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Girl Scout Week is March 12-18: the perfect time to celebrate Girl Scouts' 105th birthday! For tips on observing Girl Scout Week and preparing your girls to be go-getters, innovators, risk-takers, and leaders, click the button below:
ToGetHerThere Luncheons
Our ToGetHerThere luncheons highlight our efforts to transform the leadership landscape for girls and raise critical funds needed to help girls reach their full potential. We also celebrate the many achievements of Girl Scouts who are making a difference in their communities and poised to become the leaders of tomorrow. This year we are holding two ToGetHerThere luncheons:
Upper Valley ToGetHerThere Luncheon
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
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West Lebanon, NH
Fifth Annual Concord ToGetHerThere Luncheon
Thursday, May 11, 2017
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Grappone Conference Center
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How has being a Girl Scout helped your girls make a difference and discover new things? We can't wait to hear about it! Daisy through Ambassador Girl Scouts are encouraged to enter our ToGetHerThere Essay Contest. One winning essay will be chosen from the following Girl Scout Levels: Daisy, Brownie, Junior, Cadette, and Senior/Ambassador. Essays must be emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com by March 31, 2017. Each winning essayist will receive a $50 GSGWM gift card and invitation to our Concord ToGetHerThere Luncheon.
Camp Like You Mean It
With chilly temps here, summer may seem far away, but it's never too early to Camp Like You Mean It! Request your "Camp Like You Mean It" Activity Kit from the council office, and your girls will be well on their way to enjoying their summer. Girls completing their Camp Guide Explorer, Discover, Connect, and Take Action activities will earn a patch!
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Council Take Action Project: Take Action for Healthy Living!
This year's Council Take Action Project will involve girls, troops, and communities in developing healthy living-themed Take Action Projects during the months of April, May, and June. Projects will focus on meeting the Take Action criteria of solving the root cause of a problem, planning for sustainability, educating others, and advocating for change.
Can your girls help us design a patch that best represents this exciting mission? Designs due by March 31.
Program Aide Training
Know any Girl Scout Cadettes through Ambassadors looking to deepen their leadership skills? Program Aides are great role models for younger Girl Scouts! Register your girls for this exciting training session at Camp Twin Hills on April 8. Deadline for registration is March 26.
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Cookie Troop 100
2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the first known sale of cookies by Girl Scouts. Your troop can join the nationwide celebration by participating in Girl Scouts of the USA's Cookie Troop 100! Troops can participate through April 30.
One lucky troop from EVERY council across the nation will win $100 each to put toward their awesome cookie Take Action or service projects. One VERY lucky troop will win $3,000 to super power their project!
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Early Registration Begins Soon!
Registration for the 2017-2018 membership year begins April 1. Register before June 30 and receive a free patch! As a troop leader, you can register all your returning girls and adults by logging into your MYGS tab at girlscoutsgwm.org, choosing the Member Profile tab, and following the prompts. This also allows the girls to use funds they have earned as a troop to be used to pay for their membership! Remember, our annual national membership dues will increase to $25 for girls and adults, which is separate from our $15 council service fee. Girls may use their Cookie Dough to pay for or offset membership fees.
Party Time – Excellent!
Keep an eye out for more details coming soon about special events in May and/or June for girls who have registered early for the 2017-2018 year. There will be dancing, crafts, games, and more!
Register between April 1 and June 30 to receive this Power of G.I.R.L. free patch!
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Please note that the Williston and Bedford Mountain Top Shops will be closed on Tuesday, March 14, for our all-staff meeting. The stores will re-open on Wednesday, March 15.
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Learn what to expect from a typical Brownie Girl Scout, how to help them plan their journey, and what you can do as a leader to help them with Girl Scout progression.
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My family and I are headed to Gatlinburg from Michigan for spring break. My wife has given me the nod to plan a hiking excursion. Can someone recommend a trailhead not far from Gatlinburg where a family can take in a day hike. Just looking for some new scenery and wildlife.
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After Injury
pioneering surgery grants one local man a promising future
January 2017
Since his procedure last July, Lucas Lindner can perform
simple, everyday normalities — like texting his friends
— again.
Photo by David Szymanski
On a
Sunday morning in March 2016, 22-year-old Lucas Lindner
got in his car to drive to the grocery store and a
friend's house. Shortly after he left home, a deer
jumped into the path of his car, and Lucas swerved to
avoid hitting it. His right front tire blew out, causing
his car to roll and hit a tree.
Lindner was taken by Flight for Life to
Froedtert Hospital, where the news was grim. He'd
suffered a complete spinal cord injury of the lower
cervical cord, with no sensation or motor function below
his injury. "Lucas' injury was C5 and C6, which meant he
could shrug, use his biceps in a crude fashion, and
bring his hands to his mouth, but he had very gross
movements," says his surgeon, Shekar N. Kurpad, M.D.,
Ph.D., interim chair of neurosurgery, professor of
neurosurgery, and director of Froedtert & the Medical
College of Wisconsin's spinal cord injury program.
When Lindner woke up in the hospital a
few days after the accident, he was devastated. He'd
been living a full and fast-paced life in his hometown
of Eaton, Wis. He was a manager for McDonald's,
traveling to different franchises in Wisconsin and
Michigan for the company. He was also a student at
Moraine Park Technical College, studying IT system
management. Lindner spent what little extra time he had
on the computer, learning about coding.
But the accident changed everything.
Lindner could move his hands and wiggle his wrists, but
he could not move his fingers or do anything that
required strength. "The concerning part was the future,"
Lindner says, recalling his experience at the time.
"What was I going to do? Everything I was working on in
my life was lost. ... Was there any point to it?"
The standard course of treatment for
spinal cord injury is a stabilizing surgery, which does
not help to restore sensory or motor function, and
rehabilitation. The spinal cord is delicate and
protected by the spinal column, vertebrae and discs.
When the bony spine is injured or broken, the small
pieces of bone serve as projectiles, bruising the cord.
"Someone with a broken neck cannot keep their neck
straight, so one of the basic surgeries we've done is to
remove broken fragments, realign the spine, and put in
screws, building a scaffold," says Kurpad. The surgery
helps people sit up, which can prevent them from getting
pneumonia. After surgery, the patient is sent to
rehabilitation for physical therapy. "He would still be
quadriplegic, but (therapists) would teach him how to be
independent and integrate into society as well as
possible," Kurpad adds.
Dr. Shekar N. Kurpad calls the research the "single most
exciting thing" he's seen in 20 years.
Photo by David Szymanski
Dr. Shekar N. Kurpad calls the research the "single most
exciting thing" he's seen in 20 years.
Photo by David Szymanski
A New
But Kurpad had a promising new option for
Lindner — he qualified for a clinical study that might
help him regain some function. "This current study looks
to improve neurological function with the goal of
helping formerly paralyzed patients regain functional
use of their arms and hands," explains Kurpad.
In an injury like the one Lindner
experienced, not every cell dies. Some are simply
dormant. Nerve cells conduct electrical impulses from
the brain to the part of the body that wants to move.
And the speed of the conduction is made possible by the
insulation that these nerve cells have in the spinal
cord, which is provided by a myelin sheath. After an
injury, some of the cells lose their insulation. They
are alive, but no longer useful in transmitting the
impulses. "The theory behind the study is that we're
injecting cells into the substance of spinal cord, so
the dormant nerve cells can remyelinate and once again
conduct electricity," says Kurpad. Fifteen years ago, as
the recipient of the prestigious William P. Van Wagenen
Fellowship from the American Association of Neurological
Surgeons, Kurpad conducted cellular transplantation
research for spinal cord injury at the Karolinska
Institutet in Stockholm. This research became
foundational for the surgery Lindner had. "A lot of the
basic science research was also done by our team here in
Milwaukee. It's a credit to the Milwaukee environment,"
says Kurpad.
The 10 million stem cells that would be
used in Lindner's surgery were developed by Asterias
Biotherapeutics, a company based in Fremont, Calif.
AST-OPC1 cells are made from a federally approved line
of embryonic stem cells that was originally created in
1998 in Dr. James Thomson's lab in Madison, Wis. These
cells were genetically engineered to make myelin.
The surgery Lindner would undergo is a
delicate and complex procedure, with a brief window of
time for success. The surgical team cannot perform the
surgery immediately following the injury, because the
inflammation is too great. But they can't wait much more
than a month, because the body forms scar tissue around
the injury, making the cells impossible to reach. "We
want to catch the time when inflammation has died down
and scar tissue has not built up," says Kurpad. Once the
date for the surgery was set, the team determined how
many cells to inject and exactly where on the spinal
cord the injection would make the most difference.
Afterward, Lindner went back to rehab.
And the results were stunning. "Lucas
went from a C5-6 to a C7-8 in less than 90 days, which
almost never happens. What does that mean?" says Kurpad.
"He wanted to be a computer programmer. And now he can
because he can use his fingers, hold a cup, hold a
straw. He has the spine motor control that makes us
human. You can play an instrument, for example. The
other thing, your triceps start to work with C7, which
means you can transfer yourself. This is the difference
between getting pushed around by someone and doing it
yourself. There is a huge functional difference between
these two."
Within a week and a half of the surgery,
Lindner noticed that his arms and hands were stronger,
and he could move his fingers. "When I got home from the
hospital, I'd recovered quite a bit in terms of range of
motion and dexterity," says Lindner. "I could use my
hands and such, but the strength just wasn't there. More
recently, I've been working on the strength. This is the
big part of it because that is what allows for
independence and opens the door to opportunity in caring
for yourself and in becoming a productive member of
Lindner lives with his grandparents,
Karen and Dave Long. Karen noticed a change in Lindner
long before he did. "I saw the results way before the
surgery, when he heard about the new study — because he
got hope back," Karen says. "I saw this huge change from
trying to accept where he was at to Lucas having hope."
Reaching Higher
Lindner is still recovering function and
movement. He has learned that there's no set way
recovery happens. "I'm trying to be aware of what I
wasn't able to do before that I can do now," he says.
"It's like I can get used to a certain movement that it
doesn't really dawn on me that it's something new. And
it's being aware of those things. That's what you need
to work on to get stronger and rebuild those
connections, because it's easy to not notice."
Lindner's grandparents have noticed that
he is getting stronger and more capable too. When he
first came home from the hospital, Karen moved all of
her kitchen's pots, plates and glasses down low, so that
Lindner could reach them. "He's pretty much
self-sufficient," says his grandfather, Dave. "He can
fry up his own eggs and get the rest of his food
together." "He can handle plates, microwaving them and
grabbing them with one hand," Karen adds. Recently,
Lindner suggested that his grandmother could move the
plates back where they were — because between his
elevating wheelchair and his increased strength and
agility, Lindner can reach much higher than he used to.
Lindner is looking forward to reaching
higher throughout the rest of his life. "In the long
term, I want to stick with IT, because, even at this
point in time, it is completely doable. It goes back to
what I initially said, worrying that everything I'd done
and been interested in and passionate about my whole
life up until that point would have been a waste. But it
wasn't, because I can do all of that," he says. "I mean,
you don't type with your feet. I'm already to the point
where I can do everything that I wanted to do, and I'm
still getting signs of improvement to this day."
Lindner plans to go back to school this
January, easing back into it by taking online classes
from home so that he doesn't burn out right away. "One
of the hardest parts is having enough energy for
everything," he notes. "I have to be cognizant of what
my body needs."
for the Future
Imaging Technology at MCW
The Medical College of Wisconsin is
nationally known as a pioneering center for developing
functional MRIs. "In Milwaukee, we are developing maps
of the spinal cord so we can find the correct spot to
inject. That is important because if your injection is
off by 2 to 3 millimeters, it won't show any effect,"
says Dr. Shekar N. Kurpad.
When the accuracy is paramount, then the
navigation tool plays a vital role. This imaging
technology is called a biomarker, and researchers at
both the Medical College of Wisconsin and Marquette
University are involved in developing it. The functional
MRIs help doctors know what parts of the spinal cord are
abnormal and how abnormal they are. "This has become
important, and many research teams are incorporating
this as a necessity with their trial," adds Kurpad.
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cord architecture changes after injury. Each injury has
a unique signature. There needs to be a personalized
approach, and we see this in the MRI scans."


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I was flicking through the paper this morning looking for a welcome diversion from the sodden bran flakes before me and came across The Times' 'How to be smarter' series. The lesson on day four was – 'Grammar for grown ups'. With all you need to know about grammar full stop.
Most of us don't care about nouns and verbs and have no compunction to search out errant commas and over-excited screamers (exclamation marks!). I mean it's not like we're still at school and have to know this stuff, right?
Obviously working in a communications business grammar is the stuff I/we do care about. But on reflection we all work in a communication business, it's what separates us from the animals. We should all care about it.
In fact, I would hazard a guess that more people write more stuff than ever before with emails, Facebook, Twitter, blogs and texting now a major part of our lives. With that theory in mind there's probably never been a more prevalent time to dust off a few basic rules, leaving the Queen's best alone.
I love English, the way it evolves and changes through time and use. Michel Platini (football legend and UEFA president) joked this week that he understood English perfectly when it's spoken by anyone but the English.
I even love the way texting and Twitter have led people to use their imaginations to shorten words using a mixture of numbers, letters, abbreviations and emoticons. For example – M8, LOL and :D (for the record, I hate LOL but that's another story).
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While the per capita consumption of wine in India may be low in comparison to other countries, the industry is growing at an annual rate of 25 percent
At a per capita level the consumption of wine in France is 70 litres, in the US 25 litres, 20 litres in Australia. In comparison, the per capita consumption of wine in India is only 9 millilitres. Clearly, you wouldn't call India a wine-drinking country.
Religion, research says, is one of the main reasons for this. Throughout the history of India, religion has been an intrinsic part of its culture, permeating every aspect of life, from daily chores to education and politics. Although all the religions have had differing relationships with alcoholic beverages such as wine, Hinduism and Islam, the two most popular religions with a population of more than 94% of the country, forbid consumption of alcohol.
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Iranians furious over INS arrests / Abuse alleged after men agreed to register in L.A.
2002-12-21 04:00:00 PDT Los Angeles -- The noisy demonstrations in front of the Federal Building here this week are over, but members of Southern California's Iranian American community are still seething over the chaotic arrests and alleged mistreatment of foreign-born men arrested while voluntarily submitting to a special registration process.
They say many innocent men remain behind bars.
On Friday, many of those held told of badly overcrowded conditions and abusive treatment. Even though most of those arrested under the new homeland security program were released, their lawyers said, some had been taken to jails hundreds of miles from their homes -- without their families having any idea how long they would be held or how to get in touch.
Members of the community estimated that at least 500 people had been arrested in Los Angeles. The Immigration and Naturalization Service at first refused to provide any figures, then said the number was closer to 200, which several lawyers disputed.
INS officials confirmed Friday that a number of the men arrested earlier this week in the Bay Area on suspicion that they had violated the terms of their visas had been flown to the San Diego area.
Randall Hamud, an attorney in San Diego, said he had been contacted by the family of one man, a 36-year-old Iranian-born Canadian citizen from San Jose, but had not been able to locate him in the system yet.
"We believe he has a valid work visa, and yet he's just disappeared," Hamud said.
The program, instituted after the Sept. 11 attacks, sets deadlines for certain foreign-born men over 16 years old and with temporary visas to report to the INS to be interviewed, photographed and fingerprinted. Those born in Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan and Syria were required to report by Dec. 16.
Arriving to do so on Monday, many found themselves unexpectedly detained for what the INS said were immigration violations.
INS officials defended their actions this week, and said the process was handled in an orderly manner. They denied widespread accounts that some of those detained had been abused.
Shahin Hajizadeh, who was arrested on Monday and held for two days, disagreed.
Hajizadeh, a 22-year-old pre-med student in Los Angeles, was born in Iran and then lived in Germany for 10 years. In an interview Friday, he said he came to the United States three years ago to live with his father, an American citizen. He said he applied years ago for permanent resident status, has a valid work permit and paid taxes on his job in a hospital. He was recently told, he said, that his application for permanent residence would soon go through.
He said he was shocked when he showed up on Monday for the registration only to be told he was here illegally and was arrested. But it got worse, he said, when he was sent to the basement of the Federal Building downtown and held in a room of about 400 square feet with roughly 120 people.
There was no place to sit, one bathroom, no water and not enough food for everyone, he said. He added that he had to sleep on the concrete floor without a blanket, and later was transported in a packed van for several hours to a cell in the desert town of Lancaster (Los Angeles County).
Arriving there at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, he said, he was strip-searched, and then forced to wait in a cold room. By the time he and about a dozen others had been processed, they were able to sleep for only about an hour before being awakened for the long drive back to downtown Los Angeles.
When he rose only slowly because of his exhaustion, he said, he was kicked in the ribs by an angry guard. He was finally released late Wednesday.
He may have been lucky compared to Afshin Sharifi, a 35-year-old computer engineer from Orange County.
According to his sister Afshan, he was arrested unexpectedly on Thursday, Dec. 12, when he went in to register. She said they had lived in the United States for 13 years and had applied properly for permanent status. They received their approvals a year ago, she said, and were awaiting notification that their permanent visas had been completed.
But her brother was arrested and held throughout the week, then told he could be released on $15,000 bail, she said. Even after she showed up with the bail money, Afshan Sharifi said, immigration officials said they had misplaced her brother's paperwork and that he would remain jailed through the weekend.
"This is so shocking because his status is legal," she said.
Many described the INS round-up as a fiasco that was unwarranted.
Immigration attorney Zohreh Mizrahi said few of the arrests were likely necessary. "I never imagined I would face this kind of thing in this country," she said.
INS officials said Friday afternoon that all but 20 people had been released. Those 20 are still being held "because they are of interest to various law enforcement organizations," said an immigration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. She added that each would be evaluated individually, and some may end up being deported.
"People are upset not because of the regulation itself," said Ara Aroustamian, an Iranian American lawyer in Los Angeles. "I thought, 'OK, I understand the concern of the administration.' But now people in this community are frustrated because they feel they've been singled out unjustifiably."
"Why would an Iranian come here?" Aroustamian asked. "To escape this kind of thing."
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-- Jan. 10: Citizens or nationals of Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Eritrea,
Lebanon, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Qatar, Somalia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates or Yemen who came to the U.S. as non-immigrants before Oct. 1, 2002.
-- Jan. 13 to Feb. 21: Pakistani, Armenian and Saudi Arabian males 16 and older who are not permanent residents or asylum seekers.


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For Disciplinary Purposes, "Conviction" Occurs upon Plea or Verdictby Gary MuldoonMuldoon & GetzRochester, NY 14614(585) 262-5130www.muldoongetz.com
When an attorney is convicted of a crime, when does the conviction occur?
Under the Criminal Procedure Law, the term "conviction" is defined as "entry of a plea of guilty to, or a verdict of guilty upon an accusatory instrument other than a felony complaint, or to one or more counts of such instrument." CPL 1.20(13). In the context of attorney discipline matters, conviction of a felony, as classified under New York law, occurs at the time of plea or verdict. Matter of Conroy, 309 AD2d 57, 764 NYS2d 688 (1st Dept 2003); Matter of Ashdjian, 287 AD3d 217, 732 NYS2d 230 (1st Dept 2001); People v Sessler, 20 AD3d 23, 795 NYS2d 28 (1st Dept 2005); Matter of Kozlow, 29 AD3d 44, 810 NYS2d 435 (1st Dept 2006).
An attorney's felony conviction resulted in his automatic disbarment, even though sentencing had not yet occurred. Matter of Ferrandino, 18 AD3d 116, 794 NYS2d 52 (1st Dept 2005); Matter of Chilewich, 20 AD3d 109, 795 NYS2d 232 (1st Dept 2005); Matter of Lurie, 207 AD2d 48, 621 NYS2d 300 (1st Dept 1995).
Where a guilty plea was made with the understanding that, if the attorney successfully completed the drug treatment program, the prosecutor and court would allow withdrawal of felony plea and permit the attorney to plead guilty to misdemeanor, the felony guilty plea operated to disbar the attorney. Matter of Silberman, 31 AD3d 21, 814 NYS2d 89 (1st Dept 2006).
Where an attorney pleaded guilty to felony DWI, his request to be able complete a monitoring program was denied, and he was disbarred. Matter of Shmaruk, 29 AD3d 138, 812 NYS2d 623 (2d Dept 2006). See 22 NYCRR § 691.4(m).
It should be noted that an attorney who is convicted of a misdemeanor has the obligation to report that conviction to the disciplinary committee within 30 days. Judiciary Law § 90(4)( c ); 22 NYCRR § 1022.21 (Fourth Department).
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Dad even gets his own "hubby hunt."
Traditional egg hunts, while fun, leave little to the imagination. Inspire tiny minds (and big ones, too!) by hiding puzzle pieces or hosting a nighttime glow-in-the-dark hunt. You might just start a new family tradition.
Imagine how excited the kids will be to collect these eggs, which have fun building toys inside. Way better than candy!
The possibilities for fun are endless with these quirky eggs. You could have each participant make a story using their collected eggs, or make it a rule that each person has to collect the full spectrum of feelings — up to you!
Hide an extra-special egg (with a extra-special prize, of course) somewhere that's a little tricky to find.
Your teens probably think they're too cool for little-kid Easter egg hunts. We bet they'll change their tune with a high-tech hunt that's surprisingly easy to set up.
Have kids find a pattern or specific order for finding the eggs. Once they nail it, they get the "big" prize (whatever you decide that is).
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These fun printables, with directions like "hop like a bunny" or "do a somersault" will get everyone up and moving during the egg hunt on Easter Sunday.
Split the kids into teams and have a member from each team search for an egg. Once they've found an egg, they come back and tag the next teammate — just like in a relay race!
Send the little ones following in the Easter Bunny's footsteps with this simple and adorable DIY project.
Instead of putting treats in the eggs, you can sneak in slips of paper that kids can redeem for fun prizes. Genius!
This hunt leads your husband on a scavenger hunt around the house until he finds his special Easter basket.
Balloon landmarks are a perfect way to ensure that little ones can join in on the fun too. Create a mini "minefield" by tying a plastic egg onto the free end of a balloon string. Even the tiniest eyes won't miss 'em.
There can be so much more to the search than simply collecting eggs. Ask participants to locate flowers, backyard creatures, and eggs in a specific variety of colors.
Turn your Easter egg hunt into a pull-and-pop party. Hang these candy-filled, candy-shaped poppers from a tree, give each child a color and let them to go to town.
This nighttime hunt will have the older kids — and hey, some adults — feeling the holiday spirit long after the sun goes down. Fill plastic eggs with glow sticks (and goodies, too, of course) and hide in extra tricky places.
Perfect for children learning their colors, a mix-and-match hunt requires little more than swapping out plastic egg tops and bottoms and offers a major educational twist. Give children identifier cards with specific color combinations to guide them.
Best for wee egg hunters, these egg flowers are "plantable." Stick pipe cleaner stems, topped with a goodie-filled egg, into your garden and encourage little ones to uproot them.
Candy doesn't have to be the egg hunt prize. Opt for "privilege" notes instead, which offers children special time with mom and dad, an extra fifteen minutes before bedtime or the last slice of pie.
Add an Easter message or a cute design to a blank puzzle before hiding individual puzzle pieces in eggs. After all eggs have been collected, ask the kids to help one another put together their "prize."
Before the Easter feast, this is a fun hunt that everyone — especially us adults! — could benefit from. The point isn't to be a drill sergeant: Give kids fun tasks like touching their toes, hopping like a bunny or doing ten jumping jacks. Just get movin'!
Ready for the best lunchtime game ever? Hide grapes, gummies, crackers and sandwich bites in plastic eggs and have the kiddos search for their lunches. Definitely assign each child a color, though, to be sure that everyone ends up with a balanced meal.


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The U.S. Department of Education's National Assessment of Educational Progress periodically measures literacy skills at grades four, eight, and 12. The results are reported at four levels: At Basic and below Basic; at Proficient and at Advanced for each grade level. As reading is the basis for all other education, and as by grade eight schooling has had ample time to be effective, grade eight reading proficiency can be taken as a good indicator of the quality of education available to students. The quality of the data made available by NAEP allows us to identify those factors most significant in determining whether a child will grow up in the virtuous circle of good educational opportunities and class mobility, or the vicious circle of poor educational opportunities and caste sedimentation.
In 1992, nine percent of black students in grade eight read at the Proficient level and for all practical purposes no black students read at the Advanced level. Twenty-one years later, in 2013, 16 percent of black students read at the Proficient level in grade eight and one percent read at the Advanced level. Although the percentage of black students reading a grade level or above in grade eight has doubled, 83 percent of African American students still read below the level expected at grade eight. According to U.S. Department of Education data for the 2011-12 school year, the most recent available, there were 586,231 black students and in eighth grade. Therefore, there were nearly half a million black students reading below grade level and almost exactly 100,000 black students reading at or above grade level in grade eight, which is one-third the number that would be expected if Black students had equal educational opportunities to those afforded white students.
NAEP allows further refinements in analysis. We can, for example, look at results within race by income, parental education and school location. By doing so we can examine the crucial variables that influence the disparate learning outcomes just outlined. What becomes clear in the analysis is that while there are correlations between income and achievement, there are even stronger correlations between how well black parents are educated as well as where their kids attend school, and the achievement of black children.
First , let's look at the correlation between family income and student achievement. NAEP uses eligibility for National Lunch Programs (free and reduced cost meals) as an income indicator. The cut-off between those eligible for National Lunch Programs and those less poor families that are ineligible is about $35,000, which happens to be the median income for Black families. While 28 percent of black students who are less impoverished are now reading at grade level, nearly 90 percent of black students from poorer families are not able to do so, and the gap between the two is widening.
There are approximately 250,000 black students in grade eight eligible for National Lunch Programs, 33,000 of whom are reading at or above grade level. Of the approximately 334,000 black eighth grade students ineligible for National Lunch Programs, 94,000 are reading at grade level. Other things being equal, National Lunch Program eligibility appears to account for a difference of 15 percentage points for black students in grade eight reading. Reading achievement at grade level in grade eight appears to be correlated with family income, but as I have established, there are clearly other factors in play.
NAEP reports parental education as "Did not finish high school," "Graduated high school," "Some education after high school" or "Graduated College." Black students who told NAEP that their parents did not finish high school scored at Proficient or above 8 percent of the time in 2013. Black students who reported that their parents who had graduated from high school were at or above grade level 9 percent of the time in 2013. For black students who said that their parents had some education after high school, 21 percent were at Proficient or above in 2013. The black children of college graduates were at or above grade level 22 percent of the time.
Looking just at reported parental education, the difference between scores of students reporting parents as having educational attainment at the "no high school diploma" level and those reporting parents as having educational attainment at the "college degree" level is 14 percentage points for black students in grade eight reading. The effect of increasing parental education for black students is approximately the same as that for higher family income. Increasing parental education from the lowest to the highest category triples the percentage reading at or above grade level for black students.
We can look at this another way by calculating the numbers of students reading at grade level (Proficient and above) with parents at various educational attainment levels, that is, the percentage of students at a given combination of reading proficiency and parental education. Seventeen percent of black adults over 25 years reported to the Census that they had less than a high school diploma, equivalent to NAEP's "Did not finish high school." [A caution: the numbers of adults in these categories, as reported by their children, are not necessarily the same as those self-reported to the Census or those that might be obtained from school and college records.] Thirty-one percent of African Americans said that they were high graduates with a diploma or GED, equivalent to NAEP's "Graduated high school." Thirty-three percent of African Americans reported some college or associate's degree, equivalent to "Some education after high school" and 19 percent of African Americans reported attaining a bachelor's degree or higher: "Graduated College."
Since 8 percent of grade eight black students reporting parents with no diploma read at grade level or above, and 17 percent of black adults report that they did not graduate from high school, we can estimate that just one percent of grade eight black students read at grade level in spite of having parents who did not finish high school. Three percent of black students report that their parents completed high school while they themselves read at grade level. Seven percent of black students read at grade level in grade eight and have parents who had some college. And four percent of black students at grade eight read at grade level and report that their parents have a college degree. [The percentage of black students at grade eight reading at grade level who are the children of college graduates is lower than that of those whose parents have "some college" because there are fewer adult black college graduates.]
Cross-tabulating parental education and National Lunch Program eligibility, we find that for black students whose parents did not graduate from high school there is no difference in the low percentage of students scoring at or above Proficient, each is 7 percent. On the other hand, black students whose parents graduated from college have great differences in reading proficiency at grade eight related to family income. Fifteen percent of those eligible for National Lunch Programs (in itself nearly double the level of those whose parents did not complete high school) and 32 percent of those ineligible, read at the Proficient or above levels. This compares to 17 percent for all black students in grade eight. The effect of increases in the family income category at each additional level of parental education are particularly strong at high school and college completion.
NAEP data also allows us to test for school location effects: city, suburban, town and rural. City and suburban locations appear to be the effective variables. Fourteen percent of black students in city schools in 2013 scored at the Proficient or above levels, while 20 percent of those in suburban schools did so, nearly a fifty percent advantage for black suburban students. Moving from city to suburban schools increases the percentage of students at or above grade level for black students by nearly 50 percent.
Cross-tabulating school location and National Lunch Program eligibility, we find that 1one percent of black students in city schools who were eligible for National Lunch Programs in 2013 scored at the Proficient or above levels, as did 25 percent of those from more prosperous families who were ineligible. Fifteen percent of black students in suburban schools who were eligible for National Lunch Programs in 2013 scored at the Proficient or above levels, as did 30 percent of those who were ineligible. The percentages of black students scoring Proficient or above in grade eight reading in suburban schools, for both eligible and ineligible students, were double those in city schools.
Finally, cross-tabulating school location by parental education, we find that for black students, of those attending city schools whose parents had not graduated from high school, 7 percent were proficient and above as were just 5 percent of those in suburban schools whose parents had not graduated from high school. Of those black students whose parents had obtained a high school diploma, the percent Proficient or above was an identical 9 percent in city and suburban schools.
But for black students the advantages of attending suburban schools is clear for those whose parents had some college (from 18 percent city to 24 percent suburban) as well as for those whose parents graduated from college (17 percent and 25 percent). This effect is more apparent when we look at the change in percentages scoring at or above Proficient as a percentage of the percentage for students in city schools. The advantage for black students whose parents had some college is 33 percent and for those whose parents graduated from college 47 percent.
Twenty percent of black students, without regard to family income or parental education attainment, attending schools in the suburbs, as compared to 14 percent in city schools, read at or above grade level. Twenty-two percent of black eighth graders whose parents had completed college were at least proficient readers as compared to 8 percent of those whose parents had not completed high school. And 30 percent of black students ineligible for national lunch programs, that is, with family incomes over $35,000, and who attended suburban schools, were at least proficient readers, as compared to 11 percent of black students eligible for national lunch programs who attended city schools.
As $35,000 is approximately the median income of black families, the difference in educational outcomes is most likely an artifact of the difference in the quality of schools between urban and suburban systems.


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Hope ya like pictures, because I've got a whole lot of 'em today. A couple weeks back I ordered new sliding glass doors for the side and back of the house. There's already one on the side, but it's a mess in every way- any sort of "track" it might've had is gone, so it's a total pain to open and close. And it's brown with ugly un-removable faux tudor mansion grid pattern. Meanwhile, the family room had a large (eight-foot wide) ugly bay window. It was not only ugly, but its presence meant that to get to the pool, you had to use the slider on the side of the house and walk around. That doesn't scream pool party.
Though brown or white vinyl frames are the norm these days, I of course opted for silver aluminum (which is slightly worse for thermal transmission, btw), and they're double-paned low-e glass, so that's all good for blocking heat. This is mostly an issue for the side of the house, because the awning plus elevated wall/rear neighbor block direct sunlight in back. Anyway, they're both getting installed tomorrow, which meant 1) we had to 100% demo the bay window, and 2) I had to remove the perimeter of stucco around the existing side slider because there's a mounting lip back there. Let us begin with Saturday, whence John and I whacked out the bay window (aka "the nook")...
Here's "before". Note the lovely wicker doors... and who doesn't love wicker? (I doesn't, that's who)
Heeeere's Johnny. By now we had most of the trim pieces removed, and most importantly we finally figured out how to get the glass out without having to break it. There were quarter-round trim pieces wedging them in place along with caulk; we eventually figured out how to remove the quarter rounds and push the glass out with minimal breakage.
John on step stool trying to figure out how to get the "roof" off. It had a top piece that was rather massively built with 2x4's, plywood and a fiberglass top piece. We never really took it apart- we just removed all the supports and let it fall. It's still sitting on my patio relatively intact. In the foreground of this shot is the "platform" turned on it's side. Once we detached it, we lifted it up and pushed it forward (the tiles are actually the surface that you would sit on, or Kim would sleep on with cushions, depending on the occasion... she is not pleased that we killed the nook).
About that "roof" I was just talking about... like I said, we just kinda knocked out all the supports and made sure we had a lot of room to jump the hell out of the way when it fell. This is also a good time to relocate hammers, pry bars, saws and anything you don't want to land on.
With the top and windows out, we noticed that the waist-height wall would've made a nice outdoor bar by the pool. This awesome idea lasted approximately two minutes...
... 'til we knocked that down too. Which was actually pretty easy. But most of it is intact in my yard, so I'm going to have to get it all apart and get rid of it. Much of it is screwed AND glued together which should make getting it apart hell on wheels.
Don't hate John because he's beautiful. Here the whole thing is knocked out.
With that done, we screwed a couple of sheets of 5/8" OSB to block the opening until the door gets installed. The 4x8 panels barely made it so I had use some scrap wood to extend to the 2x4 frame to attach them. Other than having a pretty strong dank smell for the first couple of days, this worked fine.
Here's a special bonus. A couple of weeks back I had the exterminator out, so I've had every kind of insect (mostly cockroaches) making their way out to the perimeter of the house to die. This is the second of what I believe is some kind of mutant beetle from hell, with a dime to show the terrifying scale. This thing was roughly the size of a VW Beetle or at least two of The Beatles. I had to bury it in a pine box.
Moving right along to today (Wednesday)... as mentioned, since the doors are both being installed tomorrow, I had to remove the perimeter of stucco around the existing side slider due to mounting lip which is behind the stucco. Apparently they install sliding glass doors (and probably windows) prior to applying stucco. Learn something new every day. So here's what it looked like before:
The guy kinda gave me bad advice, because he said I'd need to take off about six inches of stucco, when in reality I only needed a couple. I already had a masonry blade for my 7 1/4" circular saw, so I started cutting a little at the bottom before I realized. I tried a couple different approaches with a big flat metal chisel, hammers, etc. 'til I figured out the best way was to set the saw to cut at a 45° angle a couple inches out. I did this because I was advised that stucco guys don't like a straight line when patching- the angle will make it easier for them to feather in the patch. These cuts were a HUGE pain in the ass to make because you're holding a relatively heavy saw at goofy angles, and it's hard to pull the "trigger" switch, especially because there's a safety button on the back that you're supposed to hit at the same time to make the trigger switch work. This is easy when the saw used at a normal horizontal height/angle, but really hard when you're practically holding it over your head wearing gloves. And once it's going, cutting stucco makes a hellacious storm of flying pebbles and general dust. Though I had heavy gloves and eye protection (an absolute must), I didn't have a breather mask, so I essentially held my breath. There's still crap in my hair, I think.
Anyway, once I had the cuts done, I jammed a big pry bar in there and whacked at it with hammer, and it wasn't too hard to get the chunks of stucco to pop out. I also grabbed my fancy ear plugs for this, because the pry bar makes a pretty painful "ping" every time you hammer it.
This is of course made a big mess of stucco chunks, but I dutifully swept up the whole thing when I was done. The little porch there hasn't been this clean since I moved in!
And oh yeah, another fun injury. Did I do this using big mean power tools, hammers and chisels? Of course not. Not even sure what it was, but I managed to cut my finger pouring trash from one garbage can to another, which apparently had a piece of wood with something sharp and metal. Tetanus time, right? (don't worry, I Neosporined and band-aided it). It looks way worse in the pic, it was actually only a hairline cut. Anyway, tomorrow I'll report back with the door install(s).


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Jan. 20--HIGH POINT -- After 27 years of coaching athletes with disabilities to the finish lines of cycling events, Mike Beeson is ready to let another leader take the reins.
You could say the Special Olympics of North Carolina'sHigh Point cycling team is his child. He has led it -- raised it -- since its inception in 1991. But he will turn 65 this year and his wife just retired, and they want to travel and see and do things they haven't had the chance to yet.
"It's a good time for them to make the move," Beeson said. "It's pretty tough to let go of that. But that's one of the reasons we're talking now. I'm trying to come up with a replacement so the team can continue on."
The team is looking for a new head coach who can work this upcoming season alongside Beeson, who will then officially step away after the 2018 season. That way, the new coach will have a year's knowledge under their belt and the formal transition will go much smoother, he said.
But even with that in mind, he knows he won't step away entirely.
"I would love to, if I'm available, go out and practice with them," he said. "We're always available for information concerns. We want to help the new regime with the contacts we have. I enjoy this so much that I don't see myself stepping away 100 percent. But a lot of the things that we want to do now in retirement require travel."
Beeson first became involved with the Special Olympics 30 years ago when his boss offered him one afternoon a week off of work if he would help the group.
Cycling first came to North Carolina for the Special Olympics in 1991. Beeson was sought out for the job of coaching the cycling team since he was well known for being an avid cyclist and triathlete. He was leery at first.
"Having seen and been involved with several crashes -- I didn't want to see these folks in that type of situation," he said. "But I agreed to go and see what the team was all about."
WIth his knowledge, he found out how to eliminate the crashes. Along with two other coaches, Beeson got to work with the team. But two weeks in, the two other coaches left. At that time, there were only a handful of athletes on the cycling team, so Beeson was able to recruit a few cycling friends to help him out.
Over time, his reputation grew and he was soon appointed as the director of cycling for the state for the Special Olympics.
He said one of the greatest challenges of coaching the Special Olympics is addressing each individuals' needs and accommodate those to the best of his ability. That only became more of a strain as the number of participants ticked up -- at one point there were 33 athletes. But more coaches came on board to help even it out.
For Special Olympics cycling, the athletes can participate in sprints like a 500-meter cycle, or a 40K road race. They train for about three months before the state competition, which is held in High Point each year. Beeson said the coaches work the athletes very hard during practice.
"We've laughed. We've cried," he said. "We've had a number of situations where I've seen athletes do things that were just unbelievable. Unexpected. In different circumstances, I've picked athletes up from the road with skinned up knees and elbows, and put them back on their bikes because they wanted to finish the competition."
So far, the other coaches involved with team aren't interested in the position, Beeson said. It is a big responsibility. But he fears the team may go under if nobody steps up.
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To get more information on the open position for head coach for Special Olympics of High Point's cycling team, email Mike Beeson at email@example.com.
The person needs to have an interest in working with disabled people and learn how to properly train them in competitive cycling. Beeson said the individual would be taught everything they'd need to know about cycling in the Special Olympics.
Loaded with hundreds of memories, Beeson said it's not easy to think of the upcoming weeks without the tean.
"It's something that I feel like from an early age, I was destined to do. With a lot of the things that happened to me, personally, in my younger life, I feel -- it's hard to explain -- but I feel I was destined to be Hayley Beeson's father," he said of his daughter, who was born with Down syndrome. "And I feel like I was supposed to work with these folks. It's been very exciting for us, fun for us. We've learned more from the athletes than they've learned from us."
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Friday, June 23, 2017
no. 673 - gerry janeski
Who is the man: Gerry Janeski was coming off his rookie season when this card was issued. He appeared in a whopping 35 games for the 1970 White Sox, going 10-17 for a team that won just 56 games.
Can ya dig it: The comically painted red cap makes this card look ancient to me, as if it's from a time long, long ago. The longer I look at it the sillier it looks.
Right on: This is Janeski's only Topps card.
You see that cat Janeski is a bad mother: Janeski threw a complete-game shutout in his second major league start. It came against the Oakland A's in Oakland and Janeski allowed just three hits. A grand total of 2,901 in the stands saw it.
Shut your mouth: Janeski was known as "the wheat germ kid" as a rookie. He took wheat germ and liver pills and other vitamins, ran three miles a day and did 70 push-ups at a time.
No one understands him but his woman: Janeski is listed as "Gerry" here and on baseball-reference, but almost everywhere else, he is "Jerry".
(A word about the back): Janeski tied for the league league in wins in 1969 while pitching in the Red Sox organization. He pitched in the minors for the Red Sox for five years until he was sent to the White Sox as compensation for an earlier trade. Boston earlier dealt pitcher Billy Farmer to the White Sox, but Chicago soon found out Farmer had a sore arm as the pitcher quit after tossing a few balls during the first spring workout because the pain in his arm was so intense.
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You don't often see a pitcher with stats like those get 200 innings. The White Sox must have not had many options in 1970.ReplyDelete
White Sox were in dire straights pitching wise in 1970, their worst year ever as a franchise. They were dead last in ERA and most every other pitching stat (except walks and losses). This all makes the 1971 resurgence, 23 game turn around all that more amazing. Not sure if it can be attributed to Chuck Tanner's presence or pitching coach Johnny Sain (put Wilbur Wood as a starter) but they did great work.ReplyDelete
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Dallas set to extend Nowitzki and Terry
Dallas, TX (Sports Network) – The Dallas Mavericks are expected to open the
NBA's free agency period by extending the contracts of two of their star
According to a report in the Dallas Morning News, the Mavs will re-sign
forward Dirk Nowitzki and guard Jason Terry shortly after free agents and
teams can begin negotiations.
The negotiation period begins at 12:01 a.m. (et) on Saturday morning.
Nowitzki is scheduled to earn $15.1 million next season and $16.3 million in
2007-08 and Dallas is expected to extend his deal for three more seasons
through 2010-2011.
According to NBA rules, the All-Star can be extended at any number up to 10
1/2 percent more or less of $16.3 million. He is expected to receive the
maximum raise.
Nowitzki averaged 26.6 points and nine rebounds per game last season.
Terry, the Mavs' second-leading scorer last season at 17.1 points per game, is
scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent but Dallas has earmarked the
explosive guard as the team's No. 1 priority in the free agency period.
After the Mavericks lost in the NBA Finals to Miami Heat, Terry indicated he
expected to re-sign with the Mavericks. He earned $6.66 million last season.
Teams and players can have dialogue starting Saturday morning but players
can't officially sign contracts until July 12.


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Product Management Intern (Summer)
About The Opportunity
Got a taste for something new?
We're Grubhub, the nation's leading online and mobile food ordering company. Since 2004 we've been connecting hungry diners to the local restaurants they love. We're moving eating forward with no signs of slowing down.
With 80,000 restaurants and 14 million diners across 1,600 U.S. cities and London, we're delivering like never before. Incredible tech is our bread and butter, but amazing people are our secret ingredient. Rigorously analytical and customer-obsessed, our employees develop the fresh ideas and brilliant programs that keep our brands going and growing.
Long story short, keeping our people happy, challenged and well-fed is priority one. Interested? Let's talk. We're eager to show you what we bring to the table.
The Product Manager Intern will be responsible for helping to develop a strategy and vision and build and execute feature roadmaps from start to finish. You embrace this cross-functional role that requires you to work closely and successfully with senior leaders across the company, engineering/IT, QA, design, customer care, and the rest of the product team.
Some Challenges You'll Tackle
- Drive product strategy formation including market analysis, product concept development, and go to market design. This role will be responsible for driving the conversation and will be making presentations of these strategies to the executive team
- Lead efforts on competitive analysis that details our competitor's marketing, sales and product strategies
- Create data driven models and analytical approaches to determine business performance, growth and emerging opportunities
- Develop product requirements documents that meet customer and strategic requirements while providing clear direction to the development teams
- Lead cross functional team of engineers, sales, operations, marketing and other stakeholders from business units to develop, implement and drive product line success
- Work closely with Marketing, Sales, and the go-to-market organization to help them understand the vision, roadmap and best practices.
You Should Have
Required Skills/Experience:
- Mix of previous consulting or product strategy experience is preferred
- Highly analytical decision making approach
- Demonstrated ability to develop creative/non-traditional solutions
- Ability to translate technology features into business benefits
- Ability to juggle multiple priorities and thrive in a fast paced environment
- Strong leader, self-starter and proven team player in a high achievement-oriented environment
- Excellent presentation and customer facing skills
Desired Skills/Experience:
- Strong understanding of enterprise software and services, SaaS, and service APIs
- Demonstrated experience in the agile software development process.
- Experience in Product Management, Systems/Business Analysis, Software Engineering or related field.
- Experience in designing, developing, and building collaborative or social web technologies, either in the consumer or enterprise space.
- Demonstrated success at indirect management in matrix organizations
- Ability to work equally well with business development, product marketing, program management, sales operations, support, and engineering to drive successful product releases
And Of Course, Perks!
We deliver favorites every day. Join us as we move eating forward.
Grubhub is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here: DOL Poster. Grubhub is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.


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Posts for October
News: Celebrating Opera Passion Day
On Thursday 19 October Glyndebourne will be taking part in Opera Passion Day – an online celebration of the art form – with a live exploration of Brett Dean's Hamlet. Read more
Introducing... Pelléas et Mélisande
Our Introducing... series takes a look at Festival 2018's new production of Debussy's hauntingly beautiful Pelléas et Mélisande. Read more
Five courageous moments in opera
Thusday 19th October 2017 is #OperaPassion Day – with opera houses from around the UK coming together to celebrate this unique artform. Each opera … Read more
Five moments of fear in opera
What frightens you? Whether it's illness, war or something altogether less tangible, opera shares your fears and amplifies them as only this extraor… Read more
Introducing... Saul
Our Introducing series looks at the Festival 2018 revival of Barrie Kosky's acclaimed production of Handel's Saul. Read more
Video: Glyndebourne Festival - audience reaction
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Softball highlights
chel Marsden hurled a complete game 2-hitter with 14 strikeouts Wednesday as the McDowell girls clinched the Region 7 softball title by routing General McLane 11-2 at Edinboro.
The Trojans improved to 16-3 overall and 8-0 in the region, while the Lancers dropped to 6-4, 6-2.
Erika Ennsbrenner and Faith Renwick sparked McDowell's 13-hit attack, each collecting two hits. Ensbrenner was 2-for-4 with two doubles and two RBIs, while Renwick was 2-for-4 with a pair of RBIs. The Trojans broke the game open with four runs in the third inning and four more in the fourth.
Samantha Hedberg had a solo home run for General McLane.
Iroquois 17, Mercyhurst Prep 2 (6 inn.): At Mercyhurst Prep, Hannah Jackula struck out 11 and helped her own cause with a home run as the Braves (13-5) rouited the Lakers (3-16) in a non-region matchup.
Annie Rose was 2-for-5 and scored three times for Iroquois.
Northwestern 4, Fairview 0: At Albion, Tyra Campbell hurled a complete-game five-hitter and struck out five for the Bison in their Region 4 victory over the Tigers.
Cassidy Sherman had a two-run single in the fourth inning and Taylor Connors was 1-for-3 with two RBIs for Northwestern, which is 10-4 overall and 10-2 in the region.
Fairview dropped to 8-4, 8-4.
Meadville 20, Villa Maria 0 (3 inn.): At Villa Maria, Miah Ewing singled, tripled and homered to drive in eight runs as the Bulldogs (3-11, 2-6) rolled over the Victors (0-11, 0-8) in a three-inning Region 7 clash.


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Vision of the CSE Department
To contribute effectively to the important national endeavour to produce quality human resource in the information technology and related areas for sustainable development of the country's IT industry needs.
To advance the state of the art in computer science and engineering by working on cutting edge research topics, publishing quality research papers and filing enduring patents.
To serve the local and the national community by creating awareness about IT related products and to impress upon then the importance of knowledge management.
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Spring is finally here and it is lovely.
I have started making bears for the next show in Germany on 16th and 17th April. This little guy is one of them.
When I come home from Germany I shall update my website. However, I do not have that many bears for the moment.
I just received a new Pukipuki bjd. I think they are very cute.


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Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has reiterated that creating job opportunities for Ghanaian youth and women is a top priority for the Akufo-Addo government.
In line with this, he said that government is collaborating with its development partners such as the Ford Foundation to create the enabling environment for the establishment and growth of business and civil society groups, with a view to opening up job opportunities.
Dr Bawumia said this when Mr. Darren Walker, the President of the Global Ford Foundation, USA, paid a courtesy call on him at the Flagstaff House on Monday, 17 July.
The discussion between Dr Bawumia and Mr Walker centered around cooperation in the areas of business and investment for the mutual benefit of both parties.


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Exploration with Google mapping service meant to bring world at your fingertip. Today Google mapping services updated with new satellite imagery.
We already knew that the imagery that included by Google on its mapping services helps the people around the world to get a clear picture on various part of the world. As multimedia contents have more catching power than anything it can convey the geographical information to the users in faster mode. That is why today Google mapping services updated with new satellite imagery
Google mapping services updated with new satellite imagery
Everyone would like to enjoy the visual landscape view of our planet in clearer format. The new satellite imagery of Google mapping services includes cloud-free refreshed images of many locations around the globe. By introducing this feature Google aims to provide the users with much accurate and exact view of mother earth. That is why Google introduced new satellite imagery to it's mapping service.
Google introduced this feature by taking smart effort on stitching together the images from many locations to form an effective single piece. Google collected hundreds of terabytes of data from USGS's and NASA's Landsat 7 satellite. Also they make use of large collections of images of a single place to make exact view of that location.
The main reason for why this task became tough is that many locations are covered by clouds. Google aims to provide cloud free satellite images of each location. So they make keen analysis to make a comprehensive view of living planets landscapes and Google introduced new satellite imagery. By the constant effort Google made a beautiful 800000 megapixel image of the world.
Google featured this high qualified image in both Google Maps and Google Earth. Through this image you can make a global view of the world in much clearer cloud free format. Google reported that if you wish to print this image in resolution of 300 dots you demand a paper size of a city block! Google also included high resolution images of many parts of the world. It is not at all easy to get such clear satellite images from any other service. So enjoy the cloud free high resolution image of this world through Google's mapping services.


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Research Will Remain Critical for Buyside, Woodbine Says
Traders Magazine Online News, July 10, 2015
Despite the raging debate in Europe over bundling and anticipated legislative change, the buyside's use of broker proprietary and independent research will not significantly decline.
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One of many awesome Jamaican Jerk Chicken recipes is our very own Jamaican Jerk Chicken Wings. Love this recipe. A little heat that build wing after wing but not too hot for your average person. Everyone can follow along with this easy Jamaican chicken wing recipe. Enjoy folks!
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Kelly Clarkson's huge weight loss
The Voice US coach Kelly Clarkson has lost in the region of 16kg thanks to a strict regime of high-protein foods and raw vegies, plus four workout sessions per week with a personal trainer.
The singer previously said her dramatic weight loss was all down to wardrobe, joking: 'I literally hired Harry Potter and SPANX, it's all like a sausage!'
'Kelly has been able to lose weight by following a real simple diet plan. She has cut out a significant amount of sugar from her diet and increased her vegetable intake,' the insider told HollywoodLife.com.
'Sugar is one of the worst ingredients in food and drinks as it offers up tonnes of calories and no nutrients whatsoever.
For the full article see this weeks issue of New Idea - out now!
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Outdoor Living Spaces
Another great way to expand your living space while enjoying the outdoors is by adding a deck, patio, pergola or sunroom to your home. Create a space for family get-together's, entertaining or to simply relax and enjoy nature
American homeowners are spending more time at home. Taking a "stay-cation" has become a common occurrence with most American families and the need to relax and reconnect with family and friends has driven the popularity of creating outdoor living spaces.
The outdoor living room has clearly moved from being just a trend to a lifestyle that can be enjoyed by the entire family as well as friends, neighbors and colleagues. With a little planning and help from a professional builder, it is easy to convert your outdoor living space into a room that can be enjoyed year round.
When it comes to outfitting or remodeling an outdoor room, most homeowners say they are likely to include these amenities: outdoor lighting, sound system, a built-in gas grill, mosquito eliminators, patio heaters and/or an outdoor fireplace or fire pit.
The most important reasons homeowners decide to add or remodel an outdoor room is to create a space to relax, live a healthier lifestyle by spending more time outside, extend a home's living space and most importantly, add value to their home that they can enjoy now and realize later if they choose to sell. The average return on investment (ROI) for this type of project is 80-88% depending on the scope of the project.