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Make this every Christmas. Rich and creamy. Soooo good. Will never buy store bought eggnog again.
Classic Eggnog
Yield: Makes about 3 qt.
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Chill: 4 Hours
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 12 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 4 cups half-and-half
- 4 cups milk
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup bourbon
- 1/2 cup brandy
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups whipping cream
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1. Gradually add sugar to eggs in a large glass mixing bowl, whisking until blended. Set aside.
- 2. Stir together half-and-half, milk, and salt in a Dutch oven over medium-low heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, 12 to 15 minutes or just until mixture begins to bubble around edges of pan. (Do not boil.)
- 3. Gradually stir half of hot milk mixture into egg mixture. Stir egg mixture into remaining hot milk mixture in Dutch oven.
- 4. Cook mixture over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture slightly thickens and a thermometer registers 160° (about 25 to 30 minutes). Remove from heat, and stir 1 minute. Pour mixture through a fine wire-mesh strainer into a serving bowl. Stir in bourbon, brandy, and vanilla; let cool 1 hour. Cover and chill at least 4 hours.
- 5. Beat whipping cream at high speed with an electric mixer until soft peaks form. Fold whipped cream into chilled eggnog, and sprinkle with nutmeg.
- Eggnog With Coffee and Irish Cream: Prepare recipe as directed, substituting 4 1/2 cups chilled strongly brewed coffee and 3 cups Irish cream liqueur for bourbon and brandy. Prepare and fold in 2 cups whipped cream as directed. Omit nutmeg. Garnish with additional whipped cream and thin chocolate mints, if desired. Makes about 1 gal. Note: For testing purposes only, we used Baileys The Original Irish Cream and Andes Creme de Menthe Thins for chocolate mints.
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What Are You Planning with Your Summer Tomatoes?
Those of you in California are seeing tomatoes everywhere, but we East Coasters haven't quite hit the mother lode yet. Which means we sit around dreaming of exactly what we'll do with those vine-ripe and heirloom beauties when they show up. We can't wait...
First up: Pasta with a simple, fresh, no-cook tomato sauce. We leave some chopped tomatoes settling in olive oil and basil for a few hours, until they are saucy and ready for the hot pasta. We think that's just about the best way to enjoy ripe, juicy tomatoes.
This recipe from Epicurious is the same idea:
We are also looking forward to tomato sandwiches: white bread, good mayonnaise, big tomato slices, and salt. Simple and perfect.
What tomato recipes are you looking forward to (or already enjoying)? What would you like to see on The Kitchn? Let us know!
Related:Recipe: The Perfect Tomato Salad
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My mom's salsa: juicy tomatoes, cilantro, red onion, jalapeno. Sure, you can jazz salsa up with all kinds of different ingredients, fruits, etc., but for me, nothing beats this basic recipe.
GAZPACHO. mmmm, I can't get enough of the stuff. I've got tomatoes on my counter now, waiting for me to go get cilantro and tomato juice.
I'm currently obsessed with making fresh tomato sauce. I've never really seen what the big deal with tomato sauce was, but this has totally changed my mind.
Mediterranean salad with big chunks of tomato, cucumber and feta cheese, tossed with some chopped red onion, olive oil, and herbs.
And lots of tomato sauce.
And oven-dried tomatoes.
I can't wait! We got our very first CSA tomato of the season last week, and it was a beauty.
:) I o.d. on caprese salad all season: heirloom tomatoes, mozarella, fresh basil, balsamic, olive oil, salt and pepper. I can eat it a big pile of it for dinner alone and never need to turn on the stove. Hope you get your fix soon, East Coasters!
We made a huge batch of roasted tomato stock this weekend. Just a simple mirepoix and the oven roasted tomatos put through a food mill. Delicious for soups - the first of which was a tomato basil soup with a bit of orange and finished off with some vanilla goat cheese! so yummy...
This summer seems to be all about the BLTs for me.
I'm a sucker for a tomato salad with nothing but a mixture of heirlooms, cucumber, red onion, good olive oil and red wine vinegar. Or, I just forgo the cukes and onion and have only tomatoes like we did last night.


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I'm trying to create a good Win7 image while I've got time to do it.
For a goodly few years we've had Win XP imaging off to a fine art with sysprep and an answer file, you simply deploy the image by whatever means (we use all of Imagex, Ghost and remove-the-hard-disk-and-bung-it-in-another-pc), reboot the machine and it prompts for any items not specified in the answer file, most usefully the computer name. 10 mins flat and you have a PC correctly named (typos permitting) back in the domain, ready to go.:cool:
7 and Vista seem incredibly clunky in this regard :(- but I've followed bits of this: How To Image and Deploy Windows 7 a Complete Guide - Using sysprep and imagex and used the tool on the site to generate an unattend.xml file in which I've put all the data items, except computer name.
On reboot, there doesn't seem to be any prompting for missing items :(- instead, what I get is a randomly named machine in a workgroup with the same name as the domain I specified in unattend.xml:mad:.
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E. Fayette Street, 1300 block, May 14, 7:45 p.m. A man entered a dollar store, grabbed candy, pushed a salesclerk down and ran out with the merchandise, valued at $3.35.
N. Chester Street, 100 block, May 12, 2 a.m. A man was out walking when someone behind him said, "Kick it out, bitch." He handed over $2 cash and two men, who had been standing behind him, fled.
Shipview Way, 6200 block, May 12, 8 p.m. Police were called to the scene of a robbery, where a man told them two men (who he did not know) had hit him in the head, then had taken money from him and fled. He was taken to the hospital and treated for a dislocated shoulder and cuts and bruises to his face.
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Mason Court, 200 block, May 17, 12:01 a.m. A woman told police she had been involved with an argument with a man she knew only as "Shane" and that "Shane" had bitten her on the arm in a fit of rage.
E. Baltimore Street, 3400 block, May 17, 7:15 p.m. Officers on patrol saw one man chasing another and trying to beat him with a brick. They ordered him to stop and drop the brick. The victim told police he had become involved in an argument with the suspect, who was a stranger to him, and that the suspect had picked up the brick and threatened him with it. The assailant was arrested.
Mason Court, 200 block, May 16, 10 p.m. A woman told police a family member had struck her in the face with a belt.
S. Ann Street, 100 block, May 16, 7 p.m. A man and his roommate got into an argument, and the roommate struck him in the face with a bottle, breaking his tooth.
S. Broadway, 700 block, May 16, 2:10 a.m. Officers on patrol saw a man kicking another in the face as he lay on the ground. They arrested the assailant. The victim suffered injuries to his mouth and lip.
S. Linwood Avenue, 100 block, May 16, 5 a.m. A woman told police that while walking in the park, a man she knew only as "Walter" shoved her onto a bench, struck her in the face with his belt, then choked her with his shirt. She fought back and he fled.
N. Linwood Avenue, 400 block, May 14, 5;10 p.m. A man told police he was walking into his house through a back door when he felt a pain in his back. He removed a B.B. later, but was unsure who had shot him.
S. Potomac Street, unit block, May 12, 4 p.m. A man told police he had been standing in his kitchen with a friend he knew only as "Mark", when the two became involved in an argument. "Mark" pulled out a knife and threatened him and the first man fled.
Steelton Avenue, 1100 block, May 12, 11 p.m. A woman told police she and her boyfriend had become involved in an argument, and the boyfriend had hit her in the head several times with a hammer, then fled.
S. Decker Avenue, unit block, May 19, 9 a.m. Someone entered a home through an unlocked back window and took a computer.
N. Conkling Street, 200 block, May 17, 9 a.m. Someone entered a home through the front door and took property including a TV. The homeowner could not remember whether the front door had been locked.
Folcroft Street, 300 block, May 16, 10 p.m. Someone cut a window screen and entered a house, then stole a Ray Lewis helmet and a jar of coins.
Eastbourne Avenue, 6200 block, May 15, 1:20 p.m. A man returned home to find his home had been broken into, and a man present. The suspect asked the man if he lived there. The homeowner said no, then went out and called police who arrested that suspect as well as a second man who was on the premises.
N. Potomac Street, 500 block, May 14, 10:27 a.m. A woman told police her brother's girlfriend, whom she knew only as "Bonnie," kicked in the front door and walked inside. When confronted by the homeowner, "Bonnie" said, "You heard me knocking, or you heard the dog, so I kicked in your f–ing door." She then turned around and walked out.
N. Rose Street, 200 block, May 13, 2:45 a.m. A woman was at home when a man tried to break in through her front window. She confronted him, and he said, "Don't worry, I am nobody," and then fled.
Spark Court, 2000 block, May 10, 5:52 p.m. A man told police he was in the process of moving when someone kicked in his rear door and stole property including a TV, game system, computer and Ralph Lauren boots. He was not able to name a suspect, stating his roommate was incarcerated.
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Wednesday Dec. 12, City Council will address several items, including the possibility of putting a moratorium on new grocery stores east of Hwy 101, as well as on all supstores in South City.
In recent months, the city became aware of Walmart's interest in moving into the current Lowe's building east of 101. Council has had several public conversations about whether such an addition to the city would have positive effects. Last month, city staff and consultants conducted a study on how a superstore would affect the local economy.
At his final meeting as a city councilmember last month, newly elected State Assemblyman Kevin Mullin pushed to agendenize a discussion of a possible moratorium. Adopting such a moratorium would buy the city time decide whether it actually wants the superstore to move in.
South City residents have expressed strong opinions both for and against a Walmart superstore in South City.
Last week, the city received a letter from Lowe's Vice President of Real Estate Timothy L. Cooksey, urging the city not to impose a moratorium on superstores. Such a move, the letter said, could have a negative effect on the Lowe's ability to find a new tenant for the space, in the event that Lowe's leaves that location.
Members of the public will have a chance to speak at Wednesday's public hearing on the topic.
Also on Wednesday's meeting agenda is the final approval of an ordinance to prohibit single-use bags in retail establishments in South City, which goes into effect April 2013. Non-profits and restaurants are generally excluded from the requirement.
Stores will still be allowed to hand out recycled paper bags or reusable bags, if they charge at least 10 cents. Beginning in 2015, that minimum fee will go up to 25 cents. Retail establishments will be subject to fines of varying amounts up to $500, if they are found to be in violation of the new code.
The meeting agenda, attached to this story, also includes:
- A resolution to adopt a grant program with InnVision/Shelter Network to create a Permanent Urban Supportive Housing Program and a Homeless Outreach Team to address the problem of chronic homelessness in South City.
- Motion to appoint new representatives to the Conference Center Authority Board.
- Appointment of South City resident Frank Risso as City Treasurer (this will occurr at 6:55pm, just before the regular meeting begins.)
- Loan agreements between the city and the Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency.
- Update on applications received for the open City Council seat, which are due at 5:00 p.m. Dec. 13
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Greetings, all
Hope this finds you well. I don't know if you read the story about Georgia State starting 5-2, but if you didn't, here's the link. But anyway, I said Tuesday I was going to compare Georgia State with other first-year teams and, if you read it, you realize that I didn't do that. I had a lot of things I wanted to get into the story – some of which was on the blog Tuesday – but I was not able to, mostly because to touch on all the things I wanted to, the story probably would have had to be twice as long as it was.
Anyway, I did end up looking at the best start-ups, at least for FCS. It wasn't quite as easy as I'd hoped. For one thing, do you include schools that had football previously and then started it again decades later? Plus, the NCAA's list of schools that have started football since 1968 doesn't seem to be complete, which makes me wonder if there's schools not listed that also were start-ups that I'm not aware of.
That said, here are my findings.
Best start-up season by record for an FCS (I-AA) team:
Robert Morris, 1994 – 7-1-1
Old Dominion, 2009 – 9-2
Georgia Southern, 1984 – 8-3
Villanova, 1985 – 5-0
Cal St.-Fullerton, 1970 – 6-4-1
As best I could tell, no other FCS team was over .500. South Florida, a team to which I've seen a lot of comparisons, went 5-6 in 1997.
The most interesting things I found out while looking up all this stuff (disclaimer – some of this material comes from Wikipedia, which I wouldn't do for a story. But trying to find out at 9 p.m. whether or not Canisius' first football team was Division I-AA and what its record was is not as easy as you'd think.)
1. In its first game in 2001, Florida Atlantic drew more than 25,000 to what was then called Pro Player Stadium. (sound familiar?)
2. In the 50's, Georgia traveled to Philadelphia to play Villanova.
3. The first points scored by Monmouth were by a player who intercepted a pass on a two-point conversion attempt.
4. I guess I knew this, but it's still remarkable to me that Georgia Southern won a I-AA title in its second year.
5. Florida Atlanta Atlantic was 11-3 and finished No. 4 in I-AA in its third year.
6. UNLV used to be Nevada Southern University.
I have more to say about what constitutes a successful start-up year, but I've got to run. You're welcome to provide your own definitions.
One other link: A blog post about secondary and special teams coach Anthony Midget in the Daily Press in Virginia.
UPDATE, 11:55 a.m. – this is an argument you could use to explain how GSU's schedule is stronger than ODU's.
Team, record and season-ending Sagarin ratings for ODU 2009
Fordham – 5-6, 188
Jacksonville – 7-4, 194
N.C. Central – 4-7, 234
Presbyterian - 0-11, 236
Campbell – 3-8, 240
Georgetown – 0-11, 241
Savannah State – 2-8, 244
not included: Chowan and Virginia Union, both D-II schools
GSU 2010, current record and Sagarin ratings
Alabama – 6-1, 12
Jacksonville State – 7-0, 83
South Alabama – 6-0, 108
Old Dominion – 3-3, 151
Lamar – 3-4, 187
Morehead State – 2-4, 222
Campbell – 2-4, 227
N.C. Central – 0-7, 229
Savannah State – 0-7, 235
(not included: Shorter and Lambuth, two NAIA schools)
ODU's schedule has six teams 200 or higher (which you could argue is an arbitrary number), GSU has four. ODU's highest-rated team is 188 – GSU's schedule has five teams better than that. (GSU, by the way, is 174. There are 245 teams ranked — all of the FBS and FCS schools.)
One thing GSU has going for it that ODU didn't is that it couldn't play GSU, Lamar and South Alabama because they hadn't started playing yet. If GSU had started in 2009 and not ODU, maybe its schedule would have been weaker, also. And strength of schedule only means something if you can play up to it. You can argue GSU has a stronger schedule but it won't mean much if the Panthers get torpedoed over the next four games.
(Counter argument – Sagarin ratings aren't worth the paper they're printed on.)
October 20th, 2010
9:38 am
By definition the best first year team would be OD. They had the most wins and if you look at there schedule they played only two D2 teams, both of which they defeated. Robert Morris and Coastal Carolina played more non-D1 schools there 1st years. The Panthers can claim it only if they beat Alabama to negate the loss to Lambuth. But both us and OD are too young still to classify as "best program" beyond the first year.
I can't believe Ga So won a 1AA title in its second year. That might make them the best startup program if you look at it objectively.
October 20th, 2010
9:44 am
Villanova started playing football in 1894, but they dropped football in 1980. The regents voted to restart the program in 1983, and began play in 1985. Not from a Wiki; but an actual Villanova site (oldlibrarysite.villanova.edu)
This is funny: The Villanova site spells "losing" as "loosing". I think that website author posts to ajc sports blogs under several names.
October 20th, 2010
9:50 am
It's a different sport and in the pros, but the Chicago Fire of Major League Soccer won a championship and the U.S. Open Cup in their expansion year. Of course, that league only had a few teams at the time.
October 20th, 2010
9:57 am
Ken – LOL @ "Florida Atlanta"…must have been a late night for you buddy. But anyway, perhaps comparing the Sagarin ratings of teams that ODU played last year to the Sagarin ratings of teams that GSU played this year. Of course you proabably should throw out "outliers" (like Alabama) on both sides. But that could be a start. There are some other websites like "Atomic Football" and I believe the "Massey Ratings" that also give ratings/statistics for non-Division I schools (like Chowan, Virginia Union, Lambuth, and Shorter). They may help in your analysis.
October 20th, 2010
10:28 am
Good article Ken. If GSU can manage to make it to 8-3 do you think that is more impressive than Southern's 8-3? Or is it too difficult to compare 2010 to 1984?
October 20th, 2010
10:32 am
Also, might want to make some edits to your article that you linked. First sentence doesn't make sense, "loath", etc. Is Rodney Ho your editor?
October 20th, 2010
10:47 am
5-2 is remarkable ! I wish they were starting Colonial League play next season rather then 2012.
Also looking foward to a natural in state rivalry starting with Georgia Southern. They may have to open up the top half of the Dome for that one.
Go Panthers !
October 20th, 2010
11:58 am
If we finish the season 9-2 (you know what that means) then we are then the best start up ever. Period.
October 20th, 2010
12:05 pm
BTW, I started to do a little research on one of our future opponents, South Alabama, to look into their undefeated record this season. Turns out that their schedule this year has at least 4 maybe 5 NAIA opponents. Didn't have time to confirm all of them. Also, the combined record of all the teams on their schedule to this point (excluding GSU) is 23-37. Remarkably, the only two teams on their schedule with a winning record is us and the Henderson State Reddies (4-2). Looks like they are not as tough as they seem.
October 20th, 2010
12:10 pm
Might better consider the University of South Alabama. Very easy schedule early. Win over Lamar with UC-Davis next to be followed by Geeorgia State will be very intersting.
October 20th, 2010
12:37 pm
"From here on out, there are no games more against teams that don't offer scholarships"
I'm assuming it's supposed to be 'no more games.' One way or the other, I blame Rodney Ho.
October 20th, 2010
1:33 pm
If GSU ends up 9-2, Saban will most assuredly have a brick thrown through his window.
October 20th, 2010
1:44 pm
Ken, what did you expect? You have a football blog for one of the best research universities in the country…the alum are going to do their homework.
October 20th, 2010
1:51 pm
I believe we are going to whip Old Dominon and South Alabama! I look forward to this Saturday's game in Norfolk. I have called COMCAST and no one can explain whether or not the game will be televised in the Atlanta market. Go figure? Also, it is official, we now have front license plates available with the new POUNCE logo. The link is listed below. Better to call Custom Engraving Company / Imprint Promotions at (888) 605-2572 Toll free. GO PANTHERS!
October 20th, 2010
2:35 pm
Y'all are right about the two years of club ball, but our inaugural season of 1-AA was impressive. We opened against Florida A&M, a former 1-AA national champion, and shut them out 14-0. We were stoked about making the playoffs our first year, but Middle Tennessee State waxed us in the season's final game, keeping us out. Revenge was sweet when we met them in the second round of the '85 playoffs and upset them when they opened the playoffs undefeated and ranked #1. MTSU was our bitterest rival in those days. I already hear the rumblings of this among your fans, and we have gone round and round about this for years. I prefer FCS and winning or losing titles on the field while others want to go FBS to get more mention on ESPN and such. I don't want to go on anyone's homecoming tour, and all of our titles are EARNED and worthy of respect. We are D1 and if levels have such an effect, then the mythical NC of the BCS means nothing compared to the NFL's Super Bowl championship.
Sorry to use so much bandwidth, but you can call us a startup even after fielding a team in the 40's. The story about our having to run across the street to buy a football for Erk to hold at his initial press conference is true. We had nothing, and Erk built a championship program out of thin air. It truly is amazing and is the reason those of us there in the beginning are so proud and dedicated to our Eagles. I wish GSU success, but you guys could cool off on the mouth a bit.
October 20th, 2010
3:16 pm
I think if GSU has a 8-3 season it would be more impressive than ODUs 9-2 and here's why. For us to finish 8-3 we have to go 3-1 in our final 4. These 4 games include 1 at home (should be a win) and 2 on the road at ODU and South Alabama both of which will be 19K+ in hostile attendance playing against teams with good records and then of course the game at Alabama. If we are to assume we'll lose that game, going 3-1 will mean winning at both ODU and South Alabama.
I will be extremely impressed with the team if we win those two games at ODU and SA. I think 8-3 is entirely possible but something in my gut says 7-4 is going to be our 2010 record. 9-2??? Yes, the best start-up ever.
October 20th, 2010
3:20 pm
GSUAlumBaseball81: I don't see any GSU plates on that site…???
October 20th, 2010
3:24 pm
I think what Georgia Southern accomplished is amazing, however I don't think Ken was trying to downplay what you guys did. He was just trying to figure what a "true start-up" is and after reading the article I don't think anyone can come to a definite conclusion of what a one really is.
Also, thanks for telling us to cool off on the mouth, but we are really excited to finally have a football team; being that we are in Atlanta (home of the future College Football Hall of Fame), have an extremely large student body, and a really large alumni base, I think the future of GSU's Football program looks really bright and we are not ashamed to show it.
Go Panthers!!!
October 20th, 2010
4:26 pm
Doesn't meet all your criteria, I guess, but West Georgia restarted its program in 1981 and won its first nine games before losing in the Division II playoffs. The next year, WGC won the Division II national championship .
October 20th, 2010
5:00 pm
lol @ egeagle – i think that was the first time you've wrote something which doesn't begin with bad mouthing us. Cooling our mouthes wouldn't be necessary if there weren't so many trolls here in the first place.
October 20th, 2010
7:41 pm
@GSU Grad06
Better to call Custom Engraving Company / Imprint Promotions at (888) 605-2572 Toll free. Ask for Nicole. They have created a new plate through the NCAA's recognition of our new logo. Mine are in the mail and yours can be too! They did not even know we had a football team. Now they do and are excited about having a license plate for us. They look awesome as I could not display on this AJC Blog, You will be impressed. BE THE FIRST!!! GO PANTHERS!!! Our book store is adamant on selling us the old POUNCE. They are missing out!
October 20th, 2010
7:50 pm
West Georgia won a Division III national championship in 1982 still impressive non the less.
October 21st, 2010
10:22 am
Y'all bring trolls by putting others down without provocation, and ours is a very proud fanbase. I didn't think Ken was putting us down; I gave you eyewitness accounts of what did happen. We have tons of experience in hearing smack from all sorts of programs, and we aren't in the habit of backing down. In many ways, y'all are doing much as we did. Two years of ineligibility for the playoffs featuring a mix of teams leading to 1984's debut in 1-AA. You guys have the luxury of more money and media fanfare. We had the magic of Erk Russell, instant credibility, and a fanbase with a bad case of the wants. There are similarities aplenty. As I said earlier, you'll do well to approach what we did, but expect a scolding from your elders when the smack level overflows. Good luck and soften up Alabama for us. We invade next year.
October 22nd, 2010
10:53 am
I thought State had football as a club sport for a few years prior to 2010??? http://www.freewebs.com/gsuclubfootball/index.htm


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Difference between an applied math and pure math degree.
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From what I've heard, both do theory, but applied math has a lot more computational and applicable electives, vs. the theoretical based electives of pure math.
Jun2-11, 01:30 AM
The focus is completely different, but things do overlap.
In applied math, we take results from pure math to solve actual problems in the real world.
I'll give you a concrete example.
Take for example linear models in statistics. The goal of linear models is to use linear equations (think matrices) to measure various statistics and use them to draw inferences.
Now the framework uses a lot of results from linear algebra including idempotent matrices, least squares, psuedo-inverse matrices, and so on to calculate something useful.
Contrast this to pure math, where if you were say a research in linear algebra, you might have been working on the theory of pseudo-inverses and its calculation for generic square matrices. You probably don't care that (or least don't have the perspective that) a statistician needs your work to estimate a linear model. You are likely to be more interested in studying some generic situation and trying to use the existing work of pure mathematicians to extend their work to a more generic situation.
Maybe you have come across some problem that was a previous thought experiment of a previous pure mathematician and you become interested in it. It may have no immediate scientific application, and may just be a curiosity, but what it may do is lead to further results, and maybe results that form an analytic framework for some analysis of a more generalized model.
One thing you should remember is that a lot of applied math nowadays is using the pure math that was developed before. Think about all the stuff that engineers use in their daily work from signal analysis to optimization, to cryptography, it's all there.
Sometimes it's hard to distinguish between pure and applied, but if a particular topic is used to solve a particular problem in some applied science, then it is applied.
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Janis Joplin (1943-1970), her voice is just… breathtaking.
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February 24 - March 1, 2014 is Peace Corps Week and we are celebrating by highlighting EGPAFâs amazing work with U.S. Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) in Mozambique.
February 24 - March 1, 2014 is Peace Corps Week and we are celebrating by highlighting EGPAFâs amazing work with U.S. Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) in Mozambique.
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Leku Book Project Update!
Family, friends, and followers,
First, Happy Holidays! I hope you're all healthy and warm this winter. Second, THANK YOU SO MUCH for those who have already sent us books! I am so grateful for every single contribution / book you have ordered for us. I don't mean to be so cheesy, but you are truly changing these students' lives over here!
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How many books have been donated so far to Leku Primary School?
My students and I have received 78 book donations so far!! [Updated Jan. 5, 2014] This is incredible to say the least, I am so humbled and touched by your contributions, THANK YOU AGAIN.
How are these books going to be used exactly?
Every day students come to my classroom during their break time to read, so we will use your donated books to have read alouds, reader's theater, and free reading time, to increase the literacy rate in Leku, as well as build students' love for reading. Also, any time I have a club meeting (Girls club, English club, HIV/AIDS + Grassroot Soccer club), students who come in early get to sit down and read your books!
What is your goal [# of books donated] to the school / students?
I would love to boast 120 children's story books donated for my students and school, but of course the 78 that we already will be receiving is 78 more than they will ever have access to!
How can I help you reach your goal of 120 books?
Through betterworldbooks.com, you can send us a used book (or as many as you wish) to my town with no additional shipping costs! Yes, FREE SHIPPING! And many books cost as little as $5. After you ordered the book(s), please email me which ones you sent, as well as your mailing address for thank you cards!
Shipping address:
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Should I donate a book as a Christmas present to OhnSoon?
YES YES YES. I promise it would make me and my students happier than any other gift you would want to send me. And don't worry about Christmas being only a few days away, Ethiopian Christmas is not until January 7th!
I already donated, what else can I do?
First of all, you are an AMAZING human being! Secondly, please wait for thank you cards and pictures from my students. And lastly, spread the word! Email, facebook, twitter, tumblr, hand-written notes, whichever way you like :)I am in a giving mood, can I contribute to something else?
Check out all the other Peace Corps Volunteers in Ethiopia who are receiving BetterWorldBooks for their communities![Awesome charts, graphs, data about us here, made by our own PCV Carlin: http://americaninethiopia.blogspot.com/2013/12/peace-corps-ethiopia-literacy-projects.html] And if you would like to send another volunteer a book, let me know and I can give you their address.
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Here in California, we do not have the autumn hues to rival New Hampshire or Colorado. Nevertheless, the Sierra Nevada mountain range attracts a good number of photographers and seekers of fall colors every autumn. Yosemite Valley, situated on the western slopes of the Sierras has its own display, thanks to the Black Oaks, Maple, Cottonwoods and Dogwoods, which flourish here. Apart from these, there is the famous Elm tree in Cook's meadow, which in peak color offers a memorable light show at sunrise and I believe it to be the most photographed Elm in the world.
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This is a guest post by one of our Landscape Photography Workshop participants, Emily Fagan (check out her excellent RV blog), who sent me the article along with some pictures, after attending our workshop earlier this year. She sent it to me a while ago, but after getting swamped with too much work and trying to balance things at home with a new baby in our house, my mailbox eventually got flooded with emails and I did not have a chance to get to it for a long time. I hope you enjoy this guest post and get to participate in our future workshops!
Landscape Photography Workshop in Colorado's Peak Fall Foliage
Major Topics Covered:
– Sunrise tripod shot with manual camera settings
– Use of polarizing and graduated neutral density filters
– Composition using leading lines, triangles and the rule of thirds
– Use of hyperfocal distance to maximize depth of field
– West Dallas Creek, Dallas Creek and Last Dollar Roads between Ridgway and Telluride, Colorado.
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Getting Started: The Morning Shot
In the cold pre-dawn hours of September 22nd, 2012, my husband Mark and I crawled out of our warm bed and piled into our truck with all our camera gear and a couple of peanut-butter sandwiches to take part in Nasim Mansurov's Colorado Fall Foliage Landscape Photography Workshop. Mark and I each take about 15,000 photos per year with our twin Nikon D5100's, but this was our first photography workshop.
McClure Pass in Fall
I have been so busy during the last couple of months, that I have not had a chance to work on any of the images from my recent trips. October is always a busy month for me, because I try to travel as much as I can in Colorado and Wyoming to capture the fall colors. This year was different than the previous several years, because we got some heavy snow in the mountains right when the leaves started changing colors. Because of this, many of the areas lost a lot of leaves very quickly. The window of opportunity to capture the beauty was only about 5-7 days and unfortunately, I was a little late (but more on that later).
Here is an image of fall colors right before we got hit with the heavy snow:
The photograph was taken with the Nikon D7000 and Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G lens, without any filters. Actually, I could not use a filter, because the image was shot as a panorama (24 vertical images). As I have explained in my "how to photograph panoramas" article, using filters while photographing panoramas is a bad idea. Although the lighting conditions were ideal with the sun directly behind me, I was actually surprised by how the D7000 captured the scene. Its dynamic range is indeed very impressive and it just makes very colorful and beautiful images.
Post-processing in Photoshop took me about 5 minutes after stitching the image. I first started out by cropping the stitched image, then brightened up the shadows a little and adjusted the levels. Sharpened it up by around 40% in Nik's Sharpener Pro, then saved and closed the image. The image popped up in Lightroom, I then increased the clarity a little to bring out the clouds and the trees, then exported from Lightroom at 80% resolution, adding our watermark using the same technique described in my "how to watermark a photo in Lightroom" article.
San Juan Mountains Trip
After a crazy work and travel schedule, we are now back! San Juan mountains were breathtaking, I cannot believe that I have not been there before, although I have lived in Colorado for over 12 years now. The colors were beautiful and vivid, but the skies were too clear without a single cloud…
Fall colors of this year
The summer is over and I'm putting together a plan to photograph the fall colors of Colorado. The whole transition from green to yellow, then from yellow to red before the leaves fall off from aspens happens in a very short window of time, lasting 2-3 weeks maximum. If it gets rainy or windy, the leaves fall off even quicker, leaving very little time to photograph the magic of the fall.
It was still about a week early as of last weekend, with the greens getting lighter in color and some trees already getting some yellow tint:
Shot with the Nikon D5000 and 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR lens.
Fall colors right outside
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If you can't laugh about our life in American Samoa, then the gatekeepers have done their job — to make us pay for their lifestyles with our hard earned money, while browbeating us into believing right and wrong has to do with how much we give at the altar…
Dear Editor,
We would like to draw the attention of golfers to the existing situation at the golf course ever since the new starter (Loma) was assigned the responsibility.
The lady needs considerable improvement with her manners to deal with the public instead of using unpleasant tones often noticed by golfers everyday.
As a starter, she must learn to follow rules and apply them equally among golfers regardless of their divisional standings.
Dear Editor,
Watching the news, I am sickened by those members of Congress who are opposing the President's position of no ground troops in Syria/Iraq at this time. Haven't we learned our lesson from the last time?
George Bush sent tens of thousands of our ground troops to go fight a war that had nothing to do with us. It's so easy for them to say "send in the troops" — because none of their children have to fight these wars.
Dear Editor
A few years ago, around 14,000 signatures were taken to President Obama requesting the delay of the minimum wage increases. All of the signatories knew the sacrifices of a lot of workers and their families in stopping the increases, but many of them signed the petition anyway.
The FY 2015 budget is in Fono hearings, and as far as I can hear or see — there is nothing good coming out of these hearings for our economy or for our future. It's not coming out of the Executive Branch, and it's certainly not being proposed by our esteemed Fono.
In fact, over the last several weeks of the FY 2015 budget hearings what has become apparent is that the Executive and Legislative branches of our government are focused on a siva for pay raises. That's their focus, period.
Monday's issue of the Samoa News incorrectly named the owners of Pacific Independent Distributors (PID) as Frank and Helen Gaisoa, in a Community Brief that identified PID, under the umbrella of the Tautua Mo Oe (TMO) family of businesses as the major sponsor for the Miss American Samoa beauty pageant.
Frank Gaisoa Sr. is the owner of TMO and it is his son Fritz and daughter-in-law Helen who own and operate PID.
Dear Editor,
Where do I even begin? Do I begin with the ASRU and their malicious attempts against the players— or with their compromising the player's safety just so they don't have to go through a lot of work?
Ultimately, in any organization or business — be it for profit or non-profit — there is a "governing body" that takes responsibility for the conduct and performance of its people and the quality of its services or products, THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY!
Wow — what a concept — "Last Man Standing"… GONGGG!
In the case of the government I would say:
THE GOOD is…
Dear Editor,
This letter is in response to Mother and Advocate, Tafaimamao Tua-Tupuola. I can only imagine the amount of heartache and frustration that you have had to experience while dealing with the complex and sometimes convoluted systems surrounding mental health locally. While not a mother myself, I have worked with countless parents who wanted nothing but the best for their children and were fearful of the irreversible consequences of mental illness (i.e., homicide or suicide).
The announcement of Robin Williams' death silenced the world of comedy and put the rest of the world in a state of confusion with whispers of 'suicide'. Unsure if it was a question or confirmation, many believed it just couldn't be true. Just the thought of no longer seeing his robust energy make it difficult for a TV interview or watching him brighten up the saddest person, helping someone to grin just a little… he brought so much laughter into family homes all the while silently keeping so much within.
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Protection, or Plunder?
The following story appeared in the Fall/Winter 2012 issue of Born Free USA's magazine, Animal Issues Digest.
"CITES is a disaster, isn't it?" The question could not have been more blunt and to the point. The journalist was filming me on a steamy summer afternoon in Geneva, Switzerland, outside the meeting room where the Standing Committee to CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) was debating the future of elephant ivory trade, the export of wild-caught gray parrots from Cameroon, and China's role in the disastrous trade in tiger parts.
"Well …" I replied, choosing my words with care — this was on the record after all — "imagine that CITES didn't exist. And then someone came along and said, 'Why don't we create an international agreement to try and control the trade in wildlife species — plant and animal, live and dead — to try and make sure that human commerce doesn't drive species to extinction? And why don't we make it an internationally binding agreement? And why don't we say that if you break the rules all trade in wildlife products from your country can be suspended? And why don't we aim to have 90 percent of the countries in the world join …' If CITES didn't exist and someone suggested such a treaty, it would never happen."
But CITES does exist. And it does help control the wildlife trade. And it is binding. And it is supported by an overwhelming majority of the nations of the world.
CITES is not just the best game in town, it's the only game in town. And with 175 nations having signed the treaty, agreeing to adhere to its regulations about trading in wildlife, it provides a measure of protection to wildlife that wouldn't otherwise exist. It's the biggest wildlife treaty in existence and without it countless species would decline further in the wild.
CITES plays a major role in ensuring that wildlife is not over-exploited in international trade; and Born Free USA plays a major role in ensuring that CITES works for wildlife.
I have attended every CITES Meeting of the Conference of the Parties since 1989 and my colleague in our Washington, DC, office, Adam Roberts, has attended each one since 1994. Add our Canadian colleague Barry Kent MacKay's experience and that's much more than half a century of fighting for wildlife among us. We're certainly getting old — and fighting in the CITES arena surely ages us more rapidly as the rooms, the hallways, the bars and restaurants are all filled not only with government delegates, but also ruthless ivory traders, whalers, sealers, caviar and tuna dealers, zoo and circus and aquarium industry representatives, exotic pet merchants, and countless others looking to exploit wild animals for profit.
The Parties to CITES will convene again in Bangkok, Thailand next March and the very future of elephants, rhinoceroses, West African manatees, sharks, reptiles, birds and other species will be decided there. Which way the pendulum swings — protection or plunder — depends on the strength and success of the efforts of compassionate conservationists across the globe.
As I'm writing this, on Halloween, The New York Times reports that more than 200 elephant tusks have been seized in Tanzania and notes, "Poaching has become a curse in Tanzania and other sub-Saharan African countries." The newspaper quotes a senior Tanzanian member of Parliament, Peter Msigwa, who said, "Poaching was out of control in the country, with an average of 30 elephants being slaughtered for their ivory every day."
It defies logic then that Tanzania is asking CITES to approve weakening protection for its elephant population under CITES; to allow trade in elephant trophies; to allow trade in elephant hides including feet, ears and tails; to allow trade in live elephants; and to allow trade in literally hundreds of thousands of pounds of raw ivory from Tanzania's government stockpile.
We have learned some valuable lessons from the past half-century of global ivory trade: (1) The ivory trade is a bloody business that leads to the slaughter of individual animals, the decimation of families, and the precipitous decline of wild elephant populations in Africa; (2) Any legal trade in elephant ivory leaves it wide open for poachers and ivory profiteers to kill elephants, launder ivory and profit by this international illegal trade; and (3) Proceeds from the sale of stockpiled ivory are not proven to benefit local communities in Africa or elephant conservation initiatives where it matters most.
Born Free will stand strong with our colleagues across Africa, from Kenya to Mali to Burkina Faso to Sierra Leone, to say "No!" to any resumption of the bloody ivory trade.
Africa's rhinos are at risk too, black and white, from poachers seeking to cruelly extract their valuable horns and sell them surreptitiously the Far East where they are used as fanciful aphrodisiacs and bogus medical cures.
Currently, the southern white rhino in South Africa and Swaziland cannot only be traded alive (they often are kept in captivity in anticipation of the day when they can be "farmed" for their horns) but can also be killed as trophies (a loophole that enables a legal international trade in rhino horn). Kenya, to its credit, has recognized the rampant poaching of rhinos now occurring in Africa to illegally supply global markets, and is petitioning CITES Parties to close part of the current loophole by placing a moratorium on all trade in hunting trophies from South Africa and Swaziland until at least the 18th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties of CITES, which should take place around 2020!
Trophy hunting has created a window for a legal rhino horn trade that is now being exploited by poachers to the tune of one rhino slaughtered every 15 hours in South Africa alone. And now some people (particularly those who "own" dozens, even hundreds, of rhinos on private ranches in South Africa) are pushing to legalize the rhino horn trade — something that will only serve to fuel the poaching epidemic.
High praise to Kenya's CITES representatives for working to protect the continent's beleaguered rhinos before the horn trade drives them to extinction.
But there are wildlife champions elsewhere in Africa, including the French-speaking nations of Gabon and Senegal, and English-speaking Sierra Leone, which are jointly proposing to increase protection for the West African manatee (or in French, "Lamantin d'Afrique de l'Ouest") because of serious habitat degradation and poaching, often for the animal's meat. The fat, skin and internal organs are also consumed in traditional African medicines. In Niger, for instance, a whole manatee carcass can sell for $400 U.S.; in Senegal the meat fetches $2 to $3 per kilo; and in Nigeria a liter of manatee oil can bring $300 to a trader. Born Free will work in Bangkok with our francophone Africa allies to stop the commercial trade in manatees.
The agenda extends beyond Africa's borders, of course, and we thankfully have champions across the globe. The United States, for instance, has recognized the impact on polar bears of climate change as well as sport and commercial hunting and is proposing to heighten trade restrictions on these imperilled Arctic animals. The United States also is proposing listing a number of reptiles under CITES to provide them additional protection not previously enjoyed: the spotted turtle, Blanding's turtle, and the diamondback terrapin.
In recent years, sharks have gotten the attention (but rarely the protection) of CITES Parties everywhere as the practice of "finning" results in an estimated 100 million shark deaths annually. This process causes sharks to be caught, their fins brutally lopped off, and the still-living shark's body thrown back to sea to slowly die — all to satisfy the Asian appetite for shark fin soup. Sharks also are caught in commercial fisheries for their meat and in sport fisheries. At this meeting, protection is being sought by Brazil and others for the porbeagle shark, oceanic whitetip shark, and three species of hammerheads.
CITES protects some 33,000 species, most of them plants, and will consider no fewer than 70 species at the March meeting. In addition, delegates will wrestle over scores of implementation issues: the conservation of elephants, seahorses, great apes, cheetahs, Asian big cats, leopards, Tibetan and saiga antelope, hawksbill sea turtles, snakes, sharks, stingrays ... the list goes on and on. And so do the deliberations and the debates. Is CITES working for these species? Can more be done?
People often ask: Why attend CITES? Does it make any difference? Isn't it a waste of time? My answer is emphatically "no!"
The decisions taken at CITES meetings are vitally important. Those 33,000 species at least have some degree of protection because the treaty provides it. Take away CITES and that protection is stripped away.
Whether protection prevails over plunder is up to CITES Parties, but it's also up to us. I promise we'll stand up and be counted for the animals in Bangkok in a few months' time.


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The Summer Arabic Intensive at Zaytuna College is a six-week program that provides the equivalent of one year of Arabic language credit in an environment designed for concentrated learning. The program integrates reading, writing, and elocution at an accelerated pace. Students live and learn just blocks from the historic University of California–Berkeley campus.
The rhythm of life at the Arabic Intensive aligns with the norms of Islamic faith and practice. Classroom instruction occurs shortly after the dawn (fajr) and noon (Dhuhr) prayers. A substantive break between these periods of instruction allows time for collaborative learning, homework, the reading of texts, memorization (ḥifz) and practice of Qurʾān recitation (tajwīd), or for rest.
Given that the 2014 summer program coincides with the lunar month of Ramadan, students are invited to participate in the night prayer (tarāwīḥ)—a time that is accompanied by additional sessions on Qurʾānic Arabic and lectures for enrichment. Students who are not Muslim but are open to studying in a devotional (yet non-proselytizing) setting in which Arabic is taught as a sacred language are welcome at the program.
The Summer Arabic Intensive also fulfills the one-year Arabic language pre-requisite for admission into the undergraduate program at Zaytuna College, which aims to prepare students to access the classical Islamic scholarly tradition. This happens through a curriculum that begins with elocution, continues with systematic and sustained training in grammar, and culminates with rhetoric, poetry, and literature.
Students at Zaytuna take five years of Arabic (including the one-year prerequisite fulfilled by this Summer Arabic Intensive program) in order to earn a four-year undergraduate degree. The Arabic Intensive also offers an additional level of Arabic that corresponds to the first year of study in the undergraduate program.
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Qur'ānic Arabic
Qur'ānic Arabic is designed for entry-level students with little or no prior study in Arabic. The class begins with the Qāʿidah Nūrāniyyah for the recognition of the alphabet. Emphasis is placed on Qur'ānic Arabic; proper elocution and recitation (tajwīd); vocabulary acquisition with special attention to Qurʾānic vocabulary, key forms, and patterns for the derivation of words; and an overview of the structure of the language. Students learn basic grammatical terms through English Grammar for Students of Arabic, learn strategies for efficiently navigating through Arabic-English lexicons, and commence a five-year journey to memorize 5000 words—the entire collection in A Frequency Dictionary of Arabic—over the course of the Zaytuna undergraduate program, or through further study at other institutions.
Learning Outcomes
- Fluent reading of the Qurʾān with proper tajwid, or an emphasis on orthography, phonetics, and elocution
- Memorization of the last ḥizb of the Qurʾān with meaning
- Memorization of approximately 1000 words of Arabic vocabulary
- Acquisition of key grammatical terms in English necessary for learning Arabic
- Knowledge of various verb scales (mawazin) used to derive words according to set patterns with predictive meanings
- Knowledge of the most used agents (ʿawāmil) in Arabic with an explanation of their effect on the cases of nouns and verbs
- Ability to navigate Arabic-English lexicons through a solid understanding of the tri-literal root system
- Hans Wehr, Arabic-English Dictionary
- Fahim Qazi, Introduction to Qur'anic Linguistics, Levels 1-A and 1-B
- Ernest N. McCarus, English Grammar for Students of Arabic
- Abdullah Abbas Nadwi, Vocabulary of the Holy Qur'an
- Fahim Qazi, Easy Introduction to Arabic
- None
Arabic Grammar
Arabic Grammar builds on the previous course, but is open to students who have completed beginner-level work in other programs or who are willing to acquire knowledge of the alphabet prior to the start of the program. This class consists of a systematic study of Arabic grammar utilizing Haywood and Nahmad's New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language, a comprehensive text that instructs in the key aspects of Arabic language study with an emphasis on vocabulary acquisition, syntax, and morphology (ṣarf). Excerpts from actual reading assignments and lessons that contain cumulatively over 3000 words prepare students for advanced textual study in future years. Level 2 corresponds to the first year of study in Zaytuna College's undergraduate program.
Learning outcomes
- Memorization of 3000 words of Arabic vocabulary, with special emphasis on the reading of texts
- Memorization of all tri-literal and quadri-literal verb forms
- Firm understanding of noun declension, types of sentences, and parts of speech
- Comfort with irregular verbs and irregular verb conjugation
- The ability to use ordinal and cardinal numbers
- Knowledge of most forms of derivations (ishtiqaqat) along with their associated meanings
- The ability to navigate through classical Arabic-Arabic as well as contemporary Arabic-English lexicons
- Hans Wehr, Arabic-English Dictionary
- Fahim Qazi, Introduction to Qur'anic Linguistics, Levels 1-A and 1-B
- Ernest N. McCarus, English Grammar for Students of Arabic
- Abdullah Abbas Nadwi, Vocabulary of the Holy Qur'an
- Fahim Qazi, Easy Introduction to Arabic
- Ability to read (recognize letters and pronounce words accurately)
- Ability to write (correctly shape letters to appropriate form for position in word)
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The Zaytuna College curriculum is on par with standardized Arabic courses at major American universities. Providing six weeks of instruction (150 contact hours), the summer program meets the 120–180 minimum contact hours required by most universities for a full academic year (or 10 units) of language instruction. Though Zaytuna College cannot guarantee an automatic transfer of university credit (this is ultimately at the discretion of each university or department), we do help students meet pre-requisites by issuing an official letter to their universities or institutions describing course objectives and material covered in each course.
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The standard schedule for the program will be as follows:
Fajr & brief
Fajr class
al-Arba'in al-Nawawiyyah/Hadith daily
(all levels together)
Day off
Day off
7 - 9 am
Two hours of class in 2 separate levels
Duhr – Asr
(1:30 – 4:30 pm)
Three hours of class in 2 separate levels
(during Ramadan)
Quran Study
(all levels together)
Integrated with Taraweeh in Ramadan
In addition to the five hours of classroom instruction, students are expected to spend an additional five to six hours per day outside of class reviewing the day's lessons, memorizing new vocabulary, completing assignments, and preparing for the next day's class. Students are encouraged to use Arabic as much as possible while interacting with teachers and fellow students inside and outside of class.
Zaytuna College makes necessary accommodations for the month of Ramadan for students who choose to fast and participate in early morning and late night prayers. Students should expect community iftars on many evenings and tarawih prayers every night at local mosques.
Program at a Glance
- 6 weeks of study, 5 days a week (June 2 to July 16, 2015)
- A stimulating curriculum designed around classical Arabic texts
- Equivalent to one year of university-level Arabic (150 contact hours)
- Comfortable accommodations in the heart of diverse Berkeley, California
- A daily rhythm that aligns with the pattern of Muslim religious life
- Enriching visiting lectures by distinguished scholars
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The producers of "Undercover Boss" were somewhat surprised at how far Utah Jazz CEO Greg Miller was willing to go in an episode of the CBS series that airs Friday, Feb. 28.
Working as a ticket-taker or in concessions is one thing. Joining the dunk team was something else.
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"There's a significant element of risk associated with a 47-year-old fully embracing the mini-tramp," Miller said with a laugh. "It's one of those things that, if you don't give it everything you've got, it's not going to work.
"I was using muscles that I hadn't used since, like, fifth-grade gym class."
One thing that quickly became clear to the show's producers was that Miller wasn't in this to become a star.
"It was obvious to me that Greg wasn't really too impressed with being on a TV show," said "Boss" executive producer Chris Carlson. "He truly appreciated the concept of our show in its purest form."
Miller had never seen "Undercover Boss" before he was asked this past summer to participate. So he went home, watched a couple of episodes and was pleasantly surprised.
"I wanted to make sure that the program was consistent with our values as a family and as an organization," he said. "And I actually liked what I saw. I thought it was a pretty cool show."
In each episode, the boss dons a disguise and goes undercover within his/her company. The employees are told the disguised boss is being filmed for an entirely different kind of show.
Part of the fun is seeing the boss struggle with the various jobs. Which Miller did.
"I know that the missteps and the mistakes are what makes for great television," he said.
But it isn't all about the laughs. The Jazz CEO said he learned a lot doing the episode.
"It was a very eye-opening experience for me to see firsthand some of the challenges that our employees are faced with," Miller said. "Not only were we able to help them in what I think are very meaningful ways in their personal lives, but my experience inspired me to work with my family to create a new resource for our employees organizationwide that wouldn't exist were it not for my experience with 'Undercover Boss.' "
Viewers will learn more about that in Friday's episode.
"Greg was confident enough to investigate the negative instead of just celebrating the positive," Carlson said. "I think, overall, he was successful in his goal of strengthening his operation while honoring the memory of his father."
Miller learns not only what his employees do, but who they are.
"And it was gratifying," he said. "I went into this thinking that our employees like being part of our family business. I was really hoping that, more than anything, that notion would be validated. And, as it turned out, it was."
At the same time, "Undercover Boss" goes for laughs. So if the boss struggles working behind the concessions counter or in the stands at EnergySolutions Arena with the Interactive Team, it's all good.
"I've seen a couple of clips, and anything that was a challenge to me is likely to make it in the final [edit]," Miller said. "What I've told my family and friends is that, if nothing else, it will be good for a lot of laughs."
The best part of the show for viewers — and for Miller — comes when his disguise comes off and he reveals himself to the employees with whom he's worked. And rewards them in ways "that will change their lives."
"Probably my favorite take-away of the experience is just the impact our family was able to have on their families," Miller said. "When I could reveal who I was and tell them what we wanted to do for them and see their reaction."Next Page >
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She was extremely unhelpful and unfair in her grading. She was rude to students. Made inappropriate comments to the class. Did not know the material that she was supposed to teach. Insulted a student's paper while showing it in front of the class. Bad example of what we are supposed to be as future teachers. Text was never ordered for us.
I liked Regina because she was fair. Some students had problems with her, but if you participate in class and show an interest, you will be OK. ALso, do your service learning.
This teacher is absolutely horrid. She needs to fired and restricted from teaching forever. Her opinions about students cloud her judgment and her clarity in grading and speaking is nonexistent. I do not suggest taking this teacher... her opinion of you is the only thing that matters on the grade.
terribly boring librarian, unfair, not helpful. speaks so quietly throughout class, you can't pay attention or understand anything she says. DONT TAKE HER.
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Take Jones instead, you will learn more and you might even pass her class.
Spce. Ed.
More of a paper-pusher than an actual instructor.
Teacher Ed
Only in a school this small and isolated would this type of teacher be put up with. In the end, it's us, the students who suffer.
One of the many examples of poor instructorship and lack of empathy within the education department.
Sister...you hit that rating right on the mark.
Teach Ed.
Like most Platteville faculty, has made it by her social graces and not by any skill in academic acheivement or research.
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