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Admission | Courses | Program | Requirements
Department Chairperson: Cindy J. Dooley
Graduate Committee Chairperson: Angela M. Ferree
Department Office: Horrabin Hall 69
Department Telephone: 309/298-1961
Fax: 309/298-2800
Department Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.wiu.edu/curriculum
Location of Program Offering: Macomb, Quad Cities
Graduate Faculty
Associate Graduate Faculty
The Department of Curriculum and Instruction offers coursework leading
to a Master of
Science in Education with a major in elementary education. The degree program enables candidates to develop an area of specialization in language and literature, science, mathematics, social studies, early childhood education, or multidisciplinary studies (a combination of courses from three other specializations).
1. Admission to the School of Graduate Studies.
2. Cumulative GPA of 2.75.
3. Graduate Record Examination not required.
4. Acceptance by the Departmental Graduate Committee.
5. All persons applying for entry into the master's degree programs in elementary education or reading who have not completed an undergraduate or graduate program leading to teacher certification from an accredited college or university must have an interview with the Departmental Graduate Committee or its designee. That interview will provide a basis for acceptance or nonacceptance of the applicant into the program.
6. Applicants are advised that completion of the graduate program in elementary education will not necessarily lead to teacher certification. Questions concerning certification should be directed to the University certification officer.
The Master of Science in Education degree in Elementary Education requires
a minimum of
30 semester hours of coursework. In addition to a capstone course, candidates
complete nine semester hours in core requirements and 12 semester hours
in an area of
specialization. A directed and an open elective complete the program.
I. Core Requirements: 9 s.h.
II. Directed Electives (choose from the following): 3-4 s.h.
III. Area of Specialization: 12 s.h.
The areas of specialization are language and literature, social studies,
science, early
childhood education, mathematics, and multidisciplinary studies. Courses for the
specialization and electives will be chosen with the approval of an adviser. ECH 565,
Seminar in Early Childhood Education is a required course for the early childhood area
of specialization.
IV. Electives: 3 s.h.
V. Select one of the following exit options: 3 s.h.
TOTAL PROGRAM: 30 - 31 s.h.
Curriculum and Instruction
403G Middle Level Education. (4) Philosophical development of the middle school will be analyzed as well as the advisory role of the middle school teacher for health and social services. Developmentally appropriate curriculum and instructional methods including content area reading instruction and techniques for blending subject matter content relevant to the early adolescent are provided. Prerequisite: Fully accepted into Teacher Education Program.
476G Parent/Community Involvement. (3) Techniques
for working with and involving families/communities, including conferencing
skills, newsletters,
home visits, parent education, volunteers, meetings, and
other ways to develop open communication and
parental and community support. A minimum grade of
C is required of teacher education students. Restricted:
departmental permission. Prerequisite: Fully accepted
into Teacher Education Program.
506 Research in Elementary and Middle Level Education. (3) A review of readings, techniques, and research designs in elementary and middle level education with emphasis on preparation for capstone practica courses.
533 Special Problems in Elementary, Middle, and Junior High Education. (1–4, repeatable) Designed to provide a group of students an opportunity for further professional growth and to apply problem-solving approaches in dealing with a specific educational problem in an actual school setting. Graded S/U.
590-591 Field Study Projects. (1–3) Extensive readings, observations, and interpretations of education systems in the United States and selected foreign countries. Prerequisites: Permission of the student's adviser and the Departmental Graduate Committee.
599 Independent Study. (1–4, repeatable to 4) An investigation of problems related to the student's major area. A substantial written report, as well as an informal oral report, will be required. Students will meet regularly with an instructor during the course on a period arranged basis. Enrollment by permission only.
600 Graduate Seminar. (3) Primarily a research-writing course. Each student will be expected to identify an appropriate research topic, investigate and present the issue in an in-depth paper. Prerequisites: 24 semester hours in graduate work to include EIS 500, ELED 560 and ELED 566; and permission of the Graduate Coordinator.
605 Leadership in Elementary Education. (3) This capstone course focuses on the issue of the master's degree student as an instructional leader in his or her school, going beyond the roll of classroom teacher. Key issues concern the philosophy related to specific areas of specialization, action research, and engaging in leadership activities. Prerequisites: 24 hours in graduate course work to include EIS 500, ELED 560 and ELED 566; and permission of Graduate Coordinator.
Early Childhood Education
474G Early Childhood Assessment. (3) Intensive investigation of informal and formal assessment strategies including basic principles of measurement and evaluation, to plan educational experiences, communicate with parents, identify children in need of specialized services, and evaluate programs for young children from birth through eight years of age. The administration of some assessment instruments is required.
524 Instructional Methods and Intervention Techniques in Early Childhood. (3) Emphasis on curriculum adaptations and instructional and assessment methods to promote independence and meet the developmental and educational goals of young children, especially pre-primary age, with special needs. Focus on history and evolution of early childhood special education, early intervention, service and program coordination, and inclusive education.
539 Curriculum in Early Childhood Education. (3) Application of the principles of the administration and organization of curriculum development to programs for young children, with emphasis on integration of curriculum to maximize the effectiveness of experiences. The student will develop curriculum plans in selected content areas.
549 Practicum in Early Childhood Education. (1–4) Students will work with young children in selected early childhood settings under supervision of a "master teacher," with emphasis on bridging the gap between theory and practice. Actual experiences will be provided along with philosophical and/or psychological foundations for the basic practices within the various early childhood education programs and activities. Credit will be arranged according to the experiential background of the student. Prerequisite: Permission of the adviser.
564 Language and Thought of the Child. (3) A detailed study of current theoretical issues and positions related to the young child's development and use of language and thought. Emphasis on current issues in language acquisition as well as systematic analysis of potential application of various practices for inclusion in early childhood programs.
565 Seminar in Early Childhood Education. (3) Advanced study of the historical, philosophical, and theoretical influences on the field of early childhood education, as well as exploration of current research, issues, and trends. Students will write an in-depth research paper as means of extending and developing knowledge and understanding of course content.
571 Theory and Function of Play. (3) Students will engage in a detailed study of theoretical and practical positions regarding development of young children, birth through age eight. The emphasis will be on play as a process for learning and for teaching. Observations of children and application of course content to teaching practices are required.
573 Infancy and Childhood Education. (3) An
in-depth study of the developmental and theoretical
basis of infancy and early childhood education for
young children from birth through eight years of age.Typical and atypical
development and the contributions
of prenatal and home care, ethnicity, race, and other aspects of diversity to children's learning and development will be explored. Emphasizes application of child development knowledge in early childhood settings.
574 Integrated Learning in Early Childhood Education. (3) In-depth study of the theoretical basis for integrated learning and teaching, and of several approaches for integrating curricular areas: language arts, math, science, social studies, art, and music. The value of curricular integration in meeting the needs of diverse learners will be addressed. Students will explore methods and materials for integrating technological and multimedia materials into the early childhood curriculum.
603 Research in Early Childhood Education I. (3) In-depth documentation of knowledge gained through the graduate program leading to application to classroom teaching and the early childhood profession. Credit will be arranged with the instructor. Prerequisites: 24 semester hours in graduate work to include EIS 500, ECH 474G, and ECH 539; and permission of the adviser.
Elementary Education
450G Professional Workshop. (1–3) An inservice course for teachers.
560 Seminar in Elementary Curriculum. (3) An exploration of the curriculum at elementary and middle levels, including the role of the classroom teacher in curriculum development, dynamics of curriculum change and school improvement, factors that influence curriculum decisions, and alternative and innovative ways to approach problems and entertain solutions for improving teaching and learning.
566 Recent Trends and Research in Elementary Education. (3) A review and appraisal of recent trends and practices in elementary education. An examination of recent research done in elementary education and related fields. In addition, course content will directly address the importance of practicing teachers assuming leadership roles in various settings. School leadership research and developments with national and state standards will be examined. Students are expected to read widely and critically in professional books and journals.
Language Arts
567 Teaching Language Arts in the Elementary School. (3) Focuses on the major theories and current research relevant to language arts instruction in the elementary grades. Primary emphasis is placed on the appropriate skills, methods, and materials that support children's literacy development from kindergarten through sixth grade.
577 Writing in the Elementary Schools. (3) Designed to give exposure to a variety of methods and materials for using a process approach to writing instruction in the elementary school.
578 Language Arts for Diverse Learners. (3) A course which focuses on language, learning, and the diagnostic and corrective techniques that can be used by the elementary classroom teacher in the areas of oral and written language, spelling, handwriting, and listening. Prerequisite: LA 567 or permission of the instructor.
Literature and Language Arts
443G (cross-listed with ENG 443G) Creative Uses of Literature for Children and Young Adults. (3) Presents the development of effective programs in informal and formalized interpretive experiences for children and young adults, emphasizing individual creativity and sources for materials. Prerequisite: LLA 313 or permission of the instructor.
513 Advanced Children's Literature. (3) Focuses on the wide range of genre to be found in children's literature, examining its historical development, major awards for fiction and nonfiction, and current trends in the field. Prerequisite: LLA 313 or permission of the instructor.
523 Advanced Literature for Young Adults. (3) Traces the development of literature for young adults with particular emphasis on noteworthy authors, major awards, and issues and trends in the field. Prerequisite: LLA 433 or permission of the instructor.
Mathematics (See Mathematics)
Science Education
489G Energy Education. (3) Course designed to provide content information on basic energy concepts. Topics include forms and sources of energy, renewable and nonrenewable energy resources, changes in energy forms, energy conservation, historical development of energy use and current technology related to present day energy use. Energy curricula will be examined through discussions, presentations, inquiry-based activities, and possible field trips to energy producing locations.
490G Environmental Science. (3) Provides teachers with background information related to environmental concepts and issues through inquiry activities and field work. Topics include forest, pond, wetland, river, and prairie ecosystems. Abiotic topics include map and compass work, geology, soil, weather, and climate.
491G Life Science. (3) Designed to strengthen teachers'
biological science background. Emphasis is on life
science concepts from contemporary middle school
curricula, stressing inquiry, problem solving, and science methodology through laboratory work and research. Topics include plant biology, animal biology, ecology,
human biology, cell biology, heredity, and evolution.
492G Physical Science. (3) This course is designed
provide physical science content through inquiry
investigations. Course topics are: sciences as inquiry,
technological design, motions and forces, properties of
matter, energy and the interactions between them.
Specific content includes: chemistry, energy, force, heat,
light, magnetism, matter, motion, and sound. Students will explore concepts through discussion and laboratorybased investigations from classic and contemporary science curricula.
505 Science: An Inquiry Approach. (3) This course is designed to help educators learn and better understand inquiry as an instructional approach. Topics include what inquiry is, how to conduct inquiry, and ways to teach inquiry processes and skills to students, particularly those in upper elementary and middle level grades. The course will involve identifying and conducting an inquiry investigation into some science topic. Prerequisites: SCED 364 or equivalent, and graduate standing.
507 Science in the Early Childhood Classroom. (3) This course is designed around a constructivist approach to early childhood science education (preschool—grade 3). The focus of this course is on children—how they experience the world, interact with each other, pose questions and problems, and construct knowledge. Topics will include integrated and thematic curriculum representing the life, earth, physical, and environmental sciences. Current research related to the brain and children's thinking, and curriculum models dealing with modeling, role playing, cooperative play, and the culture of the early childhood classroom will be emphasized. Alternative assessment models for the early childhood science classroom will also be examined. Prerequisite: Graduate standing.
509 Inquiry Into Science Assessment in the
Elementary Classroom. (3) This course is designed to
provide students with an in-depth study of the
assessment of science in the elementary classroom.
Topics include the nature of science assessment, types
and purposes of assessment, assessment design, and use
of assessment data. Through an inquiry approach,
students will plan, develop, and implement science
assessments in their own elementary classrooms to
measure student performance, enhance student learning,
and improve teaching practices. Prerequisite: Graduate
559 Teaching Earth Science in the Elementary School. (3) This course provides elementary and middle level school teachers with basic content and methodology from contemporary elementary science programs to strengthen their teaching of earth science. Basic content topics will include astronomy, geology, hydrology, meteorology, and oceanology. Background information and methodology will be presented by using content as a vehicle in lectures, demonstrations, experiments, and group activities which will help teachers develop skills in working with equipment and materials, and to help them better understand appropriate instructional strategies in earth science for children at different grade levels.
561 Measurement in Elementary Science. (3) Emphasis will be placed on techniques of measurement development in contemporary elementary science curricula. An activity-centered approach will provide students with an opportunity to develop systems of measurements, calibrate simple measuring devices, and design measurement projects suitable for use in an elementary science program. The introduction and use of the metric system in the elementary school will be stressed.
562 Science Curriculum in the Elementary School. (3) An analysis of the latest curriculum innovations in elementary science education, and the application of recent discoveries in learning theory to the teaching of elementary science. Emphasis will be placed on the development of a contemporary philosophy of elementary science and its contribution to the total science program.
602 Practicum in Science Education. (3) Direct internship experience in a science education program at the local district level under the guidance of a qualified field representative. Enrollment by permission only. Prerequisites: 24 semester hours in graduate work to include EIS 500, ELED 560 and ELED 566; and permission of Graduate Coordinator.
Social Studies Education
439G Secondary Social Studies Methods. (3) Designed to aid the prospective secondary social studies teacher to develop objectives, to select and organize content, to use various techniques, and to evaluate learning. See other 439 listings under academic areas. These are special methods courses and carry education credit. Prerequisites: Graduate standing and permission of instructor.
550 Workshop in Current Developments in Teaching Social Studies. (1–3, repeatable to 6) Explores current content, techniques, media, and information technology for teaching social studies in school settings. Students will adapt course topics for use in their own classrooms.
568 Improvement of Instruction in Social Studies. (3) This course deals with current developments in techniques, materials and technology for teaching social studies. Explores ways to engage students in social science instruction.
572 Social Studies Curriculum. (3) This course deals with the nature of social studies and its role in the school curriculum. Emphasis is placed on current curriculum developments in social studies and the social sciences.
595 Teaching Social Studies for Global Understanding. (3) Develops the conceptual base for teaching the understanding of global connections including those dealing with social, environmental, economic, technological, and individual cultural dimensions.


text: Someone in the DOS forum posted a message about the early days of computing, and it reminded me of something I've been doing lately. I've been going through our massive boxes (I've estimated their are over 3,000 disks there) of those old 5 1/2 inch flexible disks. You know - those old games like Space Quest Police Quest and Kings Quest are still my favorite games in the world, but most of our copies were destroyed when we emiograted. I think they were put on the container ship next to the section owned by Acme Elctromagnets Inc. because there was almost nothing left. We have the first half of Space Quest 1, and we used to have every single edition of Space Quest up until #13 before now, we still have the full version #2, but nothing else for Space Quest. We used to have police quest 1-7, now we only have 1 and SWAT (version 5). Kings quest, we used to have every edition. I have the disks for all of them, but the data has been so badly changed it malfunctions like none other. If anyone has copies of any of these games could you send them to me as an attachment to my email address? (shown below)

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A Cold War-era nuclear bunker has the potential to be used for tourism purposes, according to a property firm which aims to sell it for more than half-a-million pounds.
The facility on the edge of Ballymena is currently owned by the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM), and goes on sale on Tuesday.
One storey of it is built above ground, and the other below ground.
Asked what any would-be buyer could use the bunker for, Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH), the commercial property firm which is handling the sale, responded: "We believe the property may have potential for a wide range of uses including, but not limited to media, tourism and secure storage."
LSH is looking for offers of roughly £575,000 for the 3.74-acre site, which is based in Woodside Road Industrial Estate to the east of the Co Antrim town.
The bunker has dormitories inside, kitchen facilities, and conference rooms.
In addition to these typical commercial features, it also boasts an air filtration system, decontamination chambers, and "inter-locking double blast doors" – as well as a BBC broadcasting suite.
It had originally been commissioned in the late 1980s, and opened in 1990 according to LSH.
The precise nature and extent of the Province's nuclear bunker network appears unclear.
In a report in 2007, the BBC said it had used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain information about Northern Irish nuclear bunkers, and stated that the Ballymena site was the only one (adding that it had room inside for 235 people).
Investigative website The Detail, meanwhile, said that, in the wake of the Second World War, 44 monitoring bunkers had been built in Northern Ireland. For example, one bunker facility near Portadown closed in 1991 but later reopened as a museum.
In a statement, LSH surveyor Andrew Frasersaid of the Ballymena site: "We're delighted to be presented with the challenge to find a purchaser for this one of a kind property.
"This is an extremely rare listing and offers a unique opportunity for potential buyers."
The agency expects "a lot of interest in the property".


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|MLBPA/MLB News Release
NEW YORK -- The Major League Baseball Players Association today released the following statement regarding MLB's decision to appear on "60 Minutes" and to authorize Tony Bosch's appearance on "60 Minutes":
"It is unfortunate that Major League Baseball apparently lacks faith in the integrity and finality of the arbitrator's decision and our Joint Drug Agreement, such that it could not resist the temptation to publicly pile on against Alex Rodriguez. It is equally troubling that the MLB-appointed panel arbitrator will himself be appearing in the '60 Minutes' segment, and that Tony Bosch, MLB's principal witness, is appearing on the program with MLB's blessing.
"MLB's post-decision rush to the media is inconsistent with our collectively bargained arbitration process, in general, as well as the confidentiality and credibility of the Joint Drug Agreement, in particular. After learning of tonight's '60 Minutes' segment, players have expressed anger over, among other things, MLB's inability to let the result of yesterday's decision speak for itself. As a result, the Players Association is considering all legal options available to remedy any breaches committed by MLB.
"Throughout this process the Players Association has repeatedly shown it is committed to an effective drug program that is strong and fair. And as we indicated in our statement yesterday, although we do not agree with the arbitrator's decision, we respect the process and will act accordingly. We believe the other involved parties should do the same."


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Art exhibit features fiber sculpture
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 2:00 AM
Pittsburg, KS
A new exhibit, "Redefinitions," by fiber sculptor Jill Rumoshosky Werner, has opened in the University Gallery in Pittsburg State University's Porter Hall.
Werner uses quilted shapes and other materials to create bright sculptures that are visual definitions of words. The artist says she particularly likes playing with words that have multiple meanings and her sense of humor permeates her work.
"Quilted elements appear in each piece because people connect with quilting on a deep emotional level," Werner said. "Rather than surfaces to be decorated, I treat the quilts as raw materials, creating the lines, planes and forms of my designs. I prefer working with bold, bright colors because they provide a high level of excitement and energy."
Werner regularly exhibits her artwork in museums, art centers and galleries around the U.S. and abroad and has won national and international awards.
Werner has been published in American Craft magazine, the 2008 Material Matters book and the 2006 Quilt Visions book. Her work is owned by the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection and the International Quilt Study Center.
Werner holds an M.A. degree in audiology and she previously worked as a research audiologist for a hearing aid manufacturer, as a software technical writer for NCR and as a systems engineer for IBM. She is also an accomplished teacher, speaker and writer. A native of the New York City area, Werner currently lives in Wichita.
"Redefinitions" will remain in the University Gallery through Sept. 23. The artist will give a free public talk about her work at 11 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 23, in 103 Porter Hall.
PSU's University Gallery is open from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Admission is free.


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In first year with Seattle, Cano seeks All-Star ticket
SEATTLE -- Five-time All-Star second baseman Robinson Cano heads a list of nine Mariners on the 2014 All-Star ballot that was released Friday by Major League Baseball.
Cano was an American League All-Star for the Yankees the last four years as well as in 2006, and he will have a chance to become the first Mariners position player elected to the Midsummer Classic since Ichiro Suzuki in 2010.
SEATTLE -- Five-time All-Star second baseman Robinson Cano heads a list of nine Mariners on the 2014 All-Star ballot that was released Friday by Major League Baseball.
Cano was an American League All-Star for the Yankees the last four years as well as in 2006, and he will have a chance to become the first Mariners position player elected to the Midsummer Classic since Ichiro Suzuki in 2010.
Cano was the biggest free-agent signing in baseball last winter, with a 10-year, $240 million deal that brought him to Seattle.
Corey Hart, a two-time National League All-Star with the Brewers, is also on the ballot this year for Seattle as the club's new right fielder and designated hitter. Hart has played mostly DH this year as he returns from a year-long absence following two microfracture knee surgeries, but he's listed on the ballot as an outfielder.
Also on the ballot from the Mariners are catcher Mike Zunino, first baseman Justin Smoak, shortstop Brad Miller, third baseman Kyle Seager, outfielders Dustin Ackley and Abraham Almonte and designated hitter Logan Morrison.
This will be the first All-Star ballot appearance by Zunino, Miller and Almonte, who all made their Major League debuts in midseason last year. Morrison, acquired from the Marlins in a December trade for reliever Carter Capps, is currently on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right hamstring.
Since Ichiro's last appearance in 2010, the Mariners have been represented at the All-Star Game only by pitchers -- Felix Hernandez, Michael Pineda and Brandon League in 2011, Hernandez in '12 and Hernandez and Hisashi Iwakuma last year.
Mariners fans will be able to vote in person at Safeco Field from May 11 to June 17.
Fans can cast their votes for starters at MLB.com and all 30 club sites -- online or on a mobile device -- using the 2014 All-Star Game MLB.com Ballot Sponsored by Experian until Thursday, July 3, at 8:59 p.m. PT. The 2014 All-Star Game will be played at Target Field on Tuesday, July 15.
Fans may submit up to 25 online ballots, but they can also earn a one-time bonus of 10 additional online ballots. To access these additional online ballots, you must be logged into your MLB.com account when you submit any online ballot. If you do not have an MLB.com account, register on the site in accordance with the enrollment instructions for a free MLB.com account.
Fans this year once again can participate in the Home Run Derby Fan Poll. Fans will have the opportunity to select three players in each league who they would most like to see participate in the Home Run Derby. The 2014 Home Run Derby will be broadcast live on ESPN, ESPN HD, ESPN Deportes and ESPN Radio in the United States beginning at 5 p.m. PT on July 14.
The 2014 American League and National League All-Star teams will be unveiled on the 2014 MLB All-Star Game Selection Show during the weekend of July 5-6, with further details to follow on MLB.com. Immediately following the announcement of the AL and NL All-Star rosters, fans can begin voting to select the final player for each league's 34-man roster via the 2014 All-Star Game MLB.com Final Vote Sponsored by Experian. Fans will cast their votes from a list of five players from each league over the balloting period.
And the voting doesn't end there. The final phase of All-Star Game voting will again have fans participating in the voting for the Ted Williams All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet. During the Midsummer Classic, fans will vote exclusively online at MLB.com via the 2014 All-Star Game MLB.com MVP Vote Sponsored by Pepsi, and their voice will represent 20 percent of the overall vote that determines the recipient of the Arch Ward Trophy.
MLB.com will provide extensive online coverage of the All-Star Week festivities.
The 85th All-Star Game will be televised nationally by FOX, in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and RDS, and worldwide by partners in more than 200 countries via MLB International's independent feed. ESPN Radio and ESPN Radio Deportes will provide national radio coverage of the All-Star Game. MLB Network and SiriusXM will also provide comprehensive All-Star Week coverage. For more information, please visit allstargame.com.
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog.


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Melania Trump Stands By Her Man — Just Like Many High-Profile Wives Did Before Her
In between promoting oil pipelines and immigration restrictions, President Trump has returned to familiar territory by publicly objectifying women — first when he told an Irish reporter in the Oval Office that she was "beautiful" and had a "nice smile," and then again on Thursday morning via tweets in which he taunted Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzenzinski about her "facelift."
And all of that has, in turn, sent first lady Melania Trump into her own familiar territory: standing by her man.
"As the first lady has stated publicly in the past, when her husband gets attacked, he will punch back 10 times harder," the first lady's communications director Stephanie Grisham said in a statement to CNN when asked about the Brzenzinski-related tweets.
Melania Trump's comms director: "As First Lady has stated publicly…when her husband gets attacked, he will punch back 10 times harder."
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) June 29, 2017
Melania is far from alone when it comes to publicly sticking by one's husband, despite allegations of his sexist behavior. Take, just for starters, the following women who displayed loyalty (at least initially) despite a lack of it from their spouses: Camille Cosby, Huma Abedin (wife of Anthony Weiner), Silda Wall Spitzer, Hillary Clinton, and Elin Nordegren (ex-wife of Tiger Woods).
Why they remain so devoted in the face of such betrayal is layered and complex, say relationship experts familiar with the phenomenon.
"The deepest and most complicated reason is that it's familiar — that [these women were likely] raised in a household where inappropriate sexuality was part of the normal equation," Beverly Hills–based couples therapist Bethany Marshall tells Yahoo Style. "Love, violence, betrayal, sexual perversion was all a part of the equation and becomes fused. That's the analytic perspective — that it's part of their attachment system growing up [via their fathers]."
Although each individual woman named above, as well as those in similar situations, are in different situations, there is a common denominator with all, observes Marshall. "[The men] are sexually acting out, or have poor boundaries with women. They objectify women and are not deeply loyal," she says. "Most of these men — Trump, Cosby, Weiner — are bordering on sex addiction or being sexually compulsive or impulsive. At the core is their wanting to have power over women."
Other reasons for wives publicly supporting disloyal high-profile husbands, according to Marshall, include the idea of "brainwashing," as in when the men act erratically but "try to convince the other person that what we do is normal," and then there is no one outside of the relationship willing to criticize the man (especially POTUS) and therefore provide any helpful perspective. This happened with Nordegren, she notes, who started out supportive of Woods and changed her mind "only when other women came forward and forced her to realize [what was happening]."
Another factor, particularly in politics, she says, is when spouses sometimes "make a pact with the devil," meaning, "I'll overlook your flaws if you get me power/status/to the White House."
Other times, Marshall explains, a woman in this position may be suffering from a "crisis of boundaries," meaning "she knows her man is suffering but she thinks it's somehow her fault. … 'If only I were better in bed he wouldn't have to cheat,' for example." Also, she posits, there can often be a failure to integrate the positive and negative aspects of a disloyal spouse.
"One of the earliest developmental tasks in life is to be able to see the good and the bad in people," Marshall says, although sometimes people, particularly abused women, have "not integrated the reality." For example, as children, she says, "eventually we see that mom is a nurturing provider but that she also lets us down… and it's part of good mental health to see both sides."
Paul Hokemeyer, a Los Angeles–based marriage and family therapist, has a slightly different take on the 'stand-by-your-man' phenomenon.
"I don't view it as a stand by your man. I see it as a stand by the institution of marriage and take care of private matters in private," he tells Yahoo Style. "Women want to resolve personal matters in their own time, based on their own intuitive and factual data. Once they have sufficient data, they make decisions guided by on their moral, emotional, and physical compass. Eventually they act, even if an action is a non-action — and in so doing, own their decision, rather than being thrashed around by the harsh and unforgiving opinions of others."
Hokemeyer adds, "Women who stand by their husbands in the face of controversy demonstrate an extraordinary capacity to honor this institution. Marriage is also a very private agreement that is constantly being negotiated between two imperfect human beings." And in his experience, he says, men and women tend to go about that differently. "I've observed that in contrast to men who too frequently lack the capacity to tolerate their mates' imperfection because they suffer from higher rates of narcissism, women overlook extraordinary lapses in their mates' judgments for the good of the marriage as a social and religious institution and the emotional well being of their family. Simply put, women are not ruled by their narcissistic egos and are able to make less emotional, more strategic and logical decisions then men."
Bottom line, of course, is that women could simply be afraid of losing their mates, Marshall says, and that "the betrayal is unthinkable."
As she points out, "We all want to believe our loved ones." And that can also be said for the public wanting to believe the oft-manipulative politicians and celebrities they adore. "We," Marshall says, "can be like the abused wife too."
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Leave The Seat Up No More With An Android-Controlled Toilet
The My Satis line of toilets from the Japanese company Lixil can connect to the accompanying Android app via Bluetooth to doo a number of things like controlling flushing, activate a refreshing (I guess) blasts of water, and recording water usage to help home owners keep their energy consumption low.
Other features include of the My Satis toilet/app combo include a daily journal that (I kid you not) can record your "movements" for health reasons. For all you crappy DJ's, My Satis laboratories will even let users listen to their Android music playlists through the integrated speakers.
Can't wait to drop a load...of cash on this tech-throne - The My Satis toilet line will be available in the spring for around $4,000 large. Admit it, we all have performed triage on some emails and sent some tweets while handling our business. Might as well make your bathroom visit even more productive.
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Stroll n Roll Day in Wichita Falls, TX
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Catch the trolley or bus at the MPEC to ride all over the city to see places such as the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame, the Kemp Center for the Arts, Museum of North Texas, Jenny the Jet exhibit at the airport, 9th Street Studios and a dozen other locations, ALL FREE Admission on this Day!!


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I upgraded a bunch of updates relating to xorg earlier (testing repo is enabled). Since rebooting, the scrolling on my touchpad is reversed. I really don't want this.
A bit of googling suggests that to enable reverse scrolling you must edit ~/.Xmodmap, but the file is non-existant, so it technically shouldn't be enabled in the first place.
Any ideas on how to fix it?
Edit: I just noticed if you scroll on the left side of the touchpad, it scrolls the right way. If you scroll around the top and bottom it scrolls too. It seems like circular scrolling is permanently on and also reversed. Very strange.
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do you have testing enabled?
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
Yeah, I have testing enabled.
I just realised there's a testing repo forum under this one. Perhaps a mod could move this thread for me?
Perhaps a mod could move this thread for me?
If you want to contact the moderators, please use the 'Report' link in the bottom right corner of your post.
I've already sent them a report, so you don't have to do it this time.
moderator action: Moving from Pacman & Package Upgrade Issues to [testing] Repo Forum.
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This is not gnome shell only - I've got the same thing with kde so it's probably xorg related.
Check out my thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=136116
that is xorg 1.12 or the new evdev. you should report on our tracker.
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
that is xorg 1.12 or the new evdev. you should report on our tracker.
Only bug tracker I can find is bugs.archlinux.org. Is there any dedicated tracker for testing repo?
Only bug tracker I can find is bugs.archlinux.org. Is there any dedicated tracker for testing repo?
There's only one bugtracker. Just mention you're using [testing] + the packages' version numbers. That should do it.
see the other thread about xorg 1.12:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 3#p1061333
Updated to xf86-input-synaptics 1.5.99-0.2 today and it cured my coasting problem.
I found that in GNOME you can control the direction of scrolling by enabling/disabling "Natural scrolling" in the Mouse & Touchpad options.
Hi sese_k
Welcome to Arch Linux and thank you for a good suggestion. Unrelated to your post, I am going to go ahead and close this post. This subforum is for things in testing, and the original thread was about a version that has long since gone mainstream.
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text: Create die-cut images and greetings in record time with Thinlits dies and the Big Shot. Thinlits Dies help you create detailed die-cuts with just a few turns of the Big Shot handle. Dies include ejection holes so you can remove the paper easily.Because of the intricate design of some of these dies, you'll get best results if you use it with the Precision Base Plate.* 7 dies* Largest die: 2-13/16" x 4-5/8" (7.1 x 11.7 cm)* Use with Big Shot* Precision Base Plate recommended for detailed dies in set


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Blaine Taylor & Wendy Larry Radio Call In Shows begin Nov.14 & 15
By ODU Athletics
Nov. 9, 2005
The Old Dominion University basketball call-in radio shows, featuring head coaches Blaine Taylor and Wendy Larry, will begin weekly on Monday, Nov. 14 on ESPN Radio 1310 and continue through the completion of the season.
The men's basketball call-in show, featuring Taylor and host John Castleberry, will air on Mondays from 5-6 p.m., while the Lady Monarch show featuring Larry and host Tony Mercurio will air on Tuesdays from 5-6 p.m. Fans can ask questions of the coaches by calling 757-497-1310, or by directing their questions to the "Virginia Lottery Ask the Coach" site on www.odusports.com. In addition, fans can listen to the coaches shows' via the website, by signing up for e All Access program, which also provides live audio of all the men's and women's basketball broadcasts on ESPN Radio 1310, as well as live video of all the home games.
The dates of the coaches shows are as follows:
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Hello all: I have a K100RS with and EML GT2 sidecar. I need help finding a source for a couple of obscure parts. The sidecar rig is mounted to a frame and there are rubber isolators both fore and aft between the sidecar (fiberglass) and the frame (tubular steel). These are rubber grommets without threading in the center. My rig has lost two of the rubber grommets (or perhaps bushings) this summer and I am looking for a source for them. I have seen the article on EML sidecar vibration here: http://home.jtan.com/~joe/vibes.htm
When I google the parts listed in the above article, I find only factory availability and nothing for buying only 5 or 10 copies. Anyone know where I can source the rubber isolators. As long as I'll have the rig undone I would like to replace ann 5. I even have a friend with the same sidecar outfit and I'm sure he will need them as well.
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The Guruplug Server + is a nice and small ARM machine. It has a 1,2 GHz CPU, 512 MB RAM, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, WiFi, Bluetooth, an eSata port, two high speed USB host ports, a microSD card reader, etc. The problem with this machine is that it has a flagrant design flaw: The internal heatsink is unable to keep the CPU and memory cool, and this makes the system highly unstable. In my first tests, the system was continuously rebooting even with medium-low CPU loads. This problem was reported to Globalscale (why didn't they discover it anyway?), and in the second batch of Guruplugs, the heatsink was replaced with a tiny and very very noisy fan. The heat problem was solved, but for most users, the noise created a new problem.
To solve the heat problems, I decided to mod my Guruplug. I removed the heatsink, the internal 5V power source (later I used it for The Fonera Plugstrip) and used the hollow it left to add a big heatsink with a silent fan.
|The removed tiny heatsink
|The removed power source
|The heatsink with the fan occupies the space left by the power source
|Another capture of the heatsing with the fan
On the software side, I have built a custom Ångström GNU+Linux distribution. To build the system I have used OpenEmbedded, a set of tools, scripts and configuration files, aimed to build GNU+Linux distributions for embedded systems. OpenEmbedded uses a tool called BitBake for building. BitBake is similar to the Portage tool used in Gentoo distribution, but it is aimed to cross compile for embedded systems.
The Ångström OS image I have built is console based (no X-Windows) and has tools for file serving (samba, ftp, sftp), file sharing (aMule daemon, rtorrent), file downloading (plowshare), and media serving (mediatomb). I have also created some scripts that report specific events to a Twitter account (using OAuth authentication), automagically mount external USB disk drives read only (for unpluging without having to manually unmount them), and share its multimedia contents via mediatomb.
The system works perfect, but I was still missing something: a way to promptly know the system status at a glance, without having to use a computer/smartphone/tablet with a SSH or web client. For that task, I dedided to create USBLCD.
|LCD + LEDs + Pushbuttons + USB
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BONUS: for the LCD, I have used one without backlight, but the board is also prepared for displays with LED backlight. There is a small mosfet transistor driven by a PWM inside the microcontroller, that can drive LEDs up to 300 mA. I have connected another USBLCD board to a white LED strip and have coded a PWM driver. The firmware allows you to change LED intensity from 0 to 100% in steps of 1%, and it also has a timer that automatically shuts down the light when the count hits 0. Both the remaining time and the LED intensity are shown in the screen. Source files for this function, here.


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Is the sky falling in Middlebury?
By Angelo Lynn Area residents against any outside development in Middlebury must think the sky is falling. Within just the past couple of weeks, Middlebury has seen applications to develop a 2,400-square-foot Starbucks coffee house, a 15,000-square-foot Staples, and now a 17,000-square-foot warehouse type building for an Aldi discount food store, plus 4,200 square feet to be leased for commercial/retail uses. Add that to the prospect of Aldi building another office building on an adjacent lot in the future, and the prospect of a 40,000-square-foot commercial building in the downtown behind the Ilsley Library (see stories Page 1A) and that's a whole lot of change coming down the pike in a hurry.But is the sky falling down or is this managed growth?To be fair, the prospects of growth within The Centre Plaza, where Hannafords is located, have always been contemplated. And certainly town officials and residents have been anticipating for the past couple of years some commercial enterprise replacing the dilapidated car wash next to McDonald's. And to the extent that The Centre Plaza has had the capacity to expand on its existing lot — or could achieve that with adjoining land acquisition — it's not beyond the pale to believe the town has anticipated a full build-out of that property since its original application. That the tenants would be national businesses like Starbucks and Staples makes many area residents rebel against the proposals, but that the locations are developed to the respective maximum potential is precisely how Middlebury should be encouraged to grow. The parking lots are already in place; the appearance of the existing shopping plaza would be improved; and the expanded traffic should not be stretched beyond the infrastructure's current ability to handle that increase. That is planned growth, and certainly it's preferable to having additional buildings erected on vacant land on the Route 7 strip.To argue that The Centre should not be fully developed is foolhardy and against the town's vision to cluster such retail growth. Unfortunately, the rent on such space is high enough that local retailers find it difficult to afford — leaving larger chain stores the primary tenants. That will likely be true in most new developments whether they are downtown or on the outskirts of town. **********Retail and commercial development within Middlebury South Village causes more of a concern precisely because it extends the "strip" development of Route 7 into Court Street and what could be termed the "village proper." There has been an undefined line between where the "village look" of the town begins (approximately at Middle Road where the stop light is) and where the town had years ago allowed "strip" development to occur (which had been just south of the Middle Road area on out to Foster Motors.) But to allow intensive commercial development to encroach another two blocks north on Route 7 to Creek Road will certainly change what had been a less intensive use along that side of the road. Specifically, the "big box" appearance of the Aldi store and the prospect of Aldi building an adjacent retail store in future years — plus the prospect of a chain restaurant in that development — foretells a significant change in the appearance to the town's southern entrance. It is also hard to imagine the addition of 21,200-square-feet of retail space, plus another future building and a chain restaurant, would not significantly add stress to the downtown's economic health. As a single commercial project (Aldi) and associated development, the development review board would have reason to question whether there would not be, as the town plan asks developers to prove, "unmitigated undue adverse impact on the cultural and economic vitality of the downtown."(The developer of that site originally tried to encourage local entrepreneurs to locate there, we understand, but found no takers — mostly because of higher rents needed to meet today's high costs of construction. And if local retailers or commercial enterprises can't be found, the question becomes what other types of development or use could that land have?) **********The prospects for a 40,000-square-foot commercial building downtown behind the Ilsley Library, along with an enlarged parking garage that could hold 200 or more cars, is exciting and could provide the downtown with ways to draw shoppers into the heart of town. But there are reasons to be concerned that future tenants, unless subsidized or unless the developers agree upfront to keep tenants local, might also be national chain stores. A Sears or JC Penney or Target comes to mind as an anchor store — posing the question: just how much economic harm would such a store located in the downtown do to other downtown businesses?One point is clear. Growth rarely happens without displacement of some sort. Middlebury has done a good job of emphasizing in its town plan that the ultimate goal is to maintain a strong and vibrant economic and cultural center within the downtown. That doesn't mean, however, that the town has enshrined protection against competition for each individual downtown business.The decisions that must be made in reviewing these applications will first consider the overall economic impact on the health of the downtown. But while the board will attempt to base those decisions on hard facts and objective measures, subjective reasoning will have a role as well. A town's aesthetic appearance, its culture, its business community, its persona if you will, are important measures that can't be defined in economic or square-footage terms. Judgment calls will and should be made. Prior to those decisions, much public input should be gathered, debated and fully considered.


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Bryanna Clark Grogan's Vegan Feast Kitchen/ 21st Century Table: The kitchen journal of a vegan food writer.. I'm on Facebook and Twitter (see links in sidebar at right).
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Last Sunday we had a family party (24 of us) for my granddaughter Mariah's 13th birthday. Because Mariah loves coffee flavor, I made two 9 x 13-inch Chocolate Mudpie Cakes with Coffee/Coconut/Pecan Icing (except that I used almonds instead of pecans, which I was short of). To go with it, I made a double batch of the following ice cream. There were only a few vegans there, but everyone loved this rich-tasting treat, and we had no leftovers to bring home (which is a good thing, since we are weight-watching!).
In this recipe, DO NOT use the regular Clearjel® meant for making jam and pies and needs to be cooked. Instant Clearjel® does NOT need to be cooked. It is carried on amazon.com, hoosierhillfarm.com, barryfarm.com and King Arthur Flour for US customers. It has been available in Canada primarily from baking supply wholesalers, but, good news for Canadians-- amazon.ca finally carries Instant Clearjel®! (Make sure you add a note to your order specifying that you want INSTANT Clearjel®.) According to their website, Gourmet Warehouse in Vancouver, BC carries it, too, but I'm not sure if they do mail order (their website is under construction right now).
For information about these thickeners, see
http://sharealikecooking.blogspot.ca/p/clearjel-page-clearly-best-thickeners.html (According to this source and others, Instant Clearjel® and Ultra Gel® are both NON-GMO.)
Printable Recipe
Due to the addition of the melted vegan buttery spread (essential for the flavor of this recipe) and the nuts, this is little richer than most of my ice cream recipes.
NOTES: The Instant Clearjel® (or guar or xanthan gum) in the recipe makes the ice cream very creamy and prevents it from getting rock-hard in the freezer.
1 tablespoon good-tasting vegan buttery spread (such as my homemade Buttah)
6 comments:
- Mattheworbit said...
You're always so innovative!
We've just bought an icecream maker, and I've begun experimenting with xanthan gum - so I really look forward to trying this. Thanks for the tips.
- Wed Aug 01, 07:01:00 PM PDT
- Heather McCann said...
Wow this looks SO good! Thanks so much for sharing! Mmmmmmmm!
- Thu Aug 02, 08:46:00 PM PDT
Hi Bryanna,
I was able to purchase a small amount of clearjel from Galloways in New Westminster, B.C. I think they also have an online site to order from.
Love your site; have many of your cookbooks; and whenever I need answers to anything cooking related, you're the one I turn to.
Best regards,
- Sat Aug 04, 01:31:00 PM PDT
- Bryanna Clark Grogan said...
Thanks, Gail I couldn't find it on their website-- do you have a link?
- Sat Aug 04, 02:08:00 PM PDT
There are two sites. I usually go to gallowaysnewwest.com - the store.
Apparently galloway's was originally owned by two brothers from Uganda, who decided to separate the businesses. So same family, but different business. I don't know if one can order online from the New West store. Am afraid I assumed the two stores would carry much the same product. Perhaps a direct email would clarify things. I've always found the New West store owner to be very helpful.
Hope that helps........Gail
- Mon Aug 06, 08:25:00 PM PDT
- narf7 said...
I might have to go with the original tapioca option or the gum option as I have an icecubes chance in hades of getting any of that clear gel here Bryanna ;)
- Sat Aug 01, 11:39:00 AM PDT


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Nick Cohen Strikes Back At the "Smear-Job" Lie
Good for Nick.
As in the similarly-reviled Euston Manifesto: "We are also united in the view that, since the day on which this occurred, the proper concern of genuine liberals and members of the Left should have been the battle to put in place in Iraq a democratic political order and to rebuild the country's infrastructure, to create after decades of the most brutal oppression a life for Iraqis which those living in democratic countries take for granted — rather than picking through the rubble of the arguments over intervention."
Agree with it or not, it's like I said: "Whatever else you might say about What's Left? you'd have to be pig-ignorant or a liar to write it off as a right-wing diatribe -- although that hasn't stopped many of Cohen's critics."
It sure didn't stop them from filling up the comments here, and one of them strayed so deep into Jew-bashing territory that not only did his disgusting remarks disappear, he himself vanished entirely. And someone will blame the Jews for that, too, I bet.
Which is another thing that's really starting to get to me. It's high time we started laying the blame where it belongs:
Blame Canada.
UPDATE: It's a bit like watching a trainwreck in progress, but if you're amused by berserking you won't want to miss the ongoing saga I refer to above, in the comments. Tyee editor David Beers and I are called bigots, and David, for banning comments persistently "derogatory towards Jewish people," is accused of taking offence to comments that "criticize Israel harshly" and unfairly objecting to views regarding "Jewish attitudes towards Palestinians and other Arabs." In a perverse way it's too bad the comment that set this off isn't still there (in which, as I recall, I was condemned for having a Jewish attitude about things or something), but I am happy to report that you can still read comments in which I am exposed as "gatekeeper" for "neocons and warlovers" and I tell "Goebbels type lies" as I go about my affairs, which consist of making "hateful neocon propaganda against the peace movement."
Which is a phenomenon I touched on here.
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Facebook and Politics | Election 2012
What Your "Likes" Say About Your Politics
What Your "Likes" Say About Your Politics
The election is tomorrow; are you ready to pick our next president? If there's one thing both sides can agree on this election season, it's that we're probably all getting tired of the constant politically charged statuses on our social media sites, especially Facebook. But you may be surprised to find out that it's not just the obvious political statements that show our partisan tendencies — even the pages that we "like" say something about who we could be voting for on Election Day. Buzzfeed shared some infographics from a company called Engage that show how what you "like" on Facebook — from favorite books to food chains — give a clue as to your political preferences. Click through to see if your top movies, music, and more match the candidate you'll be voting for tomorrow!


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While we all think the Nokia Lumia 920's camera is a quality camera, we also note that image quality from the Windows Phone camera can be slightly on the soft side. The softness isn't something to send you running from the room in a panic but evident.
Until Nokia updates the firmware on the Lumia 920 to bump the in-camera sharpening you can easily fix things with Nokia's Creative Studio or even the auto-fix in Windows Phone 8 can help.
There also may be another fix available. WPCentral Reader Atif sent in a tip where he's found changing the aspect ratio on the Lumia 920 from 16:9 to 4:3 produces sharper images from the get go.
The aspect ratio is simply the proportional relationship between an image's width and height. The 4:3 ratio is more square like while the 16:9 has more of a wider, landscape feel to it. Here's what Atif discovered in the sample shots he submitted. The 4:3 samples are posted above the 16:9 samples. Images have been resized for publication purposes.
While the 4:3 image does appear sharper in the above samples, we tried to replicate Atif's results but couldn't. Here's our sample.
So to answer the original question: Does changing the aspect ratio improve sharpness? We don't think so. Rather, we surmise users are getting different, sometimes better results due to the camera re-focusing (and how you focus comes into play to e.g. tap-to-focus versus shutter button). In conferring with other Windows Phone Central staff writers who own the Lumia 920, none were able to verify that switching to 4:3 yielded better results.
We still believe the solution is a simple firmware update to boost the in-camera sharpening. As is, the images the Lumia 920 produce are quality images and the slight softness may not be an issue to most. We aren't being picky about things, we just would like to see a great camera reach its full potential.
Thanks, Atif, for the tip and sample photos!


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Correct Method for Addressing Mail To New Jersey State Government
In an effort to improve the delivery of mail to State agencies, the Capitol Post Office in conjunction with the US Postal Service, implemented PO Box numbers.
A PO number takes the place of the physical street address. The correct way to address mail being sent to a State department or agency in Trenton is shown in the following example:
Office of the Governor
Trenton, NJ 08625-0001
The only time the street address of any State department or agency should be used is if you need to deliver to or visit the agency. See department web sites for additional contact information.
Note: In order to ensure speedy delivery when mailing an item through an overnight delivery service to a State agency, you are advised to use the street address and zip code of that agency.
For further information regarding mailing, please contact Jeff Bond, Asst. Chief at (609) 984-4304, Fax (609) 777-4429 in Trenton. In Newark, contact Leonard Forbes, Supervisor at (973) 648-4428.
Fill in full or partial search text and click the Start Search button.
All search fields are optional. To display all PO numbers, enter no search options and click the Start Search button.


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Photo Gallery: Small Appliance Hall Of Fame
Our editors' best looking, hardest working picks.
Photo Gallery: Modern Menorahs
West Elm's Market Toasters lend a retro feel to countertops.
These tongue-in-cheek Market Toasters caught senior style editor Margot Austin's eye. Wood veneer sides gives these appliances a handmade look, and they are a nod to classic mid-century designs such as the Eames moulded plywood chairs.
A food editor favourite.
"The Cuisinart food processor is timeless, indespensible and it lasts forever," notes food editor Eric Vellend, who uses this model to whip up pesto and chocolate birthday cake. This high praise from a chef cements this food processor's place in our hall of fame.
See more small appliances in our photo gallery.
A high-powered juicer that's easy to clean.
Margot Austin swears by the Breville line. This electric juicer squeezes every last drop out of citrus fruits with the touch of a button.
A kitchen icon designed by Michael Graves.
From the whimsical bird that "sings" when the water is boiled, to the fun coloured handle and rivet details, everything about this kettle spells personality. Launched in 1985, the Alessi's kettle designed by Michael Graves has proven staying power and continues to charm fans like deputy editor Hilary Smythe.
See more small appliances in our photo gallery.
A classic that comes in an array of colours.
A hardworking fixture in every serious cook's arsenal, the KitchenAid stand mixer breaks the mold when it comes to appliance colours, amping up countertops with a range of on-trend hues from juicy chartreuse to chocolate brown. They add a shot of colour to white kitchens, or in the case of this copper example, lend a chic warm-metals update.
See more small appliances in our photo gallery.
A lab-like addition for serious cooks.
Cooks who rely on precise measurements appreciate the functionality, but we love this compact scale's industrial good looks on a Carrara marble counter.
Designed by Yves Bahar, Sodastream Source is sleek and compact.
Both Margot Austin and Eric Vellend endorse the SodaStream to turn flat water into sparkling in a snap, or custom-mix their own cola, ginger ale and other fizzy concoctions.
Pop kernels without the microwave.
This air popper makes popcorn without oil, but if you want to indulge in a buttery topping on stay-home movie nights, there's a removable warming tray for easy pouring.
The design is sleek and easy to operate.
"Not only is the size perfect, the overall design is ideal," says style editor Sarah Hartill. "This milk frother is sleek and streamlined, perfect for any kitchen. There aren't any bells or whistles so it's easy to use — especially for my kids. I think they use it more than me."
See more small appliances in our photo gallery.
Orange handles give this juicer a pop of colour.
We love the serious industrial look of this juicer, but it's the perky, citrus-hued handles that are guaranteed to wake up the senses, along with your morning OJ.
An old-school toaster with new features.
The iconic Dualit toaster that style editor Margot Austin fell in love with has been upgraded. The New Generation toaster has a setting for buns and bagels, and a defrost setting for frozen bread.


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I didn't know an old record player could be so much fun, but I saw this activity on The Educators' Spin On It and I knew we had to give this a try. I just didn't know our fun would last for hours on end - and really is still going on because of the records we have pulled out and been listening to.
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NEW: HS 800 Digital MANUFAKTUR
A customized handcrafted Aviation Headset
NEW: HS 800 Digital MANUFAKTUR - a customized handcrafted Aviation Headset
Heilbronn, October 2011: The HS 800 Digital pilot headset can now be ordered
as a customized version. The online configurator, similar to those of car industries, allows customers to select from a wide range of exclusive materials
and colours for different components including an individually laser engraved
text. beyerdynamic is handcrafting these customized headsets in Heilbronn:
A real unique item "Made in Germany".
The HS 800 Digital is worth a closer look. At the AERO 2011, beyerdynamic presented this headset with the world's first fully-adaptive digital noise reduction system. The adaptation to different noise levels is a continuous and automatic process – no need to press a button. In addition to the noise attenuation, the wearing comfort also sets standards. All pads are very soft and covered with fine genuine leather. The replaceable headband pad has a special shape to keep away pressure from the sensitive fontanelle at the top of the head. The moderate headband pressure and an optimal headband construction as well as the ultra-soft viscoelastic ear pads and the light weight provide maximum wearing comfort. This makes every single flight a relaxing experience without any stress due to noise.
In addition to the well-known Aviation headsets, customers will find the new
MANUFAKTUR at www.beyerdynamic.com/aviation where they can use their
imagination and let their creativity run free! The ear cups can be selected e.g. in a design of high gloss black piano lacquer, basalt grey metallic or burl wood.
The leather of the headband pad is either black or brown. Metal parts such as
decorative rings or the yoke can be anodised in different colours. For a small
extra charge a personal laser engraved text is also available on the yoke giving the option to have the own name or licence number on the headset. After placing your order in the beyerdynamic shop, your customized headset will be manufactured by hand.
For beyerdynamic a high quality standard is of utmost importance. Each HS 800
Digital is tested individually and provided with a serial number so that the saved test results can still be assigned later. Software updates are possible.
The high quality standards can also be seen in customer service. Providing
buyers with replacement parts for the products is no problem: "For our aviation
headsets we can provide suitable ear pads even after more than 20 years",
explains David Thimm, Head of the Business Unit. A premium product such as
the HS 800 Digital feels like new – so that the wearer can enjoy the headset as on the first day.
International references
Not only pilots benefit from the high manufacturing standards. Professional
musicians from all over the world are keen on products that are "Made in
Germany". Music legends such as "The Beatles", Abba, David Bowie, Bob Dylan
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When the Nielsen Company broke its word and began outsourcing jobs to India, a small Florida community did what Congress didn't have the will to do: It moved to end tax breaks for the media giant.
When a private company working for Ohio outsourced jobs to El Salvador, Gov. Ted Strickland knew what to do: He signed an executive order banning the outsourcing of services paid for with state dollars.
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No matter what the technical indicators say, the U.S. economy is in terrible shape, and the IT industry is still suffering painful, long-lasting unemployment. I don't think the government can solve all of our economic problems, but there is one thing it can do: Stop rewarding companies that send jobs overseas.
That could have happened last week. Indeed, such a bill had passed the House, and a majority of the Senate approved, but our political system is so gridlocked, so beholden to corporate interests, the measure never came to a vote. It was filibustered by every single Republican senator with the help of a few Blue Dog Democrats. As a result, the tax dollars of workers who've lost their jobs to lower-paid employees overseas will flow to the very companies that fired them.
The twisted logic of offshoring
The Creating American Jobs and Ending Offshoring Act would have ended tax deductions for expenses incurred when companies close U.S. operations and send the work overseas. It would also have instituted a new tax on products manufactured by foreign workers that were previously made in the United States.
I have enormous trouble with the logic of those who support tax breaks for overseas outsourcing. On the one hand, conservatives say that government should keep its hands off the economy and that the market will do a better job with less regulation. OK, that's a defensible point of view.
But the same people argue that ending those tax breaks is intrusive and will damage the economy because all tax increases stifle growth. Wait a minute -- if you want government to let the market run itself, you can't support a tax policy that encourages a particular form of behavior. Either you want the government to remain neutral or you don't.
Logic, however, isn't the point; money is. The technology industry spent $111 million to lobby lawmakers and regulators last year, but that $111 million is a mere drop in the bucket. It doesn't include lobbying and campaign contribution by companies like Nielsen or Parago, which won a contract to administer a state program in Ohio and then sent the jobs to Central America.
And it doesn't include money spent by the powerful U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has gone to bat for overseas outsourcing year after year. During the debate over the stimulus, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce fought efforts to include a provision that would encourage taxpayer money to be spent on products made by domestic companies. The chamber, by the way, has made the outsourcing issue explicitly political, saying it may use the vote on the outsourcing bill to determine a senator's business-friendly rating in the lobby's annual scorecard. And did I mention that the chamber plans to spend $75 million to back candidates in the mid-term election?


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There should have been something for everyone in President Barack Obama's second inaugural address. For liberals, a full-throated call to arms. For conservatives, vindication.
Obama settled once and for all the debate over his place on the political spectrum and his political designs. He's an unabashed liberal determined to shift our politics and our country irrevocably to the left. In other words, Obama's foes — if you put aside the birthers and sundry other lunatics — always had him pegged correctly.
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If you listened to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, you got a better appreciation of Obama's core than by reading the president's friends and sophisticated interpreters, for whom he was either a moderate or a puzzle yet to be fully worked out.
Rush, et al., doubted that Obama could have emerged from the left-wing milieu of Hyde Park, become in short order the most liberal U.S. senator, run to Hillary Clinton's left in the 2008 primaries and yet have been a misunderstood centrist all along. They heeded his record and his boast in 2008 about "fundamentally transforming the United States of America," and discounted the unifying tone of his rhetoric as transparent salesmanship.
They got him right, even as he duped the Obamacons, played the press and fooled his sympathizers. David Brooks, the brilliant and winsome New York Times columnist, has been promising the arrival of the true, pragmatic Obama for years now. In his column praising the second inaugural address, he appeared finally to give up. "Now he is liberated," Brooks wrote. "Now he has picked a team and put his liberalism on full display."
Paul Krugman, also of The New York Times, wrote blog posts over the past few years titled "Obama the Moderate" and "Obama the Moderate Conservative." For Krugman, Obama could never have proved himself a liberal short of an order to liquidate the kulaks. Even he, though, wrote of the second inaugural: "Obama has never been this clear before about what he stands for."
After years of portraying Obama as cautiously picking through warmed-over Republican ideas, an Eisenhower Republican miscast by his opponents as a liberal ideologue, Obama's allies exulted in his open embrace of liberal ideology.
The media, as a general matter, loved the speech. They praised Obama's post-partisanship and now they praise his post-post-partisanship. They aren't strictly contradicting themselves because the content is the same. In his old post-partisan phase, the president passed a nearly $1 trillion stimulus, a universal health care bill sought by the left for decades and a massive regulation of Wall Street. All prior to his "liberation."


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Yes the arrow is pointing up for those 2 guys.
Coples is really coming on in the second half of the season and is starting to look like a really solid pick. With Mo playing at a Pro Bowl level, and Coples showing the ability to dominate, the Jets could have 2 terrific pillars for their rebuild.
Yes the arrow is pointing up for those 2 guys.
One beast at OLB or two and we will have a dominate D.
One thing Coples needs to do is learn to keep his hands down when he comes near the qb...the fifteen yard penalties add up
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Coples hasnt gone up against the SF line or any jonathon odgens, but these are still NFL player and he is starting to dominate them.
I really cant see how there can be a single complaint about him as a pick....he is playing extremely well, and him and wilkerson really look like a great tandem.
QC is starting to gain steam. I hope he continues to progress.
You must be miserable watching this team. I've been on this board for a good while, and I don't know when I started noticing your negativity, but I can't recall seeing one that I would even consider a neutral post.
We need speed at LB...bad.
Coples and Wilk are going to be monsters!!!!
There will still be cople haters since after all its jet fans on this site, but he too has looked great the past 3 games. He does have a weird tendency to hit QBs in the head which is getting called a lot but I cant wait to see what he looks like next year with a full offseason to work on technique etc.
several positives in Cro, Kerley, Landry, McIntyre, credit to Bart still giving all he has
Thats laughable, are you serious??????Mo is in his second year, he,s been blowing up offensive lineman all year, Coples is a rookie, and is starting to do the same thing.Both of them are beasts


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(CBS News) It's official: Mitt Romney's campaign has announced he has chosen Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan to be his running mate, bringing to the ticket a youthful budget hawk who will help underscore the GOP ticket's focus on righting the economy with substantial changes to government spending.
The Romney campaign communicated the pick via iPhone app at around 7 a.m. Saturday. Ryan will join Romney for an appearance in Norfolk, Va., on the deck of the USS Wisconsin at 9 a.m.
Ryan, 42, is a bold - and risky - choice. The chairman of the House Budget Committee, has proposed fundamental changes to the social safety net, including eventually turning Medicare into a system of direct payments to seniors that would allow them to buy their own insurance. Ryan has also called for replacing Medicaid with lump sum payments to states, who can use them as they see fit, and sought to allow workers to invest a portion of their payroll taxes, which fund Social Security, in private accounts. (Some of these proposals have been tweaked or abandoned.)
Democrats have used Ryan's proposals to criticize the vast majority of Republicans who voted in favor of his budget plan, which Romney has embraced. While many conservative opinion writers have rallied around Ryan, saying his proposals represent a necessary effort to reign in the debt and deficit, some have suggested his positions could sink the GOP. When Ryan released his budget plan, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote that "at 37 footnotes, it might be the most annotated suicide note in history." And then-presidential candidate Newt Gingrich famously referred to Ryan's Medicare plan as "right-wing social engineering", which resulted in criticism from Gingrich's fellow Republicans.
Ryan, a Janesville native who has represented Wisconsin's 1st district since 1999, is a likeable and natural presence on the campaign trail. He has been a strong advocate for Romney and could help Republicans win his home state, which President Obama won comfortably in 2008, but which is very much up for grabs this year. The state has seen a number of dramatic political developments in the past two years, with conservative Republican Gov. Scott Walker surviving a recall election this year. A strong debater who appears prepared to face off with Vice President Joe Biden, he will energize a conservative base that has shown skepticism about Romney due to his record as Massachusetts governor.
Romney's selection of Ryan represents a fundamental change in campaign strategy. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has until this point sought to make the election largely a referendum on the president. That ends with the choice of Ryan, a policy wonk who has offered up a clear and detailed alternative to the president's policies. His addition to the ticket will likely move the political conversation in a more substantive direction, with the two sides are offering clear alternatives to the American people.
A former Hill staffer, Ryan has spent most of his professional life in Washington - he won his seat when he was just 28 - and he could undercut Romney's message that America needs a tested political outsider at the helm of the economy. He has gone toe-to-toe with the president in public forums, and argues that the president wants to move the United States toward a "European" style of government. His policies have been celebrated by conservative think tanks and opinion leaders, who see Ryan as a potentially transformative figure who can convince Americans that the time has come to reign in entitlement programs as part of what Ryan calls the "Path To Prosperity." http://paulryan.house.gov/uploadedfiles/pathtoprosperity2013.pdf
The president has called Ryan's proposals "deeply pessimistic."
"There's nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending trillions of dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires," he said last April. "And I don't think there's anything courageous about asking for sacrifice from those who can least afford it and don't have any clout on Capitol Hill."


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On Tuesday's episode of Real Housewives of Orange County, viewers were reminded of how delusional Alexis Bellino is with her Katie Kourig-ing, and why they don't like Jim Bellino one bit! Well, now the Bible thumping couple is speaking out in defense of their marriage and insisting they're right with each other and the teachings of Jesus.
Taking to his own blog, created purely to dispel the myth of Bravo editing (which is why he supposedly stopped appearing on the show in the first place), Jim explains that his marriage is actually very balanced and supportive.
"This dinner was more than two hours long, but what viewers will see is a two-minute segment put together for TV that doesn't really show you the in-depth conversation and the detailed discourse that was had," Jim begins. Adding that while he is "no theologian" the bible evokes that "a husband and wife shall be like-minded in life's journey."
"As the head of the household, I know that ultimately it is my responsibility to ensure that balance is always a priority, and that's exactly what I was thinking about during my dinner with Alexis." (Bolded By Jim for dramatic effect!). And Jim says his scrutiny over Alexis' schedule was purely out of concern for her happiness.
"If you looked up one morning to find that your wife had three jobs and was running two companies, would you not want to address it with her, out of concern that she may become overwhelmed?;" he wonders. "Alexis is her own person, and I am not married to her to decide what challenges she takes up—I am here as her partner in marriage and in life to remind her of the big picture, just as she does for me."


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The last time Chris Rock hosted the Oscars, in 2005, his closest brush to controversy came from mocking then-prolific actor Jude Law.
"He's in everything," Rock said of Law. "He's gay, he's straight. He's American, he's British. Next year, he's playing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in a movie!"
Later in the show, Sean Penn admonished Rock, who seemed to be poking fun at Law as a lightweight compared to the likes of Clint Eastwood and Tom Cruise. Even if Rock intended any heavy social commentary, it didn't come across that way in a ceremony that Jamie Foxx and Morgan Freeman left with Oscars.
Fast-forward 11 years in which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences seems to have been moving in reverse, at least in terms of inclusion. Rock takes the stage at the Dolby Theatre Sunday with a built-in controversy: the Academy's failure to nominate any actors of color for the second straight year.
Rock's opening monologue stands to be the most watched and scrutinized 10 minutes of his career. It's his opportunity to deliver an Oscar-worthy performance, aiming his acidic humor at the Academy's whitewash.
In 2014, long before being tapped for his second Oscars gig, Rock wrote an essay for "The Hollywood Reporter" in which he called part of the supposedly liberal movie industry "kind of racist." The article coincided with the release of "Top Five," a romantic comedy Rock wrote, directed and starred in. The movie was well received by critics, but didn't get any Oscar love.
Some notable figures, among them honorary Oscar winner Spike Lee, past nominee Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, are skipping Sunday's ceremony. But Rock, who recently dubbed the Oscars "the white BET awards," never publicly wavered.
He recognizes the power in the world stage, after coming up as a comic out of Brooklyn who fought his way onto "Saturday Night Live" before marking a lasting mark on standup. As previously noted, he's used his smart and irreverent observational comedy to transform into a social critic along the lines of Richard Pryor and George Carlin.
The challenge Rock faces Sunday rests not in going too far but in lacing his take on the Academy's failures with enough humor to keep the attention of a wide audience – the kind of folks Hollywood too often take for granted.
The nominations whitewash is symptomatic of an Academy whose blind spots extend to trouble seeing that box office success and quality are not necessarily inversely proportional. Sure, Best Picture nominees "The Martian," "The Revenant" and "Mad Max: Fury Road" pulled in big money. But where's "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens?" Why is "Inside Out" relegated to the animation category? Why didn't "Straight Outta Compton" notch anything beyond a screenplay nomination? And forget about comedies, which are rarely rewarded by the Academy.
Rock's other 2005 signature Academy Awards moment came in a segment taped at a Magic Johnson theater, about seven miles and light years away from the Oscars stage. Moviegoers there lauded "Saw" "Alien vs. Predator" and "White Chicks" – but none of the non-stars in Rock's video saw any of that year's nominated films, including the winner, "Million Dollar Baby."
Perhaps Rock should pay another visit to ordinary moviegoers, who can help him deliver the punch line in 2016, the year that the Oscars, to many, became a joke.
Jere Hester is Director of News Products and Projects at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the author of "Raising a Beatle Baby: How John, Paul, George and Ringo Helped us Come Together as a Family." Follow him on Twitter.


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Martha is a television series hosted by Martha Stewart that debuted on September 12, 2005.
- September 13, 2005 — Elmo appears on the second episode to help Martha decorate school lunch bags.
- February 2, 2006 — Kermit the Frog talks about his visit to NASA and promotes the Ford Hybrid.
- July 10, 2006 — In a "best of" collection of clips, Oscar the Grouch gets a lesson in composting from Stewart. Originally aired on Martha Stewart Living.
- October 5, 2006 — Kermit the Frog sings "Bein' Green" to some Girl Scouts.
- October 24, 2006 — Cookie Monster (David Rudman) watches Stewart make Mini Pumpkin Whoopie Pies (which he has dubbed as "whoopie cookies"), and promotes the Old School DVD set. Cookie Monster placed a more focused stress on eating healthy, but assured the audience, "me not going to change name to Brussels Sprouts Monster." Cookie Monster also talked about episode 4130 and that Gina is adopting a new baby, Marco.
- December 19, 2006 — Miss Piggy joined Martha to bake Chocolate-Peppermint Cookies and promote The Muppets: A Green and Red Christmas.
- October 6, 2008 — Abby Cadabby, Elmo, Grover and Cookie Monster visit Martha for a tea party to celebrate the release of "Abby in Wonderland" on DVD. (video)
- May 25th, 2010 - Big Bird appears to promote him being added to the Beaches Family Resorts line of characters. He makes homemade post cards with Martha
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- In a "best of" collection of clips, Elmo also appeared in the recurring "Petkeeping with Marc Morrone" segment and learned how to take care of his pet goldfish, Dorothy. Originally aired on Martha Stewart Living.
- While speaking at the 2008 Chicago engagement of Muppets, Music & Magic, David Rudman discussed Cookie Monster's appearance on the show, and stated he doubted they would be invited back, due to Stewart's displeasure of Cookie's behavior.
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