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It's sweltering here in the northeast, and in most of the country. But a steady crop of cucumbers from the vines I planted in my backyard garden this spring are helping us keep our cool.
I've been slicing them into pitchers of water, chopping them up into salads and raitas, and just eating them fresh off the vine, with a dash of salt rubbed into their centers.
If you've ever grown cucumbers, you know that they can produce too much of a good thing. This past weekend, as I wondered what else to do with all those cucumbers, I was visited by a blast from the past. Tausali, or cucumber cake.
In the India I grew up in, ovens were a rarity. Cakes were a rare treat you bought at the bakery. But what some adventurous cooks did have was an aluminum contraption that looked like a tube pan with a lid. In the bottom was a compartment that held sand. The "oven" was placed on a stove and the flame heated the sand which in turn baked the cake.
My mom had one of those contraptions, and she would sometimes bake Tausali in it.
Tausali is a rather spare yet sumptuous cake from India's Konkan region– my dad's native land. It contains the classic triumvirate of homemade Indian sweets: jaggery (an unrefined Indian sugar not unlike piloncillo), coconut, and cardamom. It also contains rava (sooji or cream of wheat), sometimes ghee, and — of course– cucumber. There are no leaveners here, like baking soda or baking powder. The ingredients are all mixed up and baked in that little stovetop oven. The resulting cake is dense but moist and incredibly flavorful.
My Lowfat Cucumber Cake is not Tausali– I adapted it to make it more cake-like than Tausali by using flour instead of rava, and I did add some baking soda and baking powder to help the cake rise. But I tried to stay true to the basic flavors by using jaggery as the sweetener, and by incorporating cardamom and coconut into the recipe.
To stay true to the fresh-from-the-tube-pan look of a Tausali, but to make it prettier, I baked my Cucumber Cake in a bundt pan.
The cake was delicious. The jaggery gave it a deep richness, and the cardamom was just perfect with the cucumber. If you can't find jaggery feel free to substitute with brown sugar. The result won't be exactly the same, but it will taste pretty darn good.This is also a very healthy cake. There is very little fat in the recipe, and it incorporates brown rice flour and whole-wheat flour — and, of course, a veggie. Because jaggery is not refined, it is also a better-for-you sweetener.Here's the recipe. Enjoy, all!
Try these recipes next:
Vegan Zucchini Bread
Gluten Free Vegan Skillet Cornbread Cake
Vegan Strawberry Bread
Low-Fat Cucumber Cake, Indian-Style
- Dry Ingredients:
- 1 cup whole-wheat flour
- 1 cup brown rice flour
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp powdered cardamom
- Wet Ingredients:
- 2 cups very finely grated jaggery (don't leave in any lumps here)
- 3 tbsp flaxmeal mixed with 9 tbsp water
- 3/4 cup applesauce
- 1/2 cup grated coconut
- 4 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 large cucumber (2 1/2 cups), seeded and grated
- Whisk all of the dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
- In another bowl, mix all of the wet ingredients.
- Add the wet ingredient mixture to the dry, and mix until everything comes together. Pour the batter into a bundt pan and smooth the top.
- Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven for 45 minutes or until a toothpick in the center comes out clean.
- Unmold 10 minutes after removing from the oven. Cool thoroughly on a rack, then slice and enjoy!


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The Royal Opera is to present a concert performance of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra at Birmingham's Symphony Hall on Sunday (7 July).
As with fully staged performances at Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano will conduct a cast including Thomas Hampson, Hibla Gerzmava, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Russell Thomas and Dimitri Platanias. Read what audiences thought of the opening night performance in London.
'I've already had the experience of performing this opera in concert having brought it to the Proms,' Antonio says, 'It works beautifully because each character is focused and the music speaks so clearly. You don't need all the trappings of the stage.'
'We receive money from the Arts Council and its important that we go to other locations in Great Britain'
Tickets are available from the Town Hall & Symphony Hall, Birmingham website.
The performance is staged with generous philanthropic support from Mrs Susan A Olde OBE, Alfiya and Timur Kuanyshev and the Verdi Syndicate.

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There is sometimes music that stops you dead in your tracks on first listening and you already know that you will be listening to the beats of it, the story of it – the meter and time and rhyme of it will stay with you for as long as you can still hear, and possibly even after that for a while, before your mind forgets the mechanics and then the concept of sound, and then silence just plays on an endless loop.
A great example of this rare phenomenon, instant love at first listen, is Craig Finn's new album "Clear Heart Full Eyes". Craig asked if I would be in Los Angeles for his show at the Troubadour this week, but I am already off to my Atlanta apartment, so I will catch him at The Earl on March 5th. I am behind with everything and I knew his new album was coming out soon but I didn't know it was out already. It is – and he's on tour so catch him if you can, and get this album immediately if you haven't already. And you can come with me to see him at The Earl in March. East Atlanta is a lot of fun. Let's go. We never go to that side of town and we should do it more.
I was a late comer to all things Hold Steady, and after meeting them and watching them perform classic Bob Mould songs at his tribute at Disney Hall last year I was an instant fan. I went home completely transformed by their sound and have spent the last few months catching up on the years of their amazing music I have missed. I rock out indecently hard in the hybrid to "Most People are DJs" on my way back from motorcycle school and tattoo appointments and good and sometimes bad comedy shows, the solitary drivetimes late at night when I feel young and bloody and sweaty and righteous, at my powerful best.
Craig Finn is a fearsome lyricist, and being a bit of a prideful wordsmith myself, of course I am consumed with jealousy. His linguistic swagger renders me speechless (for once). I want to burn my thesaurus, using my rhyming dictionary as kindling. His powerful poetry is the gasoline I can throw onto the fire. He's better than me. He's better than everyone. Listening to him makes me want to give everything up, just so I can spend more time listening to him.
Clear heart, full eyes is a wonderful addition to your Hold Steady collection, but it's also completely its own gorgeous creation. Craig's voice is earnest and growly as ever, and in his solo work, the music frames his masterful sonnets differently. Yes there's guitars – great guitars – but also lap steel. Slides made from old fashioned coke bottles – I can feel them squeal down the fretboard and it shakes me up. You can hear the country roots in the wood of the instruments. It's Austin for sure. The way they ride the scales on top of each other, I can tell the musicians are wearing worn out but beautifully embroidered cowboy boots, stamping them on the floorboards in time. There's warmth to the playing that suggests old unchanged strings and careful but intuitive production. It's spare but rich, like the wealth of compassion that bursts from the grooves of a nicely preserved vinyl of "Greetings from Asbury Park NJ".
Craig's words are the magic of the music, making every moment of this thing momentous. At his best, he rivals Bob Dylan in his dark humor and wisdom borne of suffering and a plain, natural aptitude for cool. There's moments where I am struck by the bare honesty and purity of Craig's writing, as if I can't believe what he is saying is being said and said so stunningly well. Anyway, it's a fantastic album. I love it.


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ABC's newest murder mystery pilot "Secrets & Lies" begins production Friday in the Wilmington area.
Get ready for the plot to thicken as ABC's newest murder mystery pilot "Secrets & Lies" begins production Friday in the Wilmington area.
Set in the suburbs of Charlotte, the series will follow Ben Garner, a family man and house painter whose life is upended when he stumbles across the body of the 4-year-old boy who lives across the street and quickly becomes the prime suspect in the boy's murder.
The series, based on a yet-to-air Australian series of the same name, marks the return of several familiar faces to the local film industry, including Ryan Phillippe, who will be revisiting the Port City after filming the teen horror classic "I Know What You Did Last Summer" in summer 1997. Phillippe will headline the series as Ben, a man desperate to find the real killer before he loses his marriage, his kids, his reputation and his sanity.
Juliette Lewis, who visited town in 2011 to film the drama "Hick," will play Det. Andrea Cornell, the detective investigating the young boy's murder. Natalie Martinez will step away from the uniform she wears as Sheriff Linda Esquivel on the locally filmed CBS series "Under the Dome," which starts production on season two Monday, to star as Jess, the grieving mother of the victim.
Also in the mix are "Private Practice's" KaDee Strickland as Ben's wife Christy, whose feelings toward her husband are further complicated by the accusations against him; and "Pacific Rim's" Clifton Collins Jr., a longtime friend of Ben's who lives in the Garners' poolhouse and remains loyal to Ben.
The pilot episode will be directed by Charles McDougall, who won an Emmy in 2005 for his direction of the first episode of "Desperate Housewives."
While making her way to town for filming, Lewis has been vocal on social media, using Twitter to tell her fans, "I can not begin to explain to you how excited I am about my new job." She also asked fans to suggest famous film and TV detectives to give her inspiration for the series. On Tuesday, Lewis did some in-the-field research of her own by shadowing two Wilmington Poilce Department detectives. Along with a picture of the men she spent time with, Lewis sent a message over Instagram, saying, "Playing a detective so I'm hanging with detectives."
Leading up to the start of production Friday, crews have been transforming a section of a Porter's Neck neighborhood into the idyllic neighborhood that will be rocked by the crime. To accommodate the pilot's Christmastime setting, crews have been decorating several homes with festive wreaths and lights, while also painting the grass green so it would match if crews return later this year.
According to Aaron Kaplan, who is producing the pilot with his production company Kapital Entertainment, the decision to shoot the pilot in Wilmington came down to how best to illustrate the effect of such a horrific crime on a small town.
"When we were trying to decide where to shoot this, one of the most important things for us was that we had to pick an American city that felt very safe, very bucolic and a place that would be rattled by something like the murder of a child," Kaplan said. "We came to Wilmington because Wilmington to us is an amazing place – it is peaceful and calm, and a big strong sense of community. A place that feels pure in many ways."
The six-part Australian show on which ABC's pilot is based came across Kaplan's desk after he spent time in the country working on the Fox prehistoric series, "Terra Nova." While there, he became close with Hoodlum Entertainment, which produces the Australian version and let Kaplan sneak a peek at an advanced copy.
"I just went crazy for it," he said.
At the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour, ABC Entertainment Group president Paul Lee said he had a similar reaction to the series, which inspired some binge-watching of its own.
"It's haunting. Like when you get to episode five, you're like, you cannot stop watching," Lee said. "I'm like, I don't have time for this, but I'm going to quickly watch it."
The American version of the series still has some obstacles ahead of it before filming goes beyond the pilot. Once filming is completed around March 19, the series will stop production while ABC reviews the pilot and determines whether it wants to move forward with the series. In October, the network ordered the pilot with a 10-episode series penalty, which means that if ABC decides not to take the pilot to series or wants to decrease the episode order below 10, it will have to pay certain fees.
If the series does move forward, it has not yet been decided if production will remain in Wilmington.
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Three members of the 2009-10 Hope College women's golf team have been named All-American Scholars by the National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA).
Three members of the 2009-10 Hope College women's golf team have been named All-American Scholars by the National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA).
Honored were Megan Scholten of Grand Rapids (Grand Rapids Christian HS), Cassie Sneller of Holland (Hamilton HS), and Lauren Zandstra of Flushing (Flushing HS). Sneller was the senior captain of the team. Scholten and Zandstra will be juniors on next year's team.
The criteria included a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.50 during the academic year. Student-athletes must have competed in at least two-thirds of the college's competitive rounds.
Sneller was a special education major with a learning disabilities emphasis. Scholten is an economics major while Zandstra is majoring in chemistry.
The 2009-10 Dutch, coached by Greg Stafford, finished third in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) standings and were ranked 15th nationally in the Golf World/NGCA Division III Coaches' Poll.
The National Golf Coaches Association, founded in 1983, is a non-profit organization representing women's collegiate golf coaches. The NGCA was formed to encourage the playing of college golf for women in correlation with a general objective of education and in accordance with the highest tradition of intercollegiate competition. Today, the NGCA represents nearly 500 coaches throughout the U.S. and is dedicated to educating, promoting and recognizing both its members and the student-athletes they represent.


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It's OK, the FFXIV crowd will be ultra excited when Square finally adds ridable chocobos to the game.
Get out? of what? Ha I bet you couldn't even kill Batraal..pfft. You guys just crack me up. You sit here in your little forum world and bitch and complain and moan....what a pathetic life you guys lead....
I'm still loosely following the updates they're doing from time to time and my feelings towards them is generally positive. I do want to give this game another try in the future when it's "ready".


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Reversal of Last Year's Result
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—It came right down to the wire. With the match tied at 13-13, junior captain Lauren Miller fenced the deciding bout of the Yale women's fencing team's match-up against Sacred Heart on Jan. 18. Miller and her opponent went into overtime but Miller was able to triumph 5-4, handing the Bulldogs a thrilling 14-13 victory at home in Payne Whitney Gymnasium in New Haven, Conn.
The Bulldogs' nail-biting victory Saturday afternoon follows several close verdicts in what has become an annual bout between Yale and Sacred Heart. Fittingly, this year's result reversed last year's heartbreaker, in which the Bulldogs fell to the Pioneers 14-13. A year earlier, Yale triumphed 15-12.
"Today marked the turnaround of our Sacred Heart match last year—where last year the women's team lost the tiebreaking bout, this year we won it," Miller said. "Every fencer on both the men's and women's teams gave each and every touch their all today, which I think is what allowed both teams to turn around our losses from last year."
The victory against Sacred Heart built on Yale's performance at its sole fall tournament, the Dec. 8 Brandeis Invitational, where it registered a 2-3 record including wins against Boston College (15-12) and MIT (17-10).
"Today was one of our toughest meets because there was so much pressure and spotlight on each bout, since we only fenced one school," Miller said. "Everyone handled this pressure with poise and focus, and consistently supported their teammates during their breaks. I couldn't be happier with the way things turned out."
With the victory under their belt, the Bulldogs will travel to New York to compete at the Jan. 26 NYU Invitational before returning home to host Drew and Vassar for bouts on Feb. 1. The Ivy League Championships will take place the following weekend, hosted by Brown on Feb. 8-9 in Providence, R.I.
"This was an exciting meet to start off the bulk of our season, and I know we are all looking forward to the next three weekends of competition ahead," Miller added.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Drinking warm water seems to relax the bowel and improve the comfort of colonoscopy, as well as the "completeness" of the procedure, hint findings of a study from Korea.
Colonoscopy involves inserting a thin, flexible scope into the colon to look for cancer or polyps, which are growths that can become cancerous. With colonoscopy, the entire length of the colon can be inspected. It is considered the most sensitive way to screen for colon cancer.
However, "incomplete" colonoscopy examinations — when the full length of the colon can not be examined, for whatever reason — do occur and may lead to some small growths in the colon being missed, Dr. Jae J. Kim, at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine in Seoul noted in an email to Reuters Health.
In their study, Kim's team found that they were able to completely examine more of the large intestine surface (98.4 percent on average) of patients who drank 2 liters (approximately 2 quarts) of warm water just prior to undergoing colonoscopy.
By contrast, colonoscopy reached lesser surface amounts (90.6 and 92.2 percent, respectively) in patients who drank 2 liters of cold water or no water, the researchers report in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.
They compared examination characteristics and pain levels of mostly male patients, about 33 years old and generally of normal weight. Sixty-four each drank warm, cold, or no water along with the standard sodium phosphate colonoscopy prep solution.
Ten to 11 patients in each group had previous abdominal or gynecological surgery. Twenty-one in the warm water group, and 17 each in the cold and no water groups, had irritable bowel syndrome, a chronic condition that causes intermittent bowel irregularities, pain, and bloating.
Generally, patients are sedated during colonoscopy to minimize pain and discomfort, and allow more complete colon examinations, but the volunteers for this study agreed to undergo their scheduled procedures without sedation.
The warm water group as a whole, and particularly those 40 years and younger or with irritable bowel syndrome, reported lesser pain both during colonoscopy and 2 hours later.
This group also required less time for insertion and withdrawal of the examination probe even though their degree of intestinal spasms was similar to those drinking cold or no water.
Kim and colleagues suggest further examinations to determine how drinking warm water affects the bowel and why the apparent benefits persisted well after the examinations.
SOURCE: American Journal of Gastroenterology, December 2009


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Deadline for Akin to exit race passes
Rep. Todd Akin isn't going anywhere.
Resisting the full brunt of his party, the Missouri Senate candidate let a 6 p.m. EST deadline pass for him to get out of the Senate voluntarily and allow Republicans to pick a replacement.
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Though Akin could technically still get out of the race, the process for dropping out now becomes far more cumbersome. He would have to petition a court to withdraw before Sept. 25. After that, Akin's name would appear on the November ballot no matter what.
The GOP mounted a fevered 48-hour anti-Akin campaign after the six-term congressman said in a TV interview Sunday "legitimate rape" victims rarely get pregnant because female bodies have a way to "shut that whole thing down."
( Also on POLITICO: 2012 brings bevy of bumbling candidates)
But the congressman grew seemingly more defiant with each statement of GOP outrage, dismissing claims that he was putting a must-win Senate seat for the party at risk. Sen. Claire McCaskill has been seen as one of the most vulnerable Democratic senators in the country, but her prospects are suddenly much brighter thanks to Akin's blunder.
( Also on POLITICO: Akin to Romney: Mind your own business)
Akin insisted he was guilty only of a single-word misstatement and called the mass condemnation an overreaction.
"We are going to continue with this race for the U.S. Senate," Akin told Mike Huckabee on his radio show, adding that an "outpouring" of grassroots support would propel him into office.
In a TV ad Tuesday morning, Akin sought to appear contrite in order to move past a controversy that has isolated him from his party.
"Rape is an evil act," Akin, looking squarely into the camera, said. "I used the wrong words in the wrong way and for that, I apologize. As a father of two daughters, I want tough justice for predators. I have a compassionate heart for the victims of sexual assault, and I pray for them."
Akin added: "The fact is rape can lead to pregnancy. The truth is rape has many victims. The mistake I made was in the words I said, not in the heart I hold. I ask for your forgiveness."
Call it naivete or fortitude, but Akin showed he wouldn't buckle under the entire weight of his party. The pressure came from all corners of the GOP — from well-heeled spending groups that can make or break a candidate up to party standard bearer Mitt Romney.
About a dozen GOP senators were scheduled to co-host a fundraiser at the National Republican Senatorial Committee on Sept. 19, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, NRSC Chairman John Cornyn, Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt and tea party favorite Mike Lee of Utah. All have since backed out of the event, a Republican source told POLITICO.
And the NRSC starkly warned Akin that if he continued with his "misguided" campaign, he'd do so without the millions of dollars the party committee would have spent on his behalf.


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The World's Greatest Cosmopolitan/
Reader(s), I'm going to try to be more honest in 2011. I'm going to try to be more diligent, too, particularly as it pertains to this blog, while simultaneously somehow figuring out a way to weigh less while drinking as many cocktails as ever.
My stated intent of The Five O'Clock Cocktail Blog is to publish a recipe each weekday, whether an original creation, a tweak of a classic drink or an homage to a drink I've drank elsewhere (probably at this bar, knowing me). This has already proven arduous and I might still scale back to twice or thrice weekly. (Thoughts? Please tell me in the comments what you'd like to see!) The part of my brain responsible for wild-footed fantasy stubbornly maintains that The New York Times' Dining section is more likely to profile me if I stick to the five-a-week conceit. (My blog-to-blockbuster deal with Nora Ephron will surely materialize soon after.)
So, regarding that honesty promise, here goes: I like this Cosmopolitan.
Note that I didn't just say any Cosmopolitan. I like -- OK, total honesty; love -- this Cosmopolitan, which I based on the two I've had at The Matchbox in Chicago, the best sliver of bar in the world, a most perfect upscale-dive hybrid where grown, grizzled men often sip gimlets from V-bowled martini vessels. The Royale, where I tended in St. Louis, was hugely inspired by Matchbox, which was doing the fresh-juices thing eons ago and the raw-egg thing probably just as long. I used to make this Cosmo for a few of my regulars when I could do so relatively unnoticed, because I didn't want to get any guff for serving raw egg white to customers and because I didn't want every looky-loo at the bar asking for one (aka, the dreaded Mint Julep Effect).
Even when I make it for myself at my leisure, I find the machinations of the World's Greatest Cosmopolitan painstaking. My prep usually entails getting the non-alcoholic ingredients ready in little ramekins or finger bowls like they do on cooking shows, sifting the sugar (which I put on a saucer), juicing the lime and separating the egg white beforehand. Otherwise I wind up in the weeds halfway through my recipe.
As for the bald fact that this is a Cosmo being discussed on a cocktail blog that claims to take its subject seriously, many of you know that pre-Prohibition-style cocktail lounges don't serve vodka because Americans didn't really drink vodka back then. You also know this if you watch Mad Men, which often references vodka's mid-1960s, James Bond-cool surfacing. Then there's vodka's modern-day rep as a cheap, flavorless vehicle for getting inebriated for the sake of it, usually on a Cosmo or some diabet-tini knockoff thereof.
Although I've already popped my vodka cherry on this blog, the spirit has never been my first, second or third choice for what to drink (bourbon, bourbon, wine) and it's rarely been my fourth, either ("other," or another bourbon, please, or else yes, I'd love a Moscow Mule or a dirty vodka martini up). I make no apologies for liking vodka a somewhere-in-the-middle amount. There are no small parts, only drunk assholes. Don't hate the potion; hate the game.
For the at-home bartender, vodka is inexpensive and fun to play with. And for the cocktail enthusiast, the World's Greatest Cosmopolitan will delight and flabbergast your discerning palate. This Cosmopolitan is more smooth than tart, the egg white nicely rounding out the flavors of the fruit juices. Belying its history as a drunk-chick enabler, this Cosmopolitan demands to be quaffed slowly and pensively. Its powdered-sugar rim, which I find to be its most fascinating component, likewise works to mellow out the harsh of the vodka-cran combo while necessitating tiny, measured hits of glass to lips -- which means you should be just about ready for your next drink by 5 p.m. tomorrow.
World's Greatest Cosmopolitan
2 ounces Ketel One vodka
1 ¼ ounces Cointreau
2 ounces cranberry juice cocktail
¾ ounces freshly squeezed lime juice
About two teaspoons of raw egg white
Confectioner's sugar, for the rim
Rim your cocktail glass with confectioner's sugar and set aside.
Pour vodka, Cointreau and egg white into an empty cocktail shaker.
If you have a cocktail strainer, separate its wire coil from its body and drop the coil into your shaker. This will act as a whisk inside your shaker to better froth up the egg white. (I have even dropped a tiny whisk into the shaker as a substitute.)
Cap the shaker and shake with as much vigor as you can muster for at least 30 seconds; 60 is better.
Add fruit juices to shaker. Fill shaker with ice. Re-cap shaker and shake again for another 20 to 30 seconds.
Strain into your cocktail glass.
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Any medium-shelf vodka will do, although I do recommend Ketel One for the job. Go for Grey Goose if you're feeling fancy.
For glassware, I use my Riedel martini glasses, which have a thin rim that takes on the confectioner's sugar in good proportion.
I once read (I think in either Imbibe or Drinks) that it's better to shake egg whites without ice, or at least to do a preliminary shake without ice. Something about the way the ice prohibits the viscous egg white from mixing well.
How vigorously do I mean when I say shake vigorously? This guy knows what's up.


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Huang Clinches Fifth Comeback of Season for No. 57 Yale
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale men's tennis team put the finishing touches on an exceptional season on Saturday with a strong comeback victory against an in-form group of players from Brown (14-10, 3-4 Ivy). The Elis refused to wilt after dropping the doubles point and stormed back to seal the 4-3 decision, one that sees the Bulldogs end the season with ten wins at home.
With the victory, No. 57 Yale (18-6, 4-3 Ivy) cements its place as sole occupier of the No. 4 spot in the Ivy League standings, ahead of No. 52 Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth and Penn. The Bulldogs' overall season record is also an improvement on the 13-11 win-loss mark from last season, and it includes a 10-2 start to the season, the best in the Elis' recent history. Saturday's win also marks the fifth time this season that Yale has fought back from losing the doubles point, a statistic which highlights the squad's unique resiliency and depth of talent. Finally, the triumph over Brown is a microcosm of the success Yale has enjoyed at home this season, as the team finishes with a 10-2 record on familiar turf.
Alex Dorato, Cary Leeds Head Coach of Men's Tennis, lauded his team's performance as a "great way to finish the season," especially considering that Brown came into Saturday's match on the heels of a stunning 4-3 upset over No. 21 Harvard on Thursday.
Indeed, the Bears began the match brimming with confidence and snatched the doubles point from Yale's grasp. Though senior captain Daniel Hoffman and classmate Marc Powers showcased the immense experience and talent that has made their combination one of the best in the nation by rolling to an 8-2 win at No. 1 doubles, Brown's No. 2 and No. 3 doubles teams posted 8-5 wins to put the Elis behind with six singles matches to follow.
The Bears quickly extended their lead with a win at the No. 5 spot. Faced with the prospect of losing their hold on the No. 4 spot in the league standings, the Bulldogs responded in resounding fashion and fittingly, it was the senior class that raised its level to lead the team to a satisfying win. Senior Zachary Dean, playing at No. 6 singles, initiated the Bulldog fight-back when he scored an impressive 6-2, 6-1 victory over Brandon Burke. Powers quickly followed suit with a win over William Spector by the same score. In the midst of this riveting display from the upperclassmen, spectators also received a glimpse of the squad's promising future when freshman Martin Svenning put Yale in the lead for the first time all day with a 6-1, 7-5 victory over Daniel Hirschberg.
When Svenning completed his match, two of Yale's seniors were embroiled in three-set affairs, both looking to clinch the overall victory. At No. 1 singles, senior John Huang seized the chance to do so, ending his highly successful Bulldog career with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 triumph over Michael Riechmann. Meanwhile, at No. 3 singles, Hoffman was unable to overcome Sam Fife, falling in a 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 decision. Despite the loss, Hoffman, in trademark fashion, showed the kind of fighting spirit and poise that gave his teammates the confidence to call him their captain this season. Hoffman has been the leader of a Yale team that has achieved the best overall season record of any Bulldog squad in recent years. The 18-6 record of the current team narrowly bests the 16-8 record of the 2009-10 squad, on which Hoffman, Dean, Huang and Powers played as freshmen.
Report by Robert Batista '15, Yale Sports Publicity
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Author revisits American internment camp survivor's life in new novel
For many Japanese Americans, the trauma of World War II internment camps lingered long after their release.
In her newest novel, "On Liberty's Wings: A Post-WWII Novel," Afton author Diane Dettmann chronicles Yasu Nakahara's journey to rebuild her life after her family's release from a camp in California.
By 1948, Yasu has moved to Minneapolis.
Although the 22-year-old newlywed found her calling as a teacher, Yasu still struggles with post-war prejudice and residual flashbacks to prison camps surrounded by barbed wire.
The book, released this fall, marks the third installment in Dettmann's series following Yasu's family through years of confinement in a California prison camp in "Courageous Footsteps" and "Yasu's Quest."
The first two books netted Dettmann awards in young adult fiction in the New Apple E-Book Awards and Pacific Rim Book Festival as well as a Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award.
"On Liberty's Wings," Dettmann said, came as a response to readers wanting to know what happened to Yasu's family as they navigated life after internment.
"It developed as I wrote," Dettmann said. "I had it plotted out to a certain degree, but I find that once we start, the characters take over."
Dettmann said she hopes her books inspire readers to evaluate their assumptions about other people and consider the impact of discrimination.
A childhood friendship, Dettmann said, served as inspiration for Yasu's story.
As a child in north Minneapolis, Dettmann lived across the street from a Japanese family and became close with their daughter, who was around her age.
She recalls the bullying her friend endured because of her heritage, "and I didn't understand that."
Dettmann later learned that members of the family had been imprisoned in American internment camps in the 1940s.
Through her research for the series, Dettmann said she's connected with several Japanese-American organizations who have embraced the books.
Although her high school history classes in the 1960s omitted information about Japanese-American internment, Dettmann said she hopes her books help shed light on a painful chapter of U.S. history.
"The biggest thing for me is that this happened in our own country," Dettmann said. "That's what makes it relevant today. There's a connection between past and present."
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This is roughly where we find ourselves in San Mateo County. The monster in the closet is rising sea level, an issue that humanity will be dealing with for at least the next 1,000 years, climate scientists say. Ocean levels are expected to rise 2 to 3 feet by the year 2100.
If steps are not taken in San Mateo County, salt water will cover the runways of San Francisco International Airport, flood the access points to the Dumbarton and San Mateo bridges, and threaten about $24 billion of infrastructure and property, including major corporations and the homes of about about 110,000 residents.
This catalog of consequences came up for discussion at a Dec. 9 conference at the College of San Mateo. About 300 people attended, including academics, elected officials, public works staff and members of the environmental community, said state Assemblyman Rich Gordon (D-Menlo Park). Mr. Gordon shared conference-hosting duties with U.S. Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-San Mateo) and county Supervisor Dave Pine, whose district includes the airport.
Among the experts invited to talk: John Englander, an oceanographer; Will Travis, a former executive director of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC); Larry Goldzband, the current BCDC executive director; Maximilian Auffhammer, a professor of environmental economics at the University of California at Berkeley; and Julian Potter, the chief of staff at SFO.
The seas are warming faster than at any time in the last 500 million years, and it's been 120,000 years since sea levels have been as high as they are right now, Mr. Englander told the assembly. Using ice cores extracted from ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica, scientists have tracked 420,000 years of trends in sea level, global temperature and heat-trapping atmospheric carbon dioxide. It turns out that these three gradually, and in unison, change direction on 120,000-year intervals.
Such an interval is happening now, Mr. Englander said. According to a chart in his presentation, temperature and sea level are inconclusive, but not carbon dioxide. It is not only not showing indications of heading toward lower concentrations, it is rising straight up — literally off the chart.
How quickly sea level rises and its rate of rise depend significantly, but not exclusively, on future greenhouse gas emissions and the steps humanity takes to lower them, Mr. Englander said. There are wild cards: Massive quantities of methane lie frozen on ocean floors; if the water warms to the point at which that methane begins freely bubbling up to the surface, warming would accelerate dramatically.
In any case, humanity needs to get itself organized.
Let's get regional?
Eleven Burlingame hotels serving the airport sit within a stone's throw of the water. San Mateo County has nine waste-water treatment plants at sea level. U.S. 101 and Caltrain are at sea level, as are the corporate campuses of Oracle, Facebook and Genentech. As are Santa Clara County's Google and Intuit, Yahoo and Lockheed Martin, Cisco and Intel, according to a map presented at the conference.
Is Silicon Valley capable of organizing for the betterment of the future of the Bay Area? As an entrepreneurial and venture capital magnet with renowned universities, high-performing school districts, unrivaled good weather, and secluded living in wealthy bedroom communities, it's become a multifaceted economic powerhouse that more or less built itself. And rebuilds itself with each high-tech wave. Who needs regionalism?
And who needs California? How will the high-tech community respond to literal waves washing up on corporate campuses, on transportation infrastructure, on low-lying communities where employees live? Does technology somehow pull a rabbit out of the hat and come to the rescue? It hasn't so far. Or does the powerhouse wind down as corporate loyalty to the region evaporates and the simple step of moving inland starts making sense? Centers of innovation in Texas, Illinois, North Carolina and elsewhere would be calling. Google is setting up operations on barges.
Perhaps it's time that attention be paid. But by whom? And what will it take to get their attention? The threat is similar to that of a major earthquake, but it's incremental rather than sudden. It also hasn't happened, not only in San Mateo County but in 7,000 years of recorded human history. The remedies, including wetland rehabilitation, levees and sea walls, will be expensive and perhaps daunting in terms of getting buy-in from the tax-paying public.
With San Mateo and Santa Clara counties as the traditional geese laying the high-tech golden eggs, what is the role of the other seven Bay Area counties in a mutual aid situation? Losses along the San Mateo County coast and bay side would be 39 percent of total Bay Area losses — essentially "ground zero," Mr. Travis of BCDC said.
"It's uncharted territory and there's no point … in just becoming angry or finding blame," Mr. Englander said. "It's like anything else; it's reality. While we may want to slow (emissions), we really need to begin to deal with the symptoms and what it means for how we live."
"It's the one thing that we need to plan for that's going to change everything and that we have no prior experience with, and that's what makes it different" he said. "We need to put sea-level rise in context and begin to envision a different world."
Taking action
For years, efforts to slow global warming and climate change have focused on mitigation — lowering emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, which trap heat in the atmosphere rather than letting it dissipate into frigid outer space. Adaptation to climate change was the focus on Dec. 9. Not that mitigation is unimportant, but that it is unrealistic to expect it to work in time.
To move toward adaptation, a collaborative conversation among local governments, nonprofit and for-profit organizations should begin in San Mateo County as it began two years ago in Alameda County, said Larry Goldzband of BCDC. The objective of Alameda County's Adapting to Rising Tides (ART) program: a measurable strengthening of resilience to climate change among neighborhoods, cities, counties and regions.
"We're doing this collaboratively in a non-regulatory way so that folks … will actually understand what will end up happening in their neighborhoods and can actually plan for it," Mr. Goldzband said. "ART is successful because it's non-threatening (and) it is non-regulatory (and) it is a flagship program nationally." It doesn't scare people into paralysis, but educates them to enable positive thinking, he added.
People need to understand what the projections of sea-level rise mean for day-to-day lives, said Maximilian Auffhammer, the UC Berkeley professor of environmental economics. It's a matter of asking people to incur costs now for a return later.
The threat is not necessarily decades away, he said. Higher sea levels amplify the flooding potential of severe storms, as Hurricane Sandy demonstrated on the East Coast. Changes at the local level such as allowing homeowners to elevate their homes and rezoning areas vulnerable to extreme weather events are worthy of consideration, he said.
SFO will be reaching out to its immediate neighbors, including Millbrae and Burlingame, to talk about strengthening the defenses around the airport's 8-mile circumference, said Ms. Potter, the SFO chief of staff. The airport has a $4.2 billion construction project going on and expects to create 36,000 jobs in the next decade, she said. "We're investing for the Bay Area, for jobs, for the economy." The airport recently paid $367 million in taxes on annual revenues of $5.5 billion, she said.
In Washington, D.C., a wellspring of federal assistance as well as a nexus of red tape and the province of skilled lobbyists, clout is currency. Conference panelists recommended establishing a federally funded county flood control district, as has been done in Sacramento. Congresswoman Speier said that would be a priority when she returned to Congress.
Wetlands, and their ability to absorb flood water and wave energy, are crucial, said Mr. Goldzband and Mr. Travis, his predecessor at BCDC. "Wetlands are about as close to magic as you're ever going to get when you're dealing with flooding," Mr. Travis said. "The wider the wetland is at the front, the lower the levee can be at the back."
There are limits. "Even if we find the necessary money to build all the levees, all the sea walls, all the pumps and all the infrastructure, we have to acknowledge that sea level will continue to get higher at an ever-accelerating rate in the future," Mr. Travis added. "So eventually, we won't be able to protect everything exactly the way it is today. At some point, levees aren't viable." At that point, we should look to the Dutch for lessons on how to live with high sea levels, Mr. Travis said.
"The fact that we encourage people to live and build in flood plains is, I think, problematic," Supervisor Pine said. "What has been a 100-year (flood) event could easily become a 10- or 20- or 30-year event. I think we need to start moving, like the Dutch, towards a longer time horizon."
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Food, restaurant and nutrition writers from across the country joined poultry producers and industry professionals in New Bern and Kinston several days this week to see, taste and hear what chicken can do for the world.
Food, restaurant and nutrition writers from across the country joined poultry producers and industry professionals in New Bern and Kinston several days this week to see, taste and hear what chicken can do for the world.
The National Chicken Council sponsored the Chicken Media Summit, which began Wednesday with a chicken dinner at the N.C. History Center.
Thursday, summit participants, including professionals from publications and outlets like The New York Times, Miami Herald, Bloomberg News, Better Homes and Gardens and Family Circle, toured Sanderson Farms and processing plant and were entertained at The Birthplace of Pepsi store.
During the opening dinner, the writers were presented with highlights of a new study, �Enriching People�s Lives: A 2013 Report on the Importance of Animal Source Foods.�
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An egg is actually a �small power pack of protein,� she said. And with just 70 calories, it is an inexpensive and wonderful nutrition source that could help developing countries dramatically by adding nutrients such as iron, zinc, calcium and vitamins A, D and B12, which are often missing in the diets of malnourished people.
The chicken industry also has a large economic impact on the state of North Carolina, which was the fourth largest broiler producing state in the country in 2010, according to the National Chicken Council. The state also produced 11 percent of the country�s eggs, with all poultry products contributing a total value of $2.5 billion to the state�s economy.
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The former "Jersey Shore" cast member was arrested on Tuesday at his family-owned Boca salon in New Jersey following reports of a fight.
Sorrentino, 31, was detained and charged with simple assault. He was later released on a $500 bail bond.
Police spokesman Detective Lieutenant Stephen Dollinger tells the Los Angeles Times, "At approximately 2:10 p.m, our officers responded to a 911 call at the Boca tanning salon in reference to a fight in progress. Upon arrival, the officers arrested Mike Sorrentino for simple assault. He was processed and released after posting $500 bail."
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LONDON World oil prices nosedived on Friday, hitting three-month lows as a disappointing US non-farm payrolls report sparked fresh concern over energy demand in the world's biggest crude consuming nation.
In later afternoon deals on Friday, Brent oil stood at $112.27, down $3.81 from Thursday's closing level, while WTI traded at $98.25, down a hefty $4.29.
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West Texas Intermediate crude has fallen below $100/bl to $97.88/bl, a drop of $4.66 (4.54%).
Brent Crude (Europe) price tumbled $3.66 to $112.50/bl.
The linked story ties it into today's BLS jobs report and fears of a global economic slowdowm.
While the price decrease normally takes a few months to be reflected at the pumps, my local gas station has dropped regular from $3.71 to $3.63 recently and I saw it as low as $3.48 about 100 miles to the north.
Who said berry could not bring oil prices.
Forgot the down.
I'm sure the White House is torn about this, hoping to find a way to kill jobs AND raise energy prices, ...
Y'up...those evil speculators now driving the price down.
Earlier this week gas here in NE Indiana went from $3.73 to $3.99.
But...but...the unemployment rate went down. The economy is improving! The network news told me so.
I have a PhD in global economics, and my think tank has concluded global energy prices have killed the economy already.
This was the recipe we followed in the 70's and 80's to rescue the sinking dollar then. Our economy will be the first to rebound when oil falls to $50 a barrel.
China, what about China, they still have to feed 1.2 billion people a day. That is a lot of rice round eye.
The evil speculators are taking it in the shorts. That's what Obeyme and his minions never understood. For every party bidding long, there's a counter party going short.
Markets operate just fine if they can operate without someone grabbing the leavers of government power to distort them one way or the other.
Dolt. Leave the levers.
Learn to spell.
Must have done a swap with southcentral PA--in last two weeks a drop from $3.99 to $3.75 and in some places $3.69.
Soooo...gas will be $1.80 per gallon by next week?
The high gas and oil prices have already done their damage to the economy. In fact, our economy can't handle gas prices over $3.25/gallon.
Think the Saudi's are trying to influence our election?
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The 37 percent solution?
Could the solution to the fiscal cliff impasse lie between current tax rates and Clinton-era rates?
It's so simple — a 37 percent rate — it just might work.
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Here's why: Tax rates will automatically spike to near 40 percent for upper-income Americans in January unless Congress intervenes. President Barack Obama says he's fine with going over the fiscal cliff but has signaled he would be willing to cut a deal as long as it includes higher tax rates on the rich.
( Also on POLITICO: Fiscal cliff: Senate Dems offer tips to Boehner)
If Republicans split the difference between current top rates — 35 percent — and Clinton-era rates — 39.6 percent — Obama will get his tax rate increase on the rich, and Republicans can say they stopped him from hiking rates as far as he originally wanted.
Some Republicans think it's not such a bad idea to press Obama to accept a 37 percent top rate, getting him to agree to massive entitlement reform, spending cuts and tax reform. That way, Republicans can fold a losing hand and go home for Christmas.
After all, the GOP is facing an emboldened president, a legislative fight with seemingly no end, a Democratic Senate and the prospect of getting blamed for massive tax increases and spending cuts. So some lawmakers think a 2 percent tax increase is better than a 5 percent hike.
( Also on POLITICO: Picturing fiscal-cliff doomsday)
There's a big caveat in all of this: Republicans would insist on pairing the tax increase with major entitlement changes and spending cuts, according to a dozen lawmakers from across the ideological spectrum who were interviewed for this story.
It's not a plan that anyone is rushing to embrace yet, but, more importantly, few are ruling it out. Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.), who is part of Speaker John Boehner's negotiating team, is reserving final judgment on such a deal.
"It depends on the entire package," said Camp, whose ultimate priority is to rewrite the Tax Code for lower rates across the board. "What are the spending reductions going to be? … You can't consider that on its own without looking at all the other factors that might go into it."
But the fact that House Republicans aren't rejecting the idea out of hand is a marked shift for the party and a tacit acknowledgement that their negotiating position is weak. For the first time in decades, the GOP is approving of what's commonly called static revenue — new money into the government that results from higher taxes, not economic growth.
Defeated lawmakers — who were saddled with the do-nothing Congress label back home — are also willing to take a look. Rep. Nan Hayworth (R-N.Y.) said there's "certainly a movement among us to accept that we indeed may have to not let perfect be the enemy of the good."
"If we can truly get a visionary plan, then I think we will certainly be happy to give that the most thoughtful consideration," Hayworth said when asked about the potential for a 37 percent option.


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Promise Neighborhoods
Recognition Programs
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Student Health Care
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Upcoming Events
On the Road
Secretary Duncan spent the majority of the last two weeks on the road, discussing the Administration's priorities, encouraging reform, and highlighting successes:
- On April 15, the Secretary was in Indianapolis to address the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and join Governor Mitch Daniels and Mayor Greg Ballard for an education town hall summit. "We often find ourselves on the opposite side of some issues," he said at the summit, "but I always come back to our 'common agenda.' We all want great schools for our children. We all want a stronger, more secure America. And, we know that education is the key to our future.... So, I would like everyone to take a risk, demonstrate real leadership and courage, and to step outside their comfort zones, including management, unions, and elected officials."
- On April 19, the Secretary discussed the Department's vision for career and technical education during a meeting of the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium. "For too long, CTE has been a neglected part of the reform movement," he asserted. "But focusing more attention on CTE also means committing to increased innovation, rigor, and results. At a time when local, state, and federal governments are all facing tremendous budget pressure, advocates must make a compelling case for continued funding."
- One day later, the Secretary visited New Jersey, meeting with Governor Chris Christine, participating in a TEACH Campaign event with Congressman Donald Payne and Newark Mayor Cory Booker, and delivering remarks at Princeton University. He also penned an op-ed for the university's student newspaper, praising Princeton's contributions to education reform but urging the school to do more to prepare teachers.
- Next, on April 21, before a public meeting of the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability hosted at the Department, Secretary Duncan and Treasury Deputy Secretary Neal Wolin recognized high-performing students in the 2010-11 National Financial Capability Challenge. Nationally, more than 84,000 high school students and 2,500 educators from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as the Department of Defense schools, participated in the Challenge. Students who scored in the top 20% nationwide and those who were leading scorers in their school will receive official award certificates.
- Then, on April 25, the Secretary and W. Steven Barnett of Rutgers University's National Institute for Early Education Research discussed "The State of Preschool 2010." This annual report ranks states on quality standards, access, and funding to state preschool programs. For the first time since tracking began (in 2002), this year's report shows a decrease in total spending. "Cutting investments in high-quality early childhood programs is counterproductive," he noted during his remarks. "Cutting high-quality early childhood programs is inequitable, especially for disadvantaged children, and it damages our future economic competitiveness."
- That same day, he spoke with high school students about the importance of arts education, commending them for their participation in the President's Committee on Arts and Humanities' Poetry Workshop at the Library of Congress.
- Two days later, the Secretary joined Dr. Jill Biden, Congressman Chris Van Hollen, and Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter at the Community College Virtual Symposium. This event capped a series of regional summits, presenting findings on four issues: using bridge programs to address skill gaps for adults who desire a higher credential; aligning secondary and postsecondary education; improving the effectiveness of developmental education to meet the diverse needs of learners; and establishing partnerships between employers and community colleges that align curriculum and instruction with workplace realities.
- Lastly, on April 27, Secretary Duncan and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano traveled to St. Louis for a public earthquake drill with Congressman Russ Carnahan and Governor Jay Nixon and a roundtable discussion with students at St. Louis Community College.
Promise Neighborhoods
Speaking at a D.C. Promise Neighborhood Initiative town hall, the Secretary announced $30 million for a second round of Promise Neighborhoods grants to be divided between a new set of planning grants and implementation grants. The application process will be revealed in the coming weeks, with a 60-day deadline from the date the application is released. Winners will be selected no later than December 31. Last year, the Department awarded $10 million to 21 applicants (both non-profit organizations and institutions of higher education) for their efforts to support one-year planning of cradle-to-career services designed to improve educational outcomes for students within distressed neighborhoods. The competition was intense, with 339 applications from more than 300 communities across 48 states and the District of Columbia.
Recognition Programs
At a ceremony planting an oak tree at the Department's Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) headquarters buildingthe same tree that is depicted in the agency's seal, delivered from LBJ's home state of Texas by 2009 Teaching Ambassador Fellow Jose Rodriguezthe Secretary introduced the Green Ribbon Schools program. This new award program will recognize schools that are establishing healthy and sustainable learning environments and teaching environmental literacy. An application will be issued later this year, with the initial group of Green Ribbon Schools named next year.
Under the new Challenge to Innovate (C2i) initiative, the Department and the National Education Association (NEA) Foundation have invited educators and other creative thinkers to offer solutions about how to use mobile phone technology to "transform teaching and learning." The NEA Foundation will award up to five individuals $1,000 for the best ideas posted on the Department's Open Innovation Portal. Submissions will be accepted until May 13.
The Aspen Institute has ranked the nation's 120 best community collegesthe top 10% in the U.S.and challenged them to compete for the $1 million Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. Each of the 120 colleges has demonstrated high standards for learning, college completion without delay, and community colleges as training grounds for jobs that pay competitive wages, making them eligible for the prize. Prize winners will be announced in December 2011.
Also, yesterday (April 28), President Obama named 85 teachers as recipients of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
Find What Works
Looking for a better way to find curricula, products, and practices? Check out the new and improved What Works Clearinghouse search feature: Find What Works. This powerful tool makes it easy to find out exactly what rigorous research says about the effectiveness of more than 100 widely used education interventions. Interventions may be searched by outcome, grade level, population, effectiveness, extent of evidence, program type, and delivery method.
Student Health Care
In related letters to college and university presidents and student body presidents, Secretary Duncan and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius launched a new outreach effort to help educate graduating seniors about their new health insurance options under the Affordable Care Act. Under the law, many young adults will be eligible to stay on their parents' health insurance plan until their 26th birthday. The letters outline several ways college officials and student leaders can reach out to graduating students, including posting a new "badge" on their web site that automatically links to information about how students can stay on their parents' health insurance plan.
Odds and Ends
"Report to Congress on the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) State-Reported Data for School Years 2003-04 to 2007-08" provides a variety of snapshots of state-reported data for five school years under the ESEA, including information on standards and assessment systems, student performance, English language acquisition, schools identified for improvement, public school choice and supplemental educational services, and highly qualified teachers.
Texas will receive $830.8 million under the Education Jobs Fund to create or retain education jobs.
According to a new report from the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, "Winning the Future: Improving Education for the Latino Community," Hispanic success in education and in the labor market is of both immediate and long‐term importance to America's economy.
Secretary Duncan asked the Council of Exceptional Children (CEC) to contact members and find out their most pressing questions. He answered those questions in a document released on opening day of the CEC's Annual Convention. Among other topics, he addressed pay-for-performance, inclusion, teacher accountability, and the development and support for universal design concepts.
Since the launch of ED Data Express, a tool for sharing state-level K-12 data, the Department has added new data through regular uploads. Last December, data was added on migrant students. In April, data was added on homeless students served through the McKinney-Vento Act. Updates will continue during the year.
Quote to Note
"A robust body of evidence and research shows that high-quality early education programs help children arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed in school and in life. The best way to close the achievement gap is to start youngby closing the opportunity gap. I want, once and for all, to get schools out of the catch-up business. Few investments have a bigger return to society than high-quality early childhood programs. These programs don't just improve academic achievement; they increase employment and earnings, and they reduce crime, delinquency, and teen parenthood later in life. All of which is why early childhood programs are so important to maintaining our international competitiveness."
|Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (4/26/11), at the public release of "The State of Preschool 2010"
Upcoming Events
Next week is Teacher Appreciation Week (May 2-6), and the Administration will be recognizing teachers in a number of ways, from Teacher of the Year festivities at the White House, the Department, and elsewhere in town to postings on ED.gov, where visitors are already being asked to thank teachers via video.
The Nation's Report Card in Civics for students in grades 4, 8, and 12 in 2010 will be released on May 4.
The Department's Equity and Excellence Commission is hosting a series of community outreach events, including town hall meetings today in Philadelphia and May 7 in Kansas City, Kansas. A complete list of meetings and events is available here. Also, video recordings of the first commission meeting and the town hall meeting in San Jose are posted here.
The last regional meeting in the Office of English Language Acquisition's series engaging stakeholders on what makes for quality education for English Learners was rescheduled to May 9 and 10, in New York City (main) and Charlotte (satellite). There is no registration fee. Participants may draw from state and local Title I and/or Title III funds (if available) to pay for their travel and lodging.
May 8-11, the Department will exhibit at the International Reading Association's Convention in Orlando. If you are attend this event, please stop by the Department's booth.
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