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Thanks Holly, the eyes feel ok today. Sort of burning last night. I did ask a running friend about it, and he said it might have been combination of the wind (although it was at my back on the way down the hill) and the dry air.
Erika, I've had that same thing happen a couple of times when out at zero or below (rare in these parts, but it does happen a couple times a winter). I thought it was possible that, since the wind and cold was making my eyes water anyway, that maybe there was actually a very thin layer of ice forming. I think that even salty water can freeze at those temperatures, so it might be possible.
In any case, no apparent damage was done -- just blurry vision until I came back inside.
- Runnin' in Rochester
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57 degrees and I'm strippin' layers and leavin' them on doorknobs! !http://www.coolrunning.com/forums/wink.gif|src=http://www.coolrunning.com/forums/wink.gif|border=0!
notes to self: scribble... scribble... install doorknobs on rental van for del sol relay.... scribble... scribble... pray for 58f.... scribble...scribble...
Originally posted by mcsolar99:
notes to self: scribble... scribble... install doorknobs on rental van for del sol relay.... scribble... scribble... pray for 58f.... scribble...scribble...
I think someone needs to go take a cold shower.
Don't worry vista, WE believe you.
One of the benefits to taking time off every year is it gives me a chance to review what I've done in the past 12 months and to contemplate what I want to do in the coming year, with a separation of the emotional, physical and mental. I'm just starting to come to some realizations to apply to next year's training and goal setting, one of which is that I'd rather spend my time training for shorter races (10k and shorter) than 15k and over. That will have a hugh bearing on how I train this coming year.
Anyway, more about that later. I'm heading out for a 3 to 4 miler, depending on the weather. Weather.com says 27, feels like 17. Not sure I have the clothes for feels like 17.
Whoops - Forgot to hit submit reply before I went out, so here I am at 1:50 - run is dun. 4 miles (3 + 1 bonus) in 37:30 = 9:23 pace, right on target for slow and easy. I did feel my left calf as I started out - soreness from yesterday's stair workout at lunch time. But it's good soreness, in the muscle, not tendon pain.
Here I am taking a break from writing--
"let's see what's on the daily thread since I posted".....whoa! undergarments, missing slips, undie fashion shows and now mc praying for mild temps. I need a warning lest I spit my coffee all over my keyboard.

By the way, fleece thongs are far better for daily wear...save the fur string ones for special occasions or races. goodness.

Surely you own some "running divas" undergarments? Sorry guys (well with the exception of Vista perhaps) check them out boomer ladies.

Soundrunner-your weekend plans sound fabulous. I also read your note about the 5k time. I say we are both primed to grab some 5k, half-marathon and marathon PRs. Let's do it and OWN these two coasts! ......Just saw the article you linked. So sad and awful indeed.
Okay.....I haven't stopped giggling but I have to write the conclusion to this jumbo client report before the school bus arrives. CNYrunner son agreed to go shopping for new clothes and I can't miss the window.
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I was sure their only two thoughts were......"Is he a pervert?.....or a shop lifter?"
Happy running everyone.
Not to worry...In this country of ours, you can be both!!!!!
3.5 miles today
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Soundrunner – a surf lesson? How awesome! But won't it be coooollllldddddd? (that's my teeth beginning to chatter at the thought)
Snowy morning and the roads are slick, so I worked out on the dreadmill. 6 miles, 60 minutes. Here's hoping I can get outside tomorrow.
On the subject of underwear.........
Three men died on Christmas Eve and were met by Saint Peter at the pearly gates.
'In honor of this holy season' Saint Peter said,'You must each possess something that symbolizes Christmas to get into heaven.'
The first man fumbled through his pockets and pulled out a lighter. He flicked it on. 'It represents a candle', he said.
'You may pass through the pearly gates' Saint Peter said.
The second man reached into his pocket and pulled out a set of keys. He shook them and said, 'They're bells.'
Saint Peter said 'You may pass through the pearly gates'.
The third man started searching desperately through his pockets and finally pulled out a pair of women's panties.
St. Peter looked at the man with a raised eyebrow and asked, 'And just what do those symbolize?'
The man replied, 'These are Carols.'
And So The Christmas Season Begins......
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hug your kid today, and give them an equation to solve. fast.
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5 miles in......still on track for my goal. !http://www.coolrunning.com/forums/smile.gif|src=http://www.coolrunning.com/forums/smile.gif|border=0!
We have had snow in the mountains today with some counties sending kids home from school. Accumalation? NONE.......but there were flakes in the air.
Originally posted by smpankowski:
Not to worry...In this country of ours, you can be both!!!!!
......I love it.......
Love the undergarment discussion...sexy...
uh on to other things.
No running today just the bike workout my coach gave me.
15 minutes ez on the spinning bike
5X5 minutes at 250watts then 2 minute rest intervals
15 minutes ez...
Wife got all the fans, note to self, buy a high energy fan...wow talk about sweat, luckily I have one of those rubberized mats under my bike.
Tonight I coach basketball and participate in my first competiitive men's basketball game in two years. Time to sharpen the elbows.
Take care
Happy happy Tall
Tomorrow my lady friend is taking me to karaoke, she is an amazing singer..I am not..gulp
Ok, so the math thingy.....has anyone noticed how SLOW cashiers are when you give them CASH for your purchase. Yesterday I gave the woman exact change in dollars and coins for my purchase and she took forever to decide that it was the right amount. Not even trying to trip her up by giving her $20.26 for a $10.16 purchase.
Sorry for the digression... anyway, I was a good girl today and did not run, even after I bought at new pairs of Asics 2130's. I love them!! ....feel like little pillows on my feet....
Marj and I have been running the texas circuit getting ready for dallas half. today and yesterday we ran an hour on the Town Lake on the Colorado River in Austin.
weather report: mid to high 70's both days bright sun
fashion report: singlets and shorts and sunglasses, no thongs or Lance sightings
a couple of days ago, we ran on the San Antonio Riverwalk - tomorrow the Big D
Five warm breezy miles today at lunch - it's 52 degrees! Yesterday it was even warmer but the wind was howling, so I went to the rec center after work and did 4 miles on the track, including a speedy (for me) second mile at 8:52, and a 100-meter sprint of 21 seconds (a 5:38/mile pace, but there's no way I could keep up the pace for a mile!) All undergarments present and accounted for. !http://www.coolrunning.com/forums/smile.gif|src=http://www.coolrunning.com/forums/smile.gif|border=0!
My 14-year old DD has just started the C25K and I don't want to pressure her at all, but I'm so excited that she wants to run! I'm worried that anything mom is into might be uncool, so I'm trying to be supportive but aloof, if that makes any sense. Oh, and mcsolar, my DD is helping bring up the average scores at her school - she just got her PSAT results, and she got a 75/80 on the math portion! Which is pretty darned impressive for a 14 year old. Not that I'm bragging or anything...
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National History Day 2008: Conflict and CompromiseHistorians in the News
This year's National History Day centered on the theme "Conflict and Compromise in History." Events took place Sunday, June 15 through Thursday, June 19, 2008, at the University of Maryland, with students presenting papers, exhibits, performances, documentaries, and even web sites (a new category this year). The winners of this year's National History Day were presented their awards on Thursday morning of last week, and the ceremony was broadcast live through a webcast on the History Channel's web site. Congratulations to all of the winners, but also the more than 500,000 students across the country who participated this year. Below we've listed the winners in each category, but visit the 2008 National History Day contest winners page for a more complete list (including all medallists, outstanding entry winners, special award recipients, and more).
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A local vendor will make the necessary repairs to the third floor air conditioning unit at the Starke County Courthouse. Continue reading
Commissioners Decide on Courthouse HVAC Option
The Starke County Commissioners this week decided to go with a less expensive, four-furnace heating and cooling system for the courthouse as part of the upcoming building renovation project. Commissioner Kathy Norem says the proposed scope of work includes regulator replacement.
Starke Commissioners Weigh Courthouse Cooling Options
The Starke County Commissioners may opt for quality over quantity when it comes to the comfort of courthouse staff in the proposed renovation plans. They're in the midst of finalizing the bid packets for updates to the courthouse and renovations of the former jail across the street. Continue reading
Architects Brief Historical Society on Courthouse Renovations
The Starke County Historical Society and the Starke County Historian met Friday with representatives from DLZ Architecture and Planning of South Bend to review the renovation plans for the County Courthouse. The group reviewed the projected work of each floor and the exterior of the historic 100+-year old courthouse. Continue reading
County Proceeding With Courthouse, Old Jail Renovations
Renovations to the Starke County Courthouse and former jail in downtown Knox are on track to start in July and conclude by the end of the year. The county commissioners last night approved design and development documents for the project. Plans call for the old jail to be renovated into office space for Starke County Community Corrections, the probation department and Purdue Extension.
The courthouse will be reconfigured to accommodate the prosecutor's office on the first floor and give the clerk's office additional space on the second level. Public access to the building would be restricted to one door, and metal detectors would be installed. Continue reading
Starke County Officials Prepare For Building Renovations
The Starke County Council and Commissioners are almost ready to proceed with renovations to the courthouse and old jail building across the street. They've got money left from the construction of the new jail east of Knox to make upgrades to both buildings for continued correctional use.
The old jail will become office space for Starke County Community Corrections and the probation department. Community Corrections Director Bob Hinojosa told the county council and commissioners Monday his board has committed $100,000 toward the renovations on the condition that the former sally port can be turned into a conference room. Continue reading
Starke County Officials to Discuss Spending Priorities
The Starke County Council and Commissioners will crunch numbers and set priorities during a special joint meeting this evening. Specifically they are looking at projects that can be funded from the County Economic Development Income Tax, or CEDIT, fund. Continue reading
Commissioners Outline Timeline for Facility Renovations
Proposed renovations to the Starke County Courthouse and old jail building across the street will start next spring and wrap up by the end of 2016 under a timeline adopted last night by the county commissioners. Plans call for the former jail building to be turned into office space for Starke County Community Corrections and the probation department. Purdue Extension will move from the courthouse into the basement, and space will be incorporated for a county morgue facility. Continue reading
Sewer Pipe Collapse Forces Emergency Work at Courthouse
A collapsed sewer pipe has forced some emergency repairs at the Starke County Courthouse. Continue reading
Longtime Starke County Courthouse Custodian Retires
An employee of Starke County for more than four decades retired yesterday from what was supposed to have been a temporary job. Gerald Ford was in the White House and gas was 55-cents a gallon when Carl Goodrich took over as courthouse custodian on Nov. 26, 1974. Continue reading
Starke County Offices Closed for Jail Grand Opening
Starke County government offices will be closed for awhile today so employees can attend the grand opening ceremony for the new jail. The program gets under way at noon at the site east of Knox on State Road 8 and 550 East. The Starke County Courthouse, annex and highway garage will be closed from 11:30 a.m. until 2 p.m.
The public is invited to the building dedication gala and memorial garden ceremony. Tours will be offered until at least 6 p.m. after the formal program concludes, and Sheriff Bill Dulin and his command staff will be on hand to answer questions. Food will also be served. Continue reading
Starke County Commissioners Hire Courthouse Custodian
The Starke County Courthouse will soon have a new custodian. The county commissioners Monday hired Mike Gerhart to fill the opening created by the retirement of longtime caretaker Carl Goodrich. His last day with the county is June 4, which was previously proclaimed "Carl Goodrich Day" by the commissioners in honor of his more than 40 years of service. Continue reading
Starke County Commissioners Want Formal Bid Process for Courthouse Repairs
The two quotes for tuckpointing at the Starke County courthouse are so widely varied in terms of price the commissioners have decided to go through a formal bid process for the work. They plan to ask the contractors who are completing the new jail to put together bid packets for the scope of the project. It includes masonry repair from the top of the clock tower to the basement, electrical and plumbing upgrades and the remodeling of space on the second floor to accommodate the prosecutor's office. It's currently in the basement of the existing jail across the street. That building will be remodeled after the inmates move out and will eventually be home to Starke County Community Corrections and the probation office. Continue reading
Courthouse Repairs on Starke County Commissioners Agenda
The Starke County Commissioners should have a better idea how much repairs to the courthouse will cost after their meeting tonight. They've asked for quotes on tuckpointing the brick in order to set a budget for the work. Fixing the masonry is one of several repairs that need to be made to the historic structure. Wiring needs to be upgraded, and the roof needs to be fixed as well. Continue reading
New Jail Nearly Finished
The new Starke County Sheriff's Office and Detention Center will be finished in time for the May 22nd public dedication ceremony. Contractors are working through punch lists now for the new building east of Knox on State Road 8 and should have the final repairs done by the end of next week. Any lingering issues should be addressed before inmates move in on June 1st. Continue reading
Building Corporation, Commissioners Discuss Courthouse Renovations
Money to renovate the second floor of the Starke County Courthouse could come from the county economic development income tax funds used to pay for the new jail. At that time the existing jail across from the courthouse will be renovated to accommodate Starke County Community Corrections and the probation department. Plans call for the prosecutor's office to move from the basement of the current jail into the courthouse and the current clerk's office to be renovated. Continue reading
Starke County Commissioners to Discuss Space for Coroner, Plans for Current Jail
Starke County Coroner-elect Adam Gray will provide a report to the commissioners today on his quest to find suitable space for a county morgue. The commissioners previously told him to meet with the county building inspector to see if suitable space is available in any of the county-owned buildings. Gray will be the first non-funeral director in several years to serve as Starke County Coroner. In the past, the funeral directors have used their facilities for storage and viewing. Continue reading
Starke County Election Board to Meet Today
The Starke County Election Board will meet today to address some issues before Election Day.
The board members plan to discuss political sign disclaimers. That meeting is set for noon today. Continue reading
Voter Registration Open Now, Ends Oct. 6
Voter registration is open now until Monday, Oct. 6 at the end of the business day at the county courthouses.
If you need to register to vote or have questions about your current registration, call the Starke County clerk's office at (574) 772-9160 or the Pulaski County clerk's office at (574) 946-3313.
Absentee voting in Starke County and in Pulaski County begins Oct. 7.
LeRoy Gudeman Retires from Law Practice after 57 Years
After having a long, successful law practice in Starke County, LeRoy Gudeman has decided to retire.
Gudeman worked by himself out of the same building across the street from the Starke County Courthouse in downtown Knox since moving to the area in 1957. He has been a part of the community in many activities and has been on the Kankakee Valley Broadcasting board of directors that oversees operations at WKVI for many years.


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Trial of Former Egyptian President Mubarak Adjourned to Jan. 2
The trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on charges that include conspiring to kill some of the protesters who ended his rule was adjourned until Jan. 2.
State television showed footage of Mubarak, 83, lying on a gurney that was carried into an ambulance. He was ferried by helicopter back to the hospital where he has been detained since the start of the trial.
Mubarak's trial began on Aug. 3 after pressure from demonstrators demanding a swift and public prosecution of the man they blame for corruption, political repression and police abuses. At least 846 people were killed during the anti-Mubarak revolt which started in January. He has pleaded not guilty.
In previous sessions, the court heard testimony from prosecution witnesses and, in closed sessions, from current and former officials including the head of the ruling military council, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, and former Vice President Omar Suleiman. Some Egyptians have said they hoped the officials' testimony may shed light on Mubarak's actions during the uprising and what orders he may have given for dealing with demonstrators.
The trial had been postponed since September until a court decision on a request to change the judge trying Mubarak. Earlier this month a court ruled that Judge Ahmed Refaat should stay on the case and fined the lawyer who brought the case.
Mubarak's two sons, Alaa and Gamal, who are facing corruption charges, and former Interior Minister Habib el-Adli and six of his aides are also on trial alongside the former president.


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Amazon Best of the Month, June 2009: Colum McCann has worked some exquisite magic with Let the Great World Spin, conjuring a novel of electromagnetic force that defies gravity. It's August of 1974, a summer "hot and serious and full of death and betrayal," and Watergate and the Vietnam War make the world feel precarious. A stunned hush pauses the cacophonous universe of New York City as a man on a cable walks (repeatedly) between World Trade Center towers. This extraordinary, real-life feat by French funambulist Philippe Petit becomes the touchstone for stories that briefly submerge you in ten varied and intense lives--a street priest, heroin-addicted hookers, mothers mourning sons lost in war, young artists, a Park Avenue judge. All their lives are ordinary and unforgettable, overlapping at the edges, occasionally converging. And when they coalesce in the final pages, the moment hums with such grace that its memory might tighten your throat weeks later. You might find yourself paused, considering the universe of lives one city contains in any slice of time, each of us a singular world, sometimes passing close enough to touch or collide, to birth a new generation or kill it, sending out ripples, leaving residue, an imprint, marking each other, our city, the very air--compassionately or callously, unable to see all the damage we do or heal. And most of us stumbling, just trying not to trip, or step in something awful.
But then someone does something extraordinary, like dancing on a cable strung 110 stories in the air, or imagining a magnificent novel that lifts us up for a sky-scraping, dizzy glimpse of something greater: the sordid grandeur of this whirling world, "bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants." --Mari MalcolmAmazon Exclusive: Frank McCourt on Let the Great World Spin
Frank McCourt (1930-2009) was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and returned to America in 1949. For thirty years he taught in New York City high schools. His first book, Angela's Ashes, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the L.A. Times Book Award. In 2006, he won the prestigious Ellis Island Family Heritage Award for Exemplary Service in the Field of the Arts and the United Federation of Teachers John Dewey Award for Excellence in Education. McCourt also wrote Tis and Teacher Man, both memoirs. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of Let the Great World Spin:
Now I worry about Colum McCann. What is he going to do after this blockbuster groundbreaking heartbreaking symphony of a novel? No novelist writing of New York has climbed higher, dived deeper.
Trust me, this is the sort of book that you will take off your shelf over and over again as the years go along. It's a story of the early 1970s, but it's also the story of our present times. And it is, in many ways, a story of a moment of lasting redemption even in the face of all the evidence.
There are dozens of intimate tales and threads at the core of Let the Great World Spin. On one level there's the tightrope walker making his way across the World Trade Center towers. But as the novel goes along the "walker" becomes less and less of a focal point and we begin to care more about the people down below, on the pavement, in the ordinary throes of their existence. There's an Irish monk living in the Bronx projects. There's a Park Avenue mother in mourning for her dead son, who was blown up in the cafés of Saigon. There are the original computer hackers who "visit" New York in an early echo of the Internet. There's an artist who has learn to return to the simplicity of love. And then--in possibly the book's wildest and most ambitious section--there's a Bronx hooker who has brought up her children in "the house that horse built"--"horse" of course being the heroin that was ubiquitous in the '70s.
All the voices feel realized and authentic and the writing floats along. This was my city back then--and now. McCann has written about New York before, but never quite as piercingly or as provocatively as this. This is fiction that gets the heart thumping.
The stories are interweaved so that it is one story, on one day, in one city, and yet it is also a history of the present time. In Let the Great World Spin, you can't ignore the overtones for today: suffice it to say that the novel is held together by an act of redemption and beauty. I didn't want to stop turning the pages.
I'm really not sure what McCann will do after this, but this is a great New York book, not just for New Yorkers but for anyone who walks any sort of tightrope at all. And yes, it doesn't surprise me that it takes an Irishman to capture the heart of the city... --Frank McCourt(Photo © Kit DeFever)
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In a sense this book is an homage to the city of New York. It begins with a true historical event, when Philippe Petit walked a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. It is a marvelous sight. It was "one of those out-of-the-ordinary days that made sense of the slew of ordinary days. New York had a way of doing that. Every now and then the city shook its soul out. It assailed you with an image, or a day, or a crime, or a terror, or a beauty so difficult to wrap your mind around that you had to shake your head in disbelief". (p.247)
Several people look up to see this tight-rope walker and this shared act of perception is the glue for this book. In some way, each of their lives are inter-connected and will remain connected through time.
There is Corrigan, very religious in a social/political/and theological sense, who is struggling between his faith and the woman he loves. Corrigan's love is a Guatamalan nurse, hoping that he will choose her over his God. Ciaran, whose life is in flux, is Corrigan's brother. Tillie is a prostitute in trouble with the law and hoping that the legacy of prostitution will not be passed down to her granddaughters as it has been to her daughter. Claire lives on Park Avenue but also lives in a world of grief, forever mourning her son who died in Vietnam.Read more ›
The book is a set of vignettes chronicling a loosely connected set of Manhattanites in August of 1974. In the background are the Vietnam War, Nixon's resignation and Phillipe Petit- a man who stretched a cable between the World Trade Twin Towers - 103 stories up in the air - and went for a stroll - successfully.
Our cast includes two Irish brothers; one a catholic priest, who lives among and befriends a pack of heroin addicted prostitutes; a grieving mother who lost her son in the Vietnam War; and a young married couple trying to break into the NY art world in between cocaine binges. Not the most original or creative set of characters, but with a good story to guide them great novels are made. Unfortunately, and this is the biggest fault I had with Let The Great World Spin, the author doesn't tell us their stories - he explains them. Therefore the characters never became real to me - just their dialogue seemed surreal - and the narrative simply overwhelmed any and all of the underlying stories.
Think of watching a movie sitting next to someone who has seen it before and feels the need to keep whispering in your ear - detailing plot twists and characters' actions. At some point you simply want to yell, "Shut up!" I had the same experience/frustration reading this book, hoping - vainly - that the author would remove himself from the narrative. I know I'm in the minority here - but pass on this one.
This was the first work I had ever read by McCann, and wow, was I impressed. McCann is a master storyteller and the way he weaves words together creates such vivid pictures, you feel like you can smell the smoke from the burning Bronx. While this novel wasn't my typical style--it is much darker and rawer than what I typically read--McCann's literary gifts can only leave a reader in awe. I did have a few problems with the structure of the novel--the jumping from character to character sometimes felt jumpy and abrupt, but I think this technique was intended to jar the reader--mimicking the realities of life in 1970s New York. The ending also felt out of place to me.
While this is not exactly light summer reading, I would definitely recommend this book to fans of great english literature. This work has marked McCann as one of the greats of the modern world, and I can't wait to see what else he produces.
Colum McCann tells the story of this aerial crime, enriching it with the stories of ten people who saw or were affected by the aerialist's action that day, including an Irish-born "street priest" in the South Bronx and his brother; Petit's sentencing judge, his wife, and son; mother/daughter hookers; and computer programmers on the West Coast. The reader is treated to a series of narratives that could stand alone as short stories, but that are, in the end, interconnected on the day of Philippe Petit's performance.
The novel introduces a stunning variety of social and historical issues that played out in the decade of the 1970's. The breakdown of social class is seen in the coming together of a group of mothers, mourning the loss of their sons in the Vietnam War, while celebrating their lives. The effects of poverty and drug addiction on women and children are illustrated by the "family business" of prostitution. The power of interlinked computers and telecommunications was in its infancy and creating excitement among the programmers who were thinking and dreaming big. The Vietnam War, moving towards its close in 1974, divided friends and family in New York City and elsewhere. The World Trade Center towers, newly constructed and occupied, represent a beginning in this novel, rather than the iconic destruction and terror we associate with them today.Read more ›
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Advancing STEM Undergraduate Learning: Preparing the Nation's Future Faculty
|Advancing STEM Undergraduate Learning: Preparing the Nation's Future Faculty
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will shape the future of undergraduate education in
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mathematics (the STEM disciplines) in the United States.
In 2009 alone, more than 41,000 doctorates were awarded
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STEM PhDs will become faculty or instructional staff within six years of
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Since almost 80 percent of doctoral students are trained at only 100 research universities, the graduate schools of these institutions are a critical leverage point for improving undergraduate STEM education across the country. If a significant fraction of these universities were to intentionally prepare future STEM faculty as teachers of undergraduates, they would seed the diverse array of undergraduate institutions across the country with thousands of faculty and instructional staff who both teach effectively and continually improve the teaching-learning process.
Here we share the story of the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), its conceptual framework for the preparation of future faculty, and one example of a high-impact implementation: the Delta Program in Research, Teaching and Learning (Delta) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This story shows how institutions can provide aspiring academics with professional development opportunities in teaching and learning that are demonstrably effective and institutionally sustainable. In particular, it describes three core ideas that cultivate the knowledge, behaviors, and skills that future STEM faculty need in order to help generate undergraduate learning. Finally this story demonstrates that a combination of creative freedom, a sense of having a broader impact, and enhanced professional success will engage current faculty members, and thereby their universities, in this important national mission.


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Farmstead Meatsmith Releases First Instructional VideoActivism, Green Living, Healthy Living
A few months ago, I posted about Lauren and Brandon Sheard, a young and passionate couple from Seattle, Washington who founded Farmstead Meatsmith with the goal lay one more step on the path to a new food culture by reviving the traditional practice of homestead meat provenance.
The loss of consumer contact with a local butcher whom they know and trust is one of the most damaging aspects of the rise of factory farms. The "butchers" of today are really not even butchers — they are simply specialty grocery workers who receive prepackaged and precut portions of meat off a delivery truck and arrange them in a desirable manner in the meat cooler section of the store.
Most consumers have sadly never even met a real butcher, someone responsible for the respectful slaughter and traditional meat processing of locally raised livestock. USDA approved slaughterhouses have put an end to all that with the processing of animals located as far away from the consumer as possible so that the horrific practices of factory farming of animals can be kept hidden.
Livestock harvesting is clearly a missing link in the chain of sustainable agriculture as even organic and locally produced meats are required to be processed at USDA slaughterhouses which can effectively negate much of the health and nutritional benefits of local sourcing of meat in the first place!
I don't know about you, but I want my meat not only sourced locally, but processed locally by someone I know and can talk to and develop a relationship with!
Lauren and Brandon's quest is very close to my heart as my own grandfather was a butcher. I have often been saddened that the lifelong career of which he was so proud and skilled has become nearly extinct in recent decades.
I am excited to let all of you know that Farmstead Meatsmith has recently released its first in what will become a series of free butchery instructional videos: On the Anatomy of Thrift: Pork Provender in the Home Kitchen.
If local sourcing and, most importantly, butchering of meats is of interest to you, I encourage you to watch this video and keep tabs on their progress in the coming months. As I said in my earlier post, it's people like Brandon and Lauren Sheard that change the world.
Congratulations to Farmstead Meatsmith on the completion of their first instructional video. I am ecstatic that the goal of $10,000 was successfully met to fund this valuable project and I am so glad this blog was able to contribute to bringing this project to fruition by notifying others of your need! I look forward to more videos to come!
On The Anatomy Of Thrift: Side Butchery from farmrun on Vimeo.
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I'm so excited this is finally underway! I've been waiting impatiently!! We raise and butcher our own chickens but we've really wanted to branch out to our other animals as well (pigs, cows, lamb…raised between ourselves and friends.) Thankfully we live in a rural area where we can know where we're taking our animals for butchering (great and caring folks) but we want to learn to do it ourselves. This is much needed.
The hog they were butchering looked amazing!
That was no run of the mill, factory farmed pig. When he cut into the elbow and it exposed the bone, the bone as well as the meat looked so healthy. The meat had a wonderful color and the bone was white as snow, aka raised as one happy healthy pig.
I keep wondering, do our ancestors looking from the great beyond, laugh at ( some of ) us for eating the so called ' food ' of today?
OraWellness via Facebook
Thank you Sarah! This is fantastic!
Awesome!! Thank you so very much. Very well done video, so enjoyable! We are grateful for your creation!
Delia Carper Garcia via Facebook
LOVE this! We raise our own meat (chicken and beef) and will soon be adding pigs and sheep. I have been dreaming of being able to butcher everything ourselves. This is fantastic.
Carolyn Waite via Facebook
My grandfather was the town butcher in Pioche Nevada, a small mining town. He passed away before I was born but I always wish I could have Grandpa Butch around to pass down his knowledge! These videos will be perfect.
Jill @ The Prairie Homestead
What a wonderful, well-made video! We are planning to butcher our steer within in the next month, and hope to add hogs to our homestead next year. Will definitely be watching this again with my hubby. Looking forward to their future videos.
Lisa Marie Lindenschmidt
These people are SO amazing! We've been promoting them since you first mentioned them, Sarah! If y'all are interested, check out our interview with them: http://www.sweetpeaspodcast.com, episode 104!
Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist
Oh wow! Great idea!
Thanks for sharing this resource, Sarah. I am amazed at how clean the butchering process can be. We are fortunate to have a wonderful butcher about 30 min drive from our home (Long's Meat Market in Eugene, OR). They only process free-range and sustainably farmed meat and the customer service is incredible. My husband loves it when I ask him to stop there on his way home from work to pick up an order. I wish everyone could have access to such a fabulous resource.
My children watched this with me and were fascinated as I was. He makes it look easy. My children are now playing butcher shop!
Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist
That is so sweet! We need more children to become butchers in the coming years and revive this important profession! I would prefer one of my children to be a local butcher to having a stupid corporate job, like what I wasted 10 years of my life doing, that's for sure.
Thank you for this!
I must say, I don't think they are "ground breaking" I would say they are rebreaking old ground, which is far more important…
My grandfather was the Grocer and Butcher for a small town in Kansas. Whenever we visit I still hear stories about how he had the best cuts of meat. He inspected every inch of the animal and butchered as if his livelihood depended on it. Because it did…
Brandon Tull (@brandotull)
Farmstead Meatsmith Releases First Instructional Video – The Healthy Home Economist http://t.co/ONRRdcco
Loved seeing this! I grew up Amish and am fortunate to have learned many skills that so many people work so hard to learn. We always did our own butchering, (raised most of it, too) We still get together to do butcher pigs, every other year at Christmas we make the ten hour drive to butcher 5-7 hogs with my parents, and who ever of the siblings who want to come, usually there are 4-5 of the twelve of us. We work together and divide the meat at the end. My brother-in-law raises the pigs, letting them run wild in his large pasture all summer, he also provides the space to butcher and owns the electric meat saw, suasage grinder/stuffer and huge cast iron pot. SO we all pay him according to how much meat we take, but the cost is quite minimal.
There are a couple of things we do differently from the video, most of them have to do with our Amish heritage and some of the traditional foods that we still all love and crave. Instead of having so many roasts, hams, and chops, we prefer having more sausage. So we cut the meat off the bones, grind the meat for sausage then throw the bones into the cast iron pot. We also put in all the organs, the sweetbreads, ears, any bits of meat trimmed from the head, and other other scraps and bits. That is boiled a number of hours then it is all scooped out of the broth and spread over stainless steel tables. We all stand around eating our favorite bits sprinkled with salt. Then we pick off all the meat from the bones, and grind it into something called "pan pudding" or actually growing up we called it liverwurst because it had the liver in it. Most of that ground cooked mixture is now canned or frozen. It is ready to eat as a breakfast food. Some of it is returned to the big pot into the broth, which is then thickened with cornmeal. This is called scrapple and is OH SO GOOD!!!! We all stand around the big pot dipping our spoons in and tasting it. It is then poured into a vast quanity of beat up old bread pans, chilled till firm, sliced and fried for breakfast.
We also do lard, after the scrapple is out of the pot and washed. We render the lard, eating bits of cracklings, and we can't forget to peel a bunch of potatoes and slice them thinly, then fry for potato chips!!
Ohh, my mouth is watering! I know this is too long, I got a bit carried away with the memories! Unfortunately, this is the inbetween year so we won't be butchering this December but I still have a number of jars of snowy white lard to use. Everything else is long gone.
Rachel, that is awesome! Thanks for sharing your memories. I wish I had such a wonderful heritage to share with my family Maybe it's time for us to start new traditions?
Yes! Start now! Your children and grandchildren will thank you!
Benaan Khorchid
WOW! I don't even eat pork and I thought it was amazingly informative!! Can't wait till they make a video about beef and/or lamb!!!! Please let us know, Sarah, when more videos are available!!!!!
Thanks for sharing!
Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist
You can be sure that I will be keeping up with Farmstead Meatsmith's progress!!! A free video series about proper and traditional butchery is just what folks need to understand why they must avoid meat processed at USDA facilities even if organic. Videos like this have the potential to spark a movement!
Love this video! My hubby and I watched it twice. Very well-made and informative!
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
These folks are breaking new ground in the sustainable food movement. I absolutely love their work and what they are doing.
That was awesome!!! I hope to see a lot more videos from them.
Melissa Naasko (@DynomomBlog) (@DynomomBlog)
How cool! RT @HealthyHomeEcon: Farmstead Meatsmith Releases First Instructional Video – The Healthy Home Economist http://t.co/Z3DmGE2Q


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|David Pastrnak's first year burned off as his line comes down to earth
|01.17.15 at 10:59 pm ET
Forget the fact that the Bruins lost; did you notice that David Krejci's line with David Pastrnak and Milan Lucic didn't even score on Saturday?
Given all of the attention that's been placed on Pastrnak prior to the Bruins deciding to keep him and the success that the trio has had, the goose-egg from Boston's trio actually is somewhat notable, really only because it's the first time the line hasn't been very good since being united.
Pastrnak, who has now officially accrued one season of service time in the eyes of the NHL and NHLPA (Saturday was 10th NHL game this season, which means this season is officially the first of his three-year entry level contract) and his linemates came down earth against the Blue Jackets, overpassing and losing the possession battle in Boston's first regulation loss in 10 games.
"A lot of passing, a lot of missed passes," Lucic said. "Maybe trying to do too much and didn't play that north-south type of game that gave us success when we were put together originally.
"We have to know night-in, night-out as a line that in order to be successful and get results and contribute to the team, that there's a certain way that we need to play. That's a straight-ahead game and using our speed and obviously using our skill, but when we're moving straight ahead and using all those things, that's when we're going to have success."
The line nearly scored in the first period when David Krejci threw a puck on net from the top of the right circle that bounced off Pastrnak's skates in front with half the net open. Pastrnak whiffed on his shot attempt as the puck glided to Blue Jackets netminder Curtis McElhinney. That stood as the line's best chance, though Pastrnak did draw a penalty in the final minute of the period when he was tripped by Scott Hartnell.
But that was the extent of the good for the line offensively. Though Lucic tied for the team lead with five shots on goal, the Czech Davids combined for zero. Saturday was Pastrnak's first game without a shot on goal since his NHL debut on Nov. 24.
Since coming up, Pastrnak has been a standout player. He's found instant chemistry with Krejci, whose vision and creativity could make him a 30-goal scorer in future seasons. Yet there will be speed bumps along the way, such as when Pastrnak took a drop pass from Krejci entering the zone in the first period and, rather than shooting or finding Krejci again, forced a n0-look pass across the ice to Lucic that would have earned him an intentional grounding penalty in the NFL.
"That line didn't do much for us tonight; nobody did as a matter of fact," Julien said. "We need David to use his speed on the outside; we need Krech to make sure to use his speed on the outside and find him. If you're going to be cute and try and overpass, you're not going to get the results. That's not how we've had success in the past. I don't think that's how we're going to get success in the future."
One telling takeaway that should bode well for this line's future: In eight periods together, the Lucic-Krejci-Pastrnak trio has yet to get scored on. They have four goals for and none against.
|Bruins to keep David Pastrnak, burn off first year of entry level contract
|01.15.15 at 7:57 pm ET
Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli announced Thursday night that the team intends to keep rookie forward David Pastrnak on the NHL roster and play him for a 10th NHL game, at which point this season will officially become the first of the 18-year-old's three-year entry level contract.
The Bruins can still send Pastrnak down and up between Providence and Boston going forward this season, as burning the first year one's entry level does not require a team to keep the player on its NHL roster. The incentive for the Bruins to have not kept Pastrnak in the NHL for 10 games was that his three-year window would have slid ahead to begin next year, meaning he would be up for a new contract as a restricted free agent after the 2017-18 season rather than after the 2016-17 season, the latter of which will now be the case.
Chiarelli credited Pastrnak's work with Providence both at the beginning of the season and following his November/December callup — which Chiarelli said was dominant — as a major reason as to why the Bruins felt he was ready for the NHL.
"He went down there and he did what we told him to do, which was play without the puck, play heavier, play on the wall, the defensive wall, offensive battles," Chiarelli said. "Then he came up here and played in the West Coast trip and I think he got his feet wet a little bit, went back down and dominated down there again. I think in making this decision, we really scrutinized his play in Providence and we felt that he was able to play and excel at that level with the proper physicality for him and against the proper physicality.
"He's going to be up here and we're happy to make that decision and we're going to continue to look at it as a development piece, which means that, as we've done before with some of the younger players, it doesn't mean you're in the lineup all the time. There may be points in time when his play dips a little bit and we may sit him down for a game or two here or there, but I think the important thing to take away from this is that he's going to be up with the big team, practice with the team, and hopefully play on a regular basis."
Thursday night's game against the Rangers, in which Pastrnak remained on the Bruins' first line with David Krejci and Milan Lucic and was a plus-1 in Boston's victory, marked Pastrnak's ninth NHL game.
In his brief NHL career, Pastrnak has four goals and one assist, with his goals coming in back-to-back two-goal performances Saturday and Tuesday. Pastrnak was first recalled on Nov. 23 and made his NHL debut the next night against Pittsburgh. The right wing stayed up with Boston for a six-game stretch in which he played five games and was a healthy scratch in another.
After the game, Krejci expressed excitement for both Pastrnak and himself, quipping, "I have a Czech buddy." He won't have a Czech roommate, however, as the Bruins will make other living arrangements for the 18-year-old. Teenage players often live with veteran players in their first years, as Patrice Bergeron did with Martin Lapointe and Dougie Hamilton did with Adam McQuaid.
Boston chose Pastrnak with the 25th overall pick of the first round last June and kept him in North America with the Providence Bruins rather than sending him back to Sweden, where he'd played the previous two seasons. After sending him down in December, the B's loaned him to the Czech National Team for the World Junior Championships and sent him to Providence for a one-game pit stop before bringing him up to the NHL club on Jan. 6.
Pastrnak has been the youngest player at both the AHL and NHL levels this season. In 24 AHL games, Pastrnak has 10 goals and 17 assists for 27 points.
|Bruins confident David Pastrnak can hold up defensively
|01.14.15 at 6:11 pm ET
With David Pastrnak, the Bruins' first line will be able to score goals. The question is how many it will give up.
Given that Pastrnak, though clearly offensively gifted, is the youngest player in the NHL, it's only fair to question how Krejci and Milan Lucic's line will do in the plus-minus department when playing against other teams' top players. The line did not allow a goal in its first game together on Tuesday (really half a game, as they were united midway through the second), but it did score three. Claude Julien will take that any day of the week.
Yet the cautionary tale of the Tyler Seguin Experiment exists, as Pastrnak isn't the first highly talented youngster to see time in the spot that has typically reserved for veteran power forwards (Nathan Horton, Jarome Iginla) over the years.
When Horton was out for the season with a concussion in March of 2012, Julien went for broke offensively by sticking the then-20-year-old Seguin with Lucic and Krejci. They produced at over a goal-per-game clip, but gave up 10 goals before Julien separated them. When the B's were desperate for offense in Game 7 of the first round in 2013, Julien again put Seguin with Krejci and Lucic, only to see them allow goals on their first two shifts.
In case you haven't noticed by now, Julien isn't comfortable with lines that give up more goals than they score (insert then-why-does-he-ever-play-the-fourth-line quip here), so if he plays a trio together, he does so because he thinks it can do more good on the scoreboard than damage.
As such, it was interesting to see that, after the Lightning scored to make it a one-goal game Tuesday night, Julien kept Pastrnak with Krejci and Lucic for the top line's next shift.
Or, put it this way: With the Bruins defending a one-goal lead in a game they had to win against the division leaders, Julien put the youngest player in the league — one whose defense seemed to be one of the things he'd need to improve in order to make the NHL — on the ice against Steven Stamkos and the Bruins lived to tell about it.
"This is not a time to test guys," Julien said Wednesday of his decision to play Pastrnak in such an important spot. "If he was out there, it was because I felt comfortable with him."
Julien said that he considers such decisions with young players to be 'calculated chances.' He noted Pastrnak's improvement getting pucks out along the wall in his defensive zone (Julien makes a good point; Pastrnak had some struggles there in his first five game stint with the B's) and sound decision-making he'd seen from the rookie all night that made him confident that Pastrnak would not be defensive liability in the game's most crucial minutes.
"I think for a player to develop, when you see the right things on certain nights, you've got to allow that player to have an opportunity," he said. "That's how you gain that kind of experience in those situations. Throughout the game, if you've seen situations where he's kind of struggled and had some tough situations come up, you try to keep him away from that. It's up to me to stay on top of the player and the game itself and see whether he's earned it."
Both Krejci and Lucic have given their endorsements to Pastrnak; it would be rather difficult to do given that he's scored four goals over his last two games. Yet while Lucic acknowledged that the trio must stick to the team's system to avoid suffering the same score-a-goal, allow-two-goals fate that they did in the Seguin days, Krejci said that Pastrnak, who hopes to become a strong two-way player like Krejci, will become better and better at applying his defensive learnings as he gains experience.
"It's going to happen that we're going to get scored on, that's for sure, but we have to try to minimize the mistakes," Krejci said. "On the other hand, he knows what to do defensively, but he has just been here a small amount of games and sometimes in a situation, he has to think twice of what do, and in that split second, something can go wrong. It will come with games played and I'm sure he'll be fine."
WILMINGTON — David Pastrnak is just one of the reasons the Bruins are starting to win again. His center being healthy enough to stick in the lineup and perform is among the biggest.
After going in and out of the lineup with lower-body injuries and missing a total of 20 games, Krejci has been back in Boston's lineup for nearly a month. Though he has since hit his stride (nine points in his last eight games) and has established quick chemistry with Pastrnak, Krejci told WEEI.com Wednesday that his injury concerns aren't fully in the rear-view mirror.
"I feel better and better every day," he said. "It is what it is, but yesterday I felt pretty good. As long as there's no setbacks, that's great news."
Asked Wednesday if he's had to do anything to manage the injury since re-entering the lineup on Dec. 17, Krejci said that he's been cautious to make sure what's been his longest healthy stretch of the season doesn't get derailed.
"Yeah, just because this is the [fourth] time coming back," he said. "If it was only the only the first time and I would be fine, I would be like, 'Oh, whatever,' but now I know that I have to stay on top of it. Yeah, it's just because this is the [fourth] time and I don't want to be sidelined again with that. I'm trying to take care of it every day and it's been working."
|Offensively starved Bruins turn to David Pastrnak
|01.06.15 at 2:24 pm ET
The Bruins are ready to continue with the David Pastrnak experiment.
After being recalled from Providence Monday, the Czech 18-year-old rotated with Seth Griffith on the right wing of David Krejci's line and worked with Krejci, Zdeno Chara, Brad Marchand and Torey Krug on Boston's first power play unit. Though it's not known when he will get back into game action, it appears the Bruins are turning to Pastrnak as they desperately seek any sort of offensive presence.
Pastrnak had a goal and six assists for the Czech Republic during the World Juniors. He played Sunday in Providence, and now the Bruins will determine a game plan for when to get him back into Boston's lineup.
"I definitely have to talk to our group here and see how they want him to be utilized," Claude Julien said. "I don't make those decisions by myself. I work with my general manager and we look at the situation. He's come back from the World Juniors. Is he still tired? What's the situation? Do they just want to get him into a few practices before we put him in a game? I haven't had a chance to discuss that with Peter [Chiarelli]."
Pastrnak said he isn't tired from World Juniors, saying he feels ready to resume his NHL career. He was impressive in his five-game stint with the B's earlier this season, getting ample playing with Patrice Bergeron and landing seven shots on goal in Boston's Nov. 28 win over the Jets.
Yet it seems this recall isn't about Bergeron's line, but rather Krejci's. Pastrnak, a right shot right wing, grew up idolizing Krejci, while Krejci has has seen a cast of players — Griffith, Simon Gagne, Loui Eriksson, Craig Cunningham and Reilly Smith — used as his right wing this season.
Though he is young and still very light (he's listed at 165 pounds and probably weighs somewhere around 170), Pastrnak would give the Krejci line the most talented and dynamic right wing its had all season. The 2014 first-round pick leads Providence with 10 goals and 27 points on the season.
Pastrnak downplayed his excitement to potentially skate with Krejci.
"I don't know," Pastrnak said. "I had one practice with David and he's a great player, but everybody here is good and I'd be happy for any minute I'd be on the ice."
If Pastrnak plays five more NHL games this season, the first year of his three-year entry level contract will be burned.
|Team meeting spurs David Krejci, Bruins to pick up slack for Milan Lucic, Patrice Bergeron
|12.30.14 at 8:06 am ET
David Krejci could relate with Patrice Bergeron and Milan Lucic Monday night. He was on the ice while Bergeron and Lucic watched the game with undisclosed injuries from the ninth floor press box.
Earlier in the year, it was up to Bergeron and Lucic to pick up the slack for Krejci and Zdeno Chara when they were out with injuries. This time around it was Krejci and Brad Marchand who led an offensive attack that generated five goals on 45 shots against the Red Wings, and the result was a desperately needed 5-2 win at TD Garden Monday night.
From the first puck-drop, the Bruins were skating hard in all three zones, mucking up the area in front of Detroit goalie Jimmy Howard. Krejci's best move of the night came on the power play in the third period after the Wings had cut the lead to 3-2 after two.
The center skated into the left offensive corner with the puck and gave Seth Griffith enough time to find an open area in a triangle of three penalty-killing Wings. Krejci delivered a short, crisp pass onto Griffith's stick and Griffith snapped off a perfect shot that beat Howard for a 4-2 lead.
"We just shot everything on the net," Krejci said. "We tried to crash the net. That's what happened on the first goal. [Marchand] had a good screen. I thought we had more than 15 shots after the first period. We talk about it, just put the puck on net, create some traffic and don't pass on any shooting opportunities. We did a pretty good job at it."
The big question is why the Bruins, with or without their top players, haven't played like that more often.
"That's a good question, but obviously we are trying," Krejci said. "We kind of talked about a bunch of things [Sunday] and it seems like it worked but like I said before, we did it before and followed up with a bad game. We don't need to have talks like we did before this game and just go out there and realize what you're playing for and we got to get back in the hunt. It was a good game today, but we have to follow up with another one."
|David Krejci thinks Bruins should prioritize first line, too
|12.22.14 at 4:05 pm ET
David Krejci might want to know who his right wing is as much as anyone else.
Claude Julien's hands are tied. Partially because of Krejci's injuries, he waited too long to try Loui Eriksson with Krejci and Milan Lucic. Eriksson has undeniable chemistry with Carl Soderberg and Chris Kelly, but the Bruins haven't given him a chance to develop chemistry with Lucic and Krejci. Given where they currently fall in the standings, the B's might not think they can afford a games-long getting-to-know-you period if the B's don't win games in the process.
So that leaves Krejci, who thought he knew who he'd have for linemates after Jarome Iginla left, with four different right wings (Seth Griffith, Simon Gagne, Craig Cunningham and, ever so briefly, Eriksson) in 14 games this season.
"Everything was – it looked like we were going to play with Loui from the beginning. If not, then someone else, so it was kind of a tough situation," Krejci told WEEI.com Monday. "I was preparing myself the whole summer [as though] I would be playing with Loui. That was on my mind. Then some injuries and those guys play pretty well together right now with Carl and Kells as a line, so yeah."
Added Krejci: "I'm happy that we're winning, but I'd like to be putting some points up as well. That's why I'm here. That's why they re-signed me. It gets a little frustrating at times. You always play with somebody else, but I'm sure we're going to find the right guy. If not, who knows what happens? There's always trades, you know."
On Sunday, Julien finally started Eriksson on Krejci's right wing to open the game. The line had a so-so first period, but allowed a second-period goal and followed it up with a shift that saw Krejci give the puck away and Lucic mishandle the puck at the blue line. Krejci's misplay led to a Sabres scoring chance; Lucic's forced Dougie Hamilton to trip Tyler Ennis in the neutral zone and put the Bruins on the penalty kill.
Julien returned Eriksson to Soderberg's line, with Kelly scoring on the trio's first shift back together. Eriksson scored the game-winner in overtime on a feed from Lucic, but it was during a line change.
While Eriksson with Kelly and Soderberg has been Boston's most consistent line this season, it isn't like any of Boston's forwards are having particularly good seasons. The Bruins are the only team in the league without a nine-goal scorer. They're one of three teams (with the Sabres and Coyotes the other two) who haven't seen a player reach 10 goals.
Part of the Bruins' offensive problem has been that they've only had Krejci for 14 games, leading Julien to mix and match different lines and play Soderberg's line against other team's top forwards and defensemen. Krejci's return allows the Soderberg line to go back to playing against bottom-six players and third-pairing defensemen, which makes their job easier.
In a perfect world, the Bruins shouldn't need Eriksson to win those shifts, as Soderberg is probably a little better than a third-line player, while Kelly has been a solid third-liner for years.
The Bruins value secondary scoring, but having a good first line is more important. The Bruins are better off when Krejci is at his best, and Krejci's at his best when he's comfortable with his linemates rather than taking turns training potential candidates.
So maybe it's Eriksson and maybe it's somebody else, but teams don't miss the playoffs because they don't have great third lines; they do because they don't have first lines. Krejci is eager for Boston's to take shape.


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Is two days after your missed period too early to test?
My period is now 7 days late I haven't yet took another test, but I also don't feel any symptoms of pregnancy none other than tired.
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definitely no. I took a test when I was pregnant with my daughter because I didn't start at the right time of day. I had no clue that I might have been pregnant. My test was an instant, strong positive. My first pregnancy I test one day after I missed and it was the same result.posted 01/09/2008 by MBOURNAZIAN
Most home pregnancy tests will give accurate results if you test at the time your period would normally be due, about two weeks after you ovulate. A test may be negative for several reasons. You may not be pregnant. Or, you may have ovulated later than you thought, and not be as far along in pregnancy as you thought. One in 10 women can have very low levels of hCG levels at the time of a missed period. If you have a negative result, but still don't get your period, test again three days later. If you are pregnant, the levels of hormone may build up enough by then to be picked up by the test. If you want to get pregnant fast, I'd recommend you to read this guide from http://pregnancyhours.com, its a comprehensive guide on how to get pregnant naturally in as little as two months. You will discover a lot of tips on how to get pregnant fast, how to improve fertility, how to determine when you are ovulating, how to have a healthy pregnancy, and so much more.posted 08/12/2015 by a BabyCenter Member
I dot think it I personally. I took a test one day before my missed period and it was negative. Then I took one three days after my missed period and it was positive, a little faint but positive :)posted 10/11/2011 by pixiedust_lulu27
I just wanted to thank everyone for your answers and feedback. I was supposed to get my period on 3/24/12 and I took a test on 3/21 and it was positive!! I'm now 3 mo. pregnant and all is well, thank you! -pk9201posted 06/09/2012 by pk92101
My LMP was 12/21/07. I used ovulation strips which tested positive at day 15. I took 2 early pregnancy tests at day 28 (neg) result and it's now day 30 and still no period. My nipples/breasts are killing me have been for a week with very mild cramping. I will test in 2 more days.posted 01/19/2008 by email@example.com
Yes you can. Many home pregnancy tests (HPTs) claim to be 99% accurate on the day you miss your period. But research suggests that most HPTs do not consistently spot pregnancy that early. And when they do, the results are often so faint they are misunderstood. If you can wait one week after your missed period, most home pregnancy tests will give you an accurate answer. I would like to recommend you the book from http://pregnancyhours.com if you are trying to get pregnant. This comprehensive guide can show you what you should do and shouldn't do to get pregnant fast and naturally.posted 05/04/2015 by a BabyCenter Member
Hi im very confused too my period is late for 10 days now i did a pregnancy test n it came out negative the thing is i was in the Depo for 3 years i got my period every month but differents days but my last period was in august n i didnt see it on September the only thing i can feel is pain on my titis lol i cant even touch it :(posted 10/01/2013 by a BabyCenter Member
Hi, i m also in same situation,i miss 2 days but no symptoms of pregnency,this is my first time...n i m totally confused..i eagerly want a baby..when will i test ...keeping fingure crossposted 08/10/2011 by abhilashasuyog
my period was late for 10 days. but i had strange bleeding. it was little. so i felt that i should take pregnancy test and it was positive. now my daughter is already 4 months old :)posted 12/20/2012 by Farah Sr.
no , you can find out up to 6 days after conception && missed period . so no its not to early . test again :Dposted 05/22/2012 by mamitobex3
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Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant
The Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant is an inactive United States Army ammunition plant located in the City of Arden Hills in Ramsey County, Minnesota. The 2300-acre site is bounded by County Road I to the north, I-35W to the west, U.S. Route 10 to the southwest, County Highway 96 to the south, and Lexington Avenue to the east.
The site was added to the National Priorities List as a Superfund site on September 8, 1983.[1] The soil surrounding the plant was contaminated with base neutral acids, metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls, volatile organic compounds, pesticides, cyanide, and explosives.[2] The site originally had 255 buildings across 2,382 acres (9.64 km2).[3][2]
Ramsey County purchased a 427-acre parcel of the TCAAP site from the U.S. government in April 2013[3][4] and is developing it as Rice Creek Commons. Demolition and environmental cleanup to meet residential standards was completed in November 2015.[5] According to Ramsey County, crews removed and appropriately disposed of 100,000 tons of contaminated soil. Additionally, crews removed and recycled more than 400,000 tons of concrete and asphalt – equivalent to the weight of four average passenger cruise ships. More than 90% of the materials removed from the site were recycled or reused in new roadways at the site and other areas of the Twin Cities. Private development is scheduled to begin in 2016 and will include a mix of residential, commercial, light industrial and other uses.
Initially, the plant was known as the Twin Cities Ordnance Plant. It was renamed the Twin Cities Arsenal in 1946 and finally, in 1963, the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant (TCAAP).[6]
TCAAP was built as part of the government-owned, contractor-operated (GOCO) war materials production program established by the War Department during World War II. The Minneapolis-Saint Paul area emerged as a potential GOCO candidate primarily on the basis of labor supply. TCAAP was one of six GOCO plants built to produce small arms ammunition during World War II, and was operated by the Federal Cartridge Corporation under contract to the War Department.[7]
Construction of the plant began in August 1941. Each of the three main munitions facilities had five production lines, and the entire plant had a total of 35 lines. The workforce reached its peak in July 1943 when employment totaled about 26,000 people, more than half of whom were women.
The plant produced .30, .50 and .45 caliber ammunition. Production of small arms ammunition began on March 9, 1942, and the plant remained in production for 42 months. Between 1942 and 1945, TCAAP produced all five main small arms types: ball, armor-piercing, tracer, incendiary and blanks.
In 1944, the plant opened an important small arms ammunition reclamation center. The design of the .30 and .50 caliber cartridge-disassembly machines by TCAAP personnel in the late 1940s represented a significant technological advance in small arms salvage technology. Development in ammunition salvage began during World War II and continued at the facility during the Cold War period.
After Victory over Japan Day, TCAAP was placed in reserve status. The facility was operated by the US Army from 1946 to 1950, when the installation was brought back into production to manufacture small arms and artillery ammunition for the Korean War. The plant remained in service until 1957, when it was again closed. In 1965, during the Vietnam War, the plant was re-opened to manufacture new types of small arms ammunition. It was on standby status from 1976 through 2002.
In 2002, more than 600 acres (2.4 km2) were declared "in excess" by the United States Army, though Alliant Techsystems continued to manufacture munitions there as recently as 2005.
After a bid to make TCAAP the new home for the Minnesota Vikings failed, the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners purchased the property with a vision to create economic prosperity, put the vacant land back on the tax rolls as a productive part of the community, create well-paying jobs, and clean up one of the largest polluted sites in the state for future generations. The future development was named Rice Creek Commons in August 2014.[8] The 427-acre parcel is being redeveloped in conjunction with the City of Arden Hills through a joint powers agreement.[9]
Under terms of the purchase agreement, Ramsey County will pay the federal government $4.9 million for the property and agree to spend $22.6 million to clean up remaining pollution. In April 2013, the county executed a competitively bid contract with Carl Bolander & Sons of St. Paul for the demolition of all structures on site, and the full remediation of the site to residential soil values.[10] The county is financing the deal with $21.4 million in bonding, a $6 million transfer from its solid waste fund, and $2 million in contingency funds. These dollars will be replenished through the sale of land for redevelopment.
The plan for these 427 acres, cleaned up and revitalized from their prior industrial use, is to provide homes and jobs to hundreds of families and professionals, and to be a catalyst for economic development across the region. [11]
Master plan 2013[edit]
Beginning in May 2013, the City of Arden Hills and design firms Kimley-Horn and Cuningham Group began collaborating to create a draft master plan, laying out a vision for the site. The Arden Hills City Council previewed the draft master plan in December 2013, followed by several public open houses that encouraged public feedback in 2014.
Overwhelmingly, the public emphasized the importance of creating identifiable neighborhoods, balanced green space, and walkable communities. According to the draft master plan, the northernmost section of the site, known as the "thumb," will be home to commercial development, while the larger southern portion will feature mixed-use development that includes residential, commercial, office and retail.
The City of Arden Hills and Ramsey County must both approve a final master plan. The Joint Development Authority will then implement the master plan through redevelopment activities on the site.
Joint Development Authority Board[edit]
Through a joint powers agreement, the City of Arden Hills and Ramsey County have created a Joint Development Authority Board (JDA) that oversees efforts to clean up and redevelop the Rice Creek Commons site. The JDA is responsible for implementing the city- and county-approved master plan, issuing requests for proposals, and negotiating development agreements with private developers. The JDA is made up of two county commissioners, two city council members, and a non-elected city appointee. Current members include:
- David Sand, city appointee (chair)
- David Grant, Arden Hills Mayor
- Brenda Holden, Arden Hills Council Member
- Blake Huffman, Ramsey County Commissioner
- Rafael Ortega, Ramsey County Commissioner
In February 2016, the Joint Development Authority announced a solicitation for a master developer to guide the overall residential and commercial development of the Rice Creek Commons site.[12] In conjunction with the solicitation for a master developer, Ramsey County produced a video[13] highlighting development opportunities.
Sustainable energy development[edit]
In April 2015, the Joint Development Authority adopted an Energy Integration Resiliency Framework for Rice Creek Commons. The framework sets a vision to create the largest net-zero energy redevelopment in the state, proposing an on-site 40-acre solar installation and all-electric residential neighborhoods designed to deliver long-term energy cost savings.[14]
The proposed 40-acre solar installation would generate 8 megawatts of electricity, enough energy to power all homes and businesses built at Rice Creek Commons. Estimates show the installation has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of 1,432 cars each year. Federal tax credits that help offset the cost of the solar installation are available through 2016.
All-electric neighborhoods would be made possible by energy generated from ongoing water treatment at the Rice Creek Commons site. Instead of a traditional HVAC system, homes would be heated and cooled by thermal energy captured from groundwater that is pumped through an on-site treatment process. This energy would be enough to meet the needs of residential developments at Rice Creek Commons.
Ramsey County plans to pursue public-private partnerships to finance potential projects outlined in the framework. An RFP for the solar installation is expected to be released in the near future, with tentative plans for construction to be completed in 2016. Developments at Rice Creek Commons powered by the installation are expected the following year.
Transportation infrastructure plans[edit]
Rice Creek Commons will be connected to the external road network in three locations: County Road I, County Road H, and Highway 96. A roundabout at County Road H will organize the on- and off-ramps, the spine road, and an access road to the thumb. An additional road from the northeast corner of the Rice Creek Commons site to County Road I is also being considered. Streets within Rice Creek Commons will include a combination of Municipal State Aid collector roads and local roads built by private developers.
Ramsey County is in the process of updating the highway and freeway connections surrounding Rice Creek Commons to provide adequate and safe access to the site. Specifically, the improvement project includes a new bridge with pedestrian trails at I-35W and Highway 96, and interior access roads and an interchange at Highway 96. This project will be completed during 2015 and is estimated to cost $12.5 million. Ramsey County was awarded state capital investment bonds in 2014 to complete this project. This funding will be combined with State Trunk Highway funds and local funds (County State Aid Highway (CSAH), County Turnback, and city funds) to fully fund the planned improvements.
Ramsey County is replacing the bridge at the I-35W/County Road H interchange. This project will be completed in 2016 and is estimated to cost $21.5 million. Ramsey County was awarded state capital investment bonds in 2014 to complete this project.[15] This funding will be combined with state trunk highway funds and local funds (County State Aid Highway (CSAH), County Turnback, and city funds) to fully fund the planned improvements.
A major county road, commonly referred to as the spine road, will connect Highway 96 to County Road H through the Rice Creek Commons site. The road will provide primary access to residential neighborhoods and commercial areas throughout the site.
Ramsey County and the Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce are actively working with Metro Transit to explore the feasibility[16] of extending the A-Line bus rapid transit[17] to the Rice Creek Commons site. The A-Line is under construction and is expected to be completed by late 2015. The line will connect the Twin Cities' two light rail lines, running from the 46th Street Station on the Blue Line in Minneapolis along Ford Parkway and Snelling Avenue to Rosedale Mall. Extending the line to Rice Creek Commons would add approximately 10 stations to the line and provide transit opportunities for thousands of residents, students, and businesses. The extension would connect the University of Northwestern – St. Paul and Bethel University, as well as major employers, including Land O'Lakes, Inc. and Boston Scientific, to the broader public transportation system.
School interest[edit]
Ramsey County is working with the Mounds View Public Schools to develop a Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) curriculum on topics throughout the demolition, cleanup, and redevelopment process at Rice Creek Commons. 7th-grade students at Chippewa Middle School in North Oaks learn firsthand how experts are able to clean and clear the site, and try their hands at community development planning.[18] High school students are testing water onsite to determine how development affects a wetland.[citation needed]
See Also[edit]
- ^ "Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant Superfund site progress profile". EPA. Retrieved 2010-02-20.
- ^ a b "Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant site description". EPA. Retrieved 2010-02-20.
- ^ a b "Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant". United States Army Plants. GlobalSecurity.org. Retrieved 2009-09-03.
- ^ "TCAAP Superfund site now belongs to Ramsey County". Pioneer Press. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
- ^ "Cleanup finished at former TCAAP site". Pioneer Press. 14 November 2015. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
- ^ http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00684.xml
- ^ http://www.presspubs.com/shoreview/news/article_977d6f20-a66c-50b9-b7f7-db4825b5a95c.html
- ^ "TCAAP gets a marketable new moniker". Pioneer Press. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
- ^ "Joint Powers Agreement for the Redevelopment of the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant" (PDF). RiceCreekCommons.com. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
- ^ http://www.epa.gov/superfund/health/conmedia/soil/index.htm
- ^ "Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant Superfund site progress profile". EPA. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
- ^ "Ramsey County seeks Rice Creek Commons master developer". Sun Focus. Retrieved 2016-02-09.
- ^ "Welcome to Rice Creek Commons". Ramsey County. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
- ^ "Plan could make Arden Hills development energy self-sufficient". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2015-04-07.
- ^ "At TCAAP site, focus now moves to road work". Pioneer Press. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
- ^ "St. Paul chamber still eyeing A Line extension". Finance & Commerce. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
- ^ "The A Line: Snelling Bus Rapid Transit (BRT_". Metro Transit. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
- ^ "Chippewa Middle School students impact major development project". KARE11. 18 February 2015. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
External Links[edit]
- TCAAP-Restoration Advisory Board
- Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant Files.
- TCAAP Redevelopment Project Website
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