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Ram was at Penang, Malaysia between the 10th and 17th of July attending the Multiversity Conference, Trustee meeting ad a series of planning meetings along with the Coorinator of Multiversity, Dr. Claude Alvares of Other India Books Goa.
The visit was at the invitation of Mr. Md. Idris, Chairperson, CAP and Third World Network, who also is the Chairperson for the Multiversity. A report on the meetings and plans have been made in the online website / group of Multiversity (www.multiworld.org).
Look out for a few new titles in the Multiversity Library www.multiversitylibrary.com.


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Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Oldest Public Library in the Americas?
There are several libraries that make claim to being the oldest public library in the United States of America, but one library claims to be the oldest public library in the Americas. That library is the Biblioteca Palafoxiana in Puebla, Mexico. The Biblioteca Palafoxiana was founded in 1646 and was added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2005. In 1996 Mexico issued a postage stamp (at the left) to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the library. According to Mexico's submission to the Memory of the World Register, the Biblioteca Palafoxiana "is noted for its authenticity and bibliographical wealth, building and bookcases, with more than 41,000 volumes among those that the library preserves as well as world unique manuscripts, there are 9 incunabula." The library was founded by Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, a Catholic priest who served as bishop of Puebla from 1640 to 1655. The blog "All About Puebla" indicates that the library is noteworthy for its sheer beauty and includes finely carved bookshelves. Was the library truly a public library as we know it in the United States? Probably not. However, Juan de Palafox y Mendoza did establish the library by donating 5,000 of his own books to the Colegio de San Juan on the condition that they be made available to the general public. Currently it is more of a rare book and research library. Information about visiting the library can be found HERE.
Posted by Larry T. Nix at 8:06 AM
Labels: Biblioteca Palafoxiana, postal librariana
2 comments:
- Jose Aranda said...
It's Puebla, not Pueblo, Mexico. Thanks for sharing!
- February 27, 2014 at 9:03 AM
- Larry T. Nix said...
Thanks for the correction Jose.
- February 27, 2014 at 9:57 AM
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So it is official. I am not the brightest crayon in the box. :(
I decided that I would change the name of my blog because I am moving grade levels. I also changed the url. *DUH!* That means that people don't have the correct link to view my blog. I can't believe I didn't realize that.
Sorry. Everything is back to normal.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Sorry! ugh
3 comments :
- Dianne said...
Ha! I did that too! I think you may be okay because this post still showed up in my blog list. So much to learn with this blogging stuff... :)
Dianne @ Hopelessly Devoted
- June 30, 2012 at 8:54 PM
- alwayslearning said...
Hi there! I just changed the name of my blog due to a grade change as well! I ended up leaving my address the same and just changed the title of my blog. Now I need to change my blog button! Good luck with your grade change!
AKA-First Grade is a Treat!
- June 30, 2012 at 9:54 PM
- Kristen said...
Good luck with your grade level switch! Your thumbnail galleries are looking awesome!!!
- July 1, 2012 at 8:08 AM
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Natural Power Consultants has signed an agreement with LatWind, a firm that provides site evaluations and wind measurement, to offer new combined services to the wind industry in Chile.
This announcement follows a period of strong growth within Natural Power, movements into new markets and the acquisition of new products and services such as the exclusive licenses to the ZephIR laser anemometer technology and VENTOS advanced CFD wind flow modeling code.
According to Natural Power, this partnership will allow clients in Chile and Latin America as a whole to benefit from the company's experience and expertise gained across Europe and North America, while maintaining and growing LatWind's local office staffed with skilled wind engineers.
'South America has fantastic wind energy potential,' says Stuart Hall, director of Natural Power. 'We believe that together with LatWind, we have the tools, experience and local presence to help realize this potential at the lowest project risk for our clients.'


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Carrie: Hi everyone this is Carrie Brown and I am with Mr. Jonathan Bailor.
Jonathan: What's up Carrie? How are you?
Carrie: Awesome.
Jonathan: We are recording in an extra special place today.
Carrie: Yes we are.
Jonathan: We are not in our typical location so we are out of our comfort zone but we're going to do an awesome job.
Carrie: Yes we are. We're going to have some fun.
Jonathan: We're going to have some fun and we're going to do a bunch of awesome reader questions today Carrie and I wanted to urge our listeners if at all possible, please if you do have questions come over to the Support Group, which actually might be moving soon. Regardless go to smarterscienceofslim.com, check out the Support Group. Please post your questions there. If you post your questions in private e-mails or in private Facebook posts, we can't answer them. We like to answer the questions in a public forum so that everyone can benefit from them.
So please, please, please feel free to ask your questions but please do so in the Smarter Science of Slim Support Group. Carrie what's cool is we've been doing this for so long now that we have literally thousands of questions already answered. So if you want immediate answers to your questions I've found that if you go to Google and you type in Smarter Science of Slim in quotations and the noun and verb from your question. For example, vegan sources of protein, you will find answers to your questions because it will search the Support Group, it will search blog posts, it will search transcripts. That's instant, so that's all good.
Carrie: That is awesome.
Jonathan: So if you can't find something there, post in the Support Group and then we will do our best to answer them. For example, we have a question here from Dr. Allison [Lul 0:01:43]. Dr. Allison [Lul 0:01:45] says she is a giant fan of our podcast which we very much appreciate.
Carrie: Yay.
Jonathan: Yay. She's listened to every episode and has gotten lots of other people hooked on to it too.
Carrie: Yay.
Jonathan: Yay. She's changed major things about her diet and exercise listening to our show and preaches to whoever will listen about nutrition. She works as a forensic scientist and used to be an astrophysicist but in her spare time she reads about nutrition and exercise. She's been an elite athlete for her entire life and for the last eight years she's been a kickboxing instructor. She really feels and then she says this with love that our podcast is like a good foundational exercise program, even though we stress how important the right type of exercise is to getting the maximum benefit to your health.
She tries to incorporate eccentric exercises into her classes and in more of an interval style way than a straight hour of cardio but she has little to go on from what we've talked about. So she basically wanted us to just cover exercise more holistically in a podcast and she says "I may have rambled too long, but I'd appreciate it." So thank you Dr. Allison [Lul 0:02:52] for the question. Looks like we need to give a little bit of exercise info.
Carrie: Exercise info. We did do a little series of podcasts where we tried to explain how to do them in the studio but it was really hard to explain so I think that's probably where we're failing. It's very difficult to explain movements successfully on a podcast but let's see what we can do.
Jonathan: Absolutely and what I heard Dr. [Lul 0:03:22] also asking for is just, we covered eccentric exercise, we said it's good, we covered interval training, we said it's good, but I think we might need to revisit the macro exercise spectrum we talk about. So one key point that we haven't talked about for a while or maybe not at all in this forum is the difference between exercise and being human.
Carrie: Okay. I'm definitely at the being human end of that spectrum.
Jonathan: In our culture we've gone so far away from what is actually normal. For example, someone will take the stairs instead of taking the elevator and say I got exercise. Whereas, not taking an elevator is the natural state for people.
Carrie: Right.
Jonathan: Walking up stairs isn't exercise it's being a person.
Carrie: Well now you've taken away my only form of exercise Jonathan. Because I do actually walk up the stairs at work.
Jonathan: So things like walking up the stairs, playing with your kids, walking around outside that's not exercise. That is baseline being a human. If we want to have the ability to walk around and function as we become older, we need to walk around and continue to function when we're younger and throughout being older. So that's not exercise. When we talk about exercise we're really talking about doing things that are deliberate and intentional for a specific period of time with a specific goal in mind.
Carrie: Well I'm very good at being human you'll be glad to know.
Jonathan: So for example Dr. [Lul 0:05:05] here she's, sounds like a kickboxing instructor and therefore she must really love kickboxing. Again she's kickboxing, it sounds like because one she enjoys it and two because it may have some side health benefits. First and foremost it sounds like she does it because she enjoys it.
Carrie: Which is awesome.
Jonathan: Anything that you're doing because you enjoy it as long as it isn't hurting you or hurting someone else, rock and roll.
Carrie: If you're not having fun what's the point?
Jonathan: Rock and roll. It sounds like Dr. [Lul 0:05:37] another thing you're doing that's great is you've taken the principles of smarter exercise which is trying to do things more in higher-intensity safer bursts rather than in just a steady state. So you take that and you apply that to your classes and you are getting more benefit. So I think you're really on the right track. When you say let's take a more macro view of exercise, the macro view of exercise is this, the more intense and safe the exercise is the more beneficial it is for your health, fitness and fat loss. Bottom line.
Carrie always says and she put this brilliantly, resistance, not reps. Resistance, not reps. Resistance, not reps. So I don't care what form of modality we're doing. Recently some people gave some feedback that they weren't so happy with how we talked about TRX. I didn't mean to throw TRX under the bus. The point is just any form of exercise that makes it easier to increase safety and increase intensity we like.
Any form of exercise which decreases those two things we're not big fans of. So however you like to move your body do it. Movement is critical. If you want to maximize the benefits of it do it as safely as possible and as intensely as possible.
Carrie: But it's not just that we like or dislike things, it's that they're more effective for reaching our goal which in this case is burn your body fat.
Jonathan: Exactly and global metabolic healing. I really thank you for calling that Carrie, I should not have said like or dislike. We here just try to communicate what the science shows and the science shows unambiguously that the more resistance you use, the more muscle fibers you activate, therefore the greater hormonal response you trigger and therefore the better results you get.
Carrie: I think that was a first. I was more specific than you Jonathan.
Jonathan: I love it. So Dr. [Lul 0:07:30] hopefully that is helpful. Remember again just to pop up a level, movement is baseline if the choice is between moving in a non-eccentric or non-interval based way and not moving at all. Move. But if you can take your preferred form of movement, your preferred form of exercise, and apply the principles of eccentric and smarter exercise a.k.a. do it safer, do it more resistance and therefore do it for shorter periods of time because it should be physically impossible to do more.
Carrie: Resistance not reps.
Jonathan: Boom you're good to go. Good to go. Carrie look at that we've talked about exercise and you contributed significantly.
Carrie: It's a miracle.
Jonathan: Look at you. You're. . .
Carrie: Beaming now.
Jonathan: You're a convert.
Carrie: But let's not go too far.
Jonathan: Next question here and again my apologies if I ever mispronounce anyone's name. This is from Kate [Klosterman 0:08:27] who says "Hello Jonathan and Carrie. I am a type one diabetic on an insulin pump. Therefore no matter what I do I will not be able to conquer this type of diabetes. I produce no insulin at all."
Yes Kate is again type one diabetics are individuals who are born this way. This is not a lifestyle disease. They just do not produce insulin. Whereas type two diabetics remember are individuals who have become insulin-resistant. Their pancreas no longer produces enough insulin to get energy into their cells. It is a similar problem a.k.a. stuff isn't getting into cells but has a different fundamental cause. In one case there is no insulin. In the other case the insulin isn't getting its job done.
Anyway back to Kate's question. "I would love to cut out most carb intake but because I must take at least some insulin at all times I have to have some carbohydrate. Otherwise I will end up in metabolic trouble. If I cut out carbs altogether my endocrine system will do weird things. How would you suggest I make modifications? I am not overweight but on the cusp. Thank you."
Carrie: I have nothing. I wish I did, I wish I had some brilliant answer but I am relying on my podcast mate over here to sort that out.
Jonathan: Carrie I actually think you have maybe more insight here than you realize because Kate in her question says I can't cut out carbs completely. The good news is. . .
Carrie: Well you don't want to.
Jonathan: Exactly.
Carrie: We eat carbs. We just eat a certain type.
Jonathan: In fact eating sane carbs is the single most important aspect of a sane lifestyle that's our non-starchy vegetables. So Kate absolutely I think that there's good news here because no one's asking you to cut out carbs completely. In fact the research is quite clear that carbohydrate found in the form of non-starchy vegetables is the sanest substance available to you. So if you need to eat carbohydrates, awesome. Let's just make sure you're focused on getting it from non-starchy vegetables remember those are vegetables you could eat raw and then lower-fructose fruits such as berries or citrus. Of course you'll also find carbohydrate in low-sugar dairy products as well nuts, seeds, things like that.
Carrie: Awesome. It's all good. That sounds yummy.
Jonathan: Carrie while we're talking about non-starchy vegetables. Can you tell me a little bit about beets? Someone the other day was talking about beets and I know beets is a non-starchy vegetable or maybe it's semi-starchy I don't care. Either way it's sane. You use beets in ways that I would never imagine and you hide them in foods in a cool way. Can you talk about that a little bit?
Carrie: It still weirds me out when you say beets because in England, they're beetroot. One word. B-E-E-T-R-O-O-T, so beetroot.
Jonathan: Beetroot, for those across the pond.
Carrie: I love, love, love, love beetroot. I grew up in a house where my father grew beetroot and there's nothing that rocks my world more than freshly cooked beets. Just that's it. Just freshly cooked beets.
Jonathan: I think you might need to get out more Carrie if nothing rocks your world more than. . .
Carrie: I'm talking about food.
Jonathan: Oh okay, okay.
Carrie: Jonathan. Anyway yes let's move on from that. So food. So love them. I love to eat them just as I say cooked, eat them fresh, peel them, cook them, eat them. But I also made and I don't mean to brag but I made this beet and tarragon soup which was just awesome. In fact you tried it.
Jonathan: It was incredibly colorful.
Carrie: It was incredibly purple and beautiful. Beets make a fantastic soup. Actually makes a very creamy soup too. So it's very, very filling and very, very tasty. I also, which you also tried chocolate cake with beets in, which you loved, but I think it needs a little bit of work so that's why you don't all have that yet. But now that I've mentioned it on the podcast I'm going to have to get back to the chocolate cake with beets in because you're all going to want it.
Jonathan: Before anyone says "Beets in chocolate cake? That's crazy!" Remember there are things like carrot cake and zucchini bread. Putting vegetables in baked goods is not crazy talk in fact, when you try said beet chocolate cake. . .
Carrie: You couldn't taste the beets at all.
Jonathan: You'll just be like, this is amazing!
Carrie: Jonathan could not detect what was in it. He was asking me, "What's in it? What's in it? What's in it?" He was stunned when I told him.
Jonathan: And that's just so cool folks. When you can have a friggin' chocolate cake which has got those healthy fats in it, your non-starchy, I mean just think about how cool that is. You could eat your chocolate cake for dinner.
Carrie: Yes.
Jonathan: That's glorious.
Carrie: Yes.
Jonathan: How is that anything less than just nutritional serenity? I love it. It's great. And your soup was super simple right? It's just like a Vitamix soup. You just put everything in there.
Carrie: Yeah it was very simple but fantastic color and beautiful flavor. So beets. Eat beets. You could also put beets in salad as well. You have to throw them in at last because they do stain. The purple color gets everywhere so you want to throw the beets in last. There's a ton of things, now you're excited about beets so now my brain's going to be exploding with more beet ideas. There will be more coming.
Jonathan: Another reason I have a soft spot in my heart for beets Carrie is I had actually never tried beets prior to you introducing them to me and they are a great example of, I'll sometimes hear from people that are not familiar with the sane lifestyle that deprivation. Just ideas like "Oh, I'm not going to be eating starches and processed garbage.
That's such a limited selection of foods." Just non-starchy vegetables there are so many! Just go to Kroger, Piggly Wiggly, QFC, whatever is in your neighborhood and just look at the incredible diversity. Most of us are just happy with our five go-to vegetables and our three go-to fruits. But if you start playing around with some of that stuff and you start doing what Carrie does with mixing these flavors together, that's a whole new world and it's awesome.
Carrie: I think there are two problems. I think there's two camps of people in the 'don't like vegetables' so that is one camp of people that have eaten a lot of vegetables but they were prepared so poorly that they taste nasty and they grew up hating them because they weren't cooked well or properly. And then there's the other group of people who just as you say have their five go-to veggies and they just have not experienced all these other things.
I have thousands of leek converts now because I made so many leek recipes that they're all like, "Oh, for goodness' sake, let's just go get some leeks and try them." I have mail all the time from people who just love leeks now, so they're expanding their veggie repertoire and I just think it's fantastic. There's a ton of stuff out there that you either haven't tried or you've tried a badly-cooked version. Revisit. There's recipes up in my blog at carriebrown.com where you can get some ideas for using different vegetables or how to cook existing bank of vegetables properly and I think give some time you'll find it much easier to get more veggies in your diet.
Jonathan: Another good thing about non-starchy vegetables and this was something that one of our awesome team members Mike Rich brought up. He calls non-starchy vegetables a brilliant sane fat delivery mechanism. For example, there's quite a few people who, if you're eating nutrient-dense proteins, if you're eating non-starchy vegetables, actually eating sufficient healthy fat can become kind of an issue especially if you don't like sweets and you're not making our cocoa and coconut-type desserts and if you don't eat nuts for whatever reason.
But if you just went simple Jonathan-style assembly vegetables, getting something like spinach or kale and onions and some garlic and putting it in a pan with some coconut oil or some beef tallow or some bacon drippings or just some lovely, healthy saturated fat that's good eating too.
Carrie: Talking about strange vegetables a lot of people don't like, I have done a recipe, it's not posted yet but it will be very, very, very soon. It's a brazed cabbage recipe. If you don't like cabbage I think you will love this. It was so good. I had a cabbage-hating girlfriend came over the day I made it and she even knew it was cabbage but I made her eat some and even she said, "I would eat a whole dish of that."
Jonathan: Yeah.
Carrie: There's cabbage goodness coming lovely people.
Jonathan: Cabbage goodness coming. So stay excited. Carrie we've got time for one more question this week and this question is from the lovely Zoey Rose. Zoey says "Hi. I've been finding it difficult to start my journey off. I start it, I'm great for a few days and then something happens and I fall off the wagon. Do you have any tips? Maybe I'm trying to make too many changes."
Carrie: My first response to that would always be it is so much easier to stay sane if you clear the house of anything insane. If you're stuck for want of a better word at home and the only things you have are sane, it's so much easier to just stay there and then over time two or three weeks, you will find that your taste buds actually change. The cravings will stop and you won't want so much sweet stuff and that will help you. I find that when I do that and I know Jonathan is the same, that you actually no longer want the insane foods.
Jonathan: Yup.
Carrie: But number one for me would be get rid of everything insane in your house. Take it to the food bank, give it to people who don't yet have an interest in eating healthy. Just get rid of all the insane food. Stock your house with sane foods, particularly things that are easy. Jonathan's assembly is good when you get started because you want something that you can quickly eat and stop any cravings that you have. Then over a very short period of time you'll find that you will just want to stay that way.
Jonathan: Love it, love it. Here's an analogy which may be helpful for folks. When we think of going sane and getting eccentric it's really that we're learning a whole new language. I mean we've heard of a language of eat less, exercise more, low-fat, protein is irrelevant, eat your whole grain that's the language we've been taught over the past forty years.
Now if I were to tell you Zoey or if you were to tell me "Jonathan, I want to learn Spanish tomorrow." You're not going to learn Spanish tomorrow. No one can learn an entirely new language in one day. In fact if your goal was by end of day tomorrow, I'm going to be fluent in Spanish. You would "fall off the wagon". I would argue you didn't fall off the wagon in fact it would never be possible to go on that wagon if that was the approach. So I think a lot of us say tomorrow I'm going to be sane.
Carrie: 100%.
Jonathan: 100% sane. What I'd highly recommend and this is why we recently put out a free twenty eight day program. You can just sign up for it on the website smarterscienceofslim.com. We send you emails where it's just on Monday do this. One thing. On Tuesday do this one thing. When I say do one thing like listen to one podcast or watch one of our videos, read one blog post, read one chapter in the Smarter Science of Slim if you already have a copy or The Calorie Myth when it comes out.
Commit yourself for twenty one days or twenty eight days if you sign up for our free program one thing. One thing every day for twenty eight days and on day twenty nine I think you'll find that you're not only on that wagon, that wagon is cruising on down the road in a way you never anticipated.
Carrie: Another thing you can do, another little one thing you can do is go up to my blog and pick some recipes. Pick one recipe a week. One new thing. This week, I'm going to cook this from Carrie's blog and here's what I need to go get from the store to get it. Every week you do one new recipe and then you'll very quickly find that you have a whole repertoire of sane dishes that you know how to cook and that you enjoy and that you love eating and so it will become just organically, it will become more natural to you to eat that way.
Jonathan: It's so critical to take those small sustainable steps. Just one more analogy you know I love my analogies Carrie. If Zoey, dear Zoey's goal was to run a marathon and tomorrow if she said, "I'm going to run a marathon" she would feel like she fell off the wagon. She didn't. That's not how people work. We can't just go from zero to one hundred. We've got to take those gradual steps. Sit down for twenty minutes, write down one thing you can do. Not even twenty minutes. Sit down on Sunday night and for five minutes or less, I'm going to do this one thing on Monday. I'm going to cook one Carrie recipe on Tuesday. I'm going to watch one video on Wednesday. Or just sign up for the email program and we'll do it for you. Easy?
Carrie: Easy.
Jonathan: Love it. Folks. Go ahead Carrie.
Carrie: Be kind to yourself.
Jonathan: Be kind.
Carrie: Because this isn't a race. Beating yourself up is not going to help you in this endeavor so be kind to yourself.
Jonathan: Carrie the fact that you said it's not a race is so key. Because really there isn't a finish line.
Carrie: Right.
Jonathan: That's kind of the point.
Carrie: Well you have your own personal finish line but no one else is running towards that.
Jonathan: Exactly. Well I think what most people find to is that this idea that there's a finish line that you've achieved fitness or you've achieved health. Like this is just a lifestyle. This is just. . .
Carrie: What we do.
Jonathan: Just keep on going. Exactly. Well folks we talked about exercise and how to apply that to all different forms of movement that you enjoy, about type one diabetes and how you don't need to give up carbs. In fact you need to embrace the right kind of carbs. We talked about beets and how they're glorious.
Carrie: Yes, they are.
Jonathan: And how chances are none of us are falling off the wagon, we might just be trying to do too much too soon. I love it Carrie.
Carrie: Awesome.
Jonathan: Folks thank you for joining us this week. Please remember this week and every week after, eat smarter, exercise smarter, and live better. Chat with you soon.
Carrie: See yeah.
This week we cover:
– Smarter exercise
– Zero carb diets and type 1 diabetes
– Beets
– What to do when you go inSANE


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Charli is from good ol' North Dakota, where she lived on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. She likes food (like pizza and popcorn,) nice people, beach balls, musicals, and obnoxious hair colors. A Harry Potter fanatic and a lazy bum, she can often be found laying on her beloved bed in The River (stay classy), yelling 'Accio!' at objects no more than four feet away from her. She wants to major in government and English with a possible minor in Woman and Gender Studies. She's also positive she's a Hufflepuff and Lady Gaga's long-lost sister. Charli is addicted to slushies and any variation of them.
Nkenna hails from London. When she's not drinking tea and eating biscuits, you can find Nkenna watching Friends, dancing to African music, or doing nothing. She is a potential econ major and potential non-econ major.
Besides greeting the world from the hills with a hail, Carolina hails from the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Like zombies, she is fascinated with brains and pursues this interest as a neuroscience major. Carolina is obsessed with food, so it only makes sense that her dream job is a career as a nutritionist/naturopathic doctor. When not singing with the Rocks, she spends her time mentoring with ASPIRE and saving lives with EMS. Carolina can't walk forwards, and she disguises this by being a tour guide to get around campus. Never try to haggle with Carolina--she will get the better deal.
Declined to comment when interviewed. Can you say aca-scuse me?
Jessica Fan grew up in the mellow suburbs of Saratoga, CA with loving parents and a semi-cool younger brother. She played flute, ran cross country, and shower-sang through her high school years. She is now a happy member of the Rocks, and she plans to major in Computer Science. Other hobbies include arranging music, philosophizing, making bad analogies, and daydreaming.
Jess was born and raised in Sydney, Australia but her accent throws people off a little because she's really Chinese. She loves all things musical, whether it's singing, playing the piano, violin, guitar or singing (repetition for emphasis). She also loves learning foreign languages (Здравствуйте!), being Dobby, and eating Vegemite on toast (it's a delightful but acquired taste).
In high school, Savannah was voted "most likely to misplace a car" and that is all you really need to know about her. She is very excited to join the Rockapellas family!
Elena Bird was born in Andover, MA, but the lakes and White Mountains of New Hampshire are really where she comes from. She enjoys skiing off cliffs, frolicking through mountain meadows, and knitting things that never get finished- all while singing anything by Shakira. What really makes Elena tick, though, is her family, her friends, and her plethora of awesome wool socks.
Jennifer Zhong hails from Stony Brook, Long Island (so basically she was predestined to be a Rock). She is an aspiring Physics and English double major, a member of Dartmouth's Global Village, and a proud Hufflepuff. She loves cats, Shakespeare, and noodles in any type of soup.
Sarah hails from Nashville, Tennessee, but her go-to fun fact is that she was born in Okinawa, Japan. She grew up the oldest of 5 siblings, and was a proud non-athlete throughout high school. A member of the Rocks and the Glee Club, she is thrilled to be spending her free time at Dartmouth singing. She loves theater, stickers, glitter, fried foods, milkshakes, and afternoon naps, and her dream job is to be in the FBI.
Olivia hates the cold with the burning passion of a thousand suns, even though she's from northern NJ. She aspires to be as multilingual as Daniel Jackson from "Stargate," but right now she's only studying Chinese, Spanish, and Latin. When she's not rockin' out with the Rockapellas, she likes to visit animal shelters and (in the winter) attempt to snowboard. When folding laundry, she likes to watch "Criminal Minds" or "Doctor Who." If you're every feeling hungry and are out of DBA, feel free to stop by her dorm, where she'll almost always have homemade baked goods.
Julianne hails from the riveting town of Simsbury, home to the "largest tree in Connecticut." She is six feet tall, lanky, and rather buoyant. During Rockapellas rehearsal, Julianne likes to do stretches and sing. In addition to singing, Julianne spends her time taking naps, drinking coffee, watching Game of Thrones, reading Scientific American, skiing, and petting dogs. She can occasionally be spotted running across campus (so she doesn't miss FoCo brunch on weekends).
Josie comes from the village of Rye Brook, New York. Growing up speaking Russian, Josie still has trouble naming vegetables, and thus has retired her position as the cook of the Rockapellas. Besides singing, she loves composing, playing piano, guitar and any other makeshift instruments. She has a passion for mental health, and spends her time volunteering in ASPIRE, and studying for her biology major and psych minor. Josie's favorite hobbies include running, hiking, and impromptu dance parties. Her favorite snack is dried mangos and peanut butter, and believes coffee ice cream is the answer to all problems (unless you're lactose intolerant).


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The following is a presentation showing the digital process of creating a demonic character using an average person as a source subject.
5 Replies on "Demonizing a Human"
kyle Says:
September 26th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
That was funny when the nose grew bigger than the face!
Heidi Says:
July 4th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
He looked like he had to sneeze at first once the nose took over the face. lol This was brilliant!!
Inspire Says:
March 25th, 2011 at 7:48 pm
i only thought "how the hell he did the horns?" - the solution is a nice idea
catalina Says:
June 17th, 2011 at 10:29 pm
es un demonio es undemonio
catalina Says:
June 21st, 2011 at 7:06 pm
dinousario demonio como un humano es un demonio no
ebtiendo nada xd


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There is a certain ongoing debate, one unique to the era we currently live in: the dialogue of whether privacy should be the right of all men and women, or should it be considered as an item of low priority when put in the context of national security. I cannot say that I belong to any particular camp in this discourse, as I feel that I a more akin to a somewhat neutral observer who occasionally throws out his opinions. Thus I write this article from such a position, attempting to offer an evaluation of the worths of the arguments proposed by the supporters of privacy and the proponents of transparency.
Of course, we could never avoid bringing up the name of infamous Edward Snowden in discussions involving privacy. The whistleblower and ex-NSA contractor revealed a stunning secret: that the government of the United States of America has been monitoring all sorts of communications channels for years, both domestically and internationally—with targets that range from ordinary citizens, suspected and convicted criminals, politicians, and the list has virtually has no end. Hence, Snowden showed us all that the contents of each and every emails, texts, phone calls, et cetera we have sent and made are highly likely stored within the databanks of the US government. Which, needless to say, are free to peer into by certain US officials whenever they so desire. A revelation of this magnitude of course shocked a great many people.
All across the globe, everyday civilians, government officials, politicians, activists, reacted sporadically. Some accepted that a breach of privacy is desirable if it means an increase in a government's capacity to safeguard its people. Others yelled in protest as they realized that nearly all of their most private documents, pictures, videos, and much more have actually been visible for an extensive period of time, to people that they would never have granted access to. Hence what might just be one of the greatest debates of the century begun, and humans of all ilk began to choose sides.
It is undeniably easy to swallow the arguments of privacy advocates. Who, after all, wishes to have their most intimate secrets accessible to unknown, prying eyes? All of a sudden, there is always an invisible head over our shoulders whenever we boot up our computers, open up our phones, basically touch any electric communication apparatus. The "Big Brother" of George Orwell's fiction has now started to breach into the realm of reality, and he is not a figure anyone would long to have in their lives (please read Orwell's 1984, it might be more relevant than ever now).
Then comes those who disagree with the staunch defenders of privacy. These individuals who feel that if privacy is a price for safety, then it is one very much worth paring. We live in a world of global terrorism, where shootings and bombings can happen at any time and any place (although this is a grandly exaggerated picture painted by the media). If having our digitized items be visible to people who want nothing more than to protect us, in order for them to be able to do their jobs effectively, then what is the problem? The plethora of opposing answers to this question I will have to leave to privacy advocates.
Again I have to say that I am still unable to choose between the two camps of this privacy feud. Not due to apathy, rather due to the many unanswered questions regarding the issue itself. Primarily, the efficacy of mass surveillance systems.
Transparency advocates—the most vocal ones, that is—commonly originate from the sectors of government. More specifically, the branches that deal with national security. Why these departments generate these individuals is most likely because of its primary objective: to protect and ensure the fulfillment of the national interest, which more often than not involve the well-being of the civilian population. The most relevant threat to the lives of innocent citizens, in their eyes, are attacks orchestrated by terrorist groups the likes of ISIS (a fear that is located mainly in first-world, Western countries).
As many of us are aware of, terrorist organizations prefer to operate in the shadows. Being nearly invisible means they could carry out their crimes whenever and wherever they so choose. A few of them are probably competent enough to never have been caught red handed. Thus, how should state security bodies unearth those whose survival rely heavily on unpredictability and invisibility? And by extension, prevent them from committing any further atrocities? By casting a net as large as can feasibly be constructed. In other words, mass surveillance systems.
The government's goal with the aforementioned net is of course to apprehend terrorist operatives and sympathizers, before the latter parties could fulfill their likely nefarious objectives. A noble purpose, to say the least, but with many notable flaws. Firstly is the previously mentioned impasse with privacy advocates—implying that in the pursuit of safeguarding lives, they have reached a gray moral area. Second, there exists next to no evidence that the established surveillance programs have succeeded in their protective mission, at least in the public's eye. And I speculate that the second overcoming the second obstacle is key to persuading the members of the public to fall in with transparency proponents.
I find it quite difficult to believe that all contemporary surveillance systems have extremely low rates of success. Recall Alan Turing's success in breaking Nazi Germany's enigma code during World War II. His triumph in solving one of the most convoluted codes of his generation provided a channel for Allied forces to continuously monitor Germany's movements. Yet the cracking of code came with certain costs, ones that may be considered immoral even if they were truly necessary.
To prevent the Axis powers from realizing that their code had been deciphered, sacrifices had to be made. Ambushes, destruction along ship routes, bombings of both civilian populations and military personnel, et cetera were permitted to continue to some extent, all so that Enigma's structure would not be altered; for if it was, the Allies would have to start from scratch, an impossible demand considering the levels of destruction already done during the course of the global conflict. This particular episode of modern history holds a quite substantial like to the present's debate on privacy.
The Allies allowed preventable assaults to persist, hid Enigma's decipherment from the public's eye, all to secure that their advantage would not be lost. Now maybe, just maybe, that is what's happening today. Perhaps governments with mass surveillance capabilities cloak the successes brought about y their methods, ensure that their opposition's methods would remain static.
I have to say that I do respect the right for privacy. Certainly, I do not find the idea of someone snooping through the documents I have on my computer at all appealing. However, if there actually have been catastrophes successfully averted by such breaches of privacy, then by all means read, listen, watch all the files I have. After all, what's a few secrets laid bare compared to the lives of my fellow human beings? Complete transparency is acceptable to myself personally, if and only if it genuinely does allow a great many of us to be protected from harm.
But the quest for transparency will forever remain stagnant if it continues to be unable to leap over its hurdles. The government must provide legitimacy for their surveillance programs, via a showcase of their accomplishments. Even if it does come with the cost of having to revamp their current methods from the ground up. The alternative would be continual distrust, dislike, and disapproval from the citizen to the governing body. A rift which may grow into an uncrossable chasm—and as history has repeatedly shown us, a discontent population is never a good thing for those who rule.
As such the debate of privacy versus transparency is really quite simple. For a government to persuade its people into accepting whatever it is they might loathe, the public must be shown why they must contend with such vexations. Therefore, as a citizen I will wait for these concrete reasons—if there are indeed any—until I pick a side.
For now, it seems hat the privacy advocates are deserving of a cigar. Since the government has as of yet been unable to provide reasonable explanations for their actions, they will continue to lose public support for surveillance programs and may be forced into coercing acceptance from the people. Thus, mass surveillance currently looks to be a massive waste of time, money, as well as being an unquestionable violation of fundamental human rights.
Should the privacy debate stay its present course, then one day perhaps mass surveillance systems will have to be scrapped (save for those in autocratic and dictatorial states). Yet if the breach of privacy approach is in actuality an invaluable tool for the intelligence and security community, then withholding the successes birthed by it, thereby undermining its legitimacy, the government would be making a grave mistake.
I am not asking for state officials to pour out the immeasurable amounts of date they have gathered. But a glimpse into their, for the present, hypothetical achievements could draw in much needed support for their surveillance programs. Until that day comes, then the state must simply lie down and endure the endless criticisms and doubts coming from its own people.


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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
I'm going to be that kind of mother...
On Thursday, after she finally finished packing her things, we drove to Jerusalem, got the key to her dorm room & went to set things up. Then there were about 4 hours of really interesting speeches (seriously) that made me totally jealous that I'm not going there (I'll omit the part about having to spend quite a lot of time keeping Yirmi from screaming) and then ate a dinner that looked much better than it tasted. And it didn't look that good. Hadas said they'd made a special effort for the parents and that the food she'd had when she spent 3 days there in April was actually worse. Maybe I don't need to worry about her gaining weight there...
I cry really easily. Perhaps I can blame the pregnancies, but maybe I was just always really emotional... in any case, when I drove off on Thursday, we just hugged each other and said goodbye - no tears. Hadas called before she went to sleep and then I've spoken to her every day since. She still feels like she's in summer camp, is getting along amazingly well with her 3 roommates (in their very simple, small room) and seems happy. When I talked to her on Sunday, we talked about food and she said she misses real food - so today I made her rice and chicken, with her favorite sauce and packed it up for her to take to her dorm. That's the first thing I've done that makes me feel really old.
She came home today to be at the scouts (she has a group of 5th graders) - about 1-1/2 hours each way - and she got to spend a total of about 20 minutes at home. The older kids go away a lot anyway, since they spend time with their dad, but it's so different - she doesn't really live here anymore & when she comes home, it will be to visit us. It's hard to get used to the idea. I'm really happy for her and I know the school is a fabulous opportunity - she's going to get the kind of education most people can only dream of. But I kind of miss having her around.
6 comments:
- Fertilized said...
sounds like you are handling this very well
- September 3, 2008 at 1:11 AM
- Sara said...
Aw Rachel, that's got to be hard. It does sound like you're taking it like a champ, though.
It is absolutely wonderful that she is getting such a great opportunity.
- September 3, 2008 at 4:38 PM
- DrSavta said...
I know how you feel
- September 3, 2008 at 10:42 PM
- Bea said...
Aw. Poignant moments. I hope she doesn't stop needing those phone calls and home-cooked meals too soon. Otherwise she might grow out of them before you do!
- September 5, 2008 at 12:43 PM
- Vacant Uterus said...
Bittersweet! It's a great opportunity and it sounds like she's more than up for the challenge. I'm glad that you get to talk every day. Your bond stretches across the miles and that's no small thing.
- September 6, 2008 at 4:11 PM
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Rachel!! Thank you so, very much for the "Kick Ass"
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I remember you left me some lovely comments during all the drama back in May .... thank you. A lot.
It must be strange indeed, to have Hadas living away. You are handling it so well!
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Ravioli with avocado sauce vierge
When I first came across this dish at the Château de la Chèvre d'Or, I thought it was sheer madness. Then I tasted it and decided otherwise.
A few weeks later, I can no longer buy sheets of Niçois ravioli stuffed with beef and Swiss chard or spinach without also picking up a ripe avocado and a punnet of cherry tomatoes. It helps that the first time I served this combination at home, Sam - who had never previously gone wild for avocadoes - declared it the best thing he had ever eaten as he lapped up the last drops of sauce.
Of course, I appreciate how lucky I am to have the fresh pasta shop Barale at the end of my street. Founded in 1892 and still run by the Barale family, it's the place I turn to whenever I feel like eating something delicious without going to any effort (which turns out to be quite often). I buy the pâtes vertes (thick-cut spinach tagliatelle) for pâtes au pistou, panisses (a kind of chickpea polenta) to cut into strips and fry as an apéritif or side dish, and ravioli à la ricotta to serve with a simple tomato sauce.
Until recently, it had never occurred to me to serve ravioli niçois, otherwise known as ravioli à la daube, with anything other than daube sauce, or perhaps tomato sauce (with or without meat). These ravioli were originally designed to use up leftover beef stew, known as daube in these parts, and the extra sauce from the stew would be spooned over the ravioli. Pasta shops in Nice almost inevitably sell this rich, winey stew, more for serving with pasta than eating on its own.
Avocado, lemon and tomato make a brighter, more summery accompaniment, one that works surprisingly well with these earthy-tasting ravioli. A generous quantity of freshly grated parmesan brings it all together, balancing the acidity of the lemon. If you don't have access to Niçois ravioli - I'll post the recipe one of these days - it would be worth experimenting with other types of meat or ricotta ravioli or even plain pasta.
* I'm thrilled to report that Les Petits Farcis was featured alongside other small and informal cooking schools in this month's issue of Gourmet magazine. If you happen to have a copy, turn to page 88 for the article and page 199 for my recipe for Lemon curd tart with olive oil.
Niçois ravioli with avocado sauce vierge
Serves 3
8 dozen Niçois ravioli, or about 450 g (1 lb) other ravioli
1 small avocado or 1/2 large avocado
150 g cherry tomatoes (6 oz)
Juice and zest of one organic lemon
Good-quality olive oil
Salt and pepper, to taste
Plenty of fresh parmesan cheese
A few fresh basil leaves
Heat a large pot of water for the ravioli. Cut the avocado and tomato into small dice and toss together with the lemon zest. Squeeze the lemon, measure the juice and add it along with the same amount of olive oil to the avocado and tomato. Season with salt and pepper.
Cook the ravioli just until tender and drain carefully (they are fragile). Top with the avocado-tomato mixture and its juice, a generous amount of freshly grated parmesan and the torn basil leaves.
5 comments:
Saw the article in Gourmet. Very nice! This pasta dish looks wonderful!
Eileen (passions to pastry)@
- May 17, 2008 at 6:38 p.m.
congratulations on the Gourmet appearance! And your pasta makes me think of an avocado/lemon sauce for pasta I used to make when the kids were small - they loved it, although I found it a bit rich (after two massive helpings!)
- May 20, 2008 at 3:12 a.m.
- Rosa said...
Eileen, it's amazing how these flavors work together - I hope you can try it sometime!
Roisin, I remember you talking about that sauce. Do you still make it sometimes, or have the kids gone off it?
- May 25, 2008 at 6:58 p.m.
Actually, I haven't made the sauce in awhile - perhaps I will try your version with this week's avocado. Our local asparagus is finally here, and I have been making sauces with it - cooking it fairly slowly, adding milk and lemon zest, and then whizzing it all up in the blender. Made a delicious sauce for fettucine, and the leftovers were a wonderful frittata later on. But your asparagus is probably long gone!
- May 26, 2008 at 3:11 a.m.
- Rosa said...
Oh, that sounds fantastic Roisin! And we do still have some asparagus, even if it's the end of the season.
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3 & 4 Year Old Funded Education Grant
3 & 4 Year Old Funding
Free early learning places for 3 and 4 year olds
All three and four year olds are entitled to up to 15 hours of free early education a week term time until they either go into reception or reach compulsory school age (the term following their fifth birthday) and London Borough of Redbridge where our nursery operates is committed to providing a free part-time early education place for all three year olds from the term after their third birthday.
An early education place can be in a pre-school or playgroup; a day nursery; with a childminder or an independent school where they offer the free entitlement (please note that not all settings provide the free entitlement).
Barley Lane Montessori Day Nursery provides free part time education place for all three year olds from the term after their third birthday.
We offer either 3 morning sessions (8 am to 1 pm) or 3 afternoon sessions (1 pm to 6 pm) which amounts to 15 hours per week for 38 weeks of the year term time only.
Alternately we can offer one full day session (8 am to 6pm) and one half day session either morning or evening which amounts to 15 hours per week for 38 weeks of the year term time only.
Note: Our offer of a free funded place is made only if we have a space and for the days/sessions available. Any extra sessions must be paid for.
The benefits of an Early Education for your child
• Early Education gives children the chance to learn, play and make new friends.
• Early Education gives children some preparation for starting school.
• You can arrange childcare to fit around your personal needs.
When is my child eligible?
The following dates show which term your child is eligible for Free Early Education Entitlement. Please be aware that these dates are determined by central government and are in line with dates for School Admissions, and as such exceptions to this cannot be made. For example a child that turns three on 1st April would not be eligible for funding until the autumn term (from 1st September).
|Born between 1st January to 31st March
|Summer Term (April to August)
|Born between 1st April to 31st August
|Autumn Term (September to December)
|Born between 1st September to 31st December
|Spring term (January to April)
What your child's early learning place will offer
The early learning place provides up to 15 hours a week of free early education, usually over 38 weeks per year. This is the equivalent of up to 570 hours per year.
For any child accessing the free early learning place there is a parent agreement that you would need to sign confirming you are happy with the offer for your child.
When you access any unfunded hours or additional services it would be clearly explained to you and a contract will be put in place that clearly states the agreement.
Accessing more than 15 hours per week or additional services
If you work or have other commitments that mean your child needs to attend the nursery for more than 15 hours per week (or 570 hours per year) then you have the option to pay for additional hours. We offer full day care for 50 weeks of the year.
How to claim your child's early learning place
Once you have secured a funded place with us, you will need to sign an agreement. This is known as the Parent Declaration Form and you will be required to sign your agreement for each term that your child accesses an early learning place.
Each term there is a 'headcount date'. All children must be accessing their free early learning place by this date in order to receive the entitlement for that term. You can view the upcoming headcount dates below. If you have missed the deadline please discuss your child's place with the nursery manager at the earliest opportunity. You will most likely need to wait until the following term to access a free early learning place:
• Spring term 2014 – 16th January 2014
• Summer term 2014 - 15th May 2014
• Autumn term 2014 - 2nd October 2014
• Spring term 2014 - 15th January 2014
When you sign the Free Early Education Entitlement agreement (known as the Parent Declaration Form) you are making a commitment that your child will be accessing their early learning place at the stated setting for that term. Signing of the declaration confirms that your child will not be claiming more than the 15 hours of free early education that he or she is entitled to.
If you commit to a place in a setting but then move your child prior to the headcount date then your original setting is unable to claim for your child's attendance during those first weeks. You may be liable for any hours your child has received from the start of the term to when your child moves to the new setting.
The setting that your child is attending on the terms headcount date (shown above) is the setting that will be able to offer the Free Early Education Entitlement to your child(ren).
Additional Information:
Within the London Borough of Redbridge parents/carers are currently unable to access a place after the headcount dates shown. London Borough of Redbridge is seeking to implement a 'late claims' policy as soon as authority for this is sanctioned. This will benefit children that have moved into the borough after headcount date or who have not already accessed a place for the current term.
If you choose to access the free early education within two separate settings you will need to advise both settings, come to an agreement over how many hours each setting will claim on behalf of your child and will ensure this is detailed on the Parent Declaration Form prior to you signing the agreement.
Even if you wish or do not wish to access additional services or hours you will still need to complete a Parent Declaration Form along with a Nursery Registration Form.
Additional services can include webcam services, cooked lunch or additional classes such as learning an additional language, music lessons or a dance class. A childcare provider is entitled to charge for these services.
If you are only accessing the free early learning place then you do not need to pay for the additional services.


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Umbrella Policy
While you've already done the responsible thing and purchased homeowners or renters insurance, you could still be exposed. Don't worry, we can help! To offer you and your assets the full protection they need, we offer umbrella liability insurance.
courteous service from Tompkins!"
– Anne A.
Umbrella liability insurance offers you an umbrella of protection over the liability limits of your homeowners and auto insurance policies.
If you find yourself facing significant legal expenses after a car accident, a guest gets injured in your home or a tree falls onto your neighbor's property, your umbrella policy will step in once your existing coverage limits are exhausted. In short, this policy protects you from unforeseen, significant expense.


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Hello, loves :)
This post is dedicated to my lovely best friend, and my ex room mate in Melbourne, Sammy :) She's a really nice person who cares a lot of other people, sometimes even forgets about herself :p
So I've already had these images in my mind long time ago. After 3 years hiding in my closet, the mosquito net for babies that I bought from IKEA was finally used! :D I decided to use it for taking photos with Sammy :)
Here are some of my fav photos. You can also check the rest on my facebook page :)
We decided to use the net as a wedding veil :) I think this is one of every girls' dreams to get married hehe
Behind the scenes.......
It was supposed to be summer, but it's Melbourne :\ It was hot in the morning, then suddenly the wind blew really really strong when I went out from my apartment. I was kinda scared but thank God for Windy and Sephine, who helped me a lot that day :D :D Thank you super girls :*
Windy helping me hold the net cause it was so "windy" haha :p Actually Sephine was also on the other side holding the net.
The wind is too strong the net kept on flying away!
It was cold you can tell from this image :p
Sephine helping Sammy with the "veil" :3
Thank you so much both of you :* :* Couldn't make it without you two *hugs*
The stuff. Lots of leaves fell down cause of the wind :O
The stuff. Lots of leaves fell down cause of the wind :O
And last but not least,
Thank you so much, Sammy. I am really glad to have you as my best friend. There are precious moments with you that I couldn't forget :') Thank you for always listening to my boring life stories before bed, giving me advices, taking care of me when I was sick, always making me laugh, and so much more. I wish you good luck for your studies and of course your love life :) Keep believing on what you love and don't forget to visit me! :D
For more photos from this photoshoot, check Ave Photography facebook page :)


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Roast Wild Duck 2013-12-21 22:16:48 Yields 2 Roasted ducks stuffed with potatoes and apples. Write a review Save Recipe Print Total Time 4 hr 30 min Total Time 4 hr 30 min Ingredients 2 ea Ducks, fully dressed 3 T self rising Flour 1 T Lard 1/4 c self rising Flour 2 c Water 1/2 t Salt 1 dash fresh cracked Black Pepper 1 ea Apple, quartered 1 ea Potato, cubed 1 ea Onion, quartered
Instructions Lightly Salt and Pepper inside cavities of Ducks. Roll birds in 3 T of Flour to coat. Melt Lard in 6qt dutch oven and brown birds well on all sides and remove to platter. Add the 1/4 c Flour to drippings and cook till browned. Remove from heat and cool slightly. Add Water, Salt and Pepper and return to heat. Cook and stir till thickened. Place rack in bottom of dutch oven, stuff cavities of Ducks with Apple, Potato, and Onion. Cover and bake at 325° 3 1/2 to 4 hours.
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Designed for someone with no prior experience in real estate to pass both the NYREI School and State exam and learn how to become a successful agent.
Premium Package Includes:
The NYREI Guarantee: We are 100% confident in the effectiveness of our program, so if you do not pass the Department of State exam the first time, we will allow you to retake the course at no additional charge.
Online Salesperson License Course
We also offer the Salesperson and Remedial Courses online. Click below to register for Online Salesperson License Course.Register for the Online Courses
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Click below to register for the 30-Hour remedial course if you took the 45-Hour Salesperson Course prior to July 2008.
NYREI in partnership with realestateprepguide.com has prepared four 75-question practice exams to help you prepare for the types of questions you'll face on both the school and state exams. Click here for more information.
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For more information, visit the Department of State website.
The Salesperson Course is offered every day, including nights and weekends, at four convenient locations. You can mix and match locations – it's not necessary to take them all in one place. We also offer the course online.
Manhattan Branch132 West 36th, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10018
*Use entrance at 139 West 35th St. on nights and weekends (Between 7th and Broadway, North Side of Macy's) Phone: (212) 967-7508
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24 Oak Drive at Jericho Turnpike
Syosset, New York
Phone: (212) 967-7508
Directions NOTE: Parking is in lot at 40 Oak Drive across the street and not in the hotel lot
Class Information
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Adria Conference Center
Phone: (212) 967-7508
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539 Third Ave,
Phone: 212-967-7508Map & Directions
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2 Ogden Ave.
NOTE: to speak with instructor Richard Delorenzo or get directions please call him at 914-737-1656
Click here to learn about our convenient online courses, available across NY State.
The Salesperson Course is 75 hours, broken up into 20 sessions. The sessions are independent of each other and can be taken in any order. Our unique scheduling system allows you to begin classes at any time.
Except for holidays, the course is given seven days a week, including one night and one weekend day each month for your convenience. You can take your sessions at any NYREI location, provided that you are not repeating a session number (there is an extra charge for repeating sessions).
At other schools which have a fixed schedule, if you have to miss a class you will not have enough hours to complete the course and may have to take it all over again. Our flexible schedule allows you to create your own schedule so you are guaranteed to finish the course the first time.
Here are some examples of how you can finish your 20 sessions at NYREI:
You are allowed a maximum of 7.5 hours of absence.
Exams are regularly administered at the days and times listed below. However, you can schedule your NYREI exam at any time convenient to you for an additional $25 proctor fee.
11:00am any day courses are being given (see Syosset schedule).
Bayside: check Queens schedule
Westchester: schedule with teacher (Richard Delorenzo 914-737-1656). You will be assessed a $40 exam fee if you did not attend the entire course at this location.
Brooklyn: Tuesdays and Wednesdays 11:15am (see Brooklyn Schedule)
Note: please bring in #2 pencils, calculator, picture id and if you did the course online bring in the printed Student affidavit.
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Supposed Pro-Israel Co-Founder of Soros-Funded J-Street Calls Israel's Creation "An Act That Was Wrong"
J-Street calls itself the organization that "gives political voice to mainstream American Jews and other supporters of Israel" but it is far from a pro-Israel group. Last week it was discovered that radical leftist billionaire George Soros had donated $245,000 to the leftist organization in 2008, and another $500,000 in subsequent years. Now there's proof that this far left group is not so supportive of Israel. Co-founder Daniel Levy was recently told an audience that the creation of Israel was "an act that was wrong."
Mere Rhetoric has details.
Quite the few days that J Street had last week, what with all the admitting they're foot soldiers in Soros's anti-Israel army after lying about it for years and then trying to get ahead of the story by lying about it some more. Most of the criticism has focused on co-founder Jeremy Ben-Ami, who did not exactly fall on his sword and instead tried to hamfistedly change the subject. But it's probably unfair to blame him for all of J Street's failings, from rigging polls to being more anti-Israel than the Saudis to expressing fake confusion about Hamas's intentions.
Per Eli Lake's first story, Ben-Ami seems to have been the one who did most of the "misleading" about J Street's fundraising, from furtively squirreling away Soros's cash to opaquely raising 50% of the group's 2008 money from a single foreign source…
…Mere Rhetoric has obtained a transcript of Levy's remarks. They conclude with him asserting that it's "natural" for Gazans to want to attack Israelis on account of the ostensibly unbearable situation in the Strip or something, and with him nonetheless urging Palestinians to hold off on their genocidal campaigns because those aren't very strategic or disciplined.
But the most ideologically pointed part was just before those musings. Daniel Levy quite explicitly revealed that he thinks that Israel's creation was a "an act that was wrong." Quote unquote. For good measure he added that "there's no reason a Palestinian should think there was justice" in Israel's founding. Gamely, he also implied that had he been a diplomat in 1948, he would have been so overwrought at the incineration of six million Jewish souls that he would have deemed the reestablishment of Jewish sovereignty in the ancestral Jewish homeland "excused."
Mere Rhetoric has more.
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The aim of this paper is to construct a new third order rotatable design in four dimensions through balanced incomplete block design. By choosing balanced incomplete block designs in four factors where each block contains three treatments, factorial combinations are obtained. Other point sets each of the same factors are suitably chosen so that their associate combinations are obtained.
A new third order rotatable design in four dimensions is obtained with 120 points through balanced incomplete block designs.


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Make these Simple Peanut Butter Cookies that are just 4 ingredients and gluten-free! Perfect cookies for kids to make. Add chocolate chips or nuts, too!
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Here we go again. It seems like everything I've made in the past few days includes peanut butter. But I'm not complaining. And I know some of you aren't either.
After yesterday's more involved Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Cake recipe, I thought I'd share with you a simple recipe. Because the truth is, when our family is craving a sweet, we rarely have the time to make a fancy 2-layer cake. We soooo enjoy those cakes when we do have them on special occasions, but normally our sugar cravings get satisfied with much simpler recipes.
Such as these pretty little cookies.
You might be surprised but these Simple Peanut Butter Cookies are not only simple, but in some ways, they are kind of healthy. Please note that I said kind of. Yes, there is some sugar, but these are gluten-free. The actually have no flour in them at all.
So if you have an allergy or just are looking for something sweet, a few of these cookies can be very satisfying. You can at least pretend that you are indulging yourself in a healthy snack.
Did I mention that these somewhat-healthy-cookies are only 4 ingredients?
Peanut Butter.
Baking Soda.
Brown Sugar.
You can whip them up in just a few minutes!
These cookies are soft when you take them out of the oven, so be sure to let them sit on the baking sheet for 5 minutes, then cool completely on a wire rack.
Sometimes my parents have a certain craving for something sweet. I'm not an adult, but I know that sweet craving comes a lot! You know what that means…..baking time! These Simple Peanut Butter Cookies are the perfect recipe to satisfy that quick sweet craving.
Would you rather have a quick and simple chocolate chip cookie recipe? Add in some chocolate chips. Like raisins or nuts? Try adding those in…anything you think would be good! So get creative and whip up some of these simple cookies!
But watch out…this could be kind of dangerous……they are easily addicting!
Simple Peanut Butter Cookies
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Combine all ingredients until well blended.
- Drop by teaspoonfuls on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake at 350 degrees for 8-9 minutes.
- Cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheet, then move to a wire rack and cool completely.


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Everyone Wins ... When Everyone Plays!
Games are an integral part of the Everyday Mathematics program. EM Games offers popular computer games that make basic skills practice fun. EM Games are available online or on CD-ROM for Early Childhood (PreK-K) through Grade 6.
These grade-level appropriate games provide practice with concepts and basic skills; build computational and math fluency; and add a little friendly competition to help motivate learning.
Easy to Manage
- No additional planning to incorporate into instruction
- Challenge and Skillbuilder game menus for play at specific skill levels
- Management system to monitor student progress (online version only)
- Detailed audio instructions for each game
- Computation Practice and Facts Practice games clearly labeled
Fun to Play
- Dozens of new and redesigned games to motivate students
- Classic EM Games also included
- One- and two-player game options for playing alone or with a friend
Designed for Success
- Practice basic skills and build critical thinking
- Develop mathematical strands
- Build computation and fact fluency
- Receive student feedback on all mathematical concepts
EM Games Online
- Access to all grade-level games
- Game playing from home
- Real-time performance data
- Management system generates report by the student, class, or building
- Features of the online management system include:
- Detailed reports on the skill success of each game
- Records the amount of time students are playing the games
- Run class reports by student or game
- Students' scores are kept current after each game play
- Administrator view allows a comparison of progress for all classrooms
- EM Games Online also available as part of the Deluxe eSuite
- Available in Classroom and Building Subscriptions
EM Games on CD-ROM
- CD-ROM for every grade level, with Skillbuilder and Challenge games
- No internet access required!
- A chance for families to play games together at home
- Individual student, classroom, and building versions are available.


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Music Lyrics
Bass and Guitar Tabs
and More...
For Pete's Sake
We had a mutual friend and he said
You've been talking again
I'm not responsible for your life falling apart
I'm not responsible
You and me could have been the best friends
That we'd never had
You've done everything that you could to damage me, damage me
I'm walking away
I'm closing my eyes
I'm letting it go, letting it go
Hey I'm telling you now
I'm drawing the line
Don't say it again
Just keep it inside
It happened to me, in love with the same girl
Nobody's fault, yeah nobody's fault
Hey maybe for the first time act like a grown man
Yeah keep it in
You and me could have been the best friends
But we'd never had the best friends
I'm walking away, letting it go
I'm closing my eyes
I'm telling you now
I'm lonely again, just keep it inside
Hey, it happened to me, in love with the same girl
It happened to me, me over you
Hey maybe for the first time act like a grown man
Keep it in
Yeah keep it in
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