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BOCA RATON, Fla. _ Quality shot selection and a solid defensive effort combined to give the Lipscomb Bisons a 66-50 win over Florida Atlantic in Atlantic Sun action Tuesday night.
Junior guard Brian Fisk and senior guard James Poindexter combined for 42 points as the Bisons shot 52.3 percent from the field. Fisk hit 7-of-11 field goal attempts, including 2-of-3 3-pointers. Poindexter was 7-of-14 from the field, hitting 4-of-8 3-point tries. Both were also perfect at the free throw line with Fisk hitting 6-of-6 and Poindexter hitting 2-of-2.
It was the sixth straight win for the Bisons who move into a tie for second place in the A-Sun with FAU. The two teams tangle again Sunday at 1 p.m. at Allen Arena.
"We're excited, because I mean nobody in our league has won over here yet, and this was a big win for us," said Lipscomb Coach Scott Sanderson "We have exactly tomorrow, exactly one month left to figure out who's going to win the league.
"That's all fine and good and that's one of our goals, to win the league. But we'll find out in a month what's going to happen. Then you've got postseason play at the end which is the most important. Hopefully we will get better for deep into February."
The Bisons are 12-6 overall, 8-2 in the conference. FAU is 9-8 overall, 8-2 in the conference.
It took the Bisons less than four minutes to take a lead they would never relinquish as Fisk hit a 3-pointer at 16:21 for a 6-4 lead.
In the first half the Bisons went on a 14-3 run, starting with a 3-pointer by Poindexter at 14:25. The Bisons continued to build on their lead. The biggest first half advantage was 17 points (32-15) with 1:36 left to play. The Bisons would go into their dressing room at intermission with a 34-21 lead.
The second half was more of the same. The Bisons held a double-figure lead for almost the entire second half. The only time their lead dipped below 10 points was at 3:47 when FAU's Paul Graham connected from the field and drew a foul. He hit his only shot to trim the Bisons lead to nine at 53-44.
It was short-lived as freshman guard Michael Lusk hit a free throw for the Bisons at 3:42 for a 54-44 lead.
In the final two minutes the Bisons hit 10-of-11 free throws to once again increase their lead to as many as 16 points twice, including the final score.
Fisk has led the Bisons in scoring in six of his last 11 games. He has scored in double figures in his last 10 games.
Poindexter, despite a groin injury in the first half, posted his second straight game with 20 or more points. He has scored in double figures in seven games this season.
"We ran a couple of plays for him and got him a couple of threes," said Sanderson. "He made three threes in the first half which really, really helped us a lot."
Fisk also tied with senior center Shaun Durant for the team lead in rebounds with eight. The eight rebounds were also a new season-high for Fisk.
It was important to have Fisk and Poindexter clicking offensively since sophomore forward Eddie Ard, the reigning A-Sun Player of the Week, was held to only five points
"They took Eddie away because they went after him a little bit, and he just didn't play very good," said Sanderson. "If one of your best players doesn't play very well...you have to have other guys step up,
"I thought Cameron Robinson was big, I thought James came off the bench big for us, Brian was good, Shaun had some timely baskets getting eight points and eight rebounds in 37 minutes. Again, it was just a great team victory for our guys."
Florida Atlantic placed two players in double figures. DeAndre Price led with 17 and Rodney Webb added 13. Webb led FAU in rebounding with eight.
The Bisons defense held FAU to 32.7 percent shooting from the field. Sanderson, usually a defensive-minded coach, seemed more excited about the Bisons shooting percentage from the field.
"We milked the clock a few times and got some buckets late in the clock," said Sanderson. "We hit some timely shots. As soon as they cut it to eight or 10, it seemed like we always answered with a big shot, and then we made a lot of free throws down the end."
FAU held a slight advantage on the boards with 31 compared to 28 by the Bisons.
The game ended the first round of play in the Atlantic Sun Conference. There are 10 more conference games remaining before the conference tournament.
Sanderson wants to see another big crowd at Allen Arena for the FAU game.
"I would hope we'd have a humongous crowd," said Sanderson. "Every church, whoever knows anybody, because these players deserve people coming out there Sunday afternoon at 1 to watch them play."
Sports information student assistant Justin Seamon contributed to this story.


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La Camargue encompasses the Rhone River delta in the southeast of France. It is one of the best places in Europe for birdwatching; also great for biking and horse riding.
Other destinations
Parc Ornithologique du Pont de Gau - a series of lakes/scrapes which are home to many of the birds of the Camargue. The parc provides a good introduction to the native species.
To walk around the two sections takes about three hours, but the bird life on view will keep your attention and lengthen this time. Enthusiastic photographers could spend most of the day here.
Get in
Get around
You can contact a local travel agency, like www.durand-tourisme-gard.com. This agency organize trip around Cevennes (classified on the world heritage of UNESCO) and Camargue.
There are numerous hotels on way from Arles to Saintes Maries de la Mer. Some of them worth considering include:
Local specialty foods
Specialty foods of the Camargue include:
Finding a good dinner
When staying in a touristy city like Saintes Maries de la Mer, it can be difficult to find a place for a good dinner with anything beyond fried chips and over-grilled meat.
However, if you have a car, here are some tips for finding a good place serving local cuisine. Internet connection can help in your research. You should look for:
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Curt Schmitt '81 Creates Useful Beautyby Steve Charles • July 18, 2013 Share:
In his woodworking shop in New Harmony, IN, religion, philosophy, and art teacher-turned-craftsman Curt Schmitt '81 creates furniture in a style he calls "Asian, Shaker-inspired contemporary."
"I think I do what Wabash does," Schmitt told writer Joni Jeffries in an article for the Wabash Magazine. "It doesn't really matter what you do, as long as you do it in a fulfilling way. Not just fulfilling for me personally, but that contributes somehow to something bigger. Once you begin to live that—that is when you live a fulfilling life."
Read "A Fulfilling Life" to learn more about Schmitt's life and work, then click on the expanded photo album (including pieces we weren't able to include in the print version) to see how a liberal arts education and one man's philosophy, skill, and practice converge to create works that are both useful and beautiful.


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This is one of my all time go-to meals, its seriously that good and completely customizable. It tastes exactly like chicken you get at good Mexican restaurants, and since its done in the crock pot it makes your whole house smell yummy too!
I found the original recipe over at Dinner With the Bickfords - but I have modified it to suit the picky, picky hubs.
1 pound chicken breast
2 Tbsp of taco seasoning
1 clove garlic
1 jar Salsa (I use either Mild or Medium, whatever I have on hand)
1 small can corn
White or Brown Rice
Shredded cheddar cheese
(You can also add onions, red or green peppers, jalapenos, beans- whatever you would like)
First- line the crock pot with a Slow Cooker Liner. Seriously, the best thing ever because there is virtually no clean up after dinner. They always have coupons for them online, and I get a pack of 3 for around $2. Well worth me not having to scrub the crock pot out.
Next, cut the chicken into bite sized chunks. To make quick work of this, I just hold the breast up and use a pair of kitchen scissors to snip pieces off. It goes much quicker than if I were to use a knife, and since I'm usually throwing this in the crock pot at 5 am its much safer for the digits.
To the chicken add the jar of salsa, can of corn, and taco seasoning. Using a grater (or you can mince it if you prefer) grate in the garlic so you don't have big garlic chunks. Stir to combine.
Set the crock pot on high for 4 hours or low for 6 and you're all set.
Once you come home, stir up the chicken- it should be fall apart tender. Make your rice, we use minute rice cause we're lazy like that. Plate up a scoop of rice and top with the chicken mix, then add some shredded cheddar cheese to the top. There you have it, instant happy tummy.


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Spanning needed a new button or icon design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 50 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
Spanning Backup
Spanning is a successful indie software and online services company with two shipping products: Spanning Sync (http://spanningsync.com) and Spanning Tools (http://spanningtools.com). We're about to announce our third product and want an awesome icon to go with it.
Our target audience is people who use Google Apps (Calendar, Contacts, and Docs). Our web app (not yet public) has the feel of a modern (AJAXy, "web 2.0"-ish) site, and our users appreciate good design.
Spanning Backup is an online backup service, so the icon should reflect the idea of storing or protecting your Google data. We like the basic concept of this mockup (but it uses a stock photo, which won't work):
The design should incorporate the capital "G" from the Google logo (the font is Catull regular) in the design. (Trust us, all our others do and Google doesn't seem to mind.) The design should not include the name "Spanning Backup"--it's an icon, not a logo. See the Spanning Sync icon for an example of how we convey the "for Google Apps" part of the service name:
The full-size icon should be 512x512 pixels with a transparent background (but doesn't have to be square), and should scale down well to 32x32. The icon should be at least somewhat visually consistent with those for our other two products (for instance, we seem to like blue but it's not a requirement):
Here are some icons we really like for other products:
The files we will require are:
Web file format - .png and layered .psd (RGB)
Original work only please. Please do not use any stock images or clip art, or of course any copyrighted material.
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Brad and Jennifer necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 56 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
I have a great book to help guys improve themselves in order to find their mate. I already have a publisher interested...we just need to get the cover done before its submitted and printed. The author's name is Brad Berkowitz
The 21st Century Guide to Bachelorhood: Lessons Learned Over 20 Years
We are looking for a designer to create a book cover for this upcoming published book, as well as a back cover leaving space available on the back cover for the author photo. This is a self help guide for men in their 20's-30's. Specifically, it tells guys all the things they do wrong when trying to meet girls. It tells them how to improve themselves and make themselves more of a catch. It talks about the various stages of relationships with women. Basically, it is a book about what guys need to do to make themselves a better catch for a woman and become a gentleman. The book is serious yet it has many humorous tones to it. In your opinion, what would make a guy at this stage of his life want to pick up this book at the bookstore and read it??? This is what we are looking for!!! The cover image must be at least 5.5 x 8.5 inches in size, at least 300 Dots Per Inch and sent as a TIFF file. We will be putting the photo of the author on the back so also include a back cover design leaving room for an author photo
- Item 1...This needs to be "guy" oriented. We are open to suggestions...again, this book is geared to men in their 20's and 30's who are looking for help in landing the ladies.
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Lady Antebellum - Own The Night
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We Owned The Night
Just A Kiss
Dancin' Away With My Heart
Friday Night
When You Were Mine
Cold As Stone
Singing Me Home
Wanted You More
As You Turn Away
Love I've Found In You
Somewhere Love Remains
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Augrabies, Graaff Reinet , Vanrhynsdorp, Richmond, Kakamas, Calitzdorp, Somerset East, Aberdeen, Oudtshoorn, Barrydale, Bedford, De Rust, Cradock, Kimberley, Ladismith, Colesberg, Keimoes, Sutherland, Prince Albert, Port Nolloth
Just enjoyed the open space in the Karoo.
The wide open spaces and the hot weather.
Lovely mountains and various views in the Karoo.
Go to Polka restaurant.
The Camdeboo National Park, especially the Valley of Desolation.
Karoo is a great place to relax and to experience nature.
Quaint villages and shops in the Karoo.
Everything, the plant diversity, the stone and rock formations, the splash/touch of Namaqualand in September.... can't get enough!
Beautiful panoramas with wonderful flora and fauna.
How friendly everyone was in the Karoo.
The Karoo, meaning place of thirst in the Nama language, aptly describes this vast inland region of South Africa. It's a land of contrasts, where barren fields are instantly transformed into carpets of colourful flowers after rains and eternal springs are found near to lakes that remain dry for years.
The Karoo is geologically divided into the Great and Little Karoo, the Swartberg Mountain range splitting the two regions. The Little Karoo lies in a valley and is more fertile and mountainous than the Great Karoo. Combined, this arid area is roughly 500000km² in size.
Dig a little deeper and you will find a living desert filled with interesting creatures and nocturnal animals, diverse succulents, copper-infused rocks, old farmsteads and the occasional reclusive artist selling creative gems from home. Stare in awe at the big blue skies in the day and celestial showcase by night.
In the Karoo, visitors are able to appreciate the wide open spaces and the silence, broken only by the sound of a sheep bell. Being in a vast land where human contact is irregular, the warm and friendly locals welcome visitors and make every effort to ensure their return.
Travel a dirt road here and you will greeted by every passing vehicle driver, cyclist and pedestrian.
Top 8 reasons to visit the Karoo
1. The Little Karoo is mostly ostrich and fruit country, visit the ostrich farms in Oudtshoorn to learn more about this large bird, travel to Barrydale to sample the region's wines and deciduous fruits, and take a break at the hot springs resort in Calitzdorp.
2. From Oudtshoorn, head over the Swartberg Pass – into the Great Karoo – to reach the pretty town of Prince Albert with its 19 national monuments and tasty olives. Further on is Beaufort West, a well-known fossil bearing area with good hiking and 4x4 trails.
3. Sutherland is officially the coldest town in South Africa. It's also where the astronomical observatory is located due to the absence of light pollution and regular clear skies. Check out the observatory while there, the largest in the southern hemisphere.
4. To the east is Graaff-Reinet, one of the country's best preserved towns. Visit the starkly beautiful Valley of Desolation in the nearby Camdeboo National Park.
5. The Tankwa Karoo National Park is located in the country's driest region yet over 120 bird species and a surprising amount of mammals are found here, including bat eared fox, baboon, leopard, porcupine and honey badger.
6. The large town of Kimberley was established following the discovery of diamonds in the 1800s. Tour the Big Hole, the deepest manmade hole that resulted in the scramble for diamonds, and have a drink at the world's only drive-in bar.
7. Port Nolloth on the west coast of South Africa was once used as a harbour to transport copper via sea to Cape Town. Wagons loaded with copper would arrive until a train line was established further up the coast. The bay serves a small fishing community where rock lobster attracts hungry tourists.
8. The Augrabies falls at the Augrabies Falls National Park is a spectacular sight following rains when the Orange River is forced through a tiny ravine and the gushing waters cascade down into a pool 56m below. There are 48 mammal species recorded here and exciting hiking and mountain bike trails crisscross the park.
Depending on your location, the international airports are OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg to the north and Cape Town International in the south. Kimberley has a domestic airport. Several towns such as Beaufort West, Springbok and Upington have small airports for chartered flights. Car rentals can be ordered at the airports and a few major towns. Use a hired car to travel the Karoo and opt for a 4x4 vehicle to best experience the region. The Trans-Karoo train stops off in Kimberley and Matjiesfontein on its route between Johannesburg and Cape Town.
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Expect to taste authentic lamb and mutton dishes in the Karoo, after all, this is sheep country. Karoo lamb is certified according to the Karoo Meat of Origin label and is similar to the protection given to other products such as Parma ham.
Following the Karoo Ice Age of between 260 and 360 million years ago, higher oxygen levels produced large insects such as a millipede 1.8m long and scorpions reaching 70cm in length. Fortunately for us, they all died out.
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Paul and Lea Worth
In 1999, Paul Worth of Vernon, British Columbia, spotted his now '49 Ford F-1 just minutes North from his hometown. He looked over the vehicle as if he was going to buy it on the spot, but as Paul put it, he had no money to spend on the pickup. The truck had 40,000 original miles with no dents and minimal rust. Paul thought to himself, "I would like to own a truck like this one day." But for the mean time dreaming was about all he could do because he was in the middle of building a '48 Ford Sedan. Unfortunately, the '48 Ford Sedan was involved in a structure fire and the back quarter of the car was toast. Literally!
So, with nothing to drive to the local car shows, Paul and Lea Worth were bummed about not being able to cruise with their hot rodding friends. With a little asking around, Paul was looking to get into another car so that he could once again roll in style. He must of asked the right people because before he knew it he was on the phone with the local Ford dealership talking to his friend who was the General Manager (GM). The dealership had just taken a '48 Ford F-1 in on a trade, keep in mind this is around 2000 and not many dealerships take that old of a vehicle in for trade. So Paul worked out a deal with the GM to drive it to the local car show that weekend, the GM agreed that he could put some dealer plates on it and he could take it for a few days. When it came time to go pick the truck up Paul could not believe his eyes, because it was the same pickup that he was wishing he could purchase back in 1999.
Once at the local car show, Paul told everyone that the truck was his, but his wife and him had not had the fight yet. Needless to say, there was some pretty heavy begging in the Worth household and finally Lea gave in and let Paul purchase the '49. Now they had to convince their friend at the dealership to hide the pickup for 3 months until Paul's vehicle lease ran out. Luckily, Paul, the owner, and GM of the dealership all went to high school together and hiding the pickup in the back lot so know one could touch it wasn't to hard to arrange. The surprising part about the whole deal was when Paul said he leased the truck. When he told me he leased it I had to ask him again because I was really surprised by it. The dealership made a special 3-year deal leasing that Paul would become the owner at the end of the payments.
After getting the '49 home Paul wanted to make it more of his own, so he installed a Ford Cobra Jet 429 backed by a C6 transmission with a Gear Vendors overdrive unit that makes the F-1 scoot along. A TCI front suspension was then added by Dave Gerry Street Rods followed by a Currie Enterprises 9-plus rear end with 3.50 gears. After all the frame work was complete Paul started on the bodywork. He knew he wanted to keep the stock look but with a slight change so he commissioned J&S Customs of Salmon Arm, B.C., to help him along. The hood was pie cut in the front 2½ inches and all the fenders were slightly modified to flow better with the truck. The doors were then extended on the bottom to match the bottom of the cab. Smoothie running boards were ordered and the metal was added to match the modified fenders. The door handles were shaved and smoothed to the door along with the gas tank fill hole. A rear roll pan was added and '49 Ford sedan taillights were frenched for a clean look. Tons of bodywork was done to this truck so we ran out of room but I think the most important part of this truck is that Paul and Lea enjoy driving it when the weather is good. In fact, the farthest trip they have been on is from Vernon, B.C., to Pleasanton, California, for a car show.
Paul and Lea Worth
Vernon, B.C
1949 Ford F-1
Frame: stock modified
Modifications: boxed
Rearend / Ratio: Currie 9+ / 3:50
Rear suspension: 4-link
Rear brakes: Explorer disc
Front suspension: TCI IFS
Front brakes: Explorer
Steering box: Rack-and-pinion
Front wheels: Boyd Coddington Junkyard Dog17x8
Rear wheels: Boyd Coddington Junkyard Dog 18×10
Front tires: BF Goodrich G-Force 245/40R17
Rear tires: BF Goodrich G-Force 285/40R18
Gas tank: Fat fender street rod shop
Engine: Ford Cobra Jet 429ci
Heads: Cobra Jet
Valve covers: Ford motorsport
Manifold / Induction: Edelbrock Performer RPM / Edelbrock 650 cfm
Ignition: MSD
Headers: Sanderson
Exhaust / Mufflers: Spin-Tech Stainless steel / 3"Ceramic Coated
Transmission: Ford C6 Added Gear Vendors overdrive
Modifications: rebuilt by Kim at Interior Transmissions of Vernon, B.C.
Shifter: Flaming River
Style: '49 Ford F-1
Modifications: chopped and sectioned
Fenders front / rear: stock fenders reworked
Hood: Pie cut 2½ in front
Grille: stock stainless steel w/extra grill bar
Bed: stock with Ash wood done by Bruce Horkey Woodworks
Bodywork and paint by: J and S Custom and Sean Cummings Salmon Arm, B.C.
Paint type / Color: PPG / Granite Green metallic
Headlights / Taillights: Silver bullet with turn signals/ '48 Ford car
Outside mirrors: billet painted
Bumpers: Sacramento Vintage Ford
Dashboard: stock modified
Gauges: Classic Instruments All American
Air conditioning: Classic Auto Air
Stereo: Pioneer
Steering wheel: Flaming River
Steering column: Flaming River
Seats: buckets from an Isuzu Rodeo
Upholstery by: Elgin Chipchase at Capricorn Upholstery
Material / Color: Leather / Green
Carpet: Green German Square weave


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No more suits. No more trying to interpret body language during warm-ups. No more waiting.
On Wednesday, Derrick Rose was back, playing at the United Center for the first time since his knee injury in April 2012.
As far as the Bulls were concerned, Wednesday's game against Detroit was as much about fixing the rough edges as their point guard's triumphant return.
But for everyone else watching at the United Center or on TV, it was all about D-Rose.
Here are the Top 5 moments from his first game back in front of the home fans.
Little help?
Benny the Bull does more than just work a crowd into a frenzy and throw popcorn at unspsecting fans. The mascot "helped" Rose put on his warmup gear before the team took the floor. And he knows better than to touch the knee.
Aaaaaaand now ...
"Froooooooooooom Chicago .... !" Hearing announcer Tommy Edwards say Rose's name for the Bulls' signature introductions is the equivalent of Jim Cornelison's national anthem renditions at Hawks games. It just feels right.
At your service
OK, so it's not ALL about Derrick Rose. early in the first quarter he delivered a sweet dish to Joakim Noah, leading to a pair of free throws. Teamwork!
We hear ya
"MVP!" "MVP!" The chants erupted in the second quarter while Rose was knocking down three free throws. Sweet music, right?
I'm good!
Late in the second quarter, Rose got knocked into the row of photographers ... and got right back up. You can stop holding your breath, Bulls fans.
If you turned away right before halftime, that's a shame. Because you missed Rose dribbling between his legs, juking his defender and banking home a shot while being fouled and falling to the floor. Ah, vintage D-Rose.
Follow his lead
Rose led the Bulls with 22 points in 22 minutes in the victory over the Pistons, and it looked like he was saving plenty for the regular season. That's bad news for the rest of the NBA.
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The "Ladies of the Light" in Madison, Wis., won the Grand Prize for their efforts to educate people about renewable energy, including filming a documentary.
The "Environmental Discovery Project:" of West Geauga High School in Ohio focused on reusing waste.
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Thank you for all of the wonderful comments about the picture of Kishka in the last post. I realize that post was totally self-indulgent, but when I saw that picture of her I just had to share it.
If you've been reading this blog for any length of time, you know that my charity of choice is Warm The World. I've been serving on the board since the beginning of this year and one of my projects has been developing a blog. It's finally finished and you can see the new Warm The World blog here. Felicia and I will be writing the blog and we're both excited about this new form of communication with the volunteers.
I've been knitting on the Pink Clouds socks, but I haven't taken a picture. Since a picture-less blog is a boring blog, here's a classic shot of The Three Stooges (picture was taken in June 2004).


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Parental Information and Resource Centers
Parental Information and Resource Centers (PIRCs) were conceived by Congress under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to provide parents, schools, and other organizations working with families with the information and support (including training and technical assistance) needed to understand how children develop and what they need to succeed in school. The first 28 PIRCs were funded by the U.S. Department of Education in 1995. Since then, the PIRCs' role has expanded to include helping education agencies implement NCLB's parent-involvement mandates. (see "Key Roles for a Parental Information and Resource Center [PIRC]," on p. 7.)
Some PIRCs are stand-alone entities; others operate as a program within a larger umbrella organization. All are funded through a competitive grant process whose guidelines have changed throughout the years based on new laws and department priorities. The 2006 PIRC awards, which were granted as this guide was being written, reflect such changes. Although the "new" PIRCs have the same statutory mission as previously funded PIRCs, their service areas are configured differently. In previous years, some states had no PIRC while others were served by more than one. In contrast, the most recent award cycle usually only funded one PIRC for each state, with the requirement that the grantee serve parents and educators across the whole state. The recently funded PIRCs also have some timely new priorities: they are specifically required to increase parents' understanding of NCLB and its potential ramifications for their family. The new PIRCs also are expected to help SEAs and local education agencies (LEAs) more fully implement their own parent involvement responsibilities under title I—responsibilities geared ultimately to improving student academic achievement and overall school performance, including, for example, lowering dropout rates and raising graduation rates.
PIRCs are by no means the only programs with a focus on generating greater and more effective parent involvement. In fact, as is evident throughout this guide, PIRCs often partner with other organizations to increase their reach and influence. But their singular focus has led some experienced PIRCs to develop and hone promising outreach and engagement strategies worth sharing with other organizations that have the same or similar parent involvement goals, including newly funded PIRCs, other parent involvement organizations, LEAs, SEAs, and individual schools. This guide highlights the parent- and educator-engagement practices of five PIRCs that received funds in earlier grant competitions. That is, although several were first funded in the late 1990s, the guide focuses on the work of these PIRCs during the funding periods starting in fiscal year 2002 and 2003 and continuing to the end of 2006. Though the new PIRC priorities represented in the 2006 awards have resulted in only three of these five PIRCs being refunded, all five are considered to have implemented effective strategies based on the mandates of the funding grants that were in place at the time of this study. The strategies in this guide are drawn from the following five PIRCs (for selected characteristics of each, see table 1, on p.8):
- The Academic Development Institute's PIRC, Lincoln, Ill.;
- The Family Works, Gaithersburg, Md.;
- Indiana Center for Family, School, and Community Partnerships, Indianapolis;
- The Intercultural Development Research Association's PIRC, San Antonio, Tex.; and
- The utah Family Center, Salt Lake City.
How these PIRCs and their partnering organizations have been pursuing the goal of increased parent involvement and parent-educator partnerships—especially in the context of NCLB with its push to improve schools and close the achievement gap—is the subject of this guide.
Key Roles for a Parental Information and Resource Center (PIRC)
As defined by the Department of Education, the funding agency for PIRCs, key PIRC roles include:
Table 1: Selected Characteristics of Highlighted Parental Information and Resource Centers


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I hold no grudge against KKR, says Gayle
It is a team, which decided against retaining him while he was a part of it but West Indian Chris Gayle, who is now flourishing playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore, says he has no hard feelings for Kolkata Knight Riders owners.
The Jamaican was seen exchanging pleasantries with his KKR owner Shah Rukh Khan after their match and Gayle said he has no grudge against the Knight Riders.
Describing Khan as a "very friendly" person, Gayle said: "Obviously, I had been a part of KKR (few years ago). He (Shah Rukh) is a respectable and loving man. I was just happy to see him again."
"There is no grudge. We are all family. In the middle, you are fighting a battle and both teams would want to win. But in this format, there is never going to be a grudge."
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'It's unfortunate to be on the losing side'
Gayle's 86 off 58 balls was not enough to see Royal Challengers Bangalore through while chasing 191 as they lost by 47 runs in their return leg fixture against KKR on Saturday.
"It's unfortunate to be on the losing side. But that's the game of cricket. (Gautam) Gambhir batted well and we had two tough chances," Gayle said about the two reprieves Gambhir got while batting on 5 and 13.
Gayle said chasing 191 was always going to be difficult especially against the spinners on a slow Eden wicket.
"On this sort of a wicket, 160-170 would have been a good total to chase... Then KKR's two spinners played a big part in restricting our run flow. 191 was always going to be difficult on this surface. Losing early wickets set us on the back foot," he said.
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'Gambhir set up his team very well'
Mystery spinner Sunil Narine bowled miserly yet again with 1/11 from his four overs and Gayle said it was difficult playing against his compatriot.
"He is a mystery bowler. He can get the ball turn go both ways. On better surface you may try to get on a top of him. But it was difficult on this surface."
Gambhir's Man of the Match performance of 93 also drew praise from the West Indian."You have got to give him the credit. He set up his team very well. He has played his part excellently and he is a quality player."
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'I'm not going to focus on the Orange Cap'
Gayle may be leading the batsmen's tally with 336 runs from seven outings to hold the Orange Cap but he said his focus was to bring the team back on winning track.
"I'm not going to focus on the Orange Cap... It's just a secondary thing for me. As a team-man, I always look at team's benefit. A win is more important for us. I just hope that we return to winning ways soon."
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The last PLAYOFF UPDATE. We're (finally) free of the bloody thing
Welcome to (mercifully) our final attempt to break down this year's bloody playoff races.
We need a hug. Or a bottle of anything. TO GO.
1. These predictions are not to be taken as gospel. They were done in negative-eight minutes.
2. Just because we didn't pick your team to qualify doesn't mean we hate you. Hell, we don't even KNOW you. Should you choose to believe that this is the worst insult you've ever suffered, use it as motivation, and go on to win a state title, then we expect a free meal at your year-end banquet for providing the extra incentive you needed.
3. We plan on being wrong on about half of these and, in fact, look forward to it. To err is human. To laugh at one's self is divine.
Quote David Letterman, "Remember — this is an exhibition, not a competition. Please, no wagering."
YOU WILL follow Matt Fischer's wondrously magical ROBOABACUS. It details every team's potential playoff points, and updates in real time. You're a fool if you haven't checked it out.
Follow all today's craziness at Twitter at #cthsfb and @MetalNED.
ONE LAST TIME — what's a "bonuses"?:
■ A team receives 10 points for every win and five points for each tie earned by any opponent it beat.
■ A team receives five points for each victory and 2.5 points for each tie earned by an opponent it tied.
Remember, kids — the top eight teams in each division qualify.
Newtown (12-0)
YOUR top seed.
Norwich Free Academy (8-1)
It will be seeded no worse than third if it beats New London (8-2) today. It needs two of three bonuses to clinch the second seed — East Lyme (5-5) over Waterford (4-6), Stonington (7-3) over Westerly (3-7), or Killingly (4-6) over Putnam/Tourtellotte/Ellis Tech (8-2). A loss drops it no further than sixth.
West Haven (9-1)
It would be seeded no lower than third if it wins at Fairfield Prep (8-2) today. A loss drops it no lower than sixth.
Glastonbury (10-1)
It's waiting to see whom it'll host in next Tuesday's quarterfinals.
Hall (9-1)
It could be seeded as high as third if NFA and West Haven lost. It would be seeded as low as fifth if both win.
Southington (8-1)
It would be seeded fifth if it won at Cheshire (4-6). It would need two of the three to lose if it lost — Fairfield Prep, Staples, or Trumbull.
Ridgefield (8-2)
It beat Danbury last night and has a 114.55 average (we have to use averages as some teams only played 10 games).
Fairfield Prep
It would have a 119.09 average if it beats West Haven.
Staples (8-2)
It plays host to Greenwich (7-3). A win would give it a 117.27 average.
Trumbull (8-2)
It plays at St. Joseph (9-2). A win would give it a 115.45 average.
BONUSES would decide who qualifies if all four teams win.
Prep has the biggest maximum average — 123.64. Three of its five bonuses don't look good, though.
Staples' max is 121.82. Two of its five bonuses look good.
Trumbull's max average is 120. Three of its five bonuses aren't good and one is a toss-up (Greenwich).
Ridgefield's max average is 120. Four of its six bonuses look promising. It cannot catch Southington. It might be cooked if both Prep and Staples win.
All four teams are also relying on some of the same bonus games:
■ Fairfield Warde (3-7) at Fairfield Ludlowe (6-4): Ridgefield and Staples need Ludlowe. Trumbull needs Warde.
■ Harding (3-7) at Bridgeport Central (0-10): Staples and Trumbull need Central to win. Ridgefield needs Harding.
■ Norwalk (4-6) at McMahon (7-2): Staples and Trumbull need Norwalk.
■ Stamford (2-8) at Westhill (5-5): Prep and Ridgefield need Stamford.
■ Wilton (3-7) at Trinity Catholic (0-10): Ridgefield, Staples and Trumbull all need Wilton.
Xavier needs Prep, Staples and Trumbull to lose. It cannot catch Southington or Ridgefield.
Beat Norwalk. Max out on bonuses. Losses by Prep, Staples, and Trumbull and hope neither collects many or any bonuses. Hope that Xavier doesn't collect any of its four bonuses. EEP.
No. 1 Newtown vs. No. 8 Staples; No. 2 NFA vs. No. 7 Fairfield Prep; No. 3 Glastonbury vs. No. 6 West Haven; No. 4 Hall vs. No. 5 Southington.
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New Canaan (11-0)
Earned a home quarterfinal. It would be No. 1 if it beat fellow contender Darien (9-1).
Platt (10-0)
It would be seeded no lower than second if it beat Maloney (1-8).
Middletown (10-1)
It finished its season Tuesday night. It would earn a home quarterfinal if either Darien or Naugatuck lost.
A win gets it a home quarterfinal.
Naugatuck (9-1)
It plays host to Ansonia (11-0). It would be fourth if it won and Darien lost. It's best option to qualify if it lost would be if two of the four lost — New London, Farmington, Bristol Eastern, or North Haven.
New London
A win ensures it'll be seeded between fourth and sixth. It would earn a home quarterfinal with a win and losses by Darien and Naugatuck.
A Whalers loss would put them at the mercy of others. They'd need two of the three things to qualify — Plainville (4-5) over Farmington (8-2), Bristol Central (4-5) over Bristol Eastern (8-2), or Amity (5-5) over North Haven (8-2). It couldn't catch Naugatuck even if the latter lost.
Farmington (8-2)
A win would give it between 1,320 and 1,350 points depending on its three bonuses — E.O. Smith (4-6) over Tolland (1-9), RHAM (3-7) over Bacon Academy (2-8), and Maloney.
Hand (8-3)
It beat Guilford last night and has 1,270 points. Five bonuses gets it to 1,320 — Prep, Notre Dame-W.H. (4-6) over Hamden (3-7), Shelton (6-4) over Derby (5-5), Cheshire, and North Haven.
Bristol Eastern (8-2)
It plays Bristol Central (4-5). A win would give it between 1,280 and 1,320 points depending on its four bonuses — Hartford Public (5-5) over Weaver (2-8), Northwest Catholic (7-3) over Rocky Hill (9-1), E.O. Smith, and Maloney.
North Haven
It visits Amity. A win would net it between 1,280 and 1,320 points depending on its four bonuses — Bridgeport Central, Foran over Law, Sheehan over Lyman Hall, and Hillhouse over Wilbur Cross.
BONUSES would likely sort out this group.
FORECAST (ALL-NEW — and OH, MY LAWD)
No. 1. New Canaan vs. No. 8 Bristol Eastern (it and North Haven finish with 1,300 points, Eastern wins on tiebreaker points); No. 2 Platt vs. No. 7 Naugatuck (finishes tied with Eastern on playoff and tiebreaker points, gets the seed based on beating the highest rated team using the CIAC point system, in this case, Holy Cross ); No. 3 Middletown vs. No. 6 Hand; No. 4. Darien vs. No. 5 Farmington.
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Valley Regional/Old Lyme (11-0)
It's YOUR top seed.
St. Joseph (9-2)
Already earned a home quarterfinal. A loss drops it no lower than third.
Brookfield (9-2)
It earns a home quarterfinal with a win at Bethel (8-2) and would be seeded second or third. A loss could drop it as low as eighth.
Barlow (8-2)
It gets a home quarterfinal with a win at Weston (3-7) and would seeded between second and fourth. It could plummet to eight with a loss.
Gilbert/Northwestern Regional (8-2)
It plays host to winless Housatonic Regional/Wamogo. It'll take a long road trip during the quarterfinals unless Barlow and Bethel both lose. It could use a Ledyard loss, too, but can beat it on bonuses.
Ledyard (8-2)
It plays host to Fitch (4-6). It would also qualify if the following happened:
■ It earned two of four bonuses — Waterford over East Lyme, Killingly (4-6) over Putnam/Tourtellotte/Ellis Tech (8-2), Plainfield (5-5) over Griswold (5-4), or New London.
■ Westerly (3-7) beat Stonington (7-3), and Holy Cross (7-3) beat Wolcott (7-3).
■ Stonington loses two of three bonuses — Griswold over Plainfield, Killingly, or Bacon Academy(oddly enough, the Bears would lose their other bonus if Ledyard lost). The Colonels would also need Wolcott to lose one of its three bonuses — Crosby (1-9) over Kennedy (2-8), Seymour (6-4) over Woodland (9-2), or Derby.
If it lost, then it will need its one bonuses to hold off Stonington — Bunnell over Stratford, or Derby.
Putnam/Tourtellotte/Ellis Tech
It would need Stonington and Wolcott to lose it it lost to Killingly.
Stonington (7-3)
It plays host to Westerly (3-7). It could qualify with:
■ Losses by P/T/E and Wolcott.
■ A P/T/E loss, and beating Wolcott on bonuses.
■ A Bethel loss, it earning neither of its two bonuses, and beating Wolcott on bonuses. That's a long shot, though.
The first option is the Bears' best chance.
Okay, say Stonington and Wolcott both won. They'd each have 1,130 points. The Bears have four bonuses, Wolcott three. And one of Wolcott's bonuses won't be decided until Friday.
Wolcott (7-3)
We covered it already.
Foran (7-3)
Foran needs to beat Law, collect all of its bonuses, have P/T/E, Stonington AND Wolcott lose, and hope that P/T/E doesn't collect its only bonus.
No 1. Valley Regional/Old Lyme vs. No. 8 Stonington; No. 2 St. Joseph vs. No. 7 Bethel; No. 3 Brookfield vs. No. 6 Ledyard; No. 4 Barlow vs. No. 5 Gilbert/Northwestern Regional.
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Capital/Classical/Achievement (11-0)
YOUR top seed.
It's clinched a home quarterfinal. A win gets it the No. 2 seed.
Rocky Hill (9-1)
It would earn a home quarterfinal if it beats Northwest Catholic. Its maximum is 1,570 with five bonuses.
Woodland (9-2)
It gets a home quarterfinal with a win. Its max is 1,540 with four bonuses.
Morgan (9-1)
It plays host to Old Saybrook/Westbrook (5-5) today. Its max is 1,460, so the only way it gets a home quarterfinal is if Rocky Hill or Woodland lost.
Prince Tech (9-2)
It would needs two of the three to lose to get a home quarterfinal — Rocky Hill, Woodland or Morgan. Rocky Hill could still beat it on bonuses, though. It'll be no worse than sixth.
Bloomfield (9-2)
It'll be seventh or eighth, depending on its bonuses and if Coginchaug wins and its bonuses.
Coginchaug (7-2)
It plays at Cromwell (4-6).
Holy Cross, Montville (7-4), and Northwest Catholic (7-3).
All four need to win, Coginchaug to lose, and to cash in on bonuses.
Holy Cross would finish between 1,190 and 1,320 depending on its three bonuses — Kennedy, Woodland and Weston.
Northwest would finish between 1,120 and 1,160 depending on its four bonuses — Plainville, Rockville, Tolland, and Weaver.
Montville has the worst odds of them all. It needs ALL of the following:
■ All four of its bonuses — Bacon Academy, Fitch, Plainfield, and Stonington.
■ Cromwell, Rocky Hill AND Wolcott to ALL win.
■ Coginchaug failing to earn any of its three bonuses — Lewis Mills (2-8) over Nonnewaug (3-7), Old Saybrook/Westbrook, and Housatonic Regional/Wamogo.
No. 1. Capital/Classical/Achievement vs. No. 8 Bloomfield; No. 2. Ansonia vs. No. 7 Coginchaug; No. 3. Rocky Hill vs. No. 6 Prince Tech; No. 4. Woodland vs. No. 5 Morgan.
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Make sure you have either your computer, radio, or smartphone at the ready so that you can listen or watch the following today:
10 a.m., WJJF (94.9-FM) — Fitch at Ledyard.
10 a.m., WGCH (1490-AM) — Greenwich at Staples.
10 a.m., WELI (960-AM) — North Haven at Amity.
10 a.m., WWRX (107.7-FM) — Waterford at East Lyme.
10 a.m., MSGVarsity.com — West Haven at Fairfield Prep.
10:30 a.m., WATR (1320-AM) — Ansonia at Naugatuck.
10:30 a.m., MSGVarsity.com — Darien at New Canaan.
10:30 a.m., WINY (1350-AM) — Putnam/Tourtellotte/Ellis Tech at Killingly.
10:30 a.m., gogreenknights.com — The GREEN BOWL: Notre Dame-W.H. at Hamden.
You're a pencil-neck geek if you don't watch Friday Night Football tonight during WFSB's 11 p.m. news. John Holt and Joe Zone are the best at what they do. They'll also have a Polecat Worldwide gofer on Friday night at 11:15 p.m. to analyze the playoffs. We dearly hope the delightful Paget "Sadie Doyle" Brewster is watching.
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True Wild Life | Common Toad | The common toad is generally brown in colour but colours on the skin of the common toad can range from black to green to yellow. The skin of the common toad, as with other toad species, is permeable and has a rough appearance.
The common toad (also known as the European toad), is a large-sized species of toad that is found throughout Europe. Although the common toad is not found in Iceland or some areas of the Mediterranean, the range of the common toad extends all the water to Siberia and into Northern Africa.
The common toad is most active in wet weather and is most commonly found in areas close to water such as woodlands, forests, marshes and meadows. The common toad is also a nocturnal animal, spending the daylight hours resting and hunting by night.
The common toad is an carnivorous animal, and the diet of the common toad therefore only consists of other animals. Insects are the primary source of food for the common toad, as they are caught when in the air by the long sticky tongue of the common toad. The common toad also feasts on other invertebrates such as worms and spiders.
The common toad has a number of predators within its natural environment, mainly due to its relatively small size. Grass snakes, hedgehogs, foxes, cats and birds all commonly prey on the common toad.
The female common toads lay their eggs in the water rather than on the land, in long strings known as toadspawn, The common toad tadpoles hatch into the water where they begin the process of metamorphosis which turns them from tadpole into an adult common toad.


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Garage expected to be ready for daily use by late September
Although the new Haymarket Parking Garage on the northwest corner of 9th and "Q" streets will not be open for daily use until the end of September, it will be open for all University of Nebraska home football games this season. That includes the season opener Saturday, August 24 against Arizona State University; the August 31 game against Troy State; and the September 7 game against Utah State.
"The addition of 400 new parking spaces in the Haymarket has been much anticipated by businesses and patrons alike. It is a beautiful addition to our downtown,"said Mayor Don Wesely. "Having the new garage open in time for the first football game will help alleviate the game day parking crunch. I want to thank the contractor for having the garage ready on time and the public for their patience during construction."
The new garage will open at about 9 a.m. game days and will remain open until the cars have cleared. The charge for parking at the new Haymarket Garage during home football games will be a pre-paid rate of $10, the same rate charged at Que Place, University Square and Market Place garages.
Final completion of the new garage is scheduled for September 30. When it is open for daily use, the rate will be the same as other city garages – $1 for the first hour and 75 cents for additional hours.
The remaining work includes architectural features, electrical work, parking equipment, landscaping and additional work on the northwest stair tower. A grand opening and ribbon cutting are scheduled for Thursday, August 29.
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May 2, 2013
Researchers investigated whether supervised and unsupervised testing (self-tests) increased screening, promoted earlier treatment initiation, reduced transmission, and whether these methods could be safely and inexpensively implemented worldwide. The researchers reviewed the literature on self-testing, searching databases and conference abstracts published between January 1, 2000, and October 30, 2012. They analyzed 21 studies, of which 7 evaluated unsupervised self-testing and 14 examined supervised strategy. Also, 7 studies examined blood-based self-tests and 14 used oral testing methods; 16 explored self-testing in higher-income countries and 5 were in resource-limited settings, including Kenya, Nairobi, and Malawi.
Findings indicated high levels of acceptance for home-based tests in supervised and unsupervised settings. Many participants preferred self-testing to facility-based testing (61 percent to 91 percent) and were more likely to recommend self-testing to a partner (80 percent to 97 percent). Participants preferred self-testing because of convenience, time, rapid results, confidentiality, and privacy. Participants in a Canadian study preferred counseling at community clinics, by telephone, or at pharmacies, while those in Malawi preferred face-to-face counseling.
For both supervision strategies, self-testing had high specificity. Test sensitivity was lower in the unsupervised group than in the supervised group. Researchers found several problems with the use of self-test kits: individuals made errors in both supervised and unsupervised settings, such as removing the test kit from the developer solution too early or having difficulty interpreting or reading the results. The cost of self-tests also was a potential obstacle to widespread use. Most participants were willing to pay less than $20 for a supervised or unsupervised test, but in Kenya health professionals wanted free self-tests.
The full report, "Supervised and Unsupervised Self-Testing for HIV in High- and Low-Risk Populations: A Systematic Review," was published online in the journal PLoS Medicine (2013; doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001414).
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Seth Rogen pulled off an unusual feat Wednesday when he turned testimony on Capitol Hill into a viral hit.
The actor, known for roles in comedies such as "Knocked Up" and "This Is the End," testified before a health care subcommittee about Alzheimer's disease, which his mother-in-law began suffering from in her 50s.
Despite the serious subject, Rogen snuck some one-liners in.
"Yes, I am aware that this has nothing to do with the legalization of marijuana," he said at the beginning of his testimony.
Later, he criticized senators who did not show up for the hearing.
Overall, it was an unconventional approach to celebrity testimony on Capitol Hill — a marked contrast with Ben Affleck's testimony on the Democratic Republic of Congo the same day.
But Rogen appears to have done better with the online audience, racking up more than 1 million views on YouTube of a C-SPAN clip of his testimony in a single day.


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Is Pandora co-founder Tim Westergren a band's biggest enemy or best ally?
Last year, he began lobbying Congress to lower digital music royalties, a move that made him appear a soulless businessman all too eager to bite the hand that feeds him. (After all, Pandora is nothing without its music.)
But at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Westergren cast Pandora in a different light.
"Speaking to a room full of technology executives and policymakers, [Westergren] pitched his online radio service as a ladder into the middle class for working musicians," writes The Times' Jon Healey.
Most bands have to rely on relentless social media to introduce themselves to new listeners over the Web. With Pandora, musicians get a platform (that they don't have to pay for, or even think about) with a massive audience.


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By Quentin Fottrell
More advertising is creeping onto cellphones and tablets, experts say, but they're the kind of ads that pretend not to be ads at all.
Though Facebook has yet to generate "meaningful" mobile ad revenue, according to its IPO documents, Twitter now gets the majority of its income from mobile ads, The Wall Street Journal reports. On Twitter, companies pay to have subjects show up atop a list of trending topics. Users may end up following brands without realizing or caring that they're reading an advertisement.
Sponsored tweets and trending hashtags are almost indistinguishable from regular tweets, so they're less likely to irritate social networkers, experts say. By contrast, Facebook tags profiles with sponsored stories that resemble old-fashioned banner ads, says Brent Hieggelke, chief marketing officer at mobile messaging company Urban Airship. "Anything seen to invade the mobile space won't be tolerated," he says.
Making advertising seamless with the rest of the content may be away to overcome consumer resistance to mobile ads. Smartphones are the most intimate of all devices, says Chris Young, executive director of The Protocol School of Washington. "People see their Smartphones as an extension of themselves," he says.
The fallout from its troubled IPO may also hamper Facebook's efforts to step up mobile advertising, experts say. "The public perception of Facebook is at an all time low," says Rick Singer, CEO of GreatApps.com. Consumers braced for a deluge of mobile ads after Facebook's disappointing IPO, he says. Immediately after the IPO, the site dropped from No. 1 to No. 4 in the "Customer Loyalty Engagement Index," a measure of brand perception among 49,000 social networkers polled by marketing consultancy Brand Key. (Facebook and Twitter did not respond to requests for comments.)
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I just got a 5 gallon kit
Brewing processes and methods. How to brew using extract, partial or all-grain. Tips and tricks.
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I just got a 5 gallon kit
I started my first brew a couple days ago with a Mr Beer kit. The thread is right under this one currently lol
I got everything done and slapped on the lid. When should the bubbler start bubbling?
I got everything done and slapped on the lid. When should the bubbler start bubbling?
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You should see bubbles within a day or two. The buckets often don't hold pressure that well, so if you don't see any bubbles within a couple days you can lift off the top and look to see if there's a layer of foam forming on top.
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George F. Kennan
George Frost Kennan (16 February 1904 – 17 March 2005) was an American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War.
- If humiliation and rejection are to be the rewards of faithful and effective service in this field, what are those of us to conclude who have also served prominently in this line of work but upon whom this badge has not yet been conferred?
We cannot deceive ourselves into believing that it was merit, rather than chance, that spared some of us the necessity of working in areas of activity that have now become controversial, of recording opinions people now find disagreeable, of aiding in the implementation of policies now under question. ... In no field of endeavor is it easier than in the field of foreign affairs to be honestly wrong; in no field is it harder for contemporaries to be certain they can distinguish between wisdom and folly; in no field would it be less practicable to try to insist on infallibility as a mark of fitness for office.
- In defense of a colleague undergoing investigation by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1951; published in Memoirs : 1950-1963 (1967), p. 218
- A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.
- Lecture at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (March 1954); published in "The Two Planes of International Reality" in Realities of American Foreign Policy (1954), p. 4
- Now this problem of the adjustment of man to his natural resources, and the problem of how such things as industrialization and urbanization can be accepted without destroying the traditional values of a civilization and corrupting the inner vitality of its life — these things are not only the problems of America; they are the problems of men everywhere. To the extent that we Americans become able to show that we are aware of these problems, and that we are approaching them with coherent and effective ideas of our own which we have the courage to put into effect in our own lives, to that extent a new dimension will come into our relations with the peoples beyond our borders, to that extent, in fact, the dreams of these earlier generations of Americans who saw us as leaders and helpers to the peoples of the world at large will begin to take on flesh and reality.
- Lecture at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (March 1954); published in "The Unifying Factor" in Realities of American Foreign Policy (1954), p. 116
- A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where it will have no security at all. And a ruthless, reckless insistence on attempting to stamp out everything that could conceivably constitute a reflection of improper foreign influence in our national life, regardless of the actual damage it is doing to the cost of eliminating it, in terms of other American values, is the one thing I can think of that should reduce us all to a point where the very independence we are seeking to defend would be meaningless, for we would be doing things to ourselves as vicious and tyrannical as any that might be brought to us from outside.
This sort of extremism seems to me to hold particular danger for a democracy, because it creates a curious area between what is held to be possible and what is really possible — an area within which government can always be plausibly shown to have been most dangerously delinquent in the performance of its tasks. And this area, where government is always deficient, provides the ideal field of opportunity for every sort of demagoguery and mischief-making. It constitutes a terrible breach in the dike of our national morale, through which forces of doubt and suspicion never cease to find entry. The heart of our problem, here, lies in our assessment of the relative importance of the various dangers among which we move; and until many of our people can be brought to understand the what we have to do is not to secure a total absence of danger but to balance peril against peril and to find the tolerable degree of each, we shall not wholly emerge from these confusions.
- Radcliffe Commencement Address (1954-06-16), published as "The Illusion of Total Security" in The Atlantic Monthly, # 194 (August 1954)
- I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately my own, scarcely to be shared with others or even made plausible to them. I habitually read special meanings into things, scenes and places — qualities of wonder, beauty, promise, or horror — for which there was no external evidence visible or plausible to others. My world was peopled with mysteries, seductive hints, vague menaces, "intimations of immortality."
- A passage from the first volume of his Memoirs as quoted in Political Realism in American Thought (1977) by John W. Coffey, p. 26
- A guest of one's time and not a member of its household.
- Referring to himself, as quoted in Political Realism in American Thought (1977) by John W. Coffey, p. 26
- For the love of God, for the love of your children and of the civilization to which you belong, cease this madness. You are mortal men. You are capable of error. You have no right to hold in your hands — there is no one wise enough and strong enough to hold in his hands — destructive power sufficient to put an end to civilized life on a great portion of our planet.
- As quoted in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Vol. 37 (1981); also in Boston Globe obituary of George F. Kennan by Mark Feeney (18 March 2005) D23. Cited in James Carroll, House of War, Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., (2006), chapter 7, note 140, p. 581.
- The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
- As quoted in US-Soviet Relations : The First 50 Years WNET TV {17 April 1984)
- The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
- As quoted in The New York Times (27 May 1984)
- Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith — a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will — but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world — faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.
- As quoted in The New York Times (27 May 1984)
- Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
- On postwar accords regarding Eastern Europe, as quoted in The Wise Men (1986) by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas
- The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.
- On trying to understand Soviet policies, as quoted in The Wise Men (1986) by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas
- Russia, Russia — unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit. So sensitive and so suspicious in the face of the wicked, civilized west. I shall always remember you — slyly, touchingly, but with great shouting and confusion — pumping hot water into our sleeping car in the frosty darkness of a December morning in order that we might not know, in order that we might never realize, to how primitive a land we had come.
- Written about an incident where hot water was pumped from a switch engine on the next track into a diplomats sleeping-car; as quoted in George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy (1988) by David Allan Mayers, p. 30
- There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.
- As quoted in Kennan and the Art of Foreign Policy (1989) by Anders Stephanson, p. 160
- Reading, in contrast to sitting before the screen, is not a purely passive exercise. The child, particularly one who reads a book dealing with real life, has nothing before it but the hieroglyphics of the printed page. Imagination must do the rest; and imagination is called upon to do it. Not so the television screen. Here everything is spelled out for the viewer, visually, in motion, and in all three dimensions. No effort of imagination is called upon for its enjoyment.
- "American Addictions" in New Oxford Review (June 1993)
- I write to say that in the idea of the three American states' ultimate independence, whether separately or in union, I see nothing fanciful. [Such] are at present the dominating trends in the U.S. that I see no other means of ultimate preservation of cultural and societal values that will not only be endangered but eventually destroyed by an endlessly prolonged association … with the remainder of what is now the U.S.A.
- In a 1993 letter to Thomas Naylor, on the idea of the secession of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont from the US, as quoted in "Most Likely to Secede" by Christopher Ketcham in Good magazine (10 January 2008)
- We are, if territory and population be looked at together, one of the great countries of the world — a monster country, one might say, along with others such as China, India, the recent Soviet Union, and Brazil. And there is a real question as to whether "bigness" in a body politic is not an evil in itself, quite aside from the policies pursued in its name.
- Around the Cragged Hill : A Personal and Political Philosophy (1994), p. 143
- I said that wherever these people, meaning the Soviet leadership, confronted us with dangerous hostility anywhere in the world, we should do everything possible to contain it and not let them expand any further. I should have explained that I didn't suspect them of any desire to launch an attack on us. This was right after the war, and it was absurd to suppose that they were going to turn around and attack the United States. I didn't think I needed to explain that, but I obviously should have done it.
- Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.
- "Foreword to 'The Pathology of Power'" by Norman Cousins (Norton, 1987), from At a Century's Ending: Reflections 1982-1995 (Norton, 1997, ISBN 0-393-31609-2), Part II: Cold War in Full Bloom, p. 118
- Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with certain things on your mind as a purpose of what you are doing, but in the end, you found yourself fighting for entirely different things that you had never thought of before ... In other words, war has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like us to do, you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end.
- Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.
- As quoted in "George Kennan Speaks Out About Iraq" at History News Network (26 September 2002)
- A doctrine is something that pins you down to a given mode of conduct and dozens of situations which you cannot foresee, which is a great mistake in principle. When the word 'containment' was used in my 'X' article, it was used with relation to a certain situation then prevailing, and as a response to it.
- As quoted in "George Kennan Speaks Out About Iraq" at History News Network (26 September 2002)
Memo PPS23 (1948)
- "Memo PPS23", written 28 February 1948, declassified 17 June 1974
- We must be very careful when we speak of exercising "leadership" in Asia. We are deceiving ourselves and others when we pretend to have answers to the problems, which agitate many of these Asiatic peoples. Furthermore, we have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3 of its population. This disparity is particularly great as between ourselves and the peoples of Asia. In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships, which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and daydreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world benefaction...
In the face of this situation we would be better off to dispense now with a number of the concepts which have underlined our thinking with regard to the Far East. We should dispense with the aspiration to 'be liked' or to be regarded as the repository of a high-minded international altruism. We should stop putting ourselves in the position of being our brothers' keeper and refrain from offering moral and ideological advice. We should cease to talk about vague — and for the Far East — unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.
- VII. Far East
American Diplomacy (1951)
World War I
- There are certain sad appreciations we have to come to about human nature on the basis of these recent wars. One of them is that suffering does not always make men better. Another is that people are not always more reasonable than governments; that public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics. It may be true, and I suspect it is, that the mass of people everywhere are normally peace-loving and would accept many restraints and sacrifices in preference to the monstrous calamities of war. But I also suspect that what purports to be public opinion in most countries that consider themselves to have popular government is often not really the consensus of the feelings of the mass of the people at all, but rather the expression of the interests of special highly vocal minorities — politicians, commentators, and publicity-seekers of all sorts: people who live by their ability to draw attention to themselves and die, like fish out of water, if they are compelled to remain silent. These people take refuge in the pat and chauvinistic slogans because they are incapable of understanding any others, because these slogans are safer from the standpoint of short-term gain, because the truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas — complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemma, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse. The counsels of impatience and hatred can always be supported by the crudest and cheapest symbols; for the counsels of moderation, the reasons are often intricate, rather than emotional, and difficult to explain. And so the chauvinists of all times and places go their appointed way: plucking the easy fruits, reaping the little triumphs of the day at the expense of someone else tomorrow, deluging in noise and filth anyone who gets in their way, dancing their reckless dance on the prospects for human progress, drawing the shadow of a great doubt over the validity of democratic institutions. And until people learn to spot the fanning of mass emotions and the sowing of bitterness, suspicion, and intolerance as crimes in themselves — as perhaps the greatest disservice that can be done to the cause of popular government — this sort of thing will continue to occur.
- A democracy is peace-loving. It does not like to go to war. It is slow to rise to provocation. When it has once been provoked to the point where it must grasp the sword, it does not easily forgive its adversary for having produced this situation. The fact of the provocation then becomes itself the issue. Democracy fights in anger — it fights for the very reason that it was forced to go to war. It fights to punish the power that was rash enough and hostile enough to provoke it — to teach that power a lesson it will not forget, to prevent the thing from happening again. Such a war must be carried to the bitter end.
This is true enough, and, if nations could afford to operate in the moral climate of individual ethics, it would be understandable and acceptable. But I sometimes wonder whether in this respect a democracy is not uncomfortably similar to one of those prehistoric monsters with a body as long as this room and a brain the size of a pin: he lies there in his comfortable primeval mud and pays little attention to his environment; he is slow to wrath — in fact, you practically have to whack his tail off to make him aware that his interests are being disturbed; but, once he grasps this, he lays about him with such blind determination that he not only destroys his adversary but largely wrecks his native habitat. You wonder whether it would not have been wiser for him to have taken a little more interest in what was going on at an earlier date and to have seen whether he could have prevented some of these situations from arising instead of proceeding from an undiscriminating indifference to a holy wrath equally undiscriminating.
Memoirs 1925 - 1950 (1967)
- Here, for the first time, I felt an unshakable conviction that no momentary military advantage — even if such could have been calculated to exist — could have justified this stupendous, careless destruction of civilian life and of material values, built up laboriously by human hands over the course of centuries for purposes having nothing to do with war. Least of all could it have been justified by the screaming non sequitur: "They did it to us." And it suddenly appeared to me that in these ruins there was an unanswerable symbolism which we in the West could not afford to ignore. If the Western world was really going to make a pretense of a higher moral departure point — of greater sympathy and understanding for the human being as God made him, as expressed not only in himself but in the things he had wrought and cared about — then it had to learn to fight its wars morally as well as militarily, or not fight them at all; for moral principles were a part of its strength. Shorn of this strength, it was no longer itself; its victories were not real victories; and the best it would accomplish in the long run would be to pull down the temple over its own head. The military would stamp this as naïve; they would say that war is war, that when you're in it you fight with every means you have, or go down in defeat. But if that is the case, then there rests upon Western civilization, bitter as this may be, the obligation to be militarily stronger than its adversaries by a margin sufficient to enable it to dispense with those means which can stave off defeat only at the cost of undermining victory.
- Written in regard to the Allied destruction of Hamburg and other German cities, p. 437
Russia — Seven Years Later (September 1944)
- The average Russian of mature age today may some day have the moral satisfaction of seeing his government exercise a power unprecedented in history over the land masses of Asia and Europe. But it is not likely that he will ever know the comforts, in the line of housing, clothing, and other conveniences of civilized living, comparable to those that have existed in the advanced countries of the West. That renunciation of comfort is his involuntary contribution to something: either to the future comfort of his own children or to the increased military power of Russia. He hopes — and we hope with him — that it will not be only the latter.
- Heroism is endurance for one moment more.
- This was an old saying of mountaineers of the Caucasus which Kennan quoted in a 1921 letter to Henry Munroe Rogers, as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 16th Edition, and in Mental Disorders In The Social Environment : Critical Perspectives (2005) by Stuart A. Kirk, p. 31
Quotes about Kennan
- It was his enormous curiosity that kept him alive so long. He had an enormous interest in the world, and I remember, even toward the end, he would get so angry at the paper, angry at the TV.
- His oldest daughter, Grace Kennan, after his death at the age of 101, as quoted in "Known worldwide, at home in Princeton" in The Daily Princetonian (21 March 2005)
External links
- Collection of all of Kennan's articles published in Foreign Affairs
- George F. Kennan on the Web
- Traces.org biography
- CNN profile
- Remembering George Kennan: Lessons for Today? U.S. Institute of Peace {May 2006) (Audio available)
- 9-11: Prescient Memorabilia
- The Daily Princetonian
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- The New York Times
- The Washington Post
- Commentary on "Kennan's profound global effect" in the Christian Science Monitor
- Commentary on "The Paradox of George F. Kennan" by Richard Holbrooke in the Washington Post
- "The Legacy of George F. Kennan" in Counterpunch


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Warren Buffett didn't become the richest man in all of greater Omaha by making stupid wagers.
So when his Berkshire Hathaway /quotes/zigman/219651/delayed /quotes/nls/brk.a BRK.A backs a Quicken Loans offer of a billion bucks to whoever can fill out a perfect March Madness bracket, it seems rather unlikely that he'll have to fork it over. But how unlikely? Let's just say you have a better chance of dying in a sharknado.
The prize would be paid out in 40 annual installments of $25 million, or a one-time lump sum of just $500 million. The first 10 million people to enter the contest will be eligible for the ludicrous grand prize. If there's a tie, they'll split. Bummer.
Technically, the odds come in at 9.2 quintillion to one, according to DePaul math professor Jeff Bergen. The good news is that your odds skyrocket to 128 billion to 1 if you're savvy enough to pick a top seed against a 16. Here he is explaining it:
"It's going to be fun," Buffett told the New York Times. "If there's one left at the end, I plan to go to the game with him or her. I'll take a check along in my pocket."
It's not all or nothing, though. Quicken will pay out $100,00 to the 20 contestants with the most accurate brackets to be used toward buying, refinancing or remodeling a home. The company, in an added PR brushstroke, said it will donate $1 million to Detroit and Cleveland nonprofit organizations as part of the deal.
Of course, Bergen said there's never been a documented perfect bracket, but there HAS been a billion-dollar contest backed by Buffett before. Back in 2003, Pepsi /quotes/zigman/238082/delayed /quotes/nls/pep PEP ran its "Billion-Dollar Sweepstakes", and it involved a monkey. You can probably guess the number of people that walked away with the grand prize.
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Friday, October 04, 2013
Great comfort food: cold weather hotpot recipe
Now that I have five mouths to feed on a daily basis, I need to cook dishes that are easy to put together and suit all the members of the family, be they 11 months or 41 years. That means they must be flavourful and tasty, as I don't have the time, will or energy to cook separate meals for the still-toothless baby, two active toddlers and two food-loving adults. To be honest, I don't think it should even be necessary.
We've used the baby-led weaning* approach when introducing solids to our three kids, and that means our littlest has been eating family food from Day 1 (not the first day of her life, but the first time she was offered any solid food, e.g. when she was 6 months old). So much more convenient for the whole family and especially the cooking parent (that's me, at least on most days). This stew - enjoyed both by parents and the toddlers (aged 2 and 4), was perfect for the 11-month old as well.
The cold weather hotpot is a great comfort food and midweek dinner. The humble vegetables can be varied - you could add some turnips or parsnips as well, or even broccoli. Sometimes I've used gnocchi instead of potatoes, adding them at the end, so they'd have the chance to soak in the broth. The can of Heinz's baked beans you throw in at the end - well, this adds some protein as well as thickens the stew. Overall it's yet another dish that tastes much better than you'd expect from simply looking at the list of ingredients.
We love a spoonful of thick sour cream on top, but a crusty bread would be good, too.
* New to baby-led weaning aka BLW? Read all about it in Gill Rapley's book - see Amazon UK/Amazon US. I highly recommend reading it if you've got a small baby who's about to start solids soon!
Cold weather hotpot
(Hakklihaga ühepajatoit)
Slightly adapted from BBC Good Food, March 2003
Serves six
2 Tbsp olive or rapeseed oil
4 small onions
4 good-sized carrots
8 medium-sized potatoes
450 g lean minced beef
1 l hot beef stock (you can use a stock cube or bouillon extract)
a good splash of Worcestershire sauce
a handful of chopped parsley
To serve:
some good sour cream (optional)
Peel the onions and cut into quarters. Peel the carrots, halve lengthwise and cut into thick slices. Peel the potatoes and cut into smallish chunks.
Heat oil in a heavy saucepan, add the minced beef and fry quickly, stirring all the time, until browned evenly.
Add the vegetables, give everything a quick stir. Pour over the beef stock. Bring into a boil, then partially cover with the lid, reduce heat and simmer for about 20-25 minutes, until the vegetables are cooked.
Season with Worcestershire sauce, pour in the baked beans. Stir gently and then heat through. Taste for seasoning, then scatter parsley on top and serve.
Ladle into bowl and enjoy with a spoon.
4 comments:
This is truly a good comfort food for me. Thanks for sharing how to cook it, will try to follow your instructions.
- 2:42 pm, October 07, 2013
- Wayne Wilson said...
The picture made me feel hungry. I'm gonna cook this one tonight.
- 2:46 pm, October 07, 2013
- Babucho said...
This looks great, definitely a good winter choice.
- 7:02 pm, October 19, 2013
- Dennis Sandfort said...
yes this is exactly the kind of food I want to prepare as it's really cold here at the moment.
- 5:24 pm, November 12, 2013
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I am so excited! This new blog (the first blog I have ever tried to write) has been announced by GeneaBloggers in its listing of new genealogy blogs.
That said, let me turn my attention to Surname Saturday. I am starting with my own surname - HAYWOOD - "a very good place to start", as someone once sang (!). The surname probably arose from a location, and seems to derive from 'an enclosed forest' or 'fenced wood' in Old English, although you will also find that some derive it from the Scottish Clan of HAY and the Viking god of war (Wodin)...
Some have also linked it with the Midlands of England, and certainly my researches have led me either there or nearby. You see, my HAYWOODs were all potters and brickmakers, and seemed to suddenly appear from nowhere in Devon. Then, some years ago, I was contacted by someone in Burslem, in Staffordshire, which is one of the pottery towns that now make up Stoke-on-Trent. Nearby is where Wedgwood designed his famous pottery - and there is a family of HAYWOODs there. One of their sons, John, was the black sheep of the family, and was thrown out, never to be heard from again - and suddenly, my John appears in Devon as a potter! I have not yet been able to link him with Burslem, but it is an avenue I will not forget in a hurry.
Down through the years, all the HAYWOOD men (and sometimes the ladies, too) had something to do with the pottery and brick trade. Brickmakers, tile makers, earthenware painters - they began working in the pottery area of Bovey Tracey in Devon, then rose to manage the brickworks at South Down in Cornwall. My grandfather was one of the first to break away from this traditional job, becoming a shipwright like the family he married into, who all had something to do with the sea - my father broke away from both those trades, becoming first a baker and then joined the Royal Air Force. Nowadays, the bottle kilns and surrounding buildings at Bovey Tracey have been redeveloped into the House of Marbles: a museum, glass blowing centre, the home of the largest collection of marbles in the world, and gift shop. I wonder what great great great great grandfather John would have thought of that...
Saturday, 5 June 2010
Surname Saturday: Haywood
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Earlier this week, the company announced that John Varghese, chairman of Sprott Power's board, was asked to assist more directly in the strategic-review process and the internalization of the management transition.
During this time, Estill, a current director of the corporation, will be tasked with providing effective independent leadership of the board. Estill will be responsible for ensuring that the board's current agenda and duties are successfully carried out on behalf of the company's shareholders. In addition, Estill will assist in the internalization of the management transition.
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