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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Center for Online Innovation in Learning will host a Fischer Speaker Series Event featuring Alyssa Wise from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Thursday, July 31.
"Harnessing the Data Deluge: How to Make Learning Analytics a Part of Teaching and Learning," will be presented in Foster Auditorium at Paterno Library and streamed live at https://meeting.psu.edu/coil.
Registration is required at http://wp.me/P3b4X9-CC.
The world is awash in data these days, but making it a useful and actionable part of the daily activities of higher education remains a challenge. Over the last few years learning analytics have made great strides to improve algorithms for finding meaningful traces in the data and visualizations for presenting them. In order for these tools to have a meaningful impact on university teaching and learning, we need to begin to consider and design for the ways in which they become a part of (and change) the activity patterns of instructors and students.
Wise, associate professor of educational technology and learning design at Simon Fraser University, will present a powerful vision of how learning analytics tools and higher education pedagogy can be integrated to support students' learning agency, instructors' learning designs and the interactions between the two, all while working within the scope of the university course.
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Electric Tugs
Power Pusher® industrial electric tug devices are a safe, cost effective alternative to large expensive ride-on material handling equipment, such as forklift trucks and tractors. The compact, walk behind units enable a single person to safely move thousands of pounds with total control and maximum visibility. Each unit is designed to assist in company compliance with OSHA health and safety guidelines that limit the amount of manual pushing and pulling performed by a single person.
Requiring no license, little maintenance and utilizing less space than large, bulky equipment, Power Pusher delivers powerful, cost-effective material handling solutions. Power Pusher reduces the manpower and time necessary to move large loads, resulting in significant gains in shop floor productivity, with most users experiencing a total return on investment in a mere 12 to 18 months after purchase.

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What I would like to do is:
- if the client requests
www.main_domain.com, I'd like to serve the current
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secsite2.html(the start pages for the secondary sites).
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www.secondary_site_1.com, I'd like to serve the
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Raising writing standards is a key issue in many schools and the '50+' series of books by Lee and Alan have been designed to help teachers to integrate 'cutting edge' technology and literacy.
The latest in the series, 50+ iPad Lessons for Teaching Fiction, provides teachers with a broad range of innovative ways to use apps in order to support pupils' understanding of fiction genres. With a wealth of exciting, practical activities the authors demonstrate how to develop an embedded understanding of both the structure and language features of fiction genres.
All ideas in the book are fun and useful – a winning combination!
About the Authors
Alan Peat is a Fellow of both The Royal Society of Arts and The Historical Association.He is the director of Alan Peat Ltd, an international educational consultancy company with a reputation for practical, high-impact teacher training and the publishing company Creative Educational Press Ltd.
Lee Parkinson has worked as a Primary School teacher for 6 years specialising in ICT. He has a wealth of experience using technology to support and develop the whole Primary Curriculum.Lee has successfully deployed a class set of iPads across a whole primary school and worked alongside children from EYFS through to Year 6 discovering how iPads can enhance teaching and learning throughout the curriculum. Lee always puts learning first and is constantly looking for creative and innovative ways in which technology, such as the iPad, can be utilised effectively to positively impact on writing & reading skills as well as developing key numeracy skills. Lee has built a sound reputation as one of the leading advocates for 'camouflage teaching', encouraging reluctant writers using new, exciting and engaging methods. After a recent Ofsted inspection, his use of iPads within a Literacy observation was deemed "Outstanding with a phenomenal use of technology and an outstanding outcome to the lesson."Alongside his expertise with iPads, Mr P also provides extensive training on how to use web based tools including blogging and considers the positive impact this can have in relation to the core skills of writing and reading.Lee has already supported many schools in using simple yet effective technology – from a real teacher with a wealth of practical ideas that really work!


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Canucks cut Jordan Schroeder as nine players reassigned to AHL Wolves (with video)
Junior blueliner Frank Corrado sent back to OHL Kitchener Rangers
The diminutive centre was the Vancouver Canucks' final cut Friday as the team reduced its roster to the 23-man limit. Schroeder is heading back to the American Hockey League's Chicago Wolves, joining eight others who were sent down earlier in the day.
VANCOUVER — Jordan Schroeder was the last to go.
The diminutive centre was the Vancouver Canucks' final cut Friday as the team reduced its roster to the 23-man limit. Schroeder is heading back to the American Hockey League's Chicago Wolves, joining eight others who were sent down earlier in the day.
Schroeder, who does not require waivers, was the easiest to demote. His deletion also means that Andrew Ebbett will start the season on Vancouver's second line, replacing injured centre Ryan Kesler. Newcomers Cam Barker and Jim Vandermeer made the team as well.
The Canucks will start the season with 12 forwards and nine defencemen, with Vandermeer considered a swingman capable of skating on left wing on the fourth line.
Another player heading back to Chicago was defenceman Kevin Connauton, Vancouver's third-round pick in 2009. Connauton was one skater among the Wolves group who was thought to have a chance to stick but once the team signed both Barker and Vandermeer, Connauton's fate was sealed.
Also sent down Friday were forwards Darren Archibald, Anton Rodin, Bill Sweatt and Andrew Gordon while blueliners getting the tap were Peter Andersson and Derek Joslin. Goalie Joe Cannata was the eighth player returned to Chicago.
The Canucks also dispatched junior Frank Corrado, 19, to the Kitchener Rangers of the OHL.
Schroeder had an excellent scrimmage Thursday night, nicely setting up Mason Raymond for two of the latter's three goals, but his size, inexperience and waiver situation obviously cost him the opportunity.
Prior to the decision on Schroeder being made public, GM Mike Gillis told the Canucks flagship radio station that he expects to see the Minnesota native back at some point during the abbreviated season.
"If Jordan Schroeder doesn't start with us, we fully anticipate him playing meaningful games for us very shortly," Gillis said.
According to Vigneault, Gillis and his assistants, Lorne Henning and Laurence Gilman, examined "all the dynamics" when making their roster moves.
"There is not just the on-ice component that's going to go into the decision," Vigneault said. "There are (salary) cap dynamics."
The Canucks cancelled practice Friday. They open the season Saturday, 7 p.m. at Rogers Arena, against the Anaheim Ducks.
"We're giving our guys a rest day and it's due," Vigneault said. "We got everything we wanted accomplished this week. We had five days of practice, we had 10 video sessions, we had a lot of off-ice work and we had two game-day run-throughs. As a coaching staff, we got what we needed."
David Booth (groin) and Kesler (shoulder, wrist) will start the season on the injured list.


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Current Theme Song (aka what's playing on my ipod right now): King of Anything by Sara Bareilles.
Today we have the lovely and exceedingly wonderful Mitali Perkins, author of Bamboo People (a book I loved, and has also been nominated for a Cybils award!--nominations still going on, by the way) who is here with a mini-interview. Oh, and rights have just been sold to turn it into an audiobook! Yay Mitali! Here we go!
[HZ] I have to admit, Tai was a favorite character of mine. Where did he come from/how did you develop him as a character?
[Mitali] So glad you liked him! He formed himself in my imagination, but he does have similarities to one of my sons.
[HZ] Your novel speaks a lot about violence, prejudice and power. Why did you focus on these subjects when crafting this story?
[Mitali] I think about those issues all the time. Can't shut the door on them when they ask for entrance into my stories.
[HZ] You give a hint of it in the story, but why did you choose to call your story Bamboo People?
[Mitali] I. Love. Bamboo. It is one of the most generous, ecologically-efficient plants on the planet, and people along the Thai-Burma border use it for absolutely everything.
[HZ] While this story is incredible, there is reality behind it going on right now. What can you tell us about children soldiers and the situation in modern Burma? What can be done to help?
[Mitali] Find out if your elected representatives have taken a stand on Burma or on child soldiers. If not, write a letter to him/her to express your outrage at the situation. Raise money to give through the organizations I've listed at www.bamboopeople.org. Pray. Read the news about Burma. Find out if Karenni refugees are arriving anywhere in your area and do your best to help them get settled in this new place—they were finally granted permission to come here last year.
[HZ] Your world really came alive as your wrote it. Is there anything from Burma or Thailand you can share with us? Anything that can bring this wonderful world closer to our own door? :)
[Mitali] My good friend who has lived and worked with the Karenni shared a beautiful tradition with me. When a friend or family member is about to leave on a journey, the community gathers and blesses the person by tying white strings around his or her wrist. Maybe we should tie white strings around our wrists for a day in honor of these suffering people. What do you think?
Thank you so much, Mitali. And please keep writing such beautiful stories.
Interview - Mitali Perkins, author of Bamboo People
Current Theme Song (aka what's playing on my ipod right now): King of Anything by Sara Bareilles.
3 comments:
- Dana Cheryl said...
I'd not heard of "Bamboo People" until just the other day when you posted about it. I will pick it up today then read it and donate to my library. Thanks for another good suggestion Heather! Enjoyed the interview too. It's lovely to see creativity work to combat situations such as those occuring in Burma.
- October 6, 2010 at 8:36 AM
- Mrs. DeRaps said...
I just purchased this book for my classroom. I have high hopes that it will be a book that I decide to use as a whole-class read. Thanks for highlighting the people of Burma! It's tough to find great world lit reads for young adults.
- October 6, 2010 at 4:45 PM
- Heather Zundel said...
Dana - Thank you! And that is amazing you would donate it to your library. I can't tell you how that warms my heart. :)
Mrs. DeRaps - Oh, do tell me if you/they like it! And I agree, it is much too hard to find great world reads. There should be so many more of them out there. Keep coming back! I have a thing for "world reads" as you put it. :)
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One day I hope to finish moving posts from my original site here. But I stalled out after coyping and pasting 7 months of posts in February 2003, after a dozen posts that month. So as a stopgap, let me post to the undead archives of the gap months.
Here are the January 2004 posts.


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(stella blues.)
oh, my baby, stella
you are the one that i cradle in my arms
when we can't pay the rent
when the landlord is banging at the door
in the starlit night we just sit
on my alabama porch
and i count the stars like pennies
and you sing me a twelve bar song
oh, my baby, stella
your curves were made with intention
i met you at a pawn shop
and as soon as i saw you
pressed up against the wall
i knew i would give
a twenty-dollar gold piece
right off my watch cahin
just to have you
and you came on home with me
in the dark, dark mississippi night
and we stayed up
through the blackest of
black georgia twilight
and we talked about your skin
we laughed about the cost of everything
and i put my hand on your neck
and you took my other hand
and you pointed it up towards the north star
you spoke in rhythm
that was not lost on me
everything i said
you said right back to me
but with poetry
like an old blues song
grown from the deep south of your love
your fingertips like work songs
your field drab lips like field hollers
your wide, wide hips like spirituals
oh, my baby, stella
i take you with me everywhere i go
together we're safe from the black rum booze
together we're safe from these blue devil blues
when i play you like a guitar
you play me right back
and i love you for it
oh, my baby, stella
i love you for it
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Use this thread for general discussion and questions related to Capcom's Destiny of an Emperor.
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Original post: In the original Destiny of an Emperor, there is supposed to be something called "dead wood" under a tree in Jian An. But it is not there. I've "checked" about a billion times, and there isn't anything anywhere near that tree. Is there a known glitch in the game about this?


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Before seeing this sign, we really thought Kohl's was a good-hearted, family company with a strong customer-retail store relationship. But now?
Well, wow, we just don't know. What Kohl's is doing during its free time isn't family-friendly activity at all.
Yep, that's right: Kohl's Staples Dicks, folks. How rude! Unless you're into S&M, of course.
The person who designed this sign was either incredibly stupid or one hell of a comedian. We don't know whether to be appalled or laugh hysterically. Wait… no. We're going with the latter.
Seeing things like this sign are few and far between, so to get this was a treat. Whoever was responsible for the brilliant mistake… thank you!


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Shirehampton is in the west of Bristol. Here you will find the monumental inscriptions of 3483 individual burials in 1679 graves indexed by surname. The recording of the older part of the Cemetery was completed in 1986. The part of the cemetery beyond the circle rest area has not been recorded (the burials there are after 1980) . These Memorials are also included in the Bristol & Avon Family History Society Memorial Inscriptions Index.
To reach Shirehampton Cemetery leave the M5 at junction 18 or the Portway to the roundabout at junction 18. Take B4054 to Shirehampton. Turn right into Meadow Street at 1st traffic lights. Turn left into St Mary's Road and follow this road until you reach the burial ground which is on the right hand side. Any Queries on the burial records can be made at Canford Cemetery Office, Canford Lane, Westbury on Trym, Bristol BS9.3PQ Tel. No. 0117 9038280 where the registers of Shirehampton Cemetery are held.
To find a record, search the surname of interest in the search box below. Set numbers can also be searched. Note that the death dates are shown in the format year/day/month.


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You can advance buy Celebration III Autograph and Photo coupons and Unsigned Photo Sets now, and avoid a potentially long coupon purchase line at the show. For security, we will not mail out coupons. Customers who advance order need to print out the PayPal transaction receipt and bring it with you to Celebration III. This receipt will allow you direct access into the Coupon Fast Path line to pickup your advance purchased coupons and / or photo set(s). You should receive a confirmation email from PayPal upon completion of a successful transaction. Be sure you do as you will need this confirmation to identify your purchase and receive your coupons. Autograph Coupon: $10.00 each.Photo Coupon: $5.00 each (includes 6% Indianapolis sales tax).Unsigned Photo Set With Celebration III Logo binder: $212.00 (includes 6% Indianapolis sales tax).
Official Pix is offering the Celebration 3 Ultimate Autograph Set for those who have deep wallets.
$2160.00 There is no way I'd EVER spend that much money on shiny pictures with scribbling on them, especially considering you know who would end up with the cash in the end. Jeff
I lost interest in auto's about the same time as I found out that Mr. Wise was involved. I know that seems petty but at the same time, I find it more than a bit abhorrent that people charge for autographs. I can understand fees for items that you purchase that they then sign (pics, cards, whatever) but for the actual autograph? Well, combine it with the fact that my money is going somewhere that I have no respect for and it's pretty much done. Just that much less line standing to be in.
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If you aren't inspired by this new video from Sen Ted Cruz — check for a pulse!
Ted Cruz: Stand for Principle
(http://www.youtube.com/user/TedCruzforSenate) All across this country people are waking up and saying, "What we are doing is not working. People are hurting tragically and we need to turn this country around."
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DETROIT – The clock is ticking in Detroit and unless something changes, the city could run out of money on Friday.
There was hope that Gov. Rick Snyder might step in and let Detroit off the hook. But, the governor is now making it clear that he's not backing down from his position and the city's fate is in its own hands.
"The mayor and the city council and the corporate counsel are not on the same page and they need to get on the same page and resolve this issue," Snyder said Tuesday, speaking with Local 4 Business Editor, Rod Meloni.
The governor added that the consent agreement deal he cut with Detroit remains in place and stands behind the bluntly stated message the state deputy treasure sent to the city a week ago.
Thomas Saxton told the mayor and council in a letter, "Our position has been and remains that the city's claims have no merit and that the State of Michigan is not in default to the City of Detroit, at any level."
And, "It is unclear how one could conclude that a subsidiary of a sovereign state could nullify the power of the sovereign."
Translation: The state has the money and the power in this situation.
"We did a good faith agreement to be a great partner as a practical matter and I thought we were working in partnership and part of the city government disagreed," Snyder said.
READ: Teaching Detroit's leader the golden rule
The governor was in Detroit speaking to automotive engineers working on the driverless car and he was far happier to look forward to new business challenges than the seemingly never ending one from the city.
In a conversation about the fate of the city, Rod Meloni asked the governor if he wished the city would drop the suit.
READ: Detroit lawsuit against Michigan Department of Treasury
"That would be the best outcome because then we could all move forward," Snyder replied.
And what would happen if they don't?
"There are consequences and that was outlined in the letter that the ability to do essentially what would be a takeout financing to allow the refinancing of some of the debt, and it can't be done unless the lawsuit is out of the way," he added.
Snyder didn't want to answer the question of weather he might be looking at a list of emergency managers to prepare for that possibility. But, clearly the governor has to have someone in mind if the council and the mayor can't get on that same page with the corporate counsel.


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Pity Germany's Fraunhofer Institute. The research organisation best known for devising the MP3 music format seems to be running short of projects to puff.
This week it published an item of "research news" about the work of Fraunhofer boffin Frank Deicke, who is employed at Fraunhofer's photonics lab in Dresden. Herr Deicke is undoubtedly a clever, conscientious researcher. A few weeks ago, according to Fraunhofer, he "presented an infrared module the like of which has never been seen before".
Fraunhofer photonics researcher hard at work in October 2012...
What makes the module so outstanding? It can transmit data at a rate of one billion bits per second which, the organisation was quick to stress, is "46 times faster than conventional Wi-Fi and 1430 times faster than a Bluetooth connection".
You'll undoubtedly be seeing, if you haven't already, some dropped-jaw coverage on any number of hardware blogs.
Less breathlessly, the Institute added: "Deicke has already been able to show that the transfer rate of his current model can be raised to 3Gb/s."
Can be raised? Already has been, folks - and... er... Frank Deike, no less.
...and February 2012
Back in February, the Fraunhofer Institute told us: "Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS), Dresden, has developed an optical wireless communication (OWC) link with up to 3Gb/s data rate."
The module "supports 512Mb/s and 1Gb/s Giga-IR compliant communication and can be tuned up to 3Gb/s".
Is it "the like of which has never been seen before" too?
Actually, no - as this video from 2009 showing a KDDI 1Gb/s demo shows:


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With director John Madden's (Shakespeare in Love) The Debt finally getting released August 31, Focus Features has provided us with six clips from the film. The reason I say finally, is that Focus acquired the flick from Miramax, so it's release date was pushed back from last year. Starring Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, and Ciaran Hinds as older versions of the characters played by Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington, and Marton Csokas, The Debt is about three retired Mossad secret agents and what happened to them in the past. From what I understand, the film cuts back and forth between 1966 and 1997, which is the reason you have two actors playing the same character. Hit the jump to watch the clips.
Here's the official synopsis for The Debt:
The espionage thriller begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel (Academy Award winner Helen Mirren) and Stefan (two-time Academy Award nominee Tom Wilkinson) about their former colleague David (Ciaran Hinds of Focus' "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day"). All three have been venerated for decades by their country because of the mission that they undertook back in 1966, when the trio (portrayed, respectively, by Jessica Chastain [soon to be seen in "The Tree of Life"], Marton Csokas [Universal's upcoming "Dream House"], and Sam Worthington ["Avatar," "Clash of the Titans"]) tracked down Nazi war criminal Vogel (Jesper Christensen of "Casino Royale" and "Quantum of Solace") in East Berlin. At great risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team's mission was accomplished – or was it? The suspense builds in and across two different time periods, with startling action and surprising revelations.


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Eating up Paris with the 'Food Lover's Guide' Patricia Wells
"Anybody hungry?"
Patricia Wells gives us an impish smile, eyes twinkling, as she poses her question. It's not that we haven't consumed anything at all; by this point in our day, in fact, we've sipped "flat whites" (cappucinos), shared torn-off pieces of crisp-chewy baguette and tasted apricot-lavender jam (and three other kinds) straight from the jars. But we've ogled far more than we've eaten: salted caramels and fondant-topped cream puffs, chocolates sculpted into monkeys, cakes caged by sugar-coated carousels, butter-filled croissants and glaceed fruits, cheeses with bruleed rinds and truffle-stuffed interiors.
Enough scrambling for change, enough juggling of the shopping bags, enough remembering to issue a polite "Merci, au revoir!" as we head out of one Parisian shop and onto the street to find another. Enough pointing in this window and that pastry case and trying to find new synonyms for "exquisite" and "wow."
Enough talk. It's time to sit down and eat. Really eat.
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I waited far too long for my first trip to Paris. I didn't do the backpack-through-Europe thing as a teenager, there was no junior year abroad at my university, and my college (and post-college) days were spent working - and trying to scrape together money for bills, not travel.
But the City of Light always beckoned. When I finally made it, in my late 20s, I was ready to milk the city for everything I could - particularly everything edible (and potable). I practiced twisting my Texas accent around French pronunciations, mostly unsuccessfully, in preparation for the trip. And I practically memorized one guidebook, which was already dog-eared and broken-spined by the time I lugged it across the Atlantic. This book led me to places like an understated little patisserie on the Ile Saint-Louis, where I rushed one morning to snag a croissant and a pain au chocolat, before they sold out, and carried them down to the Seine, where a fog was rolling in just as a young man decided to pull out his saxophone and start practicing. Seriously.
I sat at river's edge, tearing into the croissant as its crisp shards covered my lap, nibbling in pleasure and thinking, "Merci, Patricia."
The book, of course, was Patricia Wells's "Food Lover's Guide to Paris," and I built not just an itinerary but also an entire mindset of French travel around her advice, during that trip and several thereafter. Wells demystified Paris for me, a small-town-America guy who wanted to explore la vie en rose without sticking out like a fanny pack over cargo shorts. I wasn't alone. Readers snapped up four editions of her book, from the first in 1984 to the latest in 1999.
Since then, the expat-in-Paris beat has drawn other writers, some of them just as focused on food as Wells: Most famously, perhaps, there's David Lebovitz, the pastry-chef-turned-cookbook-author whose hilarious dispatches by blog and memoir show the city's unvarnished side. Lebovitz (among others) has appealed to a new generation of travelers through social media and smartphone savvy, but he's quick to give Wells her due as a pioneer. He, too, carried Wells' guide on his first trip to Paris, long before he moved there. "Many of us had trepidation about exploring French culture," he wrote me when I asked about her, "even though we loved their cuisine, so her book made it accessible to Americans (and others) who needed a little more confidence, perhaps, about stepping into a cafe or ordering from a bistro menu."
Meanwhile, Wells hasn't gone anywhere. The former longtime global restaurant critic for the International Herald Tribune has continued writing cookbooks, teaching sold-out week-long cooking classes in Paris and Provence, maintaining a Web site and a blog - and fending off strangers-on-the-street pleas to update her landmark guidebook.
"You can only sing 'Bridge Over Troubled Waters' so many times, you know," she said over lunch at Lazare, a bustling new brasserie tucked into the Gare Saint-Lazare. "From '99 on, doing the book again would mean giving up any other books I was doing. I had moved on."
She finally caved in when the plea came from her husband, Walter. "He said, 'I know what you should do. You should redo the Food Lover's Guide as an app.' The second he said 'app,' I said, 'Yes! Finally, that's what this is made for.' "
The app debuted in 2012, allowing visitors to plot their Wellsian itinerary on a GPS map, among other features. Meanwhile, when publisher Workman asked her to reconsider her refusal to write another edition of her greatest hit, with new recipes and photos, this time the answer was yes. Now that she and her team - assistant Emily Buchanan and fellow author Susan Herrmann Loomis, among others - were already doing so much of the research, why not?
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When I asked Wells to show us an example of a Paris that some Americans might not experience, she settled on a walk mostly in the 9th arrondissement, an area largely absent from previous editions of her guide.
In 1984, she said, "nobody went to the 9th." Even in the 1999 guide, the quarter had just a few entries. "This whole area has prospered," she says as we step out into the rain. "We'll see great bread, great chocolate - things that weren't here even six months ago."
Wells, 67, displays a journalist's commitment to details; in the 1970s she worked at The Washington Post as an art critic and the New York Times as a food writer before becoming the Herald Tribune's restaurant critic. She arrives at our meeting spot armed with a copy of the book, a smartphone loaded with the app - and also a printed itinerary complete with the book's listings and descriptions of each of our stops. Just like any food fiend, she enjoys talking not just about what we're experiencing in the moment, but also what's next on the list; she likes to tantalize. "Unfortunately, you're here at the end of black truffle season," she says with mock chagrin at one point, "so I'm afraid we're going to have to get you some black truffles in a few dishes. I do hope that's okay."
We start at a modern epicerie called Causses, where she poses for portraits and can't help buying a little wedge of date-and-nut paste, just the thing for a cheese plate. "I like to buy things in stores to see if I can copy," she says. "So many recipes have come that way. I mean, this can't be brain surgery!"
Then it's on to KBCafeshop, which looks like someplace straight out of Brooklyn, with a young crowd squeezing into the little wooden cube chairs and sipping their coffee drinks (although its real inspiration is Australian). Good coffee in Paris? This is a revelation indeed, a recent turn for the better in a city where the cafes are charming but the brew itself has long lagged far behind that in neighboring countries. It's just the thing to fuel us for a morning of food shopping.
We poke into Le Pétrin Médiéval, a boulangerie with an antique bicycle in the window, creamy quiches fresh out of the wood-fired oven (a rarity), and a wall full of darkly burnished baguettes labeled "agriculture biologique," or made with all-organic flours. "You want to get some?" Wells asks. "Maybe just the little ficelle so you don't have to eat too much?" But of course.
Just as the rain stops and the sky starts to clear, we head around the corner and start downhill on the Rue des Martyrs, named for the martyrdom of Saint Denis (who, legend has it, picked up and carried his severed head for miles before dying). These days, Martyrs is a market street, one of those where locals line up for the perfect baguette from one boulangerie, a famed unsalted butter from a particular fromagerie, pick out straight-from-the-shell sea urchin at a marché aux poissons and find giant oyster mushrooms, miniature pineapples and more right next door. "That's just your normal day of shopping," Wells quips.
At Pascal Beillevaire, one of the Paris shops of a large family cheese business, she points out the tomme brle, a sheep's-milk cheese whose rind has been torch-burnt in the same way as the famous creme dessert. My friend Rachel draws a little scolding from the shopkeeper when she aims her iPhone camera at the display. "It's always a good idea to ask whether you can take pictures," Wells says - but within minutes she's drawing a scolding of her own.
"Madame, ne touchez pas, s'il vous plaît," the shopkeeper says gruffly. ("Please don't touch.")
"Pardon, pardon," Wells chirps. She proceeds to buy a few cheeses, including a Brielike cheese, Coulommiers, that's stuffed with peppercorns. We are all extra careful to say "Merci, au revoir," on our way out.
Some of our stops reduce us to monosyllabic exclamations. Does pastry make everyone act like an 8-year-old, or is it just Americans or . . . just us? At Sébastien Gaudard Patisserie des Martyrs, the icy blue, white marble and gleaming glass decor perfectly frames this Pierre Herme protege's commitment to the classics. We try to keep our voices down, as if we're toddlers in church, but it's hard to control the outbursts of "Oh. My. God" when you come upon a pile of candied kumquats sitting beneath a glass cloche like so many jewels.
Who needs museums when you have shops like this? The scene repeats itself when we taste jam at La Chambre Aux Confitures, with its floor-to-ceiling wall of jars; when we get as close as possible (without touching) to Patrick Roger's wildly lifelike chocolate sculptures of apes (and a perhaps less tasteful rendition of a bra, done in red for Valentine's Day); and after we wind through the Printemps Mode department store to find the ornate corner that is Cafe Pouchkine. At this "Franco-Russian pleasure parlor," as Wells describes it, the cakes are embellished with layer upon layer of gilded design, Anna Karenina meets Marie Antoinette.
Let them eat gold-dusted truffles.
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We could do this all day. And we almost do, except for the small fact that we eventually want something more than pastries and salted caramels. Wells and her assistant, Emily, lead us through the Place de la Madeleine to the Gare Saint-Lazare station. We move past the entrance, where locals have been lining up to get into (it's true) a new Burger King, and head into the buzzing Lazare, where chef Eric Frechon is trying to reinvent the very idea of a brasserie.
Over glasses of Champagne and bites of haricots verts, artichoke and hazelnut salad; croque Monsieur stuffed (and dusted) with black truffles; seven-hour lamb; pureed (really, cream-infused) potatoes; and île flottante (those floating islands of meringue in cream anglaise) studded with candied violets, we talk about the state of restaurant criticism in the age of Yelp and the challenges of a journalistic approach.
"I was always taught that you are not the story," she said. "You are an observer. You are a researcher. So many reviewers write, 'I sat down with my aunt Harriet, blah blah blah, and I'm thinking, 'Get to the food!' " I look at my iPhone, recording everything she's saying. And I pick it up, excuse myself for a trip to the men's room, and, while in there, rattle off some thoughts about, ahem, the food.
That night, after a much-needed nap break (not as long as intended because we stayed at lunch until well after 4 p.m.), Rachel and I trudge up the hill into Montmartre to meet Wells and her husband, the retired International Herald Tribune editor, for dinner. From the outside, the restaurant casts a lavender glow on the dark, steep street, and for the first time, the spell of the city - that swoony "Midnight in Paris" feeling - starts to come over me.
We're not exactly hungry, but soon enough that's beside the point. The Wellses charm us with stories of their life together in Paris and Provence, and the wine starts flowing and the food starts arriving. Le Coq Rico, owned by Antoine Westermann (who also has one of my favorite restaurants on the Ile Saint-Louis, Mon Vieil Ami), focuses on poultry: chicken, duck, pigeon and more, all farm-pedigreed on the menu. (Thankfully, as at Lazare, there are also plenty of options for vegetarians like me.)
We devour truffled soft-boiled eggs (served with their truffle-dusted toast stick "soldiers"), golden brown frites (which prompt a second order), and, for the omnivores at the table, a platter of poultry parts (wings, hearts and gizzards) each given a different preparation.
The crowning glory is the whole roasted chicken, the famed poulet de Bresse, which the waiter brings to the table and presents whole before taking it away for the carving. My favorite touch: At meal's end, the restaurant tucks into the doggie bag a card of their own recipes and strategies for using the leftover chicken (stock, with beans in a salad, even a vinaigrette to dress it).
Wells loves it, too. Which makes sense, because it's just the type of thing she's been doing all day for us. For every cheese we've eyed or chocolate we've sampled, she has suggested a half-dozen ways to extend the experience. So before we part, she has some ideas:
"Aren't you going to go back and buy some of that jam you liked?"
"You know, they'll shrink-wrap cheese for you so you can take it on the plane."
And my personal favorite, the question that Rachel and I have been asking ourselves every day since we got here: "How many meals do you have left in Paris?" The short answer is the same as always.
Not enough.
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Somewhere back in the vast recesses of time, staying alive required one to get things out of your nose so fast that a mere finger just wouldn't do the job quick enough. Only total involuntary facial evacuation would keep your species struggling along.
Nowadays, we don't live in the same dangerous world that our ancestors did, but we do live in an accessibly archived world. And nowhere in that archive is there an instance when a sneeze, somewhere, somehow, saved someone's life. If anything, the sneeze seems counterproductive.
Sneezes happen when the lining of the nose becomes irritated. The nose sends signals to the trigeminal nerve. First, liquid starts to gush, air builds up behind locked vocal cords, certain muscles in our torsos brace so we don't knock ourselves over in the forthcoming spasm, and then the fluid goes flying through the air on a gust of breath when the cords release. Whatever irritated the lining, including viruses, is ejected with the fluid. This might be good for the individual, but what about the family around them? How does it benefit sick children to infect their parents, or the other way around?
There are a couple of possible answers. One is that sneezes — scientifically known as sternutation (because there's nothing science won't rename) —could be not an evolutionary advantage, but an overreaction to harmless stimulation, similar to the way nut allergies are overreactions to harmless particles in peanuts. Then there's the more sinister idea. Life is a struggle, and a lot of things are struggling to stay alive with us. Some scientists think that viruses may have taken over the sneeze-response and made it their express train to a new body. We're not the only things evolving.
We're certainly not the most efficient things evolving. The trigeminal nerve, it seems, crosses over with or near enough other nerves to be a real irritant. It can be stimulated and overwhelmed. About one out of every four people has a photic sneeze response, which triggers sneezes when sunlight hits the face. This response goes back not only in evolutionary history, but recorded history as well.
It's been a biological mystery all the way back to Aristotle, who thought it was the heat on a person's face that triggered the sneeze. Aristotle was proven wrong by Francis Bacon, who showed that heat without light triggered nothing, but then made up his own hogwash by claiming that the light caused "braine humor" to seep into the nose and trigger sneezes.
Today, scientists think that the optic nerve crosses close enough to the trigeminal nerve to occasionally overstimulate it and cause sneezing. Their guess may be no more accurate than Bacon's or Aristotle's. They do know, however, that whatever physically causes the sneezes, it's a genetic trait and not an acquired disorder.
A study in the 1960s of families with this response showed how children inherited this trait from their parents. Boys and girls were equally likely to inherit the response, and roughly one-half of the offspring of a photic sneezer had the trait themselves. This shows that only one copy of the gene needs to be present for the trait to be expressed, and that the gene is not on the X or Y chromosome.
Few sneezing studies have been done since then, but the number of recognized types abnormal sternutators has multiplied. There are people who experience snatiation; sneezing fits after a big meal. At least one person has noted that she sneezes when she eats over seventy-percent cacao chocolate. One woman sneezed when she thought about her loved ones. A more titillating response comes from a host of people who sneeze whenever they have sexual thoughts or directly after they have sex.
Modern scientists have no clue what nerve might be rubbing up against what other nerve in order to trigger sexy sneezing. To be fair to the scientific establishment, few people come forward with this problem. (Although the first one who did went to a doctor who was a friend of Freud's. That must have lead to an interesting conversation.)
Oddly, this kind of sneeze response has apparently been well-documented in teenage girls. The best idea that doctors can come up with is that the sneeze reflex is part of the parasympathetic nervous system; the system designed to bring a speeding heart rate lower, relax sphincter muscles, and generally calm the body down. Sneezes could just be another way the body thinks it will relieve stress. This doesn't necessarily explain the reaction to chocolate or love, but it's the best guess that we've got.
The longest sneezing fit ever recorded goes to Donna Griffiths, a two-year-old who made the world's record by sneezing 4,687,514 times over 978 days between 1981 and 1983, but no one has ever died from a sneeze, nor ever failed to stop sneezing. Since there are more dire conditions out there, sneezing studies are sparse. But some sneeze researchers believe that the sneeze could help people with other parasympathetic nervous system diseases or help those with epilepsy.
For now, the phenomenon is documented but largely unstudied. We know that people sneeze, and that it has something to do with the way the brain is wired up, but exactly why they sneeze is still a mystery.
Top Image: CDC. Second Image: Wiki Commons. Via Scientific American twice, BBC, Berkeley, The Atlantic, JSRM, and Science Line.


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Typical angina (chest discomfort or heaviness) was present for a median of 120 minutes in 25% of the 274 patients with witnessed arrest and in 33% with a symptom duration of less than 1 hour.There's no better way to precipitate a malignant heart rhythm disturbance that to deprive the heart oxygen, and angina is the classic symptom of this oxygen shortage. Symptoms can include chest "heaviness," or "pressure", a choking sensation, jaw discomfort, arm or back discomfort, including a sensation of a band-like grip around the chest - especially with exertion. Shortness of breath with exertion and even burping with exertion can be seen.
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In my last post I said that I found the bicentennial to be something of a fizzle compared to the build-up that preceded it. Today I ran into an actual, honest-to-goodness Lincoln scholar in the library. I mentioned my impression of the bicentennial to him, and he agreed with me. I feel better now.
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When Hornstra and van Bruggen first visited Abkhazia in 2009, they came across the seaside resort town Pitsunda. Amongst the ramshackle high-rise hotels and pine trees sat an abandoned ballroom, epitomizing the romance of decay; Hornstra photographed it. During their visit, the mayor of the town assured Hornstra and van Bruggen that the upcoming Sochi Olympics would put Abkhazia on the tourism map. In 2013, the pair revisited the area, and Hornstra rephotographed the ballroom. Hornstra's photograph, Pitsunda, Abkhazia, 2013, shows the ballroom unchanged, despite developments in Sochi.
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No. I actually get more comfort now knowing there is no lunatic god than I did when I believed there probably was one. There is no fixer in the sky who can make a loved one better. To beg a god to fix a problem he obviously knew was coming and yet allowed to happen is ridiculous. I don't think people understand what it means to pray to a god, say, of an Abrahamic bent.
Best to take comfort in friends, family and your own independent intelligence. Or if you insist on praying, then do it to a milk-jug... it will give the same results.
Not at all. In times like that you have to trust in the doctors doing their job. It's nonsense to even think like that. If others are doing it, it's probably not a good time to tell them that. You can hope but shit happens and death is inevitable, no matter how painful it may be.


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RA Delegates Head Home Ready to Take Action
On Tuesday, delegates dropped off thousands of postcards addressed to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
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On last day Friend of Education Ravitch defends public education
July 6, 2010
By Tim Walker
Delegates headed home from the 2010 Representative Assembly fired up and determined to stay united in challenging times. They return home to a lingering economic recession, funding cuts, and one of the most potent anti-union political climates in decades. Even if some of the hope from 2009 may be diminished, delegates stand ready for action.
"If we are not the activists in politics, we will be the victims of politics," NEA President Dennis Van Roekel told the delegates in his keynote speech on the first day of the RA. "We simply cannot sit it out. There is too much at stake! WE are the people who can stop this madness! WE are the people who can make all public schools great!
It was message carried through the four days by speaker after speaker – Teacher of the Year Sarah Brown Wessling said we need schools where students thrive because of the system, not in spite of it and Greatest Education Governor Martin O'Malley said it was the responsibility of lawmakers to give educators the support and respect they deserve. On the final day, NEA Friend of Education award winner Diane Ravitch electrified the audience with an impassioned call for the defense of public education and the teaching profession.
"The current 'education reform' movement is pushing bad ideas," Ravitch said. "It wants to end tenure and seniority, to silence teachers' unions, to privatize large sectors of public education. Don't let it happen!"
But delegates also had opportunities to back these words with actions. On Monday, NEA President Dennis Van Roekel asked delegates to text "SPEAKUP" to 77007 to connect with NEA's grassroots effort on key issues. Representatives from all 50 states marched up to the stage on Tuesday to deliver thousands of postcards addressed to Education Secretary Arne Duncan outlining the changes they want to see in the ESEA reauthorization.
"What's great about the RA," said Maine delegate Deborah Butler, "is that it reminds all of us that we're all in the same boat. It's important to remember that we are united and we take that home with us."
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