and clunked around in Kickers, but my equally skinny waist protruded under my nylon jumper.
This was not a case of teen pregnancy or puppy fat that never went away. No - my padded mass of fat was in fact several layers of school skirt.
For five long years I rolled up my dark-green, pleated school skirt every morning after I left my house. My weary mother knew exactly what I was doing but she was powerless to stop me. I told her it was her fault for giving into the uniform sales assistant's pitch and buying me the longest version of the skirt ('you'll grow into it'. I didn't).
The school rules couldn't touch me either. They clearly stated girls must wear their skirts only two inches above their knee (oh, how sweetly naïve of them) but mine was at least six inches higher. Teachers would tell me to un-roll it, but 10 minutes later I surreptitiously rolled it back up again. They couldn't stop me waging my ongoing battle; my cause celebre.
I was not alone in this. Of course I wasn't – how could I have come up with such a global trend at the innocent age of 11? I had just been ripped away from my long grey kilts and pinafores of primary school, to be thrust into this baffling world of rolled up school skirts.
Every girl in Year 7 was doing it. It is why I was not surprised to read a recent study shows schoolgirls' hemlines have crept up by three inches in the past five years, so the average skirt is now six inches above the knee. The Education Secretary Michael Gove's plans to let parents buy their uniforms in any shop means the hemlines could, can you believe it, rise even higher.
Is that possible, I hear you cry. Can these skirts go any shorter without these reckless girls putting an array of underwear on show? No. They can't. There are already countless knickers on show and my own school was forced to even implement a rule for the uniform-free sixth formers, telling them their skirts must be 'short enough to sit on'.
We went to considerable lengths to make sure our skirts were not short enough to sit on. One option was to 'lose' the skirt. This meant you could then wear your gym skirt instead – another dark-green pleated number, but four inches shorter than the regulatory uniform skirt.
The other option was to hack the bottom off. If half the skirt was missing, an exhausted parent had no option but to re-hem it sans six inches. The luckiest among us had liberal quinoa-eating parents who took the skirt to the dry cleaners for us and had it re-hemmed. Oh, the dream.
In my all-girls' school it wasn't even to attract the boys with our patches of prepubescent thigh. We did it because the older GCSE girls were doing it – because Britney did it. Even now, when fashion has changed and maxi/midi/any length skirts are en vogue, girls still do it.
My favourite English teacher thinks we did it for the staff, having caught up with him for this piece. His 14-year-old form of hormonal girls were apparently "very disappointed" when he didn't notice their carefully rolled skirts. He tells me another anecdote about girls "trying to maul" another male teacher – and then running away horrified.
His words bring back embarrassing memories. None of us really wanted to attract male attention of any kind – much less from someone at least 10 years older than us (shocking at the time) – but it was a way of embracing our adolescent sexuality.
On a subconscious level, I think we wanted to start looking like sexual beings – hence we picked the obviously sexy image of short school skirts. It is embarrassing to admit with hindsight, but this female rite of passage was part of growing up. Schoolgirls will keep on rolling up those skirts regardless of what their parents, teachers or even Michael Gove say. And if it wasn't for those five years of skirt-rolling, I would never have truly appreciated skirts so short you don't need to roll them. Revolutionary.


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(QOPI®) Certification Program, an affiliate of the American Society of Clinical Oncology - Learn More
PVCS was the first practice to be certified by QOPI in Arizona
(QOPI®) Certification Program, an affiliate of the American Society of Clinical Oncology - Learn More
PVCS was the first practice to be certified by QOPI in Arizona
As a premier cancer treatment and care center serving the greater Phoenix area, we understand the importance of prevention and early diagnosis in cancer treatment – and that's what makes May such a special month. May is National Skin Cancer Awareness Month, and as skin cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer, knowing the early signs is critical to improving your long-term chances of detecting, treating, and beating skin cancer. At Palo Verde Cancer Specialists, we're committed to the health of our patients and the community of Phoenix – and spreading awareness of the warning signs of skin cancer is the best way to fight it.
Before learning the warning signs, it's good to get an understanding of what causes skin cancer so you can better understand your own risk. Chiefly, skin cancer is caused by long-term, cumulative exposure to the harsh UV rays in sunlight. Over time, these rays damage the DNA in your skin cells, and if that damage passes a certain threshold, it can morph into skin cancer. While you may think skin cancer is only something that lifelong sun worshippers deal with, the truth is, almost anyone can get it. While skin cancer will be more common in those who regularly expose their skin to sunlight without sunscreen for long periods of time, even small amounts of exposure to sunlight can, over time, build up and cause skin cancer.
For the most part, skin cancer will prevent itself as a blemish, bump, or spot on the skin that may look similar to a mole or a wound. Non-melanoma skin cancers often take the form of an open sore that doesn't heal for weeks, sometimes with raised edges, and sometimes with a crusty, scaly covering or persistent oozing or bleeding. Persistent, mysterious warts may also be early stages of skin cancer.
Melanoma-type skin cancer has an easy acronym for identification. To identify a melanoma, just remember your ABCDEs:
Skin cancer of any form can be dangerous, but if it's caught early and treated early on, it's usually fairly simple to treat skin cancer. Knowing the signs and performing regular self-checks for skin cancer is the best way to spot cancers before they develop in severity, giving you the best chance of beating cancer in the long run. Feel free to reach out to us at our contact page if you have more questions about how to spot skin cancer, and if you or a loved one are every diagnosed with skin cancer or any other cancerous condition, we encourage you to schedule an appointment at one of our 6 cancer treatment facilities. We'll work with you to design a comprehensive treatment that works with your lifestyle and helps you overcome cancer in a way that works for you. We hope you'll take advantage of National Skin Cancer Awareness Month to learn the early signs of skin cancer, check yourself regularly, and safeguard your health in the long term.
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Welcome, new Golden Eagles!
All new students are required to attend Orientation.
If you are unable to attend the summer orientation, there is a one-day fall program that you will be required to attend. It is not as detailed as the two day summer program but will still give you the necessary information.
Golden Eagle Orientation—First-Year Students
Learn more and register for the First-year Student Program as well as our Family & Guest Program. This orientation is offered over the summer in six sessions to select from.
Golden Eagle Orientation—Transfer Students
From a full Online Orientation, to a program offered on Friday of Welcome Week, new Transfer students will have ample opportunities to become familiar with all aspects of Brockport.
International Student Orientation
The Center for Global Education and Engagement will help International Students become acquainted with campus; including information on campus arrival dates and moving in to your residence hall.
EOP Orientation
First-year students enrolled in the Arthur O. Eve Educational Opportunity Program are required to attend a Pre-Freshman Summer Program to help them learn the in's and out's of Brockport.


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January 20, 2014
Marcum Foundation Completes $100,000 Gift to UM Sylvester
The Marcum Foundation has completed a $100,000 gift to the University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. The funds were raised by the South Florida partners and staff of Marcum LLP, a national accounting and advisory firm.
Marcum's Donald Butler (L) and Shaun Blogg (R ) presented the final installment to Drs. Jarrard Goodwin and Stephen Nimer.
About Marcum LLP
Marcum LLP is one of the largest independent public accounting and advisory services firms in the nation. Ranked among the top 20, Marcum LLP offers the resources of 1,300 professionals, including over 160 partners, in 22 offices throughout New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, California, Florida, Grand Cayman and China. Headquartered in New York City, the Firm's presence runs deep, with full-service offices strategically located in major business markets. Marcum is a member of the Marcum Group, an organization providing a comprehensive range of professional services spanning accounting and advisory, technology solutions, wealth management, and executive and professional recruiting. The Marcum Group companies include Marcum LLP; Marcum Technology LLC; Marcum Search LLC; Marcum Financial Services LLC; Marcum Bernstein & Pinchuk LLP; MarcumBuchanan Associates LLC; and Marcum Cronus Partners LLC.


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Cake flavours and recipes
It's what's inside that counts
Kicca Cakes' exciting designs are just the outer layer of your perfect celebration or birthday cake. To ensure that it tastes as good as it looks we use only the finest ingredients and offer an extensive range of recipes for you to choose from.
Portions are calculated at 50 grams, indicatively a 1x2x3 inches slice
NEW Toffee Caramel Cake
A soft and moist Toffee sponge filled with delicious salted caramel
Chocolate cake
The ultimate traditional chocolate-lover's cake, dark moist sponge layered with rich chocolate cream. Naughty but oh so nice.
Vanilla cake
A classic Victoria sponge flavoured with Madagascan vanilla bean syrup, layered with butter cream and berry jam.
Lemon cake
A light lemon sponge layered with a zesty lemon butter cream and home made lemon curd. Limoncello liqueur can be added for extra twist.
Red velvet cake
Moist red vanilla cake with a light taste of chocolate, filled with smooth cream cheese
Chocolate orange cointreau cake
Rich chocolate sponge moist with Cointreau liqueur (optional), layered with home-made orange jam and chocolate cream to offer the perfect fusion of mellow and zing.
Tiramisu cake
An incredibly popular Italian dessert and celebratory cake blending the flavours of espresso, Marsala liqueur and mascarpone cheese in a mouth-wateringly moist creation.
Hazelnut cream cake
A rich dark chocolate sponge enriched with Brandy (optional) layered with a lightly nutty flavoured milk chocolate and hazelnut cream filling.
Baileys cake
A delicious Baileys flavoured cream in a choice of light vanilla or chocolate sponge cake


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If you've had it with a rusting potato masher or tired of the lumps, you would greatly benefit from owning a potato ricer. These wonderful tools allow you to process potatoes and soft veggies or fruits into a smooth, lump free texture. Many people rely on mixers to remove to smooth out potatoes, but this can result in over mixed, glue like results. Some things I was looking for in these picks were sturdiness and if they could hold at least 1/2 cups. These five picks represent the best on the market that not only meet my criteria, but also offer superior performance.
Norpro Deluxe Jumbo Ricer
This is my favorite because it allows for double the amount and is well made with a comfy handle. The cast iron aluminum ricer has a stainless steel hopper that perfectly pushes your veggies through with ease. Read Full Review
Now for the serious cook who prepares in large volume, this is a perfect potato ricer. This Norpro Deluxe Jumbo Ricer can hold up to 3 cups. This is my favorite because it always more flexibility and and has a comfortable handle. Make a little or make a lot, it is great for fixing more than just mashed potatoes. You can prepare spaetzle, homemade apple sauce and a host of other vegetable mashes. It is constructed with cast iron aluminum that has a stainless steel hopper. The soft handle makes it comfortable to use and rubber insets that easily grip the side of the bowl. Hand washing is preferred.
Chef'n FreshForce Potato Ricer Press
It has never been easier to rice with the FreshForce Potato Ricer and the dual gear-mechanism is what sets it apart. This feature dramatically increases the force behind the press. The removable basket is easy to clean and the smooth handles make it comfortable to use. Read Full Review
This potato ricer has a unique feature. The FreshForce Potato Ricer has an innovative dual gear-mechanism that makes the pressing power of this ricer greater than most. Once you place your potato or baked or boiled fruits or veggies into the chamber, it will smoothly push your food through. Unlike other ricers, this one simply has one removable mesh basket as opposed to screens. It doesn't have the versatility in terms of textures because it only has a basket instead of two screens. However, the super comfortable handle makes pressing easy especially for those who suffer from hand fatigue. The basket can be hand washed and the rest of the unit is top rack, dishwasher safe.
Cooks' Tools Potato Ricer
I am impressed with the capacity and performance of this ricer. It has two interchangeable disks and internal storage for the one not in use. The pull out clip allows it to sit on the edge of your bowl for mess-free mixing. Read Full Review
This innovative potato ricer will make breaking down potatoes easy. The Potato Ricer Black by Kuhn Rikon is an awesome kitchen tool for ricing potatoes. This durable ricer is armed with two disks that will create a smooth, lump free texture. It has a collar that screws on which makes it easy to change the disks. It also has internal storage for the second disk and a convenient pull out clips that allows it to sit on the edge of the bowl. The ricer has the capacity to hold two medium potatoes. Although it is dishwasher safe, hand washing and air drying are preferred.
Norpro 162 Potato Ricer
I am always excited when there is a product that can be used at home but is also good enough for a professional kitchen. The Norpro Potato Ricer 162 is that accessory. It flawlessly produces smooth results and is easy to clean. Read Full Review
If you are looking for a way to make your roasted or boiled veggies into a fluffy mash, the Norpro Potato Ricer 162 is a good option. I like this one because it is a professional grade ricer that is very durable and heavy duty. It has a beautiful triple chrome finish and is easy to use. This is an excellent tool for making sure that all of your mashed foods are smooth and of superior quality. Experience restaurant quality in your own home with this ricer. Hand washing is preferred.
Fox Run Ricer
This is a well made potato ricer that is durable and a great option for smoothly mashing up your favorite fruits or root vegetables. This light weight potato ricer has strong stainless steel blades and to create the texture of your choice. Read Full Review
It is nice to have stainless steel and chrome appliance and gadgets because they are durable and last forever. However, plastic can sometimes be just as well made. This Fox Run Ricer is well made of strong, thick, hard plastic and is light weight. You can rice with the blade for a fine texture or use the other for a more results. The blades are stainless steel and the ricer has a one cup capacity. It is comfortable to use and and hand washing is preferred.


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The Delightful Feel of Victory! Ugandan Best Aiyorworth Wins the Grand Prize for the 2013 Anzisha Prize Celebrating Youth Entrepreneurs
In March, we announced the call for entries for the 2013 Anzisha Prize for young and innovative Africans with plans to change their community. {Read the post here}. The Anzisha Prize is part of the African Leadership Academy's Centre for Entrepreneurial Leadership, which was established through a multi-year partnership with The MasterCard Foundation. The idea behind the prize was to seek out young and innovate African entrepreneurs because Anzisha is a Swahili word which means initiative and this prize has been able to achieve just that – reward and support the initiative of the young African entrepreneur.
The shortlist of 12 finalists was released in August with each finalist bringing unique concepts to the table. {Read the profile of each of the finalists here}. There were over 400 entries from 32 countries and these 12 finalists showed a distinct and remarkable passion for the projects they're running. All the finalists are 23 years and below and we're very excited that such positive energy is coming out of African youth.
Ugandan Best Aiyorworth has now emerged as the grand prize winner of the 2013 Anzisha prize. Best won the prize with her project the "Girls' Power Micro Lending Organization". She is described by the organizers as "an advocate for education in her home district Nebbi in northern Uganda. The 21-year-old has started the Girls' Power Micro Lending Organisation. Its motto is "To help a mother, is to help a girl child." Girls' Power is a micro lending business that supports girls through their mothers. They give women starting capital or money to boost their existing businesses so that they are able to support their daughters with school fees and scholastic materials and ensure that they get an education. She has empowered over 400 women to date."
The first runner up was fellow Ugandan Titus Mawano ,while Domitila Silayo of Tanzania was named as the second runner-up of this prestigious competition.
Between the three of them, the prize money of $75,000 will be disbursed and shared with nine other finalists. They are to use the funds to continue their existing projects and improve on them. Aiyorworth received $25,000, Mawano $15,000 and Silayo $12,500. They also received networking and learning opportunities, provided through a partnership between the African Leadership Academy and The MasterCard Foundation.
A $10 000 Energy Award given by Donor Circle for Africa, went to Rwanda's Joie Laurent Sangwa.
Here's a little insight into a few of the finalists
Titus Mawano (22) wanted to get African businesses "in the cloud" and launched Ffene, a one-stop shop for a SMME's accounting, customer and inventory management needs. With more than 400 current customers in the first six months of operation, Ffene is well on its way to revolutionising how SMMEs do business in Uganda.
Domitila Silayo (21) saw the potential of using the jathropa plant for cosmetic and medicinal uses. She began research on how to produce a soap made from the herbal plant that could heal a variety of skin problems including ringworm and dandruff. Jathropa Soap Production has gone on to help thousands of people in Tanzania fight off skin problems while turning a healthy profit and creating employment.
Nineteen-year-old Joie Laurent Sangwa from Burera in Rwanda realised that her community needed cheap and renewable energy resources. Working with a team, she discovered that human waste is a good source of energy and worked to install domestic biogas units throughout her home region. This offers a cheap, alternative energy source while helping with the environment.
BellaNaija says congratulations to all the finalists. We are positive that there's a new voice rising out of Africa and it is a good one.


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Technical Accounting Manager
Why We Work at Dun & Bradstreet
We are at a transformational moment in our company journey - and we're so excited about it. Each day, we are finding new ways to strengthen our award-winning culture, and to accelerate creativity, innovation and growth. Our purpose is to help customers improve business performance with Dun & Bradstreet's Data Cloud and Live Business Identity, and we're wildly passionate and committed to this purpose. So, if you're looking to make an immediate impact at a company that welcomes bold and diverse thinking, come join us!
The Technical Accounting Manager will serve as a technical accounting subject matter expert with respect to the company's generally accepted accounting policies, and ensure quality and timeliness of financial guidance throughout the company's finance organization.
Develop and support the maintenance of accounting policies
Ensure compliance with accounting policies and assist in resolving questions
Perform research on accounting, industry trends; assess impact of new accounting pronouncements to the Company and write accounting conclusions/policies
Coordinate with external auditors on technical accounting matters
Work closely with closely with other functional teams on the implementation of accounting standards and recognition/reporting of complex accounting matters and transactions
Prepare and deliver presentations to facilitate firm-wide education of new or changing accounting requirements to ensure that management understands the impact of new standards and regulations
Train new team members on new policies and procedures
Key Requirements:
7 - 10 years of relevant experience with at least 4 years of experience in Big Four or national public accounting firms
CPA and Bachelors Degree in Accounting required.
Experience with performing complex accounting research and technical activities
Strong and demonstrated leadership, collaboration and organizational skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including preparing technical memoranda and delivering presentations to senior executives
Strong analytical skills and leans towards challenging the status quo
Proficiency in the full suite of Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, Word. PowerPoint and Access
Ability to work within a teaming/collaborative environment.
Strong self-starter with the ability to think creatively, solution unexpected issues and work independently to meet deadlines
Dun & Bradstreet is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, genetic information, protected military and veteran status, ancestry, marital status, medical condition (cancer and genetic characteristics) or any other characteristic protected by law.
We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with Dun & Bradstreet and need special assistance or an accommodation to use our website or to apply for a position, please send an e-mail with your request to email@example.com. Determination on requests for reasonable accommodation are made on a case-by-case basis.
Please note that all Dun & Bradstreet job postings can be found at https://dnb.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers and all communication from Dun & Bradstreet will come from an email address ending in @dnb.com.
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