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Transmountain ECHS is an innovative school model that blends the rigors of early college and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) curriculum to leverage student success in school, in the workforce and in life.
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Click To Enlarge Map Directions to Fort Jadhavgadh :
From Mumbai : After exiting the Mumbai-Pune expressway you will end on the Pune-Satara bypass Road (Mumbai-Bangalore Highway-NH4). Keep driving on the Pune – Satara bypass road without taking any of the turn-offs toward Pune. Once you cross the Chandni-Chowk area, you will come across a new Flyover, which will take you to Satara (Bangalore) via Katraj Ghat. DON'T TAKE THIS FLYOVER. Keep on the left-side access road and continue on the bypass road. This road meets Katraj Bus Depot.
Go straight towards the Kondwa Road, and drive for 13 KM on this till you reach dead-end at the Phursungi (Pune)-Saswad Road. (At Khadi-Machine Chowk, a right turn leads to Saswad city directly, DON'T TAKE THIS RIGHT.) Instead drive straight and reach Phursungi-Saswad Road, and then turn right. (Landmark – HP Petrol Pump) Mantar wadi Phata.
Keep on this road as it climbs past the historical Dive Ghat, three KM after the end of the Ghat you will see signs toward Fort Jadhavgadh on your right. Take the right turn and come in for about a 1 KM. The Fort is on your left.
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Right up until his final email to a group of people he liked to keep updated on his medical condition, a note which arrived in April, Bret Perry was a beacon of hope.
"I don't plan on being a stranger," wrote Perry, who after eight years suffering from Stage IV colon cancer had undertaken being cared for by Hospice of Southeastern Connecticut. "I just have to figure out these new leashes that restrain me and get out and about.
"Take care and don't be strangers. Never be afraid to call or email, as I am sure daytime TV is worse than evening TV."
Perry, previously the varsity softball coach at Old Lyme High School for four seasons despite receiving chemotherapy treatments at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City on the team's off days, died early Sunday morning at the age of 48.
His wife Melissa delivered the news via Bret's email chain.
"I lost my best half this morning," Melissa Perry wrote. "There are no words. I just wanted to thank you for all the support, prayers, well wishes and good deeds we have received over his eight-year battle."
"Very inspiring, let me tell you," said East Lyme High softball coach Judy Deeb, on whose staff Perry coached before taking the job at Old Lyme. "Even in his emails he was always so positive, you'd think he had a bad bruise or something. To go through that for eight years? But he kept that same positive attitude. I'm sure that's what kept him alive. He kept swinging and he kept getting a hit."
"He was definitely dedicated to our program. He would go get a chemo treatment and come back to softball practice," former Old Lyme and current Coast Guard Academy pitcher Sammy Yuknat said Sunday in a telephone interview from her summer assignment in Sitka, Alaska. "It was a win-win situation: we would feed off the inspiration he was giving to us and I think we helped him also."
Under Perry, Old Lyme reached the Class S state tournament quarterfinals in 2010 for the first time in program history.
Perry also recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award by Connecticut District 10 Little League for his dedication to that organization. Perry coached in East Lyme and Old Lyme, umpired throughout the state, served as Assistant District Administrator for softball, Umpire Coordinator for District 10 and was tournament director for numerous district, sectional and state Little League tournaments.
At one Junior League tournament game last summer in East Lyme, it was Perry left to call Little League Eastern Region Headquarters in Bristol for a rule clarification following a protest.
Old Lyme athletic director Rob Roach hopes to meet with the school's softball team today, many of whom knew Perry. Perry coached the Wildcats through the 2011 season before taking a leave of absence last year.
"His enthusiasm, his attitude, his knowledge of the game, he turned out to be an AD's dream," Roach said. "I remember sitting at the first Shoreline Conference final in program history and thinking, 'This can't be Old Lyme.' He took us to the heights."
Roach spoke to Deeb before hiring Perry. Deeb told him Perry deserved a chance despite his illness; Roach soon saw that for himself.
"He sat in the interview with all this energy, all this optimism, even though that was a hell of a challenge he had," Roach said. "I mean, a lot of people can't get out of bed in the morning."
Featured in a story in The Day's sports section on May 15, 2009, titled "This coach has 'plenty to celebrate,'" Perry was originally diagnosed with cancer in February, 2005, when he passed out at work and lost more than 50 percent of his blood supply. In 2006, he was given eight months to live, nearly placed on palliative care without hope of surviving.
Until recently, however, he maintained his job at Pfizer, Inc., as a scientist in the department of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.
He attended his daughter Karin's wedding in Mississippi on March 23 and walked her down the aisle. A month later he celebrated his 48th birthday. He was a dedicated husband, father and grandfather.
Perry often said he only gave himself 15 minutes per day to feel sorry for himself.
"You gotta live life," Perry told The Day in 2009. "You don't let little things in life get to you. I don't think I've ever let anything stand in my way. � People don't understand. They ask me, 'Why are you working?' Well, I could stay home and watch Jerry Springer and everything else I don't like. This makes me forget about things. I'm out here (coaching), trying to help these ladies become better people in life."
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An early and accurate diagnosis is one of the first steps toward successful treatment. Inova Comprehensive Cancer and Research Institute offers a full range of diagnostic options to help diagnose cancer. These tests are also essential for "staging," a process of tests performed prior to treatment that determines how advanced the cancer has become.
Diagnostic imaging produces pictures of the inside of the body using the latest in imaging technology. Exams include X-ray, ultrasound, CT, MRI, breast MRI, nuclear medicine and PET/CT.
A lighted tube called an endoscope can check internal organs for signs of cancer. Endoscopy evaluates the stomach, colonoscopy evaluates the bowel and bronchoscopy evaluates the lungs. Inova Comprehensive Cancer and Research Institute offers a complete range of endoscopic services for accurate diagnoses. Endoscopic ultrasound is a highly innovative, nonsurgical and precise technique that enables physicians to evaluate tumors difficult to find by standard methods and to simultaneously view and biopsy tissues. The procedure is used to evaluate, diagnose and stage cancers, including esophageal, biliary, colorectal, gastric and pancreatic cancers. The outpatient procedure does not require general anesthesia and is well-tolerated by patients.
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Blood and urine tests provide important information about many kinds of cancer. Inova Comprehensive Cancer and Research Institute laboratory facilities are staffed by pathologists (a doctor that examines body tissues, cells and fluids for signs of disease) with expertise in cancer diagnosis.
Biopsy is a procedure that removes all or part of a suspicious growth. This growth is examined by a pathologist or other laboratory technician to help confirm or rule out a cancer diagnosis. If cancer is found, the biopsied tissue identifies the type of cancer and whether it is likely to grow quickly or slowly. Inova has the technology and expertise to perform the least invasive test that provides the most accurate, complete information. Biopsy procedures include needle biopsy and stereotactic core breast biopsy.
When cancer is diagnosed, physicians must determine the stage or extent of the disease so they can prescribe the most effective treatment. Sometimes lymph nodes are removed to determine if the cancer has spread.
Sentinel node mapping is a sophisticated procedure that indicates which lymph nodes are most likely to be affected by the cancer, sparing the other nodes. Sentinel node mapping is commonly used for breast cancer staging.
Sentinel node mapping for breast cancer staging – helping to preserve lymph nodes
Traditionally patients diagnosed with breast cancer undergo surgery to remove all the lymph nodes under the arm to determine if the cancer has spread beyond the breast and what treatment is most appropriate. Removing all the lymph nodes can result in long-term complications and discomfort for the patient, including lymphedema (a condition where excess lymph fluid collects in tissues and causes swelling). With sentinel node mapping, only the sentinel node (the first lymph node to which breast cancer is likely to spread) is removed rather than all the lymph nodes. In order to identify the sentinel node, the doctors inject either a blue dye or a relatively non-toxic radioactive substance and see which lymph node it reaches first. This lymph node is the sentinel node, and is surgically removed. Sentinel node mapping is available at Inova Alexandria, Inova Fair Oaks and Inova Fairfax Hospital Cancer Centers.
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Of all the baked goods that fill Thanksgiving's dessert board, the one that characterizes and practically defines the holiday, almost as much as the turkey at the table's center, is pumpkin pie. For many Southerners, however, the pie that was the real holiday standard was sweet potato custard. Long before Thanksgiving was a national holiday, even before Georgia's Annabella Hill set the recipe down in 1867 in her seminal work Mrs. Hill's New Cook Book, these pies have graced the region's autumn and winter holiday tables. For more than four generations, my maternal grandmother's sweet potato custards were our family's favorite. While MaMa dutifully made a pumpkin pie, it was more out of obligation than anything. It would never have occurred to her to substitute it altogether with sweet potato pies.
MaMa's version of this pastry was denser than her pumpkin pie, yet lighter both in color and flavor. She used very few spices because good sweet potatoes just don't need them. Throughout most of my adult life, I've tried to reproduce that special something that was my grandmother's touch with this pie, both while she was at my side to coach me and in the years since she died. It's doubtful that I'll ever completely succeed; we seldom match the flavors that have become larger than life in our memories, but as I close my eyes and taste, every bite whispers of falling leaves and frosted windowpanes, and I can actually feel MaMa beside me, so I think I'm pretty close.
MaMa's Sweet Potato Custard Pie
Makes 2 9-inch pies
3 pounds (about 6 medium) sweet potatoes
1 recipe Basic Pastry (recipe follows)
1 cup sugar
1 ounce (2 tablespoons) unsalted butter
4 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon (optional)
½ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg (optional)
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
About ¼ cup heavy cream or evaporated milk
Whipped Cream
Scrub the potatoes well under cold running water. Put them in a large, heavy-bottomed pot and add enough cold water to cover by 1 inch. Bring to a boil over medium high heat, reduce the heat to a steady simmer, loosely cover, and cook until the potatoes are tender (a fork or sharp knife should easily pass through). Drain and cool enough to handle.
Meanwhile, position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 375° F. Line two 9-inch pie plates with pastry and prick well with a fork. Cover with buttered foil, buttered side down, weight with dried beans or pie weights. Partially bake for 20 minutes. Remove the weights and foil and let cool.
While they're still hot, peel the sweet potatoes and puree through a potato ricer (note: a potato ricer is a simple kitchen tool used to process potatoes by forcing them through small holes, which are often no larger than a grain of rice) into a large mixing bowl, or cut in chunks and mash them well with a fork or potato masher. Mix the butter and sugar and until absorbed, then stir in the eggs, spices, vanilla and enough cream or evaporated milk to make it smooth but not soupy. It should still be quite thick.
Pour the custard into the prepared pastry, smooth the top, and bake in the center of the oven until set at the center, about 40 minutes. Cool on wire racks and serve at room temperature or slightly chilled, with a healthy dollop of whipped cream.
Basic Pastry
This pastry is a snap to make in the food processor. Chill the blade in the freezer for 5 minutes.
Makes 2 9-inch pie shells or 1 9-inch pie with top crust
10 ounces (about 2 cups) all-purpose, soft-wheat flour
½ teaspoon salt
4 ounces (8 tablespoons, 1 stick) chilled unsalted butter, cut into bits
1 ounce (2 tablespoons) chilled lard or vegetable shortening, cut into bits
About 1/3 to ½ cup ice water
Whisk the flour and salt in a mixing bowl, or put it in the bowl of a food processor fitted with the chilled blade and pulse to sift. Add the butter and lard, toss to coat each bit, and work it into the flour with a pastry blender or by pulsing the machine until it has the texture of coarse meal.
Add 1/3 cup of ice water, and lightly stir or pulse the machine until the dough is moist and beginning to clump, adding more water by spoonfuls until it is just holding together, but not sticky. If using the machine, stop before it is completely clumped together and finish mixing by hand. Lightly dust it with flour, divide it into two equal balls, wrap each with plastic wrap and lightly flatten into 1-inch-thick disks. Refrigerate half an hour.
Lightly flour a cool work surface and roll out the pastry from the center of the lump outward until it is evenly rolled to the thickness required in the recipe—for most pies about 1/8-inch thick.
Damon Lee Fowler is a culinary historian and author of six cookbooks, including Classical Southern Cooking, Damon Lee Fowler's New Southern Baking, and The Savannah Cookbook. His work has also appeared in Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, and Relish. Damon lives and eats in Savannah, Georgia.
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By Anonymous on December 23, 2011
Paula, I love to cook and so do my children and grandchildren, one grandaughters that has just recently married loves your cook book, and she loves to try different recipes, but she always goes back to the Paula Deen's cookbook or goes online to get it. Just wanted to let you know the Sweet Potato Custard Pie is delicious, and it is a favorite in our house.I am originally from Kingsland Georgia, and now reside in Opp Al, but the good old southern cooking is wonderful.Thanks for sharing !!!!Pearl Weeks
By Pearl Weeks on October 14, 2011
Hi Paula,
I'm writing to let you know, The guy I work with wants a sweet potato pie. He has offered to buy the ingredients, His girlfriend does not cook. So he asked me to, What he does not know, Is this will be my first pie. So, I am going to make your mama's sweet potato custard pie. I will let you know how it turns out and how he likes it. Thank you for sharing your recipes and kindness. Teresa
By Teresa Corbin on December 22, 2009
My husband says make it quick!
By Karen on December 14, 2009
Sounds Yummy. I just love me some sweet potatoes and this custard sounds like it will be just the one for Christmas.
By bamaldy on December 06, 2009
Mr Fowler,
Thank you for another outstanding contribution. I've been a fan since my wife purchased your Fried Chicken book for me years ago.
Happy Thanksgiving, Sir!
By Lt. Sanders on November 25, 2009
Every dish every dessert! is fabulous!!!!!We love you…. so keep on sending your best dishes from your house to ours! You are my life saver in the kitchen and to others as well.
By firestone57 on November 22, 2009
this sounds so goood.i well make tomorrow.
By nadine tinkler on November 17, 2009
I can't wait to try this recipe on Thanksgiving!
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TRENTON, GA (WRCB)- It took twenty years, but retired Dade County nurse Vereniece Hawkins got her wish. She had lobbied various legislators and superintendents to teach lifesaving skills to Dade County High School students, but was always put off and delayed over concerns about cost and liability.
Finally she found a superintendent (Shawn Tobin) and emergency workers (Puckett EMS) who were willing to start a CPR/AED class, and now each freshman student is learning the skills during PE class.
Tobin commended the Puckett workers, and Dade County students for making the new class a success. He said students learn lifesaving skills, and also get a close-up look at a potential profession.
Student Dillan Gass said he has learned the Heimlich Maneuver, and what to do if he sees signs of someone choking. He has become comfortable using the electronic AED device, which is stationed outside the school office near the entrance of the school. Like many students, he had walked by the device, but had no idea what it was or why it was there.
Dennis Kelley, a 20-year EMT, said the students have been very attentive, and they now know what to do in case of an emergency. "These are skills they can use their entire life," Kelley said. "We're prepared to do this year after year. I wish more schools would see the value in this."
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historically challenging courses. SI sessions are free, voluntary, and open to the entire student population of each designated course.
SI's goal is to aid all students in a class regardless of their knowledge or ability level. In the sessions, which meet on a regular schedule several times a week, students work together under the guidance of their SI leader comparing notes, discussing readings and concepts, working on handouts, and taking practice quizzes. Students who attend the sessions gain a greater understanding of the course content, learn helpful strategies, earn higher grades, and are more likely to successfully complete the course.
In 1981, the U.S. Department of Education recognized Supplemental Instruction as an Exemplary Educational Program and pronounced valid the claim that the program improves retention rates and student academic achievement. Data collected from colleges and universities worldwide show that students who attend SI sessions withdraw less often from and earn higher grades in designated courses than do fellow students who do not attend SI sessions. At Hartnell, the over 1,000 students that attend SI sessions each year earn an average of ˝ a letter grade higher and are 30% more likely to successfully complete their courses than their classmates.
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Great Lash Gets Dressed Up!
Written on August 15, 2011 at 3:18 pm , by April Franzino
It's been 40 years since Maybelline Great Lash Mascara was born, and the brand is celebrating with a Limited Edition Designer Collection of the iconic wands decked out in designs by fashion stars Tracy Reese, Max Azria and Vivienne Tam (above, from left). A few fun facts about the lash classic:
- The original pink and green tube was inspired by the color scheme of designer Lilly Pulitzer, who was just starting out when the mascara launched.
- Great Lash is the #1-selling mascara in America.
- One tube is sold every 1.7 seconds in the United States.
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Sound Artist
January 10 – February 15, 2012
Artist Panel: Sound and Real-Time Systems I February 15 7 PM, Bartos Theater
Ben Houge, MIT Visiting Artist
David Cossin, Bang on a Can All-Star
Nick Montfort, Associate Professor Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies
Joe Paradiso, Associate Professor Media Arts and Sciences
Evan Ziporyn, Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor Music and Theater Art
Visiting Artist Ben Houge leads the panel Sound and Real-Time Systems, a discussion about the overlap between such disparate disciplines as video games, digital media, and music composition. To underscore these connections, MIT panelists will share their experience in a range of fields: Joe Paradiso will present his modular synthesizer, newly installed at the MIT Museum; Evan Ziporyn and David Cossin of Bang on a Can All-Stars will discuss performance and composition; and Nick Montfort will provide insights into media environments.
During his residency at MIT, Houge has been working within the Media Lab's Responsive Environments Group, sonifying networked sensor data as part of the DoppelLab project. During MIT's Independent Activity Period he will led a workshop that provides an overview of designing audio for video games, while exploring how game audio design techniques can be applied to other real-time digital experiences.
Active in the underground music and art scene in Shanghai from 2004 to 2010, Houge has performed and exhibited at the Shanghai eArts Festival, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Hangzhou's 2Pi Festival, the Zendai Museum, OV Gallery, Art+Shanghai Gallery, and the Today Art Museum. His residency at the True Color Museum in Suzhou culminated in the installation Self-Portrait, Dusk, at the Point of Departure for eighteen channels of video and four channels of sound. Previously in Seattle, Houge founded the Sound Currents concert series and contributed to the Seattle School composers' collective from its inception, garnering a Genius Award from The Stranger and a Best Experimental Music Award from Seattle Weekly. Since 1996, he has been developing audio for video games, contributing to projects including Tom Clancy's EndWar, King's Quest: Mask of Eternity, Half-Life: Opposing Force, and Arcanum; he currently teaches game audio at Berklee College of Music and Boston University Center for Digital Imaging Arts. His recent work has been exhibited at the Boston Cyberarts Festival, the Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media (Boston), e4c (Seattle), the N Minutes Video Festival (Shanghai), and the San Diego Museum of Art.
Ben Houge's residency is made possible by the MIT Visiting Artist Program in collaboration with the Media Lab's Responsive Environments group http://doppellab.media.mit.edu, and Associate ProfessorJoseph Paradiso.
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Why oil prices are headed higher
After months of quiet in the energy markets, a drop in the dollar suggests the cost of crude is going up.
In Tuesday night's presidential debate, one of the questions focused on the rising cost of gasoline. While middle-class wages have stagnated, fuel prices are just one of the many costs of living that are pinching the bottom line for so many people. During the financial crisis, wholesale gas prices fell below 80 cents a gallon. Now they're near $2.80, with retail prices well above that.
At the debate, President Barack Obama rightly noted that some of the rise has been associated with a better economy. And tensions in the Middle East, especially with Iran, are certainly playing a role (although analysts at Societe Generale believe it's fairly small). But a large and important driver has been the fluctuation in the U.S. dollar, which is a unit of denomination for global oil transactions.
Here's the bad news: A renewed decline in the dollar suggests prices at the pump are about to get more painful.
Why? Since Obama took office, fluctuations in the value of the dollar have explained about one-third of the movement in crude oil. The relationship is inverse: As the dollar falls and loses value, the price of oil rises in response.
Thus, with the greenback dropping hard out of multimonth consolidation range, crude oil should see upward pressure in the weeks to come.
But why is the dollar weakening?
For one, the situation in the Eurozone seems to be calming. Moody's just reiterated Spain's investment-grade sovereign credit rating. Officials seem to be moving closer to cobbling together a bailout plan for Spain that would activate the European Central Bank's new but unused bond purchase program. And even Greece is showing progress as it moves towards unlocking its next bailout fund disbursement thanks to tough budget cuts.
Also, the Federal Reserve is full-throttle on the monetary policy stimulus here at home after it announced a new, open-ended $40 billion-a-month mortgage purchase program last month. All those freshly printed dollars entering the financial system pushes down the value of the currency and will soon start pushing up the monetary base again, as shown in the chart above.
Plus, aside from the dollar weakness, Wall Street seems to be marking up global economic growth expectations this week, with investors moving into economically sensitive areas like materials, energy and emerging-market stocks, industrial commodities and, yes, crude oil. Both China and Germany seem to be inching toward new stimulus measures, which will help.
For now, this is good news and is a reflection of some new confidence. Down the road, consumers will feel the pinch from higher gas prices -- something that could pull measures of consumer confidence down off of their post-recession highs.
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Regardless of anyones political brand, a fact that will have to be dealt with for decades is that fossil fuels will drive the global economies. Emerging and growing economies in China and India, with over a billion in population each,, alone will place upward pressure on oil prices. Add a devalued $ and they will rise more. Its on every corner and nearly all consumers buy gas and notice it in their personal lives. Few stop to think about the fact that nearly everything they consume is a petroleum by product. Plastic, glass, tape, cosmetics, medicine, steel, lubricants, paint, food,fabric, fertilizer etc.. All these items increase in price as oil goes up in price.
Wind and solar will never produce the chemicals that go into these products, nor will it power the trucks, trains and airplanes that distribute the goods. Our economy has benefited greatly from cheap energy for decades and no current alternative form of energy, given current technology, is even close to displacing fossil fuels at an affordable price.
Our greatest resource that can minimze economic and environmental impact is natural gas. Not perfect, but cleaner than coal, plentiful, and easy to develop and get to market. while alternative sources may help power homes and a few automobiles at some point,it is scientifically impossible to hope for much in the near term from these sources.
Any discussion about energy without costs per BTU as the central fact of science is nothing more than fantasy and idealogy. Green job technology at $4 million/job is economic suicide. European countries that have already went down that path are scrapping those programs and returning to sanity. Spain lost 2 jobs for every 1 green job created and is now expperiencing 26% unemployment and seeking a bailout from the IMF and European Central Bank to avoid collapse.
Current administrations subsidies for green energy are littered with failure. I am for developing these technologies, but fund the research at MIT, Stanford, U of Texas etc to develop and prove the technology commercially feasible before trying to force it on the marketplace. Quit giving it to political allies involved in commercial ventures that are abandoned as soon as the subsidy is withdrawn.
With shale technology, we are capable of completely cutting off hostile countries inports in 7-10 years if we gave it serious effort. I am sick of keeping thousands of troops, fighting wars, and spending financial and human capital so we can protect oil imports from our enemies when we can develop our own with, best estimate, 5 million new jobs over 5-7 years.if you factor that cost into a barell of oil, the true cost is above $150 a barell.
Only a an idiot believes we will ever be totally independent but it would be in our best interest to get what we need from Canada and other allies. Even the big greedy oil companies know that oil, made into by products, are worth 3-4 times more than using it as the primary source of transportation power.
Take a vacation to N Dakota, W TX, S TX, N LA and see first hand what good paying jobs are created by exploring for our own resources. Thousands of jobs are created outside those areas also. Caterpillar equiptment, drilling rigs, pipe, gaskets, lubricants, inspection equiptment, valves, well monitoring and emission monitoring equiptment, water purification, testing, maintainence equiptment and workers, hotels, restaurants, auto dealerships- I caould go on indefininitely having grown up around the industry but I find that most people dont realize the national benefit of energy development.
Ill quit for now but the way out of our situation isnt that complicated. It begins with creating GOOD paying jobs. Next we will tackle government spending-thats the other half of paving the road to prosperity.
Honestly, I don't get the whole "energy independence" thing. Yes, we're producing more domestic oil, but it goes into the world market. Even that vaunted pipeline from Canada which is supposed to solve our problems, I do believe from what I've read, only sends oil into the world market by tying into the pipelines that head to the tankers going wherever in the world tankers go.
So it's not like producing more oil here in the US makes us energy independent. Unless we were to somehow prohibit domestic oil from going abroad, which would have people screaming about communism and the threat to capitalism.
The only way more US oil helps bring down the price of oil overall is by increasing the world supply, and by that token it's also not like we can do anything to keep demand from rising in China and India, which of course increases the price. Even reducing demand here by making cars more fuel-efficient etc is only a blip compared to the entire rest of the world using more oil all the time.
At the same time too, there's a whole lot more to the price of gas than just the price of oil. Drill baby drill also requires build more refineries, both to meet demand and to provide some redundancy when the mysterious "refinery went offline" problems occur. And no one seems to want a new refinery in their backyard...
Unfortunately, Obama was right when he said the reason the price of gas went down is because demand went down, and why? Because fewer people buying gas means lower demand. Wanna bring on the next recession just to lower gas prices?
Another smoke sreen by the oi industry to raise prices. The industry has gone out of its way to
sabotage green iniatives. Back in 1979 many progressive proposals were initiated by federal
and state groups, backed by rebups and dems that were lobbied to death by the industry. The oil industry at that time proposed numerous regulations, that is right regulations, on alternatives to make it more costly and difficult to implement. Who says big corps don not like regulation. In their favor? Of course they like regs.
Oil prices are kept high by Wall Street speculation...why would they bring it down when oil companies can make huge profits by keeping it up. We need more price controls on this resource...free market simply means a few powerful people can manipulate the price in order to make themselves wealthy. The thing I don't understand is if the oil on the world market costs more and they claim they are passing the costs along to the consumer, how come it only seems to increase the oil companies profits...seems if they were paying more for it like they claim, their profits margins would stay the same.
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Of the 207 people who lost their jobs at Wasendorf properties, 150 of them were maintenance workers, food service employees, and childcare providers. Those workers were the focus of Tuesday's job fair.
"A couple of dozen people have already found new homes either here in the Cedar Valley and unfortunately we lost a few to other communities that have a high demand for their skill sets," said Brittany Jungck of the Greater Cedar Valley Alliance and Chamber.
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(Reuters) - Matt Kemp is miffed about losing out on the 2011 National League MVP award to Ryan Braun, but the trophy will remain with the Milwaukee Brewers outfielder who was suspended this week for violating MLB's doping policy.
Kemp, runner-up in the 2011 voting, has said Braun should be stripped of the award, but the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) does not revisit awards they have bestowed.
"Ryan Braun won the award in an election that took place before he tested positive for steroids, a decision that was overturned by an arbitrator," Jack O'Connell, the BBWAA official who oversees voting for MLB's annual awards, said in an email to Reuters on Wednesday.
"Voters can only deal with information they have at hand."
Braun did not serve an automatic suspension for his failed doping test of 2011 when he won an appeal on grounds his sample had been mishandled.
Monday's 65-game suspension of Braun stemmed from Major League Baseball's (MLB) probe into players linked to a Florida anti-aging clinic that distributed performance enhancing drugs.
"Do I feel like it should be stripped? Yeah, I do," Kemp told reporters before Tuesday's road game against the Toronto Blue Jays, "I feel like it should be, but that's not for me to decide."
Kemp said he was "disappointed" with Braun, who insisted on his innocence until accepting a suspension without pay announced in a statement from MLB Commissioner Bud Selig on Monday.
"You don't like getting lied to," Kemp said. "A lot of people feel the same way. I'm sure I'm but another on that list."
O'Connell pointed out that MLB does not rewrite its record books and neither would the baseball writers.
"The commissioner's ruling did not include a statement saying that Braun's (batting) record in 2011 or that of the Brewers no longer count," O'Connell said.
"What is Matt Kemp's complaint? If it is that he should receive an award that he did not win in an election, I do not know where to go."
Kemp did not go so far as to say he ought to be named the 2011 MVP winner.
"I was in the race for MVP and got second. The voters had their opinion of who they wanted to pick as MVP," Kemp said. "You have to respect who they picked.
"It definitely would be nice to have an MVP trophy, but I didn't win the MVP. I was second."
Kemp went on to say the accomplishments of clean players were being tarnished by those who break the rules.
"As a player who never took PEDs (performance enhancing drugs) or steroids, it's upsetting that (those who do) take away from those guys who bust their butts in the gym and play the game clean," he said.
"We're all grown men who make our own decisions what we put in our bodies. We know what's right and what's wrong."
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FLOWERY BRANCH — When the Falcons take the Georgia Dome field against the Carolina Panthers on Sunday, they will be elated to see familiar faces wearing black and white stripes.
With the labor impasse settled between the NFL and NFLRA, the referees will return to action around the league. Veteran officials worked the Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens game Thursday night.
While the Falcons haven't had any major calls go against them, they could feel the pain of the Green Bay Packers, who lost a game on a controversial "touchdown" call by replacement officials Monday night.
"After that call, I'm pretty happy about it," tight end Tony Gonzalez said. "That was the tipping point for the fans and the players. Something had to be done, so I'm glad they were able to come to an agreement."
For the most part, the Falcons blocked out the replacement referees. They refused to talk about them or even acknowledge that they were an issue, even when the replacements worked a scrimmage with the Tennessee Titans in Dalton.
"It never altered the way I prepared to play the game because you have to go out there and you've got to take care of your half, and hopefully they can take care of their half as replacement refs," Gonzalez said. "Now, it's moot, and we can move on."
Most are still perplexed by the play at the end of the Green Bay-Seattle game.
"It was one of those things where you could see both sides of the argument," safety Thomas DeCoud said. "From the Packers' side you could see that Jennings had 90 percent control of the ball. But on the other side you can see how they kind of thought it was a simultaneous catch. It just depends on whether perception is reality."
To some degree, bad calls are a part of the game each week. But the replacement refs' inability to manage the game almost boiled over in the Falcons' game against Denver on Sept. 17.
The replacement refs had three calls on the field overturned, and there was a six-minute delay on a routine play in the first quarter.
"It's one less thing that people can harp on during the week," DeCoud said. "Once the regular refs get here, it will be great to get that out of the way."
Denver coach John Fox ($30,000) and defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio ($25,000) were fined for their treatment of the officials that night.
"Obviously, the games were slowed down," Gonzalez said. "In that game that we played on Monday night, it was like four hours and whatever it was. It was one of the longest games that I've ever played in."
The players expect the officials to be well-received.
"It happened," Gonzalez said. "It's over. We're going to go play. I'm sure these refs are going to come in here and get a standing ovation when they show up. I'm glad that it's over and we can get back to playing the game how it's supposed to be played. …
"It will be good to see those familiar faces. I know those guys. I'll welcome them back. I'll be glad to see them."
In addition to better calls and proper management of the game, the players feel safer with the officials.
"Basically, the officials are considered our first responders to our injuries on the field," said right tackle Tyson Clabo, the team's NFLPA representative. "They are trained to identify concussions and things of that nature. Those guys that are trained to do those things are back, and [NFLPA president DeMaurice Smith] feels that the field is a safer place."
Center Todd McClure doesn't want to make a fuss about the officials.
"That video that they show of [Fox and Del Rio] and of course the Green Bay-Seattle game [may have led to the end of the impasse]," McClure said. "I think it's time to move on."
Safety William Moore is just ready to keep on playing.
"We are not going out there with that on our minds, but it's going to play a big part," Moore said. "That was one of those small things that came up in the previous games. Hopefully, the games won't be as long as they've been."
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maybe noooow we wil win wa game
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Watch those nuanced veteran tricks, like certain players putting their arms over the pass defender's arm to get defensive holding calls…
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who cares?! just hit them hard!
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JSS, why are you trying to give pointers anyone on this blog. Most of your posts trash the Falcons even when they're kicking a$$ like right now. Why would we listen to or appreciate anything constructive you have to say?


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Friday, February 8, 2013
My Home Tour!
Hello friends!
The talented and lovely Jennifer at City Farmhouse is featuring my home for her Style House Friday!
If you would like to see my home tour {including rooms I haven't shared here on the blog yet} Head on over to City Farmhouse!
I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
I will be back Monday morning with a great DIY project!
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- Emily@TheWickerHouse said...
I love Jen's style house. I'm headed on over now to see yours.
- February 8, 2013 at 8:53 AM
- 20 North Ora said...
Kristen - Your home is so lovely. Thanks for the tour!!
- February 8, 2013 at 9:33 AM
- Jacqueline~Cabin and Cottage said...
Oh goodie! Headed right over! Have a great weekend!
- February 8, 2013 at 9:51 AM
- Sha said...
I just love your style. And I am secretly hoping my home will someday look like yours :)
- February 8, 2013 at 11:43 AM
- Katherine Wolak said...
love love love your look! So fresh and feminine and gorgeous!!!
- February 8, 2013 at 6:39 PM
- Annette said...
oh...I'm in love with your blog :)
- February 9, 2013 at 2:36 AM
- Sarah McK said...
You have amazing home!!!!!
- February 9, 2013 at 8:35 AM
- Little Vintage Cottage said...
Love it! And I must say... it's about TIME we get to see more of your home! LOL!
- February 9, 2013 at 10:22 AM
- Solange Hooks said...
It's fabulous ..... Just like you.
- February 9, 2013 at 6:39 PM
- City Farmhouse said...
Kristen, thank you so much for takeing the time to showcase your home on my blog! Everyone LOVES you! AS do I;)! Have a great week friend, Jen
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Since today is Friday, I decided to whip up a little afternoon happy hour snack to round out the workweek. My cousin gave me some leftover pastry shells from my aunt's memorial service. Since my boyfriend is cutting out sweets for Lent, I opted to take them a more savory direction. I came across Willow Bird Baking's recipes for a Quick Rosemary, Fig and Goat Cheese Tart and decided to adapt her recipe in mini-form for my pastry shells.
Adaptations: I made a simple recipe even simpler. I opted to use creamy spreadable goat cheese from Trader Joe's so I didn't have to buy cream. My fig spread also came from TJ's - the Fig Butter. A dab of fig jam, a dab of goat cheese, shavings of lemon rind and pepper and sprinkle of fresh rosemary leaves and 6 minutes in the oven at 350 and we were done. Literally took 7 minutes from start to finish.
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Tucows has a market cap of $52.34 million and an enterprise value of $52.75 million. This stock trades at a cheap valuation, with a trailing price-to-earnings of 8.03 and a forward price-to-earnings of 10.36. Its estimated growth rate for this year is 100%, and for next year it's pegged at 10%. This is not a cash-rich company, since the total cash position on its balance sheet is $4.51 million and its total debt is $4 million.>>4 Tech Stocks Spiking on Big Volume A director just bought 277,935 shares, or about $319,000 worth of stock, at $1.11 per share. From a technical perspective, TCX is currently above its 200-day moving average and below its 50-day moving average, which is neutral trendwise. This stock plunged in June from $1.72 a share to $1.02 a share. During that move lower, shares of TCX were consistently making lower highs and lower lows, which is bearish technical price action. That said, the stock has now formed a double bottom at around $1.02 to $1 a share, and it's started to challenge its 50-day moving average of $1.16 a share. If you're bullish on TCX, then I would look for long-biased trades once this stock manages to trigger a near-term breakout trade above a key downtrend line at $1.23 a share with high volume. Look for volume on that move that hits near or above its three-month average action of 291,075 shares. If that breakout triggers soon, then TCX will have a great chance of re-testing and possibly taking out its next major overhead resistance levels at $1.34 to $1.43 a share. Keep in mind that one could anticipate that breakout and also buy TCX off any weakness as long as it holds $1 a share. If you buy off weakness, then I would add to the position once $1.23 to $1.29 is taken out with volume.
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Police say officers saw a man on foot weaving erratically through traffic and sometimes blocking vehicles. After approaching him they say the man reached into his pocket as if grabbing a weapon, and two officers fired shots.
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Steve Hunter , the lauded guitarist whose fluid playing is featured on classic recordings by Alice Cooper , Lou Reed and Peter Gabriel , has released a new solo album in which he returns to the blues music that inspired him at an early age. The Manhattan Blues Project features a impressive list of guest artists, including Aerosmith 's Joe Perry , Chickenfoot 's Joe Satriani , ex- King Crimson bassist Tony Levin and Johnny Depp .
In a video interview promoting the record, Hunter says he wanted the new collection to reflect his love for both the blues and New York City.
"Most albums I hear in regards to New York generally [are] jazzy, which is cool, but I wanted to do something different," he explains. "I wanted to do something in a bluesy way, because I kind of saw the more soulful part of Manhattan."
The 12-track collection, which includes mostly original compositions, also features covers of Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill" and Marvin Gaye 's "What's Goin' On." It worth noting that Hunter contributed lead guitar to the original version of "Solsbury Hill."
Perry and Depp play together on a 12-bar blues tune titled "The Brooklyn Shuffle." "I was thrilled when that happened," declares Hunter. "I told them both, 'Plug the guitars in and have a blast,' and it sounds like to me they did."
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Friday, July 11, 2008
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This paper examines the barriers and obstacles students and schools experience in achieving college and career readiness and how they may be overcome. It notes the persistence of achievement gaps among different groups of the cohort that entered kindergarten in New York City public schools in 1996 through their graduation and, for some, entrance to college.
Release date: October 2013
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Come to the library for our giant game of "I Spy!" Pick up a worksheet at the Youth Services desk and spy the different Dr. Seuss items all over our department. Once you finish your sheet, turn it in for a small prize! For all ages. (Beginning after 1:00 p.m.)
Join us this month for our Lego Club with a Dr. Seuss twist!
Join us on March 15th at 11am
Learn the basics of creating a decorative beaded tree. Every participant will go home with their own unique creation. Space is limited you can sign up online or at adult services desk.
Bring your family to the library for a quiet storytime just before bed!
Come to the library for a fun afternoon filled with crafts! Using our left-over craft supplies, everyone will be able to make at least three treasures to take home.
Preschoolers are invited to come to the library for an interactive science program all about exploring the world around us!
Talking about books and hanging out with friends -- what could be better!
It's time to get out your creative side! The library is hosting a montly craft event for kids in grades K-6th to make a special treasure to take home.
Join us at the library when we make Valentine's Day cards for our family and friends!
Join us for some new and exciting adventures in Lego Club! The library will supply the Legos, you bring your imagination!
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With many years of experience in gaming, we have a genuine understanding of this unique business.
Game makers from around the world trust Red Cartel to produce the graphics packages they need, and our work can be seen on the floor in almost every major gaming venue.
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Yes. You read that right... Movie Maniacs, the TeenZone and our friends at Alliance Films are offering a FREE Double-Pass to "The Hunger Games" movie screening at 7:00 p.m. on March 22nd at Chinook Theatre. The movie isn't actually released until the next day, so you'll get to see it before anyone else!
Now, this contest is going to be a little trickier than usual, since this movie has a little more buzz than usual. To enter, you have to tell us WHY YOU DESERVE TO GO TO THE HUNGER GAMES -- and be creative! We're going to pit your entries in a battle-to-the-death (well... kind of...) to see who the champion is. That person will be informed on Wednesday March 21st -- exactly six days from now.
Good Luck! And may the odds be ever in your favour!
Freedom to Read Week (February 26th - March 3rd) starts today and we are doing several things to celebrate including selecting the winners of the Who Chooses What You Read? contest.We would like to invite you to attend the annual event where we honour the Freedom of Expression Award winners, and highlight the teen winners of the Who Chooses What You Read? contest. In addition, there will be a reading from The Hunger Games which was selected as a representative challenged book, and will be presented to City Council during Freedom to Read week at the regular council meeting.Join us Thursday March 1, 20127 p.m @Owls Nest Books815A 49 Avenue SouthwestCalgary, AB T2S 1G8, Canada(403) 287-9557
The Freedom to Read Committee has selected twin brothers Keith and Steven Pridgen as the 2012 recipients of the Freedom of Expression Award. Anne Jayne, the citizen member of the FTR committee writes the following to support the nomination made by Susan Anderson,"The nomination of the Pridgen brothers is worthy. They were quite brave, as young university students, to take on the university over the issue of being disciplined for having a Facebook page where comments critical of a faculty member were published. Their case was recently heard at the Queen's Bench, ruling in favour of the Pridgen's. It is their attention to standing up for their freedom of expression, engaging the university in a formal way and drawing light to the University of Calgary student disciplinary practices."
Keith and Steven Pridgen are delighted with this news. Fortunately, Keith has recently returned to Calgary and will be available to accept it from a representative of FFWD magazine, the award sponsor. The Freedom to Read committee is especially pleased to draw attention to the efforts made by these younger citizens and the use of social media to express personal opinions.
At Central we also have a book display in both our Teen and Children's zones showcasing books that have been banned by various groups at various times for various reasons. Interested in learning more? Click this link for Censorship in Canada, click here for the most recent list of challenged books; and here is a list by Google.We issue a challenge: pick a book to read this week in honor of freedom of expression. Let us know what you're reading in the comments section. We might just add it to our banned books list!
Additionally, the art show up in the TEENZONE (2nd Floor Central) by students of Sir John Franklin High School is called SPEAK and is a great showcase of photographs by fellow teens dealing with issues around freedom of expression. SPEAK runs alongside the city wide EXPOSURE 2012 photography festival.Last but not least, our Freedom to Read Contest winners have been picked! Stay tuned for announcements...
(With thanks to Allison Thomson for some of the content of this blog).
Freedom to Read Week is nearly upon us.
I think it's safe to say that most people here in Canada feel pretty confident that no one is trying to control the information they can access. I mean, we have Libraries, we have the Internet, we have Google, we have bookstores...if anything, we have too much information to deal with.
However! An abundance of information is not equivalent to equal access to information, or access to correct information, and it certainly dosn't stop people from trying to limit our access to information. There is no doubt that Canadians are among the information priviledged, so we should not stand idly by while other nations and people (sometimes in our backyard), cannot read or access the information they need.
This, our need to assert the right of all people to access information freely, is why we celebrate Freedom to Read Week! Everyone: Pick up a banned book and read it! Three cheers for the FREEDOM TO READ! Hip hip hooray!
If you can't imagine a world where the freedom to read is limited, I recommend you read The Book Thief by Markus Zusak or for something a little more fanciful try Matched by Ally Condie. The freedom to read what you want to and when you need to is incredibly important to our society's heath and well-being. If you disagree, consider recent events in Libya where the country was taken off the internet in the middle of a civil war. Or for something closer to home, look at this long list of books and magazines that were challenged here in Canada in 2011.
So, like I said, it is time to celebrate the freedom to read!!!
Announcing our annual Freedom to Read Contest: Who chooses what you read?
Here are the rules:
Express your thoughts on the freedom to read with words, film or graphic arts.
Choose one of the following methods:
Make a poster: draw, paint, or use photography and other graphic arts (8 ½ x 14" or 11 x 17")
Write: a poem, short story, or essay (max. 300 words)
Create a film: (3 min. or less)
All content must be original, except for short, cited quotations.
Criteria:1. Persuade an audience and support your point of view.2. Use techniques of form effectively to engage an audience.
Contest is open to Calgary students in Grades 7 – 9. Include your name, school, grade, and telephone number with your entry. Enter by email: email@example.com AND upload to Teens Create; OR submit your hardcopy to any Calgary Public Library location. One entry per person. Entries must be received no later than midnight Wednesday February 15th 2011.
And of course...there will be prizes!
As many of you already know, 2012 is going to be a very special year for the Calgary Public Library in more ways than one. First of all it's our centennial, yes it's true we've been serving Calgarians for 100 years and in order to honor this milestone we're throwing all of a Calgary a party. Not only are we opening up a brand new branch in the Northeast (Saddletowne) on January 14th, 2012 but at the grand opening we'll be introducing our brand new mascot! Now you might be thinking, why should I care about any of this, but the really great part is that you have a chance to go down in library history!
That's right Calgary, we're giving you the chance to name our mascot. We have chosen a chameleon to represent us, but we're leaving the name up to you! Need inspiration for your entry? Be sure to visit your nearest library branch and check out some of the great resources we have on chameleons. Something to remember when choosing your name is that the winner will be chosen based not only on the fact that they chose an excellent name, but also on why they think that is the perfect name (yes you need to give us a reason as well as a name). This will not be a random draw. Entries will be carefully judged one by one and the winning entry will ideally be an original and suitable name for a Calgary Public Library mascot. So go ahead and think outside the box on this one. It might be helpful to ask yourselves, what does the library mean to me? We already have lots of great entries so be sure to enter soon. If you need more time, you will have up until 11:59 pm, January 3, 2012. All Calgary Public Library cardholders are encouraged to suggest names. Entry forms are available at all CPL libraries, online using the electronic form, or you can print a form and drop it off at any Calgary Public Library location. Oh and did I mention in addition to choosing the winning name, you'll also win a bag of Calgary Public Library swag. For full contest details please click here. May the best name win!
This Saturday get ready for a special Second Saturday Slam. This month One Book One Calgary teams up with the Calgary Spoken Word Festival 's crew to deliver a slam with a twist. Come enjoy, compete and/or listen and judge. Bring some of your poems that explore some of the rich themes in Canadian author Steven Galloway's novel "The Cellist of Sarajevo". This could be something related to music or art, the enduring power of the human spirit, diversity, or war and peace. Contestants will be chosen on a first come first serve basis. AND CSWF always offers really valuable and encouraging feedback. I've learned a lot as a poet in the ones I've attended (yes I DID dare to read some of my poems in public - therefore... I dare you!). Thanks to Sheri - D Wilson, Andre Prefotaine, Jen Kunlire and others!!!
And by the way if you haven't checked out the poetry of these guys and gals - they are fantastic!
The OBOC website also has some great books on it as well as book lists. My favourite being the ones that relate to the Human Spirit and Art and Music. Additional suggestions for great verse novels would be Orchards by Holly Thompson and Roses and Bones which includes Psyche in a Dress by Francesca Lia Block.
And as a side note - For the whole month of November we have a cool painted piano that you can see inside of downstairs on the main floor of the library! Come play a tune on your way up or down to the John Dutton Theatre.
Puss in Boots is back for ONE MORE ADVENTURE, but this time he's flying solo! Puss hears of a legendary treasure at the top of a magical beanstalk, and decides to go after it. Lots of swashbuckling fun, pop culture digs, and some over-the-kids'-heads humour, "Puss in Boots" is guaranteed to be a good time.
Want to win tickets? Just tell us the name of the Actor who voices Puss, and one other movie he's been in, and you'll be entered for the draw!
Just TRY to go to this movie and not have fun... I dare you.
Congratulations to our Winners; Rosemary, Rhonda, Greg, Shushma, Aiza, Karen, Bethany, Cynthia, and Adrienne
Keep checking back with Movie Maniacs and the TeenZone for more contests, prizes and lots of event info!
Teen Read Week is from October 16th -- October 22nd.
To celebrate we are having a photo contest with the YALSA (the Young Adult Library Services Association)
The Challenge: Choose an awesome book and take a photo that visually represents it in a interesting, unique way.
Contest rules: Because we are running the contest with YALSA, we are following their rules.
How to enter: You need to enter your photo in both contests to be eligible for both prizes. To enter YALSA's contest send your photo here. and to enter CPL's contest upload your photo to Teens Create and email it to email@example.com , please include your name in the email.
For more info email firstname.lastname@example.com
Deadline: October 31st
Okay... so the first time I saw the original "Footloose", I have to admit, I thought the premise was totally ridiculous. As IF anyone would or could forbid an entire town from DANCING!
I mean, not only would that be impossible to enforce, but it is also entirely ludicrous to imagine.
I didn't really like the first "Footloose" at all. Kevin Bacon really does creep me right out.
But then I did some thinking. And here's what I came up with:
People have banned weirder things than dancing before... China banned kissing and Russia banned Emo's, for crying out loud!
And what's more fun for ANYONE than the things you're not allowed to do? (Don't tell anyone you heard that here...) I mean... we go crazy for banned books and restricted music and controversial art... Forbidden = Awesome.
So I've decided I'm gonna go see the NEW "Footloose". It's still about a town banning rock and dancing, it's still poking some good-natured fun at hick-life (Y'all get it, we're from Cowtown!) and it's STILL pretty ridiculous. BUT! It's got Julianne Hough. And she's great. And the dancing isn't line-dancing, it's like stomping the yard! And the soundtrack is sick... there's a song by Victoria Justice. And the guy that got Kevin Bacon's role is actually pretty cute.
And remember... sometimes you just gotta CUT LOOSE.
Today marks the start of Banned Book week -- a week where we celebrate our freedom to read whatever we want... even if some people think it is unpopular, unconventional, or just plain wrong.
In honour of our right as Canadians to read ANYTHING and EVERYTHING, Calgary Public Library is holding a contest. There are three ways to enter:
It's that time again! That time of year where we Calgarians count ourselves lucky if we can milk a solid 8 weeks of sunshine out of our summer. That time where we laze around Prince's Island Park trying not to get eaten alive by mosquitoes and geese. That time where we revel in the glory of reading books about… well… ANYTHING … as long as it's not Polynomial Equations, Chemical Nomenclature, or (horror of horrors) Short Historical Fiction from the Canadian Prairies… Unless, you know, you're into that sort of thing.
Whatever sort of thing you ARE into, Calgary Public Library is where it's at. So... Gear up for this summer's YOUTH READ program! Full of challenges created by YOU, we have amped up all our Grand prizes, added new Weekly prizes, as well as ways to intereact with other teens, share your ideas, art, poetry writing and smarts! All this on top of your favourite activity - reading!
We're running our YOUTH READ program from June 16th until August 31st, with contests, events, and some pretty sick prizes to be won all summer long!
*Go to the About This Contest page to learn how Youth Read works and be sure to check out our prizes. If your stymied about what to read, find out what others are reading. Challenges include: Cook/Invent a fabulous recipe, photograph it and submit it. Pick a celebrity & recommend a book they should read. Make a comic strip of a scene from your favourite book. Write a haiku book review of your favourite book and more!
So kick back, relax, and crack the spine of a new favourite, it's time to YOUTH READ 2011!
DISCLAIMER: The creators of this site do not, in any way, recommend the cracking of book spines that have been borrowed from the Calgary Public Library. We also don't recommend you crack the sides of your iPad or your e-Reader either. Or your own spine for that matter -- we can't afford to pay your chiropractic bills… In fact, let's just not crack any spines whatsoever. Instead, let's kick back, relax, and gently-open-the-covers-of-a-well-loved-book or serenely-upload-the-WMA-files-of-an-e-book… it's time to YOUTH READ 2011! (Yay.)


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Iron(III) sulfate
|Iron(III) sulfate
Iron(III) sulfate
Other names
Ferric sulfate
|CAS number
|10028-22-5 ,
15244-10-7 (monohydrate)
|RTECS number
|Jmol-3D images
|Image 1
|Molecular formula
|Molar mass
|399.88 g/mol (anhydrous)
489.96 g/mol (pentahydrate)
562.00 g/mol (nonahydrate)
|grayish-white crystals
|3.097 g/cm3 (anhydrous)
1.898 g/cm3 (pentahydrate)
|Melting point
|480 °C (anhydrous)
175 °C (nonahydrate)
|Solubility in water
|slightly soluble
|sparingly soluble in alcohol
negligible in acetone, ethyl acetate
insoluble in sulfuric acid, ammonia
|Refractive index (nD)
|1.814 (anhydrous)
1.552 (nonahydrate)
|EU Index
|Not listed
|500 mg/kg (oral, rat)
|Related compounds
|Other anions
|Iron(III) chloride
Iron(III) nitrate
|Related compounds
|Iron(II) sulfate
|Except where noted otherwise, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C (77 °F), 100 kPa)
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Iron(III) sulfate (or ferric sulfate), is the chemical compound with the formula Fe2(SO4)3, the sulfate of trivalent iron. Usually yellow, it is a rhombic crystalline salt and soluble in water at room temperature. It is used in dyeing as a mordant, and as a coagulant for industrial wastes. It is also used in pigments, and in pickling baths for aluminum and steel.[1] Medically it is used as an astringent and styptic.[2]
Natural occurrences[edit]
Mikasaite, a mixed iron-aluminium sulfate of chemical formula (Fe3+, Al3+)2(SO4)3[3] is the name of mineralogical form of iron(III) sulfate. This anhydrous form occurs very rarely and is connected with coal fires. The hydrates are more common, with coquimbite (nonahydrate) as probably the most often met among them. Paracoquimbite is the other, rarely met natural nonahydrate. Kornelite (heptahydrate) and quenstedtite (decahydrate) are rarely found. Lausenite (hexa- or pentahydrate) is a doubtful species. All the mentioned natural hydrates are unstable compounds connected with Fe-bearing primary minerals (mainly pyrite and marcasite) oxidation in ore beds. In the solutions of the ore beds oxidation zones the iron(III) sulfate is also an important oxidative agent.
Iron(III) sulfate is produced on a large scale by reacting sulfuric acid, a hot solution of ferrous sulfate, and an oxidizing agent (such as nitric acid or hydrogen peroxide).[4]
- 2FeSO4 + H2SO4 + H2O2 → Fe2(SO4)3 + 2H2O
Mars exploration[edit]
Ferric sulfate and jarosite have been detected by the two martian rovers Spirit and Opportunity. These substances are indicative of strongly oxidizing conditions prevailing at the surface of Mars. In May 2009, the Spirit rover became stuck when it drove over a patch of soft ferric sulfate that had been hidden under a veneer of normal-looking soil.[5] Because iron sulfate has very little cohesion, the rover's wheels could not gain sufficient traction to pull the body of the rover out of the iron sulfate patch. Multiple techniques were attempted to extricate the rover, but the wheels eventually sunk so deeply into the iron sulfate that the body of the rover came to rest on the martian surface, preventing the wheels from exerting any force on the material below them. As the JPL team failed to recover the mobility of Spirit, it signified the end of the journey for the rover.
See also[edit]
- ^ Ferric sulfate. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Retrieved November, 2007.
- ^ Ferric sulfate. Online medical dictionary. Retrieved November, 2007
- ^ Mikasaite
- ^ Iron compounds. Encyclopædia Britannica Article. Retrieved November, 2007
- ^ Chang, Kenneth (2009-05-19). "Mars rover's 5 working wheels are stuck in hidden soft spot". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2009-05-19.
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Note: This event will be taking place at a location outside the San Francisco network of public libraries. For questions concerning the event, please contact the hosting library: North Beach.
Meet a friend at the library for free activities and fun.
Upcoming Events
- First Fridays - Drop In Crafts!
- Friday, October 3, 2014Golden Gate Valley, Golden Gate General Floor Area
- Chess Club
- Saturday, October 4, 2014Excelsior, Excelsior Meeting Room
- Chess Club
- Saturday, October 18, 2014Excelsior, Excelsior Meeting Room
Upcoming Classes
- Make Stuff Mondays!
- Monday, October 6, 2014Visitacion Valley, Visitacion Valley Meeting Room
*Funded by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.


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Warming up to the machine
By Michael Feldstein
What faculty need to know about adaptive learning.
The phrase "adaptive learning" is an umbrella term that applies to an incredibly broad range of technologies and techniques with very different educational applications. The common thread is that they all involve software that observes some aspect of student performance and adjusts what it presents to each student based on those observations. In other words, all adaptive software tries to mimic some part of what a good teacher does, given that every student has individual needs.
Here are a few examples of adaptive learning in action:
- A student using a physics program answers quiz questions about angular momentum incorrectly, so the program offers supplemental materials and more practice problems on that topic.
- A history student answers questions about the War of the Roses correctly the first time, so the program waits an interval of time and then requizzes the student to make sure that she is able to remember the information.
- A math student makes a mistake with the specific step of factoring polynomials while attempting to solve a polynomial equation, so the program provides him with extra hints and supplemental practice problems on that step.
- An English-as-a-second-language student uses incorrect subject-verb agreement in several places in her essay, so the program provides a lesson on that topic and asks her to find and correct her mistakes.
In most cases, the software is adapting to details of student performance that would be obvious to any good instructor if she had the time to observe closely enough. Occasionally, there may be some extra bit of cognitive science knowledge built into the program that the average instructor would not know. For example, most teachers probably don't know the details of how frequently and at what intervals humans should be retested on a memorized fact in order to ensure that fact gets into long-term memory. (And even those teachers who do know generally do not have the time to work one-on-one with students and requiz them appropriately.)
What it's good for
The simplest way to think about adaptive learning products in their current state is as tutors. Tutors, in the American usage of the word, provide supplemental instruction and coaching to students on a one-on-one basis. They are not expected to know everything that the instructor knows, but they are good at helping ensure the students get the basics right. They might quiz students and give them tips to help them remember key concepts. They might help a student get unstuck on a particular step he hasn't quite understood. And above all, they help each student figure out exactly where she is doing well and where she still needs help.
Adaptive learning technologies are potentially transformative in that they may be able to change the economics of tutoring. Imagine if every student in your class could have a private tutor, available to him at any time for as long as he needs. Imagine further that these tutors work together to give you a daily report of your whole class—who is doing well, who is struggling on which concepts, and what areas are most difficult for the class as a whole. How could such a capability change the way you teach? What would it let you spend less of your class time doing, and what else could you spend more of your class time doing instead? How might it affect your students' preparedness and change the kinds of conversations you could have with them? The answers to these questions are certainly different for every discipline and possibly even for every class. The point is that these technologies can open up a world of new possibilities.
What to watch out for
Despite the promise of adaptive technologies, and despite the liberal use of buzz phrases like "big data" and "brain science" by the vendors who create products based on these technologies, adaptive learning systems are not magic. They are tools that should be understood and employed appropriately by skilled educational practitioners. So while they are well worth exploring, there are questions you should ask and issues you should think about before making any big decisions.
To begin with, if you are thinking about trying an adaptive learning product in your class, it is important for you to understand the ways the software adapts to the students. Before you hire a tutor, you want to know what that tutor can and cannot help your students with. You might even want to watch the tutor work so you can see her skills and limitations. The same is true with adaptive software. There is nothing these packages do that you, as an educator, are not capable of understanding from a pedagogical perspective. If the vendor cannot explain the software's capabilities in what amounts to commonsense language about teaching and learning—if all you get is techno-babble—then you should think twice about adopting it. There is no reason why you should have to accept a black box as a teaching product.
Can you trust adaptive technology?
One reason you need to understand how it works is so you can decide how much you trust the software to do what it claims it can do. These are your students, and you are turning them over to the care of a tutor. Do you trust the tutor to teach the right concepts and, perhaps more important, not to give false or misleading guidance? How much you trust your adaptive technology depends a lot on what it is supposed to do. A multiple-choice test question that links incorrect answers with supplemental content is easier to make work right than an essay assessment program that attempts to diagnose student writing problems.
Context also matters. We can tolerate tools that are not perfectly accurate in some cases better than we can in others. Most students learn pretty quickly that a Google search will yield some results that aren't helpful, and they adjust accordingly. Getting them to understand when to trust a grammar checker and when not to trust it is a lot harder.
More broadly, it is critical to develop a clear and well-articulated position on which teaching functions the software can fulfill and which it can't, in order to defend the value of a real college education and the faculty who deliver it. There is a cultural temptation, fed somewhat by eager vendors and a press that tends toward an excess of techno-optimism, to believe that adaptive learning platforms are the future of education and can be full replacements for teacher-facilitated classes.
The root of the problem is not the adaptive technology itself so much as the belief that a "good" education is entirely quantifiable and therefore manageable by computer. When policies to hold schools accountable for student success get reduced to a handful of all-important metrics, there is danger. When the idea arises that machine-assessed competencies capture everything important that a student should learn in a class, there is danger. In these circumstances, the notion of adaptive learning technologies can be abused as a kind of magic incantation by the reductionists.
The countervailing temptation for faculty, then, is to reject all adaptive learning itself as a fraud and a conspiracy to defund education. That temptation should be resisted. Adaptive technologies can have real value and are not going away. They can free up faculty to spend more time doing what they do best in the classroom—work that is not replicable by a machine. Rejecting these capabilities out-of-hand would risk damaging the credibility of faculty while denying students support that could improve their chances of success.
The better approach, from both educational and labor perspectives, is to examine each tool on a case-by-case basis with an open mind, insist on demystifying explanations of how it works, embrace the tools that make educational sense, and think hard about how having them could empower you to be a better teacher and provide your students with richer educational experiences. Don't be content to merely argue that you can't be replaced by a machine. That's a losing strategy. The winning strategy is to prove it.
Michael Feldstein is a partner at MindWires Consulting (www.mindwires.com) and founding co-publisher of the e-Literate weblog (www.mfeldstein.com). Previously, he was an assistant director at the SUNY Learning Network, where he was a member of the United University Professions/NYSUT/AFT.
Reprinted from the Winter 2013-14 issue of On Campus.


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Field Trips
Field trips are a central component of ONT101 Critical Community Studies and expand on course themes of environmental racism, housing/homelessness, immigration and education.
Toxic Tour of the Inland Empire
On this trip, the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice (CCAEJ) will introduce students to the toxic and super-fund sites in the Inland Empire, focusing on Riverside and San Bernardino. This trip and this organization will help contextualize the environmental history of this region and provide a model for community-based organization and action.
Housing Tour
Lack of affordable housing and homelessness comprise a crisis that is transforming the way people utilize and value urban spaces. This trip will introduce students to housing solutions and alternatives that are being implemented in local communities. Housing and homelessness are important aspects of the contemporary urban landscape. This trip introduces you to housing models and alternatives that are being implemented in Los Angeles and the Inland Empire.
U.S.- Mexico Border and Immigration
Our trip to the border will explore many factors involved in understanding immigration and border economies. During this two-day trip to the border, you will explore the many factors involved in understanding immigration and border economies. Particular emphasis will be placed on examining the connection between global market integration, neo-liberal economic policies, and migration and anti-immigrant movements.
Education Panel
The current state of education in the United States is a major site of concern. During the education panel teachers, researchers, and education experts will discuss pertinent social, political, and economic issues surrounding education and educational achievement.