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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Video teaching modules for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 35 video modules (from 5 to 20 minutes in length) and guide
This series has been discontinued due to rights expiration.
1. Unraveling the Mysteries of the Mind
Explores such fundamental questions as "What is the mind?" and "What is the relationship between the mind and the brain?" Summarizes various views on the brain/mind connection. (This module sets the stage for the remaining 34 modules.)
2. Hypnotic Dissociation and Pain Relief
Describes what goes on during hypnosis and looks at states of consciousness, hypnosis as a phenomenon, and the therapeutic use of hypnosis in treating arthritis.
3. The Placebo Effect: Mind/Body Relationship
Explores a number of areas presented in general psychology, including biological bases of behavior, experimental control, health, and mind/body relationships.
4. Cognition and the Immune System: Mind/Body Interaction
Looks at mind/body interactions and their relationships to disease and the immune system.
5. Endorphins: The Brain's Natural Morphine
Provides diagrammatic action graphics of neural networks, synaptic junctions, and neurotransmitter sites. Also touches on topics of consciousness, drug addiction, withdrawal symptoms, and nerve functioning.
6. Brain Mechanisms of Pleasure and Addiction
Explores biological motivation and addictive behavior, and takes the viewer through scientists' work on brain stimulation.
7. The Frontal Lobes: Cognition and Awareness
Explains the importance of the frontal lobe in human functioning, and covers brain function, diagnostic assessment, cognitive function, evolution, and comparative behavior.
8. Language Processing in the Brain
Demonstrates learning as an active process and shows the PET scan as an effective method of measuring brain function.
9. Studying the Effects of Subliminal Stimulation on the Mind
Explores perception, the study of unconscious processes, and research methodologies. Provides a good example of the impact Freud has had on psychology and how it is possible to test some of his hypotheses in the laboratory.
10. Life Without Memory: The Case of Clive Wearing, Part 1
Raises many questions about the nature of memory and its importance to human existence. Introduces the viewer to Clive Wearing, who is incapable of making new memories due to viral encephalitis.
11. Clive Wearing, Part 2: Living Without Memory
Presents an extraordinary example of the relationship between brain damage and memory function by reintroducing the viewer to Clive Wearing 13 years after his appearance in part one.
12. Teratogens and Their Effects on the Developing Brain and Mind
Discusses the biological basis of behavior by illustrating case studies of humans affected by radiation contamination, alcohol, and drugs.
13. Capabilities of the Newborn
Covers infant development and the capacities of the newborn.
14. Infant Cognitive Development
Illustrates two ways of studying infant behavior: brain activity and visual fixation.
15. Social Development in Infancy
Covers infant social/cognitive development and the emergence of self.
16. The Effect of Aging on Cognitive Function: Nature/Nurture
Explores how the study of identical twins can help determine how factors such as lifestyle and diet may contribute to individual differences in the aging process.
17. Aging and Memory
Illustrates how a common form of forgetting involving future intentions can be studied in the laboratory, and presents a new way of studying age differences via memory.
18. Effects of Mental and Physical Activity on the Brain/Mind
Introduces Dr. William Greenough's expanded studies on the effects of mental and physical activity on the aging brain and mind.
19. Understanding Alzheimer's Disease
Provides a clear demonstration of how the advent of new technologies has aided research into the etiology of disease.
20. Phantom Limb Pain
Presents a vivid example of phantom limb pain and raises important questions about the origin of the pain.
21. Treating Chronic Pain
Studies chronic pain and examines physical and psychological approaches to treatment.
22. Depressants and Their Addictive Effect on the Brain
Shows what happens biochemically in alcohol and drug addiction; deals with states of consciousness, addiction, and alcohol-related abnormal behaviors.
23. Infant Speech Sound Discrimination
Demonstrates how infants can discriminate between subtle sound differences; focuses largely on infant speech development.
24. Language Predisposition
Deals with language, development, and research methodology; provides a good demonstration of human sound recognition abilities.
25. Human Language: Signed and Spoken
Explores how sign language is processed; discusses hemispheric specialization, language acquisition, the nature of language formation, and methodology.
26. The Bilingual Brain
Illustrates the capabilities of the fMRI, one of the latest technologies used by scientists to investigate brain functions.
27. Animal Language
Examines animal communication, the linguistic abilities of chimpanzees, and comparative cognitive behavior.
28. Language and Culture
Relates to language development, the nature versus nature debate, and cultural influences on behavior.
29. Alcohol Addiction: Hereditary Factors
Deals with alcoholism, addiction, biological evidence for hereditary traits, and how science progresses through replication and the development of new technologies.
30. Treating Drug Addiction: A Behavioral Approach
Provides an example of how drug therapies incorporate the results of research on several levels of behavior, and shows how patients learn to deal with environmental triggers for cravings.
31. Mood Disorders: Mania and Depression
Presents vivid examples of the mood fluctuations of patients who suffer from periodic affective episodes.
32. Mood Disorders: Hereditary Factors
Illustrates the findings of a 10-year study that involved 12,000 volunteers in an Amish community and represents careful analysis of genetic factors related to manic-depressive disorders.
33. Mood Disorders: Medication and Talk Therapy
Shows the effectiveness of combining drug therapies with traditional psychotherapy.
34. Treating Depression: Electroconvulsive Therapy
Provides a clear and dramatic presentation of the process and some of the effects of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
35. The Mind of the Psychopath
Presents the definition of and specific behaviors related to psychopathy, and the ongoing research on this subject.
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Just a couple days after I declared that I no longer like playing my Druid, the 5.4 patch notes have been released. And boy are there some game changers.
Talent Changes
Ysera's Gift, a new talent healing the Druid for 5% of their maximum health every 5 seconds. If the Druid is at full health, it will heal the most injured friendly target nearby instead.
Ysera's Gift is a new Level 30 talent in our talent tree, replacing Nature's Swifteness (which is now baseline for restos). This is a passive ability that will continuously tick, healing yourself, or another nearby target if you're at full health. Completely passive healing is a bit boring in terms of gameplay, but could provide a nice buffer. Looks like this tier will now be a toss up between this talent and Cenarion Ward, though I think that passive smart healing will end up doing more overall.
Soul of the Forest has been partially redesigned to make it more attractive to Balance, Guardian, and Restoration Druids.
Restoration: Now causes the Druid to gain 100% haste on their next spell after casting Swiftmend.
In the level 60 Tier, SotF has been improved to increase haste for your next spell by 100%, up from 75%. Wild Growth will now gain even more extra ticks if cast after a Swiftmend, making this talent even more powerful.
Dream of Cenarius has been completely redesigned to reduce complexity and increase usability, but maintain the spirit of the effects. Benefits now varies by specialization. Restoration: Causes Wrath to deal 20% more damage and heals a nearby friendly target for 100% of the damage done.
DoC has been redesigned to actually be usable. In essence, this will turn us into (much less powerful versions) of Atonement healers. This will be a viable option on some fights, especially those where the boss takes extra damage. It could also be good on fights where there are periods of downtime when healing requirements are light.
Heart of the Wild when activated, now also provides a 25% bonus to healing for Restoration Druids.
I do like that this ability will no longer be completely passive. However, unless you're using it for burst damage, I still find HotW incredibly boring. The healing bonus is nice, but it's still got a 6 minute cooldown.
Nature's Vigil when activated, causes single target healing spells to trigger an additional heal on a nearby ally for 25% of the amount healed. This is in addition to the existing effect where it damages a nearby enemy target for 25% of the healing done.
Another improvement to healing output. The bonus healing should come from any single target heal (RJ, RG, SM, HT, Nourish). This adds even more smart healing to our toolkit. This isn't as big an an increase to healing as HotW but it can be used four times as often.
Spell Changes
Genesis is a new Restoration spell learned at level 88. Genesis targets all party or raid members within 60 yards and accelerates the casting Druid's Rejuvenation effects, causing them to heal and expire at 400% of the normal rate. Costs the same amount of mana to cast as Rejuvenation.
This new spell gives us a little more burst and is something a number of Druids have been asking for for a long time. I really love the sound of this spell. I still don't think this will be quite as powerful as something like Uplift, since Rejuv is mana-prohibitive and doesn't jump around on it's own, but I do think it's a good addition to our toolkit. Realistically you're not going to have Rejuv on more than about 8 people at a time tops, and the first applications will only have 1-2 ticks left if you wait until it's active on 8 targets before using Genesis. So I think this spell will be most useful for healing specific, smaller groups of people. Luckily it looks like this spell doesn't have a cooldown, so there will be a lot of room to play with it and figure out how best to use it in each fight.
Wild Mushroom Restoration version of the ability now summons a single mushroom at the friendly target's location. If the mushroom is recast, the mushroom moves to the new location and retains its accumulated bonus healing. A single mushroom now heals for as much as what 3 mushrooms combined healed for previously.
Wild Mushroom: Bloom is no longer capable of critical strikes, and accumulates overhealing done by Rejuvenation by 100%, down from 150%. Overhealing bonus no longer benefits from Naturalist or Mastery: Harmony.
This is huge. Only having to place one mushroom is great and being able to move the mushroom without losing the stored up healing is even better. The overall healing that mushrooms can do will be reduced (which is fine, they heal for too much now), but they'll be so much more usable.
Innervate now causes the target to gain mana equal to 50% of the casting Druid's Spirit every second for 10 seconds.
Whether this turn out to be a buff or nerf for you depends on how much Spirit you like to run with. With my ~8k spirit, this is a nerf. Which sucks. We'll also likely benefit even less from Innervates from Guardians or Ferals.
Glyph of Efflorescence increases the healing done by Swiftmend by 20%, causes the Efflorescence healing effect to be triggered by Wild Mushroom instead of Swiftmend, and lasts as long as the Wild Mushroom is active.
This is going to be a must-have glyph. With this now you can Swiftmend the person standing out in the middle of nowhere who's about to die without having to waste all that ground healing. Being able to place your Efflorescene where you want it (around your Mushrooom, which you can move around as you like) and have it active all the time is a huge buff.
Glyph of Innervate now causes Innervate to give both the Druid and the target 60% of the normal effect of the spell if it's cast on a target other than the Druid.
Innervate trading will now be a thing again. But what if I have 8k Spirit and my co-Druid has 10k? Will she feel cheated? Will she not want my puny Innervate?
Tier 16 Set Bonuses
May as well look at the new tier set bonuses too:
- 2P Bonus – Ironbark increases your critical chance by 20% for 12 sec.
- 4P Bonus – Rejuvenation, Lifebloom, and Wild Growth critical heals have a chance to cause all cast time heals for the next 12 sec to cause a Living Seed on the target for 80% of the amount healed.
I really like the 2-set bonus. No, Crit's not our best stat, but I like that this will (hopefully) give people a reason to use Ironbark all the time.
The 4-set bonus is just odd. I like the idea of Living Seed, but it doesn't work like it should. It's so fussy about what damaging effects will trigger it that a lot of the time it ends up wasted, so having LS be 80% of the amount healed rather than 30% and trigger from non crits might not make too much of a difference. With any HoT tick having a chance to trigger the effect it could technically be active all the time, but with the small amount of cast time heals we cast, this bonus seems underwhelming.
Overall, the 5.4 changes look to bring a huge improvement to the resto healing toolkit. So many of these changes have been asked for by a lot of Druids, it's nice to know the developers are listening.


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Today we have this news blog entry from Kikuchi Moa (MoaMetal) translate by the guys at Babymetal 重音部
Original is here: http://ameblo.jp/sakuragakuin/theme-10025604354.html
Here is Kikuchi Moa the Student Council President of Sakura Gakuin.
When BABYMETAL is disconnected with Sakura Gakuin,
and the time to start on independent way,
It seems that the time to spend as Sakura Gakuin have became less isn't it?
And, it might be causing trouble to the members,
Become the obstructer to Sakura Gakuin?
And, I'm very distress to think myself.
After all, if someone need Moa,
As long as there are people move for us,
And there are fans who giving support,
Let's live greedily,
I've decided to do both Moa from Sakura Gakuin and MOAMETAL from BABYMETAL,
and progressed straight on the way.
But, this time,
It had become the situation not able to participate in TIF (Tokyo Idol Festival).
I'm still not sure is it a right choice or not,
Even now and the future~
However, I believe that I will not doing the wrong choice to choose the both ways.
But you know, honestly,
The thought of me about the overlapping date of TIF and Lady GAGA supporting act is "Huh?! Why they are not a different day? XwX "
This time,
For this matter to be absent in TIF,
I had asked the members:
"TIF is the first stage of Moa and Yui when we as the transfer student to SG, is a special, and very favorite festival for us! Please help us to deliver this feeling with the performance!! "
And, TIF is the place that allows everyone to shine!
Many Idol appearance can be seen there,
I want to learn a lot from there,
want to feel a lot from there,
there are also full of chance,
I was also told a lot of feelings there.
Hana, Yunano, Rinon, Saki, Shi-tan, Sara, Aiko, Megu,
Even though it should be really uneasy,
But everyone were very understanding,
They gave us supportive and kind words through the mail:
"Both of you are doing your best at America, in the same way we also doing our best at Japan here! Please don't worry… "
I felt that everyone is growing more and more somehow.
I felt that Sakura Gakuin able to grow after overcome various of things,
I felt the pride to be a member of Sakura Gakuin.
In the United States,
I will do the best performance so that I will not live up Sakura Gakuin members who doing their best at TIF.
That is the promise with Sakura Gakuin members!!
Sakura Gakuin members will also show their best at TIF!
I believe that we will keep the promise.
★ Even we are away, our heart is one… ★
★ Never forget in any way ★
My request to everyone.
Everyone are doing their best for the TIF stage.
Please watch the Sakura Gakuin stage,
and tell me what kind of performance is it.
I believe in members and everyone,
Thanking you in advance!!!
*The word on the picture
★ Dream
★ Bond
★ Love
– Moo
The Tokyo Idol Festival is the world's biggest idol festival where idol fans from across the globe come together. In fact, last year's festival attracted a total of 33,000 fans who watched 111 idol groups perform on stage. Commemorating its 5th anniversary, the festival returns again this year with an even more powerful line-up! "Tokyo Idol Festival (TIF) 2014" will be held in the Odaiba/Aomi area Saturday, August 2nd and Sunday, August 3rd. Once again, TIF brings you various idol collaborations that can only be witnessed in Odaiba once a year as well as an opportunity to experience the Japanese idol culture firsthand, like having the chance to see local idols from various regions of Japan.
Additionally, 2014 will mark the first year in which TIF welcomes a broader audience, making ticket purchases possible from anywhere in the world*. By doing so, TIF hopes to further expand its presence into an international one, involving idol fans from all over the world. The main stage for TIF will be set up within Odaiba, now the so-called holy ground to idol fans. A number of special stages will be set up including a collaboration stage with Fuji TV's summer event "Odaiba New World"
It's a dream-come-true live event that will have you dancing to idol tunes all day!
■Sponsor: Tokyo Idol Festival 2014 Executive Committee
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■Location: Odaiba & Aomi Area
■Date: Saturday, August 2nd / Sunday, August 3rd 2014
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Shaking Up the Classroom
Some Schools Scrap Age-Based Grade Levels, Focusing on Mastery of Material
LINDSAY, Calif.—There are no seventh-graders in the Lindsay Unified School District.
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Beyond the Must-See Sites
If you're interested in Jewish heritage tours in Berlin beyond the must-see sites, we offer tours to the Jewish past of different parts of the city, from Jewish life in West Berlin, through a tour on Jewish life in Kreuzberg and "Kreuzkölln", and all the way to tours on Jewish life in Pankow, Prenzlauer Berg and Weissensee. Needless to say, you can also take tours to museums and memorial sites with us, or take a tour about the architecture of memory in Berlin.
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We guide groups and individuals, and also do special tours and research for media on the topic of Jewish life in Berlin. We have guided a variety of groups in the city, including synagogue groups, bat/bar mitzvahs, student and school groups, and groups from Jewish organisations and governmental institutions.
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(Reuters) - NBA legend Bill Russell was cited on Wednesday for having a loaded gun in his carry-on luggage at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, federal and airport officials said on Saturday.
Transportation Security Administration officials found a .38 caliber Smith & Wesson handgun in a male passenger's carry-on bag on Wednesday evening, according to a TSA spokeswoman. The man was traveling to Boston.
An airport spokesman, in a recorded telephone message, identified the passenger as Russell, the 79-year-old National Basketball Association Hall of Famer, who lives in the Seattle area.
The TSA spokeswoman said the gun contained six rounds. TSA contacted Port of Seattle police, who cited Russell for having a weapon in a prohibited area, a state violation, the airport message said. The firearm was confiscated, and Russell was released.
Firearms are prohibited in carry-on baggage. They may be carried unloaded in checked baggage and stored in a locked, hard-sided container, according to the TSA.
A representative for Russell could not be reached for comment.
Russell had been a star with the Boston Celtics in the 1950s and 60s, and was named NBA most valuable player five times. He later served as coach of the Seattle SuperSonics during the 1970s.
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Renewable resources currently provide just over 6 percent of total U.S. energy, but that figure could increase rapidly in the years ahead, according to a joint report released today by the Worldwatch Institute and the Center for American Progress, "American Energy: The Renewable Path to Energy Security."
Many of the new technologies that harness renewables are, or soon will be, economically competitive with fossil fuels. Dynamic growth rates are driving down costs and spurring rapid advances in technologies. Since 2000, global wind energy generation has more than tripled; solar cell production has risen six-fold; production of fuel ethanol from crops have more than doubled; and biodiesel production has expanded nearly four-fold. Annual global investment in "new" renewable energy has risen almost six-fold since 1995, with cumulative investment over this period nearly $180 billion.
"With oil prices soaring, the security risks of petroleum dependence growing, and the environmental costs of today's fuels becoming more apparent, the country faces compelling reasons to put these technologies to use on a larger scale," notes the report. Some of the findings include:
- America boasts some of the world's best renewable energy resources, which have the potential to meet a rising and significant share of the nation's energy demand. For example, one-fourth of U.S. land area has winds powerful enough to generate electricity as cheaply as natural gas and coal, and the solar resources of just seven southwest states could provide 10 times the current electric generating capacity.
- All but four U.S. states now have incentives in place to promote renewable energy, while more than a dozen have enacted new renewable energy laws in the past few years, and four states strengthened their targets in 2005.
- California gets 31 percent of its electricity from renewable resources; 12 percent of this comes from non-hydro sources such as wind and geothermal energy.
- Texas now has the country's largest collection of wind generators. The United States led the world in wind energy installations in 2005.
- Iowa produces enough ethanol that, if consumed in-state, would meet half the state's gasoline requirements.
- Renewable energy creates more jobs per unit of energy produced and per dollar spent than fossil fuel technologies do.
Despite strong public support and rapidly rising interest in renewable technologies, the U.S. has not kept up with the rapid growth in the sector globally over the past decade. If the U.S. is to join the world leaders in renewable energy—among them Germany, Spain, and Japan—it will need world-class energy policies based on a sustained and consistent policy framework at the local, state, and national levels.
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Dayton says public works projects will create thousands of jobs
DFL Gov. Mark Dayton has released a list of public works construction projects that he claims will result in thousands of jobs, mostly in the depressed building sector.
His proposed $775 million bonding bill would upgrade college buildings statewide, expand regional civic centers and add to the light rail transit system. But Republican legislative leaders argue the state cannot afford any more debt.
The bonding bill is the centerpiece of Dayton's job-creation agenda for the 2012 Legislative session, which begins next Tuesday. The governor proposing the state issue $775 million in bonds. But when other leveraged funds are factored in, the total impact of the list is nearly $1.5 billion. He estimates the projects, if approved, would result in 21,700 jobs. With his likely Republican critics in mind, the DFL governor stressed that most of those jobs would be in the private sector.
"The contractors and sub-contractors are almost all private sector companies. They employ workers in the private sector," Dayton said. "These are exactly the jobs we all say we all say want to increase in Minnesota. Well, here's our chance."
Dayton's bonding proposal is heavy on higher education projects, mostly for the upkeep of existing facilities. The University of Minnesota would get $107 million, and the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system would get nearly $112 million. The list of projects also includes upgrades at the Minnesota Security Hospital in St. Peter, a down payment on the Southwest Corridor Light Rail Transit line, a new St. Paul Saints baseball stadium and civic center expansions in Mankato, Rochester and St. Cloud. There's also a renovation of the Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis and many more projects. The ballpark and civic centers have been proposed before, and rejected. But Dayton insists those projects are still important.
"I hope the Legislature will look at them," Dayton said. "If they don't want to take my word for it, they can consult with my father or with other business leaders who understand the importance to business and to jobs and to economic vitality of downtown revitalization projects."
During a news conference, Dayton highlighted a $3.5 million project to renovate the home of the Harriet Tubman Center East, a domestic violence shelter in Maplewood, and the $13.5 million expansion of the Hormel Institute, a bioscience research facility in Austin, Texas. Zigang Dong, executive director of the Hormel Institute, said the project would create construction jobs, as well as 120 additions to his staff.
"These jobs are high-tech jobs, medical research jobs," Dong said. "It's not easy to bring these jobs to Austin, to a rural area of Minnesota."
With the prospects of new jobs waiting, Dayton urged lawmakers to pass a bonding bill early in the 2012 session. He asks for the bill to be on his desk to sign by the end of February.
Republican legislative leaders were quick to criticize Dayton's proposal, but they appeared to be moving at their own, slower pace on a bonding bill. House Majority leader Matt Dean of Dellwood isn't convinced that a bonding bill is needed this session.
"We're not constitutionally obligated to a bonding bill. We passed a bonding bill last year, and certainly we have the capacity to do so again, and our bonding committee is working hard, but we have had sessions in the past where we have not passed them," Dean said. "We are not obligated to do so, by any means."
Dean and other Republicans are concerned about the state's ability to afford additional debt service. Senate Majority Leader Dave Senjem of Rochester, who chairs the committee that will hear the bonding bill, said he and Dayton have a fundamental philosophical difference. Senjem said bonding bills are meant to repair and build infrastructure, not to serve as a stimulus or short-term jobs program.
"That should not be our jobs program. Our jobs program ought to be about looking at tax climate, looking at regulatory climate and doing things to incent the private sector," Senjem said. Bonding does not do that to any great degree."
Senjem said he expects Senate Republicans will propose about $400 million in bonding, emphasizing higher education and other core infrastructure projects.


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La Habra police Sgt. Daniel Barnes says officers and Orange County Department of Family and Children's Services officials examined Suleman's home in Southern California on Tuesday and did not find anything unusual.
The entertainment news website TMZ.com says Ms. Suleman's hairstylist told police the house was a mess and there was only one working toilet in the home.
Barnes told City News Service that someone reported filth in the home.
The 36-year-old Suleman became known as Octomom after she gave birth to eight babies in January 2009. They are the world's longest-living octuplets.


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Water Street Landing may soon receive a major facelift.
On Monday, Whirlpool Jet Boat Tours President John Kinney informed the Village of Lewiston Planning Board of his intention to add a multi-story addition to the north side of the restaurant building his company owns.
"Thirteen short years ago, we started running jet boat trips here in the village. And we're pleased to say that things have gone pretty well for us," Kinney said. "One of the things that we've done, to a fault, is we've become too good at taking former restaurant space and converting it into jet boat space -- which, quite frankly, isn't that great of a scenario. We believe that our operation has matured to the point where it really demands a professional facility designed to meet the needs of our program."
Specifically, Kinney said patrons need a clear entrance into the WJBT facilities, sufficient bathroom and changing areas, and a retail store located in close proximity to the parking lot.
Currently, none of those things exist. The WJBT entrance is connected to a series of doors leading into Water Street Landing. Bathrooms are scarce; the business actually utilized a portable bathroom trailer over the summer to accommodate tourists bused state to state without a washroom break. And the opportunity to purchase a souvenir often comes when patrons are without their wallets (left on the bus or inside a parked car).
The addition, then, would "be a permanent solution" to address those needs, Kinney said.
He said the construction was "fairly simple"; he estimated it could begin around March 2011 and finish in time for summer.
"The plan is to add an addition on to the north side of the building, that would be a two-story structure (above the current walkway)," Kinney said. "The story that will be at the existing level of the restaurant would be where the pre-trip registration and post-trip retail operations occur."
The facility would include a new, wrap-around balcony for restaurant patrons.
Additionally, "We have added new and improved handicap access to the site," Kinney said. Access to the jet boat launch would be via a small staircase or a ramp.
In total, Kinney said the addition and new amenities would make, "a very clear and distinct entrance to the jet boat tour operations."
He said the project, "would improve the facilities for our jet boat patrons. ... We believe this is a long-term solution."
The Planning Board listened to Kinney, but informed him that was all members could do, as WJBT and the Village of Lewiston are currently discussing property lines and liability.
Moreover, Planning Board Chairman Dave Giusiana said the drawings presented by Kinney and his associates (Jim Fittante of Silvestri Architects and attorney John Bartolomei) did not sufficiently address how the addition fits with municipal code and the zoning schedule. Giusiana outlined several items -- including easement issues, property ownership resolution, environmental assessment, front yard setbacks, area coverage and parking space allotments -- that need addressing before the Planning Board could approve the project. He indicated variances from the Zoning Board of Appeals might be required.
"What I would like to see on the next go-around with the site plan is all the required setbacks clearly delineated, and then describe the process for which the variances are going to be acted upon," Giusiana said.
"We very much want to comply with everything," Bartolomei said.
"I think the next submission with the site plan really should be a zoning schedule shown -- what's required and what you're actually providing, and if you're not providing (something), how you're proposing relief for it," Giusiana said.
The Planning Board next meets at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 13. Giusiana said a special meeting was not out of the question, should Kinney resolve his hindrances sooner.
WJBT land use and property ownership could be discussed Monday, Nov. 15, when the Village Board meets at 6 p.m. inside the Red Brick Municipal Building.•Members of the Planning Board will hold a work session at 6 p.m. on Dec. 13. Those with questions related to the project submission process are encouraged to attend.


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Prof. Kathryn Kolbert, director of Barnard's Athena Center for Leadership Studies and a former reprodutive rights litigator, writes about the Women's Equality Act introduced by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. An excerpt from her piece in The New York Daily News:
"The Women's Equality Act clarifies our laws by stating simply, "New York State protects a woman's right to obtain an abortion when the fetus is not viable, or when necessary to protect a woman's life or health as determined by a licensed physician." Contrary to what you may have heard, this would not undermine New York's ban on later abortions or in any way supersede the federal ban on so-called partial-birth abortions.
Why is a change necessary? Because the Supreme Court could change the reproductive rights landscape soon. No, the current justices are not likely to reverse Roe outright. But our laws are not just meant to apply today; they are meant to endure."
Read Prof. Kolbert's full piece.
Prof. Kolbert is the Constance Hess Williams Director of the Athena Center for Leadership Studies. Recognized by The National Law Journal as one of the "100 Most Influential Lawyers in America," Kolbert argued the landmark case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1992.


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Edamame and Celery Salad with Roasted Peppers
10.24.09 by Jackie
I'm getting ready for our anniversary trip, so I haven't had a lot of time to cook. My aunt from Vietnam just came for a visit. She happens to be a vegetarian as well. I met her seven years ago when she came to visit my family in Paris. I remembered that she loves edamame, or baby soybeans boiled in salt water.
I decided to make a nice salad for her that incorporated edamame. I added roasted red bell pepper, perlini mozzarella and celery, along with Beluga lentils for color. I made a dressing with garlic, sherry vinegar, Dijon mustard and walnut oil.
The salad has a really nice contrast of flavors, colors and textures. If you've never tried edamame before, this is a great way to get acquainted with this tasty ingredient.
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The Dallas Cowboys have used their second draft pick on another defender, selecting defensive end Tyrone Crawford from Boise State.
Dallas got Crawford with the 81st overall pick in the third round Friday. It was the Cowboys' only pick on the second night of the draft.
The Cowboys selected LSU All-American cornerback Morris Claiborne with the No. 6 overall pick Thursday night, after they traded up eight spots and gave up their second-round pick to get him.
The 6-foot-4, 285-pound Crawford started 11 of his 25 games at Boise State. He had 76 tackles and 13½ sacks, causing four fumbles and recovering three others for Boise after two junior college seasons in California.


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Senegal to play Angola in Guinea
Senegal's next home World Cup qualifier against Angola will be held in Guinea with the country currently banned from playing matches in their national stadium.
Senegal fans rioted towards the end of an African Nations Cup qualifier against Ivory Coast in Dakar last October - with players and away fans seeking refuge in the centre circle as Senegal supporters started fires in the stands and threw missiles.
The Confederation of African Football imposed a one-year suspension and fined the Senegal Football Association $50,000, with a further $50 000 suspended for two years.
That means Senegal must play all of their remaining World Cup qualifiers away from their homeland, starting with their match against Angola which will be played in Conakry's Stade du 28 Septembre on March 23.
Senegal currently top Group J with four points from two games having won at home to Liberia and drawn in Uganda. The return against Uganda will also have to be played on neutral soil.
The group winners then go through to a two-legged play-off for a place at Brazil 2014, and again there would be no home advantage for Senegal.
Senegal have only once, in 2002, qualified for the World Cup finals and have missed out on two of the last three African Nations Cups leading to supporter unrest at the way the national team is run.
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